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325 games like Transarctica · 1979 – 2026

  • Why 75Form.42World.25Curated.65Lists.00Simulation · Strategy · Often paired

    Frontier Developments · MS-DOS

    SimulationStrategySlaveryMiningCommerce

    The third title in the Elite series of space strategic combat games, Frontier was notoriously marred by several bugs which spoiled an otherwise enjoyable game.

    2 listsOften paired

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  • Why 69Form.07World.63Curated.71Lists.00Adventure · Simulation · Often paired

    Take-Two Interactive · MS-DOS

    AdventureSimulationStrategyActionScience fiction

    Sci-fi strategy game developed by Take Two Interactive

    1 listOften paired

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  • Why 67Form.07World.25Curated.74Lists.00Adventure · Simulation · Often paired

    Toys for Bob · 3DO, 3DO Interactive Multiplayer, Linux +4

    AdventureSimulationStrategyActionScience fiction

    Star Control II, the sequel to the original Star Control, is a space adventure game that features role-playing elements alongside a 2D space ship melee combat system. The player assumes the role of The Captain of a single starship wandering

    96 rating5 lists12 h main storyOften paired

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  • Why 65Form.17World.25Curated.66Lists.00Adventure · Simulation · Often paired

    MicroProse · Amiga, Linux, MS-DOS +1

    AdventureSimulationStrategyActionScience fiction

    You are a Starlord. In command of a planet but hungry for real power. Your ultimate aim: to control the entire Galaxy and enable your family dynasty to rule forever. But one thousand other Starlords have similar ambitions!

    1 listOften paired

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  • Nintendo exclusiveWhy 64Form.17World.25Curated.64Lists.00Adventure · Simulation · Often paired

    Millennium Kitchen · Nintendo 3DS

    AdventureSimulationActionScience fiction

    Step into the life of Sohta, the young son of a family that has just set up a dry cleaners shop in the idyllic town of Fuji no Hana. In his interactions with the town's unique residents, episodic mysteries are revealed that portend to the s

    72 rating1 list3 h main storyOften paired

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  • Timed PlayStation exclusiveWhy 63Form.21World.13Curated.62Lists.00Adventure · Simulation · Often paired

    Vanillaware · Switch, PS4

    AdventureSimulationStrategyPost-apocalypticScience fiction

    Uncover the truth and delve into a 2D sidescrolling adventure featuring gorgeous art and environments. Then, battle the kaiju in fast-paced, top-down combat. Customize the Sentinels with an arsenal of mechsuit weaponry, and fight to defend

    88 rating6 lists30 h main storyOften paired

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  • Why 63Form.08World.80Curated.57Lists.00Adventure · Simulation · Often paired

    FTL Games · Apple II, Atari ST, Atari ST/STE

    AdventureSimulationStrategyActionScience fiction

    You just inherited a one-man star freighter - the SunDog - from an uncle who died under mysterious circumstances. You also inherited the contract he signed to aid in the building of a colony for a religious group. You have three tasks to pe

    3 listsOften paired

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  • Why 62Form.06World.25Curated.68Lists.00Adventure · Simulation · Often paired

    Paragon Software · MS-DOS, Windows

    AdventureSimulationActionScience fictionFlight simulation

    Out of nowhere, an army of insect-like creatures from a distant world, using technologically advanced space weapons, ambushed and devastated Earth. In this colorful space shooter from the early days of FMV, it’s up to you to fend off the Si

    1 listOften paired

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  • Timed PlayStation exclusiveWhy 61Form.14World.25Curated.60Lists.00Adventure · Simulation · Often paired

    PS5, Windows, Xbox Series

    AdventureSimulationActionScience fictionSurvival

    Forever Skies is a first-person action survival game. Return to Earth destroyed by an ecological disaster, fly a high-tech airship, expand, rebuild and repair it. Scavenge resources to survive, face the dangers of the surface as you will hu

    70 rating2 lists27 h main storyOften paired

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  • Why 61Form.17World.25Curated.58Lists.00Action-adventure · Adventure · Often paired

    Windows

    ActionAction-adventureAdventureSimulationStrategy

    Combining the best of space combat and real time strategy. Victory can be tactical, a dogfight or capital ship slugging match - depending on how you decide to achieve it. A desolate asteroid field on the edge of the solar system erupts i

    55 rating1 listOften paired

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  • Why 54Form.13World.25Curated.51Lists.00Adventure · Simulation · Often paired

    AdventureSimulationStrategyPost-apocalypticAction

    Computer game in the genre of parody of an erotic quest, created by companies Auric Vision and ZES't Corporation in 1997.

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  • Why 54Form.07World.13Curated.57Lists.00Adventure · Simulation · Often paired

    AdventureSimulationStrategyScience fictionBiological simulation

    You are given the task of creating a new ecology for Gungan colonizers. In this game much like SimLife, you decide where to put creatures in the new world. You must juggle things so all of the creatures are well-fed, there is no over-popula

    2 listsOften paired

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  • Why 54Form.15World.15Curated.51Lists.00Adventure · Simulation · Often paired

    AdventureSimulationStrategyScience fictionPoint-and-click adventure

    Innovative if overlooked game which utilizes the fledgling Inverse Parser system, which anticipates communication choices. Crawford later further developed this design after this game was released.

    1 listOften paired

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  • Why 52Form.04World.25Curated.54Lists.00Simulation · Often paired

    Windows

    SimulationAction-adventureActionScience fictionFlight simulation

    Hellion is a first person multiplayer space survival game. It is a fusion of survival and space simulation genres that pits players against the deadly environment and one another. Survive in the harsh conditions of space and scavenge for a

    50 rating1 listOften paired

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  • Why 48Form.09World.25Curated.43Lists.00Adventure · Simulation

    Amiga, Atari ST, Atari ST/STE

    AdventureSimulationActionScience fictionPuzzle

    Eris is the fifth planet in the Gamma solar system of nine planets and their nineteen moons around the star Dialis. The comet, Damocles, in its present trajectory will collide with Eris in just a few hours. Damocles is author Paul Woakes f

    1 list

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  • Why 48Form.04World.25Curated.46Lists.00Adventure · Simulation

    Linux, Windows, macOS

    AdventureSimulationActionScience fictionFlight simulation

    Pioneer is a free, open source space exploration game, heavily inspired by David Braben's Elite games.

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  • Xbox exclusiveWhy 48Form.04World.25Curated.46Lists.00Simulation · Strategy

    SimulationStrategyActionScience fictionTank simulation

    Steel Battalion: Line of Contact is a 2004 video game created by Capcom for the Xbox console where the player controls a VT (Vertical Tank). It is the online-only (via the Xbox Live broadband gaming service) sequel to Capcom's Steel Battali

    3 lists

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  • Atari exclusiveWhy 47Form.12World.25Curated.40Lists.00Adventure · Simulation

    Atari 2600

    AdventureSimulationStrategyScience fictionShooter

    Stellar Track is a text- and turn-based strategy game where the player controls a Terran Super Warship that must clear out alien ships from all quadrants of a galaxy. It was a conversion of a college mainframe Star Trek game released by Sea

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  • Why 46Form.05World.25Curated.44Lists.00Adventure · Simulation

    Nomad

    1993

    MS-DOS

    AdventureSimulationScience fictionFlight simulationSpace trading and combat

    Nomad is a space exploration, trading, and combat game. Its basic gameplay mechanics revolve around trading with various alien races (based on bartering rather than currency), as well as defending the ship against hostile crafts in action-o

    1 list

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  • Why 46Form.04World.25Curated.44Lists.00Adventure · Simulation

    Blendo Games · Windows

    AdventureSimulationActionScience fictionFirst-person shooter

    Skin Deep is an immersive first-person shooter. We got sneezing. We got things getting stuck in your feet. Stalk through a vast non-linear starship and sneak, subvert, and sabotage to survive in this stellar sandbox. You're outnumbered, out

    84 rating2 lists6 h main story

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  • Sega console exclusiveWhy 46Form.06World.25Curated.43Lists.00Adventure · Simulation

    Coktel Vision · Sega Saturn, Windows

    AdventureSimulationActionScience fictionFlight simulation

    The Last Dynasty is a 1995 video game developed by Coktel Vision and published by Sierra On-Line for Microsoft Windows. In October 1996, German magazine MAN!AC previewed planned Sega Saturn and PlayStation conversions of The Last Dynasty.

    1 list

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  • Nintendo exclusiveWhy 45Form.10World.25Curated.38Lists.00Adventure · Simulation

    Office Koukan · SNES, Satellaview

    ActionAdventureSimulationStrategyScience fiction

    Battle Submarine is a Strategy game, developed by Office Koukan and published by Pack-In-Video, which was released in Japan in 1995.

    1 list

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  • Why 45Form.11World.25Curated.38Lists.00Adventure · Simulation

    Amiga, Atari ST, Atari ST/STE

    AdventureSimulationActionScience fictionFirst-person shooter

    Magic Fly is a space action/sim game for the Amiga.

    1 list

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  • Why 45Form.05World.35Curated.40Lists.00Adventure · Simulation

    PlayStation, Sega Saturn

    AdventureSimulationActionScience fictionInteractive

    Super Adventure Rockman is an interactive movie game and prime spin-off for the classic Mega Man series of video games from Capcom. Its gameplay is a combination of adventure game and shooting game. The game alternates between animated cuts

    4 lists

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  • Why 44Form.13World.25Curated.34Lists.00Adventure · Simulation

    Windows

    AdventureSimulationStrategyActionScience fiction

    Take the role of Captain in this Space Survival Simulation as you explore a massive star system in search of a new home for humanity. Outfit your ship, hand pick your crew and set off on a journey through an open-world where you must scaven

    58 rating1 list2.5 h main story

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  • Why 44Form.22World.58Curated.22Lists.00Simulation · Strategy

    Mohawk Games · Windows, macOS

    SimulationStrategyCommerceScience fictionIndie

    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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  • Why 44Form.09World.25Curated.38Lists.00Simulation · Strategy

    SimulationStrategyActionScience fictionFighting

    Scan command is an turnbased 1-on-1 RPG/Fighting game hybrid that comes with a bar code scanner, that when scanned adds DNA to your dinosaur allowing it to level up and become stronger

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  • Why 43Form.05World.25Curated.38Lists.00Simulation

    Amstrad CPC, Apple II, Commodore 64 +6

    SimulationActionScience fictionPuzzleVehicular combat

    Echelon is a space combat simulator with wire-frame graphics. Fly around an alien planet, looking for clues to a "mysterious event" in the planet's past. The game is known for using "RealSound" a patented technology to output high quality s

    1 list

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  • Why 43Form.06World.25Curated.38Lists.00Simulation

    Atari 8-bit, Commodore PET, TRS-80 +2

    SimulationActionScience fictionArcadeShoot 'em up

    A mix of an arcade and simulation game written by Sparky Starks in which the player pilots a spacecraft, the SC-78503 Starfighter, with the goal to destroy hostile enemy spacecraft.

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  • Why 42Form.18World.25Curated.29Lists.00Simulation · Strategy

    10Six

    2000

    SegaSoft · Windows

    SimulationStrategyMiningActionScience fiction

    10Six is a massively multiplayer online strategy game developed by Segasoft and published by Sega for Windows PCs. 10Six was Sega's first foray into MMO's, a persistent online RTS where players signed up for one of four mega-corporations a

    1 list

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  • Why 42Form.04World.25Curated.38Lists.00Adventure · Simulation

    AdventureSimulationActionFull motion videoLive action

    You're a newly-graduated photographer hoping to make it big in the land of the stars, where a picture is worth $1000, by taking the best candid celebrity photos and selling them to the right bidders. Shoot all 24 celebs in just 2 weeks, or

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  • Why 42Form.24World.63Curated.17Lists.00Adventure · Post-apocalyptic

    Strategic Simulations · Amiga, Apple II, Apple IIGS +5

    AdventurePost-apocalypticStrategyScience fictionTurn-based strategy

    It is the year 2000 and the United States has fallen to a biological plague and a limited nuclear war turning surviving cities into strongholds held by what is left of society. With a team, you must roam these highways and discover a cure b

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  • Why 42Form.14World.25Curated.31Lists.00Simulation

    3DO, 3DO Interactive Multiplayer

    SimulationActionScience fiction

    Gir Draxon's back! Two thousand years in the future, mankind fights against an ancient enemy! Gir Draxon, Overlord of the Arcturan Empire, has returned with a mysterious Warplink capable of funnelling his Death Cruisers from distant worlds

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  • Why 41Form.15World.25Curated.29Lists.00Simulation · Post-apocalyptic

    MS-DOS

    SimulationPost-apocalypticActionScience fictionFirst-person shooter

    Ultrabots (called Xenobots in Europe) is a first-person shooter video game developed by NovaLogic for MS-DOS and published by Electronic Arts in 1993. The player controls a group of giant robots and battles other giant robots.

    2 lists

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  • Why 40Form.56World.25Curated.00Lists.00Action-adventure · Adventure

    Arcen Games · Linux, Windows, macOS

    Action-adventureAdventurePost-apocalypticStrategyApocalypse

    A Valley Without Wind is a indie and action-adventure video game developed by Arcen Games. The game was released on April 24, 2012 for the operating systems Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X on Steam. Players play as a random survivor in an un

    60 rating2 lists13 h main story

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  • PlayStation exclusiveWhy 40Form.09World.25Curated.31Lists.00Simulation · Strategy

    Arsys Software · PlayStation

    SimulationStrategyActionScience fictionTactical role-playing

    Volfoss is a tactical role-playing game developed by Namco for the original PlayStation. It was released in Japan in 2001

    2 lists

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  • PlayStation console exclusiveWhy 40Form.06World.25Curated.34Lists.00Simulation · Strategy

    Red Fox Studios · PS2, Windows

    SimulationStrategyActionScience fictionShooter

    WHIPLASH is a speedrunning FPS where game-changing weapon mods turn ordinary guns into overpowered builds. Craft the perfect loadout, master each course, and chase the perfect run.

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  • Why 39Form.02World.84Curated.22Lists.00Simulation · Described alike

    The Software Refinery · Windows

    ActionSimulationScience fictionCyberpunkFlight simulation

    On the barren moon Titan, within the city of Misplaced Optimism, scavenger operators and ram-runners fight for the right to courier the last of Titan's worthless riches. Caught between the powerplays of neo-feudal corporations and mutant u

    1 listDescribed alike

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  • Why 39Form.04World.25Curated.34Lists.00Simulation

    Digital Image Design · MS-DOS

    ActionSimulationScience fictionFlight simulationVehicle simulation

    From the award-winning development team that sent you soaring over the Persian Gulf in TFX: Tactical Fighter Experiment ... comes Inferno: The Odyssey Continues, epic flight sim that'll take you and your PC deeper than you've ever gone befo

    3 lists

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  • Nintendo console exclusiveWhy 38Form.06World.78Curated.19Lists.00Action-adventure · Adventure

    Nintendo Switch 2, Windows

    Action-adventureAdventureActionScience fictionIndie

    Glaciered is an action-adventure indie game that takes place on a glacier-covered Earth 65 million years in the future. Play as a Tuai, a species evolved from birds, to soar through the seas and fight against the threats to this new golden

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  • Why 38Form.05World.13Curated.34Lists.00Adventure · Simulation

    Niantic Games Team · Android, iOS

    AdventureSimulationScience fictionLocation-basedAugmented reality

    Grow your Pikmin, make flowers bloom, and keep track of your precious memories, all through the simple act of walking. Whether you’re going for a short walk around the corner or commuting to work, today’s the very first day of the rest of y

    68 rating5 lists

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  • Why 38Form.26World.13Curated.19Lists.00Adventure · Strategy

    Amiga, Apple II, Atari ST +4

    AdventureStrategyPost-apocalypticScience fictionTurn-based strategy

    Roadwar Europa starts off with you as the leader at a large road gang equipped with cars trucks, and motorcycles of your own design Transfer your crew from Roadwar 2000 or start from scratch and create a new elite band. By fighting for new

    2 lists

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  • Nintendo exclusiveWhy 38Form.09World.25Curated.29Lists.00Simulation

    Imagineering · NES

    ActionSimulationScience fictionSide view

    The object of this video game is to successfully launch and fly one of NASA's historic Space Shuttles. Gameplay is composed of several different types of missions, each broken up into short mini-games. The first part of the game requires th

    1 list

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  • Why 38Form.06World.25Curated.31Lists.00Simulation · Strategy

    MS-DOS

    SimulationStrategyActionScience fictionFlight simulation

    Players control a star ship pilot who is a member of the Star Ranger Corps., the security force of the galaxy.

    1 list

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  • Timed PlayStation exclusiveWhy 38Form.05World.25Curated.31Lists.00Adventure · Simulation

    HeroCraft · Android, Switch, PS4 +3

    AdventureSimulationStrategyActionScience fiction

    Lead the Sons of Russ into battle and slash your way through hordes of ferocious enemies with Boltgun fire and Chainsword teeth. Write your own saga in the annals of the Space Wolves Chapter as you hunt your sworn enemies - the Chaos Space

    60 rating2 lists

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  • PlayStation console exclusiveWhy 37Form.05World.36Curated.27Lists.00Adventure · Strategy

    Ubik

    1998

    Cryo Interactive · PlayStation, Windows

    AdventureStrategyActionScience fictionBased on - book

    UBIK is a tactical action/strategy video game published and developed by Cryo Interactive Entertainment that was released in 1998. The game is very loosely based on a a Philip K. Dick book of the same name. In the game, the year is 2019. Wi

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  • Why 36Form.36World.59Curated.00Lists.00Adventure · Post-apocalyptic

    The Brotherhood · Linux, Switch, PS4 +2

    AdventurePost-apocalypticStrategyScience fictionIndie

    A post-apocalyptic adventure game set in a world you have never seen before. The Penrose appeared without warning. One day the sky was empty, and the next it was filled by an impossibly shaped monolith. Tragedy hit home for Mark and Don Le

    73 rating2 lists11 h main story

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  • Why 36Form.39World.45Curated.00Lists.00Adventure · Post-apocalyptic

    Cholo

    1986

    Amstrad CPC, BBC Micro, BBC Microcomputer System +3

    AdventurePost-apocalypticActionScience fictionShooter

    After a nuclear war, humanity is trapped underground by a robotic defence system that commands the irradiated surface. You assume control of a robot drone with the task of freeing the trapped humans.

    2 lists

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