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Space trading and combat simulator

Game genre theme

A sub-genre of space flight simulators, combines elements of commerce, exploration, and combat within a vast, open-space setting.

140
games
34
platforms
Universe II (MS-DOS)
Universe II
DOS 1986
Space Rogue (Amiga OCS)
Space Rogue
OCS 1990
Space Rangers (Windows)
Space Rangers
WIN 2002
Empire! (MS-DOS)
Empire!
DOS 1988
Oolite (Linux)
Oolite
LIN 2006-07-18
Empire! (Amstrad CPC)
Empire!
CPC 1986
Space Rogue (Commodore 64)
Space Rogue
C64 1989
Frontier: First Encounters (MS-DOS)
Frontier: First Encounters
DOS 1995
Elite (Archimedes)
Elite
ARCH 1991
Elite (ZX Spectrum)
Elite
SPC 1985
RiftSpace (Windows)
RiftSpace
WIN 2004
Space Trader (Linux)
Space Trader
LIN 2007-07
Space combat simulators are not sub-genre of this nor this sub-genre of them, they're separate sub-genres of space flight simulators both and not directly related to each other.

Mandatory features:
* Space flight, controlling single spacecraft, regardless of level of simulation
* Trading
* Combat
* Open world

Optional features:
* Sandbox

Commonly story is not very important feature if at all present.

Popular tags

firstpersonshooter mmog sandbox spacecombatsim

Parent groups

Space flight, Space Flight Simulator

Games by year

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The first Space trading and combat simulator video game was released in 1982.

Electronic Arts, Firebird and Omnitrend Software published most of these games.

Platforms

Windows 36
Linux 29
MS-DOS 13
Mac OS Classic 7
Apple II E 6
Mac OS X 6
Amiga 5
Atari ST 5
C64 4
Amstrad CPC 2
Unix 2
ZX Spectrum 2
Internet Only 2
SAM 1
Electron 1
FM Towns 1
MSX 1
NEC PC9801 1
Atari 400/800 1
X68000 1
NES 1
Pandora 1
Mega Drive 1
Commander X16 1
Enterprise 1
BBC 1
BeOS 1
X360 1
Archimedes 1
Amiga CD32 1