10 best space games on PC and consoles
We’ve gathered the very best space games on PC and consoles.
The best space games on PC and console - we’ve gathered them, and you should look at them. There’s just one film license in sight because the best of the best are almost always homegrown. Here’s why.
Prey
Prey isn’t quite Dishonored in space but it’s about as close as we’ll get. Creep around a weird space station, stare suspiciously at every tea cup, and make choices at every single interval. Every weapon, gadget, and ability you come across has multiple uses, and there’s never enough ammo to shoot your way through every situation. You have to play smart, adapt, and think outside of the box to survive.
Alien: Isolation
Whether you’re a mega-fan of the xenomorph franchise or have never touched the stomach-exploding little tikes, Alien: Isolation is still a masterpiece. Paced brilliantly, packed with scares, with some of the best AI you’ve ever seen, and great stealth-action gameplay. It’s a noisy, tense, terrifying game that you’ll almost certainly love.
Outer Wilds
The less you know about Outer Wilds when you go into it, the better. It’s a mystery, one that becomes obvious and intriguing within fifteen minutes of booting it up. A recent expansion even expanded it, and there’s nothing like it in games or, arguably, anywhere else. Go, and be amazed.
Dead Space
Dead Space is to the creepy, slow-paced, rising-tension horror of Alien Isolation what an axe to the face is to walking down a corridor at night. It’s a brutal, no-holds-barred scream-fest, jumpscares all over the place as you guide Isaac Clarke to stomp, dismember, disembowel, and puncture the reanimated crew of the Ishimura. With a sequel that holds up to the first game and an interesting if slightly mad expanded universe, plus an upcoming spiritual successor from some of the original team and a remake, it’s a must-play even in the modern era.
Elite Dangerous
The space game of space games, Elite Dangerous is less video game, more galaxy simulator… well, and video game. Your options range from explorer to bounty hunter to smuggler to whatever you want that drives a spaceship around. Hyper-space your way into the future and don’t worry when you accidentally smash right into the space station you were docking with - happens to everyone.
EVE Online
EVE Online might be the weirdest game in the world - a hellscape of giant megacorporations and their pilots, all fighting endless wars for entertainment, fun, and profit. You can sort’ve do whatever you want, but whatever it is, it should probably involve screwing someone else over.
No Man’s Sky
Oh what a tale No Man’s Sky has. The survival-space-game hybrid launched in a horrible, disappointing state and has been worked on, bit by bit, planet by planet, ship by ship ever since. That’s left it as one of the best games in the world, with an incredible amount of content and ludicrous depth to all of it too. You might not even make it to space, you’ll be so busy.
FTL: Faster Than Light
Less interested in being just one person in the cold void, vastly more so in controlling a whole crew? FTL is for you, a massive, sprawling roguelike with just enough story and variation to keep you entertained. It’s one of the hardest but most skill-based roguelikes in the world, with peak streak victories in the hundreds. You can do all the space tropes - boarding actions, shut down shields, or suffocate your enemies by taking out life support.
Kerbal Space Program
Love little green men? Love watching little green men die? Then do we have the game for you. Kerbal Space Program uses real-world physics to teach you how to build rockets to go to space, makes it incredibly fun, and you probably learn something along the way. Or, you can look it all up on YouTube. Your choice.
Mass Effect: Legendary Edition
The entire Mass Effect trilogy is arguably one of the best ever, in games or any other medium. Thankfully it, along with all its DLC, is now available in one package with consistent graphics, UI, and controls. Whether it’s the increasing stakes of the first entry, the looming suicide mission of the second, or the no-brakes finale in three, you’d be hard-pressed to find better bang for your buck.
Written by Ben Barrett on behalf of GLHF.
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