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2016 PC free 👍 95 % Overwhelmingly positive, 9,805 reviews on Steam

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.

What defines Transmissions: Element 120:

  • Sci-fi setting
  • Action-packed real-time combat

The closest matches for Transmissions: Element 120 are Metal Garden, Black Mesa and Alpha Prime. 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

95 %

2025 PCNintendo Switch 5.89 € 👍 98 % Overwhelmingly positive, 528 reviews on Steam

  • Sci-fi setting
  • Focus on a single character
  • Pure single-player experience

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.

Black Mesa

Realistic visuals

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.

Alien Trilogy

Realistic visuals

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.

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.

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.

Half-Life

Realistic visuals

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.

Boneworks

Sci-fi setting

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.

Unreal

Sci-fi setting

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.

Farpoint

Sci-fi setting

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.

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