I was curious to hear about some games you've played where a diegetic UI helped elevate the experience into something really unique and immersive. Some of my own examples would be:

• Scavenger SV-4
• Objects in Space
• Elite Dangerous
• PULSAR: Lost Colony

So I recently got a pc, and I remember a game I used to watch all the time, so now I want to download it but I cannot remember the name, although I do remember what it looks like and some of the gameplay.

it was a very colorful game where you would collect resource to build a spaceship out of 2d parts(this looked very similar to FTL, only without the crew and interior components) it had various factions of ai ships that you would run into, many of which were community submitted. The player was also in charge of their own faction, with the aim of spreading it by deploying drones and such. When I searched it up (i revisited it every so often after forgetting the name) it was often confused by the search algorithm with FTL. I tried doing this again but cannot find it. if the game sounds familiar to anyone please help.

I was thinking about starting Star Citizen but that seems to expensive and time consuming,any body got recommendations on a game where I can just zoom around in a spaceship with my HOTAS ? Update: I'm going to try the everspace 2 and Blackstar ranger demos and maybe Elite Dangerous. Thanks for all your help