Space Engineers is a flawed-to-its-core game, but I'm gonna recommend it anyway. For a game built around combat, a combination of vague instability and gear fear due to the tedium of shipwrighting means only between 2 and 3% of the player population has ever fought and killed another player or player ship (look at the achievements to see what i'm talking about).
But I cannot emphasize enough just how cool it is to play a game where player technology and expertise, where scripting, design, and engineering have supremacy over raw grinding *and* hand-eye coordination.

Space Engineers is a flawed-to-its-core game, but I'm gonna recommend it anyway. For a game built around combat, a combination of vague instability and gear fear due to the tedium of shipwrighting means only between 2 and 3% of the player population has ever fought and killed another player or player ship (look at the achievements to see what i'm talking about). But I cannot emphasize enough just how cool it is to play a game where player technology and expertise, where scripting, design, and engineering have supremacy over raw grinding *and* hand-eye coordination.