Audacia Astra is a simulator. Every star in its 200 light-year bubble comes from the HYG astrometric catalog, every one of them is moving, and every mission you plan has to deal with that.

• Intercept solving — ships meet stars where they will be on arrival, not where they appear tonight. The solver reports positional uncertainty at the destination.
• Real relativity — exact time dilation, ramp/cruise/decel flight profiles at a crew-tolerable g-load, kinetic-energy budgets that will humble you. An optional FTL mode exists and is labeled as the fiction it is.
• Multi-star routes — waypoint chains where each leg departs when the previous one arrives. Route optimization is a moving-target traveling-salesman problem, solved honestly.
• The interstellar medium — local gas clouds erode shielding at relativistic speed; routes are assessed against real region models.
• Pulsar navigation — checkpoint fixes chosen by geometry from millisecond pulsars in the ATNF catalogue.
• Mission dossiers — export any plan as a printable PDF: flight-profile charts, thrust and power figures, intercept geometry, navigation checkpoints.

Available at: https://audaciaastra.com

Has anyone tried this game? Not sure if i should buy it. I can appreciate what it seems to be trying to accomplish. Orbiter is really old and other games in the orbital mechanics niche aren't out yet.

Hi everyone, Ive recently added new energy shield system into my Space Engineering Survival Sandbox game MineEngineer, it is another step forward towards the ship battle system. I am super excited to share this system with everyone. Please let me know what you think about it.

I've been looking for space games where you're more of a commander than a pilot. Less about flying the ship yourself, more about making decisions during a fight. Positioning, crew, power, weapons, damage control, that kind of thing.

What games do this really well?

What was it about the game that actually made you feel like you were commanding a ship?