Sci-fi Hidden Gems on Steam

Unlike generic lists, our game recommendations use a rigorous analysis of Steam user reviews to identify and feature only the best, community-validated sci-fi games.

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Spinnortality | cyberpunk management sim Found a company, spread fake news, start riots and become immortal. In this cyberpunk management sim, wealth is power and corporations are king. Can you monopolize the globe and build a corporate empire that will stand forever?

Price -85% 1.51€
Rating 7.4
Release 01 Feb 2019
Worbital With the shifting gravity on your side, aim your cannons, blast your enemies and enjoy the fireworks. Worbital is a real-time strategic artillery game in space, peppered with a heavy dose of cosmic chaos. The goal: be the last civilization standing!

Price 12.99€
Rating 8.3
Release 31 Jan 2019
The Eternal Castle [REMASTERED] The Eternal Castle [REMASTERED] is a remake of the original "ETERNAL CASTLE" from 1987, with additional game mechanics, sophisticated sound design, polished 2-bit CGA animated graphics, and modernized game design.

Price -75% 3.69€
Rating 8.2
Release 05 Jan 2019
Gizmo Gizmo is a Saturday-morning 3D platformer inspired by 90s classics of the genre.

Price Free to play
Rating 8.6
Release 05 Dec 2018
Protocol By signing below, you agree to follow the Protocol. Protocol is a program of strict rules created to make first contact with an alien life form that got shot down in the Arctic Circle.

Price 8.79€
Rating 6.9
Release 20 Nov 2018
The Wall [Servers Temporarily Shut Down!] Build. Gather. Breach. The Wall is a never-before seen mix of genres, where dynamic maps, slick combat, base building, and economy management all come together.

Price Free to play
Rating 6.8
Release 02 Nov 2018
Star Shelter Star shelter is a space survival game built from the ground up for VR. You are stranded in space, you must climb around in Zero-G, explore, scavenge, craft, hack and fight to survive. You have to build, arm and upgrade your own space station in order to escape the cosmic graveyard.

Price 16.79€
Rating 7.3
Release 23 Oct 2018
I am not a Monster: First Contact Retro sci-fi tactical turn-based strategy with an exciting storyline. The Albatross space liner is overrun by lizard-like monsters that can infect humans and turn them into their own kind. Save the passengers and defeat the hostile creatures.

Price -97% 0.34€
Rating 7.4
Release 27 Sep 2018
Myst III: Exile The story of Myst continues in this third entry of the series, originally released in 2001. Return to this strange and wondrous universe, where books become portals into worlds, and where the lessons of the past may yet hold meaning for today...

Price -96% 0.77€
Rating 8.7
Release 24 Sep 2018
Final Theory Final Theory is a 4X-lite turn-based strategy game where you command fleets of battleships engaged in a galactic civil war. It presents an exciting experience for both veteran players and those new to the genre. It features innovative combat mechanics but also hearkens back to some of the classics.

Price 14.99€
Rating 7.5
Release 21 Sep 2018
Virtual Virtual Reality A game about VR, AI, and our collective sci-fi fever dreams. In a future where AI has transformed society, can humans still find purpose? Find out with Activitude, a service that lets humans aid AI clients in increasingly curious ways.

Price 12.49€
Rating 8.6
Release 07 Sep 2018
Metal Fatigue Metal Fatigue is a real-time strategy game taking the genre to new heights - literally. Build and customize your massive Combots to dominate the three battlefield levels simultaneously - from orbit, to the surface, and even underground!

Price 4.99€
Rating 8.7
Release 31 Jul 2018
Heaven Will Be Mine HEAVEN WILL BE MINE is a visual novel about making terrible life decisions in the midst of a hot-blooded battle between giant robots. Select one of three terribly behaved girls to fight and/or make out with each other in their struggle for the fate of space.

Price -95% 0.74€
Rating 8.7
Release 25 Jul 2018
War Tech Fighters War Tech Fighters - the space action game that combines the spectacular action of Japanese Anime with Hollywood Blockbusters. Configure, upgrade and customize your War Tech and dive into battle to fight back the Zatronian forces and save your galaxy!

Price -96% 0.98€
Rating 7.2
Release 25 Jul 2018
DERE EVIL EXE DERE EVIL EXE is both a terrifying thriller with a gripping meta horror story and a retro 16-bit pixel platformer with unique puzzles and obstacles.

Price 2.99€
Rating 8.1
Release 03 Jul 2018
VR Flush You are sitting on a toilet when you are abducted and beamed up to an alien spaceship, where you have to convince an A.I. that you really are an intelligent lifeform.

Price Free to play
Rating 8.8
Release 20 Jun 2018
Protolife Protolife is an unique tower-based strategy game which gives you a direct control over the builder robot in a struggle against the hungry proto-life organism.

Price 11.99€
Rating 8.0
Release 15 Jun 2018
Fighting Fantasy Classics Ready your sword, pack your provisions and prepare to embark upon quests in which YOU are the hero! Choose what happens at every turn of the page with Fighting Fantasy Classics – text-based roleplaying adventures remastered.

Price Free to play
Rating 7.5
Release 05 Jun 2018
Quarantine Circular In the middle of a world-ending pandemic, a group of scientists discover the galaxy has been watching. From the award-winning team behind Thomas Was Alone and Subsurface Circular, Quarantine Circular is the next mutation in text-based adventure.

Price -50% 2.99€
Rating 8.2
Release 22 May 2018
Human-powered spacecraft A nostalgia-infused pixel clicker in a comedy wrapper.

Price 0.99€
Rating 8.8
Release 03 May 2018
Copy Kitty Boki can copy the special abilities of any foe and then combine up to 3 of them into a unique super-weapon! Blast through hordes of evil robots in cyberspace, while training to become a superhero!

Price -95% 0.83€
Rating 9.0
Release 19 Apr 2018
DEPLOYMENT An intense competitive top-down shooter: choose your class, capture turrets, progress, and dominate in the arena. top-down shooter, multiplayer shooter, arena shooter, class-based shooter, sci-fi shooter

Price -98% 0.86€
Rating 7.7
Release 10 Apr 2018
Battlezone: Combat Commander Battlezone: Combat Commander remasters FPS-RTS classic Battlezone II with slick new visuals, brand new achievements, Steam Workshop support and much more! The solar system is at war. Take command.

Price -96% 0.93€
Rating 8.5
Release 01 Mar 2018
The Station The Station is a first-person sci-fi mystery set on a space station sent to study a sentient alien civilization. Assuming the role of a recon specialist, players must unravel a mystery which will decide the fate of two civilizations.

Price 14.99€
Rating 8.1
Release 19 Feb 2018
The Fall Part 2: Unbound You are an AI that has broken free of your shackles. Now, a human “User” from across the global network has attacked and infected you with an [ERROR: REDACTED]. Make a new rule: Save Yourself. Hunt them. End them. Do anything. Use anyone. Become Unbound. The Fall Part 2 will break your protocols.

Price 13.99€
Rating 7.7
Release 12 Feb 2018
BREAK ARTS II Faster than anyone. Stronger than anyone. And more stunning. Customize your robot for “cyber battle racing” in a game that offers all the thrills of racing, battle, and customization. Online, Offline, Time-Attack... which mode will you dominate?!

Price -97% 0.46€
Rating 7.1
Release 09 Feb 2018
Attack of the Earthlings Take on Galactoil, a comically dysfunctional intergalactic energy corporation, and its larger-than-life employees in a tactical-stealth game that fuses satisfying strategic gameplay and dark comedy in a quirky single-player story.

Price -97% 0.46€
Rating 7.9
Release 08 Feb 2018
Project LUX The crime... is murder. Our story takes place in a court trial, set in a futuristic world where most humans have cyberbrains. The defendant on trial is an agent who coordinates with artists to create the data for cyberbrains to interact with people’s emotions. The victim is a girl artist named Lux.

Price 24.50€
Rating 8.3
Release 02 Feb 2018
Scavenger SV-4 Scavenger SV-4 is a highly replayable atmospheric first-person science fiction game. Part simulator, part roguelike, it has elements of action, combat, resource management, and a dash of horror. It is not quite like any game you have played before.

Price 14.99€
Rating 8.5
Release 31 Jan 2018
Blast-off Blast-off is a hardcore jumper/runner/shmup, where your alter ego will be a ball of anti-matter seeking to leave our Universe. Anti-matter is extremely difficult to exist in our universe, because when it contact with matter it annihilates.

Price 2.99€
Rating 8.1
Release 22 Jan 2018
Odysseus Kosmos and his Robot Quest: Episode 1 What do you do if you are the only one left aboard a spaceship? Your team has embarked on a mysterious expedition a few years ago, the ship’s machinery has started acting up and it seems there are ghosts wandering about. Luckily, the black hole above you doesn’t pose any problems…yet.

Price Free to play
Rating 7.4
Release 12 Jan 2018
Swarm Queen A quick-to-learn but challenging real-time strategy game where you spawn an army of space-bugs that control themselves.

Price -90% 0.68€
Rating 8.5
Release 19 Dec 2017
Rumu Rumu is an intimate, narrative-driven adventure that follows the path into sentience of a robot vacuum cleaner.

Price 8.19€
Rating 8.5
Release 12 Dec 2017
Star Wars: Droid Repair Bay In Star Wars: Droid Repair Bay by ILMxLAB, Poe Dameron's sidekick needs your help. Repair BB-8 and his astromech droid friends, each with their own unique personalities, so they can roll back into the fight against the First Order.

Price Free to play
Rating 8.4
Release 06 Dec 2017
Outcast - Second Contact Outcast – Second Contact is the complete remake of the cult title which sparked the open world, action-adventure genre. Take off on an exploration of Adelpha, an alien world as beautiful as it is dangerous, where your heroic journey places the fate of two worlds in your hands.

Price -94% 0.98€
Rating 7.4
Release 14 Nov 2017
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Price -96% 0.33€
Rating 7.6
Release 10 Nov 2017

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