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Elite dangerous probably, which I played a lot but its very grindy and lacking content, the space sim part is very well done though. You can visit black holes

Elite dangerous probably, which I played a lot but its very grindy and lacking content, the space sim part is very well done though. You can visit black holes and pulsars which can supercharge your ship for very long jumps. Many try to make it to Sgr A* at the center of the galaxy to see the massive black hole, quite a long journey even with 30 ly jumps. The milky way is modeled true to size and you can explore all of it, but its pretty empty.

wlll 3y ago
It’s also absolutely amazing in VR. Totally changed the game for me, I find it unplayable without.
LinuxBender 3y ago
Elite Dangerous is a beautiful game with excellent voice acting. I eventually stopped playing it due to the ships getting prohibitively more expensive to replace when some pirates would out-maneuver my bigger and more expensive ships. As time went on it became more of a money grind. Too bad really, because I enjoyed the effort they put into the graphics and voice acting.
Arrath 3y ago
Yup, I think this is the closest thing out there to what to OP is looking for. It is pretty open and empty, though.
uejfiweun 3y ago
Interesting, thank you. What types of simulated aspects are there in the game? Temperature, pressure, magnetism, gravity, etc? I was under the impression it was more of a space dogfighting type game but based on your comment it seems I may have been very wrong about this.
- dotnet00 3y ago
  None of those. The closest it gets to physical simulation is newtonian gravity (not that that really matters much when you're flying ships with practically reactionless thrust, just means some planets are slightly trickier to land on with thruster modules which haven't been upgraded) and ship movement when you turn the assist off that emulates a plane style flight model (although this also doesn't mean much in terms of realism because there's a speed cap, so you can't just keep thrusting and accelerating. You can only interact with planets with no atmosphere or a thin one. But IIRC stars of all types and black holes can destroy your ship if you get too close). Some of the models for irl nebulae are cool, although unrealistically presented in the sense that they're blatantly visible. While the milky way is modeled to a realistic scale, the vast majority of it is empty and might as well not even exist.
  - chupasaurus 3y ago
    > and might as well not even exist As someone who flew around the galaxy literally, those systems exist, just too long to get there (and hard to get back in the inhabited part).
    - dotnet00 3y ago
      I'm not saying that they don't exist, but that they add so little (due to mostly just being nothing but another variation of the same handful of planet types with norhing to do there), that they might as well not exist.

wlll 3y ago

It’s also absolutely amazing in VR. Totally changed the game for me, I find it unplayable without.

LinuxBender 3y ago

Elite Dangerous is a beautiful game with excellent voice acting. I eventually stopped playing it due to the ships getting prohibitively more expensive to replace when some pirates would out-maneuver my bigger and more expensive ships. As time went on it became more of a money grind. Too bad really, because I enjoyed the effort they put into the graphics and voice acting.

Arrath 3y ago

Yup, I think this is the closest thing out there to what to OP is looking for. It is pretty open and empty, though.

uejfiweun 3y ago

Interesting, thank you. What types of simulated aspects are there in the game? Temperature, pressure, magnetism, gravity, etc? I was under the impression it was more of a space dogfighting type game but based on your comment it seems I may have been very wrong about this.

dotnet00 3y ago
None of those. The closest it gets to physical simulation is newtonian gravity (not that that really matters much when you're flying ships with practically reactionless thrust, just means some planets are slightly trickier to land on with thruster modules which haven't been upgraded) and ship movement when you turn the assist off that emulates a plane style flight model (although this also doesn't mean much in terms of realism because there's a speed cap, so you can't just keep thrusting and accelerating. You can only interact with planets with no atmosphere or a thin one. But IIRC stars of all types and black holes can destroy your ship if you get too close). Some of the models for irl nebulae are cool, although unrealistically presented in the sense that they're blatantly visible. While the milky way is modeled to a realistic scale, the vast majority of it is empty and might as well not even exist.
- chupasaurus 3y ago
  > and might as well not even exist As someone who flew around the galaxy literally, those systems exist, just too long to get there (and hard to get back in the inhabited part).
  - dotnet00 3y ago
    I'm not saying that they don't exist, but that they add so little (due to mostly just being nothing but another variation of the same handful of planet types with norhing to do there), that they might as well not exist.