A review appears here only when both scores exist: the game as it shipped, played on a clean install, and the game under its community's consensus load order after a further twenty hours at minimum.
| Game | Shipped | Modded | Gap | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Moorland Reach | 6.2 | 8.7 | +2.5 | A |
| Hall Of Banners | 6.5 | 8.6 | +2.1 | A |
| Hangar Nine | 7.1 | 8.7 | +1.6 | A+ |
| Standing Field | 7.4 | 8.6 | +1.2 | C |
| Ninefold City | 8.5 | 8.9 | +0.4 | B+ |
| Estate Circuit | 7.8 | n/a | 0.0 | F |
Twenty-nine months of unpaid work fixed traversal, replaced the quest log and filled an empty third of the map. The widest gap in the ledger, and the clearest case of a community finishing a game the studio walked away from.
An economy that collapses after forty turns in the shipped game, and a rewritten one that holds for three hundred. The conversion team documented their changes better than the developer documented the original.
Eleven official hulls, several thousand community ones, and the only A+ modding grade in the file. What the developer got right was documentation, and it has kept the game alive four years past its last content update.
Excellent community terrain work, and quarterly updates that invalidate the load order every time. The mods are worth the trouble and the trouble is entirely avoidable.
The community here builds decoratively rather than correctively. Nine hundred mods and not one of them is an interface replacement, which no other game in the file can claim.
Encrypted archives, a signed executable, and a track editor that exports only to the publisher's service. Good racing with a hard expiry date, and the only F in the ledger.
