- #1 BioShock™ Remastered
97% matchVery Positive83% of 65,243 reviews2016
Dev: 2K BostonPub: 2K
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 12.1 hrs≥1hr: 85%
BioShock is a shooter unlike any other, loaded with unique weapons and tactics. Complete with an arsenal of revolvers, shotguns, and grenade launchers, players will be forced to genetically modify their DNA to become an even deadlier weapon.
Why similar: FPS 22.3%, Steampunk 13.4% ★, Underwater 8.3% ★, Story Rich 7.3%, Dystopian 6.8%
Why You'll Like It: It is the polished modern edition of the same landmark Rapture adventure, preserving BioShock's plasmid combat, exploration, and oppressive atmosphere.
- #2 BioShock™ 2 Remastered
96% matchMostly Positive72% of 30,391 reviews2016
Dev: 2K MarinPub: 2K
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 13.3 hrs≥1hr: 86%
In BioShock 2, you step into the boots of the most iconic denizen of Rapture, the Big Daddy, as you explore through the decrepit and beautiful fallen city, chasing an unseen foe in search of answers and your own survival.
Why similar: FPS 23.2%, Steampunk 15.5% ★, Underwater 8.1% ★, Dystopian 7.4%, Story Rich 7%
Why You'll Like It: It returns to Rapture with more flexible weapons-and-plasmids combat while expanding the city's story and environmental detail.
- #3 BioShock Infinite
96% matchVery Positive93% of 145,813 reviews2013
Dev: Irrational GamesPub: 2K
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 9.8 hrsMean: 22.5 hrs≥1hr: 93%
Indebted to the wrong people, with his life on the line, veteran of the U.S. Cavalry and now hired gun, Booker DeWitt has only one opportunity to wipe his slate clean. He must rescue Elizabeth, a mysterious girl imprisoned since childhood and locked up in the flying city of Columbia.
Why similar: FPS 20.6%, Steampunk 17.8% ★, Immersive 9.8% ★, Shooter 6.8%, Story Rich 6.8%
Why You'll Like It: Its first-person shooting, supernatural vigor powers, political dystopia, and ambitious narrative make it the closest thematic successor outside Rapture.
- #4 System Shock
95% matchVery Positive90% of 13,021 reviews2023
Dev: Nightdive StudiosPub: Atari
Windows
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 16.7 hrs≥1hr: 74%
A first-person fight to the death in the depths of space!
Why similar: FPS 27.4%, Horror 11.4%, Classic 9.2% ★, Sci-fi 9.1%, Atmospheric 7.4%
Why You'll Like It: This modern remake of BioShock's foundational influence delivers a hostile sci-fi facility, audio-log storytelling, hacking, exploration, and resourceful FPS combat.
- #5 Dishonored
94% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 88,475 reviews2012
Dev: Arkane StudiosPub: Bethesda Softworks
Windows
Median: 9.3 hrsMean: 20.8 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Dishonored is an immersive first-person action game that casts you as a supernatural assassin driven by revenge. With Dishonored’s flexible combat system, creatively eliminate your targets as you combine the supernatural abilities, weapons and unusual gadgets at your disposal.
Why similar: Steampunk 40.1% ★, FPS 11.3%, First-Person 8.4%, Atmospheric 8.2%, Story Rich 7.9%
Why You'll Like It: Its morally compromised industrial city and supernatural abilities encourage the same kind of inventive, player-driven problem solving as BioShock's plasmids.
- #6 System Shock 2: 25th Anniversary Remaster
93% matchVery Positive88% of 2,273 reviews2025
Dev: Nightdive Studios
Windows
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 9.5 hrs≥1hr: 73%
System Shock® 2: 25th Anniversary Remaster is a genre defining experience that established innovative game-play mechanics that are a staple of the FPS and RPG genre today. Survive the wretched corridors of the Von Braun. Your training has prepared you for this.
Why similar: FPS 31.2%, Horror 11.7%, Atmospheric 9%, Sci-fi 8%, Shooter 7.8%
Why You'll Like It: It blends tense FPS survival, RPG progression, psi abilities, and a malfunctioning-space-station mystery that directly informed BioShock's design.
- #7 Prey
94% matchVery Positive91% of 54,757 reviews2017
Dev: Arkane StudiosPub: Bethesda Softworks
Windows
Median: 7.0 hrsMean: 27.3 hrs≥1hr: 90%
In Prey, you awaken aboard Talos I, a space station orbiting the moon in the year 2032. You are the key subject of an experiment meant to alter humanity forever – but things have gone terribly wrong. The space station has been overrun by hostile aliens and you are now being hunted.
Why similar: FPS 29.1%, Horror 12.4%, Sci-fi 11.6%, Atmospheric 10.6%, Story Rich 10.1%
Why You'll Like It: Its abandoned space station, uncanny atmosphere, environmental storytelling, and alien powers offer one of the best modern immersive-sim alternatives to BioShock.
- #8 Atomic Heart
91% matchVery Positive81% of 56,309 reviews2023
Dev: MundfishPub: Focus Entertainment
Windows
Median: 9.6 hrsMean: 26.2 hrs≥1hr: 93%
In a mad and sublime utopian world, take part in explosive encounters. Adapt your fighting style to each opponent, use your environment and upgrade your equipment to fulfill your mission. If you want to reach the truth, you'll have to pay in blood.
Why similar: FPS 31.7%, Horror 11.6%, Shooter 9.8%, Alternate History 8.1%, Sci-fi 8.1%
Why You'll Like It: This surreal alternate-Soviet FPS pairs bizarre science-fiction environments, eccentric powers, and experimental weapons in a very BioShock-adjacent package.
- #9 Deus Ex: Human Revolution - Director's Cut
92% matchVery Positive92% of 30,029 reviews2013
Dev: Eidos MontrealPub: Eidos Interactive Corp.
Windows
Median: 5.4 hrsMean: 19.1 hrs≥1hr: 90%
You play Adam Jensen, an ex-SWAT specialist who's been handpicked to oversee the defensive needs of one of America's most experimental biotechnology firms. When a black ops team breaks in and kills the very scientists you were hired to protect, everything you thought you knew about your job changes.
Why similar: FPS 30.9%, Story Rich 10.3%, Dystopian 9.1%, Sci-fi 9%, Immersive 7% ★
Why You'll Like It: Its conspiracy-heavy cyberpunk world and augmentations support combat, stealth, hacking, and exploration in a way that complements BioShock's immersive storytelling.
- #10 Singularity™
91% matchVery Positive93% of 5,962 reviews2010
Dev: Raven SoftwarePub: Activision
Windows
Median: 5.6 hrsMean: 7.4 hrs≥1hr: 80%
FIGHT THE PAST TO SAVE THE FUTURE. STOP THE SINGULARITY. Learn the truth behind a massive cover-up of the catastrophic SINGULARITY, an event that fractured time and threatens the world as we know it. Armed with powerful, advanced weaponry and the experimental Time Manipulation Device, fight enemies from the past, the present, and...
Why similar: FPS 44.5%, Horror 8.5%, Sci-fi 8.1%, Atmospheric 7.1%, Shooter 6.4%
Why You'll Like It: This linear sci-fi shooter combines a decaying secret facility, time-manipulation powers, and a pulpy alternate-history mystery reminiscent of BioShock's experiments gone wrong.
- #11 F.E.A.R.
90% matchVery Positive94% of 19,591 reviews2010
Dev: Monolith Productions, Inc.Pub: Warner Bros. Games
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 16.4 hrs≥1hr: 69%
Experience the original F.E.A.R. along with F.E.A.R. Extraction Point and F.E.A.R. Perseus Mandate.
Why similar: FPS 39.8%, Classic 16.2% ★, Horror 16.1%, Shooter 5.5%, Atmospheric 5.2%
Why You'll Like It: It combines sharp first-person gunplay with paranormal horror, unsettling offices, and psychological tension that suit BioShock's darker side.
- #12 Wolfenstein: The New Order
89% matchVery Positive92% of 62,408 reviews2014
Dev: MachineGamesPub: Bethesda Softworks
Windows
Median: 11.9 hrsMean: 19.2 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Wolfenstein®: The New Order reignites the series that created the first-person shooter genre. Wolfenstein offers a deep game narrative packed with action, adventure and first-person combat.
Why similar: FPS 45%, Shooter 8.7%, Alternate History 7.4%, Action 6.8%, Story Rich 6.3%
Why You'll Like It: This alternate-history shooter balances satisfying combat with a grim, character-focused story about a technologically monstrous authoritarian regime.
- #13 Deus Ex: Game of the Year Edition
89% matchVery Positive95% of 15,691 reviews2007
Dev: Ion StormPub: Eidos Interactive Corp.
Windows
Median: 54 minMean: 11.5 hrs≥1hr: 47%
The year is 2052. The world's economies are close to collapse and the gap between the insanely wealthy and the desperately poor grows ever wider. Worst of all, an ages old conspiracy bent on world domination has decided that the time is right to emerge from the shadows and take control.
Why similar: FPS 26.1%, Classic 24.6% ★, Dystopian 9%, Sci-fi 6.7%, Story Rich 6%
Why You'll Like It: This genre-defining immersive sim emphasizes conspiracies, augmentation powers, player choice, and multiple solutions to obstacles.
- #14 We Happy Few
88% matchMostly Positive77% of 13,778 reviews2018
Dev: Compulsion Games
Windows
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 15.4 hrs≥1hr: 85%
From the independent studio that brought you Contrast, We Happy Few is an action/adventure game set in a drug-fuelled, retrofuturistic city in an alternative 1960s England. Hide, fight and conform your way out of this delusional, Joy-obsessed world.
Why similar: Dystopian 28.6%, Horror 15.7%, First-Person 12.8%, Atmospheric 12.4%, Action 10.1%
Why You'll Like It: A retrofuturist society built on social control, drug-induced denial, and disturbing environmental storytelling gives it a similarly unsettling dystopian identity.
- #15 Dishonored 2
87% matchVery Positive90% of 66,966 reviews2016
Dev: Arkane StudiosPub: Bethesda Softworks
Windows
Median: 8.5 hrsMean: 23.3 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Reprise your role as a supernatural assassin in Dishonored 2. Declared a “masterpiece” by Eurogamer and hailed “a must-play revenge tale” by Game Informer, Dishonored 2 is the follow up to Arkane’s 1st-person action blockbuster & winner of 100+ 'Game of the Year' awards, Dishonored.
Why similar: Steampunk 45.1% ★, Story Rich 11.2%, First-Person 10.7%, Atmospheric 10%, Action 6.7%
Why You'll Like It: It expands the first game's supernatural toolset and densely layered environments, offering exceptional freedom to explore and approach encounters creatively.
- #16 Half-Life 2
86% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 279,952 reviews2004
Dev: Valve
Windows · Linux
Median: 6.6 hrsMean: 36.1 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Reawakened from stasis in the occupied metropolis of City 17, Gordon Freeman is joined by Alyx Vance as he leads a desperate human resistance. Experience the landmark first-person shooter packed with immersive world-building, boundary-pushing physics, and exhilarating combat.
Why similar: FPS 35.9%, Classic 17.8% ★, Story Rich 6.8%, Dystopian 6.2%, Sci-fi 6.2%
Why You'll Like It: Its landmark environmental storytelling, oppressive dystopian setting, physics-driven encounters, and focused first-person campaign helped establish the template BioShock built upon.
- #17 Dead Space (2008)
86% matchVery Positive92% of 29,266 reviews2009
Dev: EA Redwood ShoresPub: Electronic Arts
Windows
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 10.5 hrs≥1hr: 79%
You are Isaac Clarke, an engineer on the spacecraft USG Ishimura. You're not a warrior. You're not a soldier. You are, however, the last line of defense for the remaining living crew.
Why similar: Horror 32.6%, Sci-fi 16%, Atmospheric 12.5%, Action 9.7%, Shooter 9.1%
Why You'll Like It: Its isolated sci-fi setting, audio-log narrative, grotesque body horror, and limited-resource combat capture BioShock's sense of dread, albeit in third person.
- #18 Close To The Sun
85% matchMostly Positive74% of 1,352 reviews2020
Dev: Storm in a TeacupPub: Wired Productions
Windows
Median: 4.3 hrsMean: 5.7 hrs≥1hr: 92%
Deep in international waters, Tesla’s Helios stands still. An unbound utopia for scientific research, Rose Archer steps aboard in search of her sister, quickly to discover not all is as it seems. A single word covers the entrance… QUARANTINE!
Why similar: Steampunk 62.9% ★, Horror 16%, First-Person 9.3%, Adventure 5.6%, Atmospheric 4.2%
Why You'll Like It: Its isolated art-deco scientific utopia, first-person exploration, and sinister experimentation strongly evoke Rapture's visual and thematic mood.
- #19 System Shock: Enhanced Edition
84% matchVery Positive89% of 2,369 reviews2015
Dev: Looking Glass StudiosPub: Nightdive Studios
Windows
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 6.4 hrs≥1hr: 83%
Re-discover what made System Shock the first of it's kind, a ground breaking immersive sim that would inspire a generation of games to come....
Why similar: Classic 25.6% ★, FPS 22.4%, Horror 10%, Sci-fi 7.2%, First-Person 5.1%
Why You'll Like It: BioShock's earliest ancestor offers a hostile station to explore, a rogue AI antagonist, cybernetic upgrades, and emergent first-person problem solving.
- #20 The Darkness II
84% matchVery Positive92% of 21,168 reviews2012
Dev: Digital ExtremesPub: 2K
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 9.3 hrs≥1hr: 73%
An intense first person shooter that delivers a twisted and gripping narrative of tragedy, modern crime drama, and supernatural horror.
Why similar: FPS 49.9%, Shooter 9.2%, Horror 8.8%, Action 7.6%, Dark 5.5%
Why You'll Like It: This story-focused FPS adds monstrous supernatural powers to brutal gunfights and explores grief and psychological darkness in a stylized world.
- #21 Metro 2033 Redux
83% matchVery Positive92% of 142,328 reviews2014
Dev: 4A GamesPub: Deep Silver
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.2 hrsMean: 14.4 hrs≥1hr: 83%
In 2013 the world was devastated by an apocalyptic event, annihilating almost all mankind and turning the Earth's surface into a poisonous wasteland. A handful of survivors took refuge in the depths of the Moscow underground, and human civilization entered a new Dark Age. The year is 2033.
Why similar: FPS 35.6%, Story Rich 12%, Horror 11.8%, Atmospheric 11.6%, Shooter 7.4%
Why You'll Like It: Its claustrophobic first-person survival shooting, ruined world, and oppressive atmosphere make exploration feel consistently dangerous and story-driven.
- #22 DEATHLOOP
82% matchMostly Positive76% of 30,502 reviews2021
Dev: Arkane StudiosPub: Bethesda Softworks
Windows
Median: 5.0 hrsMean: 15.4 hrs≥1hr: 87%
DEATHLOOP is a next-gen FPS from Arkane Lyon, the award-winning studio behind Dishonored. In DEATHLOOP, two rival assassins are trapped in a mysterious timeloop on the island of Blackreef, doomed to repeat the same day for eternity.
Why similar: FPS 51.7%, Shooter 11.6%, First-Person 10.5%, Story Rich 9.1%, Action 7.8%
Why You'll Like It: Its stylish first-person action, supernatural powers, dark humor, and environmental puzzle-solving provide a faster but still immersive-sim-focused alternative.
- #23 Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines
82% matchVery Positive94% of 15,398 reviews2007
Dev: Troika GamesPub: Activision
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 17.3 hrs≥1hr: 67%
Vampire®: The Masquerade-Bloodlines™ delivers a new type of RPG experience-one that blends all the core elements of a traditional RPG with the graphical richness, immediacy and brutal combat of a first-person action game. The game plunges players into the dark and gritty vampire underworld of modern-day L.A. as a creature of the night.
Why similar: Classic 20.7% ★, Immersive 12.4% ★, RPG 11.5%, Horror 11%, Story Rich 10%
Why You'll Like It: Though more RPG-focused, its immersive first-person city exploration, factional moral ambiguity, and supernatural abilities create a similarly reactive dark world.
- #24 INDUSTRIA
81% matchMostly Positive71% of 4,373 reviews2021
Dev: BleakmillPub: Headup
Windows
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 4.5 hrs≥1hr: 83%
Embark on a gripping journey in INDUSTRIA, an atmospheric FPS set in Cold War-era East Berlin. Unravel the secrets of a mysterious parallel dimension while searching for a missing colleague. Explore a haunting reality where the truth awaits. Discover the dark past that lies beyond.
Why similar: FPS 24.7%, Immersive 12.2% ★, Dystopian 11.2%, Story Rich 7.7%, Atmospheric 7.2%
Why You'll Like It: Its uncanny alternate-reality setting, isolated first-person exploration, and retro-industrial sci-fi mystery deliver a focused atmospheric shooter experience.
- #25 DOOM 3
81% matchVery Positive86% of 12,566 reviews2012
Dev: id SoftwarePub: Bethesda Softworks
Windows
Median: 2.4 hrsMean: 13.2 hrs≥1hr: 66%
A demonic invasion has overwhelmed the Union Aerospace Corporation's Mars research facility. As one of only a few survivors, you must fight your way to hell and back against a horde of demons in this award-winning horror/action FPS and reimagining of the original DOOM.
Why similar: FPS 38.2%, Classic 17.5% ★, Horror 13.3%, Shooter 7.5%, Sci-fi 5.1%
Why You'll Like It: Its dark facility exploration, demon-infested science-fiction horror, and claustrophobic first-person combat make it a fitting choice for BioShock's horror-oriented moments.
- #26 Ctrl Alt Ego
79% matchVery Positive92% of 808 reviews2022
Dev: MindThunk
Windows
Median: 1.3 hrsMean: 4.2 hrs≥1hr: 58%
Innovative genre mashup (first-person immersive sim puzzler FPS RPG) with emphasis on problem-solving and creativity. Unique vibes and original mechanics that you won't have experienced before. One of the best games of 2022 according to various credible sources!
Why similar: FPS 39.4%, Immersive 23.8% ★, Sci-fi 10.6%, First-Person 7.6%, RPG 6.1%
Why You'll Like It: This inventive immersive sim centers on inhabiting machines and manipulating systems, rewarding experimentation in the same spirit as BioShock's power-based encounters.
- #27 Observer: System Redux
78% matchVery Positive85% of 3,032 reviews2020
Dev: Bloober TeamPub: Bloober Team SA
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 8.3 hrs≥1hr: 69%
A first‑person cyberpunk horror detective story set in a decaying, neon‑scarred future. As an Observer who invades minds to hunt for clues, you will sift through corrupted memories to track down a mysterious killer and confront your own dark past.
Why similar: Horror 24%, Story Rich 19.8%, Dystopian 18.7%, Alternate History 14.6%, First-Person 14.4%
Why You'll Like It: This cyberpunk horror investigation prioritizes oppressive world-building, psychological unease, and narrative discovery over pure action.
- #28 Pathologic 2
78% matchVery Positive92% of 12,223 reviews2019
Dev: Ice-Pick LodgePub: tinyBuild
Windows
Median: 4.6 hrsMean: 12.5 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Pathologic 2 is a groundbreaking open-world horror RPG. Resist the plague. Make medicine. Heal people. Perform an autopsy. Trade to get what you need. Fight and kill if necessary. Survive. Struggle with an outbreak in a secluded rural town that is rapidly turning into hell.
Why similar: Story Rich 23%, Atmospheric 20.3%, Dystopian 19.6%, First-Person 9.4%, RPG 7.9%
Why You'll Like It: Its first-person survival drama trades shooting for a uniquely oppressive plague-ridden town, moral pressure, and environmental storytelling.
- #29 Arx Fatalis
79% matchVery Positive88% of 2,650 reviews2007
Dev: Arkane StudiosPub: Bethesda Softworks
Windows
Median: 30 minMean: 9.9 hrs≥1hr: 41%
This critically acclaimed first-person RPG from Arkane Studios takes the player on an amazing journey into the fantasy world of Arx. Arx is wrought with turmoil, brought to the brink of destruction by a violent war.
Why similar: Classic 35.5% ★, First-Person 14%, Atmospheric 13.5%, RPG 13.2%, Story Rich 6.2%
Why You'll Like It: This first-person immersive sim emphasizes environmental exploration, unusual magic, factions, and systemic solutions within an atmospheric underground world.
- #30 BioShock® 2
77% matchVery Positive89% of 14,989 reviews2010
Dev: 2K MarinPub: 2K
Windows
Median: 2.4 hrsMean: 16.2 hrs≥1hr: 61%
Set approximately 10 years after the events of the original BioShock, the halls of Rapture once again echo with sins of the past. Along the Atlantic coastline, a monster has been snatching little girls and bringing them back to the undersea city of Rapture.
Why similar: FPS 30.6%, Steampunk 16.3% ★, Story Rich 6.6%, Atmospheric 5.9%, Underwater 5.9% ★
- #31 Fallout 3: Game of the Year Edition
76% matchVery Positive82% of 56,264 reviews2009
Dev: Bethesda Game StudiosPub: Bethesda Softworks
Windows
Median: 4.9 hrsMean: 27.2 hrs≥1hr: 71%
Prepare for the Future™ With Fallout 3: Game of the Year Edition, experience the most acclaimed game of 2008 like never before. Create a character of your choosing and descend into an awe-inspiring, post-apocalyptic world where every minute is a fight for survival.
Why similar: FPS 32.4%, RPG 11.6%, First-Person 10.1%, Sci-fi 9.5%, Atmospheric 7.8%
- #32 Crysis 2 - Maximum Edition
75% matchVery Positive85% of 13,880 reviews2011
Dev: Crytek StudiosPub: Electronic Arts
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 10.8 hrs≥1hr: 73%
Aliens are decimating New York City, only you have the technology to survive. Be The Weapon.
Why similar: FPS 51.8%, Shooter 10.3%, Sci-fi 9.5%, Action 9.4%, First-Person 5.6%
- #33 Black Mesa
72% matchVery Positive95% of 145,002 reviews2020
Dev: Crowbar Collective
Windows · Linux
Median: 8.4 hrsMean: 24.0 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Relive Half-Life.
Why similar: FPS 31%, Classic 16.4% ★, Story Rich 7.2%, Sci-fi 6.8%, Shooter 6.8%
- #34 Fallout 3
74% matchVery Positive81% of 22,195 reviews2008
Dev: Bethesda Game StudiosPub: Bethesda Softworks
Windows
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 30.7 hrs≥1hr: 70%
Vault-Tec engineers have worked around the clock on an interactive reproduction of Wasteland life for you to enjoy from the comfort of your own vault. Included is an expansive world, unique combat, shockingly realistic visuals, tons of player choice, and an incredible cast of dynamic characters.
Why similar: FPS 28.1%, RPG 10.1%, First-Person 9.6%, Sci-fi 9.4%, Atmospheric 9.3%
- #35 Bastion
72% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 38,212 reviews2011
Dev: Supergiant Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 8.5 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Discover the secrets of the Calamity, a surreal catastrophe that shattered the world to pieces.
Why similar: Great Soundtrack 31.4%, Story Rich 23.6%, Action 15.4%, RPG 10.7%, Atmospheric 7.9%
- #36 Far Cry®
73% matchVery Positive82% of 11,861 reviews2008
Dev: Crytek StudiosPub: Ubisoft
Windows
Median: 1.5 hrsMean: 10.3 hrs≥1hr: 57%
A tropical paradise seethes with hidden evil in Far Cry®, a cunningly detailed action shooter that pushes the boundaries of combat to shocking new levels. Freelance mariner Jack Carver is cursing the day he ever came to this island.
Why similar: FPS 43.1%, Classic 24% ★, Shooter 7.3%, Action 5.9%, First-Person 5%
- #37 Fallout: New Vegas
71% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 261,989 reviews2010
Dev: Obsidian EntertainmentPub: Bethesda Softworks
Windows
Median: 19.8 hrsMean: 74.3 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Welcome to Vegas. New Vegas. Enjoy your stay!
Why similar: FPS 28.6%, Story Rich 14.3%, RPG 11.8%, First-Person 9.2%, Atmospheric 8.7%
- #38 Borderlands Game of the Year Enhanced
69% matchVery Positive81% of 27,938 reviews2023
Dev: Gearbox SoftwarePub: 2K
Windows
Median: 5.2 hrsMean: 22.0 hrs≥1hr: 75%
Discover the original co-op shooter-looter, crammed with new enhancements! As one of 4 trigger-happy mercenaries with RPG progression, equip bazillions of guns to take on the desert planet Pandora.
Why similar: FPS 49.5%, Shooter 15.4%, First-Person 12%, Atmospheric 6.3%, Action 5.2%
- #39 Amnesia: The Dark Descent
71% matchVery Positive95% of 35,783 reviews2010
Dev: Frictional Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.2 hrsMean: 10.6 hrs≥1hr: 55%
Amnesia: The Dark Descent, a first person survival horror. A game about immersion, discovery and living through a nightmare. An experience that will chill you to the core.
Why similar: Horror 47.2%, Atmospheric 16.5%, First-Person 12.3%, Story Rich 7.2%, Dark 7.1%
- #40 Quake
71% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 16,461 reviews2007
Dev: id SoftwarePub: Bethesda Softworks
Windows
Median: 1.8 hrsMean: 27.2 hrs≥1hr: 59%
Developed by the award-winning id Software, Quake® is the ground-breaking, original dark fantasy first-person shooter that inspires today’s retro-style FPS games. With Quake (Enhanced), experience the authentic, updated, and visually enhanced version of the original.
Why similar: FPS 39.1%, Classic 29.2% ★, Shooter 7.4%, Horror 4.6%, Action 4.2%
- #41 Mass Effect (2007)
70% matchVery Positive94% of 16,577 reviews2008
Dev: BioWarePub: Electronic Arts
Windows
Median: 9.4 hrsMean: 22.3 hrs≥1hr: 80%
As Commander Shepard, you lead an elite squad on a heroic, action-packed adventure throughout the galaxy.
Why similar: Story Rich 22.2%, Sci-fi 20.7%, RPG 12.8%, Immersive 9% ★, Action 8.7%
- #42 RAGE
70% matchMostly Positive78% of 18,325 reviews2011
Dev: id SoftwarePub: Bethesda Softworks
Windows
Median: 6.7 hrsMean: 17.8 hrs≥1hr: 80%
Powered by id’s revolutionary id Tech® 5 technology, RAGE is an intense first-person shooter with breakneck vehicle combat, an expansive world to explore, and jaw-dropping graphics!
Why similar: FPS 58.7%, Shooter 10.2%, Action 7.5%, First-Person 5.5%, Atmospheric 5%
- #43 Alan Wake
69% matchVery Positive90% of 60,064 reviews2012
Dev: Remedy Entertainment
Windows
Median: 4.6 hrsMean: 13.6 hrs≥1hr: 87%
A Dark Presence stalks the small town of Bright Falls, pushing Alan Wake to the brink of sanity in his fight to unravel the mystery and save his love.
Why similar: Horror 25.8%, Story Rich 21.2%, Atmospheric 16.6%, Action 12%, Great Soundtrack 7.4%
- #44 Metal Garden
64% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 4,589 reviews2025
Dev: Tinerasoft
Windows
Median: 1.9 hrsMean: 2.3 hrs≥1hr: 77%
Travel through an overgrown megastructure, and discover what lies beyond it. Metal Garden is a short, atmospheric singleplayer FPS game.
Why similar: FPS 30.6%, Immersive 18.5% ★, Atmospheric 11.1%, Dystopian 8.8%, Sci-fi 8%
- #45 Alien: Isolation
68% matchVery Positive93% of 67,015 reviews2014
Dev: Creative AssemblyPub: SEGA
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.9 hrsMean: 17.2 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Discover the true meaning of fear in Alien: Isolation, a survival horror set in an atmosphere of constant dread and mortal danger.
Why similar: Horror 28.5%, Atmospheric 16%, FPS 14.5%, Sci-fi 14.3%, First-Person 11.2%
- #46 Hard Reset Extended Edition
70% matchVery Positive82% of 4,942 reviews2012
Dev: Flying Wild HogPub: Good Shepherd Entertainment
Windows
Median: 1.2 hrsMean: 5.8 hrs≥1hr: 54%
Over-the-top destruction, loads of enemies & a beautifully realized cyberpunk setting. Hard Reset is here to shake up the shooter scene. Try the demo now.
Why similar: FPS 57.3%, Sci-fi 9.9%, Shooter 8.6%, Action 7.7%, Dystopian 7.6%
- #47 Half-Life: Opposing Force
69% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 29,060 reviews1999
Dev: Gearbox SoftwarePub: Valve
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 40.2 hrs≥1hr: 65%
Return to the Black Mesa Research Facility as one of the military specialists assigned to eliminate Gordon Freeman. Experience an entirely new episode of single player action. Meet fierce alien opponents, and experiment with new weaponry. Named 'Game of the Year' by the Academy of Interactive Arts and Sciences.
Why similar: FPS 57.5%, Classic 15.5% ★, Shooter 5.3%, Sci-fi 4.8%, Action 4%
- #48 Dead Space™ 2
68% matchVery Positive94% of 30,039 reviews2011
Dev: Visceral GamesPub: Electronic Arts
Windows
Median: 5.0 hrsMean: 14.7 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Three years after the Necromorph infestation aboard the USS Ishimura, Isaac Clarke awakens from a coma, confused, disoriented, and on a space station called The Sprawl. Explore this world and its zero-g environments to discover the truth about the Unitology and its role in the Necromorph epidemic.
Why similar: Horror 27.1%, Story Rich 18.4%, Shooter 17.1%, Sci-fi 12.4%, Atmospheric 10.9%
- #49 Wolfenstein: The Old Blood
67% matchVery Positive90% of 23,718 reviews2015
Dev: MachineGamesPub: Bethesda Softworks
Windows
Median: 7.1 hrsMean: 13.9 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Wolfenstein®: The Old Blood™ is a standalone prequel to the critically acclaimed first-person action-adventure shooter, Wolfenstein®: The New Order. This adventure spans eight chapters and features the hallmarks of MachineGames – thrilling action, immersive story, and intense FPS combat.
Why similar: FPS 42.7%, Shooter 10.2%, Alternate History 8.8%, Action 7.4%, Atmospheric 6.8%
- #50 Blood Facsimile
63% matchVery Positive98% of 64 reviews2026
Dev: Rene McCarthy
Windows
An immersive FPS adventure set in a dark and surreal sci-fi world
Why similar: FPS 45.7%, Shooter 9.6%, Horror 8.7%, Dystopian 8.6%, Action 6.5%
- #51 SOMA
67% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 53,096 reviews2015
Dev: Frictional Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 5.6 hrsMean: 10.2 hrs≥1hr: 89%
From the creators of Amnesia: The Dark Descent comes SOMA, a sci-fi horror game set below the waves of the Atlantic ocean. Struggle to survive a hostile world that will make you question your very existence.
Why similar: Horror 18.5%, Underwater 14.9% ★, Story Rich 14.4%, Atmospheric 13.7%, Sci-fi 10.2%
- #52 Max Payne
67% matchVery Positive89% of 15,895 reviews2011
Dev: Remedy EntertainmentPub: Rockstar Games
Windows
Median: 2.6 hrsMean: 9.0 hrs≥1hr: 63%
Max Payne is a man with nothing to lose in the violent, cold urban night. A fugitive undercover cop framed for murder, hunted by cops and the mob, Max is a man with his back against the wall, fighting a battle he cannot hope to win. Prepare for pain…
Why similar: Classic 41.4% ★, Story Rich 13.6%, Action 10.7%, Atmospheric 10.2%, Shooter 8.1%
