Everspace 2
I liked the first game, but never got around to buying it. It's available as an early access, so I bought it. Looks like they addressed the majority of the issues I had with the original.
They already had the space combat, physics, and controls almost perfect, but what they lacked was depth of the universe. The first game was a linear roguelike, this is an open world looter shooter RPG. I'm looking forward to playing it. (gotta wait for my replacement NVMe so I have a game drive to install it on though)
Oh, and it's DRM free. A big plus for being able to play it forever.