Well, Duckov peaked at 146k players today .

While game may looks meme, its mechanically sound and thought out. Hell, quest descriptions are good enough(yet to find any problems myself) to finish them without looking them up.

It runs well through Proton, no anti-cheat and game itself is cheap enough.

when you die you just go get your loot

Unless you set difficulty to Extreme or in custom

But yeah, competitor in name but it copies quite a lot of Tarky elements and it adds some comedic elements.

If you want bigger ships than fighters:

Rebel Galaxy(its completely different compared to RG Outlaw) - big ships, can hire a single mercenary, combat for you happens in 2D and its more of naval style with broadsides and automated turrets.

Between the Stars - you have a spaceship with a crew and can also hire 2 more ships to help you out(once you gear them), game got plenty of quests with some puzzles to boat, “ground combat” which is using dice(or can be disabled completely) and space combat takes a bit to get used to.

Only time I had cashiers wanting a chat is if there is no queue otherwise its “Hello” and “Have a nice day”

The Crew(2014-2024) lasted a bit more than Anthem (2019-2026) . And Ubi seems to stick for longer with their flops compared to EA.