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Games like Fester's Quest

1989

Playing as Uncle Fester from the Addams Family, you blast your way through an alien invasion in a top-down NES shooter. Power-ups and help from relatives like Thing and Lurch aid you against quirky monsters and bosses.

  • Challenging difficulty
  • Shooting and gunplay
  • Sci-fi setting
  • Lots of humour

In short: Games like Fester's Quest

Each of these 10 games shares something of what makes Fester's Quest special. The reasons are listed right on each game.

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Duke Nukem: Time to Kill

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1998PlayStation

Brings what grabs you about Fester's Quest: good gunplay, plenty of humour and a sci-fi setting.

A PlayStation third-person shooter where Duke blasts his way through different time periods while trading wisecracks. It mixes level exploration, a big weapon arsenal and two-player deathmatch levels.

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Platypus

Challenging difficulty

A fast, frantic arcade shoot-'em-up with a tongue-in-cheek premise about an overcrowded city invading its neighbour. You pilot a ship through waves of enemies in classic score-chasing style.

Ion Fury

Shooting and gunplay

A fast, 90s-style Build engine shooter with huge, twisty levels packed with secrets, explosive weapons and a wisecracking heroine in cyberpunk Neo DC. No regenerating health, just run and gun.

Bombshell

Shooting and gunplay

A fast top-down shooter with over-the-top 90s action-hero humor, where Bombshell blasts through alien worlds with swappable weapons and upgradable abilities to rescue the President.

Duke Nukem: Manhattan Project

Shooting and gunplay

A 2.5D action shooter where Duke blasts and wisecracks his way through a mutant-infested New York. Platforming sections and heavy gunplay come with crude, over-the-top 90s-style humor.

High on Life

Shooting and gunplay

A brightly colored first-person shooter drenched in Rick and Morty-style humor, where you fight an alien drug cartel alongside talkative, sassy living guns. Jokes and inventive weapon abilities take priority over challenge.

Duke Nukem

Action-packed real-time combat

The first Duke Nukem is a classic side-scrolling platformer with shooting, where Duke takes on Dr. Proton's robot army. A short retro arcade outing that introduces the wisecracking action hero.

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