novafix VS endless-sky

This thread mentions this github repo that claims to have a MacOS X fix for Nova, worth a shot

If you still have your original license key email, registration works fine if you roll back your computer's clock to the day after you bought your license.

Windows: If you trust random DLLs from the internet, supposedly putting these files in the Nova folder will let you run it without a full Quicktime installation: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1KhvxgI4dEi1CBV8SbLeFQkaaZT...

Newer macOS versions: You'll probably need this patch to make the binary actually work: https://github.com/RyuKojiro/novafix

From here: https://www.reddit.com/r/Escape_Velocity/comments/9atyzj/ev_...

I'm an old EV fan. Trying to get it to work for the first time in 25 or so years. I've tried "EV Nova 1.1.1 [MacOS]", (registration screen opens, but then it turns black and crashes when I go to "Trial"). And I've tried the "novafix" (below), which seems to corrupt the game and, after installing, it crashes before it even opens. (https://github.com/RyuKojiro/novafix)

Sounds very similar to Endless Sky[1] - another open source game drawing on the old Escape Velocity games. I really enjoyed both Endless Sky and the Escape Velocity games, so I'll have to check out Naev at some point!

[1] https://endless-sky.github.io/

There's an open source successor to Escape Velocity that's fun and continues to grow:

https://github.com/endless-sky/endless-sky

#2 - Endless Sky - ALSO inspired by Escape Velocity, but IMO this is more polished Escape Velocity clone and could reasonably be called the modern successor. EXCELLENT space trade/piracy/combat and definitely take some good strategy to get far into the game.

From the changelog

Bottom left of the website has discord invite link https://endless-sky.github.io