8 Games Truly Worthy Of Screen Time!

Heavenjennifer
6 min readJun 5, 2021

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Science fiction is always a genre of game we love to keep our eyes on. Today we are going to rank the sci-fi games of 2020 that deserve your attention. Just a quick disclaimer, Atomic Heart, Outriders, Death Loop, and Halo Infinite are definitely not coming out this year. So we are definitely not talking about them today. We do have a lot of great games and the Johnny Silverhand Vest to talk about, though. So let’s get going.

Hard space Ship: Ship Breaker Game

A game that I cannot stress is really innovative and fun. So it is essentially a game in which the premise is you have a billion credit debt to pay back to Blinks Corporation, and you’re gonna do it by disassembling ships for salvage parts, metal, etc. Essentially, the best way to describe it is by taking apart pieces of ships in zero-G and accumulating credits by selling those parts. And paying that debt back to this big corporation that apparently holds power over you. It is a really good-looking game. For one, The graphics are incredible. Space is both kinds of eerie and kind of beautiful.

The ships are ominous, dead-looking. And the physics simulation in which you are taking them apart is absolutely one of the coolest things you’re ever going to see. You’re literally just chopping these things up, you take that scrap, it’s not just chopping things up, though, you also have to transport what you’re taking out of the area. Really, it’s just a different kind of game. And I think that you’re gonna see this copied a lot as the technology becomes more normal, destroying things and recovering salvage from a site. But I’m also curious as to how that idea would work in a situation with gravity because in zero gravity, man, it just works.

Star Wars Squadrons

Obviously, a space combat game is, in some ways, a continuation of Rogue Squadron. And in some ways, a continuation of x wing and TIE Fighter, very old games that, frankly, are series that should have been continued. This isn’t a game that is going to shock you with its narrative brilliance or anything like that. However, this is a fantastic space shooter. It just does a great job with everything it’s doing, and it comes down basically to the difference between the republic ships and the Empire ships. As long as you again aren’t looking for the best story you’ve ever heard in your life, it is just a phenomenal game. It’s so fun. Star Wars squadrons are fantastic. It is also out to play now on PlayStation four, Xbox One, and Microsoft Windows.

Doom eternal

Some people might not think that is sci-fi. However, I would classify it for sure because it’s sci-fi, kind of a hell demon space demon situation. It’s Doom. Did you play Doom? 2016? I did. Did you want more? I did. Did you absolutely lose your crap over the thought of a grappling hook shotgun added into Doom? I did. In fact, that again, I’ve said this probably a million times is enough of a selling point for me to be like, Alright, yeah, that justifies its sequel. Absolutely. And you know what it is as fun as it sounds; Doom eternal turned out so good.

There are a number of little tweaks like how death is handled and stuff like that, which makes it a different enough experience in a lot of ways. I think I actually improved on the formula that was created for doom 2016. Doom eternal is out on PC, PS4, and Xbox One; you will see it on Nintendo Switch, Playstation five, and Xbox series x sometime in the future. However, you can play it now. And you should. It’s fantastic.

Black Mesa

The third-party independent remake of half-life, the original, essentially rebuilt the game from the ground up into a much more cohesive experience for the gamers. Particularly the ending areas on zen, but overall, really redesigning a lot of elements not just artistically but also mechanically and attempting to incorporate more of the design principles from half-life two into half-life one ultimately comes out as essentially basically an official release. It’s an amazing game.

It also does a lot to resolve some conflicts between the original half-life story and the retcon stuff that happened in half-life two, which just works like the half-life is a great game. Don’t get me wrong, but I would say that Black Mesa is a better game. I enjoy Black Mesa more than I enjoyed the original half-life. They did a fantastic job, and it is currently available on Steam; you should play it.

Half-Life Alex

we couldn’t mention Black Mesa and not mentioned half live Alex, which obviously is a prequel to HalfLife 2; following Alex around that’s probably one of the more significant elements of it. However, to me, the biggest thing is that this is a game that more or less gets VR FPS completely right, as well as gives you a lot more to do than just shooting enemies. The only complaint I have is that the movement system is a little bit rudimentary. However, everything else about this game more or less overrides that, in my mind, half-life Alex is just a fantastic game. Like they did such a good job with it. And it was a smart idea to do, to VR to sort of push people into VR half-life three when Valve HalfLife three when?

Cyberpunk 2077

I don’t know what I could possibly say here to explain what cyberpunk 2077 is now other than it seems like they’ve delayed it a lot. However, these delays keep coming in very incrementally, and they’re not long distances of delays which makes me think, oh, they found another thing that they want to do either differently or fix or whatever. I’m just really excited that this massive first-person shooter action RPG in what is probably the most beautiful version of a cyberpunk world we’ve seen is coming soon.

I’m so excited. Obviously, this is going to be the biggest game of the year. It’s the follow-up to CD Projekt Red’s The Witcher three; it’s cyberpunk. It’s cool. I mean, it’s gonna be the biggest game of the year. There’s nothing else to say you’re never going to escape this game and Cyberpunk 2077 Johnny Silverhand Vest once it comes out. I can’t wait to play it when it lands on every system that you could possibly want to play it on on December 10.

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