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Homeworld
Strategy 28 September 1999
Developed by Relic Entertainment, a Canadian studio, the real-time strategy takes place entirely in three-dimensional space. Set in the distant future, the story of the game tells about the fate of the human race Kushan, living on the desert planet Kharak.
Star Wars: Force Commander
Strategy 20 March 2000
Star Wars: Force Commander is a real-time strategy produced by LucasArts. The action of the game is set in a cosmic universe, well known to fans of Star Wars. Players have the opportunity to command Empire troops or rebels in 24 solo campaign missions and 35 multiplayer missions.
Star Wars Episode I: Battle for Naboo
Arcade 14 March 2001
Defend the planet Naboo from the invasion of the Trade Federation, get Queen Amidala out of the besieged Theed and in fifteen challenging missions prove your power.
Alien Shooter
Arcade 12 June 2003
A low-budget arcade game about the fight against foreign civilization. Cosmic beings have mastered a military research base. The player's task is to clean up a busy center occupied by a foreign center, playing the role of an agent or special forces agent.
Star Control II
Strategy 23 January 1992
The game is considered to be one of the most innovative games in the history of the computer industry. SC2 is a combination of adventure strategy with elements of arcade game, with action taking place in space.
Aliens vs Predator 2: Primal Hunt
Action 16 August 2002
An add-on to one of the best action games of 2001. A player can become a Predator, a human mercenary or a Predalien and try to survive on the planet LV1201. For single player mode, the authors prepared a total of nine new missions (three for each character), and multiplayer mode gained four new levels.
The Scourge Project
Action 09 March 2010
The Scourge Project is a Tragnarion-produced dynamic third person perspective shooting (TPP). The action of the game was set in the distant future. Players take on the role of members of a mercenary branch recruited by the Tarn Initiative to carry out a breakneck operation against the Nogari corporation.
Star Command Galaxies
Strategy 29 August 2024
Star Command Galaxies is a PC-based real-time strategy in which we play the role of spacecraft captain. We build our own unit ourselves, recruit a crew and then set off to explore a randomly generated galaxy full of secrets, adventures and alien civilizations.
Renegade X
Action 26 February 2016
An online FPS which is a spiritual successor to the 2002’s Command & Conquer: Renegade. The game was developed by Totem Arts, a studio established by the fans of the series, and its action is set in the popular C&C universe. The title offers a short single player campaign, but it focuses primarily on multiplayer competition.
Deep Down
RPG canceled
An action RPG developed by Capcom Online Games in cooperation with SCE Japan Studio. The story of Deep Down presents a future in which humanity created a technology that allows people to travel into the past written in artifacts. The players assume the role of a group of time-travelling heroes to hunt treasures and fight monsters. The gameplay is specifically designed to allows cooperation of up to four players.
Netrunner
RPG TBA
A mobile RPG game based on the free-to-play business model. Netrunner takes us to the cyberpunk universe of the tabletop game Android: Netrunner. Players act as hackers, who steal the classified data of powerful companies. This takes place in virtual reality that is so closely connected to users’ brains that the most effective defense systems can turn an unfortunate hacker into vegetable.
Diluvion
Simulation 02 February 2017
An arcade submarine simulator with crew management elements. The game was developed by an independent team known as Arachnid Games. The story of Diluvion takes place in the distant future, where an apocalyptic flood has forced humanity to colonize the ocean depths. The gameplay is focused around exploration of a marine world of a considerable size, completing various tasks, and combat with encountered opponents.
Total Eclipse Turbo
Action 29 August 1995
A rail shooter that is one of the PlayStation 1 starting titles. In Total Eclipse Turbo, we sit at the helm of a futuristic fighter and fight against the sinister Drak-Sai race, which intends to lead to a premature supernova sun. The action is observed from the camera following the ship, and the struggle takes place both over the surface of the four planets, as well as in their underground tunnels.
BlazBlue: Central Fiction
Fighting 06 October 2016
Another installment in the popular series of fighting games developed by Arc System Works. The story was divided into three chapters and it tells about the further adventures of characters known from the previous entries in the series. There are also new characters like Hibiki Kohaku, Naoto Kurogane and Hades Izanami. The gameplay is faithful to the roots of the series – BlazBlue: Central Fiction focuses on duels fought in two-dimensional environment.
Quake Champions
Action 18 August 2022
Another installment of the legendary series of first-person shooters developed by id Software. The series became very popular mostly thanks to its great and well-balanced multiplayer modes. Quake Champions concentrates on that aspect of the gameplay and lacks a classic campaign mode. Instead, it features dynamic gameplay for many players. The matches are played in a few varied PvP modes.
Valkyrie Drive: Bhikkhuni
Action 10 December 2015
An action game developed by Japanese studio Tamsoft for the portable console PlayStation Vita. The main characters of Valkyrie Drive: Bhikkhuni are teenage female warriors that are the victims of the mysterious V virus which gave them paranormal abilities. The girls are living on an island isolated from the world and together they fight hordes of mutants. The mechanics of Valkyrie Drive: Bhikkhuni are similar to ones used in classic Japanese TPP hack and slash games like Devil May Cry.
Xevious 3D/G
Action 30 June 1997
The fourth part of the popular Japanese shoot'em upów series, and the first installment of the series, which has been presented in a three-dimensional graphic design. Xevious 3D/G made its debut on slot machines, but after a year it also hit the PlayStation 1 console. The title allows us to become the pilot of a spacecraft, which was the last hope of humanity when the Earth found itself on the target of the aggressive Xevian race.
Colony Wars
Simulation 05 November 1997
Colony Wars is a space clash simulator with a strong emphasis on non-linear gameplay. As we play, we play the rebellious pilot of the League of Free Worlds, determined to expel the ruthless forces of the Earth Empire from the colony. The player's combat effectiveness will determine the further development of the intergalactic war, and if it turns out to be the Space Ace, the command will assign him better and better combat machines. The game started a series of titles under the same name.
BlazBlue: Cross Tag Battle
Fighting 05 June 2018
BlazBlue: Cross Tag Battle is a classic representative of the fighting games genre. It was developed by Arc System Works. The game is a 2.5D fighting game – it means that gameplay mechanics are fully two-dimensional despite the fact that locations are made in 3D. Tag system is the heart of the game. The player chooses two characters before the battle. They can control only one of them simultaneously but can also switch between them during the fight.
Death Trash
RPG 05 August 2021
Postapocalyptic action RPG game in bird's eye view, in which players hit the devastated planet Tauris V. It is only up to them whether they decide to resolve the conflict between the factions that are shaking it or whether they will escalate it. Death Trash is characterized by a high level of brutality and vulgar language; besides, the work of Crafting Legends boasts the presence of original solutions, which are rarely seen in this type of productions.
Power Drive 2000
Racing TBA
A retro-futuristic racing game by Megacom Games. Power Drive 2000 presents a futuristic version of the year 2000, as visualized in the 80s science-fiction productions. Therefore, the streets of the cyberpunk city are lit up by bright neon lights, and we drive a super-fast sports car, Avenger 2000, which is equipped with an afterburner and an on-board AI.
Hard Reset: Redux
Action 03 June 2016
An improved edition of Hard Reset - a cyberpunk first-person shooter developed by Flying Wild Hog (the creators of the successful Shadow Warrior remake). Although the original game (2011) was released exclusively for PCs, Hard Reset: Redux received console versions for the eighth generation of hardware as well. The game offers a journey to a grim world of the future, when the Earth has been almost entirely dominated by merciless robots who have devastated the planet.
Destiny: The Dark Below
Action 09 December 2014
The first official expansion to Destiny – the big-budget MMO first-person shooter developed by the creators of the Halo series, Bungie Software. The story of the expansion concentrates around a new threat to humanity, the aggressive alien race known as Hive. The aliens intend to summon their god Crota and use him to destroy the Traveler and what’s left of humanity. The players are tasked with stopping them.
Outcast: Second Contact
Action 14 November 2017
A refreshed version of a third-person perspective action-adventure game from 1999. The remake was prepared by Appeal – a reincarnation of the studio responsible for the original version. Outcast: Second Contact takes place in a science-fiction world, inspired by Stargate – a popular fictional universe, depicted in a number of movies and TV series.