>>7321559This nostalgia is definitely a part of it.
>>7321588I think the frontiersman adventure feeling of those settings is another appealing thing about it. The world is destroyed, but now there's a new world to go out and discover and at the same time, tame. It's two worlds at once.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YYJ3qdLUqpUFor those that don't get the love fr Classic Space, I think this exploratory quality is a big part of it. There doesn't necessarily have to be an enemy faction to fight, but the question of "what's out there?" and potentially unknown enemies you might find out there sometimes work better than showing the face of the monster (whether literal or just a rival faction of humans) itself. It works for stuff like Aquazone or Adventurers too.
