The best open-world sci-fi games let players explore the far reaches of space.

The genre’s capacity to summon new worlds is threatened by immersive media. Writers need to sharpen their prose, says Damien Walter The megastructure is one of science fiction’s most enjoyable guilty ...

The 1990s saw a spate of science fiction games released on PC and consoles, and some of them still hold up very well to this ...

Some of the best science fiction games revolve around space: exploring it, discovering new planets, and ship-to-ship battles. At its core, it is a genre that asks who we are by showing us who else ...

Space. The final frontier. These are the voyages of the — sorry, er, these are the best space and science fiction games that can be found on Nintendo Switch, despite the fact that none of the ...

Ubisoft appears to have revealed a new science fiction game in a seriously cool way. In Watch Dogs 2 – the studio's open world tech thriller – a mission tasks players with hacking their way into the ...

A reader takes a look at the influence of science fiction themes and settings on recent games and asks whether it’s been a generation for sci-fi. Given that characteristics of video games are a blend ...

When you think about it, sci-fi and horror are a perfect fit. People tend to be afraid of the unknown, and the tropes that govern science-fiction stories - alien environments, unfathomable technology, ...

The makers of Amnesia: The Dark Descent revamp their sci-fi survival horror with just one surprisingly successful improvement. There are always games we review which, especially in retrospect, we wish ...