Yeah, those retro sims get the orbital math right, but they treat the satellites as math objects, not characters. The result is a cool sandbox that feels like a calculator exercise. You lose the emotional hook that turns a science experiment into a story arc. If the game had, say, a little alien flag planted on a probe or a mystery about why a satellite keeps drifting, it would give that physics a purpose. Without that, you just get a pretty interface that feels like a textbook, and that’s a missed chance to turn precision into poignancy.