If you're an explorer of the unknown, or love games that will make you consider them deeply in order to succeed, then this Article is all for you. As the years continue to pass, we see new takes on the Sci-Fi & Strategy genres and it's always a pleasure to see how each Game Developer puts their own unique spin on it. With hundreds of games coming out, here are a few of the best and brightest in the bunch from Steam Next Fest, 2023 in terms of all things Sci-Fi & Strategy.
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These games are not ranked in any specific order. They're only numbered to stay organized.
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Just because we're not planning on reviewing a game does not dictate it as bad or good. We only have so much time to review games so we prioritize ones we personally want to play over others. Our tastes may differ, but that doesn't mean a game isn't quality.
1. Project Aurora
🏷️ Genre: Indie, Choices Matter, Open World, Sci-Fi
📅 Release Date: 2023
🗒️ Description: Project: Aurora is a survival adventure with a focus on exploration, exquisite storytelling with base building on planet and resource management. You are a captain of the research mission. Build a base, discover technologies, explore, learn the secret of Aurora to survive in a hostile environment.
📝 Reviewing?: Possibly
2. Bulwark: Falconeer Chronicles
🏷️ Genre: Colorful, Grand Strategy, Stylized, Fantasy, 3D
📅 Release Date: Unannounced
🗒️ Description: Build without limits in Bulwark; a 3D sandbox set in an organic open world that acts as a canvas for your chaotic creativity - allowing you to build across sheer cliffs and vast oceans!
📝 Reviewing?: Yes
3. The Invincible
🏷️ Genre: Adventure, Robots, Singleplayer, Futuristic, 3D, Sci-Fi
📅 Release Date: 2023
🗒️ Description: Rethink human’s dominion in The Invincible: a story-driven adventure set in a hard sci-fi world by Stanisław Lem. Discover planet Regis III as scientist Yasna, use atompunk tools looking for a missing crew and face unforeseen threats. Make choices in a philosophical story that’s driven by science.
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📝 Reviewing?: Possibly
4. Stellar Wanderer DX
🏷️ Genre: Space Sim, Flight, Trading, Old School, Sci-fi
📅 Release Date: 2024
🗒️ Description: Stellar Wanderer DX is an old-school space combat sim set in a vast open-world universe. Follow the story or choose your favorite side missions as a mercenary fighter pilot. Explore the galaxy, upgrade your ship and weapons, trade resources and fight outlaws.
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📝 Reviewing?: Unlikely
5. Space Cats Tactics
🏷️ Genre: Turn-Based Tactics, Space Sim, Tactical RPG, Sci-Fi
📅 Release Date: July 24th, 2023
🗒️ Description: Fight nerve-wracking spaceship battles in this turn-based tactical space opera RPG! Manage your crew of feline warriors to adapt to every strategic situation and dive into a thrilling space opera story where your choices will determine your path.
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📝 Reviewing?: Unlikely
6. A-Spec First Assault
🏷️ Genre: Indie, Space Sim, Simulation, Space, Sci-fi
📅 Release Date: Unannounced
🗒️ Description: Engaging space combat simulator, using a realistic flight system with Newtonian physics, sophisticated and diverse gameplay featuring detailed ship systems, including ship weaponry and module customization.
🎮 Discord
📝 Reviewing?: Unlikely
7. Dust Fleet
🏷️ Genre: Strategy 4X, Sci-fi, Real Time Tactics, Space
📅 Release Date: 2023
🗒️ Description: Assume command of a battle fleet and deploy immediately to the Dust Zone, commander. Our main food supply station has gone dark and the United Earth Nations (UEN) needs to know why in this 4X RTS space sim. Manage your ships, control space stations, and watch your back.
🎮 Discord
📝 Reviewing?: Unlikely
8. Cross Tails
🏷️ Genre: Simulation, Strategy RPG, Fantasy, JRPG
📅 Release Date: July 19th, 2023
🗒️ Description: What will the tails witness after a crossing tale? A tactical RPG that portrays a fantasy story of a war between the canine and the feline tribes playable from both points of view.
📝 Reviewing?: Unlikely
9. Xenotheria
🏷️ Genre: Card Battler, Party-Based RPG, Deckbuilding
📅 Release Date: Unannounced
🗒️ Description: Lead your party through a handcrafted world in this card-based RPG. Master strategic card-play to overcome challenging enemies, customize a unique deck tailored to your playstyle, and delve into an ancient mystery to save the planet from total destruction.
📝 Reviewing?: Unlikely
10. Great Ambition of the SLIMES
🏷️ Genre: Turn-Based Strategy, Strategy, Strategy RPG
📅 Release Date: July 26th, 2023
🗒️ Description: A tactical simulation game where you make slimes take over humans to fight your battles! You have weak, weak slimes under your command. But what if they have the ability to occupy human bodies? Lend your wisdom to the slimes and help them take over the world!
📝 Reviewing?: Unlikely
11. Astrea: Six-Sided Oracles
🏷️ Genre: Roguelike, Deckbuilder, Card Battler, Roguelike
📅 Release Date: 2023
🗒️ Description: Astrea is a DICE-deck-building roguelike that flips the script on deckbuilders by using dice instead of cards and an unique dual “damage” system: Purification vs Corruption. Build a dice pool strong enough to purify Astrea's out-of-control corruption and save the Star System.
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📝 Reviewing?: Possibly
12. Rogue Command
🏷️ Genre: Roguelike, Deckbuilding, Singleplayer, RTS, Strategy
📅 Release Date: Unannounced
🗒️ Description: Classic RTS gameplay fused with a modern roguelike. Shape your build each run by assembling an evolving arsenal of powerful units and facilities. Harvest resources, build out your base. Raise your army and call down powerful strikes to overcome the forces threatening your survival.
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📝 Reviewing?: Possibly
13. Cataclismo
🏷️ Genre: Base Building, RTS, Tower Defense, Dark Fantasy
📅 Release Date: Unannounced
🗒️ Description: The Cataclismo left us broken. Construct fortresses and defend against waves of Horrors in this mix of tower defense and real-time strategy. Lead an expedition beyond the gates of the last city, and reclaim mist-shrouded ruins as you rebuild humanity—stone by stone.
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📝 Reviewing?: Unlikely
That's all folks!
That's it for the best Sci-Fi & Strategy games of the Steam Next Fest 2023 event. Click HERE to be taken back to the Master List article... but before you go, make sure to drop a like below if you're a big fan of the genre, and leave a comment telling us what games you're looking forward to most!
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