Summary

As history advances, the world starts to seem smaller.

The world seems comparatively miniscule with that much knowledge.

Size isn’t everything!

From left to right: a white and red spaceship dangerously close to a space station, a fleet of ships flying together in a red galaxy, and two ships firing lasers at one another above a blue-green planet.

It’s an entire alien planet at your disposal.

Of the many planets in Starfield, the procedurally generated ones are fully explorable, in a way.

In effect, this means you might fully map out a planet.

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In time, this progresses to the Space Age with colonisation and terraforming the end goal.

Suddenly, hundreds of planets just like yours open up.

Yes, Spore truly is a space-age game.

Collage image featuring two No Man’s Sky planets and the cover art for the game

Aside from the continual confusion with The Outer Worlds, it presents a galaxycaught in a time loop.

And you’d better believe you’ll be spending a very long time discovering all its secrets.

The planets are small, but each with their own issues to worry about.

a rocket in a hangar in kerbal space program, a plane in microsoft flight simulator, and a ship by a sun in outer wilds, left to right.

Gravity, atmosphere, how long it takes to traverse, can your ship actually navigate it safely.

Get ready to construct some solid spacecraft, because you’re going into orbit.

The simplistic, chunky graphics give it a more light-hearted feel as you jaunt across these planets.

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Just double-check to manage your resources.

Equipment will break down, you have to actually plan your journey.

you’re able to’t take anything for granted.

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And yet you still have the freedom, the obligation even, to explore the entirety of these planets.

In the name of engineering, of course.

Who would’ve thought these games are based on real science?

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Kerbal Space Program uses actual scientific formulae to judge its space travel.

Then, and only then, will you have the luxury of reaching another entire planet.

Now you have to get them back home.

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Let’s step away from space travel for a minute.

The kind of thing only a massive corporation could achieve.

Enter, Microsoft Flight Simulator.

A spaceship in Spore.

There really is nothing that compares.

There’s a reason it needs to be run from the cloud to even be played.

It is the basis of the entire game, from its launch in 2016 to where it is now.

A space ship landed on a planets surface in Outer Wilds. The huge sun can be seen in the background.

Every change in the game has never shifted it away from that core premise.There are over a quintillion planets.

You will never see them all.

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Land, do some sightseeing, then blast once again in search of new horizons.

A red and white spaceship on a grassy planet in Space Engineers.

A tall, multi-stage rocket in the ship building area within Kerbal Space Program.

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