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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A.R.E.S.: Extinction Agenda You are the ultimate weapon with an ultimate sidekick – Collect secret items and get power ups to become the perfect weapon.

Price 4.99€
Rating 6.7
Release 19 Jan 2011
Back to the Future: The Game Featuring a special appearance by Michael J. Fox!

Price 69.63€
Rating 8.5
Release 23 Dec 2010
Oddworld: Stranger's Wrath HD You're the Stranger, a mysterious bounty hunter on a mission to bag the ultimate prize. And you need that money like no one else because there is something very wrong with your health and the only way to fix it is a very costly operation.

Price -94% 0.68€
Rating 8.3
Release 20 Dec 2010
EVE Online Over 20 years of legendary space battles! Explore a massive living universe of danger and opportunity in a challenging and highly rewarding space adventure. Fight, trade, build, and connect with a universe driven and shaped directly by players.

Price Free to play
Rating 7.3
Release 15 Dec 2010
STAR WARS™: The Force Unleashed™ II The Star Wars® Saga continues with Star Wars®: The Force Unleashed™ II, the highly anticipated sequel to the fastest-selling Star Wars game ever created.

Price 19.50€
Rating 6.3
Release 01 Dec 2010
Alien Breed 3: Descent Experience the final explosive chapter in the Alien Breed series and uncover the horrifying truth surrounding the existence of the Breed. Launch discount good thru Nov. 24 10am PST.

Price -97% 0.81€
Rating 7.1
Release 17 Nov 2010
The Ball As a swashbuckling archaeologist, unlock the mystery of the ancient ruins that have been hidden for centuries and discover a mysterious artifact, a gold and metal shelled Ball.

Price -95% 0.53€
Rating 7.1
Release 26 Oct 2010
Fallout: New Vegas Welcome to Vegas. New Vegas. Enjoy your stay!

Price -81% 1.98€
Rating 9.5
Release 21 Oct 2010
Lost Planet® 2 Lost Planet 2, the sequel to Lost Planet™: Extreme Condition, the landmark third-person shooter that sold over 2.3 million units worldwide, is now available on Steam!

Price 244.26€
Rating 6.5
Release 15 Oct 2010
X: Beyond the Frontier The Human Race had advanced to the point where we could travel among the stars, we developed giant automated machines to help us colonise other worlds, but there was a fault in their programming and they turned and attacked. Forcing us to lay a trap to protect Earth and exiling the Human race to stay on Earth once again.

Price -92% 0.41€
Rating 7.0
Release 08 Oct 2010
Front Mission Evolved Experience piloting and customizing massive armored units called Wanzers while engaging in high-intensity battles driven by a compelling story. The battle begins now!

Price -73% 2.76€
Rating 6.1
Release 07 Oct 2010
Alien Breed 2: Assault Can you survive the alien onslaught? Gamers across the world will now have a chance to play the next chapter in this high-budget, high-quality series.

Price -96% 0.88€
Rating 6.7
Release 22 Sep 2010
Star Ruler Take command of a vast interstellar empire and safeguard your species from total extinction in a procedurally generated 3D galaxy (with the option to flatten it) from 1 System to 10,000+! Prove your species' ingenuity through a deep and intricate combat system where anything (from individual components on ships to the stars themselves)...

Price -93% 0.50€
Rating 7.7
Release 20 Sep 2010
VVVVVV VVVVVV is a platform game all about exploring one simple mechanical idea - what if you reversed gravity instead of jumping?

Price -86% 0.72€
Rating 9.3
Release 07 Sep 2010
Riven (1997) Released in 1997 as the original sequel to Myst, one of the best-selling puzzle adventure games of all time. Prepare to enter a world "torn asunder" by timeless, unresolved conflicts -- a world of incomparable beauty, intrigue, and betrayal.

Price 6.15€
Rating 8.5
Release 04 Aug 2010
Alien Swarm Co-operative multiplayer game and complete code base available for free.

Price Free to play
Rating 9.3
Release 19 Jul 2010
Chaser Mars, 2044. The UN establishes MARSCORP (Martian Security and Economics Committee) under the leadership of Samuel Longwood. In the years that follow, the UN gradually loses control of MARSCORP, mainly due to the non-transparent licence policy of its director.

Price -80% 1.04€
Rating 6.8
Release 16 Jul 2010
Singularity™ FIGHT THE PAST TO SAVE THE FUTURE. STOP THE SINGULARITY. Learn the truth behind a massive cover-up of the catastrophic SINGULARITY, an event that fractured time and threatens the world as we know it. Armed with powerful, advanced weaponry and the experimental Time Manipulation Device, fight enemies from the past, the present, and...

Price 19.99€
Rating 9.0
Release 30 Jun 2010
Sword of the Stars: Complete Collection Sword of the Stars: Complete Collection is the original Sword of the Stars games and the three expansions Born of Blood, A Murder of Crows and Argos Naval Yard. It is the year 2405, and human scientists have discovered a new technology that allows travel from star to star at speeds faster than light.

Price -83% 1.79€
Rating 8.2
Release 04 Jun 2010
Alien Breed: Impact Experience the explosive science fiction arcade-shooter that resurrects a much revered franchise in an epic single player and co-op multiplayer campaign.

Price -80% 4.19€
Rating 7.2
Release 03 Jun 2010
STAR WARS™ Empire at War - Gold Pack Command or corrupt an entire galaxy in the definitive Star Wars strategy collection. It is a time of galactic civil war. Will you take up the reins of the Rebellion, assume control of the Empire, or rule the Star Wars Underworld?

Price 19.50€
Rating 9.6
Release 25 May 2010
F.E.A.R. Experience the original F.E.A.R. along with F.E.A.R. Extraction Point and F.E.A.R. Perseus Mandate.

Price -77% 2.11€
Rating 9.1
Release 21 May 2010
Serious Sam HD: The Second Encounter Serious Sam HD: The Second Encounter is a visually upgraded and fully Steam supported remake of the original high-adrenaline single-play and 16-player co-operative arcade-action FPS and Gamespot's Game of the Month!

Price -85% 3.05€
Rating 8.6
Release 28 Apr 2010
AquaNox The water is no longer calm. The undersea world has undergone a transformation from tranquil environment to a place of unspeakable violence, graphic murder and horrific danger.

Price -92% 0.40€
Rating 6.7
Release 20 Apr 2010
Shatter Shatter is a retro-inspired brick-breaking game that merges familiar action with unique twists and a modern crafted production approach.

Price -80% 0.32€
Rating 8.9
Release 15 Mar 2010
Assassin's Creed 2 An epic story of family, vengeance and conspiracy set in the pristine, yet brutal, backdrop of a Renaissance Italy. New low price!

Price 9.99€
Rating 8.8
Release 04 Mar 2010
Star Wolves Star wolves is a 3D space RPG with deep strategy and tactical elements. The game thrusts players into a world of freelance space hunters in the XXI-XXII century A.D. during a time of political crisis for the all-powerful Empire and the three mega-corporations that control all the known worlds.

Price -90% 0.40€
Rating 7.9
Release 02 Mar 2010
Star Wolves 3: Civil War Large-scale battles have become a vestige of the past, depleting resources of conflicting parties. Settled space, where welfare and order had reigned, has become a cemetery for dead ships which is flooded with pirates and adventurists.

Price -84% 0.82€
Rating 7.6
Release 02 Mar 2010
Supreme Commander 2 Includes 47 Steam achievements, leaderboards, and stats!

Price -85% 2.07€
Rating 8.6
Release 01 Mar 2010
NecroVisioN: Lost Company NecroVisioN: Lost Company is the prequel to original horror FPS shooter, taking place before the NecroVisioN story begins. It contains a bunch of unique levels, characters, weapons and gameplay elements as well as new main hero that presents the original game story from opposite perspective.

Price -95% 0.40€
Rating 6.8
Release 19 Feb 2010
Aliens vs. Predator™ Survive, hunt and prey in the deadly jungles and swamps in distinctly new and thrilling first person gameplay.

Price -80% 2.99€
Rating 8.9
Release 16 Feb 2010
S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat is the direct sequel of the S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl. As a Major Alexander Degtyarev you should investigate the crash of the governmental helicopters around the Zone and find out, what happened there.

Price -47% 10.76€
Rating 9.4
Release 11 Feb 2010
BioShock® 2 Set approximately 10 years after the events of the original BioShock, the halls of Rapture once again echo with sins of the past. Along the Atlantic coastline, a monster has been snatching little girls and bringing them back to the undersea city of Rapture.

Price -86% 2.92€
Rating 8.7
Release 09 Feb 2010
Aliens versus Predator Classic 2000 Aliens Versus Predator Classic 2000 features the Colonial Marine, Alien and Predator Campaigns and the frenetic single-player Skirmish mode from the original title: Alien Versus Predator Gold Edition, which was released to massive acclaim in 2000.

Price -79% 1.09€
Rating 8.4
Release 15 Jan 2010
Fallout 3: Game of the Year Edition Prepare for the Future™ With Fallout 3: Game of the Year Edition, experience the most acclaimed game of 2008 like never before. Create a character of your choosing and descend into an awe-inspiring, post-apocalyptic world where every minute is a fight for survival.

Price 19.99€
Rating 8.0
Release 17 Dec 2009
STAR WARS™ - The Force Unleashed™ Ultimate Sith Edition A game that will show gamers the deepest, darkest side of the Force in a story that puts them on a collision course with Luke Skywalker himself.

Price 19.50€
Rating 7.4
Release 15 Dec 2009

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