12 Severely Underrated Sci-Fi Video Games You Need To Love

12. Shadowrun Returns

You might know Harebrained Schemes' fantastic RPG as the mainstream door-knocking 2007 'reboot' of the franchise; a completely misguided first-person shooter take on an otherwise top-down XCOM-style strategy game. Following that game's fairly lukewarm reception the developer went dark for a good five years, before returning to their roots with the aptly-named Shadowrun Returns; heralding in more character-development, turn-based RPG combat and one of the best world-designs in gaming history. Although the overarching genre is most definitely science fiction, it's through updating and intertwining the core concepts of fantasy that everything starts to really endear itself. No more are things like orcs lumbering menaces in search of bashing someone's face in - here they could be anything from police officers to gang members, and the same goes for the likes of minotaurs, elves and everything else in between. Throw in some world-specific terms you'll pick up as you go, contemplative combat that plays to the old-school Command & Conquer fan in you and a perfect sense of the world turning around you as its axis, and there's a reason fans of this positively explode when given the chance to sing its many praises.