Science Fiction Video Games Bucket List

Complete the main storyline of Cyberpunk 2077, an open-world RPG set in a dystopian future

Complete the critically acclaimed first-person shooter game Half-Life 2.

Complete the tactical strategy game Into the Breach, mastering its turn-based combat and mech squad management.

Complete the final chapter of the Half-Life 2 episodic series, a first-person shooter game.

Complete the classic first-person shooter game Half-Life, known for its immersive storytelling and innovative gameplay.

Complete Half-Life 2: Episode One, the first episodic sequel in the Half-Life series

Complete the critically acclaimed puzzle-platformer Portal 2.

Mind-bending physics puzzles with a dark wit (2007).

Atmospheric shooter in an undersea dystopia (2007).

Saber combat good enough that people still duel in it twenty years later.

The first game to hand you a lightsaber and Force powers, with live-action cutscenes between missions.

Three named alien hunters who remember your fights, plus three resistance factions to answer them.

Kyle Katarn steals the Death Star plans in a Doom-era shooter with levels you can look up and down in.

Rotoscoped animation, a rifle and a memory-wiped agent on Titan; the French answer to Another World.

The one people mean: galactic conquest, space battles you can board, and a clone trooper narrating the fall of the Republic.

One city, two alien factions and a real-time mode; the last X-COM the original team made.

A galactic map of real-time land and space battles, with the Death Star able to remove a planet from it.

A linear thirty-hour corridor into Gran Pulse, with the fastest battle system the series has had.

A four-man clone squad in one continuous war, commanded with a single button.

A crashed colony ship on the alien Mira, an open world four times the size of the others, and mechs to cross it.

The GameCube launch game: the trench run, the Battle of Hoth and gold medals nobody could reach.

Baird and Cole on trial for the mission the game is telling in flashback, with a star rating on every fight.

JD Fenix, twenty-five years on, against windflares and a swarm that turns out to be old news.