[saraid216]

Low market genres like that could be addressed by open source, perhaps? Or a Kickstarter?

[ijk]

Technically, they already have, since the Freespace 2 code was open-sourced.[1] And there have been multiple space-flight Kickstarter projects, such as Star Citizen, Elite: Dangerous, and Limit Theory.

[1] http://scp.indiegames.us/