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1996USK 16PC, Steam Deck verified96 % positive9.99 €

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.

  • Strong soundtrack
  • Dread and tension
  • Shooting and gunplay
  • Interconnected level design
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In short: Games like Quake

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

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Doom II: Hell on Earth

99 %Match

1994PEGI 16PC, Steam Deck verified95 % positive

Brings what grabs you about Quake: a strong soundtrack, interconnected level design and good gunplay.

The legendary shooter classic sends you and your Super Shotgun through maze-like levels packed with demons that have overrun Earth. Blistering, relentless combat, hidden secrets and nasty new foes like the Arch-vile keep it a genre benchmark to this day.

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Unreal

Strong soundtrack

A 1998 classic first-person shooter in which you crash-land on an alien world and explore striking landscapes and ancient architecture while fighting the brutal invaders who enslaved a peaceful race. It stresses atmosphere and discovery alongside the gunplay.

Dusk

Strong soundtrack

Dusk is a fast, 90s-style boomer shooter with eerie atmosphere and maze-like levels full of secrets. It focuses on fluid movement and punchy weapons against hordes of cultists and worse horrors.

Quake III Arena

Competing against other players

Quake III Arena is a pure arena shooter where blistering movement like strafe-jumping, precise aim and controlling item spawns decide every match. There's no campaign, just relentless deathmatches and duels against bots or real players.

Blood

Dread and tension

A brutal 1997 retro first-person shooter where you play vengeful cultist Caleb, mowing down undead and demons. Gothic horror settings, macabre black humor and inventive weapons like the voodoo doll make it a cult classic.

Descent II

Timing and reflexes matter (parrying, dodging)

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.

Blood: Fresh Supply

Dread and tension

A brutal retro first-person shooter from 1997 in updated form: as undead gunslinger Caleb you blast through hordes of cultists with shotguns, dynamite and occult weapons. Fast, gory level design full of secrets and dark humor.

Return to Castle Wolfenstein

Dread and tension

A classic WWII shooter where B.J. Blazkowicz battles Nazi occultists, undead, and super-soldier experiments across gloomy castles and labs. It also shipped with an influential class-based, objective-driven team multiplayer mode.

Painkiller

Strong soundtrack

A fast, old-school first-person shooter where you plow through huge monster hordes as a soul trapped between Heaven and Hell. Inventive dual-mode weapons, arena-style fights and a demon transformation power drive the frantic action.

Half-Life

Action-packed real-time combat

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.

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