Games like The Stellar Beacon: Tricksters

2020 Indie Groundbreaker NomineeReturn to the Stars, a tabletop science fiction role playing game, helps players create their own stories in an optimistic space opera setting.   Return to the Stars is designed to allow the creation of characters that evoke the best elements of geek culture. In the far future hyperspace travel gave easy access to countless worlds, and humanity sorted itself into li…

The Stellar Beacon is a zine that supports the sci-fi RPG Return to the Stars with new adventures and which also explores the gamer and geek culture more broadly.  This issue includes: Fanfiction: The Infinite Free Buffet 2019 Hugo nominee Alexandra Rowland celebrates fanfiction, explores its significance, and defends  it against those who shallowly dismiss it. "It’s 2019, and fanfic is Cool N…

68%Game Brain Score

story, graphics

gameplay, replayability

71% User Score Based on 76 reviews

Critic Score 50%Based on 1 reviews

The archeological research mission faced some unexpected difficulties. Your spaceship crashed. You are sure you have to escape this planet. But how? No one can help you. You are here all alone. Or not? At least you know what you should do next... “Star Story: The Horizon Escape” offers you a perfect way to relax in a sci-fi Wild West-esque world of the Horizon. Want to blow off some steam? Go kic…

93%Game Brain Score

story, gameplay

grinding, stability

93% User Score Based on 2,796 reviews

Starcom: Unknown Space is an action adventure RPG of space exploration, ship building and fast-paced tactical combat. Enter a vast open-world universe filled with alien factions vying for power, strange worlds to explore, mysteries to investigate, and a sinister enemy that threatens the galaxy with an ancient power.Explore Explore a fully-open world universe with over a hundred star systems filled…

79%Game Brain Score

story, humor

gameplay, graphics

79% User Score Based on 86 reviews

In this interactive sci-fi adventure novel, you are the AI pilot of Earth's last interstellar ship, tasked with finding a home for your crew - the last remnants of humanity. Your choices will determine their fate, and your own.

76%Game Brain Score

gameplay, story

grinding, stability

76% User Score Based on 878 reviews

The Fermi Paradox is a choice-driven sci-fi narrative strategy game in which your decisions in one corner of the galaxy can upend entire civilizations in another. Guide species through millennia and help them explore the vastness of space, make contact and, perhaps, create harmony.

Collector's EditionThe Collector's Edition, due to Steam's policies, will now only include the amazing Original Sound Track by Anthony Fusilier, and Laurel's Day. Unfortunately Steam will not allow Apps to be added to the Collectors Edition or anything that can be downloaded and accessed separate from having to load the main game and see it in there. Because of that, the other goodies will be only…

88%Game Brain Score

story, graphics

gameplay, replayability

88% User Score Based on 85 reviews

Dread whispers echo across the Information Superhighway. Y2K is coming, heralding the rise of the Old Ones. With your meatspace mind unraveling, time is running out -- barter with gods, embrace the deathless aeons, or go offline permanently in this modempunk horror story. From Fiction Factory GamesCreators of Arcade Spirits, Arcade Spirits: The New Challengers, and Penny Larceny: Gig Economy Supe…

96%Game Brain Score

gameplay, graphics

grinding, optimization

96% User Score Based on 97 reviews

See your civilization grow in a relaxing city builder that you’ll play at your own pace. Terraform and colonize a new planet by the means of magic. Reshape entire regions, conduct research, and create wondrous constructions!

80%Game Brain Score

story, graphics

gameplay, optimization

89% User Score Based on 1,993 reviews

Critic Score 71%Based on 21 reviews

Star Trek: Resurgence is an interactive narrative video game that tells an original story in a choice-driven adventure set within the iconic sci-fi universe