You might need wikis open on another monitor, and a site to keep track of your progress and to recommend trade routes, but get it now and you'll have plenty of time to practice for next year's Odyssey expansion, which will let you walk around ships and on planets for the first time. I even had a screen overlay and rewatched Babylon 5 on the longer trips we took. We specced up similar ships, matched our jump ranges, cargo hold sizes, and engine boosters so we could glide together into the black. Evenings were lost in the chilly deep while chatting away to a friend in another ship. It was great, and I can thoroughly recommend doing something similar. Hunting down low-temperature diamonds in asteroid fields, drifting along in VR, spinning my joystick around on the quest for space bucks. I got heavily into Elite Dangerous for a spell this year.

Most people play it like a space trucker. On the other hand, it is a missed opportunity with more emphasis on story to accompany the sandbox elements, Elite Dangerous could be one of the best gamers ever made.

There are factions to join, deliveries to make, and sights to see. I have a soft spot for Elite Dangerous.On the one hand, it is one of the most immersive games I have ever played, especially with VR. You can mine, fight, explore, or a mix of all three. The other game is a puzzle game with visual novel elements called The World Next Door.Įlite lets you choose your own space path. It includes the base game, and 2015's Horizons expansion pack that fills the 400 billion star systems with landable planets. Frontier’s gargantuan space sim Elite Dangerous will be given away for free on the Epic Games Store today.

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