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1995PEGI 16PC, Steam Deck playable86 % positive

A dark fantasy first-person shooter where you pick a fighter, mage or cleric, each with a unique arsenal, and fight through interconnected hub worlds. Switch puzzles and backtracking matter as much as the combat.

Interconnected level design
Fantasy setting
Shooting and gunplay
Dense, handcrafted world

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Heretic

92 %Match

1994PC

Heretic is a classic first-person shooter that takes the Doom engine into a dark fantasy world. Instead of guns you wield wands, crossbows and magical artifacts against undead and demons while hunting keys and exploring maze-like levels.

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Hedon Bloodrite

Dense, handcrafted world

A retro-style first-person shooter in the spirit of the 90s, with brutal combat, key hunting and puzzles across sprawling levels. Its dark crystal-filled fantasy world recalls dungeon crawlers and classics like Heretic.

Witchaven

Fantasy setting

A retro medieval fantasy first-person shooter where you play the knight Grondoval, fighting through a wicked witch's fortress with sword and spells. Light RPG elements and melee-focused combat give this build-engine-era game its own flavor.

Turok: Dinosaur Hunter

Lots to discover

A classic late-90s first-person shooter in which you play a time-travelling warrior hunting dinosaurs through sprawling jungle levels, searching for keys and secrets. A wild arsenal and maze-like level design define the experience.

Amid Evil

Fantasy setting

A fast retro-style boomer shooter that swaps guns for inventive magical weapons like staves and blades across surreal fantasy realms. Colorful, dreamlike levels reward hunting for secrets.

Quake

Dark, serious atmosphere

id Software's landmark shooter sends you through grim, gothic Lovecraftian mazes full of monsters, with lightning-fast movement, frantic gunplay and a brooding industrial soundscape by Trent Reznor. Its multiplayer also made history.

Turok 2: Seeds of Evil

Fantasy setting

A classic first-person shooter where you play Turok, blasting through sprawling jungle and alien levels, hunting for keys, and wielding an outrageously brutal arsenal against dinosaurs and monsters. The remaster brings back the N64-era feel.

Wizordum

Fantasy setting

A retro first-person shooter in the spirit of 90s fantasy classics like Heretic and Hexen: you blast and cast your way through maze-like levels full of secrets and light puzzles as a Cleric.

Turok 2: Seeds of Evil

Dense, handcrafted world

A classic late-90s first-person shooter where you play the dinosaur hunter Turok through huge, sprawling levels filled with prehistoric beasts, aliens and outlandish weapons. Hunting for keys and secrets matters as much as the shooting.

Wrath: Aeon of Ruin

Dense, handcrafted world

A hardcore retro first-person shooter built on Quake tech, set in a grim, decaying fantasy world. It pairs fast, brutal 90s-style gunplay with intricate levels full of secrets and a modern, oppressive atmosphere.

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