Space is a subgenre of Science fiction (shortened to sci-fi or SF) that emphasizes interplanetary battles, melodramatic adventure, and space warfare. It deals with futuristic science, faster than light travel, advanced technology, parallel universe and extraterrestrial life. Space video games take place entirely in the outer space environment and revolve around conflicts between competitors possessing modern abilities, advanced technology, and futuristic weapons. The story of the game focuses on technology and scientific consistency, enabling the players to move freely in the massive space environment, interact with the environment, encounter aliens and compete against them using advanced technology to survive. It incorporates several elements such as RTS, Exploration, Shooting, Building, Management, etc.

13 Best Space Games for Xbox One

#1 Kerbal Space Program

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Kerbal Space Program or also known as KSP is a Single-player Space Flight, Building and Construction and Simulation video game by Squad. The game is built using the updated Unity Engine and offers playability on Multiple Platforms including Linux, Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, PlayStation, Xbox, and Nintendo Wii. The game allows the players to control a whole Space Mission Program named as Kerbal Space Program, Have a Crew of Humanoid Aliens known as Kerbals and enjoy Exploring the Space. Game’s Complex and realistic Orbital Physics helps players learn about the Hohmann Transfer Orbits (Start from a Lower Orbit and end up in a Higher Orbit) maneuvers and enjoy piloting the ship. According to the gameplay and game story, the game tasks the players to head a Nascent Space Program, Control the Kerbals (Intelligent Humanoid Aliens from an Earth-like planet Kerbin) and enjoy learning to maneuver into Space. Kerbal Space Program gameplay is divided into two main parts such as Construction and Flight, and it allows the players to construct various types of Rockets, Aircraft, Rovers, etc. Once the ships are created, the players can simply launch them into Space from in-game launch Pad, explore the Space and complete various objectives of the game. The game offers various types of mission such as Reaching to a Certain Height, Escape the Atmosphere, Reach Stable Orbit, Capture Asteroids, Create Space Stations, Visit different Planets and collect information about them, etc. With all the Space Exploration fun, Unique game Physics and mechanics, and interesting gameplay, Kerbal Space Program is a fun Space Simulation to enjoy.

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#2 The Turing Test

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The Turing Test is a Puzzle-solving, First-person Perspective, Space and Single-player video game developed by Bulkhead Interactive and published by Square Enix for multiple platforms. The game casts the player in the role of the protagonist named as Ava Turing, who is an Engineer in an International Space Agency, working at a research station situated in Europe, the moon of the Jupiter. The story starts with a team sent to the moon of the Jupiter via the International Space Agency to excavate the environment. The team members wake up and set up their base on the land of the moon and were conducting their studies, while the protagonist remains in slumber. It has a number of levels, in which the player must distribute power using a tool that can gather and fire spheres to activate machinery and open doors in the game. As the player advances through the game, other elements are introduced by the game, including the power to observe scenes and active specific objects. With prominent features, addictive gameplay and superb mechanics, The Turing Test is the excellent game to play and enjoy.

#3 Alien: Isolation

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Alien: Isolation is one of the best Action-Adventure and Horror-Survival, Stealth and Shooter video game. The game offers a similar gaming experience to System Shock 2 video game and allows you to be the protagonist Amanda Ripley who embarks on a journey to find her mother Ellen Ripley and on her way to the secrets, she encounters the otherworldly aliens, engages into amazing combats with them on a space station named as Sevastopol. She gets trapped on the station and the only way out is to fight all the aliens, kill them using the advanced tech weapons and gadgets, eventually complete the game objectives. Alien: Isolation offers a huge arsenal of weapons at your disposal, a wonderful setting and story-line along with brilliant visuals and an addictive game-play to enjoy.

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#4 Rebel Galaxy

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Rebel Galaxy is a Space Trading, Combat, and Single-player Space Western-style Flight Simulation developed and published by Double Damage Games. The game takes place in the procedurally generated universe and focuses on space combat in capital ships. There are different playable characters available with various professions, and the player needs to select one of them to start his journey to progress in the game. During the game-player, non-player fighter gunships and craft can explore the world in a 3D environment, while the player can other capital ships are capable of two-dimensional maneuvering with combat revolving around using broadsides to attack and smash down the ships of enemies. The player can participate in various activities such as Trading, Pirating, Bounty Haunting and more. As a commander, the player must pilot his ship, explore anomalies, encounter aliens, and discover lots of artifacts. It has different paths such as a Roguish do-gooder, power-hungry privateer, crafty space trader and more. The game becomes tough, as the player advanced through it. With prominent features, addictive mechanics, and incredible graphics, Rebel Galaxy is the best game to play and enjoy.

#5 Elite Dangerous: Horizons Season Pass

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Elite Dangerous: Horizons Season Pass combines the Trading, Exploration, Action, FPS, and Space Simulation elements and a DLC Pack for original game Elite Dangerous developed and published by Frontier Developments for multiple platforms. The game has both Single and Multiplayer modes and casts the player in the role of the protagonist, who must pilot a spaceship and explore the realistic open world galaxy based on Milky Way. It is the 1st game effort to feature MMO elements with the story of the game and the players’ actions. The game takes place in the futuristic sci-fi world in the year 3300 and offers the similar gameplay to its previous title. There are three factions available such as the Galactic Federation, the Empire of Achernar, and the Alliance of Independent. The player needs to select one of three factions and start exploring the environment. He can interact with non-player characters, gather resources to craft equipment and repair his spaceship and more. Elite: Dangerous offers excellent features such as Unique Gaming Experience, MMO, Trading, Upgrades, Achievements, Open World Adventure and more. Elite Dangerous: Horizons Season Pass is the best game as compared to other Dogfight games.

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#6 Strike Suit Zero

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Strike Suit Zero is an Action-Adventure, Third-person Space Shooter, and Single-player Space Simulation with Sci-fi and VR (virtual reality) elements developed and published by Bom Ready Games. The game revolves around dogfight gameplay and introduces a new mode called Strike Mode. It takes place in the futurist sci-fi space environment in the year 2299, and puts the player in the control of the protagonist, equip with Strike Suit and can transform into a space armor’s hulking suit. The primary objective of the player is to defend the world from vicious enemies and rescue it from destruction. In the game, the player can engage himself in fleet battles where his dogfighting skills and abilities will affect the cosmos’s fate. There are up to seventeen stunning missions and each mission needs a completion of individual objectives to progress through the game. The game rewards the player with experience points for complete missions and he can use them to unlock further content like items, equipment, armor suit, weapons and more. With most prominent features, fast-paced gameplay, multiple endings, customization and smooth controls, Strike Suit Zero is the best game to play and enjoy.

#7 Hyper Void

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Hyper Void is a Space Shooter, and Single-player video game developed and published by inFramez Technology. The game takes place not only the depth of galaxies but inside the dimensional wormholes. There are multiple spaceships available and each with unique abilities and a set of weapons to use. The player must select his favorite one to jump into the battlefield against waves of enemies with a task to crush them all using advanced weapons throughout a variety of levels and earn points. The player uses his points to unlock further content in-game like levels, crafts, characters and more. There are more than twenty-five challenging levels are awaiting you full of dangerous big boss encounters, challenges and more. It offers you a chance to test your space skills and put them into the battle to defeat enemies and their bosses to progress through the game. The game features three different galaxies contains more than twenty-nine levels. The levels are divided into two parts such as wormholes and outer space. With prominent features, addictive mechanics, and wonderful gameplay, Hyper Void is the best game to play.

#8 Albedo: Eyes from Outer Space

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Albedo: Eyes from Outer Space mixes the elements of Action-Adventure, First-person Shooter, Sci-fi, and Space Exploration published by Merge Games for multiple platforms. The game supports Single-player mode only and offers an exciting gameplay inspired by 60s sci-fi movies. You can take on the role of the protagonist, and your primary objective is to manipulate the ruined environment, interact with environment and objects to progress and solve a variety of puzzles to earn points. It offers a thrilling story, revolving around the protagonist and featuring a variety of levels full of complicated puzzles to solve. As you start manipulating the world, you will encounter strange creatures and monsters. Immerse yourself in Shoot ‘em up and First-person Shooter experience and manipulate individual objects to collect clues. Albedo: Eyes from Outer Space includes core features such as 3D Environments, Twenty Detailed Rooms to Explore, Physics-based Gameplay, 100 Items, Mini-games, Hidden Areas and more. Try it out, if you love playing Space exploration games.

#9 Steredenn

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Steredenn is a Side-scroll and Space Shooter video game created by Pixelnest Studio and published by Plugin Digital. It takes place in the space world and puts you in insane boss battles. According to the story, your land is in danger and dreadful space pirates are planning to destroy your land from the galaxy to steal the resources. You are the last hope of the world, and your primary objective is to set out yourself in on an epic adventure to fight against enemies using a ship equipped with multiple upgradeable weapons. You have to survive as long as possible in the never-ending battles and show off your abilities by destroying enemies. The game offers a procedurally generated environment where it takes place and full of enemies who want to crush you along your land. There are different spaceships available, and you can select one of them to jump into the awesome battle. Up to thirty-five weapons and twenty-five upgrades are available with combos and interactions. Steredenn includes prominent features such as Ruthless Gameplay, Endless Arcade Mode, 35 Weapons, Daily Run, Unlockables, Online Leaderboard and more. Try it out, and you’ll love it.

#10 Subnautica

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Subnautica is a brand new Open World, Adventure and Survival video game set in the underwater world of an alien planet. Subnautica is set in a futuristic Era of the 22nd century, and it offers a futuristic experience. It refers to a period when Humanity started exploring and inhibiting the alien planets. To colonize the planets, various advanced vessels were sent on Exploration Missions. One of the Vessels named as Aurora was also forwarded to an exploration and terraforming mission to an alien water world known as 4546B. The vessel was on its way to a station on the planet when an unknown energy source disabled it. With a hull badly damaged, and all the systems failed, the vessel crash landed into the water and sank to the ocean floor. This is where the player character gets into the play. After getting out of the life pod, the palyer must explore the world, find means of survival (Food, Drinking Water, Oxygen to breath, etc.) in an alien world, defeat all the underwater alien life forms and survive by evolving in the environment. Resource collection has its own importance in the game because without resources there is no survival. Subnautica offers various game modes such as Freedom Mode, Hardcore Mode, Creative Mode as well as unique Crafting abilities, great upgrades, beautiful graphics and addictive gameplay.

#11 Mass Effect: Andromeda

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Mass Effect: Andromeda developed by BioWare and published by Electronic Arts is an Action-Adventure, Third-person Shooter, Single and Multiplayer video game for multiple platforms. It is the fourth marvelous installment in the series of Mass Effect games. The game starts within the Milky Way Galaxy during the futuristic century in 22nd, where the humans are trying to populate new home worlds in the massive Galaxy known as Andromeda. There are two playable characters, and the player assumes the role of either Sara Ryder or Scott, both are members of the military who joins the force and wakes up in Andromeda. In the story, the player must explore the galaxy to find out the humanity’s homeland while encountering antagonistic alien race known as Kett. The game is a mix of Action Role-playing and Third-person Shooter elements. It features up to six different character classes, each with its unique skills and plays style. The player needs to earn experience points by fulfilling missions and use them to unlock further content in the game. Try it out.

#12 Star Hammer: The Vanguard Prophecy

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Star Hammer: The Vanguard Prophecy mixes the Strategy, Adventure, Space, Turn-based and Tactical elements created by Black Lab Games and published by Slitherine Ltd. The game takes place in the futurist 22nd century, where the human left a dying Planet Earth and settle to a new homeland called Novus. It enables the player to control the Naval Strike Group 7 and participate in the second contact war to experience a branching story with more than sixty challenging missions. There are six playable classes available, and the player can select one of them to get into the world where he has to craft his ship, manipulate the world, face terrifying creatures and defeat them to fend off them from disturbing the peace. The life on another planet is not easy, and the player must gather resources, solve lots of missions to score the points and purchase advanced technology to save the humanity. The spaceships are equipped with multiple weapons such as proximity mines and bio-missiles. The player can customize his ship using lots of features and options to improve his abilities. Star Hammer: The Vanguard Prophecy is the excellent game compared to other Space Simulations.

#13 Elite Dangerous

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Elite Dangerous combines the elements of Space Trading, Adventure, Combat, and Simulation. It offers both Single and Multiplayer modes developed and published by Frontier Developments. The game takes place in the fictional galaxy called Cutthroat and offers an open environment to explore. It lets the player create and customize his own starship and explore the realistic 1:1 Scale Galaxy focused on Milky Way. It has three different factions such as the Federation, the Empire, and the Alliance. To get into the game world, the player must select his faction and complete a series of challenging missions and earn fabulous prizes. He can trade with other to earn money and use to unlock further content. Protect the galaxy from rival factions and fight against enemies using weapons. The game unlocks other galaxies and milky ways as the player complete the series of objectives. He can upgrade his ship with different items and weapons using the money. Elite Dangerous offers key features such as a variety of Missions, different Ships, Unique Game Experience, over 400 Billion Star Systems, and more. Elite Dangerous is the wonderful game to play and amuse.