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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Star Trek: Judgment Rites

DOS1993protected Interplay Productions

Bad Blood

DOS1990 Origin Systems

Set in a post-apocalyptic world where leather vests are apparently immune to radiation, Bad Blood lets you wander the wasteland deciding whether to be a brute, a brainiac, or a mutant with questionable fashion sense. Dialogue-heav...

Wipeout

DOSWindows XP/98/951995 Psygnosis

Wipeout is a popular racing video game known for its high-speed gameplay, anti-gravity racing vehicles, and electronic music soundtracks. Wipeout was developed and published by Psygnosis in 1995. Wipeout is set in a futu...

Star Trek: 25th Anniversary

DOS1992protected Interplay Productions

Space Quest 4: Roger Wilco and the Time Rippers

DOSWindows 3.x1991protected Sierra On-Line

Civilization II: Test of Time

Windows XP/98/951999remake Atari

Civilization II: Test of Time is an abandoned turn-based strategy game developed by Atari and released by MicroProse Software in 1999 for Windows. Civilization II: Test of Time is a remake of the cult classic Civilization 2, witho...

Ascendancy

DOS1995 The Logic Factory

Ascendancy is the friendlier, trippier cousin of Master of Orion. It’s 4X strategy in space, with bizarre alien races, psychedelic menus, and a soundtrack that sounds like it was composed by a stoned dolphin. The early game ...

X-COM: Apocalypse

DOSWindows XP/98/951997protected Mythos Software

X-COM: Apocalypse is the third installment of the very popular X-COM franchise. After X-COM: Ufo Defence and Terror From the Deep, fans expected another smash hit. Apocalypse is quite different under many aspects, from gameplay to...

Anachronox

Windows XP/98/952001protected Ion Storm

Anachronox is a 2001 role-playing video game developed by Ion Storm and published by Eidos Interactive with a futuristic, cyberpunk-inspired setting. The game was written and directed by Tom Hall, one of the original developers be...

Leather Goddesses of Phobos

DOS1986 Infocom

The Journeyman Project 2: Buried in Time

Windows XP/98/95Mac OSWindows 3.x1995protecteddemo Presto Studios

The Journeyman Project 2: Buried in Time is a point-and-click adventure game developed by Presto Studios, released in 1995 as a sequel to The Journeyman Project. The Journeyman Project series is set in a future where time tra...

Where in Time is Carmen Sandiego?

DOS1989 Broderbund

Where in Time Is Carmen Sandiego? is an educational computer game and television game show franchise created by Broderbund. It focuses on teaching geography and history while players try to track down the infamous thief, Carmen Sa...

Xenon 2: Megablast

DOS1990 Bitmap Brothers

Xenon 2: Megablast is a classic shoot'em up developed by Bitmap Brothers and released by Image Works in 1990 for DOS and for a plethora of other systems. Xenon was good, Xenon 2 was far better. Compared to today standards Xenon 2 ...

Starflight

DOS1986 Binary Systems

Starflight is a classic space exploration and role-playing video game released in 1986 by Binary Systems and published by Electronic Arts. It is known for its innovative gameplay, as well as its open-ended approach to space explor...

A Mind Forever Voyaging

DOSMac OS1985 Infocom

If you ever wanted to play a video game that doubles as a philosophical think piece, A Mind Forever Voyaging (1985) is your ride. Released for DOS and Macintosh, this is one of Infocom’s most ambitious works - a text adventu...

Duke Nukem 2

DOS1993 Apogee Software

Frederik Pohl's Gateway

DOS1992 Legend Entertainment

Frederik Pohl's Gateway is one of the best abandoned adventures games from Legend Entertainment. Gateway is an interactive fiction with graphics and an improved interface (unusual for IFs), based on the Frederik Pohl's novel ...

Arkanoid 2: The Revenge of Doh

DOS1989 Taito

Doh is back, and he’s mad - presumably because no one understood what he was in the first place. Arkanoid 2 takes the original formula and dials everything up: more levels, more power-ups, more neon madness. It’s still...

Fallout 2

Windows XP/98/951998protected Black Isle Studios

The Sentinel

DOS1989 Firebird

Buck Rogers: Countdown to Doomsday

DOS1990protected SSI Strategic Simulations Inc.

In the 25th century, bureaucracy is still awful—but now you also have laser guns. Buck Rogers: Countdown to Doomsday is a surprisingly solid sci-fi RPG that blends space opera drama with crunchy tactical combat. Think Dungeo...

Alien Trilogy

DOS1996 Probe Entertainment

Alien Trilogy is a first-person shooter video game released in 1996 for various platforms, including the PlayStation, Sega Saturn, and MS-DOS. Developed by Probe Entertainment and published by Acclaim Entertainment, the game is ba...

I have no Mouth and I Must Scream

DOS1995protected The Dreamers Guild

Bio Menace Episode 3: Master Cain

DOS1993freeware Apogee Software

The trilogy concludes in Master Cain, where Snake Logan faces the ultimate evil: a villain with a name that sounds like a Bond bad guy and a plan straight from Saturday morning cartoons. Expect one last hurrah of mutant-blasting m...

Protostar: War on the Frontier

DOS1993 Tsunami Media

Star Wars: Yoda Stories

Windows XP/98/951997 LucasArts

Star Wars 2

DOS1989

The Ultimate Doom

DOSWindows XP/98/95Mac OS1995protected id software

Ultimate DOOM is an expanded version of the original DOOM (1993), developed by id Software and released in 1995. It includes all three original episodes of DOOM along with a brand-new fourth episode, Thy Flesh Consumed. The g...