Games like Half-Life 2
Looking for games like Half-Life 2? Here are top shooter recommendations with a horror and science fiction focus, selected from player-similarity data — start with Half-Life, Black Mesa or a Place of Much Learning.
1 94%Game Brain Scorestory, graphicsstability, grinding96% User Score 97,182 reviewsCritic Score 80%1 reviewsNamed Game of the Year by over 50 publications, Valve's debut title blends action and adventure with award-winning technology to create a frighteningly realistic world where players must think to survive. Also includes an exciting multiplayer mode that allows you to play against friends and enemies around the world.
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88%Game Brain Scoregraphics, storyoptimization, stability95% User Score 73,942 reviewsCritic Score 78%7 reviewsBlack Mesa: Definitive Edition includes performance improvements with a higher frame rate in some levels and visual upgrades, as well as all new and expanded Xen levels.
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View Game99%Game Brain Scorestory, gameplaygrinding, stability99% User Score 62,619 reviewsa short, fully-voiced 3d puzzler (somewhat reminiscent of the original Portal) that errs on the side of lighthearted bantering, all while giving you enough space to solve the puzzles on your own. it is rendered through a late-90's / early 00's visual aesthetic in an attempt to trigger latent nostalgia for 3d gaming in its adolescence. do enjoy!this was my first whirl with Unreal, and it worked out…
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96%Game Brain Scorestory, gameplaygrinding, stability99% User Score 54,199 reviewsCritic Score 80%1 reviewsWaking up in a seemingly empty laboratory, the player is made to complete various physics-based puzzle challenges through numerous test chambers in order to test out the new Aperture Science Handheld Portal Device, without an explanation as to how, why or by whom.
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95%Game Brain Scorestory, gameplaystability, grinding93% User Score 12,069 reviewsCritic Score 96%5 reviewsBioShock is a horror-themed first-person shooter set in a steampunk underwater dystopia. The player is urged to turn everything into a weapon: biologically modifying their own body with Plasmids, hacking devices and systems, upgrading their weapons, crafting new ammo variants, and experimenting with different battle techniques are all possible. The game is described by the developers as a spiritua…
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94%Game Brain Scorestory, gameplaystability, grinding98% User Score 54,988 reviewsCritic Score 92%36 reviewsHalf-Life: Alyx is Valve’s VR return to the Half-Life series. It’s the story of an impossible fight against a vicious alien race known as the Combine, set between the events of Half-Life and Half-Life 2. Alyx Vance and her father Eli mount an early resistance to the Combine's brutal occupation of Earth.
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87%Game Brain Scorestory, gameplaygrinding, stability91% User Score 63,802 reviewsCritic Score 82%8 reviewsBioShock Infinite: The Complete Edition is a re-release of BioShock Infinite including all its downloadable content.
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93%Game Brain Scorestory, gameplaygrinding, monetization97% User Score 72,899 reviewsCritic Score 90%115 reviewsA physical-only edition containing the Deluxe Edition of the game in a steelbook, digital soundtrack, figure, artbook, poster, and box.
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88%Game Brain Scorestory, musicstability, grinding95% User Score 115,377 reviewsCritic Score 90%40 reviewsThe fast-paced FPS that changed gaming forever.
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93%Game Brain Scorestory, atmospheregrinding, stability95% User Score 20,478 reviewsCritic Score 86%3 reviewsAmnesia: The Dark Descent is a survival horror video game by Frictional Games. The game features a protagonist named Daniel exploring a dark and foreboding castle, while trying to maintain his sanity by avoiding monsters and other terrifying obstructions. The game was critically well received.
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