Star Citizen
Backed by more than a billion dollars from players since 2012, Star Citizen is the most heavily crowdfunded game ever made and still runs as an alpha....

EVE Frontier is a space survival sandbox built around manual ship piloting and a player-driven economy meant to run on smart contracts rather than developer-controlled servers. The comparisons here were chosen on three grounds: tactile third-person flight instead of target-lock combat, modular ship and station crafting, and the shared bet that a game world can be handed over to its community rather than kept under a publisher's thumb. That's why the list mixes long-running ambitious projects like Star Citizen, direct blockchain rivals like Star Atlas, and the now-shuttered Dual Universe, included as a sobering reminder of how hard this model is to sustain.
Backed by more than a billion dollars from players since 2012, Star Citizen is the most heavily crowdfunded game ever made and still runs as an alpha....
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