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1995PCPlayStationSteam Deck playable89 % positivefree

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.

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

The closest matches for Star Wars: Dark Forces are Crusader: No Remorse, Half-Life and Half-Life: Source. Each of these 10 games shares something of what makes Star Wars: Dark Forces special – the reasons are listed right on each game.

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Crusader: No Remorse

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1995PC

  • Sci-fi setting
  • Shooting and gunplay
  • Action-packed real-time combat

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.

Half-Life

Sci-fi setting

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.

Half-Life: Source

Sci-fi setting

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.

Eradicator

Sci-fi setting

A 1990s first-person shooter in which you cleanse a mysteriously reactivated automated fortress of hostile enemies. Gunfights are mixed with switch and door puzzles and the hunt for the route through the complex.

Marathon 2: Durandal

Sci-fi setting

A 90s classic first-person shooter notable for its story told through computer terminals. You fight through sci-fi levels full of switch puzzles, rival alien factions and weapons with multiple fire modes.

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.

Half-Life: Uplink

Sci-fi setting

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.

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.

Descent II

Shooting and gunplay

A classic six-degrees-of-freedom shooter where you pilot a ship in every direction through twisting alien mines full of hostile robots. Key hunting, new weapons and disorienting 3D navigation make for intense action.

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