X3: Terran Conflict is widely considered the best in the series, although X4: Foundations is the newest and has a few new interesting features.

Thank you! posted by Evilspork to Computers & Internet (12 answers total) 21 users marked this as a favoriteД«est answer: This probably doesn't tick all your boxes, but one of the X games might do it for you. If you can harness asteroids and comets and nutty stuff like that a la Seveneves, even better! Startopia is a fun example, but a bit aged and limited. I would much prefer games that offer limited/optional combat and not all combat.ДЇor space stations, I all of the above, with the focus being on the station's internal workings and local system environs but not branching out too distantly. Interstellar Rift seems like what I'm looking for if it were more developed and worked better in single player. What I'm not interested in are the bridge simulators like Artemis, and don't really care at all if you can walk around in it like Icarus. For example, I'm reading a science fiction book and was thinking of what a self contained ship or small fleet would need to travel without the requirement to resupply beyond energy. Something SimSpaceship-y with a good grasp of the internal workings of how the ship is managed and not just plugging things into slots like Eve.

having to deal with different personnel, having personalized layouts of equipment, then going out and doing interesting things. On the starship front, I'm interested in something like FTL, but on more of a large freighter or battleship scale, i.e. Greetings, Sapients! I'm looking for games with some sort of picky scope preferences.

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