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2016PC94 % positivefree

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.

Sci-fi setting
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The closest matches for Transmissions: Element 120 are Black Mesa, Half-Life: Source and Half-Life. Each of these 10 games shares something of what makes Transmissions: Element 120 special – the reasons are listed right on each game.

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Best alternative overall: Black Mesa 93% match – Sci-fi setting
Newest alternative: Metal Garden 89% match – released 2025

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Black Mesa

93 %Match

2020PCSteam Deck playable95 % positive19.50 €

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.

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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.

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.

Star Wars: Dark Forces

Action-packed real-time combat

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.

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.

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.

Metal Garden

Action-packed real-time combat

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.

Star Wars: Dark Forces Remaster

Action-packed real-time combat

A classic 90s first-person shooter set in the Star Wars universe, where mercenary Kyle Katarn sabotages the Empire's Dark Trooper project. The remaster adds smooth performance, gamepad support and updated cutscenes while keeping the maze-like, key-hunting level design.

Doom 64

Action-packed real-time combat

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.

Helium

Sci-fi setting

As the lone survivor of a spacecraft crew, you explore an alien planet to uncover what killed your crewmates and where a strange signal comes from. A small indie sci-fi shooter with a mystery-driven atmosphere.