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Games like 3-D WorldRunner

1987

You run, jump and blast your way in pseudo-3D across eight strange planets full of pits and alien foes. An early arcade-style shooter with pioneering spirit and simple, direct, demanding gameplay.

  • Shooting and gunplay
  • Sci-fi setting
  • Jumping and platforming
  • Challenging difficulty

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Each of these 10 games shares something of what makes 3-D WorldRunner special. The reasons are listed right on each game.

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Shock Troopers: 2nd Squad

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1998PC55 % positive−85 % 7.99 € 1.19 €

Brings what grabs you about 3-D WorldRunner: good gunplay, a sci-fi setting and a fast pace.

You guide your squad from a top-down view through missions full of explosions and enemy waves, in the style of a classic arcade shooter. Its appeal lies in direct, frantic firefights that work especially well with a friend.

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Time Commando

Challenging difficulty

A 90s time-travel action game where you fight through eras from prehistory to the far future to stop a computer virus. Each era brings its own enemies and weapons, though the controls are clunky and the difficulty is steep.

Pixel Gladiator

Vast, open spaces

A pixel-art arcade action game set in a distant future: as a gladiator in a galactic TV show, you fight deadly creatures on an abandoned planet and try to survive as long as you can.

Space Overlords

Fast pace

You escape prison and rampage across the galaxy in an arcade-style action game, seeking revenge on those who betrayed you. Expect fast, destructive combat in a space setting.

Capcom Arcade 2nd Stadium

Challenging difficulty

A compilation of over 30 classic Capcom arcade games from the 80s and 90s, spanning shooters, brawlers and platformers. Modern features like online leaderboards, rewind and extras make these punishing coin-eaters easy to revisit today.

Bleed 2

Fast pace

A fast-paced arcade action game where heroine Wryn shoots, dodges, reflects bullets and slows time. It centers on a string of boss fights in pixel art style with a tongue-in-cheek tone.

Capcom Arcade Stadium

Jumping and platforming

A compilation of 32 Capcom arcade classics spanning three decades, including Street Fighter II, Strider and 1942. Short, punishing quarter-muncher sessions that deliver nostalgic fun solo or with friends.

Sonic Rivals 2

Jumping and platforming

A 2.5D Sonic platformer where you race a rival to the finish of each stage, using power-ups to attack them. Boss fights are also races against your rival, and collectible cards add extra goals.

Fighting Force 2

Action-packed real-time combat

Fighting Force 2 is a 3D action game from Core Design in which a lone operative fights and shoots through a sci-fi conspiracy. Unlike its brawler predecessor, it leans more on adventure and stealth elements than on pure beat 'em up combat.

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