Top 10 Space Flight Simulation Games as Ranked by www.space.com

[St0rmFury]

Best space flight simulation games, ranked

Explore the space between the stars from the safety of a virtual cockpit with the best space flight simulation games.

www.space.com

To save you the trouble, here is the list:

Spoiler

10. Underspace (2024)
9. Everspace 2 (2023)
8. Freelancer (2003)
7. Starfield (2023)
6. Star Citizen (soon™)
5. Star Wars: Starfighter 1 & 2 (2001 & 2002)
4. Star Wars: Rouge Squadron series (1998, 2001, 2003)
3. No Man's Sky (2016)
2. Star Wars Squadrons (2020)
1. ELITE: DANGEROUS (2015)

 

[Bigmaec]

I'm a bit sceptical as the X series is missing and also Wing Commander: Privateer () but Elite in first place is .

Source: my own totally unbiased and absolutely objective view.

 

[ganzkurz]

you read that as first place? i read that as 1 point for e.d. and 0 points for list formatting

 

[Darth Ender]

A space flight simulator that doesn't support joystick is hard to argue as a flight sim.

Nms is not a space flight sim game...and i like nms.

I'd instead replace that with vendetta online. A pc game active since 2004 with twitch flight controls, trading, combat, mining and cap ship crafting and tons of other game mechanics even games like elite still haven't implemented.

 

[Helmut Grokenberger]

Most of these gamss aren't actual space flight sims. I think the author confused it with "space themed games". Still nice to see ED score a win for once though.

 

[Helmut Grokenberger]

To add: I liked Squadrons, but didn't even finish the story. Coming from ED, the on-rails flying and lack of 6dof was too enraging for me to finish it. But sitting in an actual X-Wing was cool.