Science fiction games sorted by release date

Science fiction games

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  Adventure Construction Set

  DOS19873.9/5 Electronic Arts

  Adventure Construction Set is an abandoned application developed by Stuart Smith and published for DOS, Amiga, Apple II and Commodore 64 by Electronic Arts in 1987. As the name suggests, ACS is a game-building system (we're talking about adventure RPGs) that lets you edit maps, items, creatures, etc. Included with ACS is a complete game called...

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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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  Apollo 18: Mission to the Moon

  DOS19874/5 Artech Studios
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  Arctic Fox

  DOS19873.9/5 Dynamix
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  Astrotit

  DOS1987NSFW3.5/5 Rudeware
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  Blort!

  DOS19873.7/5 Hennsoft
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  Driller

  DOS19874.2/5 Incentive Software

  Driller (also known as Space Station Oblivion) is an abandoned action-adventure game developed by Incentive and released by Epyx in 1987 based on the Freescape Engine. In Driller, you control an excavation probe in a real 3d environment, through a first person view. The goal of the game is to place a drilling rig in each of the 8 regions of the moo...

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  Elite

  DOS1987freeware4.1/5 Firebird
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  Mach 3

  DOS19873/5 Loriciels
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  Maniac Mansion

  DOSLinuxMac1987protected4.2/5 LucasArts

  Maniac Mansion is one of the most famous point and click adventure games developed by Lucasfilm Games and designed by Ron Gilbert (who later created Monkey Island) and Gary Winnick. The story is a blend of old sci-fi and horror B movie. You can choose between many characters, each one with a peculiar ability useful to solve some of the puzzles. Man...

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  Metropolis

  DOS19873.8/5 Arcadia Systems
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  Mission: Mainframe

  DOS19873.8/5
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  Robot Rascals

  DOS19873.8/5 Ozark Softscape
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  Silicon Dreams

  DOS19873.6/5 Level 9 Computing
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  Space Quest 2: Vohaul's Revenge

  DOS1987protected4/5 Sierra On-Line
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  Star Saga: One - Beyond the Boundary

  DOS19873.6/5 Masterplay Publishing Corporation
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  Starlord

  DOS19873.8/5
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  Stationfall

  DOS19873.9/5 Infocom
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  Supernova

  DOS1987freeware3.5/5 Apogee Software
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  Tau Ceti

  DOS19874.2/5
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  The Last Mission

  DOS19873.7/5 Opera Soft
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  Thexder

  DOS19873.6/5 Game Arts
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  20000 Leagues under the sea

  DOS19883.8/5 Coktel Vision
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  2400 A.D.

  DOS19884/5 Origin Systems
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  Alien Fires 2199 AD

  DOS19883.7/5
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  Alternate Reality: The City

  DOSMac19884.2/5 Paradise Programming
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  Arkanoid

  DOS19884.1/5 Taito
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  BattleTech: The Crescent Hawk's Inception

  DOS19884.1/5 Westwood Studios
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  Bionic Commando

  DOS19883/5 Capcom
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  Captain Blood

  DOSMac19883.8/5 ERE Informatique

  Exxos released Captain Blood for PC, Amiga and Atari ST in 1988. Captain Blood is a peculiar science fiction game developed by french ERE Informatique which defies genres: it's part adventure, part space exploration, part simulation.