The best space station games
There have been and still are many video games that use science fiction as their main setting. A small portion of them derive a certain charm from a specific environment: a space station. Just like in TV series such as Babylon 5 and Deep Space Nine from Star Trek space stations make for perfect locations in certain types of games, where the story or gameplay involves wandering through the corridors and rooms of a massive structure (just think of System Shock).
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Space Hulk
DOS1993 Electronic Arts
Space Hulk is an abandoned real-time tactical strategy game set in the Warhammer 40000 universe, developed and released by Electronic Arts in 1993 for DOS and Amiga systems. In Space Hulk, the player is tasked with wiping ou...
Alien Syndrome
DOS1989 Sega
Alien Syndrome (1989) is a top-down shooter where you save hostages, shoot aliens, and scream internally because you’re always out of time. It’s frantic arcade action at its finest—like Contra had a baby with Gau...
Star Wars: Dark Forces
DOS1995protected LucasArts
Murders in Space
DOS1990protected Hitech Productions
Space Crusade
DOS1992 Gremlin Graphics / Gremlin Interactive
Omnicron Conspiracy
DOS1989 First Star Software
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...
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 ...
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...
Fade to Black
DOS1995 Delphine software
Commander Keen 5: The Armageddon Machine
DOS1991protected id software
Commander Keen 5: The Armageddon Machine is a science fiction action oriented platform game designed by Tom Hall, developed by id Software and released by Apogee Software in 1991 for DOS only. Commander Keen 5: The Armageddon Mach...
Buck Rogers: Matrix Cubed
DOS1992protected SSI Strategic Simulations Inc.
This sequel takes the same D&D-in-space formula and tries to go bigger, bolder, and... okay, maybe just more complicated. Buck Rogers: Matrix Cubed continues the galactic struggle with improved combat depth and a slightly mess...
Commander Keen 2: The Earth Explodes
DOS1990protected id software
Ringworld: Revenge of the Patriarch
DOS1992 Tsunami Media
Shadoworlds
DOS1993protected Teque
Stationfall
DOS1987 Infocom
System Shock
DOS1994protected Looking Glass Studios
Babylon 5: I've Found Her
Windows XP/98/952003freeware Space Dream Factory
Released in 2003 for Windows XP, Babylon 5: I've Found Her is the kind of fan-made game that makes you question whether it’s actually fan-made or secretly a pilot for a new sci-fi show. You pilot sleek Starfuries in this spa...
Gateway 2: Homeworld
DOS1993protected Legend Entertainment
Mission Critical
DOS1995protected Legend Entertainment
Return to Ringworld
DOS1994 Tsunami Media
The sequel to Ringworld: Revenge of the Patriarch, Return to Ringworld throws you back into Larry Niven’s vast sci-fi universe—except this time, the puzzles are tougher, the stakes are higher, and your space suit still...
Alien Breed
DOS1993protected Team 17
If Doom and Gauntlet had a lovechild, Alien Breed would be the weird kid who hangs out in dark corridors with a shotgun. Released in 1993 for DOS, this top-down shooter throws you into a space station overrun by what can only be d...
Wreckers
DOS1991 Denton Designs
Rendezvous with Rama
DOS1985 Telarium
Rendezvous with Rama is an interactive fiction (text adventure) game released in 1984. Telarium, a subsidiary of Spinnaker Software, was known for producing narrative-driven games based on popular literary works. This adaptation o...
In Extremis
DOS1993 Blue sphere
Earthrise
DOS1990 Interstel Corporation
Obliterator
DOS1989 Psygnosis
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