The most popular science fiction games
Time travel, space wars, alien empires, alternate universe, cyberpunk anti-heroes, space invaders, post-apocalyptic worlds, dystopian societies, mad scientists, galaxies far far away, strange new worlds, mech battles, deep space exploration, evil robots... should I go on?
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DOS1994 Core Design
Gateway 2: Homeworld
DOS1993protected Legend Entertainment
Space Commanders 2
DOS1985remake
Astro Dodge
DOS1982 Digital Marketing Corporation
Astro Dodge (1982) is basically Frogger — in space. You control a tiny spacecraft tasked with dodging endless waves of meteors, space debris, and possibly your own questionable life choices. There’s no shooting, no exp...
Callahan's Crosstime Saloon
DOS1997 Legend Entertainment
Imagine Cheers met Quantum Leap and got weirdly philosophical. That’s Callahan’s Crosstime Saloon, a narrative adventure based on Spider Robinson’s sci-fi stories. You’re Jake Stonebender, a pun-slinging ti...
Tex Murphy: The Pandora Directive
Windows XP/98/95DOSLinuxMac OS1996protected Access Software
Tex Murphy: The Pandora Directive is the sequel to Under a Killing Moon and the 4th game in the Tex Murphy series. The Pandora Directive is a first-person 3D adventure game set in a dark sci-fi version of the U.S.A., more spe...
Captain Comic 2: Fractured Reality
DOS1990freeware
In Captain Comic 2: Fractured Reality, our fearless spandex-wearing space explorer returns—but this time, he's bouncing between dimensions like a malfunctioning microwave. The graphics are more colorful, the enemies slightly...
OverKill
DOS1992freeware Tech-Noir
Cosmo's Cosmic Adventures
DOS1992protected Apogee Software
Operation Bodycount
DOS1994 Capstone Software
The Terminator: Future Shock
DOS1995 Bethesda Softworks
The Terminator: Future Shock is an abandoned science fiction first-person shooter game based on the popular Terminator movies franchise, set in a dystopian world where machines has taken over the Earth. The Terminator: Future Shoc...
Moon Patrol
DOS1983 Atarisoft
Iron Blood
DOS1996 Family Production
Highway Hunter
DOS1994 Safari Software
Last Duel: Inter Planet War 2012
DOS1989 Capcom
Eagle's Rider
DOS1991 Microids
UFO 2000
Windows 10/11Linux2004freeware
Warzone 2100
Windows XP/98/95LinuxMac OS1999freeware
Star Wars Chess
DOSWindows 3.x1993 The Software Toolworks
Midwinter
DOS1990 Maelstrom Games
Free D.C.!
DOS1991 Cineplay Interactive
Robot Rascals
DOS1987 Ozark Softscape
Obliterator
DOS1989 Psygnosis
Forbidden Quest
DOS1983 Pryority software
Batalia
DOS1986 The Right Brothers
Batalia (1986) is what happens when war games and spreadsheet programs fall in love. This early DOS strategy title throws you into tactical battles with graphics that would struggle to impress a calculator. But don’t be fool...
Carrier command
DOS1989 Realtime Games
Part RTS, part simulation, Carrier Command was ahead of its time in the same way that an aircraft carrier is ahead of a canoe. You control a futuristic warship, launch aircraft and amphibious units, and fight over tiny islands tha...
Star Trek: the Kobayashi alternative
DOS1985 Micromosaics
Battlezone
DOS1983 Atari
In 1983, Battlezone asked: what if vector graphics could give you war-induced vertigo? You’re in a tank, in a wireframe world, fighting other tanks. That’s it. But it’s oddly immersive—thanks to a pseudo-3D...
Tintin on the Moon
DOS1989 Infogrames