Best Sci-fi Games on Steam

Unlike generic lists, our strategy 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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House of the Dying Sun House of the Dying Sun is a tactical space shooter that puts you in the cockpit of the universe's most terrifying starfighter. Hunt the enemies of the Empire and bring ruin to their people.

Price -70% 5.99€
Rating 8.6
Release 01 Nov 2016
WARSHIFT Unique mix of Action, RTS and RPG gameplay elements that forms an innovative game genre. You can build base, manage troops, and then come down to keep your enemy at gunpoint in the dynamic battle and customize your main characters.

Price 9.75€
Rating 6.8
Release 12 Oct 2016
Sakura Space Captain Shika has seen all kinds of things in her adventures throughout the universe, and with her two loyal crew members by her side, she's managed to make a name for her small company of mercenaries. When Shika finds a bounty job offering an absurd amount of money, she doesn't hesitate to act: tracking hardened criminals is part of the...

Price -96% 0.41€
Rating 7.2
Release 10 Oct 2016
Syndrome Syndrome, a sci-fi survival horror game that places you in a living hell inside a doomed starship. Find out what happened to your lost crew. Run. Hide. Fight. Survive.

Price -83% 3.45€
Rating 6.2
Release 06 Oct 2016
Quantum Break From Remedy Entertainment, the masters of cinematic action games, comes Quantum Break, a time-amplified suspenseful blockbuster. The Quantum Break experience is part game, part live action show—where decisions in one dramatically affect the other.

Price -95% 2.12€
Rating 8.4
Release 29 Sep 2016
Half-Life: A Place in the West In a devastated America, sinister commandos are kidnapping children and taking them to a hidden city with a mysterious cosmic tower at its heart – a tower that may prove to be humanity’s salvation, or its doom. Join three survivors in this fan-made comic as they attempt to unlock the city’s secrets.

Price Free to play
Rating 8.2
Release 29 Sep 2016
Particle Fleet: Emergence Build and design your own fleets and stand opposed to the Particulate in this physics/strategy/RTS/fleet hybrid. Build partially destructible and self repairing ships that interact with enemies less controlled by some scripted logic and more driven by a real time massive physics particle simulation.

Price -31% 10.21€
Rating 8.8
Release 29 Sep 2016
Children of a Dead Earth The most scientifically accurate space warfare simulator ever made. Now with Steam Workshop!

Price 19.50€
Rating 8.5
Release 23 Sep 2016
Stellar Tactics A Sci-Fi role-playing game featuring turn-based ground combat, space exploration, deep character customization and a massive living universe with over 160,000 star systems. Equip your ships with the best equipment you can find, gather a powerful crew of mercenaries and set out into the void!

Price -50% 9.75€
Rating 7.7
Release 22 Sep 2016
Harmonia From renowned visual novel studio Key, which brought you the highly rated visual novel “planetarian~the reverie of a little planet~”, this is “Harmonia”, the latest kinetic novel in the series.

Price 9.99€
Rating 8.9
Release 22 Sep 2016
The Uncertain: Last Quiet Day The Uncertain is an story-driven adventure game set in a post-apocalyptic world. Experience the mysterious vibe of each of carefully explored locations, solve diverse puzzles, make fateful decisions and discuss intriguing matters to find out the whole truth being kept from you.

Price -94% 0.55€
Rating 7.4
Release 22 Sep 2016
Diaries of a Spaceport Janitor Diaries of a Spaceport Janitor is an anti-adventure game about picking up trash in an alien bazaar. Play as the Janitor, an Alaensee girlbeast with a municipally-subsidized trash incineration job and dreams of leaving the planet of Xabran's Rock far behind her.

Price -90% 1.06€
Rating 7.0
Release 16 Sep 2016
BioShock™ 2 Remastered In BioShock 2, you step into the boots of the most iconic denizen of Rapture, the Big Daddy, as you explore through the decrepit and beautiful fallen city, chasing an unseen foe in search of answers and your own survival.

Price -78% 4.51€
Rating 7.0
Release 15 Sep 2016
BioShock™ Remastered BioShock is a shooter unlike any other, loaded with unique weapons and tactics. Complete with an arsenal of revolvers, shotguns, and grenade launchers, players will be forced to genetically modify their DNA to become an even deadlier weapon.

Price -80% 4.16€
Rating 8.1
Release 15 Sep 2016
Space Rogue Take on the role of a spaceship captain. Explore new worlds, and engage in intense ship-to-ship battles. Develop unique battle tactics, upgrade your ship, and recruit crew members as you fight for peace or piracy.

Price 9.99€
Rating 6.2
Release 15 Sep 2016
Event[0] Event[0] is a sci-fi narrative exploration game where you build a relationship with a lonely spaceship computer to get home to Earth.

Price -87% 2.61€
Rating 7.7
Release 14 Sep 2016
TOXIKK™ FRAG LIKE IT'S 1999! TOXIKK plays as if today's military shooters never existed: Designed as a spiritual successor to the FPS giants of the late 90s and early 2ks, TOXIKK carefully evolves their mechanics with modern technology and fresh ideas elaborated with Arena-FPS enthusiasts.

Price Free to play
Rating 7.5
Release 10 Sep 2016
STEINS;GATE Developed by 5pb. and Nitroplus, STEINS;GATE was awarded Famitsu magazine's coveted annual Game of Excellence award and was voted one of the most emotionally charged “tear-inducing games” ever made, in a Famitsu poll. It is a gripping and moving Visual Novel, which has already spawned manga and anime adaptations.

Price -70% 8.09€
Rating 9.5
Release 08 Sep 2016
Halcyon 6: Starbase Commander Halcyon 6: Starbase Commander is a retro space strategy RPG with base building, deep tactical combat, crew management and emergent storytelling.

Price 14.99€
Rating 8.0
Release 08 Sep 2016
Star Crusade CCG Star Crusade: War for the Expanse is a free-to-play, online, digital collectible card game (CCG) based in a richly styled sci-fi universe, where each player takes command of one of the six factions vying for supremacy in an unclaimed exotic sector of space.

Price Free to play
Rating 7.7
Release 07 Sep 2016
Redout: Enhanced Edition Redout is a tribute to the old racing monsters such as F-Zero, WipeOut, Rollcage, and POD. It is designed to be an uncompromising, fast, tough and satisfying driving experience, soaked in that vertigo that stands at the core of the arcade racing genre.

Price 19.99€
Rating 8.3
Release 02 Sep 2016
NeuroVoider NeuroVoider is a twin-stick shooter RPG set in a cyber futuristic world about brains shooting around evil robots with nuclear rocket launchers. Battle through the horde of vigilant robots, boost your character with the smoking remains of your victims, and defeat the master NeuroVoider.

Price -98% 0.40€
Rating 7.3
Release 31 Aug 2016
The Turing Test The Turing Test is a challenging first-person puzzle game set on Jupiter’s moon, Europa. You are Ava Turing, an engineer for the International Space Agency (ISA) sent to discover the cause behind the disappearance of the ground crew stationed there.

Price -87% 2.77€
Rating 8.5
Release 30 Aug 2016
The Final Station Travel by train through a dying world. Look after your passengers, keep your train operational, and make sure you can always reach the next station. Make your way through swarms of infected at each station. Explore mysterious and abandoned stations looking for supplies and survivors.

Price -84% 2.50€
Rating 8.5
Release 30 Aug 2016

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