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Games like Half-Life: Source

2004PC69 % positive

The Source engine version of the shooter classic: as scientist Gordon Freeman you fight through aliens and soldiers after an experiment goes wrong at Black Mesa. Updated lighting, water and physics refresh the look, but it remains the tightly scripted, linear original.

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  • Sci-fi setting
  • Interconnected level design
  • Action-packed real-time combat
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In short: Games like Half-Life: Source

Each of these 10 games shares something of what makes Half-Life: Source special. The reasons are listed right on each game.

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Up to three areas count more, the rest steps back.

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Black Mesa

95 %Match

2020PC, Steam Deck playable94 % positive19.50 €

Brings what grabs you about Half-Life: Source: a sci-fi setting, good gunplay and interconnected level design.

A loving fan-made remake of the original Half-Life: as Gordon Freeman you fight through the disaster at the Black Mesa research facility, with rebuilt levels, new voice acting and music. Classic first-person shooter action with alien fights, physics puzzles and the extended Xen finale.

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Prey

Sci-fi setting

A linear 2006 sci-fi shooter in which you play Cherokee mechanic Tommy aboard a living alien mothership. It stands out for its gravity-flipping and portal puzzles, spirit-walking ability, and inventive level design that shakes up the usual shooting.

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.

Star Wars: Dark Forces

Sci-fi setting

An early Star Wars first-person shooter where you play mercenary Kyle Katarn aiding the Rebels, starting with stealing the Death Star plans. Its maze-like levels, key hunts and vertical design set it apart as a Doom contemporary with its own identity.

Selaco

Shooting and gunplay

A fast-paced sci-fi first-person shooter built on GZDoom, with destructible environments, smart enemy AI and intense firefights inside a research facility. It blends classic shooter speed with modern presentation and a story.

F.E.A.R.

Dark, serious atmosphere

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.

Crusader: No Remorse

Shooting and gunplay

An isometric sci-fi action shooter where you play a defecting Silencer taking down a corrupt world government with heavy weapons, destructible environments, and tricky traps and puzzles.

Scars Above

Dark, serious atmosphere

A challenging sci-fi third-person action game where you play a scientist stranded on an alien planet, fighting monsters with elemental weapons and solving puzzles. Its checkpoint-based difficulty echoes soulslikes, while a mystery story drives you onward.

Doom 64

Shooting and gunplay

A classic first-person shooter where you blast through 30+ grim levels of demons, hunt secrets and track down the Mother of Demons. The remaster of the N64 original delivers retro pacing, key-hunting level design and an eerie atmosphere.

Star Wars: Dark Forces Remaster

Sci-fi setting

A classic 90s first-person shooter set in the Star Wars universe, where mercenary Kyle Katarn sabotages the Empire's Dark Trooper project. The remaster adds smooth performance, gamepad support and updated cutscenes while keeping the maze-like, key-hunting level design.

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