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'''Orbiter
Make no mistake, Orbiter is no fast-flyin' laser-shootin' space sim. Think of it rather as ''Microsoft Flight Simulator'' [[X Meets Y|meets]] ''[[Planetes]]''.
The [[:Category:Freeware Games|game is freeware]], so if you feel interested in it and [[It Gets Better|aren't scared by a steeper learning curve]], you can [http://orbit.medphys.ucl.ac.uk/
If you want something a little less demanding, try the ''[[Kerbal Space Program]]'' instead.
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* [[Absent Aliens]]: Unless you're counting the mods based on ''[[Star Wars]]'', ''[[Star Trek]]'', ''[[Babylon 5]]'' or other [[The Verse|verses]], which feature the ships of the various non-human species from those movies and TV shows.
* [[Alternate History]]: In some of the mods and add-ons (e.g. [[Red Scare|the Soviet Union narrowly beats the US to the first succesful Moon landing]], [[What Could Have Been|an Apollo Programme-derived spacecraft lands on Mars in 1985]], etc.). Also, in the default scenarios Mir is still flying, and has been moved into a convenient orbit for lunar ejections.
* [[Asteroid Miners]]: The [[Twenty Minutes Into the Future]] [[Red Dwarf|JMC]] Mining Company in scenarios involving the Delta Glider Mk IV.
* [[Better Than It Sounds Video Games]]▼
* [[Cool Starship|Cool Spaceplane]]: The entire Delta Glider class. And for some, [[Real Life]] spaceplanes, like NASA's [[Long Runners|Space Shuttle]], the [[Russian Guy Suffers Most|ill-fated Russian]] ''Buran'' or [[What Could Have Been|the never built]] ESA [[Fragile Speedster|Hermes space shuttle]].
* [[Cool Starship]] / [[Cool Starship|Cool Spacecraft]] : Way too many to list...
* [[Game Mod]]: The main draw of the game. There are literally ''thousands'', and many of the more high-profile ones are considered by the community to be essential parts of any Orbiter install, to the point that it's just assumed as a given that any new user will have downloaded them.
* [[Mohs Scale of
* [[Nintendo Hard]]: You are, for all intents and purposes, flying a real spacecraft. It's highly recommended that you have at least a basic grasp of orbital physics and the fundamentals of spaceflight before you even ''think'' of playing the game.
* [[Interplanetary Voyage]]
* [[Like Reality Unless Noted]]
* [[Present Day]] / [[Next Sunday
** Really, you can set the date to be whatever you want. Also you can use technology across every era of spaceflight, from early spaceflight technology (the Vostok and Apollo programs) to modern tech (the Space Shuttle and Ariane programs) to speculative tech or tech in research and development (the never-implemented Orion engine, the VASIMR engine, solar sails) to advanced tech from [[Science Fiction]] shows and movies (''[[Star Wars]]'', ''[[Star Trek]]'', ''[[Babylon 5]]'', ''[[Stargate]]'', ''[[Battlestar Galactica]]''...)
* [[Quicksand Box]]
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* [[Wide Open Sandbox]]
▲=== It is also notable for [[Averted Trope|averting]] these [[Tropes in Space|space-related tropes]] : ===
* [[Artificial Gravity]]: Unless it's generated by the good old rotation method...
* [[Casual Interstellar Travel]]
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* [[Latex Space Suit]]
* [[No Seat Belts]]
* [[Sci-Fi Writers Have No Sense of Scale]]: You'd really think this game would make up their statistics?
* [[Space Does Not Work That Way]]
* [[Space Friction]]
* [[Space Is Magic]]
* [[Space Is Noisy]]: Technically, the core game doesn't come with sounds. The sound
** The sound mod only plays sounds while in cockpit view, in third person view, there's silence (except in atmosphere), aside from the classical music playing.
* [[Space Is an Ocean]]
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* [[Streaming Stars]]
* [[Subspace Ansible]]
* [[2-D Space]]:
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