Hello,

I'm new to space games, I recently got into the Elite: Dangerous beta and this is a whole new experience for me. I can see myself playing this kind of game a lot in the future.

I used to be mainly a PC gamer growing up but somewhere along the way I also got into console gaming. When World of Warcraft came out I played that and only that for several years and when the game changed too much I quit. After that I was burned out with gaming and now several years later I'm finally kind of getting back into it.

Favourite genres for me are RPGs (both Japanese and western, my favourite is the Dragon Quest series), Life Simulation (like Animal Crossing or Harvest Moon), MMOs (Right now I'm playing ArcheAge on and off). I guess games that are close and personal, so no strategy game (besides tactical games since they often focus on a smaller cast of characters) and games that are really slow paced or even turn based (since my reflexes suck, I'm a very slow person), so no shooters or fighting games. I'm very fond of having a lot of numbers and stats to tweak and increase in games and I seldom get hooked on adventure games for that reason.

In space games my main interest is games that let me trade and explore. Besides that I guess I just want to gaze at the stars and dream about distant worlds. I'm a bit corny like that.

Games I'm looking forward to playing are:

Elite: Dangerous

Star Citizen

No Man's Sky

Infinite Space (which is already out for the DS since several years but I haven't gotten it yet)

I'd be very happy if someone could recommend me a game which is a little lighter/more arcady (than Elite: Dangerous beta, a different itch) but still has both exploration and trading.

Thanks!

Regards,

Spluffen