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Games like X-17

2016PC50 % positive

An indie shooter mixing first- and third-person perspectives, in which you fight an alien invasion on Earth and on other planets. The available information is sparse, so this rating is cautious.

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

The closest matches for X-17 are Half-Life: Uplink, Starship Troopers and Alien Rage: Unlimited. Each of these 10 games shares something of what makes X-17 special – the reasons are listed right on each game.

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Half-Life: Uplink

96 %Match

1999PCPlayStation

Brings what grabs you about X-17: good gunplay, a sci-fi setting and a realistic look.

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.

Starship Troopers

Shooting and gunplay

A first-person shooter based on the film where you fight huge swarms of alien bugs with futuristic weapons. Hundreds of enemies on screen at once make for frantic, large-scale battles.

Blake Stone: Planet Strike

Shooting and gunplay

A classic retro first-person shooter in the Wolfenstein 3D mold: as agent Blake Stone you fight through maze-like fortress levels to stop a power-mad scientist and his mutant army. Keycards and secret passages add variety.

Blake Stone: Aliens of Gold

Shooting and gunplay

A classic Wolfenstein 3D-style retro first-person shooter where you infiltrate the futuristic facilities of the mad Dr. Goldfire. Maze-like levels with keycards, elevators and mutants deliver old-school action.

VR Shooter Guns

Realistic visuals

A small indie sci-fi first-person shooter built specifically for roomscale VR on the HTC Vive. The focus is on hands-on gunplay in virtual reality.

Half-Life 2: Lost Coast

Realistic visuals

A short tech-showcase level set in the Half-Life 2 universe: you work your way up a coastal village to a fortress, fighting Combine soldiers and a gunship. Its highlights were the pioneering HDR lighting and the optional developer commentary.

Warhammer 40,000: Fire Warrior

Shooting and gunplay

A linear first-person shooter set in the Warhammer 40,000 universe, where you play a young Tau warrior fighting the Imperium and Chaos. Its appeal lies in seeing the setting from the Tau side with their pulse weapons.

Jupiteration

Shooting and gunplay

A sci-fi shooter built for VR headsets (HTC Vive, Oculus Rift with Touch) where you aim and fire using your own motion controls. I know little about this game, so this rating relies mostly on the metadata.

Gunman Chronicles

Shooting and gunplay

A classic Half-Life-engine first-person shooter that began as a mod: you fight mutated alien Xenomes as a Gunman with a varied weapon arsenal and a space-western flavor.

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