Last updated on December 10th, 2025 at 12:27 am
EVE Echoes – Roleplaying Game Review
EVE Echoes is a Roleplaying/Strategy game from Hong Kong Netease Interactive Entertainment Limited, first launched in 12th August 2020.
It’s rated 12+ and currently has 3,406+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes EVE Echoes Stand Out
Cobalt Edge
With the exploration of New Eden's border regions progresses, an increasing number of people are directing their attention to Cobalt Edge. Capsuleers refer to it as the Far Sub-galaxy because it is one of the eight far regions awaiting exploration.
Unstable Wormhole
The recently discovered wormholes are distributed in Cobalt Edge and the low-sec space of New Eden, which let capsuleers can steer their ships through wormholes to jump, much like a stargate.
New Enemy Forces–Wasteseeker
Appear in the far borders of New Eden and is the collective term for the drone faction. These drones, ranging in size from frigates and battleships to even supercarriers, constantly patrol, scavenge, and salvage ship wrecks in space to build their own bodies. They are called 'Wasteseeker'.
New Game Content
In order to better cope with distant warfare, researchers have introduced more flexible combat capabilities of the Navy Issue Frigates. At the same time, the Concord opened the territory to expand new corporation tech, and developed an integrated technology suitable for drones!
Pilots, get ready for battle!
This Roleplaying game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, EVE Echoes is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 19th November 2025
Recent improvements include:
New Gameplay: Faction Wargame
· Become a mercenary of a thousand faces and embark on a covert war.
· Earn Standing to exchange for brand-new rigs and Spatial Rift Fibers.
New Content
· The first healing-type “Stellar Golden Meow” core arrives with irresistible cuteness.
· The Yan-Jung weapon Decomposer has received a power upgrade.
New Features
· The Space Emoji system makes communication in space scenes even more fun.
· Nanocore level inheritance has been optimized for a smoother upgrade experience.
Anniversary Event
· Participate in the anniversary event to claim generous rewards such as the Implant Opt Box, Nanocore, Skill Points, and more.
Download & Availability
EVE Echoes is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
Requirements: Requires iPhone 5s / iPad Air / iPad Air (Cellular) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina, Cellular) / iPhone 6 / iPhone 6 Plus / iPad Air 2 / iPad Air 2 (Cellular) / iPad Mini 3 or later.
Compatible with iPhone and iPad devices.
Player Experience Highlights
Community Insight:
We like the game an all but what distanced us from the game is the mechanics is too complex and confusing so Im asking you to make the mechanics easier to use because we dislike how complex they we cant play smoothly so we dont have fun can yall make the mechanics easier to use because we dont like to game that much if we cant go with flow of it.
The only issue we see in this version of EVE Online (mobile version), is needing to wait for players to buy your stuff on the market. We suggest that the station that your currently docked in should buy the resource(s) your trying to sell for 75% of its normal price. If your standing (reputation) is high for the faction your selling to, the sell price goes up by 1% for every 10 positive standing you have. Just thought we would throw this out here, because on the PC version of EVE Online, you can sell to stations and players, but in this version, you can only sell to players. Sincerely, BerzerkgamerYT.
This game is an eve game! Awesome space sim but will harshly punish players by making loses real. Its a complete time sink. Not in a fun way either. Its like playing Diablo on hardcore mode. If you die in pvp you lose your ship for reals which can take literally weeks to farm materials for. You can also lose your mining ship while farming lol. Oh and those arent cheap or easy to make either. And when you farm you have to be actively farming. Long story short, this game would not be fun for new players. We only lasted cause we were in a guild that transferred from the knockoff of eve, thats actually probably better than Echos lol. It needs a normal story mode and the hardcore mode. This game would be fun if you could just play and do missions and have pvp arena or zones/battlegrounds.
You hit the freemium wall of the game and you will be required to fly next to a premium player like some symbiotic relationship in the wild.
Please fix faction war games It doesnt work or no when does it Id like to finish the tutorial same with some of our friends please fix this.
Everything is way too expensive, even if you throw cash at it to get omega. It cost millions of resources from asteroids and millions from planets, which take forever, the. 95 million isk to make one tech lvl 9 battleship. And hundreds of millions more to equip it. By the time your omega runs out you still wouldnt have enough money or skills to use it. And trying to get isk to buy plex takes forever.
Weeb mtx ridden garbage now. How do we go from Space Opera Science Fiction to HONKai Star Coom in just a year? Netease is how. Check Eve Onlines homepage art and humans compared to the skewed anime idol plastered on the Echoes start screen as a ship skin promoting their newest Star Impact garbage.
The game doesnt even work anymore, no matter what us and people we know do, the app doesnt open, and a while back, we lost all our stuff we spent money on, we poured 56 dollars into this game, we want it back or we will make sure this game never sees the light of day, this is the 2nd time our stuff was reset and Im furious. Either refund us or something because we are going to bash this game to its core and dip your rating so low no one will play it. We cant even open your app and you call this a game? Pathetic.
Love this game. So much epic fun. WHERE BANANA WHERE TAHINI.
Come back old friends – game is getting better.
This game will challenge you more than any other game. Its a long a road and all the one stars come from people who dont have the patience to learn something great. If you like space and mmos this game is the king. Get into a corp(guild) and learn pvp. The adrenaline from pvp in eve is higher and better than any other game, and Ive played everything. Even after 10 years, eve still gives us the shakes every time Im about to lose an expensive ship or get a big kill, its a rush. If you get a big 1v1 kill youll have a body high for a half a day. But getting to the point where you can do that regularly takes time, skill, and knowledge. Most people just dont have the patience.
Ive played Eve Online religiously for years. Its an excellent game with more to do than you can keep up with. We came into Eve Echoes of course expecting a mobile version of what we know and love. Instead, we get a ridiculous tech level system, scanners that take fuel, data and relic sites which success depends strictly on numbers and a HUGE lack in the industry department. We have to say, you should have thought about how successful Eve Online was and still is before you decided to gut it and turn it into a mobile game.
EVE Echoes has the potential to grow into an impeccable one of a kind game, capable of dominating the space-mmo genre. Net Ease fails their community by promising rewards for competitions and failing to deliver the rewards. The developers focus on monetary income from the players by incentivizing pay to win gameplay, such as implants, nano cores and capital ship content while simultaneously ignoring small ship content and industry. The vast majority of our gaming community pay a large amount of money to enjoy this game, and we are absolutely disgusted and disappointed in the false promises from Net Ease. There is still room to grow and develop, but we doubt Net Ease will ever listen to their community members and meet somewhere in the middle. A recent vote was set to establish a Council of Stellar Management in an effort to assist the developers and be the voice of the community, even that hasnt proven fruitful. Play the game at your own risk, because Net Ease is destroying the population of the game one update at a time. Special thanks to Carrey#9351 on discord for ignoring our pleas and postponing our rewards for Inscription of the Galaxy.
Never gonna change its a mobile game, its design to swindle you.
Game never freakin plays. Played just fine till we got the omega and boom havent had nothing but problems ever sense. Uninstalling trash.
You take ALL the risk building a strong expensive ship to kill NPC ships and slimy little toxic players fly right in and take the loot when it drops. And if you shoot at them, you are the criminal not them. The developers have said this is fair play. Extremely toxic player community.
The game has good depths and enjoyable factors but sadly fell into the hands of scamming devs who'd introduce op products n let players spend lots of money and time and then start nerfing multi times where it become not so special anymore and will release another product and repeat the cycle. Go play Eve Online. Still amazing compared to this one.
We grabbed this game the day it released. Oh boy we were excited for a mobile version of eve online! At first it was great of course with some hiccups and bugs but they were being worked constantly! New content came somewhat often. And now its terrible. We swear all they add to the game now is random events just to keep player there. Everything is paid now and its not not worth it anymore. They rarely release any content for people just starting out or early in the game. We highly sudgest just play eve online as this game is a failure. They should of never teamed with Netease as they are only a cash grab development team.
If you are actually interested in this game you need to be aware that all the content is being made for people who are tech level 10. You have to pay to get to tech level 10 and that will take months. Then when you reach tech 10 you have to keep paying to use the ships and skills that youve paid for. No new content is being made for anything that a non paying player can participate in.
This couldve been a great game but every update makes it worse. When they say theyre adding content, theyve really just added some half-thought tchotchke to keep players grinding and exposed to the temptation of wallet hooks. There is nothing enticing for new players and no small ship content. The community is shrinking and they dont advertise the game. Dont play. Im going to be quitting at some point this year once we come to terms with leaving the group of friends Ive made. Theres just no actual game play anymore, and you cant be competitive in PvP outside of huge battles unless youre paying a ton of real money. Actually, new players wont be competitive anyways because youll never catch up to the people who have been playing since day 1, and there wont be any other players your level to try fighting. Its very depressing frankly.
When we try to log in with our GameCenter account it starts over again completely. Even when Im trying to continue on the same device we played on before. Whats the point of giving you our Game Center login if you cant match us to our last game? Are you SERIOUSLY going to continue to ask players to confirm THEIR RACE at the beginning of every game? We guess people in the future devolve? We checked their website. Theyre from Hong Kong, so youre not racist, just native Chinese. Ignorance must be bliss.
As a Day One player, this game launched with some hiccups, but was so full of potential and ambition! Fast forward three years later, its just a blatant money grab. The only player base the devs care about are whales. Stay away.
Seriously this company is pulling the same stuff Fallout 76 did, first sale/Halloween event and immediately everything is 50% but only $120. For skins?? Come on, even the main EVE Online game isnt that greedy. The game has a lot of work to go before its anything close to spectacular. Love it but hate it.
Good game just is a little complex at first.
A little time consuming but it doesnt have to be you can do whatever you want no limit. Its a lot better than some of the other games we reviewed.
People are Hacking the Game!! And you make a ticket and game makers dont care.
Sorry this game is officially dead.
This game is truly epic mobile strategy. Come on in, join a power in New Eden, and contribute to history.
We love this game but it would be much better with controller support.
Not saying its a bad game but we would prefer joystick if we were flying a spaceship.
The PVP more like griefing other players. You dont really PVP on this game. They either attack you, when you are doing PVE, mining or gate camp. It really spoils the game on players who are not PVP at all. These players are harassing other players. PVP is when other players are PVPing themselves, other wise it just griefing. Thats the downside of this game. If you want to do PVE and want to be left alone, it not going to happen. Expect to be harassed a lot on this game. This company needs to fix this problem, because they will lose players over this issue. Those that think that their are doing real PVP, think again its not PVP when other players arent expecting it.
First off, we wanna say that we regularly attempt to pick up Eve Online(the PC MMO) and find it overwhelming to dive into. There is just SO much there, that its intimidating and requires a lot of patience to learn. Eve Echoes allows for a much simpler introduction into New Eden, and they do have plenty of tutorial quests to get you acquainted with the mechanics of the game. If you are the type of person who equally enjoys idle games but also games that require input, this is a good mix. You dont have to be an ace cockpit pilot in order to enter combat, and you dont have to exclusively fight against other players. This game is great for folks who wanna sit and watch a movie or TV while having a game in their hands that they can passively enjoy. There are missions where you have to make 30 jumps through different star gates, which can take about 15 minutes of real time to achieve, but thats space travel for ya. This game IS grindy, but not so much that you can immediately enjoy the game while youre working towards that new ship or equipment. And lets face it: Eve is a game for players who like the grind and slow-going journey of building a character. Its a gradual power-building game that allows you to feel like a space pilot, which is a cool experience in the palm of your hand. For what it is, this game is a great thing to have at the ready anytime you pull out your phone. The target group may be a but niche, but chances are anyone playing this type of game has somewhat niche tastes, and youll probably enjoy this game if you give the tutorials a chance to teach you how to play it. Also, its largely free, so try it out and delete it if it isnt your cup of tea.
Hear us out first person view where you can see the battle from inside your ship and have your avatar get inside station and walk around, trade make friends:) than will be mind blowing please please read our review:).
No comment make alpha clones can use contract its annoying aswell that omega clone needs to be used for almost everything.
Game no longer works after newest update, it becomes stuck on the Eve screen.
The devs probably wont ever fix this but we have to say it. If you started even a month after the game came out, you have things several times harder than other players. If you start now (2022) you pretty much have to spend money to survive. This is because every system under 0.5 security is now extremely dangerous due to scanners who will find your mission locations or miner killers who will cloak into a belt and blow you up. Unlike other games, which have different servers so new players arent immediately pitted against players who have 1000+ hours in their account (basically infinite resources and hundreds of ships), eve simply puts noobs with the free starter ship valued at 100 isk against players who fly billion-isk motherships and battleships. You should also be prepared to lose any money you put into it. We were playing this in 2021, and having a great time as well, (we started the day it came out) when one day we entered the game and our account simply vanished. We tried contacting support and never got a reply. Our account is probably sitting in their lists of accounts, never to be seen again.
The market is purely player driven meaning its nearly impossible to sell any ore you spend a lot of time mining. Really wish there was like 1 designated station where we could sell ore because as of right now it just sits on the market and no one wants to buy it.
The game wont launch at all on iPhone Xr, Ive tried many solutions. Nothing worked. It just crashes on the net ease logo.
Avoid this crappy game at all costs and play the original PC version if you really want to try it. – 3 tiers of omega ($15 month); – have to refill/purchase omega every month or you wont be able to late claim omega daily rewards (which the omega players supposed to get but do not, we.e. Double-dipping); – $40 to get 3 learning speed chips; – constant meta changes, so you need to buy plex for $$ to reset and reapply skill points for appropriate skills; – new concord pass – 80 levels every 6 weeks, all good advanced rewards are hidden behind $10 paywall per 6 weeks (or $20 if you were unable to get 1150pts/week); – broken industry because of insurance (infinite reimbursement of ships and fit for $$/plex instead of rebuying from market); – all ships (except bananas) are from EO with lazy copy-pasted description; – unbalanced pvp meta with only few viable setups which everyone uses; -very limited pve content with nothing worth of doing in highsec; – 1-click combat scan, so every player is forced in nullsec; – loads and loads of mining bots and anomaly bots in nullsec; – boring overall for much higher $$ than real EVE Online why even bother? Stay away from this gacha game. If you want to play EVE, get real PC version. New events are whale hunting events with nothing but new cores without any playable content.
This game will force you to spend real money, is very very hard for o success if you dont use your credit card.
Fails to move past NetEase splash screen upon opening on our M1 12.9 iPad Pro.
They allow PC players on their mobile game to play multiple accounts at the same time to gain an unfair advantage. We see entire systems of people using bots to ours 24/7. Netease does nothing. This game is dying. Fast. And what do the developers do? Hold a parade that literally no one cares about. Meanwhile, theres still bugs in the game that have been here since the game launched over 2 years ago. This isnt Eve.
We want to play but it crashes every time we hit start. :(.
New implants are HORRIFICALLY expensive and they do absolutely NOTHING. This company should be reported to Apple for SCAMMING their customers.
Reminds us of what we leave in toilet.
For some time, game has been unplayable on iPhone and iPad. Game will sit loading at white netease screen until you toggle airplane mode on/off while going back and forth between game and settings, and is quite a hassle. This becomes an issue when your game crashed mid-battle and you need to quickly log back in. We cleared cache, repaired game, removed/reinstalled game, various other troubleshooting attempts, all in different orders, and the issue persists. This issue is reported frequently in reviews for quite some time and has yet to be addressed. We can no longer in good faith pay for this game (paying for omega with time or RL money is pretty much mandatory after a certain point). That being said, the game is excellent and Im the spirit of Eve with improvements in many cases in our opinion. If youre playing on a droid device, go for it. If youre playing on IOS, be advised.
Game wont load keeps crashing on iPhone 13 pro.
We really like how they streamline lined this. IMHO its way better due to the way they made it here, way less tedious than eve online, but keeps all the good stuff. The only downside we see so far is they dont allow 120hz on iPad Pro 12.9 or iPhone 13 hopefully they add more options especially for the iPad huge boost in power this generation.
This game is incredibly complex and involving. There are ever present galactic wars that 1000s of players participate in. Youll always have something to do.
Love this game. New people should have problems if they play solo.sofind normal corporation ).
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 1.9.178
- Size: 1,135.17 MB
- iOS: 12.0 or later
- Languages: EN, FR, DE, JA, KO, PT, RU, ZH, ES
- Content Advisory: Loot Boxes, Infrequent/Mild Alcohol, Tobacco, or Drug Use or References, Infrequent/Mild Realistic Violence
- Developer: Hong Kong Netease Interactive Entertainment Limited
Last updated: 19th November 2025 | Genre: Roleplaying, Strategy | Developer: Hong Kong Netease Interactive Entertainment Limited