I need a space simulator

[Nate Silvers]

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.

 

[Nate Silvers]

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.