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Games like Black Hole Hazard

2016PC

You play Dr. Albert floating in space, steering yourself with the recoil of your laser gun through distorted gravity. The unusual control scheme demands skill and clever thinking as you uncover a sci-fi mystery.

  • Sci-fi setting
  • Puzzles and brain teasers
  • Challenging difficulty
  • Timing and reflexes matter (parrying, dodging)

The closest matches for Black Hole Hazard are Cyberia, Transmissions: Element 120 and Half-Life. Each of these 10 games shares something of what makes Black Hole Hazard special – the reasons are listed right on each game.

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Cyberia

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1994PCPlayStationSteam Deck playable9.99 €

Brings what grabs you about Black Hole Hazard: a sci-fi setting, puzzles to figure out and a demanding difficulty.

A 90s pre-rendered sci-fi adventure in which you solve puzzles in a secret Russian base and fight rail-shooter-style sequences in a cockpit to stop a world-ending superweapon.

Transmissions: Element 120

Action-packed real-time combat

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.

Half-Life

Timing and reflexes matter (parrying, dodging)

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.

Q.U.B.E.

Puzzles and brain teasers

A first-person puzzle game set in a minimalist world of white cubes, where special gloves let you manipulate coloured blocks. The puzzles rely on physics, timing and spatial thinking.

BioForge

Puzzles and brain teasers

A 1995 cyber-thriller in which you play a half-human, half-machine prisoner breaking out and uncovering your lost identity. It mixes item puzzles with melee and gun combat, using early 3D textured characters over pre-rendered backgrounds.

Ecco the Dolphin: Defender of the Future

Puzzles and brain teasers

You swim as a dolphin through a 3D underwater world, solving puzzles and fighting the Foe to save Earth's future. Its appeal lies in blending exploration, sonar-based navigation and a melancholy science-fiction story.

Half-Life: Source

Timing and reflexes matter (parrying, dodging)

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.

Relicta

Puzzles and brain teasers

A first-person puzzle game set on a lunar base where you combine magnetism and gravity powers to solve physics challenges and uncover the station's secrets, wrapped in a personal father-daughter story.

Half-Life: Uplink

Timing and reflexes matter (parrying, dodging)

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.

Crusader: No Remorse

Challenging difficulty

An isometric sci-fi action shooter where you play a defecting Silencer taking down a corrupt world government with heavy weapons, destructible environments, and tricky traps and puzzles.

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