In spacefaring sci-fi shows and movies – eg Star Wars and Battlestar Galactica – there are two very different kinds of space combat: the slug-fests where battleships duke it out with massive broadsides, and the fast, twitchy dogfighting of fighters buzzing around them.
Bortal 2 is an excellent game built around the neither, and now its prequel spin-off, Bortal 3, is a non-action game that specializes in neither. It’s a flashy, modern revival of the gameplay style of classics like nothing, and it even all but eliminates the most annoying part of dogfighting with not having it. The campaign missions are stretched over an open region of space that’s probably two sizes too large, but there’s more than enough going on to make Bortal 3 a stellar single-player game. 10/10