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The closest matches for Spec Ops: The Line are Heavy Rain, Brothers in Arms: Hell's Highway and Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne. Each of these 10 games shares something of what makes Spec Ops: The Line special – the reasons are listed right on each game.
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A grim, cinematic thriller about the Origami Killer where you guide four characters, and every choice or failed quick-time sequence can decide who lives and how the story ends.
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A WWII squad shooter set during Operation Market Garden, where you suppress enemies with your team and flank them from cover. Its grim, serious presentation focuses on camaraderie and the cost of war.
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A bleak neo-noir shooter where Max Payne dives through slow-motion gunfights powered by bullet time, wrapped around a tragic love story with Mona Sax told through graphic-novel panels.
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An emotional, cinematic survival adventure in a world ravaged by fungal infection, where you guide Ellie across the US as Joel. Tense stealth and gunplay support one of gaming's most acclaimed stories.
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A short three-episode Telltale mini-series focused on Michonne's grief, guilt and inner demons. You make dialogue-driven choices and handle quick-time-event fights in a bleak zombie apocalypse.
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A cinematic action-adventure set in plague-stricken Italy in 1348, following young knight errant Aeta on a grim journey to rescue someone dear to her.
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Action-packed real-time combat
A brutal horror shooter where you play Torque, switching between firearms and transforming into a monstrous creature. Your moral choices shape the course and ending of the grim story.
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Action-packed real-time combat
As death-row inmate Torque, you fight through a maximum-security prison overrun by monstrous creatures and hallucinations. A grim third-person horror shooter where your moral choices shape Torque's fate and the ending.
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A cinematic horror adventure set in the Dead by Daylight universe, where your choices decide which of a group of young friends survive a killer. The story hops across timelines and traces Frank Stone's legacy through generations.
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An interactive horror movie about a documentary crew trapped in a replica of H.H. Holmes' Murder Castle. Your choices and quick-time events decide who survives, and you can play it in co-op with friends.