'Rodina', maybe? It ain't no AAA game, though.
Oh, right, Rodina. The game I somehow mistook
Empyrion: Galactic Survival for. Which I, in turn,
somehow managed to mistake
Ariel for. I don't normally make mistakes like this, but the simple fact that I can is the reason why I never buy things for people. You ask me for lego and there's a chance you're getting duplo. I'm not willing to put anyone through that.
Empyrion is... Somewhere between 'meh' and 'okay I guess', leaning more towards 'meh'. I've spent more time than I rightly should on it due to my fixation on shipbuilding, but for every other good thing about it, there's a bad thing to balance it out.
There's character customization, but no matter what you do your face will look like a partially melted wax dummy. Best to take the Mount & Blade approach and make yourself look like a mistake of nature.
I think just about every other model comes from the unity asset store, they might be placeholders but I doubt that. I don't know much this sort of thing, but I don't think it means anything good.
Shooting your way through structures can be fun at times, but enemies are bullet sponges and they absolutely will hit you if they have a ranged attack.
I just pretend multiplayer doesn't exist in these kinds of games. It's for the best.
All in all, it's kind of mediocre. But I do like building spaceships.
Ariel though. I haven't touched it in over a year, and unless the situation has improved by an order of magnitude, that isn't going to change. I remember it as slow-paced, tedious, and just not fun. In fact, the only reason it's still in my library is that it took so long for anything to happen that I passed the refund threshhold.
Considering the demo's free, my only excuse for not trying Rodina sooner is that I can never remember it exists for more than a few minutes at a time. I'm not looking for AAA content, but I don't want another something that isn't and might never be finished, so I'm probably going to come out of it with mixed feelings should I ever get around to playing it.