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Space trading and combat simulator

Game genre theme

A sub-genre of space flight simulators.

136
games
33
platforms
Independence War 2: Edge of Chaos (Windows)
Independence War 2: Edge of Chaos
WIN 2001-08-21
Starflight (MS-DOS)
Starflight
DOS 1986-08
miniElite (Internet Only)
miniElite
WWW 2013-01-13
Elite (Commodore 64)
Elite
C64 1985
Starflight (Mega Drive)
Starflight
GEN 1991-05
Space Rogue (Commodore 64)
Space Rogue
C64 1989
Elite (Atari ST)
Elite
ST 1988
Starflight 2: Trade Routes of the Cloud Nebula (Amiga OCS)
Starflight 2: Trade Routes of the Cloud
OCS 1991
Universe II (Apple II E)
Universe II
IIE 1986
Space Rogue (NEC PC9801)
Space Rogue
9801 1990-09-24
Elite (Amstrad CPC)
Elite
CPC 1986
Space Trader (Windows)
Space Trader
WIN 2007-07

The first video game about Space trading and combat simulator was released in 1983.

Electronic Arts, Firebird and Origin Systems has published most of these games

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.

Parent groups

Space flight, Space Flight Simulator

Platforms

Windows 36
Linux 27
MS-DOS 11
Mac OS Classic 7
Mac OS X 6
Amiga 6
Atari ST 6
C64 4
Apple II E 4
Internet Only 3
ZX Spectrum 2
Amstrad CPC 2
Unix 2
Atari 400/800 1
X68000 1
NES 1
Pandora 1
Mega Drive 1
Enterprise 1
BBC 1
BeOS 1
X360 1
Archimedes 1
Amiga AGA 1
Win3.1 1
Tatung Einstein 1
C16/Plus4 1
Tandy Coco 1
SAM 1
Electron 1

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