Are there any games similar to Rogue Trader? I have had a really serious space sim itch recently.
Video game clone?
Here's a good starting point:
EVE's probably the closest thing. It truly is open ended and if you don't socialize and develop your own story you're stuck with a space spreadsheet.
I've never played the X-series of games, though I've always meant to try.
But I really, really would love a Rogue Trader 40K MMO. It's a lot more appropriate than any other approach.
Also, Star Wars: The Old Republic recently unveiled its starfighters I think. I bought that game at launch, so I may take another look at it.
It's a bit old, but I did enjoy Imperium Galactica 2. It has several races, each good at some different things, one unaffected by a few, for good or ill, planet-colonizing, research, combat, etc, but its overall system isn't huge, ponderous or overly complicated. There aren't really too many little things to keep an eye on, and it can be pretty fun. If you should pick it up, the Humans and the Kra'hen are the two good playable races; the other main one, I found particularly boring.
Sins of a Solar Empire was okay, but I must stress, in my opinion, rather only okay. The races were pretty cool, and again, each worked via some different means, but I felt that the system was more ponderous, and harder to keep up with, before I got killed.
Anything newer, someone else will have to say.
Add: SWTOR is also good, if you are a Star Wars fan. Each story is very different, so I liked it better than WoW, but a few are boring. Still, it is fun, free to "demo", and almost entirely playable alone, despite being an MMORPG, though I suggest luring some friends in, and making a group activity out of it. I'm not fond of their PvP, as a Republic player (Jedi and Sith are NOT balanced, at all, in my experience), and the new Starfighter thing is PvP, I believe, but the game is still great.
Edited by venkelos
There is an Android game: Star Trader, which is a actually a Rogue Trader simulator I think. You can be merchant with a huge warship, bounty hunter, an artifact hunter, and there are several factions, and the (nearly) endless space for adventure. Oh, and there are some RPG elements: your ship can be upgraded and your captain can acquire XP and upgrade your skills. I love this game!
There is one coming out sometime in late 2014 or early 2015 called The Mandate that looks like the closest thing to rogue trader we're going to get.
http://www.mandategame.com/
This looks truly awesome! I can't wait!