I see a lot of Escape Velocity fans in the comments. Recently, one of the developers of the original series started building a remake [1] of EV:Override featuring compatibility with the old plug-in format, which, despite its crowdfunded nature, seems to progress well.
I'm still a bit salty that they didn't leverage any of the perfectly good EV clones or general purpose game engines out there and have spent the time since the Kickstarter building an engine from scratch.
[1] : https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/cosmicfrontier/cosmic-f...
EDIT : spelling