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elite dangerous has recently had a shift to developer focus on it, so its in contention to running ahead right now

X4 exists and if that's your type of game, is better than both elite and star citizen

Ostranauts may actually be my favorite space sim game period, but its top down.

Qanga is a representation of why Star Citizen is a fucking bloated mess from a small indie developer

then there's upcoming games like jumpship which looks like what star citizen wanted for its multi crew capabilities, but fun and not horribly janky, and starship simulator

pick your poison. star citizen is a novelty, but its a horribly janky, misguided, tech bloated novelty with a horrifically obsessed fanbase who have been milked to the gills, with a genre that is steadily and assuredly encroaching on whatever star citizen had aspirations to be