>>16835739
I kinda like the ships in deltav: rings of saturn.
to preempt any shilling accusations, I got the game for cheap in a humble bundle, and i'm not sure if the full price is warranted.

that being said, it's a space mining simulator in a near future setting, where you are one of many space miners in the rings around saturn.
there's a space station near enceladus, where you go to refuel, sell your resources, and upgrade or replace your mining barge.
said mining barge is essentially a big metal box, a reactor, and a few nozzles, through which hot reactor coolant(water) is ejected.
the ore bay has beak-like excavator jaws, which you can open to swallow bite sized pieces of asteroids, and those asteroid bits can then be further processed inside your ship, if you have the necessary ship upgrade.
refining ore, besides reducing your encumbrance from useless rocks, also allows you to extract water from ice, to use as coolant/propellant and extend your trip.

what i enjoy about those ships, is how trashy and near-future they look and feel.
all reactors, engines, and weapons(which are not the main part of the game) are either currently existing tech, or things that could conceivable exist within the next 100 years (i.e. fusion reactors and zero gravity ore refineries.
used your thruster too much? now the coolant isn't hot enough anymore and you have to wait a little bit.
you're barreling towards an asteroid and can't slow down because you spent all of the hot water on accelerating?
shouldn't have done that.
missed a mass driver shot on an asteroid?
that thing's gonna keep going for a while, and someone might get hit and complain.

pic related is the starting ship with its jaws open.