The best 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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Rescue at Rigel
DOS1983 Epyx
Trantor: The Last Stormtrooper
DOS1989 Probe Entertainment
Novatron
DOS1982 Verisoft
Armada 2525
DOS1991
Armada 2525 is what happens when a spreadsheet decides it wants to conquer the galaxy. This is classic 4X strategy with all the bells, whistles, and menus your early '90s heart could desire. You’ll build colonies, research t...
Bionic Commando
DOS1988 Capcom
In Bionic Commando, you're a soldier with no jumping ability—because who needs knees when you have a grappling arm? Swing through 1988 DOS architecture like a pixelated Tarzan, blasting bad guys and trying not to fall to you...
Cosmic Spacehead
DOS1993 Codemasters
Dark Side
DOS1988 Major Developments
EGA Trek
DOS1988remake
Xerix II: The Caverns of Mars
DOS1994 Twilight
Rise of the Robots
DOS1994 Mirage Technologies
The Colony
DOS1988
Autobots
DOS1989
Before Michael Bay got his hands on the franchise, Autobots (1989, DOS) offered a more... subtle approach to transforming robot mayhem. Well, not subtle exactly — more like confusing. You drive around a blocky city, fight va...
Fleet Sweep
DOS1983 Mirror Images Software
Highway Hunter
DOS1994 Safari Software
Mindwheel
DOS1985 Synapse Software
Vectorball
DOS1988 Binary Design
Apache strike
DOS1989 Activision
Ah, Apache Strike (1989), the game where you're the lone helicopter pilot flying through blocky cities that look like they were made of leftover Lego bricks. Your mission? Blow up bad guys in a first-person view that resembles a s...
L'Eternauta: Gli Invasori della Città Eterna
DOS1994 Holodream Software
Aquanox
Windows XP/98/952001protected Massive Development
Dive into Aquanox (2001), where post-apocalyptic submarines battle it out beneath the ocean in a world that’s half Waterworld, half neon rave. With moody lighting and dialogue that screams “we’re trying to be dee...
Firezone
DOS1988 Arcadia Systems
Gateworld
DOS1993 HomeBrew Software
Tongue of the Fatman
DOS1989 Brian A. Rice
2112
DOS1994
Welcome to 2112, a game that predicted a grim techno-future back when floppy disks still ruled. This DOS-era oddity throws you into a world that’s part cyberpunk, part fever dream, and entirely confusing. It’s got clun...
Disc
DOS1990 Loriciels
First Expedition
DOS1988 Interstel Corporation
Janitor Joe
DOS1984
Monuments of Mars
DOSWindows XP/98/95Mac OS1991freeware Scenerio Software
NetWars
DOS1993freeware Novell
NetWars, developed by Novell, is a 3D space shooter video game originally released in 1993 for DOS. NetWars was designed primarily as a promotional tool to demonstrate the networking capabilities of Novell's NetWare, a network ope...
The Tracer Sanction
DOS1985 Interplay Productions
Transland
DOS1996 Origin Systems