Space and time game

Matt Whittaker, HardcoreGamer. Ron Duwell, TechnoBuffalo. Luke Brown, ArcadeSushi. Evan Narcisse, Kotaku. Rather than offer a half-baked online experience, we chose to focus on delivering the most awesome 1- to 4-player couch co-op game we could. We recommend gamepads, but the game is fully playable with a keyboard. You can even play with two players crowded around one keyboard assuming your hardware supports lots of simultaneous keypresses.

This game is certified fully compatible with roommates, siblings, parents, children, friends and lovers too! We have more detailed support info on the Asteroid Base support page. Available now! Commander Shepard visits all kinds of alien worlds while chasing Space Pirates, stopping inter-species wars, and looking for ways to stop the ancient Reapers from ending all life in the galaxy.

And it sheds some life on what it could be like to live as a member of a spacefaring civilization. All in a stupidly vast custom-made galaxy. One of its best features is how many elements you can modify whenever you create a new galaxy to play in. Any small tweak to the variables, which go from the geological to the demographic, can give you an entirely different experience. So yes, lots of replay value here. The Eve franchise has been spawning spacefaring games for decades.

This space dogfighting simulator puts you directly inside the cockpit of your battleship thanks to VR technology. Its unique gameplay is mostly text-based, having you captain your ship towards your destination.

All the while doing your best to avoid space pirates and hopefully escaping with your life. Developed by No Code, Observation plays like a puzzle game and reads like a suspenseful horror story.

Emma Fisher survive a disaster after everyone else in her crew disappears. That means going around solving puzzles to fix diverse systems and guiding Dr. Fisher through the facilities. Not to mention the voice acting here is just fantastic.

And the biosphere colony aesthetic is just out of this world. Star Trek is one of the most popular sci-fi franchises to date.

And since its inception, it has been all about exploring space and charting the stars. While it failed to recreate the same thrilling storylines and detailed open-world experience of New Vegas, this action-RPG is really fun to play. It remains an exciting, colorful voyage into a world run by ruthless spacefaring mega-corporations.

If putting together a crew of misfits and visiting colorful alien locales in an unforgiving universe sounds like fun, well then for sure try it out. Sins of a Solar Empire is a real time strategy game that incorporates some aspects of the 4X genre. Featuring a scale larger than any other strategy game, Sins plays out in a 3D web of planets and other celestial objects where various space civilizations compete over dominance of a multitude of solar systems spanning several galaxies, linked together by wormholes.

The game is best played with a group of friends over many hours, and sessions can be saved to be resumed at a later date. Sequel to the first Galactic Civilizations, GC2 is its superior in every way. As with other 4X games, your job is to dominate the galaxy planet by planet, through force, diplomacy, culture or technology.

It may surprise you to know that even the best strategy games out there give the AI a competitive edge. Endless Space positions the player in role of an nascent space-faring civilization, and provides you with the opportunity to cultivate your space empire through a variety of ways and means that support your playstyle.

The core of the game will be familiar to anyone who has played a 4X strategy game before. You research technology from a large, categorized tree. You manage your systems and planets with development projects. You build fleets, colonize the reaches of space, engage in diplomacy, and wage war.

Endless Space boasts several features and mechanics that set it apart from its competition, and production values that rival any AAA-budget game. XCOM: Enemy Unknown sees the invasion of our cities by an extraterrestrial force that seeks, it seems, to purge mankind from the face of the planet.