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Space trading and combat simulator

Game genre theme

A sub-genre of space flight simulators.

138
games
34
platforms
X³: Albion Prelude (Windows)
X³: Albion Prelude
WIN 2011-12-16
Elite Plus (MS-DOS)
Elite Plus
DOS 1991
Starflight (Mega Drive)
Starflight
GEN 1991-05
X²: The Threat (Windows)
X²: The Threat
WIN 2003-12
Universe (Atari 400/800)
Universe
A800 1983
Starflight (Commodore 64)
Starflight
C64 1989
Universe II (Apple II E)
Universe II
IIE 1986
Elite (Amstrad CPC)
Elite
CPC 1986
Escape Velocity (Macintosh OS Classic)
Escape Velocity
MAC 1996
Starflight (Amiga OCS)
Starflight
OCS 1990
Starflight 2: Trade Routes of the Cloud Nebula (Amiga OCS)
Starflight 2: Trade Routes of the Cloud
OCS 1991
Elite (Commodore 16/Plus 4)
Elite
C16 1985

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 X 7
Mac OS Classic 7
Atari ST 6
Amiga 6
C64 4
Apple II E 4
Internet Only 3
Amstrad CPC 2
Unix 2
ZX Spectrum 2
BBC 1
Enterprise 1
BeOS 1
X360 1
Archimedes 1
Amiga AGA 1
Win3.1 1
C16/Plus4 1
Tatung Einstein 1
Tandy Coco 1
Atari Falcon 1
SAM 1
Electron 1
FM Towns 1
MSX 1
NEC PC9801 1
NES 1

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