Games Like Half-Life: Alyx

Vertigo 2 is a single-player VR adventure. Explore the depths of the vast Quantum Reactor as you descend to finish your journey home.

Why similar: VR 24%, Aliens 17.4%, FPS 13.4%, Female Protagonist 10.4%, Shooter 10%

Why You'll Like It: A lengthy, inventive VR sci-fi shooter with physics interactions, bizarre alien worlds, memorable weapons, and a story-driven campaign.

Relive Half-Life.

Why similar: FPS 18.2%, Aliens 14.4%, Zombies 12.5%, Sci-fi 9.6%, Shooter 8.4%

Why You'll Like It: Valve’s original alien-facility disaster is recreated as a polished modern FPS with environmental storytelling, puzzles, and the clearest non-VR route into Half-Life’s world.

Alien: Rogue Incursion is an all-new action-horror VR game that transforms you into ex-Colonial Marine Zula Hendricks on a dangerous mission to the uncharted planet Purdan, featuring innovative real-life motion gameplay, a whole-body loadout, and the most cunning Xenomorphs ever encountered.

Why similar: VR 22.8%, Aliens 20.3%, FPS 11.4%, Shooter 9.6%, Sci-fi 8.4%

Why You'll Like It: Its first-person VR gunplay, alien-infested facilities, environmental tension, and survival-horror pacing strongly suit an Alyx fan.

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 27.1%, Sci-fi 11.2%, Zombies 10.1%, Aliens 9.8%, Shooter 8.6%

Why You'll Like It: Alyx’s direct narrative foundation delivers the same Combine-controlled world, physics-based problem solving, resistance story, and landmark first-person action.

BONEWORKS is an Experimental Physics VR Adventure. Use found physics weapons, tools, and objects to fight across dangerous playscapes and mysterious architecture.

Why similar: VR 43.3%, Shooter 11.3%, FPS 9.7%, Great Soundtrack 8.8%, First-Person 6.5%

Why You'll Like It: It emphasizes the kind of fully physical VR interaction Alyx excels at, with ambitious object manipulation, weapons, climbing, and sci-fi experimentation.

Metro Awakening is a story-driven first person adventure built for VR that blends atmospheric exploration, stealth and combat in the most immersive Metro experience yet. Don your gas mask, brave the crippling radiation and venture into the depths of the Metro where threats haunt your every step.

Why similar: VR 32.3%, FPS 17.9%, Futuristic 14.5%, Shooter 13.1%, Story Rich 8.9%

Why You'll Like It: This narrative VR FPS similarly combines scarce-resource gunfights, oppressive underground horror, and a detailed dystopian world.

Saints & Sinners is a game unlike any other in The Walking Dead universe. Every challenge you face and decision you make is driven by YOU. Fight the undead, scavenge through the flooded ruins of New Orleans, and face gut-wrenching choices for you and the other survivors. Live The Walking Dead.

Why similar: VR 33.4%, Zombies 24.7%, Shooter 11.6%, Horror 11.5%, Action 4%

Why You'll Like It: Its physical weapon handling, scavenging, consequential exploration, and zombie encounters deliver another exceptionally immersive VR survival campaign.

Hubris is a VR action-adventure game set in a unique and colourful Sci-Fi universe, with immersive movement options, including swimming, climbing, and jumping. Players will have to gather resources, craft food and upgrade their weapons to fight off alien wildlife, droids, and humanoid enemies.

Why similar: VR 30%, FPS 13.3%, Shooter 11.3%, Sci-fi 10.9%, Futuristic 8.5%

Why You'll Like It: A cinematic VR sci-fi adventure with climbing, swimming, shooting, puzzles, and high-production alien environments.

Into the Radius is a single-player survival shooter in VR. Explore the Pechorsk zone filled with surreal landscapes and dangerous anomalies. Defend yourself with realistic firearms, recover strange artifacts, scavenge for loot, and uncover the mysteries of this unforgiving dystopian environment.

Why similar: VR 38.9%, FPS 19.6%, Horror 11.4%, Shooter 9.8%, Psychological Horror 6%

Why You'll Like It: This immersive VR shooter pairs manual weapon handling and scavenging with eerie anomalies, lonely exploration, and sustained survival tension.

Enter an extraordinarily convincing sci-fi world in this story-driven VR puzzle adventure. Explore off-world facilities, operate tactile tools, solve environmental puzzles, and unravel a reality-bending Cold War mystery.

Why similar: VR 45.2%, Sci-fi 13.8%, Story Rich 11.5%, Atmospheric 9.4%, FPS 8.3%

Why You'll Like It: Its polished VR puzzle-solving, tactile tools, stealthy firefights, and Cold War sci-fi mystery provide a more cerebral counterpart to Alyx.

Trapped inside the Paradise Hotel, you are desperate to find your sister. Explore dark surroundings, gather resources, and survive terrifying encounters. This intense single-player VR survival horror game with great storytelling will get your adrenaline pumping.

Why similar: VR 22.3%, Zombies 17.8%, FPS 11.2%, Shooter 9.3%, Horror 8.4%

Why You'll Like It: Its tightly paced VR survival-horror campaign uses scarce ammunition, close-range threats, and detailed environmental interaction to build Alyx-like tension.

An immersive story-driven shooter incorporating the cutting edge of VR gameplay, Vertigo Remastered is a complete overhaul and occasional reimagining of the 2016 original.

Why similar: VR 52.7%, Sci-fi 15%, Action 9.6%, Adventure 8.5%, Atmospheric 6.9%

Why You'll Like It: This inventive VR adventure mixes physics puzzles, strange science-fiction settings, and energetic shooting in the lead-up to Vertigo 2.

BONELAB is an experimental physics action game. Explore a mysterious lab filled with weapons, enemies, challenges and secrets. Escape your reality, or wreak havoc. No wrong answers.

Why similar: VR 35.7%, FPS 17.1%, Shooter 12.7%, Female Protagonist 8.9%, First-Person 8.6%

Why You'll Like It: Its sandbox-heavy physics systems and experimental VR movement offer extensive hands-on interaction for players who most enjoyed Alyx’s tactile design.

DOOM® VFR brings the fast-paced, brutal gameplay fans of the series love to virtual reality. Play as a cybernetic survivor who is activated by the UAC to fight the demon invasion, maintain order, and prevent catastrophic failure at the Mars facility.

Why similar: VR 43.2%, FPS 18.1%, Shooter 9.2%, Horror 8.1%, Sci-fi 6.4%

Why You'll Like It: It translates DOOM’s demon-slaying speed and heavy weaponry into a compact VR shooter full of aggressive arena encounters.

Hunted by the seemingly unstoppable Axeman and facing off against the Tower’s latest push for total dominance, discover what connects these new threats together before it’s too late. New faces, places, weapons and gear all await you on your journey to a final showdown for the city's fate.

Why similar: VR 31.7%, Zombies 24.3%, Horror 11.5%, FPS 10.1%, Shooter 7.9%

Why You'll Like It: This larger sequel expands the physical survival systems and story-driven zombie action with more dangerous night excursions and player choice.

Your weapons are alive! Print creatures and use them as weapons and tools as you explore this Metroidvania FPS adventure. Morph yourself tiny, upgrade, and locate collectibles to advance to the next boss. Explore large non-linear maps and explore an environment woven together with a complex story.

Why similar: VR 20.4%, Aliens 16.2%, FPS 14.8%, Shooter 10.9%, Futuristic 9.8%

Why You'll Like It: A story-focused VR FPS set in an isolated Antarctic research complex, blending alien threats, exploration, upgrades, and hand-operated tools.

Welcome to the grim darkness of the far future! Experience the war-torn universe of Warhammer 40,000 brought into jaw-dropping, visceral reality for the first time in VR. Immerse yourself in a gripping, action-filled story spanning the galaxy.

Why similar: VR 26.1%, FPS 17.1%, Female Protagonist 11.9%, Shooter 11.6%, Sci-fi 10.1%

Why You'll Like It: Its single-player VR campaign supplies armored sci-fi firefights, oppressive futuristic environments, and a straightforward story-led structure.

Built exclusively for VR, A-Tech Cybernetic's Story Mode will offer hours of explosive fun, while Swarm Mode will test your grit in a sci-fi nightmare scenario. Stop the mutant invasion at a futuristic megacorp, controlling an arsenal of weapons with real life movements!

Why similar: VR 25.6%, FPS 14.5%, Sci-fi 10.6%, Shooter 10.3%, Futuristic 9.9%

Why You'll Like It: A sci-fi VR FPS with campaign missions, weapon upgrades, enemy-filled laboratories, and a horror-inflected research-facility premise.

Killing Floor: Incursion is a fully-realized, multi-hour, story-driven adventure with an additional endless mode. In solo or co-op mode, travel diverse environments, from creepy farmhouses to the catacombs of Paris, in order to uncover who... or what is behind the Zed menace.

Why similar: VR 24.5%, Zombies 17.8%, FPS 13.4%, Horror 9.9%, Shooter 9.2%

Why You'll Like It: This co-op-capable VR horror shooter centers on physical reloads, brutal close encounters, and grotesque monster-filled environments.

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 46%, Aliens 14.5%, Sci-fi 9.3%, Shooter 9%, First-Person 5.6%

Why You'll Like It: This companion campaign revisits the Black Mesa catastrophe from another perspective, adding military weapons and new alien threats to classic Half-Life action.

Enter an abandoned Cold War base on a moon of Saturn in this atmospheric VR puzzle adventure. Scan evidence, translate Volgravian messages, manipulate strange machinery, and uncover a sci-fi mystery that grows more surreal with every discovery.

Why similar: Beautiful 26% ★, VR 25.9%, Sci-fi 10%, Horror 8.7%, Great Soundtrack 8%

Why You'll Like It: This atmospheric VR mystery emphasizes hands-on gadgets, environmental puzzles, and an eerie retro-futurist facility rather than nonstop combat.

Named Game of the Year by over 50 publications, Valve's debut title blends action and adventure with award-winning technology to create a frighteningly realistic world where players must think to survive. Also includes an exciting multiplayer mode that allows you to play against friends and enemies around the world.

Why similar: Aliens 22%, FPS 21.5%, Shooter 11.5%, Sci-fi 10.9%, First-Person 8%

Why You'll Like It: The original Black Mesa incident remains an essential atmospheric sci-fi FPS full of experimental facilities, alien invasion, and environmental problem solving.

From the team that brought you Arizona Sunshine® comes an epic VR action FPS with intense co-op gameplay at its core. Team up with friends and take on a hostile VR world filled with ferocious undead--mutated and twisted by the relentless cold.

Why similar: VR 30.5%, Zombies 23.1%, FPS 17.3%, Shooter 11%, First-Person 7.2%

Why You'll Like It: Its post-apocalyptic VR shooting offers satisfying manual weapon use and dangerous encounters, especially for players open to co-op replayability over narrative focus.

Combining survival horror and static wave shooting, Propagation VR will get your adrenaline pumping as you try to survive a zombie apocalypse. Armed only with your guns and your fists, fight off terrifying zombies and other multi-species mutants. Will you get out alive?

Why similar: VR 42.1%, Zombies 18.3%, FPS 11.9%, Horror 11.4%, Shooter 5.7%

Pavlov is a multiplayer shooter in VR with heavy focus on community features. Realistic reloading features and fast paced combat as part of the core experience. Play the #1 most popular VR shooter on PC today.

Why similar: VR 40%, Zombies 13.8%, FPS 13%, Memes 11.8%, Shooter 10.7%

Lose track of what’s real. Commit yourself, body and mind. Confront the evocative, elegantly brutal world of SUPERHOT VR. Enemies pouring into the room from all sides, dozens of bullets coursing through the air... Wait. Something seems different in here...

Why similar: VR 35.5%, FPS 18.1%, Shooter 13.6%, Sci-fi 9.3%, First-Person 8.3%

THE FINAL HOURS OF HALF-LIFE: ALYX is an interactive storybook, written by Geoff Keighley, that takes fans inside Valve Software to chronicle the company’s past decade of game development, including the return of Half-Life.

Why similar: VR 66.5%, Action 17.1%, Adventure 9%, Singleplayer 7.4%

Experience the critically acclaimed and award-winning Portal™ reimagined with full ray tracing and DLSS 4 in this free DLC for Portal owners. Start thinking with portals, with RTX on.

Why similar: Beautiful 46.6% ★, Sci-fi 11.5%, First-Person 9.4%, Female Protagonist 8.1%, Story Rich 6.8%

Welcome to The Lab, a compilation of Valve’s room-scale VR experiments set in a pocket universe within Aperture Science. Fix a robot, defend a castle, adopt a mechanical dog, and more. Still not sold? It’s free!

Why similar: VR 69.4%, First-Person 6.7%, Memes 4.8%, FPS 4.3%, Sci-fi 4%

VR horror-slasher with physically correct combat system and dynamic battles across arenas in the dark fantasy world.

Why similar: VR 46.1%, Zombies 14%, FPS 12%, Horror 9%, First-Person 7.2%

Serious Sam is back! And this time it's REAL!

Why similar: VR 59.5%, FPS 13%, Shooter 11.2%, Action 8.3%, Gore 6.1%

The VR Edition of the critically acclaimed BAFTA award-winning Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice. From the makers of Heavenly Sword, Enslaved: Odyssey to the West, and DmC: Devil May Cry, comes a warrior’s brutal journey into myth and madness.

Why similar: VR 41.9%, Female Protagonist 20%, Action 11.7%, Adventure 9.5%, Psychological Horror 9.1%

Discover the true meaning of fear in Alien: Isolation, a survival horror set in an atmosphere of constant dread and mortal danger.

Why similar: Aliens 22.7%, Horror 17.3%, Sci-fi 12.2%, Female Protagonist 9.7%, First-Person 7.5%

In a world where robots have replaced all human jobs, step into the "Job Simulator" to learn what it was like 'to job'.

Why similar: VR 42%, Horror 13.8%, Psychological Horror 13.8%, Memes 13%, First-Person 7.5%

Blade & Sorcery is a built-for-VR medieval fantasy with full physics driven melee, ranged and magic combat. Become a powerful warrior, ranger or sorcerer and devastate your enemies.

Why similar: VR 76.3%, First-Person 8.4%, Action 5.6%, Gore 4.5%, Adventure 2.9%

Forget what you have played so far, SURV1V3 is a unique realistic zombie survival fps game expressly designed for VIRTUAL REALITY that will let you test your survival skills. Play the thrilling story in single mode or coop with your friends (up to 4 players) and survive the apocalypse!

Why similar: VR 46.4%, Zombies 37.7%, Horror 5.3%, Action 5.2%, Adventure 3.5%

Space Pirate Trainer is the official trainer for wannabe space pirates in VR. Pick up your blasters, put on your sneakers, and dance your way into the Space Pirate Trainer hall of fame.

Why similar: VR 64.3%, Shooter 8.6%, Great Soundtrack 6%, FPS 5.9%, First-Person 5.8%

Made by Gearbox Software and originally released in 2001 as an add-on to Half-Life, Blue Shift is a return to the Black Mesa Research Facility in which you play as Barney Calhoun, the security guard sidekick who helped Gordon out of so many sticky situations.

Why similar: FPS 33.5%, Aliens 16.6%, Sci-fi 10.7%, Zombies 9.9%, Shooter 9.4%

Of Lies and Rain is a story-driven first person shooter built exclusively for VR. Set in a dark, sci-fi, post-apocalyptic world, at the edge of the real and digital realm. You’ll fight to reclaim your past and save humanity from the brink of extinction.

Why similar: VR 24.2%, FPS 15.1%, Futuristic 11.7%, Shooter 9%, Sci-fi 7%

Moss is an action-adventure puzzle game from Polyarc tailor-made for the VR platform. It combines classic components of a great game—compelling characters, gripping combat, and captivating world exploration—with the exciting opportunities of VR.

Why similar: VR 50.3%, Story Rich 14.9%, Female Protagonist 13.6%, Adventure 6.8%, Action 6.4%

Dead Effect 2 is the newest addition to the acclaimed Dead Effect franchise. This action sci-fi shooter is looking to push the boundaries of first-person shooters to new levels with slick graphics, rich narrative and RPG elements.

Why similar: VR 55.3%, Zombies 23.2%, Action 9.7%, Horror 9.2%, Gore 2.6%

Onward is the most immersive tactical VR shooter. Join your squad for a wide variety of competitive PvP, co-op PvE, and solo game modes, including intense multiplayer battles or 4-player co-op missions. Realistic weaponry and combat mechanics will push your survival and combat skills to their limit

Why similar: VR 42.2%, FPS 24.3%, Shooter 17.8%, First-Person 8.9%, Action 4.5%

A true, full-length open-world game for VR has arrived from Bethesda Game Studios. Skyrim VR reimagines the complete epic fantasy masterpiece with an unparalleled sense of scale, depth, and immersion. Skyrim VR also includes all official add-ons.

Why similar: VR 45%, Memes 19.9%, First-Person 9.2%, Great Soundtrack 5.8%, Adventure 5.3%

Contagion VR: Outbreak will immerse you into the middle of a zombie apocalypse. Relive stories of the survivors in the Single Player campaign, take your time in Free Roam, or check out the Firing Range!

Why similar: VR 34%, Zombies 26.1%, FPS 9.6%, Horror 8%, Shooter 5.7%

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: Aliens 15.1%, FPS 14.7%, Sci-fi 14%, Horror 10.7%, Futuristic 8.8%

World War Z VR is an immersive single-player first-person shooter experience that challenges you to take on huge swarms of zombies. Based on the hit game World War Z that has now captivated over 25 million players.

Why similar: VR 24.2%, Zombies 18.5%, FPS 18.3%, Horror 9.2%, Action 7.8%

Budget Cuts is a VR stealth game where you dexterously zip, sneak or rambo your way forward through thrilling, oil-splatter filled combat!

Why similar: VR 59.6%, Action 9.6%, Horror 8.5%, Adventure 8.4%, FPS 3.9%

Five Nights at Freddy’s: Help Wanted is a collection of classic and original mini-games set in the Five Nights universe. Experience the horror in flat (non-VR) mode or VR. Oculus Rift and HTC Vive are supported. A VR Headset is NOT required to play.

Why similar: VR 42.3%, Horror 23.6%, Psychological Horror 10.8%, First-Person 9.6%, Atmospheric 4.1%

Serious Sam VR: The First Encounter is a frantic arcade action FPS, featuring singleplay and co-op campaign, various multiplayer modes, all presented in glorious VR and with different locomotion movements.

Why similar: VR 80.3%, Action 12.8%, Gore 7%

The Living Remain is a story-driven first-person adventure shooter set in a world overrun by the undead. Scavenge, reload, aim, and fight your way through a cinematic campaign featuring a variety of weapons, interactive environments, tense encounters, and the constant threat of the horde closing in.

Why similar: VR 27.3%, Zombies 21.5%, FPS 10.2%, Shooter 10.1%, Horror 9%

A new action-horror story set in the iconic Alien universe. Play as rogue Colonial Marine Zula Hendricks, sent to investigate a blacksite on Purdan. Fight and survive using your skill, reflexes, and determination against a deadly Xenomorph incursion in this gripping first chapter of a two-part saga.

Why similar: FPS 22.3%, Aliens 19.3%, Shooter 14.7%, Sci-fi 10.4%, First-Person 10%

"Boiling Steel" - is a sci-fi story-based FPS VR shooter. You are one of many who set off in search of a better life in the distant bastion of scientific progress. Immerse yourself in the thick of events and witness the inexplicable global cataclysm.

Why similar: VR 28.1%, FPS 15.7%, Shooter 13.3%, Sci-fi 10%, Horror 7%

Experience the high fidelity virtual reality of your own hands like never before.

Why similar: VR 66.9%, Adventure 13.1%, First-Person 11%, Sci-fi 6.7%, Singleplayer 2.3%

Afterlife VR is a deeply immersive horror game. As Adam Bernhard, a young rookie police officer on a night patrol, you receive a call that will change your life forever. Uncover secrets hidden deep within the Black Rose mental hospital walls, where most of the patients pose a great danger.

Why similar: VR 25.9%, Zombies 20.5%, FPS 13.3%, Horror 11.9%, Psychological Horror 10.6%

The Talos Principle VR is a virtual reality version of Croteam's critically acclaimed first-person puzzle game in the tradition of philosophical science fiction.

Why similar: VR 80.6%, Adventure 11.4%, Action 8%

Take the fight to war-torn Europe in Medal of Honor: Above and Beyond. The franchise returns to its roots complete with a deep single-player campaign and powerful interviews with survivors and veterans of the Second World War. (VR Title)

Why similar: VR 53.1%, First-Person 15.2%, FPS 10.6%, Action 7.7%, Shooter 6.2%

Slay to the beat as the award-winning score of Metal: Hellsinger VR thunders through your body. Experience the smash-hit rhythm FPS like never before and enter a state of unparallelled flow. Show the Hells the meaning of metal.

Why similar: VR 33.1%, FPS 22.7%, Shooter 13.4%, Female Protagonist 13.2%, First-Person 7.6%

Hell’s armies have invaded Earth. Become the Slayer in an epic single-player campaign to conquer demons across dimensions and stop the final destruction of humanity. The only thing they fear... is you.

Why similar: FPS 27.4%, Great Soundtrack 14.6%, Shooter 13.7%, First-Person 9%, Sci-fi 7.5%