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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The Last Dream: Developer's Edition “Reality and dreams are about to become entwined…..” The Last Dream: Developer's Edition" is a casual adventure game which, despite having some classic casual elements, will also offer a greater challenge for more experienced gamers.

Price -68% 2.55€
Rating 7.5
Release 03 Dec 2015
DARIUSBURST Chronicle Saviours DARIUSBURST Chronicle Saviours is the latest installment in Taito's DARIUS series of arcade-style shooting games. Blast hordes of alien sea-monsters, and blaze your own trail through branching environments.

Price -71% 14.22€
Rating 7.8
Release 03 Dec 2015
Little Big Adventure 2 Twinsen's Little Big Adventure 2 Classic is a retro action-adventure game originally released in 1997. After saving the world from the evilish Doctor Funfrock, Twinsen is now ready to face a new threat coming from outer space.

Price -81% 1.89€
Rating 9.1
Release 20 Oct 2015
Sublevel Zero Redux Sublevel Zero Redux is a roguelite six-degree-of-freedom shooter in a universe where reality is falling apart. Use your zero-g gunship to fight through a vast underground facility, looting advanced weapons to destroy hordes of deadly enemies.

Price -80% 2.79€
Rating 8.1
Release 08 Oct 2015
Ninja Pizza Girl Ninja Pizza Girl is a serious game about bullying, emotional resilience – and pizza delivering ninjas! It’s a fast, flow-based game about Gemma, a sixteen-year-old girl trying to keep her dreams alive in face of the most merciless enemies known to any teenage girl – other teenagers.

Price -94% 0.48€
Rating 7.5
Release 30 Sep 2015
Weapon of Choice DX Weapon of Choice is a high-energy, side-scroller in which each playable character is unique with their own special weapon and abilities! Blast insane aliens, find new player characters, and choose between branching paths!

Price -50% 2.94€
Rating 7.3
Release 23 Sep 2015
Planet of the Eyes An atmospheric narrative-platformer about a service robot stranded on a mysterious planet, Planet of the Eyes features a stunning visual mix of puzzle and platforming challenges, an original musical score, and fully voiced audio logs left by another survivor. Explore the mystery of an unknown world.

Price -96% 0.44€
Rating 7.9
Release 24 Aug 2015
RymdResa A relaxed roguelike space odyssey in a procedurally generated universe! Travel through a lonely and mysterious cosmos. Customize your ship, explore and survive!

Price -84% 2.07€
Rating 7.0
Release 20 Aug 2015
Volume Pure stealth action and infinite level creation from the award-winning studio behind Thomas Was Alone. Enter the Volume to halt Gisborne Industries' corruption and train the masses to rob from the rich.

Price -97% 0.68€
Rating 7.3
Release 18 Aug 2015
Silver Creek Falls: Chapter 1 Two city detectives are sent to a small idyllic town in North Carolina called ‘Silver Creek Falls” to investigate a strange series of events that the local sheriff can’t seem to get his mind around. What initially seems like an open-and-shut case unfolds into a truly terrifying mystery that will leave the detectives wondering what is...

Price Free to play
Rating 8.1
Release 12 Aug 2015
Space Hulk: Ascension (Classic) Space Hulk: Ascension is a 3D, digital, turn based, strategy game, which re-interprets the classic board game experience, and adds new RPG style mechanics, new weapons and missions, new enemy types, 3 playable chapters and loads of other new features to the single player experience.

Price -33% 13.39€
Rating 7.1
Release 12 Aug 2015
Through Abandoned: The Underground City It’s the first game of Through Abandoned series, classical point and click game. You try to find your twin-brother who disappeared in a huge and mysterious place called Abandoned.

Price -93% 0.45€
Rating 7.6
Release 22 Jul 2015
Super Star Path Classic color match puzzle meets space shoot'em up action! Hop into your spaceship, open a path through huge waves of aliens and other hazards, and face intense boss battles!

Price -88% 0.64€
Rating 7.7
Release 22 Jun 2015
NEO AQUARIUM - The King of Crustaceans - YOU GET TO CONTROL UNIQUE CREATURES LIKE LOBSTERS, CRABS AND BARNACLES, IN A WILD WATER WORLD THAT EXCEEDS ALL HUMAN SENSE.

Price -80% 1.79€
Rating 7.4
Release 08 Jun 2015
Quintet A cooperative, cross-platform, multiplayer scifi game where players control the same ship through 5 roles — Captain, Helm, Tactical, Engineering & Science. Battle with other player crews over the Internet.

Price Free to play
Rating 7.2
Release 11 May 2015
STAR WARS - X-Wing Alliance A neutral family fights for its business - and its survival - and is swept up in the struggle against the encroaching Empire. You must defy the strong-arm tactics of a rival family who will stop at nothing to destroy your trading company.

Price -65% 3.41€
Rating 7.8
Release 28 Apr 2015
JumpJet Rex Test your dinosaur jump-jet skills with a game that redefines the platformer genre, aptly renaming it "platflyer." Simply put, you're a t-rex with rocket boots trying to save earth from an incoming asteroid. Do you have what it takes to stop it?

Price -96% 0.44€
Rating 8.2
Release 21 Apr 2015
VoidExpanse Explore the vast reaches of VoidExpanse -- mine asteroids, upgrade your ship, trade, complete missions, advance your character and survive fast-paced combat with hostile aliens and mercenaries in the rich and exciting Sci-Fi universe of VoidExpanse!

Price -94% 0.96€
Rating 6.8
Release 02 Apr 2015
Spirits of Xanadu At the farthest edge of the explored universe, the research ship Xanadu slumbers in orbit around a mysterious planet. Her systems remain active but there has been no message from her crew for months. Now a lone operative has been sent to wake the Xanadu and bring her home to Earth.

Price -73% 1.40€
Rating 7.4
Release 26 Mar 2015
Republique Help a woman named Hope escape in a thrilling and topical stealth-action game that explores the perils of government surveillance in the Internet Age.

Price Free to play
Rating 7.4
Release 25 Feb 2015
There Came an Echo There Came an Echo is a real-time strategy game in which the player assumes command of a small squadron, using an advanced voice recognition system to issue orders. It features a character-driven sci-fi narrative that stars Wil Wheaton, Ashly Burch, Laura Bailey, Yuri Lowenthal, and more!

Price -96% 0.74€
Rating 7.0
Release 24 Feb 2015
Morningstar: Descent to Deadrock Crash-landed on a desolate, alien planet, what should've been a routine work-for-hire job for Powell has become a deadly mission to save the merchant vessel Morningstar and her crew.

Price -88% 1.24€
Rating 8.7
Release 17 Feb 2015
Raptor: Call of The Shadows - 2015 Edition The great action-crazed, guns blazing, shoot ‘em up game comes back straight out of the ‘90s. Raptor: Call of the Shadows and its futuristic world are ready to challenge your flying skills.

Price 3.15€
Rating 6.9
Release 13 Feb 2015
Plazma Being Take control of Zeb in this puzzle/platformer. He is a small energy based life form from space, known as a Plazma Being. While journeying through space to his home, Zeb was surprised to find that he was being kidnapped by aliens. They took him back to their planet and unceremoniously threw him into captivity.

Price -81% 0.38€
Rating 7.2
Release 09 Feb 2015
Super Galaxy Squadron EX Turbo Super Galaxy Squadron is a fast-paced vertical shooter designed for human beings as well as SHMUP veterans. Featuring multiple game modes, a challenging but merciful difficulty curve, forgiving health system, and SEVENTEEN playable ships.

Price -96% 0.40€
Rating 7.9
Release 23 Jan 2015
Outcast 1.1 Outcast 1.1 is an enhanced version of the critically acclaimed action-adventure game developed in 1999 by Appeal for the PC.

Price -88% 0.68€
Rating 8.3
Release 18 Dec 2014
Verde Station What do you trust most — what you see, what you're told, or your instincts? On a year long solo mission aboard Verde Station, you will test your wits and question everything, but you may not find answers. Welcome to solitude.

Price Free to play
Rating 7.1
Release 18 Dec 2014
Strife: Veteran Edition Hailed as the original FPS-RPG game that spawned countless imitators, Strife: Veteran Edition is a love letter to the classic from 1996.

Price -80% 1.99€
Rating 8.4
Release 12 Dec 2014
Warhammer 40,000: Armageddon (Classic) In this hex-based, turn-based strategy game, players will lead the Imperial forces of the Armageddon Steel Legion and Space Marines from a variety of Chapters against the Ork invasion through over 30 scenarios, on the hostile terrain of the planet and its gigantic Hive Cities.

Price -25% 15.36€
Rating 7.8
Release 26 Nov 2014
REVOLVER360 RE:ACTOR The world really does revolve around you in this mind-bending shooter where changing your perspective could save your life.

Price -80% 1.99€
Rating 8.4
Release 24 Oct 2014
Time Rifters Be your own teammates in this unique single-player co-op shooter!

Price -75% 2.49€
Rating 8.2
Release 21 Oct 2014
Perpetuum Perpetuum is a persistent, sandbox, single server, massively multiplayer sci-fi rpg (MMORPG). Control huge robots and mechs to gain access to an alien planet's resources and knowledge, amass huge wealth, or even claim part of the world for yourself using terraforming and complex infrastructure.

Price Free to play
Rating 6.9
Release 17 Oct 2014
Disney G-Force G-Force draws you into the adventures of an elite team of trained guinea pigs on a mission to thwart a sinister plot to destroy the world. Take control of both G-Force commander Darwin and his sidekick, Mooch, as they apply their talents to defeat an evil army of altered household appliances.

Price 29.73€
Rating 8.9
Release 06 Oct 2014
Beyond Gravity Beyond Gravity is procedurally generated "platformer" where you jump in-between planets and try to collect as many pickups as you can. This gets progressively harder the further you jump. No need to worry tho as you can upgrade your character with loads of upgrades and power-ups!

Price 1.99€
Rating 8.3
Release 23 Sep 2014
Rising Angels: Reborn Despite determination and skill, Natalie Puccile, a Special Investigations and Tactics officer, has spent her career watching over a listening post in the middle of deep space. After the orders that she has always dreamed of arrive, she finds herself in charge of a small destroyer and tasked with discovering the fate of a missing...

Price Free to play
Rating 7.6
Release 12 Sep 2014
J.U.L.I.A.: Among the Stars J.U.L.I.A.: Among the Stars is an innovative narrative driven adventure game. The story centers on Rachel Manners, a 35 year old astrobiologist. She is a member of an elite group of scientists, chosen to embark on one of the most critical missions ever conceived on Earth. Now Rachel is alone, orbiting an unknown planet.

Price 16.79€
Rating 8.1
Release 12 Sep 2014

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