10 Forgotten Sci-Fi Video Games You Need To Play

10. EVE Online - CCP Games (2003)

Back in 2003, World of Warcraft was yet a year away. Gamers looking to delve into the massively multiplayer online role-playing scene discovered many institutions that WoW would make staples of the genre shortly thereafter in EVE Online: Players were able to participate in a number of in-game professions and activities, including mining, piracy, manufacturing, trading, exploration, and combat.

Perhaps most impressive is that while EVE Online never managed to gain the publicity or mass appeal of World of Warcraft, it is still going strong to this very day and free to play to boot.

EVE Online is nothing if not anomalous. It has been quietly doing its thing for nearly two decades. The video game industry is such that when something new and shiny comes along, gamers are generally quick to migrate en masse, leaving servers of yesteryear's classics to be shut down in the process.

This underrated gem defies all industry statistics and shows no sign of slowing.

Authored by Jason Russell

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Jason Russell has been working in video game journalism since the early 1990s before the internet existed, the term "fanzine" had meaning and sailors still debated as to whether or not the earth was flat. The first time. More recently he has been the guy responsible for the Retrospective column for Old School Gamer Magazine, pens up a Game Skinny column on a plethora of video game topics. He's somehow managed to author nine novels, writes and runs the blog CG Movie Review, is co-founder of the science fiction publishing house Starry Eyed Press, and sometimes, when the planets align and the caffeine has fully left his system, it's rumored he sleeps.

Posted On: 8th Dec 2021

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