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1999PC, PlayStation

Uplink is a short standalone Half-Life demo built from content cut from the main game. It delivers classic shooter action with familiar weapons and enemies in a research facility setting.

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  • Sci-fi setting
  • Fast pace
  • Action-packed real-time combat
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In short: Games like Half-Life: Uplink

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

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Alpha Prime

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2007PEGI 16PC60 % positive4.99 €

Brings what grabs you about Half-Life: Uplink: good gunplay, a sci-fi setting and a realistic look.

A sci-fi first-person shooter set in a remote asteroid mining base where something has gone horribly wrong. You fight through the facility with futuristic weapons and gadgets while uncovering the threat.

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Disruptor

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Selaco

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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.

Quake 4

Action-packed real-time combat

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.

F.E.A.R.

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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.

Hard Reset

Fast pace

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.

Hard Reset: Redux

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A fast, old-school first-person shooter set in a neon-lit cyberpunk city, where you mow down hordes of machines with upgradable weapons and explosive environments. Linear, uncompromising and focused on pure action.

F.E.A.R. 2: Project Origin

Action-packed real-time combat

An intense first-person shooter that pairs slow-motion gunfights against smart AI soldiers with unsettling supernatural horror centered on the vengeful Alma. Mech sequences and movable cover add variety to its tightly paced, linear scares.

Warhammer 40,000: Fire Warrior

Action-packed real-time combat

A linear first-person shooter set in the Warhammer 40,000 universe, where you play a young Tau warrior fighting the Imperium and Chaos. Its appeal lies in seeing the setting from the Tau side with their pulse weapons.

Black Mesa

Action-packed real-time combat

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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