also, because we alrady have an OiS article: waypoint.vice.com/en_us/arti…

In a game that's all about setting ship headings and managing engine efficiency, it would be easy to lose someone like me within the first 20 minutes. Instead, 90 minutes in, I'm not only eager to upgrade my ship and take on new jobs, but also to learn more about the game's world

Those stories paint a picture of a space frontier in a different sort of conflict than the one we see in a lot of video games. It's where people are able to talk about things like political wedge issues, anti-capitalism, the limits of technological optimism.

Throughout the game's tutorial, it uses dialog to explain a fairly high concept premise in a direct way without feeling unnatural, and it augments that with in-game news stories and emails that fill in the gaps without feeling like an exposition dump.

But within a minute of playing, you're being asked what you think about heading out into the frontier of space and given opportunities to express your feelings about Earth, history, possiblilty (not colonization itself, though, unfortunately). Are you eager? Skeptical?