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The most popular space games

Science fiction doesn't always means space battles, space exploration, exploding stars, etc. In some games, though, the "space" element is heavily present. Space simulations, shoot 'em ups, RPGs are some of the genres where science fiction "space" games are abundant.
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Babylon 5: I've Found Her

Windows XP/98/952003freeware3.7/5 Space Dream Factory
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Elite

DOS1987freeware4.1/5 Firebird
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Space Quest 4: Roger Wilco and the Time Rippers

DOSWindows 3.x1991protected4.1/5 Sierra On-Line
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Command Adventures: Starship

DOS19953.6/5 Future Vision
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Star Crusader

DOS19943.9/5 Take-Two Interactive
Star Crusader is an abandoned science fiction first-person 3D space combat simulation, developed by Take-Two Interactive and released by GameTek in 1994 both for DOS and for Amiga platforms. During the game you will have to choose on which side you want to fight: the Gorenes or the rebels. Depending on your choice, you will have different ships ava...
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Independence War 2: Edge Of Chaos

Windows XP/98/952001protected4.1/5 Particle Systems
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Space Quest 5: The Next Mutation

DOS1993protected4.1/5 Dynamix
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Solar Winds 2: Galaxy

DOS19933.9/5 Stone Interactive Media
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Star Wars: X-Wing

DOS1993protected4.1/5 LucasArts
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Anacreon: Reconstruction 4021

DOS1987freeware3.9/5 Thinking Machine Associates
Anacreon: Reconstruction 4021 is one of the first 4x turn-based strategy games, ASCII based. Anacreon is set in space, as most 4x sci-fi games are, and was published by Thinking Machines Associates and designed by George Moromisato who later re-released the game as freeware.
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Galaxy

DOS19814.1/5 Microcomputer Games Inc.
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Project-X

DOS19943.8/5 Team 17
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Uridium

DOS19883.9/5 Graftgold
Uridium is a classic shoot 'em up video game that was originally developed by Andrew Braybrook and published by Hewson Consultants in 1986 for various home computer platforms (including MS-DOS). In Uridium, players control a spaceship known as the Manta, and the objective is to destroy a series of enemy spacecraft, as well as ground-based inst...
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Millennia: Altered Destinies

DOS19953.5/5 Take-Two Interactive
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Wing Commander: Privateer

Windows XP/98/95DOSMac OS1993protected4.1/5 Origin Systems
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Omnicron Conspiracy

DOS19894.1/5 First Star Software
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Wing Commander 3

Windows XP/98/95DOSMac OS1994protected4.1/5 Origin Systems
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Star Wars: Rebel Assault

DOSMac OS1993protected4.1/5 LucasArts
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Protostar: War on the Frontier

DOS19934.1/5 Tsunami Media
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WinTrek

Windows 3.x19923.9/5
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Space Rogue

DOS19894/5 Origin Systems
Space Rogue is a science fiction RPG developed by Richard Garriott's Origin and desined by Paul Neurath. Space Rogue combines a 3D space simulation with a top down view RPG gameplay. As a space pilot you can hunt bounties, buy and sell goods, land on starbases or outposts and talk to NPCs, do quests, etc.
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Wing Commander: Armada

DOS1994protected4/5 Origin Systems
Wing Commander: Armada is space combat simulation game developed by Origin Systems and released by Electronic Arts in 1994 for DOS. Wing Commander: Armada is part of the Wing Commander game series and was published before Wind Commander III. Armada is focused on multiplayer battles but it can be played in single player mode too. It features differe...
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MegaTraveller 1: The Zhodani Conspiracy

DOS19903.9/5 Paragon Software
MegaTraveller 1: The Zhodani Conspiracy is a science fiction role-playing game (RPG) released in 1990. The Zhodani Conspiracy is the first installment in the MegaTraveller series and was developed by Paragon Software.MegaTraveller 1 takes place in the Traveller universe's Third Imperium, a vast interstellar empire. The plot revolves around a c...
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Starcross

DOS19823.7/5 Infocom
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Master of Orion 3

Windows XP/98/95Mac OS2003protected4.2/5 Quicksilver Software
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Tau Ceti

DOS19874.1/5
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Rendezvous with Rama

DOS19853.7/5 Telarium
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Space Quest 2: Vohaul's Revenge

DOS1987protected4/5 Sierra On-Line
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Space Quest 3: The Pirates of Pestulon

DOSMac OS1989protected3.9/5 Sierra On-Line