I been thinking on the same thing about space. My idea is how about a game called Virtural villagers discover space travel well into the future. They get lost in space by going through a black hole in space so milion miles from earth they come across a abandend space station which could hold a poperlation of ie 150. So our 7 space travelers then have learn to servive one or two of them could be children that came with their parents. It is up to the guiding hand to help them to crack any puzzles on the space station. the first puzzle could be the oxygin tanks, then it would say cracked your first puzzle your space travelers will have planty of air and wont need wear their space suits as often. Still have the events like a space _bug_ has hit the traverlers and made them sick or good event alien did something to research table got more tec points.
So it could be on the same line as VV1 and VV2 but intirly 16 different puzzles to solve.