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Space Station 14 is the same though but it might use some 3d stuff for rendering based on the comments in the blog about issues with OpenGL (or might just use OpenGL's 2D stuff) I know it has some 3d-ish things for visibility shadows but those might just be done in 2D, and from what I've tried SS14 (and SS13) is a 2D game.

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OpenGL doesn't really have "2D stuff" (at least not in any version from the last 20 years). It's all a programmable 3D pipeline, which you can do 2D in by just not using the Z coordinate in the shader. However, doing 2D graphics like this tends to be simple enough code that you're less likely to trigger any driver or performance issues.

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