The Best Sci-Fi Board Games

This collection draws from BGG\'s sci-fi theme tag, filtered for ratings of 6.5 or higher. Campaign and legacy games are excluded to keep the focus on standalone experiences.

You will find galactic empire builders that fill an entire day, tight card games about managing a space station, cooperative survival games set on hostile planets, and competitive races across the cosmos. Some lean hard into hard science fiction; others are space opera with lasers and aliens. The quality is consistently high because sci-fi attracts designers who love complex systems — and the community holds them to high standards.