Aye this was my experience too. Played it a bunch when I was pet-sitting for friends and my amigo was cool w/ me using his gaming PC & Steam account.

It was pretty cool for the first 4 hours, but got repetitive fairly quickly.

Caveat: I'm not really into the big open survival games anyway; Subnautica was alright, but Fallout 4 and Rust (the game) put me to sleep.

I'm still waiting for something on par with Freespace or the old Playstation classic Colony Wars (1 & 2).