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Games like Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake

1990

This MSX2 classic by Hideo Kojima refined the stealth genre: Snake infiltrates an enemy fortress, exploiting guard vision, noise and gadgets, while following a surprisingly cinematic story for its era.

  • Sci-fi setting
  • Tactical depth
  • Strong, story-driven narrative
  • Challenging difficulty

The closest matches for Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake are System Shock: Enhanced Edition, Dino Crisis and Receiver. Each of these 10 games shares something of what makes Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake special – the reasons are listed right on each game.

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System Shock: Enhanced Edition

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2015PCSteam Deck playable90 % positive−80 % 9.99 € 1.99 €

  • Sci-fi setting
  • Challenging difficulty
  • Strong, story-driven narrative

The 1994 classic sends you as a hacker through a space station overrun by the rogue AI SHODAN. First-person combat, puzzles and audio logs create a dark, tense atmosphere, and the Enhanced Edition adds modern controls and resolution.

Dino Crisis

Pure single-player experience

Capcom's survival horror classic sends agent Regina into a research facility overrun by dinosaurs. Scarce ammo, puzzles and relentless raptors keep the tension high throughout.

Receiver

Pure single-player experience

A minimalist first-person shooter where every gun action is manual: ejecting the magazine, loading rounds one by one, cocking the hammer. Randomized levels and scattered tapes tell a dark story in fragments, while turrets and drones punish every mistake.

System Shock

Strong, story-driven narrative

A groundbreaking sci-fi first-person shooter with RPG elements: alone on Citadel Station, you explore bleak corridors, piece together the story through audio logs and face the murderous AI SHODAN. Its dense atmosphere and environmental storytelling shaped later immersive sims.

Left Alive

Strong, story-driven narrative

A grim survival shooter with stealth elements set in a war-torn city, where you scavenge scarce resources and avoid enemies and mechs. Yoji Shinkawa's character design and the mech art give it a distinctive look.

Star Wars: Dark Forces

Pure single-player experience

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.

The Final Station

Strong, story-driven narrative

An atmospheric 2D side-scroller where you ride a train through a collapsing world, scavenge stations for supplies, fight off the infected, and keep your passengers alive. The shift between tense, ammo-scarce station raids and quiet train upkeep creates a bleak, oppressive mood.

The Thing

Strong, story-driven narrative

As a squad leader in Antarctica, you fight a shape-shifting alien while deciding which teammates you can still trust. The trust and paranoia mechanics give this third-person horror shooter its tense, claustrophobic character.

Crusader: No Remorse

Pure single-player experience

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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