Sci-fi Hidden Gems on Steam

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Blaster Master Zero 3 The Pinnacle of Mutant Blasting Action Is Here! — Blaster Master Zero 3's hybrid of sidescrolling and top-down action is back for its 3rd chapter, and more intense than ever before!

Price 14.99€
Rating 8.2
Release 29 Jul 2021
Infinite Jump "Infinite jump"is a breakthrough leisure game. Players need to continuously advance through the levels by making the ball jump over obstacles. The difficulty of the game levels will increase as the number of levels progresses.

Price 1.99€
Rating 7.4
Release 12 Jul 2021
Combots Combots is a multiplayer robot war shooter set in fully procedurally generated maps with the physical environment.

Price 4.99€
Rating 8.4
Release 08 Jul 2021
The Fermi Paradox The Fermi Paradox is a choice-driven sci-fi narrative strategy game in which your decisions in one corner of the galaxy can upend entire civilizations in another. Guide species through millennia and help them explore the vastness of space, make contact and, perhaps, create harmony.

Price 15.99€
Rating 7.4
Release 01 Jul 2021
Super Magbot A precise 2D platformer with a twist. NO JUMPING. Master your magnetic powers to beat each level with speed and skill. Enjoy classic 16-bit gaming vibes, tackle challenging achievements and compete for global leaderboard supremacy along the way.

Price -97% 0.36€
Rating 8.0
Release 22 Jun 2021
Remains Remains - survival in outer space orbiting the planet. Explore the area. Find a way to restore oxygen. Create tools for your needs. Beware of the dangers of outer space. Build your shelter in orbit and try not to die!

Price 7.79€
Rating 7.3
Release 08 Jun 2021
Mighty Goose Mighty Goose is a fast paced run & gun shooter starring a bounty hunter Goose. Use epic weapons and devastating war machines to battle against screen filling bosses and hordes of enemies!

Price -70% 5.03€
Rating 8.2
Release 05 Jun 2021
Sunblaze Sunblaze is a brain-twisting precision platformer with hundreds of challenging, handcrafted levels to keep you dying for hours and hours.

Price -96% 0.70€
Rating 8.4
Release 03 Jun 2021
Gaia Project Gaia Project is the digital adaptation of the boardgame Gaia Project created by Helge Ostertag and Jens Drögemüller and published by "Feuerland Verlag". It is a 1-4 player strategy game. It plays in the same universe as Terra Mystica and continues the adventure in the far future.

Price 19.99€
Rating 7.4
Release 31 May 2021
Frog Fighters Frog Fighters is a light-hearted, fast-paced, third-person-shooter where you become a frog on a lily pad with an ability to shoot other flying frogs with different types of laser-leafs.

Price Free to play
Rating 8.7
Release 30 May 2021
幽灵高校(Ghost College) An average college girl takes an elective class and everything is different. Death, spooky, enveloped her, uncovering the truth, looking for clues, making the right choice was the only way.

Price Free to play
Rating 7.3
Release 28 May 2021
EARTH DEFENSE FORCE: WORLD BROTHERS A new EDF adventure begins! Only this time, the action unfolds in a parallel world where the Earth is made of digital blocks. This world has befallen into chaos, as the once peaceful square Earth has been shattered into pieces. Shape aside, it is an Earth nonetheless which needs to be defended.

Price -95% 2.35€
Rating 7.7
Release 27 May 2021
Imagine Earth Build your own global colonies on distant worlds. Manage energy and resource supplies and produce goods for space trade. Form economic and diplomatic alliances or take over competing corporations. Conduct research to protect your colonists from disasters and avoid a climate crisis.

Price -53% 11.99€
Rating 7.8
Release 25 May 2021
Lab Rags Enjoy failure as it fuels your success in Lab Rags, where you get to use your ragdoll bodies to solve puzzles!

Price Free to play
Rating 8.6
Release 16 May 2021
cyberpunkdreams 2090s America, torn apart by war and corporate greed. A lone traveller stands outside the gates of Cincinnati, greatest of the border cities. How far will you go to make it to the top? How far will you go to fulfil your mission?

Price Free to play
Rating 7.3
Release 14 May 2021
R-Type Final 2 R-Type has returned! The legendary side-scroller is back and better than ever with beautifully rendered 3D graphics, exhilarating shoot-'em-up gameplay, and a multitude of stages, ships, and weapons that will allow you to conduct a symphony of destruction upon your foes.

Price -58% 16.85€
Rating 7.2
Release 30 Apr 2021
Cognition Method: Initiation Free demo for Cognition Method - a story-driven, first-person puzzle game inspired by Space Odyssey 2001 and Solaris. Discover an innovative mechanics of altering gravity and dive into the surreal setting. Find your way within a mysterious artifact and unveal a non-ordinary story.

Price Free to play
Rating 7.8
Release 22 Apr 2021
CARNAL CARNAL is a fast and challenging retro FPS straight from the mid '90s. The Sons of Anak are opening portals to extract Dark Matter from the "other side". Combat the possessed soldiers, the manifested demons helping them, and any inanimate objects standing in your way!

Price 0.99€
Rating 8.1
Release 09 Apr 2021
Cosmodread Cosmodread is a VR survival horror roguelike about escaping a dying spaceship filled with nightmares. Stranded in a hostile universe, you must explore, survive, and find your way back to the safety of Earth.

Price 12.49€
Rating 8.5
Release 25 Mar 2021
Doctor Who: The Lonely Assassins Uncover the dark secrets of Wester Drumlins and confront a new evil in a thrilling found-phone mystery from the award-winning creators of Sara Is Missing and SIMULACRA.

Price -66% 2.06€
Rating 8.4
Release 18 Mar 2021
Tiny Room Stories: Town Mystery Everybody are missing in a town. Find the answers of town mystery in a point and click adventure game with escape the room mechanics

Price 8.19€
Rating 8.3
Release 25 Feb 2021
ALTDEUS: Beyond Chronos A sci-fi adventure full of robot battles, pop music, and emotion. Featuring one of the largest branching storylines ever in a VR game with 15-20 hours of gameplay, Altdeus will place you in the shoes of Chloe, a pilot in humanity's forces fighting massive hostile organisms known as the Meteora.

Price 24.99€
Rating 8.8
Release 18 Feb 2021
Warhammer 40,000: Dakka Squadron - Flyboyz Edition Warhammer 40,000: Dakka Squadron - Flyboyz Edition. Blazing, Ork aerial combat waged across 41st millennium battlefields. Dakka Squadron is a fast-paced, aerial shooter where you are an Ork Flyboy, taking to the skies to do what Orks do best - fight!

Price -98% 0.41€
Rating 7.2
Release 18 Feb 2021
ENCODYA Neo Berlin 2062. Tina – a nine-year-old orphan – lives with SAM-53 – her big clumsy robot guardian –in a rooftop makeshift shelter in Neo-Berlin, a dark megalopolis controlled by corporations.

Price -97% 0.92€
Rating 7.2
Release 26 Jan 2021
I'a I'a Cofflhu Fhtagnyaa "I'a'Ia Cofflhu Fhtagnyaa" is a Galgame with Cthulhu mythology, with three female (xie) masters (shen) who can be attacked, 8-10 hours of game time. Working in a coffee shop, I accidentally discovered the indescribable secret of this shop...

Price 4.99€
Rating 7.8
Release 04 Jan 2021
Understanding, The Game 'Understanding, the game' it's a suspense/investigation horror indie game inspired in classic horror games! Full Game coming as soon we can! Help us grow the game!

Price Free to play
Rating 7.6
Release 23 Dec 2020
SPACERIFT: Arcanum System At the sunset of human life on planet Earth, you are a military pilot controlling a space ship, and you find yourself at the very epicenter of the battle in the solar system. You are forced to retreat into the unknown, distant Arcanum system through hyper-jumping.

Price 19.50€
Rating 7.4
Release 17 Dec 2020
HIVESWAP: ACT 2 Continue Joey and Xefros’s adventure through the dark and dangerous planet Alternia. Meet dozens of unique and memorable characters, some more helpful than others, as you navigate this volatile alien culture. Hurry up! There’s a train to catch.

Price -14% 10.84€
Rating 8.3
Release 25 Nov 2020
Rover Mechanic Simulator As an Engineer - crew member of one of the first Mars colonies - you are responsible for repairing and maintaining Mars Rovers. In this advanced simulator you will learn the internal details of various Mars Rovers and their components.

Price -97% 0.42€
Rating 7.3
Release 12 Nov 2020
Quantum Protocol A deckbuilding card game where it's always your turn. Play as the master hackers of Quantum and take on the most dangerous malware in the world. Every action matters. Make plays, upgrade your deck, and break the enemy board!

Price 12.79€
Rating 8.5
Release 04 Nov 2020
Pacer PACER is high-octane anti-gravity racing at its most destructive. Customise your craft and weapons then engage in the campaign, a single-player race or compete against your rivals in explosive online multiplayer for the ultimate combat racing experience.

Price -1% 39.83€
Rating 6.9
Release 28 Oct 2020
Perilous Warp Perilous Warp is a fast-paced indie retro-shooter inspired by the classic 3D-actions. Communication with a distant space colony has been lost, and you bravely step into the teleporter with the desire for glorious adventures. But do not expect to win in a heartbeat!

Price 12.49€
Rating 7.0
Release 20 Oct 2020
G String Slip into the Standard Issue Biosuit as Myo Hyori, a gifted Korean teenage girl who must face the perils of the future. Survive many hazards, explore a seemingly endless metropolis and beyond as the world around you implodes and history marches towards its inevitable conclusion.

Price 13.99€
Rating 7.9
Release 16 Oct 2020
Palindrome Syndrome: Escape Room You wake up in a spaceship with no memories. In this escape room with a sci-fi setting you will have to investigate your past solving different puzzles. Will you be able to discover what happened to you and how did you get there?

Price -86% 1.19€
Rating 7.8
Release 14 Oct 2020
SPACE / MECH / PILOT The S/M/P Initiative is not responsible for any odd abnormalities while playing. Connections to other universes are not monitored or controlled by the video game program. Keep away from children under the age of 6. Fun to play but not to eat.

Price Free to play
Rating 7.9
Release 13 Oct 2020
ROBOTICS;NOTES ELITE Thanks to the rising popularity of the PhoneDroid—a device which features augmented reality (A.R.)—the age of advanced technology has finally reached Tanegashima. On that island, Central Tanegashima High's "Robot Research Club" is about to have their club disbanded.

Price -80% 6.99€
Rating 8.4
Release 13 Oct 2020

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