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A pioneering six-degrees-of-freedom shooter where you pilot a ship in every direction through twisting mine tunnels, destroying hostile robots. Disorienting true-3D mazes and the hunt for keycards give it its unique appeal.
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A classic first-person shooter with three separate campaigns as Marine, Predator or Alien. Each species has its own abilities and weapons, giving a very different feel from tense horror to stalking prey.
92 % 9.99 €
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A landmark sci-fi shooter: a lone marine fights through the industrial hellscape of Stroggos against a cybernetic alien army. It delivers fast gunplay, interconnected hub levels, a pounding metal soundtrack, and influential deathmatch multiplayer.
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A classic top-down shooter where you fight through an alien-infested space station, juggling scarce ammo, health and mission objectives. Its tense sci-fi horror mood is clearly inspired by the Alien films.
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A fast 1998 sci-fi shooter where you pilot a hovering craft through twisting tunnels of a ruined future world, fighting in every direction. Its full six-degrees-of-freedom movement and frantic multiplayer deathmatch set it apart.
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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.
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A 1996 side-scrolling shooter where you move with the keyboard and aim freely with the mouse. You battle swarms of mutants and solve simple switch puzzles across dark sci-fi levels.
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A 90s classic first-person shooter notable for its story told through computer terminals. You fight through sci-fi levels full of switch puzzles, rival alien factions and weapons with multiple fire modes.
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A grim 1996 first-person shooter that recreates the Alien films across 30 levels, as you blast through corridors full of facehuggers, xenomorphs and Queens with a range of weapons. The claustrophobic atmosphere and motion tracker build constant tension.
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DeadCore is a fast first-person platformer with guns, in which you climb a massive, fog-shrouded tower. Precise jumping, timing and speedrun appeal take center stage, wrapped in a dreamlike sci-fi atmosphere.
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A VR adventure built around a thorough physics simulation, where weapons, objects and your own body are handled physically to beat enemies and puzzles. Climbing, throwing and melee combat feel tangible and experimental.
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