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270 games like Captive · 1980 – 2024

  • Xbox exclusive

    Panther Software · Xbox

    Role-playingParty systemRandomly generated mapsScience fictionPlayer created party

    Metal Dungeon (メタルダンジョン?) is a turn-based role-playing video game developed by Panther Software for Microsoft's Xbox game system. The game takes place in a fictional alternate reality where countries have access to highly advanced magitech

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  • B.B. Studio · Switch, PS4, Windows

    Role-playingRobotsScience fictionTurn-based strategyBird view / Isometric

    30 years on, the battle for our world's future continues. Super Robot Wars is a tactical RPG that brings characters and robots from a variety of mecha anime together to battle their mutual foes.

    80 rating1 list58 h main storyOften paired

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  • Browser, Java virtual machine, Windows

    Role-playingScience fictionMMORPGThird person

    Pirate Galaxy is a 3D, sci-fi brower-based MMO from Splitscreen Studios and Gamigo with real-time action. The game's story concerns the invading alien Mantis and the fight to stop them.

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  • Nintendo exclusive

    Noise · GameCube

    Role-playingRobotsScience fictionAction role-playingAction

    You've been challenged to a fight, and the robots are waiting. Do you pick a Ray 01 body and equip it with a Wyvern gun and Burrow bomb P, or do you opt for a Javelin with Satellite pod and Feather legs? Custom Robo lets you and up to three

    70 rating2 listsOften paired

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  • Mindscape Inc. · Amiga, Amiga CD32

    Role-playingScience fictionFirst personCyberpunk

    Liberation is the sequel to Captive, where the main character from the original is now a free man. However, your character is drawn into action once again after a political assassination and a corporate cover-up by BioCorp, one of the rulin

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  • Edu-Ware Services, Inc. · Apple II

    Role-playingScienceScience fictionFirst personBird view / Isometric

    First entry in a three-part-series about colonizing space. In the first game you prepare to find a suitable new world in the vastness of space.

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  • Electronic Arts · Commodore 64, Commodore C64/128/MAX, MS-DOS

    Role-playingScienceScience fictionFirst personAdventure

    Sentinel Worlds I: Future Magic is a 1988 role-playing video game developed by Karl Buiter and published by Electronic Arts for the MS-DOS and Commodore 64 computer systems. Set in the year 2995, Sentinel Worlds I: Future Magic is an innova

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  • Sega console exclusive

    Hot B · Sega Genesis, macOS

    Role-playingScienceScience fiction

    Blue Almanac is a 1991 RPG for the Sega Mega Drive by HOT-B published by Kodansha Research Institute for some reason. While it was only released in Japan, Kodansha was planning on translating the game as Star Odyssey, but the translation wa

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  • Timed NEC exclusive

    Group SNE · SNES, TurboGrafx-16

    Role-playingScienceScience fictionStrategyBird view / Isometric

    Cyber Knight is an RPG with a science-fiction theme of being lost in an alien galaxy. The game takes place in a top-down view for movement on planets and areas, a side-view for combat sequences and a first person menu system when aboard the

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  • PlayStation exclusive

    CyberConnect2 · PlayStation Portable

    Role-playingScience fictionActionThird person

    Set in a fictional version of the year 2020, .hack//Link's story takes place in a new version of “The World,” a popular series of MMORPGs known as The World: RX. The game focuses on a young man named Tokio Kuryuu, a second year junior-high

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  • Square Enix · Android, Switch, PS4 +3

    Role-playingScience fictionFantasy

    The latest standalone entry in the SaGa franchise arrives in 2024, bringing together the very best elements of the beloved series to offer each player their own unique gameplay experience. Make use of Glimmers and United Attacks in battle;

    81 rating1 list8.5 h main story

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  • Epyx · Apple II, Atari 8-bit, Commodore PET +4

    Role-playingScience fictionRoguelikeReal-timeCga graphics

    You are Sudden Smith and are on a mission to rescue ten prisoners who are kept by the evil alien race of the Tollah in a mine in an asteroid orbiting the planet Rigel. Whatever you do - you only of have 60 minutes to rescue all ten prisoner

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  • Automated Simulations · Apple II, Atari 8-bit, Commodore PET +3

    Role-playingScience fictionRoguelikeReal-timeCga graphics

    You are Sudden Smith and are on a mission to rescue ten prisoners who are kept by the evil alien race of the Tollah in a mine in an asteroid orbiting the planet Rigel. Whatever you do - you only of have 60 minutes to rescue all ten prisoner

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  • ICOM Simulations · Amiga, Apple IIGS, Atari ST +5

    AmnesiaFirst personAdventurePoint-and-click adventureThriller

    This time you wake up in Las Vegas with great headache and realize that you are Ace Harding, who has to find $112,000 of recently murdered Chicago's racketeer Joey Siegel for his boss and Las Vegas' mobster Tony Malone. You have a choice to

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  • reLINE Software · Amiga, Atari ST, Atari ST/STE

    Role-playingParty systemFirst personFantasy

    A complex fantasy RPG with an extremely long main quest (easily over 200 hours of gameplay). It offers a huge game world consisting of cities, multi-level dungeons and a wilderness. The game has a unique feature of allowing to control up to

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  • Nintendo console exclusive

    ICOM Simulations · Amiga, Apple IIGS, Atari ST +11

    AmnesiaFirst personAdventurePoint-and-click adventurePuzzle

    Déjà Vu is a point-and-click adventure game that draws inspiration from "noir" detective novels that were popular in the 1940s.

    78 rating1 list4 h main story

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  • Nintendo exclusive

    Lenar · SNES

    Role-playingScienceScience fictionAction-adventureAdventure

    Action-adventure with slight RPG elements (buying and upgrading weapons, etc.) set in Wild West. While featuring traditional dungeon-crawling and many enemies to dispose of in real time combat, the game doesn't equip you with standard medie

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  • Xbox exclusive

    Noriyoshi Ohba · Xbox 360

    RobotsAmnesiaScience fictionShoot 'em upShooter

    In this Square Enix developed XBLA dual-stick shooter, players control a gun-toting amnesiac robot trying to regain its memory by killing lots of cubes on cubes. Cubes.

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  • Tony Warriner · Amstrad CPC

    ScienceScience fictionAction-adventureArcadeExploration

    Arcade exploration game released on the Amstrad CPC computer family.

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  • Mohawk Games · Windows, macOS

    ScienceRandomly generated mapsScience fictionIndieReal-time strategy

    Offworld Trading Company is a real-time strategy game in which money, not firepower, is the player's weapon. Players lead their developing companies in cutthroat economic warfare against other companies looking to become the dominant econom

    79 rating2 lists9 h main story

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  • Insomniac Games · Android, Browser, iOS

    Role-playingScienceScience fictionStrategy

    Outernauts was an Adobe Flash social role-playing video game for Facebook. Developed by Insomniac Games, it is the developer's first social video game, as well as their first game for a non-Sony platform. The game is published by Electronic

    60 rating1 list

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  • Atari console exclusive

    Lucasfilm Games · Amstrad CPC, Apple II, Atari 5200 +7

    ScienceRandomly generated mapsScience fictionFirst personAction

    The game utilizes fractal technology to create the craggy mountains of an alien planet, where the visilibility was drastically reduced by the dense atmosphere. The player controls a fictional "Valkyrie" space fighter (converted for search a

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  • Sega console exclusive

    Micronet · Sega Saturn, MS-DOS

    ScienceRandomly generated mapsScience fictionSurvivalFirst person

    Robotica was the first, first-person shooter for the platform and a first generation game for the console. It is somewhat similar to Space Hulk, only that the player takes the role of a machine that rebels against the robots to save mankind

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  • Kronosaur Productions · Windows

    Role-playingScienceRandomly generated mapsAction role-playingIndie

    Explore the farthest reaches of Human Space in this open-world space adventure. Compelled to journey to the Galactic Core by a mysterious hyperintelligence, you must fight your way through dozens of star systems teeming with clashing empire

    70 rating2 lists

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  • Ocean · Amiga, Atari ST, Atari ST/STE +1

    Science fictionFirst personShooter

    A first person spacecraft shooter using polygon graphics.

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  • Nintendo exclusive

    Monolith Soft Inc. · Switch

    Role-playingParty systemScience fictionAction role-playingAdventure

    The next adventure is on the Nintendo Switch console set on the backs of colossal, living Titans. Discover each Titan's diverse regions, culture, wildlife, equipment, and hidden secrets. Find, bond with, and command weaponized life forms kn

    88 rating5 lists39 h main story

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  • PlayStation exclusive

    Gust · PlayStation Vita

    AmnesiaScience fictionFirst personSimulationVisual novel

    Set in a distant world on the verge of collapse, Ciel Nosurge follows the mysterious girl Ionasal as she attempts to recover her lost memories and communicate with a player from another dimension. Combining visual novel storytelling, life s

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  • Sega exclusive

    Sega Saturn

    ScienceScience fictionFirst personRacingThird person

    Cyber Speedway (Gran Chaser in Japan) is a 1995 racing video game developed by NexTech and published by Sega for the Sega Saturn. It is a spiritual sequel to 1993 computer game CyberRace, as both games have a similar theme, and vehicles de

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  • PlayStation exclusive

    Rayark Inc. · PlayStation Vita

    AmnesiaFirst personRhythmAdventureMusic and rhythm

    Experience Deemo: The Last Recital, a music rhythm game and story of urban fantasy. Deemo is a mystic being that lives in solitude in a castle all by itself. His life changes when a little girl who lost her memories, unknowingly falls from

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  • Timed Sega exclusive

    Delphine Software International · 3DO, 3DO Interactive Multiplayer, Acorn Archimedes +15

    ScienceRobotsAmnesiaScience fictionAction

    Throughout the 20th century, an unprecedented political and economic crisis afflicted Earth, leading to the systematic disabling of it's programme to conquer outer space through lack of funding. The highest priority now was to carryout rese

    59 rating14 lists6 h main story

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  • Nintendo console exclusive

    Graftgold · Acorn Archimedes, Atari ST, Commodore 64 +3

    RobotsScience fictionShoot 'em upShooterStrategy

    The game is set on a spaceship viewed from a top-down perspective. The ship consists of numerous rooms and levels, each one populated by hostile robots or "droids". The player, in control of a special droid called the "Influence Device", mu

    85 rating3 lists

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  • Quiver

    1997

    ESD Games · MS-DOS

    Science fictionFirst personFirst-person shooterShooterAction

    The 3-D shooter that started it all. Find yourself marooned on a distant planet swarming with hostile Alien life forms. There is little time to save Earth from destruction at the hands of this vicious foe. With nothing but the shirt on your

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  • Nintendo exclusive

    Tecmo · NES

    Role-playingAmnesiaScience fictionAdventureAnime

    The story revolves around a hero who awakens in a field, without any memories of who he is or where he comes from. After befriending a magician named Darus and rescuing Princess Lefis of Ark from her crashed airship, he learns that the nati

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  • Atari console exclusive

    Simon & Schuster · Atari 2600, Atari ST, Atari ST/STE +3

    Science fictionAction-adventureShooterSimulationStrategy

    The game places the user in control of the bridge crew of the Enterprise while they explore an area of space attempting to understand why all previous Federation ships that entered the region have mutinied. Each member of the bridge crew is

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  • Infocom · Amiga, Amstrad CPC, Amstrad PCW +15

    ScienceRobotsScience fictionAdventureCyberpunk

    You must save the planet above by repairing the Complex you are frozen within. You must do it before they arrive to shut you down. And you must do it not with your own hands, but with those of your robots.

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  • Nintendo exclusive

    Wii U

    Role-playingRandomly generated mapsActionPuzzleRoguelike

    A Wii U-exclusive roguelike which displays the regular world on the TV and a shadow world on the GamePad screen.

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  • David Mullich · Apple II

    ScienceScience fictionAdventureSpyInteractive fiction

    Text-based adventure game inspired by the cult classic British television show about a former spy who is abducted and sent to a resort-themed "prison" where his captors attempt to get him to reveal why he resigned from his classified job.

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  • Nintendo exclusive

    Software Creations · Game Boy

    ScienceScience fictionAdventurePuzzle

    The player is an astronaut trapped on an alien spaceship who has to try to find his way out while avoiding aliens and continually replenishing his oxygen supply. This was the first isometric view game on the Game Boy

    47 rating1 list

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  • Gust Co. Ltd. · Switch, PS4, PlayStation Vita +1

    Role-playingAmnesiaScience fictionFirst personAdventure

    Set in a distant world on the verge of collapse, Ciel Nosurge follows the mysterious girl Ionasal as she attempts to recover her lost memories and communicate with a player from another dimension. Combining visual novel storytelling, life s

    3 lists

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  • Nintendo console exclusive

    Sunsoft · Famicom Disk System, Family Computer Disk System, Commodore C64/128/MAX

    RobotsScience fictionAdventurePlatformer

    In the space calendar 0385, the Earth suffers from overpopulation and humans started to build space colonies. Kirk, the protagonist of Dead Zone, works for the Earth federation's space development office. He is a brilliant engineer in space

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  • Timed Nintendo exclusive

    Over The Moon · Linux, Switch, PS4 +4

    ScienceRobotsFake glitchScience fictionAction-adventure

    The Fall is a side-scrolling adventure game with platforming and combat elements. Your character is an AI controlling a combat suit whose occupant is unresponsive and presumably dead or seriously injured. You have crash landed on an unknown

    78 rating1 list3.5 h main story

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  • PlayStation exclusive

    Magus

    2014

    Black Tower Studios · PS3

    Role-playingAmnesiaAction role-playingAdventureRacing

    In a world of fire and water, an unfathomable power waits. Magus has been imprisoned in a tower in the Waterfall Kingdom and tortured for years. His crime is unknown; his history is a mystery. He remains locked up, powerless, until a new pr

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