Sci-fi
46 games reviewed, ranked by score.
RimWorld
Your colonists keep writing stories you couldn't invent
Into the Breach
Three Mechs, Eight-By-Eight Grid, Endless Tactical Knots
Oxygen Not Included
A Thermodynamics PhD Wearing a Colony Sim
Portal 2
Aperture's Comedy Masterpiece Still Outwits Everything Since
FTL: Faster Than Light
Twelve years of rerouted shields and panicked airlocks
Satisfactory
Factorio's obsession, walked through in first person
Portal
A portal gun, GLaDOS, and no wasted minute
Dyson Sphere Program
Factory Building That Reaches Past the Stars
XCOM 2
Concealment and turn timers punish every cautious instinct
Heat Signature
Spaceship heists where every mistake becomes a story
The Message from Deep Space
First contact you solve yourself, worth the geometry grind
Cyberpunk 2077
Night City clawed its way back from disaster
Cosmoteer: Starship Architect & Commander
Every thruster placement decides a fight you haven't fought yet
ENDLESS Space 2
The 4X where your factions actually feel alien
Cobalt Core
One-axis ship combat that clicks, enemies that don't keep up
BATTLETECH
Salvage, rebuild, roll out: a mercenary loop that punishes every mistake
Griftlands
Negotiation gets its own deck, and it cuts deeper
Stellaris
A galaxy of emergent stories trapped in a paywall
MENACE
Suppression and squad fire land hard, the AI just runs and hides
Stray
Being a cat is enough. The rest is window dressing.
Xenonauts 2
Faithful X-COM tactics, undone by a peace ending nobody asked for
FINAL FANTASY VII REMAKE INTERGRADE
The Midgar chapter earns it. The padding between does not.
Horizon Zero Dawn Complete Edition
Robot Dinosaurs and Brilliant Combat Trapped in Ubisoft's Map
Quasimorph
Clone-fed raids that grip, until loot luck runs the late game
Ascend to ZERO
Time-stop combat worth the tenner, if the crashes spare your save
Heroes of Science and Fiction
A sharp HoMM3 heir that chokes on its own AI turns
Ogre Chambers 2222
Gravity-tugged bullet-hell that clicks, then runs out of upgrades
STAR WARS Jedi: Fallen Order
EA's Best Apology Is a Soulslite With a Lightsaber
Voidling Bound
Breeding voidlings is a joy, three mission types aren't
Angels Fall First
Board an enemy carrier mid-match, past the menu clutter
Dome Keeper
Dig, defend, repeat: the perfect 30-minute itch
Meta Ghost: Breaking Show
Sharp cyberpunk build-crafting, sabotaged by run-ending crashes
Thank You For Your Application
Sharp corporate screening puzzle, thin on branches and replay
Chorus
Drifting Saves This Space Shooter From Its Own Plot
MegaFactory Titan
Pull-belt maglevs are genius. The clutter around them isn't.
Battlestar Galactica: Scattered Hopes
Crisis after crisis, until the BSG dread becomes admin
EVERSPACE
Gorgeous space roguelike that mistakes grind for difficulty
Ostranauts
Salvaging derelicts thrills, until a bug eats your save
Sketchy's Contract
Loot-rich alien contracts, sunk by mission-wiping crashes
Eden Crafters
A warming planet, undone by belts that won't snap
FINAL FANTASY XIII
Paradigm-switching brilliance locked behind twenty hours of hallway
Space Haven
A Gorgeous Space Sim That Optimises Itself Into a Box
XCOM: Chimera Squad
XenoSWAT: A Tighter, Smaller, Buggier XCOM Spin-off
Warhammer 40,000: Mechanicus II
Tighter tactics, but the tech-priest tinkering is gone
Mahou Arms
Gorgeous magical girls, four combos, and eight years unfinished
Halo: Campaign Evolved
Gorgeous rooms, recast voices, and a login wall on a solo campaign