If you want to sink countless hours into it and are looking for automation, building and exploration… maybe X4: Foundations is something for you? It’s basically a giant, fully simulated space sandbox. (And you’d also be supporting a small independent studio, writing their own engine etc.)

And would you look at all that beautiful whitespace!

Only if you put the bag of dicks on a street near him, it seems

Well that exists! Sure not quite officially, but look up project 4K77, you can download that version of Star wars right now (and it’s awesome. I’ve watched all three of them in their most original version)