Evochron, Dark Star One,X series (you may bounce off a few times but they’re extremely unique and deep games), older Elite titles, Freelancer!
To a lesser extent and a bit more survival crafty: Space Engineers or Empyrion with mods. Both have some additional community made content that adds stations/factions to progress against or for and are pretty good if a little janky.
villainy@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Have you played the X series?
Fisk400@feddit.nu 10 months ago
No,but I am definitely checking it out.
reagansrottencorpse@lemmy.world 10 months ago
The learning curve is annoying, but it scratches the itch.
MonkeMischief@lemmy.today 10 months ago
That’s the toughest balance to strike:
Make me feel like I’ve gained a skill to become a competent pilot/trader/whatever in a complex world…
…But also in a way that feels rewarding in the context of having a real mortal life to live, because in the end it’s still a videogame.
Tangent example: I hate how badly I want to try and grokk Dwarf Fortress, but I can’t make more time from nowhere lol.
But thankfully Rimworld is really cool. :)
Just wish we could have an eighth day of the week nobody else was allowed to know about!
PersonalDevKit@aussie.zone 10 months ago
200 hours to complete… you never finish an x game. I generally finish when my computer can’t keep up anymore.
One of the best economic systems in a single player space game that I have come across.