I've been quite enjoying Prospector lately, I'm wondering if anyone has recommendations for similar games? Space/planet exploration with things to do throughout rather than the front or rear-loading issues a lot of games have.
I'll mention Outer Wilds (best game ever made) and No Man's Sky. But I get the feeling they aren't quite what you are looking for.
Played Outer Wilds, loved it, and I'm forever sad I can't go back into it with no memory. NMS just looks a little too empty for me to enjoy.
a bit sad that latest Prospector source code never landed on some github thingy, considering how good it was (it even had a +150 pages thread on bay12) , i'm sure some people with coding talent would have been interested to continue developing or forking it (as unfortunately Prospector ceased development nearly 5 years ago)
Hmm, wonder if it'd be possible to contact the dev and ask? I couldn't code it, I've made a couple of forays into coding and just... I dunno, feel like I'd need actual lessons, it's not something I could self-teach and even then I'm not sure I'd actually enjoy it or find it interesting enough to pursue.
I don't have any idea what Prospector is like but are you familiar with the X series?
Somewhat, that's another area I'd be interested in really. Something like a Starsector/X-series hybrid would be pretty cool.