16 Best Sci-Fi RPGs on Steam

Cradle developed and published by Flying Café for Semianimals is an Action-Adventure, First-person Perspective, and Single-player video game with Puzzle and Sci-fi elements. It takes place in the cyberpunk-themed world and casts the player in the role of the female protagonist who must explore the environment surrounding her. The story of the game centers on the relationship between the protagonist and a mechanical girl, who found themselves in the middle of the desert. The primary objective of the player is to find spread parts of his mechanics companion and repair to solve the mystery about it. It features open world full of challenges, unique creatures, and challenging tasks. The game offers nonlinear storyline and gameplay, in which the player can interact with non-player characters to complete quests and earn points to unlock additional content to enjoy. During the gameplay, the player engages himself or herself in first-person exploration experience. Cradle offers core features such as Exquisite Soundtrack, Immersive Story, Communication with NPCs, Interactive Environment, Open World and more. Check out the game and have fun.

Eve Online, developed by CCP Games is a fantastic MMORPG video game set in a Persistent World. With a Sci-Fi background and theme, the game lets you be a pilot who can fly a customizable spaceship in a galaxy that is home to almost 7800 star systems in which the stars are connected by portals named as Stargates. You can also choose any of the given professions and be a manufacturer, Miner, Trader, Explorer or a Warrior and take part in both PvP and PvE combat events. With responsibilities like Exploration, Resource Collecting, Building, Leading Massive Armies etc. this game tasks you to be an ultimate conqueror and a savior to the entire galaxy. Eve online was released back in 2006 but because of worldwide fame and a huge user base, this game is still rocking on the internet. With all the fantastic Visuals, engaging and quite addictive gameplay, Eve Online is a brilliant Space Exploration video game to play and enjoy.

Half-Life is a Super Thrilling Sci-Fi FPS (First person Shooter) video game by Valve Corporation. This brilliant game is one of the trend setters in FPS genre and it provided with a wonderful FPS series of games that actually ruled over the world. With a huge following and a worldwide acclaim, Half-Life was one of the best game of its time. Sci-Fi and FPS characteristics, great mechanics and an engaging game-play made the players love this game. The game is set in a Remote Desert situated in the City of New Mexico and it takes you to the premises of Black mesa Research Facility, a Secret Complex that resembles greatly to the Area 51. Half Life lets you be a skilled Scientist and a Theoretical Physicist and tells the story of the events and aftermath of a Black Mesa Experiment gone wrong. The Experiment goes horribly wrong and as a result an undefinable Phenomenon happens that opens up portals in the facility and the Aliens swarm down.No your task is to survive by killing the alien enemies at sight because they have no mercy for humans at all. on the other hand HECU (Hazardous Environment Combat Unit) keeps on struggling against the aliens. In order to stop the widespread chaos and panic HECU tries to suppress the matter by confiscating all of the data and Scientists related to the Incident. Freeman gets barred to but soon with the help of fellow scientists he reaches down to the other end of the portal, in the Xen territory in order to eliminate the Nihilanth, who is keeping the portal opened. Half Life offers a strong and fantastic narrative, great story amazing gameplay as well as loads of fantastic perks, cool weapons etc.

The Repopulation is a Sandbox-Style MMORPG set in a Sci-Fi environment. This masterpiece from Above and Beyond Technologies is one of the most played and well-accepted video game. The game is currently in its Late Alpha Phase and you can have it for Early Access on Steam. In The Repopulation, you can have a totally choice-based experience, go for traditional RPG elements or if you want you can engage yourself into Action-oriented game-play too. Exploration, Resource Collection, Crafting abilities, unique Weapons, Social Interaction and Sandbox Environment are among the most prominent features of this brilliant game. With a number of unique Skills, amazing PvP and PvE combat Events, epic boss encounters, Multi-Racial Character selection and Customization options, the ability to switch between Action-Oriented or RPG game-play types, unique economy system and loads of other cool features to discover, The Repopulation is one of the most played and well liked MMORPG game. Do give it a try, its quite amazing.

Transistor is a Sci-Fi, Action-Adventure and an RPG video game developed and published by Supergiant Games for PC, Mac OS X, Linux, Steam and PlayStation 4 gaming consoles. Transistor’s story revolves around the character of a female protagonist Red, who mourns the death of an unknown man killed by a large sword named as Titular Transistor. She vows to revenge and gets against a mighty army of the Robots named as Process. Red paces on in the game with the story and reaches Goldwick District where she gets to know about the machines are being controlled by Camerata a sinister faction of outlaws. She starts collecting the evidences and following the leads and finally reaches to the Highrise District. Red after a huge battle against the Process finally reaches to the core of the actions and destroys the whole Process system along with all the accessories and machines in the field. After that she returns back to the previous location and learns that the man died in the beginning cannot be revived and commits suicide. The game concludes. Transistor is one amazing Action-Adventure and RPG video game that will surely take you to the heights of excitement and amazingness of all the things this game has to offer. You should try it out and enjoy the ultimate fun.

Caves of Qud is brilliant new Sci-Fi Fantasy, Action-RPG, and Strategy video game. It offers marvelous Roguelike elements and portrays them in the form of Retro-styled environment. The game lets you be a mutant warrior of a thousand year old civilization, explore the procedurally generated jungles and dungeons of Qud, go against the epic enemies, use super cool weapons like rifles, swords, or poisonous stingers, kill monsters, interact with NPCs, develop new skills and abilities, make alliances with other factions and enjoy being in control of almost everything. With a brilliantly immersive game-play, cool visuals, a huge world to explore and a lot to enjoy, Caves of Qud is a super cool Action-RPG, Strategy and Fantasy video game to play and enjoy.

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.

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.

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”.

Space Grunts is the mixture of Strategy, Turn-based, Role-playing and Rogue-like genres and brings a fabulous gameplay for those players, who love playing Rogue-like games with Sci-fi elements. The game features Pixel Graphics and supports Single-player mode developed and published by Orangepixel. It takes place in the procedurally generated dungeon and introduces the futuristic environment takes place in 2476. According to the story, the space federation of the Earth has been constructing moon bases around the galaxy. One of those moon space has sent a signal. The Space-federation sent to a group called Space Grunt to investigate and solve the problem. You are a part of the space team, and your primary goal is to locate the way into the base and figure out what has happened. Go deep into the moon-base and find the core problem while facing terrifying monsters, aliens and space pirates. During the gameplay, you will discover a collection of consumables all around the moon-base from destructive toys to weapon enhancers, armors, system hack, and explosives. Use the weapons wisely to progress deeper into the base and collect enough points and loot to become the master. Space Grunts is the incredible game with prominent features to play and enjoy.

Out There is an Adventure, Rogue-like and Single-player video game developed by Mi-Clos Studio for multiple platforms. The story of the game takes place in the futurist 22nd century, in which there are limited resources remain on the planet Earth, and the humanity is going to end. An astronaut is sent to space to the Jupiter’s moon in order to locate resources and supply to Earth. You assume the role of the hero, who must navigate the space, gather resources to supply Earth while facing the terrifying space entities like aliens, pirates, and monsters. During the journey, the astronaut sleeps until reaching his destiny. He wakes up and discovers that he stuck on a strange planet populated creatures. There are three different civilizations, and you have to select your favorite one to start the game. It focuses on resource management and exploration. You start the game with a small ship loaded with some equipment, oxygen, fuel, and hull metals. Out There includes prominent features such as Sci-fi Adventure, 59 Achievements, Leaderboard, 10 Spaceship No Combat element, Crafting System and more. Try it out, and you’ll love it.

ACE Academy is a Visual Novel, Role-playing, Anime-based, and Single-player Dating Simulation with an emphasis on Adventure elements developed and published by PixelFade Inc. The game takes place in the futuristic year 2049, where mechanized robots called GEAR were created for military and used them in the sports industry and commonplace. The massive use and the popularity of the robots have built a new academy called Cenorobotics. According to the story, the protagonist finds himself transferring to ACE Academy, a school for robot studies in fictional Japan. The primary objective of the player is to locate a team who accept him, and his old generation gear to use in the tournament. In front of advanced technologies, the research of the protagonist is hopeless. The game mixes the romance, sci-fi, and visual novel elements to offers a brilliant gameplay with hundreds of choices. Explore the storyline, interact with non-player characters, make the decision and select the choice to progress through the story. The game introduces multiple ending systems, depending on the action or decisions taken by the player. With superb gameplay and brilliant graphics, ACE Academy is the brilliant video game to play.

Endless Sky is a 2D Role-playing, Adventure, Sci-fi, Sandbox, Space Trading, and Single-player Exploration video game created and published by Michael Zahniser for multiple platforms. It mainly focuses on space trading and combat elements and offers the superb gameplay inspired by the classic Escape Velocity series. You as the protagonist must work your way up from a cargo ship, wimpy shuttle, or a fighter, to customize and upgrade the flagship to progress through the game. The game rewards you with money for each completed levels, and you can use to unlock further content. Earn as much money as possible by carrying passengers or cargo, bounty hunting, escorting convoys, or plundering the enemy ships. It takes place in the large galaxy consists of hundreds of start system, planets and several alien species with unique technology. The game becomes tough to play, as you advance to score enough points. During the gameplay, you can interact with non-player characters, encounter alien species and take down them to advance through the story. With addictive gameplay, superb mechanics, and brilliant graphics, Endless Sky is the brilliant game to play and enjoy.

Drox Operative is an Action Role-playing, Adventure, Sci-fi themed Single-player and Multiplayer 4X video game developed and published by Soldak Entertainment for multiple platforms. The game offers a starship action gameplay with warring alien species and fierce space battles. It takes place in the stunning galaxy full of planets, asteroids, space stations, moon, and new worlds. The player serves as the protagonist, a spaceship pilot, who must manipulate the galaxy to encounter new worlds, discover new stars, and battle against alien species to earn experience points. During the gameplay, the player can explore the land from a top-down perspective, interact with non-player characters and earn money by trading, defeat enemies, and more. There are several playable factions available each with a set of objectives, upgrades, and ships. The player explores the evolving and dynamic galaxy, take part in the galactic war between various alien races and can destroy hundreds of enemy starships to become the master. Dynamic Galaxy, Monsters, Galactic War, Hundreds of Enemy Starships, Build your Starship, etc. are prominent features in the game.

VoidExpanse is an Action-Adventure, Role-playing, Space Exploration, Sci-fi themed, Single-player and Multiplayer video game created and published by AtomicTorch Studio for multiple platforms. The game takes place in the huge world and mixes the Action Role-playing, and Science-fiction element set in deep space. The player takes on the role of the spaceship pilot with a task to manipulate the large galaxy, encounter planets, space stations, space pirates and several alien species as well as friends. During the gameplay, the player needs to mine asteroids for valuables, collect resources, trade to upgrade his ship, and effort to complete the requirements of story-based missions offered by one of different faction each with its unique agendas, characters, and skill trees. It offers Sandbox feature, enabling the player build, craft, trade, explore, deploy, battle and trade his way to earn experience points. VoidExpanse offers prominent features such as Open Exploration, Upgrade your Ship, Real-time Combat System, Multiple Factions, Character Customization, Trading System, and more. Try it out, and you’ll love it.

Xenonauts is a Sci-Fi Turn-based Tactical-RPG and Strategy video game that offers a brilliant gameplay with similarities to XCOM series games. The game draws heavy inspiration from the Original X-Com and is set in Alternate timeline of Earth where you take on the role of the Commander of Xenonauts, an organization leading the resistance against the invasion. Your main task is to reorganize your army units, collect the funding for various projects, launch numerous missions to intercept enemy UFos and complete the game objectives by defeating the enemies and capturing all of their ships plus their base. Xenonauts offers similar mechanics to its predecessor and the original game of the series X-Com and allows you to enjoy leading epic missions against the enemies, show off your superior Tactical and Strategy skills, engage in epic combats and enjoy an immersive game-play. With all the refined aesthetics of X-Com, visually stunning and quite brilliant game-play plus the addictive nature, Xenonauts is a wonderful game to play.