The most popular realistic space simulation games

Like civilian flight sims, realistic space simulator games (as Wikipedia calls them) allow the player to pilot a space vehicle in a realistic way, with no science fiction involved in any way: no aliens, no star wars ships. Realistic space sims usully obey the (simulated) laws of physics in a scrict way.

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Orbiter

DOSMac OS1986 Spectrum HoloByte

Buzz Aldrin's Race into Space

DOS1993 Strategic Visions

Shuttle: The Space Flight Simulator

DOS1992 Vektor graphics

Project: Space Station

DOS1987 Micro Imagery

Microsoft Space Simulator

DOS1994 The Bruce Artwick Organization

Microsoft Space Simulator is a space flight simulator game developed by Bruce Artwick Organization and published by Microsoft in 1994. It is part of the broader range of simulation games that Microsoft released during the 1990s, but it focuses on space travel and exploration.The simulator was known for its realistic representation of the physics of...

Apollo 18: Mission to the Moon

DOS1987 Artech Studios

Space MAX

DOS1992 Starbyte Software