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This is meant to be a non-exhaustive list, in ~~stream-of-consciousness~~ alphabetical order.

Dedicated systems

  • 2300 AD (now a setting for Traveller)
  • 3:16: Carnage Amongst the Stars
  • Apocalypse World
  • BattleTech: A time of war
  • Coyote & Crow
  • Cyberpunk (2013, 2020, V3.0, Red)
  • Eclipse Phase
  • Lancer
  • Paranoia
  • Shadowrun
  • SLA Industries
  • Star Wars roleplaying (different games by different publishers: WEG d6, d20, FFG NDS)
  • Traveller (in its many incarnations throughout the past nearly 50 years and derivatives such as Cepheus, Hostile, Kosmic)
  • Warhammer 40K

FATE based systems

  • Atomic Robo
  • Bulldogs!
  • Diaspora
  • Mindjammer
  • Nova Praxis

OSR/d20 based systems

  • CY_BORG
  • Mothership
  • Starfinder
  • Stars/Cities/Ashes Without Number

Year Zero

  • Alien: The RPG
  • Blade Runner: The RPG
  • Coriolis – The Third Horizon
  • Mutant: Year Zero

GURPS

A host of modules and supplements named after the subgenre, GURPS-style. GURPS Transhuman Space, Cyberpunk, etc.

Other systems

  • BattleTech: Mechwarrior: Destiny (Cue)
  • Black Star (d6)
  • Dune: Adventures in the Imperium (Modiphius 2d20)
  • Fading Suns (VPS)
  • Neon City Overdrive (d6)
  • Rifts (Palladium)
  • Robotech (Palladium)
  • Salvage Union (Quest RPG)
  • Scum and Villainy (FitD/PbtA)
  • Star Trek Adventures (Modiphius 2d20)
  • The Expanse RPG (Modern AGE)

Solo friendly

  • Hostile (Cepheus/Traveller)
  • Ironsworn: Starforged (PbtA)
  • Stoneburner

Out of print/No longer developed

  • Albedo
  • Battlestar Galactica RPG (Cortex Classic)
  • Blue Planet
  • CORPS
  • Firefly RPG (Cortex Plus)
  • Gamma World (D&D)
  • HARP SF
  • Heavy Gear
  • High Colonies
  • Jovian Chronicles
  • Judge Dredd RPG
  • Justifiers
  • Living Steel
  • Metamorphosis Alpha
  • Mutant Chronicle
  • Other Suns
  • Ringworld
  • Serenity RPG (Cortex Classic)
  • Space Master
  • Space Opera
  • Star Frontiers
  • Universe

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[–] Boddhisatva@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

You might add Metamorphosis Alpha (from TSR, 1976) to the Out of Print section. It was the first (or perhaps second) Sci-fi RPG produced and the conceptual precurser to Gamma World. I'd heard rumors that Steve Jackson Games had secured the right to publish the old Metamorphosis Alpha material, but I think it is still unpublished.

The game is a Sci-fi RPG set on a generation ship that has been traveling in outer space for an unknown length of time. It was struck in the distant past by some unknown disaster and the survivors no longer even remember they are on a ship at all. Radiation leaks had created mutant people, plants, and animals, etc.

The game is based on the 1958 novel Non-Stop by Brian Aldiss.

Edit to include link

[–] Scallops@ttrpg.network 2 points 1 day ago

Nice! Thank you, added.