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2023PC, PlayStation95 % positive28.99 €

A story-driven VR shooter that blends Half-Life-style exploration with inventive weapons, puzzles and quirky sci-fi environments around a quantum reactor.

  • Sci-fi setting
  • Lots to discover
  • Shooting and gunplay
  • Lavish presentation
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Each of these 10 games shares something of what makes Vertigo 2 special. The reasons are listed right on each game.

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2006PEGI 18PC, Xbox, Steam Deck verified

Brings what grabs you about Vertigo 2: a sci-fi setting, good gunplay and action-packed real-time combat.

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.

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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.

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.

Selaco

Lavish presentation

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.

System Shock

Sci-fi setting

A groundbreaking sci-fi first-person shooter with RPG elements: alone on Citadel Station, you explore bleak corridors, piece together the story through audio logs and face the murderous AI SHODAN. Its dense atmosphere and environmental storytelling shaped later immersive sims.

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.

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.

Metroid Prime 4: Beyond

Sci-fi setting

Stranded on the alien world Viewros, Samus explores ancient ruins in first person, scanning her surroundings and using new psychic powers to open up blocked paths. It is an atmospheric sci-fi adventure that blends shooting, exploration and environmental puzzles.

System Shock

Sci-fi setting

This remake of the cult classic leaves you alone on the Citadel space station, ruled by the deranged AI SHODAN. You explore sprawling interconnected levels, fight to survive, solve puzzles and piece together the story through audio logs in a bleak cyberpunk atmosphere.

Metal Garden

Sci-fi setting

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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