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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.

  • Shooting and gunplay
  • Sci-fi setting
  • Action-packed real-time combat
  • Timing and reflexes matter (parrying, dodging)

The closest matches for Half-Life: Uplink are Alpha Prime, Disruptor and Doom 64. Each of these 10 games shares something of what makes Half-Life: Uplink special – the reasons are listed right on each game.

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Alpha Prime

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2007PC55 % positive4.99 €

Brings what grabs you about Half-Life: Uplink: good gunplay, a sci-fi setting and a realistic look.

A sci-fi first-person shooter set in a remote asteroid mining base where something has gone horribly wrong. You fight through the facility with futuristic weapons and gadgets while uncovering the threat.

Disruptor

Realistic visuals

You fight as a LightStormer soldier against mutants, space marines and aliens threatening Mars, Earth and space stations. Psionic powers implanted in your brain turn you into a fast, versatile first-person shooter hero in dark sci-fi settings.

Doom 64

Shooting and gunplay

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.

Black Mesa

Sci-fi setting

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.

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.

Selaco

Shooting and gunplay

A fast-paced sci-fi first-person shooter built on GZDoom, with destructible environments, smart enemy AI and intense firefights inside a research facility. It blends classic shooter speed with modern presentation and a story.

Hard Reset: Redux

Sci-fi setting

A fast, old-school first-person shooter set in a neon-lit cyberpunk city, where you mow down hordes of machines with upgradable weapons and explosive environments. Linear, uncompromising and focused on pure action.

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.

Hard Reset

Shooting and gunplay

An old-school, fast-paced first-person shooter from Flying Wild Hog where you blast hordes of machines through the gloomy cyberpunk city of Bezoar using two modular, upgradeable weapons. Environmental destruction, chain explosions and relentless arena fights take center stage.

Quake 4

Shooting and gunplay

A linear sci-fi shooter on the Doom 3 engine where marine Matthew Kane takes the fight to the Strogg homeworld, featuring the infamous stroggification twist. Squad missions, vehicle sections and fast arena multiplayer round it out.

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