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Games like Flashback

2018PC, PlayStation, Xbox, Nintendo Switch, Steam Deck playable79 % positive8.19 €

Flashback is the remake of the 1992 classic: a cinematic sci-fi platformer with fluid, rotoscoped-style animation, hand-drawn backdrops and an agent trying to recover his lost memory. Precise jumping, shooting and light puzzles define the experience.

  • Jumping and platforming
  • Sci-fi setting
  • Challenging difficulty
  • Shooting and gunplay

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In short: Games like Flashback

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

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Boneworks

80 %Match

2019PC92 % positive28.99 €

Brings what grabs you about Flashback: a sci-fi setting, good gunplay and a demanding difficulty.

A VR adventure built around a thorough physics simulation, where weapons, objects and your own body are handled physically to beat enemies and puzzles. Climbing, throwing and melee combat feel tangible and experimental.

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Monobot

Jumping and platforming

A 2D physics-based puzzle platformer where you guide a small robot through a bleak dystopian future, solving puzzles to uncover the secrets of its world.

Tomb Raider: Anniversary

Jumping and platforming

A reimagined version of the original Tomb Raider with redesigned levels where Lara Croft climbs, leaps and solves tricky environmental puzzles in ancient tombs. Occasional gunfights against animals and enemies break up the exploration.

Cyberia

Dark, serious atmosphere

A 90s pre-rendered sci-fi adventure in which you solve puzzles in a secret Russian base and fight rail-shooter-style sequences in a cockpit to stop a world-ending superweapon.

G-Police

Dark, serious atmosphere

As helicopter-style gunship pilot Jeff Slater, you patrol dark domed colony cities on distant moons, taking on mission-based combat while investigating your sister's death. Its moody cyberpunk atmosphere and corporate intrigue set it apart in the late 90s.

System Shock

Sci-fi setting

This remake of the cult classic leaves you alone on the Citadel space station, ruled by the deranged AI SHODAN. You explore sprawling interconnected levels, fight to survive, solve puzzles and piece together the story through audio logs in a bleak cyberpunk atmosphere.

Sense: A Cyberpunk Ghost Story

Dark, serious atmosphere

A 2.5D horror adventure in the vein of Clock Tower and Fatal Frame, set in a neon-soaked Neo Hong Kong. As Mei-Lin Mak you explore a haunted building, solve puzzles and evade ghosts while reality and the supernatural blur together.

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.

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.

Freespace 2

Sci-fi setting

A classic space combat sim where you fly in huge battles between Terrans, Vasudans and the overwhelming Shivans. Its cinematic campaign and massive capital ship fights have made it a long-lived favourite.

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