Abandonware DOS title

Games set in space sorted by release date

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.

Most popular space applications

Wing Commander
vehicle simulationDOS
Master of Orion 2: Battle at Antares
strategyDOS, Windows XP/98/95

Space applications

  • galaxy-4
    DOS19814.1/5 Microcomputer Games Inc.
  • astro-dodge-1
    DOS19823.6/5 Digital Marketing Corporation
  • cosmic-crusader-01
    DOS19823.8/5 Funatics Software
  • starcross-01
    DOS19823.7/5 Infocom
  • video-trek-88-02
    DOS19823.9/5 Windmill Software
  • galaxian-2
    DOS19833.9/5 Namco
  • space-miner-03
    DOS19833.5/5
  • star-trek-sos-01
  • devastator-01
    DOS19843.4/5 COMPUTE! Publications
  • hitchhikerguide-1
    DOSMac1984freeware4.2/5 Infocom

    The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is a humorous free text adventure game based on the novel of the same name written by Douglas Adams (if you never read it, shame on you!). The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy was designed by Douglas Adams himself and interactive fiction god Steve Eric Meretzky, it was released by Infocom in 1984 for DOS and for...

  • rendezvousrama-1
    DOS19853.7/5 Telarium
  • spacewar-1
    DOS19854.1/5
  • starfleet1-battle-begins03
    DOSMac19853.8/5 Interstel Corporation
  • startrekkobayashi-1
    DOS19854/5 Micromosaics
  • deepspace-2
    DOS19863.9/5 Lerner Research
  • egaroids-2
    DOS1986freewareremake3.7/5 Designer Software
  • orbiter-01
    DOSMac19864/5 Spectrum Holobyte
  • psi-5-trading-company-05
    DOS1986protected4.1/5 Distinctive Software
  • spacequest1-3
    DOSMac19864.2/5 Sierra On-Line

    Space Quest: The Sarien Encounter is an abandoned adventure game designed by Mark Crowe and Scott Murphy, developed by Sierra On-Line and released in 1986 for DOS. Space Quest: The Sarien Encounter is the first game in the Space Quest series with protagonist the clumsy Roger Wilco and it's one of the most popular AGI adventures created by Sierra in...

  • startrekpromethean-1
    DOSMac19864/5 TRANS Fiction Systems
  • starflight-3
    DOS19864.2/5 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 exploration and storytelling.The game is set in a massive, procedurally generated universe with thousands of star systems to e...

  • anacreon-1
    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.

  • elite-1
    DOS1987freeware4.1/5 Firebird
  • phantis-02
    DOS19873.5/5 Dinamic Multimedia
  • projectspacestation-2
    DOS19873.9/5 Micro Imagery
  • spacequest2-4
    DOS1987protected4/5 Sierra On-Line
  • starsaga-1
    DOS19873.6/5 Masterplay Publishing Corporation
  • starlord-02
    DOS19873.8/5
  • tau-ceti-02
    DOS19874.2/5
  • captainblood-2
    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.