Role-playing Game (also known as Roleplaying Game and RPG) is a genre of video game where the player controls the character in the fictional setting. Sci-fi (known as Science-Fiction) is a type of video game deals with technology, futuristic science, space travel, parallel universe and extraterrestrial life. Sci-fi Role-playing games are the blend of two genres where the player assumes the role of the protagonist, explore the futuristic environment, encounters unique species and battle against monsters to score the points. These games used the quest-based system and put the player on significant tasks to save the world by battling against aliens, space pirates, and other creatures. During the gameplay, the player is the responsible for all the actions out of the role within a story, either through decision making, natural acting, or character development. The actions taken by the players within various games succeed or fail, depending on the formal system of rules and guidelines. Most of Sci-fi RPGs games take place in the space environment and comes with crafting, NPCs, exploration, and fast-paced battle elements.

10 Best Sci-Fi RPGs for iOS

#1 Shadowgun

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Shadowgun developed by Madfinger Games is a super Thriller Sci-Fi Stealth and Third-person Shooting video game for iOS and Android devices. If you are a true Third-person Shooting game enthusiast and you are a proud iPhone or an Android owner, you must be familiar with this brilliant game. John Slade’s marvelous Bounty hunting Skills, a rival like Dr. Edgar Simon and his Mutant Army, all of these characters combined and a brilliant hardcore action filled game-play is what leaves you quite spellbound.The game takes you to the future and lands you in the year 2350 where it sets you up as the protagonist John Slade, a trained and well skilled Shadowgun. A mega corporation known as Toltech hires you to find Dr. Edgar Simon, a renowned Bio Engineer and a former employee of Toltech. Dr. Edgar has stolen some of the most secret Genetic Samples and your task is to find Dr. Edgar and recover the stolen Genetic Samples. As Dr. Edgar has fled to another planet known as Eve, you must head to the planet Eve, fight off all of the aliens and other enemies, find the Doctor and recover the Sample. Toltech needs Edgar Dead or alive so you’ll have a free hand. With all the stealth and shooting skills, you must complete the game objectives in order to complete the missions. Shadowgun offers easy touch screen controls along with beautifully created 3D graphics, a great storyline and an immersive gameplay to enjoy.

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#2 Dead Effect

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For all those Sci-Fi Shooter enthusiasts who dearly love playing games, Dead Effect is actually a gift. This amazing game is packed with hardcore Action, Thrill, Stealth and Horror-Survival elements and offers a unique game-play experience. The game takes you to outer space and leaves you in a Star Ship fitted with a new FTL technology. The ship’s destination is a planet named as Tau Ceti F and after setting the course, all crew goes into hyper-sleep but when an elite member of Unit 13 wakes up, he finds the ship crowded with the Undead. In order to survive the Zombies, he starts finding the means to save himself and the story goes on. Dead Effect offers amazingly brutal encounters with Zombies, and leaves you alone to survive and to find other survivors. Your task is simple, get up, lace yourself with all the available weapons, start hunting down the undead and use your stealth abilities to prey on your targets. With amazing single-player and long campaigns, exploration, survival, loads of in-game achievements and state of the art weapons, and eerie soundtracks, Dead Effect offers brilliant visuals, a great story and a fantastic game-play.

#3 Neon Shadow

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Neon Shadow is a wonderful shooting video game with similarities to the popular Shadowgun and it provides with a game-play similar to the popular Doom too. The game tasks you to go to a run-down weapons facility and investigate about it. You must go to the factory premises, kill all the dangerous AIs and save the people stranded in the facility. You must use your great stealth tactics to counter attack the enemy and enjoy competing in a totally Sci-Fi environment. Neon Shadow offers multiplayer gaming mode along with super awesome visuals, an amazingly Action-packed and hardcore combat oriented gameplay and a great storyline to follow. Play it out and you’ll definitely be blown away by the level of details and an amazing old school setting of the game. Neon Shadow is a great source of entertainment for all those who love playing games with Sci-Fi and Shooting elements.

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#4 Star Legends

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Star Legends developed and published by Spacetime Studios for Browser, Android and iOS. The game revolves around Massively Multiplayer Online, RPG, and Sci-fi elements and takes place in the 3D world. The game offers mission-based Co-op Role-playing (CORPG) gameplay similar to Guild Wars and takes place in the futuristic year in 41st century and center around the war between four different factions in the distance stars. To get into the game world, the player must select his race, and choose the best weapons to immerse himself in PvP and PvE modes. The player can get into the role of the protagonist who is a space privateer and a part of a cooperative team and his aim is to accept missions and try to complete several objectives such as clear the stages, explore the procedurally generated world, solve puzzles, enhance his abilities, and more. There are thousands of other players around the world having the same task, team up with them and try to defeat the foes and against factions to progress through the game. Star Legends includes fabulous features, exciting gameplay, brilliant mechanics, and wonderful story. Try it out, and it’ll entertain you a lot.

#5 Space Grunts

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Space Grunts is the mixture of Strategy, Turn-based, Role-playing and Rogue-like genres and brings a fabulous gameplay for those players, who love playing Rogue-like games with Sci-fi elements. The game features Pixel Graphics and supports Single-player mode developed and published by Orangepixel. It takes place in the procedurally generated dungeon and introduces the futuristic environment takes place in 2476. According to the story, the space federation of the Earth has been constructing moon bases around the galaxy. One of those moon space has sent a signal. The Space-federation sent to a group called Space Grunt to investigate and solve the problem. You are a part of the space team, and your primary goal is to locate the way into the base and figure out what has happened. Go deep into the moon-base and find the core problem while facing terrifying monsters, aliens and space pirates. During the gameplay, you will discover a collection of consumables all around the moon-base from destructive toys to weapon enhancers, armors, system hack, and explosives. Use the weapons wisely to progress deeper into the base and collect enough points and loot to become the master. Space Grunts is the incredible game with prominent features to play and enjoy.

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#6 Out There

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Out There is an Adventure, Rogue-like and Single-player video game developed by Mi-Clos Studio for multiple platforms. The story of the game takes place in the futurist 22nd century, in which there are limited resources remain on the planet Earth, and the humanity is going to end. An astronaut is sent to space to the Jupiter’s moon in order to locate resources and supply to Earth. You assume the role of the hero, who must navigate the space, gather resources to supply Earth while facing the terrifying space entities like aliens, pirates, and monsters. During the journey, the astronaut sleeps until reaching his destiny. He wakes up and discovers that he stuck on a strange planet populated creatures. There are three different civilizations, and you have to select your favorite one to start the game. It focuses on resource management and exploration. You start the game with a small ship loaded with some equipment, oxygen, fuel, and hull metals. Out There includes prominent features such as Sci-fi Adventure, 59 Achievements, Leaderboard, 10 Spaceship No Combat element, Crafting System and more. Try it out, and you’ll love it.

#7 South Park: Phone Destroyer

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South Park: Phone Destroyer is an Adventure, Role-playing, and Card video game created by RedLynx and published by Ubisoft. The game has both Single-player and Multiplayer modes and offers an exciting gameplay based on the animated series South Park. It features the children of the town playing a game revolves around different themes such as Adventure, Mystical, Sci-fi, and Fantasy. The player takes on the role of the new kid, and the game is played with a deck of card, consisting of characters from the television series of South Park. There are hundreds of cards and each card costs energy which retrieves over time. The game introduces different versions of each character which the player can use to unlock card packs. The player can also participate in player versus player battles against other players to show off his abilities. A customizable deck editor enables the player to experiment with different combination of cards to progress through the game. Collect 80 Unique Cards, PvP Battles, Customization, Beatdown Competitors, Join a Team, etc. are prominent features. Try it out.

#8 Sci-Fi Heroes

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Sci-Fi Heroes is a Free-to-play, Role-playing video game with Arcade elements developed by Majesco Entertainment for mobile platforms. The game place in the sci-fi-theme world and introduces Sentient Robot, Space Marine, Technomancers, and Sci-Fi Heroes. In the story, an alien faction is threatened the space and you are selected to battle against. Your ultimate task is to command a team of heroes throughout a variety of levels against aliens and defeat those using weapons and different tools. In the beginning, you can find your perfect team by testing out various team combinations. More than hundred distinct items like laser swords, blasters, and more. Different pets are also included in the game to assist your team. Select your character from Space Cowboy, Trainer, Exxon, Priest, Healbot, etc. and struggle to kick out enemies from your land to restore the peace. Sci-Fi Heroes includes core features such as Ionic Heroes, Build a Team, Futuristic Weapons, Battle Bosses and more. Try it out.

#9 Eternal Legacy

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Eternal Legacy is a Sci-Fi and Fantasy-based Action-Adventure, RPG video game. With a similar game-play and story-line to the popular Zelda series games, the game takes place in a futuristic era and features two main characters for the game, Astrian and Taric. The both set out to steal a Varsh Stone from the arena of royals. Their plan to steal the Varsh Stone gets foiled when another man named Reinherz steals the stone before them. They immediately start following him to acquire the stone but the rescue of Lysty from some monsters stops them for a while. After saving Lysty, they all continue to pursue Reinherz but Taric gets captured by the Aload Authorities. Reinherz allies with a monster who covers his retreat and Astrian engages in fight against the monster. Monster kicks him hard and he fades out. He starts his journey of finding Reinherz and rescuing Taric and on the way, Lysty and Taric’s sister join him and the story continues. Eternal Legacy is an awesome game to play. You should totally check it out.

#10 Love Nikki-Dress UP Queen

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Love Nikki-Dress UP Queen is a Role-playing, Single-player and Multiplayer Simulation developed and published by Elex for Android and iOS. The game offers the stunning gameplay designed primarily for those girls who love playing dress up simulations. At the beginning of the game, the player has to select his avatar, choose her makeup look, pick up her outfit, and participate in fashion competition from friends. The game mainly focuses on dressing up element with exciting and high-image quality gameplay. During the gameplay, the player takes on the role of the protagonist named as Nikki, who embarks on an epic magical journey around seven nations with multiple designs and develop different stories. The game deals with European style, daily fashion, dream-like fairy tales, antique beauty, futuristic sci-fi, and more. The player can gather new outfits and can enrich her closets by accomplishing tasks every day. Love Nikki-Dress UP Queen includes prominent features such as Dress up Battle, Play with Friends, Hundreds of Styles, Gorgeous Outfits, and more. Try it out, and you’ll love it.