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

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.

What defines Metal Garden:

  • Sci-fi setting
  • Lots to discover
  • Action-packed real-time combat

The closest matches for Metal Garden are Transmissions: Element 120, Hypogea and Industria II. Each of these 10 games shares something of what makes Metal Garden special – the reasons are listed right on each game.

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Transmissions: Element 120

95 %

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

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

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.

Hypogea

Lots to discover

A short, atmospheric 3D platformer about escaping a mysterious underground megastructure. It focuses on mood, exploration and platforming challenges.

Industria II

Lots to discover

A story-driven first-person shooter where you play a woman stranded in a hostile parallel world. A ruling AI dominates the boreal landscape as you scavenge and fight to find a way home.

Unreal

Lots to discover

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.

DeadCore

Sci-fi setting

DeadCore is a fast first-person platformer with guns, in which you climb a massive, fog-shrouded tower. Precise jumping, timing and speedrun appeal take center stage, wrapped in a dreamlike sci-fi atmosphere.

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.

Prey

Action-packed real-time combat

A linear sci-fi shooter in which you play Cherokee mechanic Tommy aboard a giant alien mothership. Portals, shifting gravity and spirit walking create inventive puzzles and firefights.

Star Wars: Dark Forces

Lots to discover

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.

Prey

Action-packed real-time combat

A linear 2006 sci-fi shooter in which you play Cherokee mechanic Tommy aboard a living alien mothership. It stands out for its gravity-flipping and portal puzzles, spirit-walking ability, and inventive level design that shakes up the usual shooting.

The Way

Lots to discover

A pixel-art sci-fi platformer in the vein of Another World and Flashback: you travel to an alien planet seeking a way to bring a loved one back to life. Puzzles, platforming and exploration form the core.

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