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Games like Alien 3

1992

A 16-bit run-and-gun platformer based on the film, where Ripley rescues prisoners on Fury 161 and fights off xenomorphs with a range of weapons. Time pressure and maze-like levels create tension and a steep difficulty.

Sci-fi setting
Dread and tension
Jumping and platforming
Shooting and gunplay

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

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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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Half-Life: Source

Dark, serious atmosphere

The Source engine version of the shooter classic: as scientist Gordon Freeman you fight through aliens and soldiers after an experiment goes wrong at Black Mesa. Updated lighting, water and physics refresh the look, but it remains the tightly scripted, linear original.

Black Mesa

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.

Doom 64

Dread and tension

A classic first-person shooter where you blast through 30+ grim levels of demons, hunt secrets and track down the Mother of Demons. The remaster of the N64 original delivers retro pacing, key-hunting level design and an eerie atmosphere.

Half-Life

Dark, serious atmosphere

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.

PowerSlave: Exhumed

Lots to discover

A retro first-person shooter set in ancient Egypt with a sci-fi twist: you fight through maze-like temples, hunt for keys and secrets, and collect new weapons. This re-release adds higher resolution and gamepad support while leaving the original game untouched.

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