Best Games in the Science fiction genre of 2012 (Game released)
Game released: Xbox 360, PC, PSP, iOS, PlayStation 3, PS Vita, Android → 15 October 2009
Players:
8.5/10
Steam:
95/100
Metacritic:
84/100
Steins;Gate is a visual novel in an adventure style and anime style. You follow a ragtag group of tech-savvy young students as they discover ways to change the past...
Game released: Wii U, Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, PC → 8 December 2012
VGTimes:
8.3/10
Players:
8.2/10
Steam:
74/100
Metacritic:
90/100
Mass Effect 3 is the final part of the space role-playing trilogy with a third-person view. Events begin with a devastating attack on Earth by an army of an ancient...
Role-playing game, In real time, First-person view, Third-person view, Futurism (Future), Star Wars, Science fiction, Adventure
Game released: PC, Xbox, iOS, Android, Nintendo Switch, Mac, Linux → 23 August 2012
Players:
8.7/10
Steam:
94/100
Metacritic:
82/100
Set in the Star Wars universe five years after Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic, this role-playing game follows the Sith Lords’ campaign against the Jedi and...
Action, Shooter, First-person view, Third-person view, Futurism (Future), Science fiction, Combat robots
Game released: Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, PC → 10 November 2021
VGTimes:
8.0/10
Players:
8.1/10
Steam:
84/100
Metacritic:
71/100
Binary Domain is a dynamic tactical shooter with a third-person view in a sci-fi setting. Tokyo, 2080. On the streets of the metropolis, people and robots clashed...
Strategy, Business / Management, Third-person view, Futurism (Future), Turn-based, Space, Science fiction
Game released: PC, Mac → 4 July 2012
Players:
8.5/10
Steam:
78/100
Metacritic:
77/100
This turn-based 4X strategy game follows civilizations competing to colonize the galaxy and establish supremacy. The ancient galaxy holds Dust, a mysterious...
Game released: Mac, N-Gage, PlayStation 2, PlayStation 3, PC, PlayStation 4 → 28 November 2001
Players:
7.6/10
Steam:
85/100
Metacritic:
83/100
Set on Mars, this first-person science-fiction shooter follows miners working for the Ultor Corporation, where a deadly plague and abuse by the guards fuel growing...
Third-person view, Futurism (Future), Anime / Manga, Turn-based, Japanese role-playing game, Adventure, Role-playing game, Science fiction
Game released: Genesis, iPhone, Wii, PC, Xbox 360, Mac, Linux → 1996
Steam:
66/100
Moto Island is overrun by terrible creatures and people are afraid to go outside. But several heroes have appeared who are ready to fight the monsters and free the...
Game released: 3DO, Amiga, Apple IIgs, Atari ST, DOS, Genesis, SNES, Windows 3.x, Android, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 3, PS Vita → 21 October 1994
Players:
8.8/10
Young physicist Lester Knight Chaikin is conducting a physics experiment at a synchrotron when suddenly lightning strikes the facility. As a result of the reaction...
Game released: Mac, PC, PlayStation 3, PS Vita, iOS, Android, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Wii U, Nintendo Switch → 30 June 2012
Players:
8.5/10
Steam:
93/100
Metacritic:
81/100
Thomas Was Alone is a side-scrolling indie adventure platformer with puzzle elements. In this game, you have to guide a group of rectangles through a series of...
Game released: GameCube, PlayStation 2, PlayStation 3, PC, Xbox, PlayStation 4 → 6 June 2003
Players:
9.6/10
Steam:
52/100
Metacritic:
75/100
A first-person shooter set on twenty-second-century Earth, where a squad of super-soldiers moves against the dictator Sopot. Five years after the rebellion on Mars...
Third-person view, Top-down view, Futurism (Future), Anime / Manga, Turn-based, Japanese role-playing game, Role-playing game, Science fiction
Game released: Genesis, Wii, PC, Mac, Linux → 1994
Steam:
100/100
In 2284, the planet Motavia is attacked by evil creatures, and they are opposed by warriors from the hunters' guild. The story follows Chaz Ashley, who has just...
Action, Shooter, First-person view, Third-person view, Collection, Futurism (Future), Puzzle, Star Wars, Science fiction, Online
Game released: PC, Mac → 27 March 2002
Steam:
90/100
This science-fiction action game set in the Star Wars universe follows Kyle Katarn, an agent of the New Republic fighting a new threat to the galaxy. Combat...
Action, Third-person view, Collection, Futurism (Future), Puzzle, Point & Click, Adventure, Science fiction
Game released: PC, Mac, Linux → 10 February 2012
Steam:
87/100
This science-fiction point-and-click adventure follows Azriel Odin, an ex-assassin who arrives on the rain-soaked planet of Barracus, and Delta-Six, who wakes up in...