battle-girl is a top-down vector based shooter, boasting furious gameplay, a superb soundtrack, and visuals that while not complex, still manage to look superb. Move and shoot in whatever direction seems suitable and blast through countless...

Solarian II is a timeless mouse controlled 'space shooter' game, and one of the first in the platform to have color! The developer Ben Haller has an active site: http://www.sticksoftware.com/archive/Solarian.html

Escape Velocity sequel called Escape Velocity Override.  Comes with the EVO MAGMA v2.0.1 plugin. See also the original game: Escape Velocity Escape Velocity: Override is a ringing triumph of sci-fi action-adventure. The game puts you...

The year is 2317... and they're back! Bedlam 2 is the sequel to Bedlam.  It's a Space Invaders kind of vertical shooter.  Bedlam 2 features nice pre-rendered color sprite animations similar to other Mac shareware games in the...

An adaptation of the classic shoot-em-up Asteroids, unique for its addition of a monetary element to purchase power-ups and score bonuses.

Rescue! is an action/strategy game set in a Star Trek-like universe. You are in command of the Enterprise, and your mission is to rescue colonists on planets (by beaming down an away team) before the colonies can be destroyed by enemy ships. Return...

A first-person, interactive puzzle game ported from MS-DOS, the story revolves around three space marines, one of which (the player) is a disembodied brain in a floating pod with video and limited interface. Fantastically immersive when I first...

The war against the Kilrathi is going badly for the Confederation. Its flagship, the Concordia, has been destroyed, battles are lost on all fronts. War hero Colonel Christopher Blair is transferred to the old carrier Victory. Take the role of Blair...

Bedlam is a Space Invaders kind of vertical shooter game. See also the color sequel: Bedlam 2 (Not to be confused with Bedlam by GT Interactive.)  

The year is 2673, four years after the Treaty of Torgo and the end of the Kilrathi War. As hostilities died out, more trivial concerns like rebuilding what was lost or dealing with space piracy, became the biggest concerns of the Terran...

Space Quest 1 is an adventure game with a text-based interface in which you are stranded in space after an alien attack, and you must figure out how to survive it. The game can be quite difficult at times, and failing to pick up an object at the...

PC-based Wing Commander (1) and the first of two secret mission campaigns, plus an adapted second campaign. Enhanced graphics adapted from Wing Commander Academy along with full voice acting make this superior even to Wing Commander II on the PC....

Astro Chase 3D is a 2nd-person perspective space game. Shoot at targets to get points.

The pleiades incident is an ambush in space war simulation. An 8 pages rule book is included in MacWrite format. Note: This demo can apparently be "unlocked" to the production version.  

Asteroids, the quarter-sucking arcade behemoth, rattled some cages in its day. Old-school game fans can rejoice now that MacSoft has updated this classic space shooter. This newest version is the prettiest incarnation to date, but the game is really...

Centaurian is a clone of the classic Namco arcade game, Bosconian, with a few twists. In it, you explor a map filled with enemies, asteroids, mines, and more. To move to the next level, you must destroy all the enemy space bases. Naturally,...

Galactic Invasion is a turn based RPG space adventure game in which you defend against other spaceships while exploring the surrounding galaxies.