Your Favorite Sci-Fi Games

Sci-Fi games are all awesome but there are some that i think are incredible.So did you play any of them? did you like 'em? and the real deal what is your favorite sci-fi game?


Mines are Risk Of Rain, FTL, Gunpoint, Starbound, Halfway(Yeah i like indies) and the best of all Space Station 13

CreateBobob said:

Halfway(Yeah i like indies)

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I liked that one! I have to say the original X-COM games (UFO: Enemy Unknown and X-COM Terror from the Deep) and the two new ones, too (and Xenonauts). I really loved The Dig back in the day. The first Halo game, too. The first BioShock and BioShock Infinite. Homeworld. Shadowrun Dragonfall.

Just recently I've really enjoyed Horizon Zero Dawn and (more indies) Halcyon 6: Starbase Commander and Hyper Light Drifter.

But my absolute favourites are the Metroid games, especially Metroid Prime, Metroid Fusion and Metroid Zero Mission. Can't wait to get stuck into Super Metroid, now I have it on the SNES Mini!

Bugg said:

X-COM games (UFO: Enemy Unknown and X-COM Terror from the Deep) and the two new ones, too (and Xenonauts). I really loved The Dig back in the day. The first Halo game, too. The first BioShock and BioShock Infinite

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I'd like to play X-COM & BioShock i heard a lot of good rumors about them. But my laptopsucks a lot nowadays i can't even play minesweepers(my monitor hardly even work). But those games are high up in the list. Especially X-COM.

I love the X-Com games and their successors. I also loved their predecessor Laser Squad.
For the bigger picture 4x games, I like Distant Worlds:Universe the best.

I haven't played many modern games, so I'll be quite retro.

Perfect Dark on the Nintendo 64 was superb - it followed Goldeneye 64 and is even better. It was a first-person shooter set in the 2020s during an interstellar war, with various subplots like the rivalry between the group you (as Joanna Dark) work for and others. The multiplayer is excellent too. It was remastered for the Xbox 360.

Lylat Wars (AKA Star Fox 64) on the Nintendo 64 was my first cinematic experience in gaming. A wonderful game, with multiple ways to complete levels (which wasn't common back then).

Body Harvest (a precursor to the Grand Theft Auto open 3D worlds) and Space Station Silicon Valley were very good too.

Terranigma on the Super Nintendo is one of my favourite games ever. Earthbound is really good too - a different take on the traditional RPG. There were some crackers in the SNES/Megadrive era - Syndicate, Flashback, Contra III (AKA Super Probotector). I've been playing the latter on the SNES Mini with my brother recently.

Way back on the Amstrad CPC I remember a couple - Starquake and Driller.

Never been a big gamer, but her are my five favourites;

Half Life.
Jedi Knight.
Star Trek: Armada.
X-Wing vs Tie Fighter
Dead space

Mass Effect.

I gave up MMORPGs after becoming unhealthily addicted to a game called Anarchy Online.

The shadowrun games from harebrained. It got me into the shadowrun universe and it got me quite addicted

There was a time I quite enjoyed Traveler. Of course the was a non electronic sci-fi game. For electronic stuff I have never found a game that I liked better than Tie Fighter and X-Wing vs Tie Fighter (sequels to X-Wing). By game standards it was prehistoric.

Homeworld - really hard to best this one in my list. First up it was one of the first big fully 3D games ever made and it has one of the most epic intros ever scripted. The story is also fantastic and, for a strategy game, its very well put together. Forget Battlestar - think Homeworld!


Starcraft - ok this should be top, first game I ever played and a great sci-fi RTS game. Lots and lots of fun and a great story! Mixed up with some neat cinematics and some challenging gameplay.

Battletech - I'm going to put this here in the list even though its very new (only a few days old). First up the introduction video and visual style is fantastically influenced by a lot of earlier sci-fi artwork; its that painted quality that really just oozes atmosphere. Coupled to great music and fun gameplay and powerful mechs stomping across battlefields. Whilst it could still not live up to it all I'm hopeful this grows into a powerful game series and look forward to seeing more content.

Dawn of War - epic Warhammer RTS and hte start of a great series of games. Power armour; swords; epic close combat and in this first game sync-kills (scripted high detail kill animations; a big rarity in RTS where most attack and animations are generic).

Total War SciFi game - ok there isn't one out there; but darn it we've got Warhammer Total War so that is one dream (for years) achieved; so there's no reason that we might not see a big sci-fi game from them one day!

Nice to see some love for the X-Com stuff, they're still my fave and a step to one part of my small claim to fame. The Gollops, who developed the original X-Com series, went on to produce a turn based email game back in the dial up modem days of the net called Laser Squad Nemesis. I designed some of the maps for that game and worked on the single player version when it came out

Laser Squad: Nemesis (2002) Windows credits - MobyGames

I've played a bit of the backer build of Julian Gollop's upcoming Phoenix Point. Really high hopes for this one.

Bugg said:

I've played a bit of the backer build of Julian Gollop's upcoming Phoenix Point. Really high hopes for this one.

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I'd like to but my PC is so old you could refer to it as steampunk.

I'm not much of a gamer, but I bought myself a new PC last month and have been going back through my gaming past.

Jedi Knight etc seemed a little dated and i didn't get into them, really. Half Life 1 and 2 however. Easily the best games i have played. I have the two episodes of HL2 still to play, then i need to download the Dead Space series.

Metal Gear Solid on the Game Cube was superb. Took all the best elements from the PlayStation version and remastered them with dynamic action cut scenes directed by one of my favourite directors Ryuhei Kitamura.

More recently though I played the demo for Detroit Become Human on PS4 and it was absolutely stunning. I highly recommend taking a look.

Dead Space 2 and Bioshock 2.

Ninjastarfury said:

More recently though I played the demo for Detroit Become Human on PS4 and it was absolutely stunning. I highly recommend taking a look.

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I grabbed David Cage's previous 'game', Beyond Two Souls, as it's free for PS+ members this month. I'm enjoying it, although I'm not a huge fan of quick time events, which is pretty much all there is to it gameplay-wise. Ellen Page's performance is pulling it through for me. I remember playing Fahrenheit back in the day, too. I'll give Detroit Become Human a look, inevitably, but I may wait until the price drops.

Bugg said:

I grabbed David Cage's previous 'game', Beyond Two Souls, as it's free for PS+ members this month. I'm enjoying it, although I'm not a huge fan of quick time events, which is pretty much all there is to it gameplay-wise. Ellen Page's performance is pulling it through for me. I remember playing Fahrenheit back in the day, too. I'll give Detroit Become Human a look, inevitably, but I may wait until the price drops.

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I started that the other day but I just couldn't get into it. Detroit was instantly more playable.

Ninjastarfury said:

I started that the other day but I just couldn't get into it.

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It took a while to get going. It's a mixture of really good parts and some bits that are . . . not so good (mainly the childhood stuff). It doesn't seem that your choices have any consequences, though - the story just carries on regardless of whether you succeed or fail at the QTEs. I was craving something a bit different so I'm still enjoying it.

Bugg said:

It took a while to get going. It's a mixture of really good parts and some bits that are . . . not so good (mainly the childhood stuff). It doesn't seem that your choices have any consequences, though - the story just carries on regardless of whether you succeed or fail at the QTEs. I was craving something a bit different so I'm still enjoying it.

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I think that's why I liked Detroit so much. All the decisions definitely effect the outcome and even how long you take to do things.