Top 10 Games: Sci-Fi
The highest-graded sci-fi games we have reviewed, best first.
Dead Space (2023 Remake)A remake that keeps the original's silences and rebuilds the Ishimura into one continuous ship you can walk end to end.Read the review
Dead Space 2Visceral trades the Ishimura's slow dread for a louder, faster nightmare on Titan, and its set pieces make it one of the great horror sequels
System Shock 2The Von Braun is still the best haunted house in games, and SHODAN is still the best reason to be aboard it.
PragmataTwo things at once: shoot with one hand, solve a grid puzzle with the other, and somehow it works.
SubnauticaA survival game with no combat worth speaking of, which is exactly why swimming into the dark is genuinely frightening.
Dead SpaceStrategic dismemberment turns a haunted ship into a butchery problem, and the interface never once leaves the world.
ARC RaidersThe extraction shooter that finally made the genre welcoming, and the tensest half hour on any console.
Mass EffectA space opera that treats your dialogue choices as a spine rather than a menu, and survives a rough shooter to do it.
FactorioThe most addictive engineering problem ever shipped, running on the cleanest simulation code in commercial games.
Horizon Forbidden WestTechnically one of the most impressive things on the hardware, and one of the least willing to trust you to notice anything yourself.
