Man i love Halite Crystals!!!

Prosperous Universe (PrUn) is proof that you can have an entertaining, engaging game without a lot of eye-candy. Granted, it may not be for everyone, but if you like the dynamics of outfitting a small colonial outpost and growing it into an interstellar mega-corporation, then this is your huckleberry. It is a great exercise in economics, trade and management.
PrUn operates through spreadsheets. Production and transportation takes place in real time. Anyone that has played Eve, or even run a business irl can appreciate the time frame used to make things happen. Set things in motion and come back to it later. But the anticipation of one transport ship reaching a commodity exchange after a 6 hour voyage loaded with materials it took days to produce, while your other ship is coming in with a load of "quality of life" goods for your pioneers and settlers is really quite exciting, in my opinion.
The economy is player based, like Eve, which I always enjoyed. The more players, the more opportunities. You begin your journey to an interstellar conglomerate in humble beginnings. You start with a basic colony set-up based on your initial career focus. Whether you start out with a farming colony, a mining outpost, or plying the space-lanes as a merchant trader; buying low and selling high, the options for further growth and prosperity are fluid and endless.
The road map looks promising. There is even talk of adding conflict into the mix. I assume it would be like pirates, terrorists or hostile factions. As it is, from what I have seen in my small amount of time thus far, you can run for elected local and regional public offices. Adding some conflict and drama into the mix, it would truly be like running the command center of something like a Deep Space 9.
So, if your patient and have a head for, or interest in business, economics and space, you may like or love this game. I highly recommend

Easy to play, hard to master.. I rly love that game. I'm playing it most of the time in the brower outside of steram, so i dont have that much ours in Steam. Today is my 1 Year anniversary and i hope a lot more will follow. 10/10