I seriously looked at this in my feed and thought "What's this?" Reading back through I remembered it and how much I enjoyed this one. Hope they keep it going.
Starsector
I highly recommend it. And if you want to give it a try, there's a youtube review made by SsethTzeentach in which he included his game key(with the developer's approval).
Dunno if he died, but previous life woke up in this body with the memories of both. It's basically formed a composite personality, affected by the memories of both.