Best games
Best sci-fi games
The 250 best sci-fi games, ranked from 35,382 critic and player ratings.
How this ranking is built
- Games are ranked on the aggregated critic score out of 100 imported from IGDB and Metacritic, never on Tier's own grades.
- A game only enters the ranking with at least 80 external ratings, so a single enthusiastic review never outranks a proven classic.
- Each game is ranked in one genre only, the one that defines it best, so the same title never tops two different genre charts.
- Community grades from F to S are shown next to every game, and only stated as a fact above 5 Tier ratings.
- Release window covered: 1970 to 2026.
- 50 games are listed on this page, carrying 35,382 ratings between them.
- Rankings are recomputed hourly; this one was last rebuilt on 7 September 2026.
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151
Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War – Winter Assault
85
/100
152
Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War II Chaos Rising
85
/100
153
Star Wars: The Old Republic
85
/100
154
Command & Conquer 3: Tiberium Wars
85
/100
155
Beat Saber
85
/100
156
System Shock (1994)
85
/100
157
Frozen Synapse
85
/100
158
Risk of Rain
85
/100
159
Mega Man Legacy Collection / ロックマン クラシックス コレクション
85
/100
160
StarCraft: Remastered
85
/100
161
Starfield
85
/100
162
Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance
85
/100
163
Outer Wilds
85
/100
164
Crysis
85
/100
165
S
Assassin's Creed IV Black Flag
85
/100
166
Day of the Tentacle Remastered
85
/100
167
Death Stranding
84
/100
168
Doom II: Hell on Earth
84
/100
169
Saints Row IV
84
/100
170
Fallout 4
84
/100
171
Fallout: New Vegas
84
/100
172
Control
84
/100
173
SOMA
84
/100
174
FTL: Faster Than Light
84
/100
175
Halo 5: Guardians
84
/100
176
PlanetSide 2
84
/100
177
Crysis Warhead
84
/100
178
Horizon Zero Dawn Complete Edition
84
/100
179
RIFT
84
/100
180
Nuclear Throne
84
/100
181
Destiny 2: Forsaken
84
/100
182
ICEY
84
/100
183
Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War - Dark Crusade
84
/100
184
Crash Team Racing
84
/100
185
VA-11 Hall-A: Cyberpunk Bartender Action
84
/100
186
Axiom Verge
84
/100
187
Gears of War
84
/100
188
Crash Bandicoot: Warped
84
/100
189
Metroid Dread
84
/100
190
Riven: The Sequel to Myst
83
/100
191
S
Assassin's Creed Brotherhood
83
/100
192
Serious Sam: The First Encounter
83
/100
193
Crash Bandicoot 2: Cortex Strikes Back
83
/100
194
Deus Ex: Mankind Divided
83
/100
195
Resident Evil 4 (2005)
83
/100
196
Subnautica
83
/100
197
Transistor
83
/100
198
Broforce
83
/100
199
DOOM
83
/100
200
DOOM II
83
/100
Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War – Winter Assault
85
/100
152
Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War II Chaos Rising
85
/100
153
Star Wars: The Old Republic
85
/100
154
Command & Conquer 3: Tiberium Wars
85
/100
155
Beat Saber
85
/100
156
System Shock (1994)
85
/100
157
Frozen Synapse
85
/100
158
Risk of Rain
85
/100
159
Mega Man Legacy Collection / ロックマン クラシックス コレクション
85
/100
160
StarCraft: Remastered
85
/100
161
Starfield
85
/100
162
Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance
85
/100
163
Outer Wilds
85
/100
164
Crysis
85
/100
165
S
Assassin's Creed IV Black Flag
85
/100
166
Day of the Tentacle Remastered
85
/100
167
Death Stranding
84
/100
168
Doom II: Hell on Earth
84
/100
169
Saints Row IV
84
/100
170
Fallout 4
84
/100
171
Fallout: New Vegas
84
/100
172
Control
84
/100
173
SOMA
84
/100
174
FTL: Faster Than Light
84
/100
175
Halo 5: Guardians
84
/100
176
PlanetSide 2
84
/100
177
Crysis Warhead
84
/100
178
Horizon Zero Dawn Complete Edition
84
/100
179
RIFT
84
/100
180
Nuclear Throne
84
/100
181
Destiny 2: Forsaken
84
/100
182
ICEY
84
/100
183
Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War - Dark Crusade
84
/100
184
Crash Team Racing
84
/100
185
VA-11 Hall-A: Cyberpunk Bartender Action
84
/100
186
Axiom Verge
84
/100
187
Gears of War
84
/100
188
Crash Bandicoot: Warped
84
/100
189
Metroid Dread
84
/100
190
Riven: The Sequel to Myst
83
/100
191
S
Assassin's Creed Brotherhood
83
/100
192
Serious Sam: The First Encounter
83
/100
193
Crash Bandicoot 2: Cortex Strikes Back
83
/100
194
Deus Ex: Mankind Divided
83
/100
195
Resident Evil 4 (2005)
83
/100
196
Subnautica
83
/100
197
Transistor
83
/100
198
Broforce
83
/100
199
DOOM
83
/100
200
DOOM II
83
/100