Video games set on fictional planets

action-maze game developed by Konami and HexaDrive for the Nintendo Switch console

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2017 life simulation video game developed by Monomi Park

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2004 platforming video game

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1985 arcade game

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2004 action-adventure video game, remake of the 1986 game Metroid

2013 massively multiplayer online role-playing game

2006 action-adventure first-person shooter video game

1996 video game

Astroneer, officially stylized in all caps, is a 2019 sandbox adventure game developed and published by American studio System Era Softworks. The game was released through early access in December 2016 before a full release on February 6, 2019. The player is tasked with colonizing planets, creating structures, and collecting resources. The character is called an Astroneer and the player can travel to planets to activate cores and complete the game. There are often rewards given to players upon completion of core activation, most notably a suit and/or visor.

Blackthorne (released as Blackhawk in some European countries) is a cinematic platform game developed by Blizzard Entertainment. It was released for the Super NES and MS-DOS in 1994. The cover art for the SNES version was drawn by Jim Lee. The following year, Blackthorne was released for the Sega 32X with additional content. In 2013, Blizzard released the game for free on their Battle.net PC client. In celebration of the company's 30th anniversary, Blackthorne was re-released for Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Windows, and Xbox One as part of the Blizzard Arcade Collection in February 2021.

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2022 action-adventure video game developed by Traveller's Tales

2004 video game

Returnal is a 2021 third-person shooter game developed by Housemarque and published by Sony Interactive Entertainment for the PlayStation 5. A port to Windows developed by Climax Studios was released on 15 February 2023. It follows Selene Vassos, an astronaut who lands on the planet Atropos in search of the mysterious "White Shadow" signal and finds herself trapped in a time loop. The gameplay combines bullet hell, third-person shooter and roguelike elements.

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1992 adventure strategy video game

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2017 action-adventure video game, remake of the 1991 video game Metroid II: Return of Samus

2016 video game

2021 video game developed by Unknown Worlds Entertainment

2000 Nintendo 64 video game

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Starbound is a 2016 action-adventure game by Chucklefish. It takes place in a two-dimensional, procedurally generated universe which the player is able to explore in order to obtain new weapons, armor, and items, and to visit towns and villages inhabited by various intelligent lifeforms. Starbound was released out of early access in July 2016 for Windows, OS X, and Linux, and for Windows via Xbox Game Pass in December 2020. It was later released for Xbox One and Xbox Series X/S in October 2024.

2013 video game

asymmetrical, cooperative/competitive 2015 shooter video game

2021 action-adventure video game developed by Eidos-Montréal

MMO FPS game from the year 2013

2020 video game

1999 video game

2021 action role-playing game developed and published by Bandai Namco Entertainment

first-person shooter video game series

2003 3D platform game

Japanese video game franchise

2023 sandbox-style space flight simulator video game developed by Intercept Games

2019 video game developed by Mobius Digital

third-person shooter video game series

Anachronox is a 2001 role-playing video game produced by Tom Hall and the Dallas Ion Storm games studio. The game is centered on Sylvester "Sly Boots" Bucelli, a down-and-out private investigator who looks for work in the slums of Anachronox, a once-abandoned planet near the galaxy's jumpgate hub. He travels to other planets, amasses an unlikely group of friends, and unravels a mystery that threatens the fate of the universe. The game's science fiction story was influenced by cyberpunk, film noir, and unconventional humor. The story features a theme of working through the troubles of one's pas

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1998 video game for Nintendo 64

2025 video game developed by Retro Studios

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2023 video game developed by FromSoftware

Xenosaga is a role-playing video game series developed by Monolith Soft and primarily published by Namco. Forming part of the wider Xeno metaseries, Xenosaga is set in a science fiction universe and follows a group of characters as they face both a hostile alien race called the Gnosis and human factions fighting for control of the Zohar, an artifact connected to a god-like energy called U-DO. Gameplay across the series is similar, with the characters being guided through a linear narrative and fighting enemies using a turn-based combat system. The party fights both on foot and in a variety of

1988 NES game

2024 video game developed by Firewalk Studios

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