The Best Sci-fi science Games for Xbox One

Update : Lab Rat added at rank #7.
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The Last Cube (2022)

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Cube puzzler and an epic adventure. Stamp stickers to the sides of your cube to imbue each surface with unique powers, which are vital to solving puzzles and finding secrets.


  • puzzle
  • platform
  • 3d
  • science
  • artificial
  • intelligence
  • atmospheric
  • logic
  • movement
  • sci-fi
  • futuristic
  • colourful
  • third-person
  • grid
  • robots

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Terraformers (2022)

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Transform Mars into a habitable planet in Terraformers. With challenging strategizing and resource management, explore the planet and expand population, all while watching the stunning new natural wonders build up before your eyes. Take on different scenarios and bonuses and create a thriving utopia. Get lost in the addictive puzzle-like game with unique replayability and rewarding graphics and UI.


What we like:
  • Focus on strategy
  • Various difficulty levels
  • Unique victory conditions
  • Nice graphics and UI
  • Rich soundtrack
What could be improved:
  • Only one way to lose the game
  • Some bugs present
  • Game can become repetitive

  • turn-based
  • mars
  • space
  • resource-management
  • science
  • rogue-like
  • nonlinear
  • card
  • procedural
  • board-game
  • colony
  • sci-fi
  • choices
  • simulation
  • management

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Relicta (2020)

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Alone in the depths of the Moon, your scientific mind is the only thing that can keep your daughter alive …Play as a top physicist stranded on an eerie, derelict Moon base. Find your way around the enigmatic, terraformed craters by bending gravity and magnetism to your will in order to solve physical puzzles. Will you rush straight ahead and try to reach safety - or will you take your time to gather clues and unravel the intrigues of 22nd century orbital politics? Buried in the eternal darkness of the lunar craters lies a secret that might claim your daughter’s life - or change the fate of humanity forever. Are you ready to face the ultimate consequences of your research?


  • mars
  • character
  • snow
  • narration
  • puzzle
  • science
  • logic
  • action-adventure
  • physics
  • first-person
  • sci-fi
  • 3d
  • exploration
  • story
  • colourful

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Dofamine (2020)

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You must explore the labyrinth of riddles and investigate the apocalyptic event at the research facility following the experiments with the Higgs boson, or “the God particle”.


  • sci-fi
  • cyberpunk
  • story
  • puzzle
  • investigation
  • science
  • physics
  • first-person
  • detective
  • simulation
  • adventure
  • philosophical
  • must-play

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Tin Can (2020)

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You've barely managed to escape your exploding spaceship. Now in an old escape pod, you hurtle through space at the mercy of the cosmos. With no knowledge of the pod’s complex systems, your life depends on a technical manual and your own wits. How long can you survive?


  • space
  • simulation
  • science
  • immersive
  • resource-management
  • survival
  • sci-fi
  • survival-horror
  • realistic
  • 3d

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Exographer (2024)

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Exographer is an exploration game based on science. Become an explorer, stranded in an alien planet, and discover the secrets of an extinct civilization. Gain new powers to avoid dangers and obstacles in your journey, and use your camera to reveal particles and hidden clues.


  • metroidvania
  • science
  • platform
  • puzzle
  • pixel
  • exploration
  • 2d
  • non-linear
  • sci-fi
  • discovery
  • investigation

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Lab Rat (2025)

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A metrics-obsessed AI will monitor, profile, and entertain you as you progress through over a hundred genre-bending puzzles in this delightfully satirical adventure.


  • dark
  • humor
  • designer
  • comedy
  • sokoban
  • science
  • puzzle
  • artificial
  • intelligence
  • 3d
  • sci-fi
  • genre-bending
  • narration
  • experimental
  • hand-crafted

8

Cell Scientists: Beyond (2024)

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Xbox One PC Windows Nintendo Switch

An exciting puzzle game with 50 levels story mode and easy to pick gameplay mechanics. Embark on an adventure to destroy viruses using futuristics nano ships and help the patients. Save the day using your puzzle-solving skills!


  • sokoban
  • science
  • sci-fi
  • action-adventure
  • third-person
  • puzzle
  • exploration
  • 3d
  • stylized
  • anime
  • controller-support
  • single-player

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Epitasis (2019)

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Xbox One PC Windows Mac OS

After discovering an ancient portal, you suddenly find yourself among the remnants of an ancient alien civilization. Technological relics, sprawling ruins, and cryptic puzzles are all that remain. If you are to learn their secrets, you must unearth the fate of the race that called this world home.


  • puzzle
  • nature
  • crowdfunded
  • exploration
  • psychedelic
  • sci-fi
  • science
  • surreal
  • nonlinear
  • space
  • relaxing
  • atmospheric
  • open-world
  • puzzle-exploration
  • platform

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Family Mysteries 2: Echoes of Tomorrow (2020)

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Get ready for thrilling sci-fi adventure in the big city, which offers riveting and refreshing approach to the hidden object puzzle adventure genre. "Family Mysteries 2: Echoes of Tomorrow" is an emotional cyberpunkish ride with a hint of romance that takes you straight into not-too-distant future.


  • cyberpunk
  • sci-fi
  • post-apocalyptic
  • travel
  • science
  • artificial
  • intelligence
  • time
  • hidden-object
  • point-and-click
  • dystopian
  • adventure
  • romance
  • 2d
  • crime

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