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Games like Geist

2005

As a ghost trapped in the Volks Corporation, you possess humans, animals and objects to sneak through the facility, solve puzzles and uncover its dark secrets. The possession mechanic gives every situation several creative ways forward in an eerie science-fiction thriller.

  • Sci-fi setting
  • Shooting and gunplay
  • Puzzles and brain teasers
  • Dark, serious atmosphere

In short: Games like Geist

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

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The Fall

87 %Match

2014PEGI 12PC, PlayStation, Xbox, Nintendo Switch, Steam Deck playable87 % positive9.99 €

Brings what grabs you about Geist: a sci-fi setting, puzzles to figure out and a dark atmosphere.

You play an AI in a combat suit trying to save its unconscious pilot on an alien planet. Classic adventure-style puzzles, a bleak atmosphere and a thoughtful story about duty and consciousness drive the experience.

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Dino Crisis

Realistic visuals

Capcom's survival horror classic sends agent Regina into a research facility overrun by dinosaurs. Scarce ammo, puzzles and relentless raptors keep the tension high throughout.

Half-Life

Realistic visuals

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.

Solarix

Sci-fi setting

A first-person sci-fi horror game in which an engineer fights to survive on an infected research station. You can sneak past threats or fight them while the protagonist's mind slowly unravels.

Get Even

Pure single-player experience

A dark psychological thriller where a memory-probing device sends you through fragmented recollections of a kidnapping case. Its strengths are the eerie atmosphere, photogrammetry-based visuals and a disorienting story twist rather than combat.

Red Matter 2

Puzzles and brain teasers

You play agent Sasha, exploring an abandoned lunar base, solving puzzles and uncovering the secrets of the mysterious Red Matter. Its tense, claustrophobic atmosphere and blend of brain teasers with brief combat set it apart.

Second Sight

Action-packed real-time combat

A stealth-action thriller in which you play amnesiac John Vattic and use psychic powers to slip through levels. The story alternates between past and present, gradually uncovering his dark history.

Aliens versus Predator 2

Sci-fi setting

An atmospheric first-person shooter where you play three distinct campaigns as Marine, Predator and Alien, each with its own playstyle. The dark Alien-universe setting creates tense horror built on ambushes and hunting.

Project Pulsation

Sci-fi setting

You fight through a remote space station in a first-person shooter, facing turrets, alien creatures and ghostly apparitions. Horror and stealth sections create a tense sci-fi mood.

Aliens vs. Predator

Sci-fi setting

A first-person shooter with three separate campaigns as Marine, Predator and Alien, each playing very differently, from tense horror to stalking hunts and ambush kills. It also offers asymmetric three-faction multiplayer.

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