Best Sci-fi Games 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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Cosmic Trip Cosmic Trip is an award-winning real-time strategy VR game. Build a base, command a flying drone army, and attack/defend hostile enemies on strange alien planets.

Price -79% 4.24€
Rating 8.0
Release 24 May 2017
Starpoint Gemini Warlords Strategy from the front lines! Starpoint Gemini Warlords combines 3rd person capital spaceship combat with 4X strategy and RPG gameplay elements. Build mighty war fleets and send them into battle or lead them into combat yourself. Become the Warlord and conquer the Gemini system!

Price -96% 1.58€
Rating 7.1
Release 23 May 2017
StarCrawlers StarCrawlers is a modern take on a classic cRPG dungeon crawler set in a gritty spacepunk universe. Build a crew of renegade adventurers on the fringes of space, taking jobs from megacorps to hunt bounties, sabotage rivals and conduct corporate espionage.

Price 19.99€
Rating 7.9
Release 23 May 2017
Cyberhunt Cyberhunt is a retro procedurally generated twin stick shooter, that takes you back to the sweet to the sweet arcade machines era!

Price -90% 0.49€
Rating 8.0
Release 19 May 2017
ENDLESS Space™ 2 ENDLESS Space™ 2 is a Strategic Space Opera, featuring the compelling “just one more turn” gameplay, set in the mysterious ENDLESS Universe™. As the leader of your civilization, will you impose your vision and build the greatest stellar empire?

Price -75% 9.99€
Rating 8.2
Release 18 May 2017
The Surge Welcome to CREO, the megacorporation saving the world! A catastrophic event has knocked you out during the first day on the job… you wake up equipped with a heavy-grade exoskeleton, in a destroyed section of the complex.

Price -91% 1.43€
Rating 7.4
Release 15 May 2017
planetarian HD planetarian HD is an engaging and emotional visual novel from legendary game studio, Key. A sub-brand of VISUAL ARTS, Key are also famed for creating Kanon, AIR, CLANNAD, Little Busters!, Rewrite, Angel Beats!, and Summer Pockets.

Price 9.99€
Rating 9.5
Release 08 May 2017
Mass Exodus Redux Whether you’re playing the seeker (VR) or rogue android (PC), Mass Exodus is a tense and absorbing local multiplayer game. With 4 extensive maps each with unique kill methods and some creative power-ups, you need to try outsmart your friends anyway you can. Oculus Touch and HTC Vive compatible.

Price 6.89€
Rating 6.9
Release 04 May 2017
Prey In Prey, you awaken aboard Talos I, a space station orbiting the moon in the year 2032. You are the key subject of an experiment meant to alter humanity forever – but things have gone terribly wrong. The space station has been overrun by hostile aliens and you are now being hunted.

Price -87% 3.98€
Rating 8.9
Release 04 May 2017
Westboro 2039. Water is no longer environmentally sustainable supply. The complicated and unstable situation resulted in violent uprisings among themiddle-class across the globe. The world approaches its first week in state of emergency...

Price 3.99€
Rating 6.5
Release 27 Apr 2017
Scanner Sombre Scanner Sombre is a 3d horror cave exploration game where darkness is your greatest foe. Illuminate the unseen with your LIDAR scanner, revealing the eerie beauty and peril of the abyss. From the creators of Prison Architect, this immersive adventure uses light and shadow for a haunting experience.

Price 6.99€
Rating 8.6
Release 26 Apr 2017
Orbt XL Defy gravity in Orbt XL! A fast-paced, addictive, 'just-one-more-round' arcade score chaser. Stay in orbit, dodge obstacles, and rack up points, the closer you are to the black hole, the higher your score! Easy to learn, tough to master, and perfect for quick play sessions while waiting in queue.

Price 0.99€
Rating 9.3
Release 21 Apr 2017
Alien Swarm: Reactive Drop Co-operative top-down shooter game available for free. An epic bug hunt featuring a unique blend of co-op play and squad-level tactics.

Price Free to play
Rating 9.3
Release 20 Apr 2017
Rick and Morty: Virtual Rick-ality Rick and Morty: Virtual Rick-ality smashes together the absolute VR chaos of the award-winning Job Simulator with the ridiculous, all-out, take-no-prisoners comedy of Rick and Morty.

Price 27.99€
Rating 7.2
Release 20 Apr 2017
Halo Wars: Definitive Edition Halo Wars: Definitive Edition is an enhanced version of the real-time strategy classic, Halo Wars, updated to run natively on PC. Halo Wars: Definitive Edition includes improved graphics, new achievements and all of the DLC created for the landmark real-time strategy game.

Price -75% 4.99€
Rating 8.8
Release 20 Apr 2017
Cosmic Star Heroine 3 exotic planets to explore. Aliens. Robots. Magic. Forbidden technology. Ruined Worlds. Ghosts. Long-lost secrets. Conspiracies. A galactic threat. And one brave heroine to make things right. Cosmic Star Heroine is an exciting new RPG from the creators of Cthulhu Saves the World.

Price -93% 1.14€
Rating 8.4
Release 11 Apr 2017
The Signal From Tölva The Signal From Tölva is an open-world first-person shooter set on a distant, haunted, future world. Unlock savage weapons and recruit robots to fight alongside you as rival factions struggle to discover the source of the mysterious signal. What you discover will decide the fate of a world.

Price -88% 2.46€
Rating 6.6
Release 10 Apr 2017
Bulletstorm: Full Clip Edition Step into the boots of Grayson Hunt after a crash landing on an old resort planet forces him to make a hard choice: survival or revenge. Execute masterful kills with Bulletstorm: Full Clip Edition’s unique combat system that rewards you for performing the most creative and deadly kills imaginable.

Price -91% 3.61€
Rating 8.6
Release 07 Apr 2017
Paradigm Paradigm is a surreal adventure game set in the strange and post apocalyptic Eastern European country of Krusz. Play as the handsome mutant, Paradigm, whose past comes back to haunt him in the form of a genetically engineered sloth that vomits candy.

Price -98% 0.40€
Rating 9.0
Release 05 Apr 2017
Zero Escape: The Nonary Games Kidnapped and taken to an unfamiliar location, nine people find themselves forced to participate in a diabolical Nonary Game by an enigmatic mastermind called Zero. Why were they there? Why were they chosen to put their lives on the line? And more importantly, who can be trusted?

Price 24.99€
Rating 9.0
Release 24 Mar 2017
NieR:Automata™ NieR: Automata tells the story of androids 2B, 9S and A2 and their battle to reclaim the machine-driven dystopia overrun by powerful machines.

Price 39.99€
Rating 8.6
Release 17 Mar 2017
Codex of Victory In this sci-fi turn-based strategy with real-time base-building elements, you’ll be defending human territories against the transhuman Augments. Expand your HQ, and manufacture and upgrade an army of advanced drones to wage interplanetary war for Humanity!

Price -98% 0.40€
Rating 6.6
Release 16 Mar 2017
Turok 2: Seeds of Evil Having defeated the Campaigner, Turok throws the Chronocepter into a waiting volcano to destroy it. Unfortunately the blast awakens an even deadlier force - The Primagen. Once again a Turok is tasked with restoring peace to the land and stopping the Primagen from merging Earth with the nether world.

Price -96% 0.92€
Rating 8.7
Release 16 Mar 2017
Tanki Online Tanki Online is the free-to-play MMO-shooter with real-time PvP-battles. Throw yourself into furious tank battles shoulder to shoulder with other living players and master your skills – destroy enemy tanks, customize your futuristic armored vehicle and compete with tankers from all over the world.

Price Free to play
Rating 6.1
Release 02 Mar 2017
DESYNC DESYNC is an intense single-player first person action game that begs you to play dangerously and creatively. Eliminate your opponents as you perform violent attack sequences using the explosive digital weaponry and lethal side-arms at your disposal.

Price -79% 3.20€
Rating 7.6
Release 28 Feb 2017
Stories Untold Stories Untold is a compilation tape of four experimental adventures, including a remaster of the original hit episode “The House Abandon”.

Price -96% 0.42€
Rating 8.4
Release 27 Feb 2017
Torment: Tides of Numenera Torment: Tides of Numenera is the thematic successor to Planescape: Torment, one of the most critically acclaimed role-playing games of all time. Immerse yourself in a single-player, isometric, story-driven RPG set in Monte Cook’s Numenera universe. What does one life matter? Find your answer.

Price -94% 2.08€
Rating 6.9
Release 27 Feb 2017
Dogolrax You awake on an unknown planet with amnesia. What are those horrific monsters? Who are these mysterious priestesses? Inspired by cult classics such as "Another World", "Flashback" and others, Dogolrax aims to surprise you in ways few games have.

Price 4.99€
Rating 6.6
Release 24 Feb 2017
Pixel Privateers Pixel Privateers is a Squad Based Tactical RPG “Loot ‘Em Up” that will send your team of mercenaries through a mysterious wormhole on a quest to gather technology for your employer. An entire galaxy awaits - full of worlds to explore, factions to encounter, and epic gear to collect!

Price 14.99€
Rating 6.8
Release 21 Feb 2017
Dropzone Dropzone is a game of action, strategy and skill. Win 15 minute battles by scoring points. Unlock gear, customize your squad of up to 3 Units and compete in Team 3v3, 2v2 or 1v1 matches. Lay claim to the riches of Europa!

Price Free to play
Rating 6.7
Release 15 Feb 2017
Holy Potatoes! We’re in Space?! Holy Potatoes! We’re in Space?! is a whacky space exploration game where you manage your very own spaceship, craft hundreds of weapons, and explore the vastness of a veggie-filled universe.

Price -90% 0.99€
Rating 6.5
Release 14 Feb 2017
STAR WARS™ SHADOWS OF THE EMPIRE™ As Luke Skywalker and the Rebel Alliance struggle to defeat Darth Vader and the Empire, a new threat arises. Dark Prince Xizor aspires to take Darth Vader's place at the Emperor's side. As Dash Rendar, it's up to you to protect Luke and help the Alliance. May the Force be with you!

Price 5.89€
Rating 7.1
Release 07 Feb 2017
Phoning Home A tale of survival about two shipwrecked robots - ION and ANI - on their life-defining journey in this unique genre-mix of exploration, puzzle and survival.

Price Free to play
Rating 6.6
Release 07 Feb 2017
Evolvation Evolvation is a casual multiplayer and fast-paced and class based space flying shooter developed by a two-man-army (Eric and Jacob) from Amsterdam. Classes are: Highspeed, Fighter, Stealth, Support and Tank. Each class has its own special ability which provides a dynamic gameplay.

Price 1.99€
Rating 6.6
Release 06 Feb 2017
GIGA WRECKER Become more than human and save mankind from total annihilation! From legendary developer Game Freak comes an action adventure like no other - manipulate the world around you and smash the evil Ajeet to smithereens!

Price -97% 0.70€
Rating 7.4
Release 06 Feb 2017
Angels with Scaly Wings™ / 鱗羽の天使 You, the player, are an ambassador for Earth sent through a mysterious portal into the world of dragons. Explore a town full of secrets and the people who keep them in this compelling sci-fi visual novel with slice of life and dating sim elements.

Price 9.99€
Rating 9.2
Release 31 Jan 2017

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