Open Galaxy, a free space sim inspired by Star Wars: X-Wing, has recieved a new singleplayer campaign

Space simulators are currently a small niche. Especially rare are productions of this type that focus on story-driven single-player campaigns. That’s why hungry fans often roll up their sleeves and create their own projects of this type. Sometimes the result are mods, and other times we get standalone free games. Open Galaxy belongs to the latter category. We’re mentioning this title because it has just received a major update.

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Open Galaxy is a project heavily inspired by early space space sims from Totally Games set in the Star Wars universe, namely TIE Fighter and the X-Wing series. The creators don’t try to hide this, as Open Galaxy is directly set in that universe and uses well-known ships and factions.

Although it’s a completely free fan project, it’s extremely impressive. The gameplay and graphics are well polished. The game features over 400 ships, dozens of missions, and an advanced control system that works equally well with mouse and keyboard as it does with controllers.

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The latest version of the game is marked 11.2.24 and brings many new features:

1. Most importantly, the update introduces a new campaign, Strike at Sullust, consisting of six missions and four cutscenes.
2. The previous campaign, A New Ally, has also been refreshed.
3. Several ships have finally received their missing cockpits.
4. Graphics have been improved (among other things, planets now have atmospheres and their own skyboxes during low-altitude flights).
5. Various bug fixes have also been introduced

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• Overview

• Star Wars
• space simulators
• mods / fan projects (games)
• FTP
• space shooters / air shooters / 6DoF