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1996PC

A 1996 side-scrolling shooter where you move with the keyboard and aim freely with the mouse. You battle swarms of mutants and solve simple switch puzzles across dark sci-fi levels.

  • Dread and tension
  • Sci-fi setting
  • Jumping and platforming
  • Shooting and gunplay

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In short: Games like Abuse

Each of these 10 games shares something of what makes Abuse special. The reasons are listed right on each game.

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Alien Trilogy

89 %Match

1996USK 16PC, PlayStation

Brings what grabs you about Abuse: dread and tension, a sci-fi setting as well as good gunplay.

A grim 1996 first-person shooter that recreates the Alien films across 30 levels, as you blast through corridors full of facehuggers, xenomorphs and Queens with a range of weapons. The claustrophobic atmosphere and motion tracker build constant tension.

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Alien Carnage

Jumping and platforming

A classic DOS side-scrolling platform shooter where a jetpack-equipped hero blasts hordes of aliens and zombies through run-and-gun levels while rescuing hostages. The tone is campy and tongue-in-cheek.

Half-Life: Source

Dark, serious atmosphere

The Source engine version of the shooter classic: as scientist Gordon Freeman you fight through aliens and soldiers after an experiment goes wrong at Black Mesa. Updated lighting, water and physics refresh the look, but it remains the tightly scripted, linear original.

Doom 64

Shooting and gunplay

A classic first-person shooter where you blast through 30+ grim levels of demons, hunt secrets and track down the Mother of Demons. The remaster of the N64 original delivers retro pacing, key-hunting level design and an eerie atmosphere.

Doom

Shooting and gunplay

You fight through hordes of demons on a Mars base and into Hell as a lone marine, moving at breakneck speed. Its fast weapons, hidden passages and grim atmosphere define the classic feel that this Xbox port carries over unchanged.

Area 51

Dread and tension

A linear first-person shooter where you play HAZMAT soldier Ethan Cole investigating a viral outbreak inside the secret Area 51 facility. Mutants, aliens and a conspiracy create a dark sci-fi horror mood.

Half-Life

Action-packed real-time combat

The landmark shooter sends physicist Gordon Freeman through the alien- and soldier-infested Black Mesa facility, telling its story seamlessly without cutscenes while mixing tense firefights with environmental and physics puzzles.

Doom 3

Dread and tension

A grim first-person shooter set on a Mars research base where hell breaks loose. Cramped, pitch-black corridors, jump scares and scarce resources make it feel more like survival horror than the fast-paced classic Doom.

Doom

Shooting and gunplay

You are the lone survivor holding back Hell in this 1993 classic, blasting through demon hordes at breakneck speed. This re-release packs the full original campaign, including Episode IV, into modern hardware with mod support.

Descent II

Action-packed real-time combat

A classic six-degrees-of-freedom shooter where you pilot a ship in every direction through twisting alien mines full of hostile robots. Key hunting, new weapons and disorienting 3D navigation make for intense action.

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