Other games like Approaching Infinity?

[ob]

Set in space or sci fi, with a ship, trading between space stations, even building on planets maybe, turn based combat, lots of loot for weapons, shields, engine, ship customization, etc.

2D preferred, but will try out 3d ones!

[tranz2deep]

To start with, consider Starbound. This is a 2D from Chucklefish with space travel, loot, crafting, seven main races, mods adding several more, a plotline involving saving all life, upgrading the ship, colonizing planets for your own or any other race...

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Prospector RL

[Audie_Murphy]

I love these type of games. There's this game Avalon the journey begins. I picked it up years ago when it was in early access. Has somewhat of a learning curve. It's a good game where you can do a lot of those things.

[GameDragonZero]

I'd love to see more too.

My other fix is Star Traders: Frontiers. It's big on crew management and ship design, with a sort of emergent political conflict as well as optional stories and "storylets." There's no real endgame past certain stories, so you just go and do whatever, but there's a lot of different gameplay styles.

I've also got a few things in my wishlist I need to explore, but uh . . . between Approaching Infinity and Star Traders: Frontiers I kinda have a lot of space exploration ;)

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There is Solar Rogue also but I haven't played it