10 of the best space opera games ever

Best space games – Mass Effect (2007, Xbox 360)

Compressing five years into as many lines allows us to shunt one Bioware hit right into another, and amazingly, nobody can lay claim to making anything nearly as epic and spacey in that period.

Mass Effect took Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic, made it look stunning, and then created a whole new universe with new characters and plots. Anyone for a sequel or two?