Starsector at the end of the video, nice! I recommend anybody to check it out. The gameplay is really well done, with very unique gameplay for some ships and the mod community is fantastic! Some ships from mod are so nicely made.
Starsector is absolutely amazing, don't sleep on it if you like space sims. My friends and I frequently call it mount & blade in space. You basically build your "army" of highly customizable ships, command them with an RTS style command screen, and can also fly one yourself in ARPG combat if you so choose (I know some people like to just use the tactical menu and watch the AI fly their capital ship. Perfectly valid way of playing.) The combat takes a lot of skill, trading takes a lot of paying attention, exploration is extremely satisfying, colony building is really neat, the writing in the story is captivating (story isn't finished yet, but as of currently has a satisfying "ending" cutoff to it) the dev frequently posts on the dev blog and is currently working on a big QoL update and UX overhaul.
This. "Mount&Blade in space" is a perfect first approach description for Starsector. Focus on simple in basic controls, but complex in its mechanics combat, blurred line between fighting personally and leading a fleet, possibility of being a freelance savager, pirate, or establishing and managing your own worlds. It is amazing.
I have to say thank you. I was actually looking for some inspiration today, and I am a 40 years space simulation veteran (Elite 84). So I surfed around here today - and I ended up with 900 videos discussing the difference between Starfield and Elite or NMS for the thousands time. You are the first video in the 2 days I have been surfing, which offers something very different. Excellent! Thanks for your effort and your creativity and not to ruminate the same content.
@@easilydistractedgames Reentry - never heard of it and I really like the realistic NASA look. Will check it out. Some others I already knew - Starsector for example -maybe Liberation, but I believe I've played this before, not sure though.
I mean the intent was that they just up and stopped development in 2018, and given their last update had nothing in terms of "we done" I don't know that it would classify as finished, but I don't know.
Jumped straight to the comments before even watching a minute of it to see if Starsector made the list, because if not I'd just bounce. So happy to see it at number 1!
Good info, nicely done, thanks. Also thank you for making such a good jump list. I was looking only for multi-player game so it was quite helpful to be able to skip over the single player games. Much appreciated.
If it's not too much to ask, could you cite which mods you recommend mostly, just a quick list? I might give the game a go and would love to start with the right tools!
Hellion was a very interesting game, sadly dead and removed from the Steam store. Avorion, Flight of Nova, Ostranauts, Heat Signature, Space Pirates and Zombies, Space Run, Heavenly Bodies, Redshirt, Nimbatus, Rings of Saturn, Approaching Infinity, and Solar 2 are games that could be also interesting to explore and play. Some have been mentioned in the previous video but I think it's still interesting to list them here as other relatively hidden gems.
Hellion was a game of frustration, bugs and more frustration.... Get to a point... leave the game... Re enter the game and be in space and dying. You never know when it will happen,you load the game... You could be 1 hr into a new game or 30 hours in.
Ostranauts is another great one, currently early access and it’s from the devs of Neo scavenger. You (currently) start in a shipyard built on and around a huge asteroid and your goal is to just tear shit down, upgrade your own ship (and pay off your huge debt depending on what ship you start with) Very fun, would heavily recommend it.
Thanks for bringing attention. I thought that House of the Dying Sun might be on the list. It’s a really excellent space combat game in the vein of tie fighter with light rts elements.
Starship Evo is the most in depth ship builder i ever play, it lacks the physics of Space Engineers, and the exploration side of Empyreon. But it does compensate for the highly malleable crafting system with whapping 32 sizes of blocks. That means you could literally build from small devices like handheld weapons to massive space stations. The base blocks are also stretchable, meaning you can create a lot of forms by just stretching blocks. Steam Workshop also has tons of everything from vehicles, guns, ships of al sizes, space stations....
@3:44 Tin Can looks nice; it is what I'm looking for; like the movie Critters 4 (1992), in space, I enjoyed, the checking of seals and resource reporting, nice ship for the time, but didn't care much for the rest of the movie. It took 32 years but hey, it's here :) @13:35 Tacoma, also looks interesting @14:30 Stationeers also interesting
Star trucker is another new space game I think we should keep our eye on. euro truck simulator in space with tin can systems management. It's pretty new so it's yet to fill itself out but there's a good offering to begin with.
Hidden gems are great. But it would be nice to also have a short/quick list of the well known great games of the genre. In case we are missing on any of them. It also lets us know what great games you know, and if your advice would be any good. For example when you mentioned freelancer on a side comment, that was a "Yep, this guy knows the genre." At the start or end of the video, or even in the comment, a quick/short list would do. Or even another video.
Exogate seems to me like a combination of Evil Genius and Stargate. I currently play X4 Foundations a lot, i got back into it a few weeks ago and it´s just as good as it was before. Thanks to the latest changes, possibly better even, though the latest DLC didn´t affect the Sandbox game much, at least beyond some sensible quality of life UI improvements.
I cannot emphasize enough how incredibly good starsector is. I have sunk so many hours, and the modding support allows for so much additional replayability.
1. Space Trash Scavengers ;) - It's actually a hidden gem, apparently even more hidden than I thought. Not a single mention in comments kinda suprised me considering that other mentions were already quite niche.
You forgot Zet Zillions and Genesis Alpha One! Unsubbed and disliked!!!!!! In all honesty though, this was one of the firsts where I legit wasn't familiar with basically all of them, so you gave me a ton to go over. Thanks for the vid :)
i would add a few games: 1. delta V Rings of Saturn 2. Endless Sky 3. Jitter (right now only demo) 4. The Long Journey Home 5. Heavenly Bodies (single and co-op) 6. Cosmoteer: Starship Architect & Commander
Thanks for these! I haven't heard of some, but I added Delta V, Heavenly Bodies and Cosmoteer to my other space game lists - you should check them out too :)
I will just add one more: Space Engineers don't know if it qualifies as a unknown game, but i believe it deserves more players xD (nvm. he mentioned it on the side)
Star Sector is the game I have wanted for years. Since the original Space Pirates Vs Zombies made 2D space-combat so much fun to me. So satisfying to work on ships and upgrades and explore. For 15 bucks it makes triple A 60 dollar games look pathetic. Yes, SP vs Z 2 stank, I know.
2 I would highly suggest looking into if you enjoy these types of games. Empyrion - Galactic Survival Like space engineers but not as clunky building mechanics, quite still believeable physics and space combat, massive planets, and the ability to make some absolutely HUGE ships with varied functions. Already has several factions in it, including several factions are on just like locals or natives on planets. Is randomly generated overall. Bit hard on your hardware as its not super optimized but I like it more than Space Engineers any day of the week. Final Upgrade You are an AI that got one task. Find the "Final Star" and the "final upgrade" and meanwhile, colonize, exploit and assist. Its a RTS with building mechanics similar to something like Rimworld, as in you build in grid shapes. Really really fun and EXTREMELY easy to get into on the lower settings. But gets a lot harder on the higher settings as the colonies start needing more complex things and can't produce items if not satisfied. Its really the sort of best blend if you ask me of "casual easy feeling" with "Hostile hardcore strategic gameplay" if you wanna.
A game worth a metion while it had a rocky open beta launch is StarBase - again while it did suffer with a bad tutorial and game mechanic where players ships where left floating in the viod the detail of the ship building it something me and my friends spent hours on. the diea that a collision can take out systems where you need to reapir is really fun. I'm hoping they can get back into the swing of things and deliver content that brings people back.
A word of caution about Starcom Unknown Space. After playing 2/3rds of the game, the game loop is pretty simple. , explore planets, kill ships, get look resources, raise skills, build a bigger ship. Its explore and delete.
cool video! thanks for the upload. Rebel Galaxy Outlaw was almost a brilliant game, it had very strange difficulty spikes based on the how good your equipped modules on your ship. I tested this myself and being obliterated by an enemy would play out totally differently after I reloaded my save and downgraded modules like weapons and battled the same enemy but it was much easier. Not sure if it was ever patched to fix this bizarre design choice but last time I checked it seems like it has not. It seems like there's quite a lot of mods for the game though so I'd be surprised if there wasn't one to fix the difficulty spikes problem.
if it was not for the fact that it's hard to get running propperly on modern pc's then i would have suggested x-com interceptor - got alot of fond memories of that game
13:30 rebel galaxy first of the name is also good, instead of full 3D flying all over the place it's more like a "sea" kind of movement, with capital ships.
@DarthSchum damn right it is. Honestly i liked the second one but... i'm much more if a capital guy than fighters. At least the space dumpster truck and the last top tier sheep looked sort of decent.
At 10:32 oh how you massacerd my boy :) Like @Prozeon said Genesis Alpha One was also a thing to add, but i am missing a MP option there and it is as abandoned as ChoadE.
Nexus - The Jupiter Incident Its a old game but I think it can definitely be considered a hidden gem for anyone enjoying space games, I see that Steam has it on sale until 21st Oct for basically nothing. Not a perfect game but for that price even if people do not end up liking it, its still worth trying it.
My only issue with gothic armada 2 is that there's a bug where if ships are in formation (line astern following eachother), the game will sometimes crash. I think if one of the ships in front dies.
Yup for sure! I did a whole review on it and included it in my first video (the one with space game sales I think). Just didn't want to keep repeating myself :)
If Stellar tactics ever gets out of Early Access, I'm all over it. But man, Starsector...I have never wanted to love a game so much that I just...well I suck at. The tutorial kills me. I just don't get the game - I'm too stupid.
@@KhaosElement don't worry I have like 400 hours in Starsector and I'm starting to get better, I fully understand how to optimize colonization and how to pilot certain ships.
@@easilydistractedgames That sounds good. My Personal Top 5: Haegemonia The X Series. Most X4 Foundations Sins of a Solar Empire 1&2 Nexus Jupiter Incedent Endless Space Just to give you some Names to Check :).
In this video there were only 2 that I didn't know about, which were the first 2 that I showed all the others and I have played them and I can confirm that they are all great games, complete gems that I recommend if you have the opportunity to try them.
7:44 Not sure about the "gem" but it certainly is "hidden" despite the well known publisher. No PR whatsoever and this is literally the first time I've heard about it.
Did you do any research on any of those? I took number 12, for example. Spaceflight simulator is still in early access and when searching for it, in steam, Spaceflight simulator 2 shows up as well. The first one isn't even released and they have plans for a second one already. Atleast I think that is highly suspicious.
I spent quite a few days researching these, checking recent reviews, things like that. I'm still learning my way on UA-cam, so I apologize if I make an error or two on some of these. Hopefully my future videos will be better.
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I listened to your comments from my previous video, so hope you find some here that might have missed and can enjoy!
Starsector at no 1, couldn't agree more ❤
Starsector at the end of the video, nice! I recommend anybody to check it out.
The gameplay is really well done, with very unique gameplay for some ships and the mod community is fantastic! Some ships from mod are so nicely made.
Starsector is absolutely amazing, don't sleep on it if you like space sims. My friends and I frequently call it mount & blade in space. You basically build your "army" of highly customizable ships, command them with an RTS style command screen, and can also fly one yourself in ARPG combat if you so choose (I know some people like to just use the tactical menu and watch the AI fly their capital ship. Perfectly valid way of playing.) The combat takes a lot of skill, trading takes a lot of paying attention, exploration is extremely satisfying, colony building is really neat, the writing in the story is captivating (story isn't finished yet, but as of currently has a satisfying "ending" cutoff to it) the dev frequently posts on the dev blog and is currently working on a big QoL update and UX overhaul.
This. "Mount&Blade in space" is a perfect first approach description for Starsector. Focus on simple in basic controls, but complex in its mechanics combat, blurred line between fighting personally and leading a fleet, possibility of being a freelance savager, pirate, or establishing and managing your own worlds. It is amazing.
Starsector is incredible, took me a while to get into it but once you do it's so addictive, one of my favorite games of all time
Whenever the Starsector itch starts, there's nothing else like it.
I have to say thank you. I was actually looking for some inspiration today, and I am a 40 years space simulation veteran (Elite 84). So I surfed around here today - and I ended up with 900 videos discussing the difference between Starfield and Elite or NMS for the thousands time. You are the first video in the 2 days I have been surfing, which offers something very different. Excellent! Thanks for your effort and your creativity and not to ruminate the same content.
Hey there, thank you for your comment, it really means a lot! Which games did you like the look of?
@@easilydistractedgames Reentry - never heard of it and I really like the realistic NASA look. Will check it out. Some others I already knew - Starsector for example -maybe Liberation, but I believe I've played this before, not sure though.
Calling a working single player game that you can still legally buy "abandonware" is odd to me. It's simply a finished game.
I mean the intent was that they just up and stopped development in 2018, and given their last update had nothing in terms of "we done" I don't know that it would classify as finished, but I don't know.
Yes, surely a “dead” game is one that doesn’t work. This is like calling a book “dead” because the author doesn’t send you new chapters.
Are you that Game of Thrones author ?
Jumped straight to the comments before even watching a minute of it to see if Starsector made the list, because if not I'd just bounce. So happy to see it at number 1!
I've been playing space games for 20 years now.
Happy to say, this roster had a couple of games i did not know about! Thanks!
you probably missed Star Control 2 then - an amazing one from the early 90s
@@MrrVlad I did not. It was my childhood game. But thank you.
Starship evo is easily the best spaceship builder going. I've been a massive fan for years. Put hundreds of hours into it.
Pulsar mentioned, incredibly correct opinion.
Good info, nicely done, thanks. Also thank you for making such a good jump list. I was looking only for multi-player game so it was quite helpful to be able to skip over the single player games. Much appreciated.
Starsector, specially with mods, is galaxies ahead of everything on the list. Absolutely nr. 1
If it's not too much to ask, could you cite which mods you recommend mostly, just a quick list? I might give the game a go and would love to start with the right tools!
Duskers is an absolute gem. Get it!
And you should play Starcom:Nexus before Unknown Space!!
Very nice list. Gothic Armada 2 is indeed a gem, and I think I will test some of the suggested games.
Hellion was a very interesting game, sadly dead and removed from the Steam store. Avorion, Flight of Nova, Ostranauts, Heat Signature, Space Pirates and Zombies, Space Run, Heavenly Bodies, Redshirt, Nimbatus, Rings of Saturn, Approaching Infinity, and Solar 2 are games that could be also interesting to explore and play. Some have been mentioned in the previous video but I think it's still interesting to list them here as other relatively hidden gems.
Hellion was a game of frustration, bugs and more frustration....
Get to a point... leave the game...
Re enter the game and be in space and dying.
You never know when it will happen,you load the game... You could be 1 hr into a new game or 30 hours in.
I really enjoyed Space Pirates and Zombies (SPaZ).
Ostranauts should 100% be on this list.
Duskersss!!! and Starsectorrr!!!
The true strategic horror
The true simulation of space (also mods are a must)
OBSERVATION was also a pretty cool space game, story driven but really cool tmy!
Ostranauts is another great one, currently early access and it’s from the devs of Neo scavenger. You (currently) start in a shipyard built on and around a huge asteroid and your goal is to just tear shit down, upgrade your own ship (and pay off your huge debt depending on what ship you start with) Very fun, would heavily recommend it.
A nice list! Starcetore is a great number 1!
Thanks for bringing attention. I thought that House of the Dying Sun might be on the list. It’s a really excellent space combat game in the vein of tie fighter with light rts elements.
Starship Evo is the most in depth ship builder i ever play, it lacks the physics of Space Engineers, and the exploration side of Empyreon.
But it does compensate for the highly malleable crafting system with whapping 32 sizes of blocks.
That means you could literally build from small devices like handheld weapons to massive space stations.
The base blocks are also stretchable, meaning you can create a lot of forms by just stretching blocks.
Steam Workshop also has tons of everything from vehicles, guns, ships of al sizes, space stations....
Definitely promising!
«physics of Space Engineers»))) oh, boy.
@afourz_z what do you mean?
@@efxnews4776 that's ridiculous)
Avorion too is a pretty good game
Man deepspace is so fun if you have a group of friends to play with
Gotta mention, Heat signature, Tharsis, and FTL Faster Than Light.
Oh good options! I'll add them to my growing list 😅
Heat Signature is a favorite, Such a fun game.
Avorion if you want another game that has a massive star map and you can build your own ship block by block.
@@easilydistractedgames VoidShip. Shortest trip to earth. Battlevoid: Harbinger. Space Heaven
@3:44 Tin Can looks nice; it is what I'm looking for; like the movie Critters 4 (1992), in space, I enjoyed, the checking of seals and resource reporting, nice ship for the time, but didn't care much for the rest of the movie. It took 32 years but hey, it's here :)
@13:35 Tacoma, also looks interesting
@14:30 Stationeers also interesting
the original rebel galaxy had naval broadside combat in a space game and it was really cool
Star trucker is another new space game I think we should keep our eye on. euro truck simulator in space with tin can systems management. It's pretty new so it's yet to fill itself out but there's a good offering to begin with.
I just release a whole video about it about an hour ago 😅
Hidden gems are great. But it would be nice to also have a short/quick list of the well known great games of the genre. In case we are missing on any of them.
It also lets us know what great games you know, and if your advice would be any good.
For example when you mentioned freelancer on a side comment, that was a "Yep, this guy knows the genre."
At the start or end of the video, or even in the comment, a quick/short list would do. Or even another video.
Avorion is another lost gem aswell!
Starsector is truly amazing. By far the best on this list and I've played all but 3.
Exogate seems to me like a combination of Evil Genius and Stargate.
I currently play X4 Foundations a lot, i got back into it a few weeks ago and it´s just as good as it was before.
Thanks to the latest changes, possibly better even, though the latest DLC didn´t affect the Sandbox game much, at least beyond some sensible quality of life UI improvements.
I cannot emphasize enough how incredibly good starsector is. I have sunk so many hours, and the modding support allows for so much additional replayability.
1. Space Trash Scavengers ;) - It's actually a hidden gem, apparently even more hidden than I thought. Not a single mention in comments kinda suprised me considering that other mentions were already quite niche.
You forgot Zet Zillions and Genesis Alpha One! Unsubbed and disliked!!!!!! In all honesty though, this was one of the firsts where I legit wasn't familiar with basically all of them, so you gave me a ton to go over. Thanks for the vid :)
Thanks for adding to my next list 😅
@Prozeon Alpha one is pretty dope
Tin Can is also playable in VR if anyone is wondering. It gives a way more immersive game with it.
Thanks for bringing this up! VR in space games are incredible!
+1 for Starsector, one of my top 3 favorite games ever.
I appreciate the video, added a few to my wishlist. Keep up the good work.
Thank you! And thank you for the sub!
i would add a few games:
1. delta V Rings of Saturn
2. Endless Sky
3. Jitter (right now only demo)
4. The Long Journey Home
5. Heavenly Bodies (single and co-op)
6. Cosmoteer: Starship Architect & Commander
Thanks for these! I haven't heard of some, but I added Delta V, Heavenly Bodies and Cosmoteer to my other space game lists - you should check them out too :)
I will just add one more:
Space Engineers
don't know if it qualifies as a unknown game, but i believe it deserves more players xD
(nvm. he mentioned it on the side)
Check out Space Trash Scavengers, it's actually incredible.
A hidden gem space game list without Freespace 2 Open is an incomplete list 😉❤
Don't worry I'm working on my next list! Might try to squeeze that one in ;)
Star Sector is the game I have wanted for years. Since the original Space Pirates Vs Zombies made 2D space-combat so much fun to me. So satisfying to work on ships and upgrades and explore. For 15 bucks it makes triple A 60 dollar games look pathetic. Yes, SP vs Z 2 stank, I know.
2 I would highly suggest looking into if you enjoy these types of games.
Empyrion - Galactic Survival
Like space engineers but not as clunky building mechanics, quite still believeable physics and space combat, massive planets, and the ability to make some absolutely HUGE ships with varied functions. Already has several factions in it, including several factions are on just like locals or natives on planets. Is randomly generated overall. Bit hard on your hardware as its not super optimized but I like it more than Space Engineers any day of the week.
Final Upgrade
You are an AI that got one task. Find the "Final Star" and the "final upgrade" and meanwhile, colonize, exploit and assist. Its a RTS with building mechanics similar to something like Rimworld, as in you build in grid shapes. Really really fun and EXTREMELY easy to get into on the lower settings. But gets a lot harder on the higher settings as the colonies start needing more complex things and can't produce items if not satisfied. Its really the sort of best blend if you ask me of "casual easy feeling" with "Hostile hardcore strategic gameplay" if you wanna.
STATIONEERS MENTIONED 🎉🎉💯
Check out Crying Suns, it's a pretty cool indie roguelike a bit similar to FTL, except less deep combat but a much more emphasis on story and writing.
Starsector is an absolute gem. 100% recommend to anyone.
A game worth a metion while it had a rocky open beta launch is StarBase - again while it did suffer with a bad tutorial and game mechanic where players ships where left floating in the viod the detail of the ship building it something me and my friends spent hours on. the diea that a collision can take out systems where you need to reapir is really fun. I'm hoping they can get back into the swing of things and deliver content that brings people back.
Thanks for the mention! I just checked it out, love the graphics! I'll add it to my next list for a future video.
Nexus Jupiter incident one of my favorites
A word of caution about Starcom Unknown Space. After playing 2/3rds of the game, the game loop is pretty simple. , explore planets, kill ships, get look resources, raise skills, build a bigger ship. Its explore and delete.
I've been playing space games since the original Elite and it's wireframe graphics and Empyrion: Galactic Survival is my favourite ever.
Do you play it with mods or vanilla?
@@easilydistractedgames I play with the Reforged Eden 2 overhaul mod (Scenario). Haven't played vanilla for years.
Ostranauts and Interstellar Rift should have been on the list too.
cool video! thanks for the upload.
Rebel Galaxy Outlaw was almost a brilliant game, it had very strange difficulty spikes based on the how good your equipped modules on your ship. I tested this myself and being obliterated by an enemy would play out totally differently after I reloaded my save and downgraded modules like weapons and battled the same enemy but it was much easier. Not sure if it was ever patched to fix this bizarre design choice but last time I checked it seems like it has not. It seems like there's quite a lot of mods for the game though so I'd be surprised if there wasn't one to fix the difficulty spikes problem.
Even tho starbase is still on ea, i think it still deserves a mention. Great game and huge potential.
if it was not for the fact that it's hard to get running propperly on modern pc's then i would have suggested x-com interceptor - got alot of fond memories of that game
13:30 rebel galaxy first of the name is also good, instead of full 3D flying all over the place it's more like a "sea" kind of movement, with capital ships.
Much better than its sequel. And Avorion is not on the list. The guy knows nothing. Kidding. But still...
@DarthSchum damn right it is. Honestly i liked the second one but... i'm much more if a capital guy than fighters. At least the space dumpster truck and the last top tier sheep looked sort of decent.
Exogate is exactly evil genius style
Yeah many people compare the two. Some still prefer Evil Company though.
At 10:32 oh how you massacerd my boy :)
Like @Prozeon said Genesis Alpha One was also a thing to add, but i am missing a MP option there and it is as abandoned as ChoadE.
Stationeers, won´t let me go.
It´s a true Simulation!
Cosmoteer is very unknow but has so good potencial 😭
I still play the demo... No need to buy it for the amount I play. The demo is enough.
@@sahhull but you will not get all of the content
@@marceauberthe steam tells me I play around 2 hours per 2 weeks.. I doubt Id get to see additional content
Nexus - The Jupiter Incident
Its a old game but I think it can definitely be considered a hidden gem for anyone enjoying space games, I see that Steam has it on sale until 21st Oct for basically nothing.
Not a perfect game but for that price even if people do not end up liking it, its still worth trying it.
I saw that! Thank you for your recommendation, I'll use it in an upcoming video!
I've been playing star trucker as it just came out. It's an awesome space trucking sim!!
I'm planning on dropping a video about it today!
My only issue with gothic armada 2 is that there's a bug where if ships are in formation (line astern following eachother), the game will sometimes crash. I think if one of the ships in front dies.
Nebulous: Fleet Command
^^^
Really cool game
solid list!
i would add Dyson Sphere program to the list. it a factory game that you have a star clusters to build on .
Yup for sure! I did a whole review on it and included it in my first video (the one with space game sales I think). Just didn't want to keep repeating myself :)
I am exceptionally surprised to not to find Chorus on the list.
I think I need to make another list 😅
I highly recomend:
Hardspace Shipbreaker
Cobalt Core
Sunshine heavy industries
Quanga is worth a look.
Thank you! It looks epic!
I have to say that I enjoyed Starhammer more than Gothica or Armada.
My man I can't believe you're forgetting Delta V
Don't worry, put it in my previous space video. Didn't want them to overlap
If Stellar tactics ever gets out of Early Access, I'm all over it. But man, Starsector...I have never wanted to love a game so much that I just...well I suck at. The tutorial kills me. I just don't get the game - I'm too stupid.
@@KhaosElement agree anything like homeworld but not 3 I'm there buddy ✌️
@@KhaosElement don't worry I have like 400 hours in Starsector and I'm starting to get better, I fully understand how to optimize colonization and how to pilot certain ships.
You forgott Haegemonia Legions of Iron. Awesome looking and animations for this Time (2002) :( Way to unknown and underrated.
I know, I'm thinking of making another list with recommendations mentioned in this video. Thanks for this one I'll look it up!
@@easilydistractedgames That sounds good.
My Personal Top 5:
Haegemonia
The X Series. Most X4 Foundations
Sins of a Solar Empire 1&2
Nexus Jupiter Incedent
Endless Space
Just to give you some Names to Check :).
Great list, you showed several I have not seen before. Now, how the hell are we supposed to have enough time to play all of them?
Love to see starsector at number one🎉
For me some time ago Avorion was hidden gem
Avorion is pretty nice. There are a few design flaws but didn't stop me from spending 100+ hours in it
In this video there were only 2 that I didn't know about, which were the first 2 that I showed all the others and I have played them and I can confirm that they are all great games, complete gems that I recommend if you have the opportunity to try them.
Maybe try my follow up video? I tried including ones that aren't as popular
Stellaris music in the background
.. been playing it a lot lately and i couldn't help but to notice
Good ear! Yeah I've been using it in my videos as some songs are just too good
I knew starsector was going to be here
Try starbound if you’re an absolute madman
Why madman? I've been wanting to play it for ages now.
No mention of Void Crew 😍🤩
Wait - I included it at number 15 - 05:40 :)
Oh Indeed!
No Terra Invicta? This is criminal
Check out Star Valor it is like starsector but not as deep in the systems. Has everything for a good rpg
Thank you, I'll check it out!
7:44 Not sure about the "gem" but it certainly is "hidden" despite the well known publisher. No PR whatsoever and this is literally the first time I've heard about it.
@@anteshell you should give it a go. It's like rimworld but space
Genesis Alpha One is pretty good, too.
Yup I included in my second hidden gems video after so many people listed it here!
The Ur Quan Masters is available for free on steam
Rebel Galaxy Outlaws is as close to Privateer 3 as they could without being sued.
STARSECTOR MENTIONED! yes yes YES
Did you do any research on any of those? I took number 12, for example. Spaceflight simulator is still in early access and when searching for it, in steam, Spaceflight simulator 2 shows up as well.
The first one isn't even released and they have plans for a second one already. Atleast I think that is highly suspicious.
I spent quite a few days researching these, checking recent reviews, things like that. I'm still learning my way on UA-cam, so I apologize if I make an error or two on some of these. Hopefully my future videos will be better.
@@easilydistractedgames Yeah, just wondering. very sus, if you ask me
Astroneer and Space Engineers sad noises
Nebulous: Fleet Command
Ixion is great !
Sip a cup of your favorite drink whenever you hear "space" word through the video. (try not to die)
Hahaha this is amazing, j didn't even realise that. I'll keep my thesaurus nearby next time 🤣
@@easilydistractedgames that's ok man, can't do anything about it anyway. Such is the topic :D
I like star trucker , its amazing sifi sim space vip gameplay, its new game bty
You need to watch my latest video then :) I just covered it, been really enjoying it.
If u do part 2 to this add an realy hidden gem "adios amogos GX"
@6:42 your welcome.
Stellar Overload
Space Engineers
Empyrion - Galactic Survival
Kerbal Space Program
Rodina
No Man Sky
Starbound
this is such a scuffed "list" of "best space game hidden gems" its insane
Thanks for the feedback, I tried to make another one that has just come out, maybe that one is better?
I(d like to mention Qanga. It's an early access but quite playable however not perfect. Check it out !
Haven't heard of it, but thank you! I'll look into it.
what's the game at the intro?
battle, battle, battle, 2.5D, 2D, top down, battle, battle.... these companies cannot come up with a new idea.