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1994 PC

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.

What defines System Shock:

  • Sci-fi setting
  • Lots to discover
  • Dark, serious atmosphere
  • Challenging difficulty

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Athanasia

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2026 PC −10 % 16.49 € 14.84 €

  • Sci-fi setting
  • Lots to discover
  • Dark, serious atmosphere

A survival horror shooter with immersive sim elements where you explore a mysterious facility and fend off predators from prehistory and the future using gear and wits. Its Metroidvania structure rewards exploration.

Scars Above

Challenging difficulty

A challenging sci-fi third-person action game where you play a scientist stranded on an alien planet, fighting monsters with elemental weapons and solving puzzles. Its checkpoint-based difficulty echoes soulslikes, while a mystery story drives you onward.

Omikron: The Nomad Soul

Sci-fi setting

A genre-blending 1999 adventure where your soul inhabits bodies in the dark futuristic city of Omikron, mixing exploration, puzzles, shooting and fighting-game combat. Notable for its David Bowie soundtrack and the idea of reincarnating into different bodies.

Galerians

Challenging difficulty

A PlayStation survival horror where young Rion has no weapons and fights with psychic powers that must be recharged by taking drugs. Pre-rendered backgrounds and a bleak sci-fi conspiracy create an oppressive atmosphere.

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.

Ground Zero

Challenging difficulty

A retro-style survival horror set in a ruined South Korea after a meteor strike, where mutated creatures roam. Scarce ammo, puzzles and gear upgrades deliver classic tension.

Otherskin

Sci-fi setting

A third-person Metroidvania shooter in which Alex explores an alien planet and absorbs organic abilities that reshape both combat and traversal. New powers steadily open up more of the world.

Hollowbody

Strong, story-driven narrative

A short tech-noir survival horror set in an abandoned British city: as smuggler Mica you search for your missing partner with scarce resources. It mixes exploration, puzzles and gunplay in the spirit of classic PS1-era horror games.

Alien Trilogy

Sci-fi setting

A grim 1996 first-person shooter that recreates the Alien films across 30 levels, as you blast through corridors full of facehuggers, xenomorphs and Queens with a range of weapons. The claustrophobic atmosphere and motion tracker build constant tension.

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