Silverware wrote:
Aurora has competition for detail. Although not directly in the 4X genre.
Children of a Dead Earth tries to create HARD scifi, near future, using only technologies that are well researched and documented.
https://childrenofadeadearth.wordpress.com/
Well, yeah, but Aurora is arguably a game, and playable right now, and within 4X
I enjoy the potential for a logistics collapse under megalomaniac dreadnought building especially, not purely the modeling quality. It's something the genre sorely lacks in favor of streamlining upgrades, refits, research, design, and production.
Nevertheless, I'll keep an eye on this, just for the scientific curiosity