Sci-fi
29 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
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
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
Stray
Being a cat is enough. The rest is window dressing.
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
Heroes of Science and Fiction
A sharp HoMM3 heir that chokes on its own AI turns
STAR WARS Jedi: Fallen Order
EA's Best Apology Is a Soulslite With a Lightsaber
Dome Keeper
Dig, defend, repeat: the perfect 30-minute itch
Chorus
Drifting Saves This Space Shooter From Its Own Plot
MegaFactory Titan
Pull-belt maglevs are genius. The clutter around them isn't.
EVERSPACE
Gorgeous space roguelike that mistakes grind for difficulty
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