Hey LT Gamers. After a bizarre exchange with the developer of Frontiers Reach id no longer recommend that game. We have built many wonderful relationships with Indie Devs since we started this channel which is the main thing :)
@mysticmerlin1297 was the weirdest reaction to someone featuring their game I've ever seen (I was very nice about the game also). I don't think he will work in PR anytime soon or feature on this channel again. 🤷♂️😂😇
Independence War was fun. I could never get the hang of the physics in that game but I will be trying it again soon. It also had one of the best opening cinematic stories and possibly the longest as well.
@@IIIJG52 i had the second one too, however you could cheat the physics with shortly activating LDS and deactivating it again tu bring you instant to a halt.
A few old games to look at, DarkStar One, a RPG story based space combat game where the ship upgrades and changes based on your upgrades. Tie fighter and X-Wing, especially with the total conversion mods.
I am not sure if I can really recommend X2 all that much. Just going through the story missions is a huge grind. This wouldn't be a problem, if building up your economy was actually possible. However early in the story a certain race starts to attack your freight ships. Just the repair costs make it almost impossible to actually earn money. To top all of this, once I played the final mission, I was left disappointed. What is great about X2 is the music and the exploration. When I finished the very short story, I decided to check out every sector. This was actually worth it as a few of them were quite unique and very interesting. If you still want to play X2 just for that don't pay more than 1 €, since it doesn't take long to do the flythrough.
Thank you for featuring Freespace 2. Ending still gets me tear-eyed and I'm still waiting for another space combat sim title that would get me as invested to the story. Fingers crossed SQ42 delivers.
As someone who played most space sims worth playing for.. waaay too much .. I can definatly point out a few that very much stand out. .. X3 Terran Conflict. (not albion prelude where they "ballanced" stuff") Single player game that is of unreachable quality and depth especialy by todays standards, It marks the end of a great era in which smart developers made games for smart players. A game where even after 10 000 hours you might still find things you havent found or did. (unless you read milion pages of guides ofc) This might be THE BEST game Ever made! Freelancer - Discovery (multiplayer mod based on roleplay using freelancers universe and lore as a foundation and building upon it remarkably) Probably the craziest and best multiplayer experiance i've had in 30 years of gaming. Lastly something I did not expect to ever happen is game called Space Engineers . decades after the above mentioned era ended and we are seeing mostly dumbed down games or games made by simple minded devs.. comes a game which rewards intelect and creativity. Absolutely a game worthy of a spot in halls of Legeneds. Realizing that someone out there is still capable of creating something like this gave me hope that humanity might not be doomed just yet ;p
@@epos79All I will say.. after waiting for that game for soooo long...on initial release it was barely 2% of x3TC and now with all the dlcs (That should have been in the game from the start.) its still does not have even 10% of the quality and depth of x3tc..If I was to point out the things that were done better in x3 or are simply missing in x4 it would probably be a 40+ pages book.. Sure, its an ok game by todays standards and has some great features x3 did not have like the cruise drive.. I Have yet to try VRO and SWI but I doubt they can do anything radical enough that would bring x4 closer to what x3tc had to offer.
Before Subnautica, Freespace 2 gave me my first REAL feeling of fear "DIVE DIVE DIVE!! HIT YOUR BURNERS, PILOT!!!" I remember I had to pause the game for a while to get my heart rate down and dry my sweaty palms before continuing. In remembrance of GVD Psamtik and her crew.
Parkan 2 is a classic, but honestly there's many better titles than it nowadays, No Man's Sky being probably the best example. That said, the first one Parkan: Iron Strategy was an absolute belter. It was the only game I've ever really seen do FPS+RTS in a seamless and truly cool way. It was the first multiplayer game I ever played and it was amazing. :D
Played Freespace 1 and Freespace 2 👌🏼!! What a great games!! Not only the graphics were great but the story is incredibly cool! And when de source code project (SCP) started, it became something different: Hi-res gfx and custom campaigns!!! Still playable today!!
I wouldn't be surprised if you've hit these already in this series but: Nexus, Phoenix, Haegemonia, Iron sky(iirc?), I-War 1 *and* 2! Sure I'll think some more up too! I-War 1 with its proper physics was just a mind-blowing experience, loved it so much! BC 3000AD, Starlancer, Darklight Conflict (underrated imvho), Darkstar One (ditto! such an addictive games!), Zarch (space-ish!) Sid Meier did Alpha Centauri? live Civ, in Space ... sure there was a similar one set on the Moon too?
Yes, Darklight Conflict, I had it on the Saturn and it was a real joy in the mid 90s to get a space combat game that I could run throught my big TV (for its time) ... even if the Saturn controller wasn't so hot, hjust getting that immersive feeling was worth it!
Starglider II was *wild* back then. I played it on an Atari ST 1040 (although i didn't understand English and just did whatever without any clue) and I wondered for decades why it seemed to be impossible to make a game like that again and improve on it. I mean, free flight in a solar system with several planets and moons, seamless transitions from space to surface into cave systems and back, you don't see that in many games even today.
I played the first part of Parkan. It's a great game, with good music, for that time. The graphics were different there and it was impossible to walk around the planets. In the first part of the game, you could only fight inside the base, on planets. The planet could be captured by killing all the robot guards, or immediately run to the base computer and throw a capsule with your robot into it. The captured planets worked for you and produced fuel, rockets, drones. And your planets could have been hijacked by pirates while you were flying to another star system. You could be friends with everyone, or fight and rob merchant ships. And during the flights, you were attacked by robot pirates. And you could destroy all their ships, or board them to search for information on their computer.
Parkan 2 is a story driven game with a somewhat high budget for a time. We don't get that many of them even now. Ships are pretty cool, featuring interiors you can walk and fight in, drone bays and tank hangars. Boarding is a big part of the game. You can also capture planets and build industry on it, but it's all pretty basic. Overall i enjoy it a lot, but I'm probably nostalgic. Anyway, as a space sim fan I'm very happy i ended up watching this list. Will probably check out everything on it.
Gonna throw this one out there - Broadside Renegades. It's pretty arcadey, but harkens back to games like asteroids and escape velocity in that it's a 2d top down space game, with a fast paced combat focus. Seems pretty fun. Great list btw, a lot of games I had never heard of, can't wait to try them!
I played Freespace and Freelancer back when they came out, absolutely loved them. Somehow missed Freespace 2. Played all of them (Freespace, Freespace 2 and Freelancer, along with Wing Commanders III, IV and Prophecy) this year and they were all still an absolute blast. Also bought a USB joystick just for this (I do have a joystick from back in the day, but it uses a MIDI port). Overall - so much fun was had! Still on my to play list - Starlancer and Privateer 2. Also gave some Freespace fan campaigns a go. Blue Planet was excellent, but it's sadly unfinished. I was really enjoying it , it had voice acting and everything, along with a great plot. But what threw me off and forced me to quit was the fact that at some point, the voice actors were replaced with Freespace engine's text to speech and I just couldn't bear it 😀. I also tried the Awakenings campaign - can recommend, it was really good. There's also a fan campaign called Freespace 3: The Search for Bosch, but it's a parody and I really didn't like the humor and style it went for. So that was a skip for me. Although reviews from the web say it's really good, so your mileage may vary. Edit: maybe worth a mention, but when I first started Freespace 1, it was the GOG version, so pretty much the version that was launched in 1998, but made compatible with Windows 10. Even that looks pretty good today. But then I discovered the fan mods, along with the full Freespace 1 campaign ported over to the Freespace 2 engine, with modern resolution support and high-res textures. And it looks absolutely stunning! Freespace 2 even more so. I used a mod manager for all of this called Knossos.NET, it makes downloading all the fan-made texture packs and missions pretty easy.
I made a list a long time ago for space sims and mechs and underwater games, i am just gonna copy and paste here the space sims list and see if you find one you havent heard of. Vanark deathwing Starfighter Angle of Attack invasion from beyond Terminal Velocity Fury 3 Hellbender bhunter Crime Cities g police 1 and 2 miner wars rogue squardon Radix: Beyond the Void Forsaken space rider 2004 Terracide Dead Reckoning battle over namboo Terminal Velocity fury 3 hellbender Evil Core: The Fallen Cities infernox xf5700 mantis inca inca 2 Absolute Zero The Last Dynasty game Phoenix 3 shadow squadron star quest 1 in the 27th century solar eclipse saturn star rangers v renegade the battle for jacob's star Star Crusader ares rising iron sky xcom interceptor xenocraxy Drift: When Worlds Collide game homeplanet playing with fire romanians in space Star Assault Shattered Origins guardians Astrox retribution STARFIGHTER ORIGINS star wars jedi starfighter starlancer Drift: When Worlds Collide game privateer 3030 deathwar redux phoenix Star Assault rebel galaxy outlaw absolute territory xiphos halcyon sun starcalibur colony wars wing commander Star Ixiom privateer 2 eterium Tachyon: The Fringe star trek invasion Battlestar Galactica ps2 star trek shattered universe Galactic Empire and its sequel A.G.E. (= Advanced Galactic Empire) STARGLIDER II SOL: Exodus Battle of SOL Starfighter DEEP SPACE: OPERATION COPERNICUS freespace The Tomorrow War space interceptor project freedom stars are cold toys 2009 Blast Radius starlight inception Shattered Origins guardians Leveron Space hyperspeed project nomad Earth Analog Silverwing Dark Horizon tarr chronicles Milikans reach galaxy under fire everspace 2 darkstar one sinistar unleased Void Warfare Lost Empire 2977 spaceforce rogue universe v Space Commander: War and Trade spacebourne Beyond Space starpoint gemini 3 star rebel Subdivision Infinity DX Arc Savior chorus Underspace Flatspace IIK Solar Winds 2 Breathedge 2 no mans sky space crew A-Spec First Assault Voidexpanse Galactic Crew II stellar tactics Between the Stars starpoing gemini 2 star control void destroyer 1 2 Drox Operative 1 2 Sundog: Frozen Legacy Into the Stars rebel galaxy Avorion Kinetic Void starshatter gathering storm Dust Fleet helium rain star valor v starcom nexus independance war 1 2 endless sky Command Adventures: Starship gaia beyond Executive assault 2 Battlecruiser Generations Parkan imperial chronicles Parkan 2 strike suit zero project nimbus wtftech fighters omega boost
Good list, thank you man! Sure, some of the early Egosoft games had a very ... janky ... GFX idiosyncrasies, like they tried to model people using the space engine! But ne'ertheless, the emergent gameplay was sublime!. X2 - The Threat one of the first games that I logged easy triple digit hours, even started to write a model/asset viewer, love those guys! It, and Wing Cmdr. Prophecy are also 2 of a very short list of games in which I will complete and then instantly restart and play through again and again, multiple times like that. They were good times! Luke, I'm interested to know - with you and your mates clear love for this Genre - have you ever tried to make your own? Do you have a "My dream space sim" perhaps? I'd love to hear or email about it something ... I have a basic engine and am teaching myself a lot more, might be fun to consider possibilities a time?
Pretty cool list, as usual. Had never heard of Frontiers Reach, Rogue Stargun or Above Earth. And Freespace 2 is one of my all time favorites, it always deserves more attention. I really recommend you take a look at some of the mods and make a list of those you like best. Blue Planet is pretty good, but regrettably unfinished. Vassago's Dirge, Inferno, Between the Ashes, Derelict, the list is immense.
I don't know if you've checked in on the launcher or the HLP forums recently, but shout out to one of the newer mods, Solaris, with two parts out last I checked. Own setting but good use of the engine and a decent story.
I wish I could rediscover Freespace 2 again, A great game.. a fantastic fan made remaster for the visuals - and oh so many fantastic mods. Especially Blue Planet & its sequel. Maybe it'll get finished one day, but nonetheless, Blue Planet and BP2 is worth paying for.. and you wouldn't even have to. And that's without mentioning any of the others, or some of the stand alone experiences made with the FS2 open source project like the Wing Commander and Battlestar ones that exist. Or the Freespace 1 overhaul with the improved modern visuals.
For Freespace mods I recommend using Knossos, as unlike back in the day it allows you to download and install complete mods with just a single click. One mod I highly recommend is Diaspora: Shattered Armistice. The quality of that project rivals that of professionally made games.
day 002 - Still surprised no one is talking about Stationeers, despite its cartoonish graphics, it features much more realistic mechanics than other games of its genre, considering also that most of them are not set in sci-fi.
I spent so many hours in X2 back in about 2005 but I never got very far in it. My trade empire consisted of one ore mine on an asteroid 😂 Had a lot of fun with it though.
My first X game was X4, and so far theres not a single game that beat it to me. I have around 5k hours in X4, divided in 4 playthroughs. I guess back in the day X2 was the dream game of space sim players...
I played the hell out of the original Freespace back in the day, but I barely scratched the surface with FS2. Just couldn't get into it, for some reason.
Did you really make 6 videos before you listed FS2. Wow, better late than never lol. X2 does still hold up okay, surprisingly well animated with lots of spinny rotaty things for its age, there's not much else to say about it though other than it's hard to get into, pretty boring affair for a particular breed of player. I thought I'd played most games, but never even heard of Parkan.
@@LTGamingRUclips Okay, I get you. You want me to say thank you after you did more work to hunt down a 3 year old trailer to misrepresent the game in an obscurely dishonest fashion. Not sure what I did to earn that level of dishonestly from a complete stranger who had their promo channel open to the public but whatever.
@blindalienproductions5589 what on earth are you on about. I featured your game (after you asked me too) to show it off and this is how you treat people. Trust me this is the polite version of what you will get from me. You would literally have to be stupid to do what you did here. Never again.
@@blindalienproductions5589Oof, bro. You literally just lost my interest in the game with that childish shit. Grow up and figure out how to not be nasty to strangers when you communicate with them.
@@MattZaharias I mean all we did was feature his game which we didnt have too and that was what we got back. Most bizarre dev interaction we ever had tbh lol.
Hey LT Gamers. After a bizarre exchange with the developer of Frontiers Reach id no longer recommend that game. We have built many wonderful relationships with Indie Devs since we started this channel which is the main thing :)
Thanks for the heads up! Removed from the wishlist, can't be bothered with nutjob Devs on tiny projects like that.
@mysticmerlin1297 was the weirdest reaction to someone featuring their game I've ever seen (I was very nice about the game also). I don't think he will work in PR anytime soon or feature on this channel again. 🤷♂️😂😇
Man; Freespace 2 was *THE* space sim game back in the day. For me; only Privateer 2 surpasses it.
Ah, a man of culture! See you in the Surgeon's Blunder Bar, Ser.
Privater 2 bar none, then Freelancer ❤
Priv2. I am still hoping to find a worthy successor. Freelancer is very close. Cant get anything alike today...
Dude freespace that takes me back. What an amazing game.
Independence War was fun. I could never get the hang of the physics in that game but I will be trying it again soon. It also had one of the best opening cinematic stories and possibly the longest as well.
Best frickin space sim game ever. With the possible exception of I-War2!
Space Quest series. Y'all need to start at the beginning 😂
Retro suggestion from 2000 Tachyon: The Fringe.
As a kid I liked it very much.
I think it was included on Episode 4. Great suggestion!
Good game. Voiced by Bruce Campbell as the main character.
Time to slag some spanner trash...
Tachyon the Fringe says "Whoa, that's a big gun!" Modder keeping it functional and working on a upgrade to it here.
as ever, great video and YES please create a video dedicated to FREESPACE 2. Missing these times and my Wing Commander Collection.
I will start getting back into it this week then :)
Independence War, on GOG, one of the few capital ship sim
I own it and need to play it now!
I war 2 ? My childhood. The pirate life
@@IIIJG52 i had the second one too, however you could cheat the physics with shortly activating LDS and deactivating it again tu bring you instant to a halt.
A few old games to look at, DarkStar One, a RPG story based space combat game where the ship upgrades and changes based on your upgrades. Tie fighter and X-Wing, especially with the total conversion mods.
I am not sure if I can really recommend X2 all that much. Just going through the story missions is a huge grind. This wouldn't be a problem, if building up your economy was actually possible. However early in the story a certain race starts to attack your freight ships. Just the repair costs make it almost impossible to actually earn money. To top all of this, once I played the final mission, I was left disappointed.
What is great about X2 is the music and the exploration. When I finished the very short story, I decided to check out every sector. This was actually worth it as a few of them were quite unique and very interesting.
If you still want to play X2 just for that don't pay more than 1 €, since it doesn't take long to do the flythrough.
Star lancer and the wing commander series were amazing games
Please dig into Freespace 2 mods. I loved the game back when it came out and would love a curated look at mods to try out.
On the horizon :)
Thanks for the great memories. A couple of more titles I recommend: Independence war 2: Egde of chaos, Freelancer, Dark Star, Adr1ft, Observation.
Thanks for the suggestions!
Thank you for featuring Freespace 2. Ending still gets me tear-eyed and I'm still waiting for another space combat sim title that would get me as invested to the story. Fingers crossed SQ42 delivers.
As someone who played most space sims worth playing for.. waaay too much .. I can definatly point out a few that very much stand out. ..
X3 Terran Conflict. (not albion prelude where they "ballanced" stuff") Single player game that is of unreachable quality and depth especialy by todays standards, It marks the end of a great era in which smart developers made games for smart players. A game where even after 10 000 hours you might still find things you havent found or did. (unless you read milion pages of guides ofc) This might be THE BEST game Ever made!
Freelancer - Discovery (multiplayer mod based on roleplay using freelancers universe and lore as a foundation and building upon it remarkably) Probably the craziest and best multiplayer experiance i've had in 30 years of gaming.
Lastly something I did not expect to ever happen is game called Space Engineers . decades after the above mentioned era ended and we are seeing mostly dumbed down games or games made by simple minded devs.. comes a game which rewards intelect and creativity. Absolutely a game worthy of a spot in halls of Legeneds. Realizing that someone out there is still capable of creating something like this gave me hope that humanity might not be doomed just yet ;p
Hey X4 Foindation Star Wars Interworlfs does surpass x4 TC in my opinion but still ist the benchmark
@@epos79All I will say.. after waiting for that game for soooo long...on initial release it was barely 2% of x3TC and now with all the dlcs (That should have been in the game from the start.) its still does not have even 10% of the quality and depth of x3tc..If I was to point out the things that were done better in x3 or are simply missing in x4 it would probably be a 40+ pages book.. Sure, its an ok game by todays standards and has some great features x3 did not have like the cruise drive.. I Have yet to try VRO and SWI but I doubt they can do anything radical enough that would bring x4 closer to what x3tc had to offer.
Before Subnautica, Freespace 2 gave me my first REAL feeling of fear
"DIVE DIVE DIVE!! HIT YOUR BURNERS, PILOT!!!"
I remember I had to pause the game for a while to get my heart rate down and dry my sweaty palms before continuing.
In remembrance of GVD Psamtik and her crew.
Parkan 2 is a classic, but honestly there's many better titles than it nowadays, No Man's Sky being probably the best example. That said, the first one Parkan: Iron Strategy was an absolute belter. It was the only game I've ever really seen do FPS+RTS in a seamless and truly cool way. It was the first multiplayer game I ever played and it was amazing. :D
X2 got me into the X series and Freespace 2 well worth playing
Played Freespace 1 and Freespace 2 👌🏼!! What a great games!! Not only the graphics were great but the story is incredibly cool! And when de source code project (SCP) started, it became something different: Hi-res gfx and custom campaigns!!! Still playable today!!
Yes I will revisit Freespace 2 I think 🚀🚀
I SAW FREESPACE INSTANT LIKE
Hell i think Hard-light is still going strong and thank fuck for GOG offering it. I still love it
Keep 'em coming. How about a deep dive into Nexus: The Jupiter Incident
So many hours of my life vanished into that great game..
Covered it in another episode but perhaps standalone deep dives could be the way to go 🚀
I wouldn't be surprised if you've hit these already in this series but: Nexus, Phoenix, Haegemonia, Iron sky(iirc?), I-War 1 *and* 2! Sure I'll think some more up too!
I-War 1 with its proper physics was just a mind-blowing experience, loved it so much!
BC 3000AD, Starlancer, Darklight Conflict (underrated imvho), Darkstar One (ditto! such an addictive games!), Zarch (space-ish!)
Sid Meier did Alpha Centauri? live Civ, in Space ... sure there was a similar one set on the Moon too?
Yes, Darklight Conflict, I had it on the Saturn and it was a real joy in the mid 90s to get a space combat game that I could run throught my big TV (for its time) ... even if the Saturn controller wasn't so hot, hjust getting that immersive feeling was worth it!
Thanks for the suggestions 🚀🚀🚀🚀
I hope for remakes of Starglider 2 and Millennium 2.2
Starglider II was *wild* back then. I played it on an Atari ST 1040 (although i didn't understand English and just did whatever without any clue) and I wondered for decades why it seemed to be impossible to make a game like that again and improve on it. I mean, free flight in a solar system with several planets and moons, seamless transitions from space to surface into cave systems and back, you don't see that in many games even today.
I played the first part of Parkan. It's a great game, with good music, for that time. The graphics were different there and it was impossible to walk around the planets. In the first part of the game, you could only fight inside the base, on planets. The planet could be captured by killing all the robot guards, or immediately run to the base computer and throw a capsule with your robot into it. The captured planets worked for you and produced fuel, rockets, drones. And your planets could have been hijacked by pirates while you were flying to another star system. You could be friends with everyone, or fight and rob merchant ships. And during the flights, you were attacked by robot pirates. And you could destroy all their ships, or board them to search for information on their computer.
Parkan 2 is a story driven game with a somewhat high budget for a time. We don't get that many of them even now.
Ships are pretty cool, featuring interiors you can walk and fight in, drone bays and tank hangars. Boarding is a big part of the game. You can also capture planets and build industry on it, but it's all pretty basic. Overall i enjoy it a lot, but I'm probably nostalgic.
Anyway, as a space sim fan I'm very happy i ended up watching this list. Will probably check out everything on it.
We appreciate that kind of feedback! I picked up Parkan II :)
Freespace 2 , Do it, Do it.
Gonna throw this one out there - Broadside Renegades. It's pretty arcadey, but harkens back to games like asteroids and escape velocity in that it's a 2d top down space game, with a fast paced combat focus. Seems pretty fun. Great list btw, a lot of games I had never heard of, can't wait to try them!
From this list the only one i had played was Freespace 2.
Although i do play a lot of X4 to understand why folks would blow their minds with X2.
Awesome! We are finding the deep stuff now
I played Freespace and Freelancer back when they came out, absolutely loved them. Somehow missed Freespace 2. Played all of them (Freespace, Freespace 2 and Freelancer, along with Wing Commanders III, IV and Prophecy) this year and they were all still an absolute blast. Also bought a USB joystick just for this (I do have a joystick from back in the day, but it uses a MIDI port). Overall - so much fun was had! Still on my to play list - Starlancer and Privateer 2.
Also gave some Freespace fan campaigns a go. Blue Planet was excellent, but it's sadly unfinished. I was really enjoying it , it had voice acting and everything, along with a great plot. But what threw me off and forced me to quit was the fact that at some point, the voice actors were replaced with Freespace engine's text to speech and I just couldn't bear it 😀.
I also tried the Awakenings campaign - can recommend, it was really good.
There's also a fan campaign called Freespace 3: The Search for Bosch, but it's a parody and I really didn't like the humor and style it went for. So that was a skip for me. Although reviews from the web say it's really good, so your mileage may vary.
Edit: maybe worth a mention, but when I first started Freespace 1, it was the GOG version, so pretty much the version that was launched in 1998, but made compatible with Windows 10. Even that looks pretty good today. But then I discovered the fan mods, along with the full Freespace 1 campaign ported over to the Freespace 2 engine, with modern resolution support and high-res textures. And it looks absolutely stunning! Freespace 2 even more so. I used a mod manager for all of this called Knossos.NET, it makes downloading all the fan-made texture packs and missions pretty easy.
I made a list a long time ago for space sims and mechs and underwater games, i am just gonna copy and paste here the space sims list and see if you find one you havent heard of.
Vanark
deathwing
Starfighter
Angle of Attack
invasion from beyond
Terminal Velocity
Fury 3
Hellbender
bhunter
Crime Cities
g police 1 and 2
miner wars
rogue squardon
Radix: Beyond the Void
Forsaken
space rider 2004
Terracide
Dead Reckoning
battle over namboo
Terminal Velocity
fury 3
hellbender
Evil Core: The Fallen Cities
infernox
xf5700 mantis
inca inca 2
Absolute Zero
The Last Dynasty game
Phoenix 3
shadow squadron
star quest 1 in the 27th century
solar eclipse saturn
star rangers v
renegade the battle for jacob's star
Star Crusader
ares rising
iron sky
xcom interceptor
xenocraxy
Drift: When Worlds Collide game
homeplanet playing with fire
romanians in space
Star Assault
Shattered Origins guardians
Astrox
retribution
STARFIGHTER ORIGINS
star wars jedi starfighter
starlancer
Drift: When Worlds Collide game
privateer
3030 deathwar redux
phoenix
Star Assault
rebel galaxy outlaw
absolute territory
xiphos
halcyon sun
starcalibur
colony wars
wing commander
Star Ixiom
privateer 2
eterium
Tachyon: The Fringe
star trek invasion
Battlestar Galactica ps2
star trek shattered universe
Galactic Empire and its sequel A.G.E. (= Advanced Galactic Empire)
STARGLIDER II
SOL: Exodus Battle of SOL
Starfighter
DEEP SPACE: OPERATION COPERNICUS
freespace
The Tomorrow War
space interceptor project freedom
stars are cold toys 2009
Blast Radius
starlight inception
Shattered Origins guardians
Leveron Space
hyperspeed
project nomad
Earth Analog
Silverwing
Dark Horizon
tarr chronicles
Milikans reach
galaxy under fire
everspace 2
darkstar one
sinistar unleased
Void Warfare
Lost Empire 2977
spaceforce rogue universe v
Space Commander: War and Trade
spacebourne
Beyond Space
starpoint gemini 3
star rebel
Subdivision Infinity DX
Arc Savior
chorus
Underspace
Flatspace IIK
Solar Winds 2
Breathedge 2
no mans sky
space crew
A-Spec First Assault
Voidexpanse
Galactic Crew II
stellar tactics
Between the Stars
starpoing gemini 2
star control
void destroyer 1 2
Drox Operative 1 2
Sundog: Frozen Legacy
Into the Stars
rebel galaxy
Avorion
Kinetic Void
starshatter gathering storm
Dust Fleet
helium rain
star valor v
starcom nexus
independance war 1 2
endless sky
Command Adventures: Starship
gaia beyond
Executive assault 2
Battlecruiser Generations
Parkan imperial chronicles
Parkan 2
strike suit zero
project nimbus
wtftech fighters
omega boost
wow....im saving this comment as we speak! We have covered many of these but more to dive into also :)
Enjoyed my time with Parkan 2 fun little game!
freespace 1 and 2 where hot shit. would love to see a new game of the series.
Good list, thank you man! Sure, some of the early Egosoft games had a very ... janky ... GFX idiosyncrasies, like they tried to model people using the space engine!
But ne'ertheless, the emergent gameplay was sublime!. X2 - The Threat one of the first games that I logged easy triple digit hours, even started to write a model/asset viewer, love those guys!
It, and Wing Cmdr. Prophecy are also 2 of a very short list of games in which I will complete and then instantly restart and play through again and again, multiple times like that.
They were good times!
Luke, I'm interested to know - with you and your mates clear love for this Genre - have you ever tried to make your own? Do you have a "My dream space sim" perhaps?
I'd love to hear or email about it something ... I have a basic engine and am teaching myself a lot more, might be fun to consider possibilities a time?
Freespace was amazing!
Pretty cool list, as usual. Had never heard of Frontiers Reach, Rogue Stargun or Above Earth.
And Freespace 2 is one of my all time favorites, it always deserves more attention.
I really recommend you take a look at some of the mods and make a list of those you like best. Blue Planet is pretty good, but regrettably unfinished. Vassago's Dirge, Inferno, Between the Ashes, Derelict, the list is immense.
I feel like we win when we find games people don't know about. And it was great to include Freespace 2 :) If you have any suggestions do let me know!
I don't know if you've checked in on the launcher or the HLP forums recently, but shout out to one of the newer mods, Solaris, with two parts out last I checked. Own setting but good use of the engine and a decent story.
Freespace 2 is awesome :) Great to see you feature it. Didn't know about the first 2 games so they will go on the wishlist!
Glad we brought it to your attention!
I wish I could rediscover Freespace 2 again, A great game.. a fantastic fan made remaster for the visuals - and oh so many fantastic mods. Especially Blue Planet & its sequel. Maybe it'll get finished one day, but nonetheless, Blue Planet and BP2 is worth paying for.. and you wouldn't even have to.
And that's without mentioning any of the others, or some of the stand alone experiences made with the FS2 open source project like the Wing Commander and Battlestar ones that exist. Or the Freespace 1 overhaul with the improved modern visuals.
For Freespace mods I recommend using Knossos, as unlike back in the day it allows you to download and install complete mods with just a single click. One mod I highly recommend is Diaspora: Shattered Armistice. The quality of that project rivals that of professionally made games.
I'm familiar with it! And I recommend both :D.
Please do the Freespace 2 mod "The Babylon Project."
More freespace 2 please. Also independence war 2
day 002 - Still surprised no one is talking about Stationeers, despite its cartoonish graphics, it features much more realistic mechanics than other games of its genre, considering also that most of them are not set in sci-fi.
I spent so many hours in X2 back in about 2005 but I never got very far in it. My trade empire consisted of one ore mine on an asteroid 😂
Had a lot of fun with it though.
My first X game was X4, and so far theres not a single game that beat it to me.
I have around 5k hours in X4, divided in 4 playthroughs.
I guess back in the day X2 was the dream game of space sim players...
Try Homeplanet. I liked it had newtonian physics
Frontiers Reach looks great!
Unique game!
FS2 is The Best Space Sim Ever
Transcendence ! Maybe if it gets a bit more attention, George will get back to making the sequel.
I need to check this one out!
X2 had some crazy Mods on it's time not sure their available still tho
Check out Stellar Tactics, an isometric land and space SIM cRPG. Written by one dev (with 3 contractors)
I really recommend Above Earth, even if it takes a good amount of trials to survive.
It is one tough game and I think a very unusual one for the list! :) I like those rare games!
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Great list bro!
Cheers bro!
I played the hell out of the original Freespace back in the day, but I barely scratched the surface with FS2. Just couldn't get into it, for some reason.
did you try Privateer 1 and 2?
I did at some point but I think will need to revist!
Freespace forever and RIP Volition
wish listed all... thx!
Well that's a massive result :)
@@LTGamingRUclips yes... I'm a bit all over the place gaming wise... old and new games... lots of genres... will pick up most of these... thx!
@@dracul74 I'm the same! Play different types of games everyday!
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I wonder, have you taken a look at Underspace?
Did you really make 6 videos before you listed FS2. Wow, better late than never lol. X2 does still hold up okay, surprisingly well animated with lots of spinny rotaty things for its age, there's not much else to say about it though other than it's hard to get into, pretty boring affair for a particular breed of player.
I thought I'd played most games, but never even heard of Parkan.
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That footage for Frontiers Reach is like 3 years old.
Well seems to be the only thing you have to say about me including your game 🤷♂️
@@LTGamingRUclips Okay, I get you. You want me to say thank you after you did more work to hunt down a 3 year old trailer to misrepresent the game in an obscurely dishonest fashion. Not sure what I did to earn that level of dishonestly from a complete stranger who had their promo channel open to the public but whatever.
@blindalienproductions5589 what on earth are you on about. I featured your game (after you asked me too) to show it off and this is how you treat people. Trust me this is the polite version of what you will get from me. You would literally have to be stupid to do what you did here. Never again.
@@blindalienproductions5589Oof, bro. You literally just lost my interest in the game with that childish shit. Grow up and figure out how to not be nasty to strangers when you communicate with them.
@@MattZaharias I mean all we did was feature his game which we didnt have too and that was what we got back. Most bizarre dev interaction we ever had tbh lol.
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