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Games like Farpoint

2017PEGI 16PlayStation

A linear PlayStation VR shooter in which you get stranded on a hostile alien planet after an accident near Jupiter. Played with the Aim Controller, fighting off giant insectoid creatures feels especially immediate.

  • Sci-fi setting
  • Shooting and gunplay
  • Lavish presentation
  • Action-packed real-time combat

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In short: Games like Farpoint

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

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Best match

Killzone 3

88 %Match

2011USK 18PlayStation

Brings what grabs you about Farpoint: good gunplay, a sci-fi setting and lavish production.

A linear sci-fi first-person shooter on PlayStation with hard-hitting firefights against the Helghast, jetpacks, turrets and vehicle sections. Its grim war atmosphere and multiplayer modes define the experience.

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Killzone 2

Shooting and gunplay

A grim, cinematic first-person shooter set in the war between humans and the Helghast, featuring heavy cover-based gunplay and a squad-based multiplayer mode called Warzone.

Quake 4

Dark, serious atmosphere

A linear sci-fi shooter on the Doom 3 engine where marine Matthew Kane takes the fight to the Strogg homeworld, featuring the infamous stroggification twist. Squad missions, vehicle sections and fast arena multiplayer round it out.

Resistance 3

Shooting and gunplay

A grim first-person shooter set in an alien-ravaged 1950s America, where you fight to survive as Joseph Capelli. Upgradeable weapons, the weapon wheel and a co-op campaign define the experience.

Area 51

Dark, serious atmosphere

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.

Haze

Action-packed real-time combat

A 2008 first-person shooter in which you play a soldier for a private military corporation, using the drug Nectar to boost your abilities until you realize you are fighting for the wrong side. The drug mechanic alters perception and combat, but the game fell short of expectations.

Wing Commander: Prophecy

Vast, open spaces

A late-90s space combat game where you play rookie pilot Lance Casey flying linear missions against a mysterious alien threat, told through live-action FMV cutscenes.

Hard Reset

Sci-fi setting

An old-school, fast-paced first-person shooter from Flying Wild Hog where you blast hordes of machines through the gloomy cyberpunk city of Bezoar using two modular, upgradeable weapons. Environmental destruction, chain explosions and relentless arena fights take center stage.

Killzone: Mercenary

Sci-fi setting

A handheld first-person shooter for the PS Vita in which you play a mercenary taking contracts amid the Killzone war, working for both sides. It offers impressive handheld visuals, weapon loadouts and a campaign from a morally grey perspective.

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