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1997PEGI 16

A grim, atmospheric classic shooter where you fight demon hordes alone and hunt for keys and secrets in maze-like levels. Eerie sound design and fast action define the experience.

  • Shooting and gunplay
  • Dread and tension
  • Interconnected level design
  • Sci-fi setting

In short: Games like Doom 64

Each of these 10 games shares something of what makes Doom 64 special. The reasons are listed right on each game.

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Alien Trilogy

94 %Match

1996USK 16PC, PlayStation

Brings what grabs you about Doom 64: dread and tension, good gunplay as well as a sci-fi setting.

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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Quake

Dread and tension

id Software's landmark shooter sends you through grim, gothic Lovecraftian mazes full of monsters, with lightning-fast movement, frantic gunplay and a brooding industrial soundscape by Trent Reznor. Its multiplayer also made history.

PowerSlave: Exhumed

Action-packed real-time combat

A retro first-person shooter set in ancient Egypt with a sci-fi twist: you fight through maze-like temples, hunt for keys and secrets, and collect new weapons. This re-release adds higher resolution and gamepad support while leaving the original game untouched.

Quake II

Sci-fi setting

A landmark sci-fi shooter: a lone marine fights through the industrial hellscape of Stroggos against a cybernetic alien army. It delivers fast gunplay, interconnected hub levels, a pounding metal soundtrack, and influential deathmatch multiplayer.

Descent II

Sci-fi setting

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.

Turok: Dinosaur Hunter

Action-packed real-time combat

A classic late-90s first-person shooter in which you play a time-travelling warrior hunting dinosaurs through sprawling jungle levels, searching for keys and secrets. A wild arsenal and maze-like level design define the experience.

Overload

Sci-fi setting

Overload is a six-degrees-of-freedom shooter that revives the Descent formula: you fly weightlessly through tight mine complexes, blasting robots and hunting for keys and secrets. Precise controls and fast, frantic combat are the core appeal.

F.E.A.R.

Dread and tension

A first-person shooter that pairs explosive slow-motion firefights against remarkably smart enemy AI with unsettling psychological horror built around the eerie girl Alma. Its destructible gunfights are still held up as a genre benchmark.

Dusk

Dread and tension

Dusk is a fast, 90s-style boomer shooter with eerie atmosphere and maze-like levels full of secrets. It focuses on fluid movement and punchy weapons against hordes of cultists and worse horrors.

Half-Life

Sci-fi setting

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.

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