Weird Worlds: Return to Infinite Space
Weird Worlds: Return to Infinite Space is a Sci-Fi Roguelike video game developed by Digital Eel. The game is a direct sequel to Strange Adventures in Infinite Space that takes you to the fictional settings of Milky Way and puts you right into the middle of it in Purple Void. You must explore the whole surroundings in your space ship and engage in battles with unknown enemies. Weird Worlds: Return to Infinite Space provides with new star-maps to follow and explore new planets, black holes, nebulae etc. and encounter enemies kill them by attacking their spaceships and loot their resources. You get to play three types of missions, 30 star ships to choose between, a number of levels, enemy types and a huge variety of weapons etc. Your task is to kill your enemies and save your ships from any damage and return to the base after completing the mission. If you are killed on the mission by any enemy, you’ll die and the game will end immediately. You can buy and install upgrades on your ship by spending your game points too. Weird Worlds: Return to Infinite Space is a great rogue-like game to play and enjoy.
#1 FTL: Faster than Light
FTL: Faster than Light, developed by Subset games is a Rouguelike Real-time Strategy (RTS) and Shooting Simulation by Subset Games. The game provides with Permadeath Mechanics and allows you to engage yourself in an amazing space themed environment. According to the story, you control a crew and an FTL (Faster Than Light) capable spaceship (Owned by the Galactic Federation) that is tasked to deliver critical information to an allied fleet of spaceships eight sectors away and is also being chased by a huge rebel spaceship fleet. Your task is to guide your ship safely all the way to your allied fleet and deliver the information by dodging and saving your ship from the rebel ship attacks. “FTL: Faster than Light” lets you defeat your enemies by directly getting into the permadeath styled combats, in a roguelike fashion. The Galactic Federation is on the verger of a drastic and mega devastation after they lost the great war against the Rebels. You must capture and contain the data packets, captured from Rebel ship communication intercept and deliver it to the Federation. The Federation will then use the information to attack and defeat the Rebel Factions and save the world. With a very well-written and quite involving storyline, beautifully created Ultra-HD graphics and a totally very addictive gameplay, FTL: Faster than Light is one amazing Space Exploration and RTS video game to play and enjoy.
#2 The Banner Saga
The Banner Saga by Stoic is an amazingly engaging Tactical, Strategy, RPG and Free-to-Play MMO video game. The game allows you to get into the role of Viking who is destined to make strategic choices, make allies and travel to unknown distances in order to eliminate an epic new threat that is about to vandalize a whole civilization. You must find the ones who will accompany you in the harshest of conditions and on unforgiving landscape in a world where everything that’s not you, wants to kill you. This wonderful game provides with a Final Fantasy Tactics and game of Throne type game-play in which you can get attached to anyone emotionally in order to make the game more interesting. The Banner Saga provides with unique aesthetics, a well-written story, an action oriented game-play etc.
#3 Neo Scavenger
Neo Scavenger is another great Action-Adventure and Survival video game that leaves you right in the middle of a Wasteland and lets you survive in an unforgiving environment, find out who you really are and why are you here. The game totally lets you decide what to do with your life and where to go from here, how to start exploring the world, how to scavenge for all the necessary items and supplies and how to approach all the ones you encounter. In order to survive, you’ll have to keep yourself properly fed, and drink plenty of water because the dehydration element will challenge you again and again, lack of weapons and tool will force you to collect different materials and create useful items. You must know how to survive in an apocalyptic environment or else you’ll perish. With a marvelously unique setting, turn-based game-play, permadeath element presence, choices between sandbox or story modes, amazing crafting abilities and a totally realistic gaming experience, Neo Scavenger is one of the brilliant games of this genre ever created. Do try it out.
#4 Block Story
Block Story is another great Action-Adventure, MMORPG and a Voxel Based Sandbox video game. The game allows you to have a Minecraft and Trove like feeling, Explore a procedurally generated game world, Mine for resources, craft different items, build structures, go on epic quests and engage in hardcore combats with enemies etc. With the hard earned experience points, Block Story allows you to level yourself up by boosting up your expertise, increase your strength and eventually rise as the most superior being in the whole game world. Block Story offers unique characters, skills, and the ability to tame the wildlings, make them your companions, embark on epic journeys together and enjoy the game. Weapons crafting is a wonderful routine in the game, it allows you to craft unique weapons (swords, Staffs, Guns, Bows and Arrows etc.) and go against the most advanced, heavily armored and challenging enemies. With a wonderful setting, great visuals and an immersive game-play, Block Story is a brilliant game to play and enjoy.
#5 The Tribez
The Tribez takes the players back to the very start of Stone-Age and allows them to enjoy a remarkable Empire Building Simulation. The game is all about the start of humanity and it lets the players act as one of the first human builders in an era when everything was so new, so clean and so untouched. As the Chief of a Stone-Age tribe, The Tribez lets the players enjoy building their own empire, explore the beautiful world full of mysteries and enjoy a totally unique experience of Building, Construction and Management elements. Players are tasked to build a Village from scratch, Explore a vast world, craft tools and lead your people to the prosperity. With simple and easy to understand controls, beautiful characters, a stunning game world, fluent animations, loads of cool upgrades and the ability to craft items along with the Farming elements, The Tribez offers a totally free hand to the players to be pleased as they seem. Using the Farming elements, players can grow crops, use them or sell them in to the markets to earn revenue. Defense against the enemies is a matter of utmost importance, so the players must guard all the expanded borders, assign the troops the duty to defend the Empire and enjoy leading the troops into battles to conquer more lands. With all the amazing quests, treasure hunts, the discovery of distant islands, exploration of the mysterious caves and dungeons, and the epic battles against the enemies, The Tribez offer a remarkable Strategy and Empire-building experience.
#6 Game of War: Fire Age
Game of War: Fire Age is a free to play Massively Multiplayer Online and RTS video game developed back in 2013 by Machine Zone. This amazingly engaging game resembles three famous games Shadow Kings, Warcraft and Forge of Empires and that is why you’ll see a a similar game-play and graphics in the game. Because of being a strategy game, Game of War: Fire Age lets you create and develop your own settlement, gather resources, train troops and wage wars and battles against your enemies. As Game of War: Fire Age is an online multiplayer video game, so you can make alliances with your friends or with other online players around the world and fight against your enemies as a great gathering of different cultures and warriors. With uniquely built graphics, a super thrilling game-play and a lot of other great elements, this game is one of the best Browser-based Real-Time Strategy and MMO video game to play and enjoy. You’ll definitely like it.
#7 Sid Meier’s Civilization V
Sid Meier’s Civilization V or shortly named as Civilization V is a wonderful 4X Turn-based MMO-RTS video game by Firaxis Games. The game is based on the player who leads a civilization from Primordial times to the future on a methodologically created map. The game lets you use your skills and experiences for the Research, Exploration, Diplomacy, Expansion of the lands, Economic and technological development, Governmental and Military Conquests etc. Civilization V inherits a lot of characteristics and mechanics from Civilization IV but a slight change is the absence of a lot of expansion packs. Unlike the previous versions of the game, Battle and combat characteristics are quite changed, Cities can now defend themselves by devastating the enemies situated nearby, and a lot of military restrictions are gone. Sid Meier’s Civilization V resembles Age of Mythologies a lot, story-line and game-play is quite overhauled and the game provides with Single and Multiplayer Campaigns so you can enjoy it more. Graphics are greatly enhanced as compared to the older versions of the game. With 2 expansion packs Civilization V: Gods and Kings and Civilization V: Brave New World, this game offers wonderful visuals, a brilliant game-play etc.
#8 Don’t Starve
Don’t Starve, developed by Klei Entertainment is an Action-Adventure, Survival and Roguelike video game. The story features a Scientist named as Wilson who finds himself in a very dark and eerie place. In his struggle to survive, Don’t Starve tasks you to help Wilson keep him fed, healthy and mentally stable while avoiding various types of supernatural enemies who want to kill him. To add more depth to the gameplay, Don’t Starve offers Adventure mode that tasks the players to go against the Antagonist Maxwell and defeat him in epic encounters. The game offers Point and Click based combat in the game and allows you to be able to survive for as long as possible, keep on progressing throughout the gameplay by earning experience points and using upgrades such as Meat Effigy, life Giving Amulet and Touch Stone etc. Don’t Starve offers brilliant story and environments, fantastic game visuals and an immersive gameplay to enjoy.
#9 Don’t Starve Together
Don’t Starve Together is a standalone Action-Adventure and Survival expansion pack of the original Don’t Starve with Multiplayer functionality. The game offers Reign of Giants mod that features new characters, new challenges, Puzzles, biomes, seasons and creatures to immerse you with the game-play a bit more tightly. As the same character of Wilson, you’ll have to explore a strange world filled with all the strangest creatures, hazards, dangers and wonders. In order to survive, you’ll have to gather as much resources as you can, craft items with all the available materials, build different structures, interact with other online players, fight them off of your property and save your items, or simply befriend other online players, explore the world together survive the harshest environment and Survive. With a wonderful setting, cool visuals, enhanced mechanics and an addictive game-play, Don’t Starve Together is a fun game to play and enjoy.
#10 Caves of Qud
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.
#11 Sword of the Stars: The Pit
Sword of the Stars: The Pit is an Action-Adventure, Dungeon Crawl, Puzzle-Platform and RTS video game with a Sci-Fi theme. The game is developed by Kerberos Production and allows you to engage yourself in a Rogue-like environment. Sword of the Stars: The Pit is set in a scientific facility with thirty random Floors and 6 difficulty levels. Each floor represents a game level and you must try to pass a level in order to move to the next one. The game also provides with a super thrilling turn base element in the game-play that gives you more time to make correct decisions and further enrich your plans with better strategies to reach down to the deepest levels of the facility. Sword of the Stars: The Pit also lets you collect different items you can use as power-ups and enhance your skills. To sum it up, I’ll say that this game has a huge amount of exciting content that provides with a great rogue-like gaming experience. Do try it out, you’ll definitely like it.
#12 Dungeon of the Endless
Dungeon of the Endless is superb Dungeon Crawling, Action-RPG and Strategy-based video game by Amplitude Studios. Your task in the game is to be a skilled hero, Control a team of individuals like yourself and protect the generator of your crashed ship in order to survive and save your crew members. The game allows you to traverse through different dungeons, collect different items, brawl against the hordes of enemy monsters, and finally rebuild the damaged parts of your ship and escape. Dungeon of the Endless lets you be part of the team of epic heroes, use sophisticated weaponry against the enemies, engage into an amazing Co-Op game-play, construct defensive buildings and towers, enjoy multiple levels of difficulty, explore and enjoy a journey so amazing that it literally makes you a part of the game world. With brilliant retro visuals, amazing game-play and a wonderful story-line, Dungeon of the Endless is a fun game to play and enjoy.
#13 Flotilla
Flotilla is a 3D Turn-based Co-Op Multiplayer Space Exploration and Combat video game by Blendo Games. Set in a Randomly generated Galaxy environment, Flotila allows you and your opponents (Both Online and NPCs) to control a whole fleet of Spaceships, issue orders to engage in real-time combat and keep on repeating the process until any of the sides is defeated. With a turn-based environment, Flotilla allows you to have one of the best Co-op experiences and enjoy the game-play. Flotilla lets you issue three man types of orders (Attack Move, Flank Move and Focus Fire) to your fleets and reverse the enemy attacks by engaging at the right time and attacking at the right place. In the start, Flotilla allows you to have only two ships, but as the time passes, you can have more ships in your fleet by simply visiting the game shop and upgrading to a number of desired ships while remaining in the limit to spend your resources and rewards. Single player mode of the game allows you to go exploring the world, engage in epic enemy encounters and enjoy the game-play even more. With a brilliant setting, a unique combat oriented game-play and brilliant 3D visuals, Flotilla is an immersive game to play and enjoy.
#14 FTL: Advanced Edition
FTL: Advanced Edition is a mix of Rough-like and Strategy elements developed and published by Subset Games for multiple platforms. The game supports Single-player mode only and introduces new playable race named as the Lanius with several event, equipment, and ships. It also includes a clone bay, that creates a crew consists of clones, hack drones to target enemies ships and a mind control system to take over the crew member of the enemy. In the game, you can assist the crew of a single spacecraft, and your ultimate goal is to deliver critical information to an allied flight consists of eight sectors while avoiding alien factions. Navigate the space environment, collect resources and earn points to upgrade your ship and enhance his abilities. FTL: Advanced Edition offers cool features such as Complex Gameplay, Unique Lifeform, Six different Alien Races, Procedurally Generated Galaxy, Be a Captain, and more. Try it out, and you’ll enjoy it.
#15 The Banner Saga 2
The Banner Saga 2 is a Tactical Role-playing and Single-player video game created by Stoic and published by Versus Evil for multiple platforms. The game serves as the sequel to The Banner Saga and introduces enhanced gameplay and new features. It revolves around the turn-based combat and offers new units, new enemies, new talents, new objectives and interactive objects. The game comes with The Horse-born race. The favourite heroes are available in the game from the original title return as playable characters. It embarks the player on an emotional journey around a breathtaking world, where the player must lead his team, use his resources wisely, and participate in skilful battles to experience the turn-based gameplay. It takes place in the beautifully 2D hand-drawn world and offers story-driven gameplay. The Banner Saga 2 includes core features such as Build and Manage Caravan, Travel the Landscapes, Improved Strategic Combat, and more. With impressive gameplay, superb mechanics, and smooth controls, The Banner Saga 2 is the wonderful game to play.
#16 Hard West
Hard West is a Turn-based Tactics and Single-player video game developed by CreativeForge Games and published by Gamebitioius Digital Entertainment. The game comes with strategic gameplay, and it takes place in the fictional world of the American Old West environment, following the Western genre but offers supernatural elements. It offers the similar gameplay to XCOM: Enemy Unknown and the game is split into two modes such as a Strategic Exploration Map and Turn-based Tactical encounters, where the player can traverse a huge map and visit a variety of locations. The locations the player visits on the map are presented via a text panel completed by static illustrations and enable the player to do actions by selecting entries from the menu. Using this method, the player can interact with NPCs, do a variety of custom actions, and hire new characters into the posse of the player character. Hard West includes prominent features such as West World to Explore, Compelling Turn-based Combat, Gather and Combine Special Abilities, Dynamic Cover, and more. Check it out, and have fun.
#17 The Banner Saga 3
The Banner Saga 3 is a Turn-based Tactics, Strategy, and Role-playing video game developed by Stoic and published by Versus Evil. The game acts as the final title in the trilogy of games that started by the video game The Banner Saga, released in 2014. It mainly revolves around the Turn-based combat and is heavily inspired by Viking Culture. According to the storyline, the world where the game is set is crumble and the player needs to survive when the dark forces attack. The game introduces the fascinating cast of characters and in the last chapter the player needs to guide over forty characters to survive against the odds. The series is known for innovative combat and this chapter comes with more unique and custom battles that players have never experienced before, from disturbing warped foes to unique heroic titles for allies. During the gameplay, the player will explore the unimaginable world with several ways and experience the fully-animated story moments that previous titles. The Banner Saga 3 includes core features such as an Epic Soundtrack, the Timeless Art Style, Turn-based Combat, a cast of Characters and more. Check it out, and have fun.
#18 Cosmonautica
Cosmonautica is the unique blend of Space Trading and Life Simulation elements developed by Chasing Carrots for Microsoft Windows, Android, and iOS. The game supports Single-player option and takes the player in command of a spaceship to pilot. The player needs to pilot his spacecraft which is full of crew, and each has its unique skills and needs. By earning points through missions, the player can expand and customize his ship using upgrades. In the game, the player crew a ship with the combination of both aliens and humans and each of whom has its unique skills. Crew members in the ship who have different skills and diets don’t get along with each other, causing the battle. The player needs to explore the environment to find the resources, score the points and struggle to unlock different ship different expansions that can be offered abilities and satisfy the needs of the crew. There are a series of missions where the player can trade with Non-player characters at the space station. With immersive gameplay, superb mechanics, and cool visuals, Cosmonautica is the best game to play.