Well, it's Friday. You probably have a little extra time in your entertainment schedule tonight...

Whatever you thought of the conclusion to Battlestar Galactica, one thing is certain: it's over. Now what? Pore over earlier episodes for clues leading to the revelations at the end? Maybe you want to try to piece together The Plan. Will Caprica be a suitable replacement? Maybe queue up some Farscape or Babylon 5 DVDs? Or should you hang your hopes on the Star Trek reboot? Of course, like any self-respecting sci-fi nerd, you've probably considered turning to videogames to fill the void. In which case, I'm here to help.

After the jump are ten videogames to help you get over Battlestar Galactica.

10) Battlestar Galactica (Xbox Live Arcade)

The most obvious choice for a Battlestar Galactica game is also the weakest. It's hard to believe this clunky top-down shooter is the only official tie-in to the television show. That makes it the only game to officially include visuals from the show. Shoot down tiny versions of the updated Cylon raiders with tiny versions of the updated Raptors. It's good for a brief visual thrill and not much else.

9) Battlestar Galactica: Space Alert

I couldn't resist including this one just for nostalgia's sake. How many hours did I spend under the covers late at night playing this long after lights out, hoping my mom wouldn't hear the beeping sounds? This 1978 handheld was the first videogame I didn't have to pay a quarter to play. I suppose you could pass it off as a primitive Draedis display, but you're probably not going to be able to find one of these anyway. But for guy my age who remember the original series fondly, just looking at that picture helps recapture the what one writer famously called the golden age of science fiction: 12.

8) Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney

Relive Lee Adama's brief career as a lawyer in this lawyer sim! Objection? Unrelated to the TV show? Alternatively, play Trauma Center, mutter in a gruff voice some stuff about deloxin, and smoke cigarettes. Voila! You're Doc Cottle!.

7) Command & Conquer 3

Tricia Helfer and Grace Park show up for the live action cinematics between missions. Does that count for anything?

6) SimCity Societies

Want to recreate the conditions on New Caprica under Cylon rule? In SimCity Societies, you can build cities based on a variety of social values. One such value is authority. Build your own repressive dystopia with dungeons, stockades, deporting offices, sentinel seminaries, surveillance cameras, and propaganda ministries to keep your citizens in line. Throw them in jail from time to time for good measure, or call out a police crackdown. However, you'll have to imagine your own eye pluckings.

5) Blade Runner

One of the main draws of Battlestar Galactica over the course of its run was the building dramatic tension about who was human and who was a Cylon. The 1997 adventure game Blade Runner was built around a similar tension. You had to determine who in its cast of characters was human and who was a replicant. But it had a unique approach to this kind of tension because the replicants were determined randomly each time you played. What better way to keep you guessing?

4) Star Control 2

In this deceptively whimsical game from 1992, you lead the remnant of humanity after escaping a brutally genocidal alien race. You fly your fleet around in pursuit of an ancient mystical artifact. Instead of Battlestar Galactica's human-centric drama, Star Control 2 is set in a universe of imaginative alien races. But it definitely captures that vibe of leading a ragtag fleet of survivors. You can play it right now in the form of Ur-Quan Masters, a fan-made project to port the game in its entirety to PCs. Minus the actual Star Control 2 name, because of trademark issues.

3) Battlestar Galactica (Playstation 2 or Xbox)

Believe it or not, this 2003 space combat game for the Playstation 2 and original Xbox was quite good. It was based on the look of the original TV show, so don't expect a lot of tie-in with the latest series. But it did offer a surprisingly indepth experience as a Viper pilot across a series of interesting missions. It wasn't just a brain-dead arcade shooter, either. You had to manage your wingmen, your energy, and various types of missiles. And for a last-gen console game, it looked and played great. If you want some quality Battlestar Galactica space combat in your living room, look through the bargain bins and used game shelves for a copy of this one.

2) Freespace 2

If you're okay with graphics that aren't specifically Battlestar Galactica, there is no better game than Freespace 2 when it comes to the experience of being in the cockpit of a fighter during massive battles between huge capital ships. This is arguably the best way to recreate the thrill and spectacle of Battlestar Galactica's space combat.

1) Sins of a Solar Empire

Of course, you might not want the in-cockpit view on space battles. If you're okay with a gods' eyes view on the action, no game does space battles as well as Sins of a Solar Empire, a sci-fi real time strategy game that captures the transcendent beauty of massive ships and starbases blowing the living daylights out of each other. It also recreates the cat-and-mouse of fleets dodging around the universe, trying to corner each other at just the right moment. While watching the space battles in Battlestar Galactica, this was the game that most came to mind for me.