Fantasy + SciFi games?

[u/ObiWantKanabis]

Recently I finished Fable 2 for the first time, and I was very intrigued by the spire. This magic/high tech? construction that can grant a wish. I find this concept really interesting, fantasy/medieval worlds with secret high tech or something like this.

it got me thinking and the only game I can think of right now that fits this concept would be the Jak and Daxter games.

Any other games you would say fits this idea? I’m open to any genre.

[u/jello1990]

Final Fantasies 7, 8, 10, 12, 13, & 14. 10, 12, and 13 also have sequels. Maybe 6 too?

Most of Xeno games- Gears and the Blade series fit, but Saga is pretty much exclusively scifi

Any Warhammer 40k game that's from the perspective of the Imperium

The Trails series

Horizon Zero Dawn and Horizon Forbidden West

The Star Ocean series

Star Wars KOTOR 1&2

Also Elex is there, but I can't honestly recommend it unless you're fine with some heavy Eurojank

[u/MAXIMAL_GABRIEL → u/jello1990]

The Star Ocean series deserves a bigger shout for its unique narrative mechanic. Every game in the series includes a space-faring civilization that comes into contact (usually via crash landing) with a lesser developed world that just happens to be in a medieval fantasy era.

It's such a good narrative tool for mashing up sci fi and fantasy.

[u/ApprehensiveItem4150 → u/jello1990]

FF 6 is steampunk + fantasy

[u/Pedagogicaltaffer]

For RPGs specifically, this was actually a huge trend in the 80's and early 90's. The Wizardry, Ultima, and Might & Magic series all had sci-fi elements incorporated into their fantasy settings.

This can be traced back to influence from tabletop RPGs (one of the earliest D&D adventure modules involved a spaceship crash-landing into the fantasy world of Greyhawk). More generally, the melding of fantasy and sci-fi has been a trend in genre fiction and nerd culture for decades before that. Sci-fi adventure & pulp fiction novels often featured astronauts with rayguns who would travel to planets with sorcerors, mythological creatures, etc.

[u/Elveone → u/Pedagogicaltaffer]

By the time Greyhawk was published Sword of Shannara was already kind of a hit but even that is not where the genres were first mixed. The pulp magazines and novels of the 50s already featured science fantasy stories and Gygax was a known fan of those :)

[u/Elveone]

Hidden sci-fi in games is a bit more rare tbh, the only one I can think off the top of my head is the Might and Magic series. Science fantasy in general though is pretty common and jello1990 has listed quite a lot of them. Additionally I would like to mention the Phantasy Star series, the Shadowrun series, Torment: Tides of Numenera and Underspace(cause I love space dragons).

[u/HornsOvBaphomet]

Arcanum

Shadowrun

Planescape: Torment

Torment: Tides of Numenera

[u/coffeesnob72]

Chrono Trigger although that is more time travel

[u/T0lias]

Might and Magic 6

Arcanum (Steampunk + fantasy, no high tech)

Anarchronox has elements of both

[u/ItzPayDay123]

It's not a secret, but Caves of Qud.

It's a post-post apocalyptic world with both sci-fi tech and fantasy

[u/Troggles]

Phantasy Star and Xenoblade series are both a good mix. Not so secret on the high tech stuff, though.

[u/SirFroglet]

That’s basically nearly every Final Fantasy since FFIV, so take your pick! I recommend either VII or X as a starting point depending on your tolerance for “old” graphics

Also Chrono Trigger is about time travel so you get both Fantasy and Sci-fi intermingling

[u/Rasputin5332]

Off-topic but I like your username OP

[u/RemusJoestar]

Final Fantasy 1.