u/Ambitious-Yoghurt403

Hey guys! I need some advice on finding my next space game.

I’m looking for something where you can build ships and/or stations, with an economic system and different factions to trade with and fight against.

Right now I’m trying out Space Engineers, but honestly the game feels a bit empty to me, and I find shipbuilding very tedious. Right now I’m torn between Avorion and Empyrion. At first glance, Avorion seems better; the latter is more focused on planetary survival (I think).

Here are the space simulators I’ve played:

- Star Citizen - it would be amazing if it worked, but between resets and bugs I don’t feel like playing it anymore

- No Man’s Sky - I don’t even know how many hundreds of hours I’ve put into it

- Space Engineers - great idea, but the game feels empty and is too repetitive for someone who can only play a few hours a day

- Cosmoteer - beautiful, but it gets a bit repetitive

Space Haven - I bought it a while ago and have hardly ever used it; right now I’d like something in 3D

Rimworld Odyssey - Hundreds of hours on Rimworld here too

x4 - Very nice at first, then it turns into an Excel simulator. No thanks, I already work with Excel files at my job

Elite Dangerous: I bought the complete edition but, for some reason, it never really grabbed me

Starfield - It’s Fallout set in space; I hated it from start to finish.

Starsector: downloaded and tried the tutorials but right now I want something more immersive and 3d.

Do you have any recommandation? Any Avorion and Empyrion player that can tell me the difference between those 2 games? Thanks everyone and sorry for my bad english!

Hi, engineers! I’ve put about 100 hours into the game (though to be honest, more than 50% of that was just messing around with blueprints from the Workshop). Now, after taking a couple of years off, I’ve decided to start a new run. I remember that the game’s main issue is the lack of progression. I saw that there’s a mod called Ares at War that distributes various resources across the planets, creating a real goal for the player to explore and research new places. Does the mod work with the latest update? Are there similar mods that can give the player a reason to move from planet to planet? Thanks! (sorry for my bad english, is my 3rd language)