I need a space simulator

Nate Silvers · 16 Aug 2012 at 14:37

Are there any good space simulator games? I want to play a space game with little to no fighting to be able to fly your own spaceship and use speed of light boost. Imagine flying through space with amazing graphics and you can discover all the planets being able to land on them and you have to find hidden stuff or solve puzzles. You can walk around your spaceship to and just watch the view out the window of the stars and planets. Maybe even build your own spaceship and launch it. It would be cool to land on new planets and discover alien tech or something.

Don't say spore.

Renton · 16 Aug 2012 at 14:41

Elite

ChocolateStarfishRammer · 16 Aug 2012 at 14:43

Lucid Dreaming /Learn

deko · 16 Aug 2012 at 14:47

Kerbal in a few weeks time when other planets are added in

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Divinious · 16 Aug 2012 at 15:11

The X series is good if very complicated, you can get by without combat think the last one was X3 Albion Prelude

IIDeathCubeKII · 16 Aug 2012 at 15:19

Evochron Mercenary? Looks like a playstation vomited out the graphics but you can fly around, enter coordinates and enter warp speed and land on any planet.

borley · 16 Aug 2012 at 15:28

Renton said:
Elite

+1 on the good old Commodore 64 back in 87, my older brother loved it to death and he did become finaly Elite!

MissileMoose · 16 Aug 2012 at 15:31

Eve.

Showboat · 16 Aug 2012 at 15:39

x3, bought it in the steam sale, very hard to get into some good stuff on you tube to get you started and trading.

ltnmzh · 16 Aug 2012 at 15:40

orbiter
http://orbit.medphys.ucl.ac.uk/

Nate Silvers · 16 Aug 2012 at 15:43

I'll try X3 looks good visually, Kerbal looks a bit childish. I guess computers aren't powerful enough yet to for a game like this as landing on planets and roaming is too big, it would be like grand theft auto sized x 999.

Orbiter needs better graphics no point exploring if the gfx suck, kills the immersion. It looks like a realistic flight simulator for space I'm after a more casual game as I don't know anything about flying a spaceship.

bJN · 16 Aug 2012 at 15:45

Eve. Seriously, that's the closest thing.

Xordium · 16 Aug 2012 at 15:47

Wait for Infinity with increasingly more and more impatience like most space game fans.

V4NT0M · 16 Aug 2012 at 15:51

Xordium said:
Wait for Infinity with increasingly more and more impatience like most space game fans.

Project infinity is one big troll.

Treebiter · 16 Aug 2012 at 16:15

Space Engine is worth a look. It's extremely pretty and dwarfs even Frontier's scale. Seamless space-surface transition too.

http://en.spaceengine.org/

lokiss · 16 Aug 2012 at 17:55

Battlecruiser.

That or whatever sequel in the series, pretty much what you're asking for.

All aside the amazing graphics though, pc stoped doing that in the genre.... not that battlecruiser ever did mind

Rroff · 16 Aug 2012 at 18:02

Eve has no landing on planets and Dust514 doesn't count. And tbh the exploration aspects to Eve are boring as you get. With the more recent updates its getting to be quite a good looking game so free trial and roll about highsec a bit might keep you interested for awhile.

Xordium · 16 Aug 2012 at 18:19

Skyfall said:
Project infinity is one big troll.

Starting to think that myself but then we have some nice stuff coming along in the Outerra engine so we can live in hope there. They were demoing the Infinity Engine at trade shows though so I think there is something there they just need to leave it as an engine and let another make the game preferably Xwing vs Tiefigher vs Elite vs Star Trek with a fair bit of Roguelike a smattering of Eve and X3 and some of the FTL. Not asking much am I ...

Recent interview here: http://www.blog.playscifi.com/infinity-interview/

Kosmiche · 16 Aug 2012 at 18:25

Yup, X3 is what you want.

Rroff · 16 Aug 2012 at 18:34

Xordium said:
Starting to think that myself but then we have some nice stuff coming along in the Outerra engine so we can live in hope there. They were demoing the Infinity Engine at trade shows though so I think there is something there they just need to leave it as an engine and let another make the game preferably Xwing vs Tiefigher vs Elite vs Star Trek with a fair bit of Roguelike a smattering of Eve and X3 and some of the FTL. Not asking much am I ...

Recent interview here: http://www.blog.playscifi.com/infinity-interview/

Problem with infinity is they are aiming too big and too procedural which ultimately ends up dull with the best of intentions.