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11 Best Games Like 3D Pinball: Space Cadet

The Space Cadet table features the player as a member of a space fleet that completes missions to increase rank. Players can attain 9 different ranks (listed from lowest to highest): Cadet, Ensign, Lieutenant, Captain, Lieutenant Commander, Commander, Commodore, Admiral, and Fleet Admiral. Players accept a mission by hitting "mission targets" which select which mission they will take, and by going up the "launch ramp". Each mission has a set number of things for players to do, such as hitting the "attack bumpers" (which are a set of four bumpers at the top of the table) eight times (this is the "target practice" mission). Some missions involve a number of steps which must be completed in sequence. Missions end either by being completed, or by being aborted due to running out of "fuel", as indicated by the lights in the passage that passes under the launch ramp. The "fuel" lights go out one by one at a time interval, and can be re-lit by having the ball go over them, or all at once by going up the launch ramp again. Upon completing a mission, some of the blue lights in a circle in the middle of the table turn on. When all of the lights in the blue circle turn on, the player's rank increases, and a light in the orange circle turns on.

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11 Games Like 3D Pinball: Space Cadet

1. Xenoblade Chronicles 2

Nintendo Switch

Similar role-playing (rpg) genre and fantasy theme.

2. Xenoblade Chronicles 2

Nintendo Switch

Similar role-playing (rpg) genre and fantasy theme.

3. Planetbase

PlayStation 4, PC (Microsoft Windows), Mac +1 more

Similar simulator genre and theme.

4. Pinball Fun

PlayStation 2

Similar pinball genre and theme.

5. Polaris Sector

PC (Microsoft Windows)

Similar simulator genre and theme.

6. Unclaimed World

PC (Microsoft Windows)

Similar simulator genre and theme.

7. Zoids Wild: Blast Unleashed

Nintendo Switch

Similar fighting genre and science fiction theme.

8. Time Cruise

TurboGrafx-16/PC Engine

Similar pinball genre and theme.

9. Pinball Tycoon

Game Boy Advance

Similar pinball genre and theme.

10. Aliens vs. Pinball

Android, iOS

Similar pinball genre and theme.

11. Battle Pinball

Super Famicom

Similar puzzle genre and science fiction theme.

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