science fictionVideo Games64
Video Games Encyclopedia by Gamepressure.com
Browse genres/themes ?
Browse the Encyclopedia by genre and tags. Each game has one main genre: Action, Fighting, Puzzle, Adventure, RPG, Sports, Strategy, Simulation, Party, Racing, Arcade. You can search multiple tags and filter games by platforms, scores, or release dates.
Deus Ex: Mankind Divided - System Rift
RPG 23 September 2016
The first major story expansion for Deus Ex: Mankind Divided by Eidos Montreal. System Rift does not introduce any novelties into the gameplay mechanics, which still allows a lot of freedom of action and choice of one of several alternative ways to achieve a goal. A stealthy approach and careful observation is still the most profitable option, and awarded with numerous secret collectibles. The plot of the add-on is rich in plot twists.
Assassin's Creed: The Ezio Collection
Action 15 November 2016
A compilation of three most popular installments of the Assassin’s Creed series that includes Assassin's Creed II, Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood, and Assassin's Creed: Revelations. The main protagonist of the trilogy is Ezio Auditore de Firenze, an Italian assassin who lived on the turn of the 15th and 16th century.
Gun Metal
Action 30 June 2002
A dynamic action game originally developed for Xbox and then ported to PC. Gun Metal takes players to a distant future in which humanity moved to the planet of Helios after they had been expelled from Earth by aliens. After a long time of peace, another alien attack puts the mankind’s existence in danger. The only hope of salvation seems to be the technologically advanced Havoc Suit that is capable of transforming itself from a powerful mech into a jet fighter.
Duke Nukem 3D: 20th Anniversary World Tour
Action 11 October 2016
An anniversary edition of the cult-classic FPS, prepared in cooperation between Nerve Software and Gearbox software to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the release. The action of Duke Nukem 3D: 20th Anniversary World Tour takes place in 21st century Los Angeles. During the game, we assume the role of the iconic tough-guy, Duke, who has to face the alien invaders.
CAT Interstellar
Adventure 26 May 2017
CAT Interstellar is a science fiction adventure/exploration game developed by the indie studio Ionized Games. The game takes place in a distant future where mankind tries to terraform Mars. We control a DOG V4 drone that oversees the process. As we play and progress through the game, we discover more secrets of the Red Planet. The action is presented from a third-person point of view.
LawBreakers
Action 08 August 2017
A free-to-play first-person online arena shooter. The game is produced by Boss Key Productions studio led by Cliff Bleszinski, famous for his Unreal Tournament and Gears of War franchises. The gameplay is set in an unspecified future where the Moon has been destroyed due to highly classified experiments. In the aftermath, the Earth faces numerous negative consequences, such as major earthquakes or gravitational anomalies.
Armored Core: Project Phantasma
Action 04 December 1997
Continuation of the 1997 release of Armored Core, an action game with a view of TPP. The project develops elements of the original, allowing players to try out new types of weapons and mosses on various maps.
WipEout 2097
Racing 30 September 1996
Continuation of a racing game released in 1995, set in the realities of science fiction. This time we sit at the helm of even more powerful cars, competing on completely new routes and using an extended arsenal of power-ups and weapons. The whole is characterized by a significantly better graphic design, thanks to the use of modern 3D cards.
Hi-Octane
Racing 31 August 1995
A science fiction-based futuristic racing game, a side-project of the experienced Bullfrog studio. In the game we sit at the helm of 6 futuristic cars, competing on 6 different routes, full of shortcuts and branching. The fun is diversified by the possibility of using weapons and the need to replenish fuel supplies.
Duke Nukem: Land of the Babes
Action 19 September 2000
Continuation of Duke Nukem: Time to Kill, published in 1998, which slightly changes the assumptions of the original. Production is an action game with a third party perspective. The title character takes another journey in time, this time to the future, to save women enslaved by aliens.
Guilty Gear Xrd Rev 2
Fighting 26 May 2017
A two-dimensional fighting game developed by Japanese studio Arc System Works. The title is an upgraded and enriched version of Guilty Gear Xrd: Revelator. The action of the game takes place in year 2187, when a female warrior named Ramlethal, who leads creatures called Valentine, declares war against humanity. The campaign of the game consists of chapters focused on various characters and the cutscenes between the fights are similar to visual novels.
Full Metal Furies
Action 17 January 2018
A team-based brawler from the creators of Rogue Legacy, which features old school stylistics. In Full Metal Furies we land in an alternative version of Athens. The city and its surroundings are terrorized by titans and other mythological beasts. The players play as the eponymous Furies, whose mission is to restore the order using modern means of defense, including all kinds of firearms.
Valkyria Revolution
RPG 19 January 2017
The fourth major installment of Valkyria Chronicles, a popular jRPG series developed by Media Vision. Revolution introduces a new setting, focusing on the small Kingdom of Jutland, standing against the powerful Ruzhien Empire, which had grown in power immensely ever since the discovery of a mysterious mineral. The player assumes the role of Amleth, the leader of an elite unit who is supported by the beautiful Princess Ophelia Augusta Jutland.
Deus Ex: Mankind Divided - A Criminal Past
RPG 23 February 2017
A story expansion for Deus Ex: Mankind Divided, a first-person action RPG released in summer 2016 by Eidos Montreal. A Criminal Past requires the vanilla game in order to work. Mechanics-wise, the DLC doesn’t introduce any meaningful changes to the gameplay. Plot-wise, it is a prequel whose action takes place before the events of the core game and is focused on one of the secret missions that the protagonist, Adam Jensen, took on for Task Force 29.
Anoxemia
Adventure 16 January 2015
A two-dimensional action-adventure horror game. The title was developed by a Russian studio BSK Games and tells the story of an explorer of the depths, doctor Bailey, who faces a threat of dying when his ship malfunctions. The player controls ATMA, a drone that shows the scientist where he should go.
Star Wars: Puzzle Droids
Puzzle 27 April 2017
A logic match-3 game set in the Star Wars universe. The production was developed by Disney and is distributed in the free-to-play business model. The gameplay is based on the characteristic solutions of the genre – on two-dimensional boards covered with square fields where various symbols appear at random. The player’s task is to create chains of at least three elements of the same type – the more made at the same time, the bigger the reward.
The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel II
RPG 25 September 2014
A continuation to a jRPG bearing the same title. The game is part of a larger universe known from the The Legend of Heroes series. Trails of Cold Steel II begins a month after the events depicted in the first installment. The civil war in Erebonia began for good. Rean's goals are to find the remaining students from the Seventh Grade, as well as to put an end to the bloody conflict, which has torn the protagonist's native country apart.
Colony Wars: Vengeance
Simulation 05 November 1998
Colony Wars: Vengeance is a space-focused simulation game. Psygnosis studio, responsible for production, has expanded the second part of its science fiction series with many new elements, including planetary orbit battles, new types of ships, demanding bosses and a system of improvements. Interestingly, this time the player takes on the role of the pilot of the Empire - the faction fought by him in the previous part.
Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare - Retribution
Action 12 September 2017
The fourth and last expansion included in the season pass (the DLC can be also purchased separately) to the popular FPS title Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare. In the add-on developed by Infinity Ward (the studio responsible for creating the base game), one can complete another chapter of the Zombies in Spaceland mode called Beast From Beyond. The game takes the players to a distant future aboard a faulty spaceship.
Mothergunship
Action 17 July 2018
A roguelike FPS, in which the players must exhibit great skill and quick fingers, fighting and dodging a storm of bullets from many ships of a hostile armada. Randomly generated levels provide more and more challenges, while the unique weapon creation system lets us create true avatars of destruction in gun form, like ten-barrel rocket-launcher or welded miniguns.
Fear Effect 2: Retro Helix
Adventure 21 February 2001
An extraordinary mix of many different species, which is a prequel to the 2000 release of the Fear Effect. The production combines elements of survival horror and action games, successfully weaving into them the mechanics known from RPGs and logical games.
Modern Combat Versus
Action 28 September 2017
Yet another installment in a popular mobile FPS series started in 2009 by the French company Gameloft. Unlike the previous installments, which offered quite elaborate story campaigns, Modern Combat Versus focuses mostly on the multiplayer experience. Up to eight players can face each other across diverse maps in one of the several available game modes.
The Fifth Element
Action 23 September 1998
A licensed science fiction action game with a third person perspective. The title allows you to play heroses known from the cinema screen and take part in the events presented in Hollywood production.
Forged Battalion
Strategy 14 August 2018
Forged Battalion is an RTS game developed by Petroglyph - a studio that specializes in this particular genre. The game is set in the near future and the plot revolves around a war between a military organization in control of the world, and a resistance group. Forged Battalion uses a lot of concepts considered typical in the genre, but it also adds new mechanics that enrich the experience. The player constructs bases, develops technologies, produces machines and battles enemies.