16 Best Sci-Fi Games on Steam

Strike Suit Zero is an Action-Adventure, Third-person Space Shooter, and Single-player Space Simulation with Sci-fi and VR (virtual reality) elements developed and published by Bom Ready Games. The game revolves around dogfight gameplay and introduces a new mode called Strike Mode. It takes place in the futurist sci-fi space environment in the year 2299, and puts the player in the control of the protagonist, equip with Strike Suit and can transform into a space armor’s hulking suit. The primary objective of the player is to defend the world from vicious enemies and rescue it from destruction. In the game, the player can engage himself in fleet battles where his dogfighting skills and abilities will affect the cosmos’s fate. There are up to seventeen stunning missions and each mission needs a completion of individual objectives to progress through the game. The game rewards the player with experience points for complete missions and he can use them to unlock further content like items, equipment, armor suit, weapons and more. With most prominent features, fast-paced gameplay, multiple endings, customization and smooth controls, Strike Suit Zero is the best game to play and enjoy.

Albedo: Eyes from Outer Space mixes the elements of Action-Adventure, First-person Shooter, Sci-fi, and Space Exploration published by Merge Games for multiple platforms. The game supports Single-player mode only and offers an exciting gameplay inspired by 60s sci-fi movies. You can take on the role of the protagonist, and your primary objective is to manipulate the ruined environment, interact with environment and objects to progress and solve a variety of puzzles to earn points. It offers a thrilling story, revolving around the protagonist and featuring a variety of levels full of complicated puzzles to solve. As you start manipulating the world, you will encounter strange creatures and monsters. Immerse yourself in Shoot ‘em up and First-person Shooter experience and manipulate individual objects to collect clues. Albedo: Eyes from Outer Space includes core features such as 3D Environments, Twenty Detailed Rooms to Explore, Physics-based Gameplay, 100 Items, Mini-games, Hidden Areas and more. Try it out, if you love playing Space exploration games.

Intrusion 2 is a cool MMORPG game like “Hero Siege” that lets you be a true soldier in a Sci-Fi environment. Your task is to travel to a hostile planet, conduct a military operation and destroy an illegal weapon manufacturing facility, kill the hostiles and capture the heroes, tame them and bring them back to your planet to train them. “Intrusion 2” is basically inspired by a 16-bit sidescroller that provides with a hardcore action-packed game-play and amalgamates Physics in it to make it more exciting. “Intrusion 2” is a bit different but is a great alternative to “hero Siege”.

Polynomial 2: Universe of the Music is an Action, Open World, 60DOF, and First-person Space Simulation created and published by Dmytry Lavrov. The game takes place in the thrilling sci-fi procedurally generated environment and mixes the elements of Fast-paced, VR (Virtual Reality), and Exploration. The game takes you in the endless universe of stars with fractal nebulae that shine as you interact and engage in space combat. There are nine levels available and each level offers different scenarios and a set of missions. Select your spaceship and get into the randomly generated environment where you needs to complete a variety of tasks to earn points by exploring the world and fighting against enemies. The game will increase the level difficulty, as you become advance through it. Unlock further features in the game to upgrade your weapons, spaceships, and equipment and become the master by defeating more than 10 different types of enemies. Polynomial 2: Universe of the Music includes fantastic features such as 9 Unique Levels, over 10 Enemies, 4 different Weapon, more than 6 Modes, and more. Try it out, and it’ll entertain you.

Space Hulk combines the Turn-based Strategy, Tactical, Sci-fi, and Board Game elements developed and published by Full Control Studios. The game takes place in the Warhammer 4K Universe and focuses on legendary battles and heroic actions. It lets you manages a small group of a space marine who effort to restore their honor by mounting an assault. You must lead your team, manipulate the environment, make your strategy and struggle to take down your enemies. Participate in turn-based combat and kill the enemy on your turn. There are a series of levels, and each level requires a completion of individual objectives. The game unlocks further content as you progress through the match. You can use your experience points to upgrade your characters. It takes place in the three-dimension world and comprises twelve challenging missions. Space Hulk offers prominent features such as Warhammer 4K Universe, Fearsome Gene Stealers, 3D Environments, Damnation Campaign, and more. Try it out, and you’ll enjoy it.

X Rebirth is an addictive Space Simulation by Egosoft and offers the similar gameplay like Sins of a Solar Empire. It is an Action-Adventure, Combat, Trading, Sandbox, Sci-fi, and Single-player game. The game takes place in the X-Universe near the future. In the game, the player can assume the role of the protagonist and the game revolves around combat, piracy, trade, and others. The primary goal of the player is to gain wealth and build his own space station and control fleet of starships and expand it. It sets the player on an epic adventure where he must collect items and fight against aliens and other factions with the use of various weapons, and must defeat them to save his space station and earn a lot of money. The game offers the open-ended game world and allows the player immersive himself in action-packed space combat experience. In the game, the player can build his own empire, trade with large factories, and crush his enemies. X Rebirth includes core features such as Trade, Build, Customization, Fight, Upgrades, Unique Weapons System, Economy System, and others. With the exciting gameplay, brilliant mechanics, superb visuals, and smooth controls, X Rebirth is the excellent game to play and enjoy.

Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War – Game of the Year Edition combines the elements of Military, Science Fiction, and RTS (Real-time Strategy) created by Relic Entertainment and published by THQ. The game takes place in the fictional universe and lets the player create his units, troops and train them to protect the land.

He must gather resources to survive and unlock other units. It has a series of objectives that the player must complete at any cost to earn experience points that can be used to unlock other buildings, items, and resources. The game includes there different factions such as Space Marines, Eldar, and Orks. Create the team with other players and fight against evil enemies and rival players to dominate the massive map. It offers a dystopian planet known as Tartarus where the game takes place.

The ultimate task is to protect the world from enemies, accomplish levels and prove himself as the best leader. It has both single and multiplayer modes. There are different races and character classes to choose from. With enhanced mechanics, addictive gameplay and superb controls, Warhammer 40k: Dawn of War is the best game to play and enjoy.

X3: Reunion focuses on Space Trading, Exploration, and Combat. It is the third entry in the series of X Universe Adventure and the direct sequel to X2: The Threat. It supports single-player mode and plays from the first-person perspective. It takes place in the massive space environment and lets the player get into the role of the protagonist who is a space explorer. There are different types of spaceship such as a powerful battleship, freighters, small ship, fast, massive carriers, scouting ships and more. Select one of them and dive into the game world where you can explore the game world freely without any task or could complete a series of challenging missions to earn experience points and trade with NPCs. The story of the game starts where the X2 left off. The game takes place in the fictional Universe called X. According to the story, the Kha’ak are destroying all the popular areas of the Universe and the father of Julian named Kyle is still in a coma. Assume the role of the protagonist, customize your starship and pilot it. Collect rare artifact and use them to unlock further content and enhance your abilities. You can use special gem to open a portal to Earth and can fight against a mysteries alien alliances. Save the world from devastation and complete all objectives. X3 Reunion offers core features, addictive gameplay, and the best mechanics. Try it out.

For all those Sci-Fi Shooter enthusiasts who dearly love playing games, Dead Effect is actually a gift. This amazing game is packed with hardcore Action, Thrill, Stealth and Horror-Survival elements and offers a unique game-play experience. The game takes you to outer space and leaves you in a Star Ship fitted with a new FTL technology. The ship’s destination is a planet named as Tau Ceti F and after setting the course, all crew goes into hyper-sleep but when an elite member of Unit 13 wakes up, he finds the ship crowded with the Undead. In order to survive the Zombies, he starts finding the means to save himself and the story goes on. Dead Effect offers amazingly brutal encounters with Zombies, and leaves you alone to survive and to find other survivors. Your task is simple, get up, lace yourself with all the available weapons, start hunting down the undead and use your stealth abilities to prey on your targets. With amazing single-player and long campaigns, exploration, survival, loads of in-game achievements and state of the art weapons, and eerie soundtracks, Dead Effect offers brilliant visuals, a great story and a fantastic game-play.

Stellaris: Utopia mixes the Strategy, Space Exploration, Sci-fi and Grand Strategy elements developed by Paradox Development Studio and published by Paradox Interactive. The game offers the amazing sci-fi space environment and severs as the downloadable content pack for the original game Stellaris. It is the first major expansion pack and brings new tools, equipment, and weapons for you. In the game, you have to establish your galactic empire and effort to keep your people secure. Create your troops and send them on an epic adventure to battle against enemies and crush them to conquer their land and loot their resources. As you advance through the game, it becomes tough to play. Unlock upgrades using your points and get bonuses to enhance your power. Explore the space environment and immerse yourself in RTS gameplay experience. Stellaris: Utopia includes prominent features such as Advanced Slavery, Ascension Perks, Advanced Government, Habitat Stations, and more. With addictive gameplay, brilliant mechanics, and superb visuals, Stellaris: Utopia is the wonderful game to play and enjoy.

Futuridium EP Deluxe is a Single-player and Shoot ‘em up video game created and published by MixedBag for cross platforms. The game mixes the Puzzle, Action, and Retro-style elements and offers heart-pumping electronic sound effects. The primary objective of the player is to pilot his ship and explore the environment from a third-person view, shoot his way and destroy enemies to earn points. It has a variety of levels, and each level offers a completion of individual objectives. During exploration, the player needs to collect power-ups to improve his power and avoid numerous obstacles and hurdles to reach the end of each level. The ship of the player equips with multiple weapons that can be used to destroy enemy ships and bosses. Up to fifty levels are available with different tasks, in which the player faces more than five bosses. After earning points, the player can unlock extra modes, levels, and over 150 medals. With detailed Space environment, Exploration, and unique Shooting Experience, Futuridium EP Deluxe is the best game for those, who love playing Space games.

Galak-Z: The Dimensional is a Shooter, Rough-like and Single-player video game created and published by 17-Bit. It takes place in the space environment and lets the player pilot his ship and shoot his way through a variety of levels to kill enemies. The game features procedurally generated levels connected as endless dungeons. The player can manipulate the world from the side-scroll perspective and can use a set of weapons to destroy the enemy ships. It features smart enemies, working together to track the every move of the player as he hones his skills to pilot his spaceship in the zero gravity. It combines the arcade, and physics-based elements and offers the breathtaking environment. There are different spacecraft available inspired by the late from 70’s to 80’s, piloted by the character. In the beginning, the game looks quite easy, but after progressing, it turns into a tough gameplay with hard tasks to accomplish. Galak-Z offers prominent features such as Arcade Mode, Procedurally Generated Levels, Physics-based combat, Zero-gravity Setting, Advanced Enemy and more. Try it out.

XCOM 2: Alien Hunters is an Expansion Pack for the original game XCOM 2 developed by Feral Interactive and published by 2K. The game mixes the Turn-based Strategy, Character Customization, Aliens, Tactical, and Sci-fi elements and supports both Single and Multiplayer modes. The expansion pack enables the player to turn his soldiers of XCOM into an alien squad with new armors and weapons to fight against new Alien bosses that will struggle to pursue his team across the gameplay. There are several playable characters available, and the player can choose one of them before getting into the game where he has to battle against another faction to complete his goals to earn points. The player can participate in the turn-based battle, where he must make a strategy to take down his opponents easily. XCOM 2: Alien Hunters offers core features such as Head to Head Multiplayer Mode, lots of Missions, Tactical Guerrilla Combat, Resistance Fighters and more. With addictive gameplay, futuristic environments, highly-detailed world, and beautiful soundtracks, XCOM 2: Alien Hunters is the fantastic game to play and enjoy.

Analogue: A Hate Story combines the elements of Visual Novel, Romance, and Dating Simulation by Love Conquers All Games. The game takes place in the Sci-fi world and supports Single-player mode only. It has a superb story, in which the humans launched a spaceship into the deep galaxy with a task to establish a first colony on an unknown planet. The ship lost his destination and disappeared. After thousands of year, the ship has been found. The story revolves around an unnamed investigator, and his task to find the reason behind the disappearance of an interstellar ship. The plot focuses on NPCs, relationship, and challenging issues and primary follows the elements of traditional marriage, transhumanism and more. Select the character and dive into the game world where you can interact with NPCs, go to date, and make relation with a handsome guy. It has multiple endings and depends on the actions that is taken by you during the gameplay. With addictive gameplay, and superb mechanics, Analogue: A Hate Story is the best game to play and enjoy.

Geometry Wars 3: Dimensions Evolved is a Multidirectional Shooter, Single and Multiplayer video game developed by Lucid Games and published by Sierra Entertainment in 2014. It is the 6th title in the series of Geometry Wars and offers improved graphics, mechanics and gameplay. In the game, the player needs to control a claw-shaped ship that is able to shoot in any direction. The primary objective is to destroy the enemies which effort to destroy the ship of the player. There are up to hundred levels and each level offers a variety of specific tasks and the player needs to complete the objectives to earn points. It has multiple modes including King, Pacifism, Claustrophobia and more. Up to six drones are available in the game such as Defend, Snipe, Collect, Attack, Sweep Drone and more. Geometry Wars 3: Dimensions Evolved offers core features such as 100 Stunning Levels, 15 3D Grids, 12 Battle Modes, 6 Companions, Online Leaderboards and more. Try it out, and you’ll love it.

XCOM: Enemy Within is a Downloadable Content Pack for the XCOM: Enemy Unknown released for multiple platforms developed by Firaxis Games and published by 2K Games. The DLC pack introduces new gameplay elements, as well as features new themes of transhumanism. The gameplay and plot remain the same like the original title with some extra features. In the game, the player needs to manage the headquarters of XCOM in real-time, but most of the gameplay comprises turn-based combats against rogue human faction and invading aliens. The game includes the Meld (the new resource), the player must lead his army to fight enemies while securing Meld. Single-player campaign consists of forty-seven maps and introduces thirteen maps in multiplayer mode. XCOM: Enemy Within offers core features such as New Soldier Abilities, New Equipment, and Weapons, Strategic Resources, Multiplayer (Maps, Units, and Abilities), etc. Try it out, and you’ll love it.