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2016PC94 % positivefree

A short single-player shooter set in the Half-Life universe, built around a gravity-defying weapon that lets you leap over buildings and survive huge falls. Its mysterious story keeps you guessing where you are and why you were sent.

  • Sci-fi setting
  • Shooting and gunplay
  • Action-packed real-time combat

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In short: Games like Transmissions: Element 120

Each of these 10 games shares something of what makes Transmissions: Element 120 special. The reasons are listed right on each game.

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Metal Garden

87 %Match

2025PC, Nintendo Switch, Steam Deck playable96 % positive5.89 €

Brings what grabs you about Transmissions: Element 120: a sci-fi setting, good gunplay and progress without grind.

A short, atmospheric single-player shooter that takes you through an overgrown megastructure. Exploration and light puzzles accompany the action as you seek out what lies beyond.

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Half-Life: Uplink

Realistic visuals

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.

Helium

Realistic visuals

As the lone survivor of a spacecraft crew, you explore an alien planet to uncover what killed your crewmates and where a strange signal comes from. A small indie sci-fi shooter with a mystery-driven atmosphere.

Half-Life 2: Lost Coast

Realistic visuals

A short tech-showcase level set in the Half-Life 2 universe: you work your way up a coastal village to a fortress, fighting Combine soldiers and a gunship. Its highlights were the pioneering HDR lighting and the optional developer commentary.

Farpoint

Vast, open spaces

A linear PlayStation VR shooter in which you get stranded on a hostile alien planet after an accident near Jupiter. Played with the Aim Controller, fighting off giant insectoid creatures feels especially immediate.

Half-Life: Source

Realistic visuals

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.

Cyberia

Respects your time

A 90s pre-rendered sci-fi adventure in which you solve puzzles in a secret Russian base and fight rail-shooter-style sequences in a cockpit to stop a world-ending superweapon.

Eradicator

Realistic visuals

A 1990s first-person shooter in which you cleanse a mysteriously reactivated automated fortress of hostile enemies. Gunfights are mixed with switch and door puzzles and the hunt for the route through the complex.

VR Shooter Guns

Vast, open spaces

A small indie sci-fi first-person shooter built specifically for roomscale VR on the HTC Vive. The focus is on hands-on gunplay in virtual reality.

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