Despite its sci-fi setting, Star Trucker has far more in common with Euro Truck Simulator than games like No Man's Sky. You start the game not in a typical spaceship, but in a spacefaring semi truck, complete with a mobile radio. After setting your rig right following a breakdown, you're free to take on jobs hauling cargo through the vast emptiness of space, while taking frequent breaks to keep your truck in working order and chatting with fellow truckers running their routes.
It is, in fact, incredibly complicated, and reading through a huge instruction manual conveniently stored in the glove box is a near necessity to avoid crashing and burning almost as soon as you set out. Your ship controls more or less like the kind of truck with its wheels firmly on the ground (with the addition of moving on a vertical axis), but it's still a spaceship, after all, and so it takes a lot more than changing the oil and rotating the tires to keep it running.
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