>>714734760elite 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