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Hi everyone, here's the final post of my Space Game recommendations:

• Top-5 Small and/or Indie Space Games
• Honorable Mentions
• Space-adjacent Games, Small
• Hopefuls (games in development now, that I hope will grow into their own in the future.
• Disappointments (ones that imo didn't turn out good in the end)

Small and Indie games make up the bulk of any genre, but for Space Games this is particularly pronounced in my opinion, due to a long period of industry trends/bandwagons which publishers jumped on which tended to exclude space-themed games from wider production, thus leaving a lot more space for Indies to fill. One of those trends was the "PC gaming is dead" console push of the 2000-2010s, and the other the concomitant dearth of RTS and other Strategy games, which previously represented a sizable chunk of Space Games.

Because of this larger pool of small games, I'm also including a "Hopefuls" and "Dis