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Recommended sci-fi space game?
| Have you tried Elite Dangerous? There's also the entire Wing Commander series and HomeWorld.
| Oh, forgot to mention. I have a PC, PS4, and Switch.
| Captain Forever Trilogy.
| Play fucking Freelancer. It's quite old but still the best space-game ever. Like seriously. Give it a try, you won't regret it. There are still active community servers, it's goddamn amazing. Play the vanilla singleplayer with hd graphics/texture mod first though.
| Any shoot em up game like Gradius or R-Type.
| Games about space travel with a Cosmos-like feel, not just any sci-fi game that happens in space?
FTL and Homeworld come to mind, they have majestic space exploration elements. C.U.B.E. 1 and 2 are about the kind of alien contact that doesn't result in gunfights.
| Phantasy Star Online and Xenoblade Chronicles X are my personal favorites. Less about space-faring and more just for the general aesthetic.
| If you haven't already, play Prey. It's a short but very well made shooter-RPG hybrid
| >>332928
Whoops that's Q.U.B.E. not C.U.B.E.
If you're willing to play civ style games, look at Sid Meyer's Alpha Centauri.
| If you like long jrpgs with lots of cutscenes then Xenosaga is a good series. Although just fyi I think Xenosaga 2 is a dud. You could just skip it and go from ep1 to ep3 and miss very little.
Also KOS-MOS all time best girl.
| Seconding Prey 2017 by the way. It's basically a love letter to System Shock 2. They should've called it Neuro Shock or something.
| >>333625 I made it in 15 hours, I guess it depends on how you play and on what difficulty but imo it was pretty short
| Star citizen
| Strike Suit Zero is shallow but pretty fun to play.
If you liked Mass Effect you owe it to yourself to play KOTOR 2 (with TSLRM).
| Kotor 1 is just as good
| Dead Space is really good, just avoid the stupid dlc EA shoehorned in
| Cryptark is a 2D roguelike shooter that challenges players with boarding and neutralizing procedurally generated alien starships to earn income for their Privateering enterprise. Purchase improved equipment and weapons to tackle more dangerous targets, but be cautious as failure will result in a loss of investment and profit. The arks will defend themselves from intruders with an arsenal of cyborgs, robotics, and security systems.
| Warframe?
| Any Gradius game
| Faster Than Light! It's an awesome 2d spaceship game.
| Space ship games:
X3: Reunion/Terrain Conflict
Rebel Galaxy (more akin to a space SHIP game (2d plane))
Space exploration:
Space engine
| If you want a sort of decrepit and scary vibe plus rather unorthodox gameplay, try Duskers.
| Another FTL suggestion. It's a roguelike (or -lite? Idc) where you manage a spaceship as captain, and travel through starsystems to escape from the rebel fleet to deliver information to the government outpost. The gameplay is easier shown than explained, but it's closer to a pseudo turn based rpg with important decisions in between battles
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| Watching Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey got me in the mood for a game set across outer space.
I already played the Mass Effect series, Destiny, and No Man's Sky (unfortunately). What else should I look into?
I prefer action games and RPGs, but I'm open to various genres.
I'm not interested in games like Kerbel Space Program though. Sim games like that aren't my thing.