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2023PCPlayStation95 % positive28.99 €

A story-driven VR shooter that blends Half-Life-style exploration with inventive weapons, puzzles and quirky sci-fi environments around a quantum reactor.

Sci-fi setting
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Shooting and gunplay
Lavish presentation

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The closest matches for Vertigo 2 are Black Mesa, Metroid Prime 4: Beyond and Chorus. Each of these 10 games shares something of what makes Vertigo 2 special – the reasons are listed right on each game.

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Black Mesa

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2020PCSteam Deck playable95 % positive19.50 €

Sci-fi setting
Shooting and gunplay
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.

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Metroid Prime 4: Beyond

Sci-fi setting

Stranded on the alien world Viewros, Samus explores ancient ruins in first person, scanning her surroundings and using new psychic powers to open up blocked paths. It is an atmospheric sci-fi adventure that blends shooting, exploration and environmental puzzles.

Chorus

Sci-fi setting

A space-combat shooter where you play Nara, flying her sentient starfighter Forsaken through fast zero-g dogfights. Supernatural abilities and ancient temples give the space shooter a mystical twist.

Half-Life

Action-packed real-time combat

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.

Control

Lots to discover

As Jesse Faden you explore the shifting headquarters of a secret paranormal agency, fighting an otherworldly invasion with telekinesis and a shape-shifting service weapon. Spectacular destructible combat meets a surreal, bureaucratic New Weird mystery.

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.

Atomic Heart

Lavish presentation

A first-person shooter set in a retro-futuristic Soviet utopia where the robots have turned on their makers. It mixes punchy melee and gunplay, glove-powered abilities, puzzle-filled test facilities and bizarre humor with a striking art direction.

System Shock

Sci-fi setting

This remake of the cult classic leaves you alone on the Citadel space station, ruled by the deranged AI SHODAN. You explore sprawling interconnected levels, fight to survive, solve puzzles and piece together the story through audio logs in a bleak cyberpunk atmosphere.

System Shock

Sci-fi setting

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.

Axiom Verge

Lots to discover

A retro-styled Metroidvania in which a scientist wakes up in a strange biomechanical world. It thrives on a labyrinthine map, offbeat weapons and abilities, and the thrill of uncovering secrets.