A rather bizarre premise of Caffeine mining aside, this horror places players in control of a boy who finds himself on a seemingly abandoned mining ship. Gameplay consists entirely of roaming halls and figuring out where the rest of the crew went.
For this reason, Hellpoint is worth a go. Dispatcher sees the main characters getting trapped in a space station after mysterious monsters infiltrate it. The game brings several surprises for players in the form of jump scares. More than anything, Dispatcher is efficient in making the stealth aspects stand out as the player character has to survive the creatures while figuring out a way to escape the station.
The player has to follow the voice of Benedict Cumberbatch, who plays a mysterious ally that guides the player away from a collapsing star. In this game, the player wakes up from cyro-sleep to discover that their entire crew is dead.
Whoever or whatever killed them in still in the ship, and it is the player's job to find out what happened and to survive. Of course the player can get some weapons, but there is not enough ammo for all the enemies they will face. So stealth is the best option. It's not the biggest stealth game you'll find but it does the job.
This game is a bit of an oldie, having been released in for the PS1 and Windows. It has actually been compared to the Resident Evil series in terms of its feel and mechanics. The story is pretty interesting, as the player follows three astronauts as they explore what appears to be a totally abandoned human settlement on Mars. Released in , Solarix is a stealth-based first-person shooter that takes place in humanity's first interstellar space colony. It is actually quite similar to Martian Gothic Isolation in terms of the fact that players fight and hide from zombie-like creatures.
It was definitely inspired by the old-school sci-fi horror games like System Shock. This might be one of the most overlooked games for the Playstation 2 , with Echo Night: Beyond being a science fiction ghost story.
The player plays as a newlywed who is heading to the moon for their honeymoon. However, their vessel crashes, and the couple is separated. Players get to explore an abandoned research base, and guess what? Available on Xbox Live Arcade. Also: catchy menu music. Ad Astra is an indie space sim developed in Chapman's spare time. The game has many of the staples you would expect from a space sim, such as trading, bounty hunting, mining, and tons of systems to explore.
Two of the neat features of Ad Astra are seamless transitions between outer space and planetary space and a fully customizable soundtrack.
Ad Astra's website. Download link. An abandoned multiplayer game by MGS still supported by the community. Its gameplay is basically Tribes in space: 1 player is the RTS commander, his teammates control the ships and do the fighting. This decade-old game looks dated now, but newer textures are available. Protip: Mouse control is toggled by Num0, many newbies don't catch this.
A space combat MMO that came out of nowhere and surprised everyone. It's Eve's aggressive cousin, with more combat and less other typical MMO stuff It's still there, just enough to make your time invested. A bit of a hardware hog for a MMO, but the game looks fucking amazing. It's F2P, also. Currently Dead, don't bother. An unique fleet management game. You build ships, deploy them on battles, give them directives, then sit back and enjoy the havoc, gain money to buy ship parts, rinse and repeat.
Although you play mainly on the Ship Builder and Formation screen, the space battles steal the show. Despite a lot of hardcore fan misgivings, it actually does emulate the Star Trek experience quite well-- especially the TOS and early NG style cheesiness, which is fun.
Free to play now, with a cash shop for vanity type crap. Also, like it or not, this is currently the main story material for Trek's Prime World, now that Trek TV series is no longer produced. Get on that ship, trekkies! Little known Trek space combat at the end of the Playstation lifecycle. Unlike many other Trek games, you control a very small craft, so the scale of the battles is relatively bigger. Incredibly satisfying to play once you got used to the controls especially strafing and lock-on tailing abilities.
Often called "EVE Offline". Has a just as steep, if not even steeper learning curve but once you're in you can experience an incredibly open and versatile world with what seems to be endless choices regarding everything from your career path to your ship choice, and it goes as far as being able to purchase space stations to establish your own trading routes. Also there are tons of mods thanks to the active community. The successor X: Rebirth is currently in the making and will be out sometime in in November It's already out and it's shit.
The year is and despite how futuristic that sounds, us average folks probably won't be headed to space for a weekend getaway any time soon. Until such a day as we can all escape Earth on a whim, here are some of the best games set in space to take you out to the unknown without actually leaving your room.
Whether you want to explore strange new worlds, seduce weird aliens, or become a feared galactic bounty hunter, there's a space game for everyone on PC, and the following are currently the best examples you can play right now. A first-person open world game about exploring a small solar system full of weird planets and odd cosmic phenomena.
The catch? You're trapped in a time loop, giving you just 20 minutes to explore at a time. Outer Wilds is reminiscent of games such as Her Story and Obra Dinn in the way you piece a puzzle together by discovering and connecting small, often seemingly unrelated details.
Read more Outer Wilds review. Not to be confused with Outer Wilds, which is also a space adventure and also on this list, Obsidian's latest RPG is a comedic action RPG that hearkens back to the studio's days working on Fallout. You and your companions will hop around a solar system full of literally colorful environments and figuratively colorful characters.
Corporations are the big bads of the retro space future where you'll shoot up aliens, choose dialogue, and generally make a mess of every planet you show up on if it suits your fancy. Read more Outer Worlds review. And battles are tense and tactical, with many types of ship to command, including colossal battleships. The Remastered Collection looks great on modern PCs and comes complete with the original Homeworld and its sequel.
Read more Homeworld Remastered Collection review. Its systems are malfunctioning, a fire has broken out, and the on-board artificial intelligence, SAM, is acting strangely. Things are not looking good for Dr. Emma Fisher, the reluctant hero of this sci-fi thriller from the studio behind Stories Untold. But what's interesting about Observation is that you don't play as Fisher.
Instead, you play as the AI. Read more Observation review. Your new civilisation will grow from one small dome in the Martian desert to a bustling, sprawling off-world metropolis. But just make sure you don't run out of oxygen or power, because on this ruthless planet it's a death sentence for every citizen under your control.
Read more Surviving Mars review. This atmospheric sci-fi mystery from the makers of Gone Home is wonderfully written, with a cast of rich, nuanced characters telling a compelling story through interactive AR recordings. Read more Tacoma review. This unique twist on the space sim shares the trading and exploration elements of games such as Elite Dangerous, but feels more like commanding a submarine. You don't see space itself; just a series of utilitarian rooms full of screens and machinery.
There's a lot to manage, and you play several roles at once: pilot, engineer, comms officer. But despite the limited view of your surroundings, you still feel like you're hurtling through space in a starship. Read more Objects in Space is a very different kind of space sim. Starting with a basic ship and a handful of credits, you shape your own destiny.
Do you become a fearsome pirate? A master trader? An explorer? The beauty of Elite is being able to play in a way that suits you. And its ships are all an absolute dream to fly, whether it's a nimble fighter or a heavy duty cargo hauler. Read more EVE Online's biggest scammer tells us his secrets.
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