A space flight simulator game is a genre of video games that lets players experience space flight in a spacecraft. Highly realistic examples include Orbiter and Microsoft Space Simulator. Examples that also feature combat (known as space combat simulators) include Descent: FreeSpace - The Great War, Star Wars: X-Wing - Space Combat Simulator and Independence War. Examples that feature trading in addition to combat (known as space trading and comb...
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A space flight simulator game is a genre of video games that lets players experience space flight in a spacecraft. Highly realistic examples include Orbiter and Microsoft Space Simulator. Examples that also feature combat (known as space combat simulators) include Descent: FreeSpace - The Great War, Star Wars: X-Wing - Space Combat Simulator and Independence War. Examples that feature trading in addition to combat (known as space trading and combat simulators) include Elite and Freelancer.
Space flight simulators, at one time popular, have for most of the 2000s been considered a "dead" genre.
Most modern space flight simulators on the PC allow a player to utilise a combination of the WASD keys of the keyboard and mouse as a means of controlling the game (games such as Microsoft's Freelancer use this control system exclusively). By far the most popular control system among genre enthusiasts, however, is the joystick. Most fans prefer to use this input method whenever possible, but...
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