If you're an adherent of the games media hype train, it may seem like there's been a real dearth of space games in recent years. Outside of heavy hitters like Starfield or the latest Destiny 2 meditation on the nature of evil space spheres, notable space games have been relatively few and far between.
But the space-based gaming adventures are out there, if you know where to look. While it's true that massive, triple-A space games have been a little light on the ground of late, indie and smaller budget titles have been quietly packing the cracks between major studio releases. This doesn't just apply to space games, of course; from Expedition 33 to Blue Prince, the indie scene has been showing up in big-budget gaming for a good while now.
