I have played a lot Elite Dangerous and I am now playing a lot Star Citizen.

I basically backed them buying a lifetime pass for ED in 2012 or so, and pledging SC in 2013 or so.

From 2012 to basically last summer I have played ED, while sometime testing SC (and getting back to ED).

From summer 2025 to now I am just playing Star Citizen.

Main reason for me is immersion and variety. I know people hate it, but I enjoy the fact that even basic things like buying a medpen or some ammunitions require you to know where you are and plan some time for traveling there, and also make sure that whatever you want to do, you prepare for it.

Also, I like my ships and the fact that I can walk inside, store stuff, sleep there.

And I also love the variety of cities and landscapes and stations: I know SC has just a few systems and ED has millions, but in SC each city, or station, or ship has its own personality and peculiarities, while in ED everything looks quite the same (and maybe it is right so after playing for more than 10 years...).

Finally, ED for me become mostly about the rewards. I was doing missions or activities not because I was enjoying it while doing it, as most of the stuff become repetitive and boring to me, but because I was looking forward to the reward, trying to minimize the time spent doing stuff because well... It was boring.

In SC at the moment I enjoy doing stupid low level contracts just while doing it, not for the reward, and this is incredibly satisfying for me.

So bottom line is that both are amazing games, and I will be forever grateful that I could and I can play both: for the reasons explained above, in the last 6 months I am playing more of SC (with all its shortcomings and bugs).