Games like Black Mesa

Want something that feels story-driven and atmospheric the way Black Mesa does? You might settle into these games easily.

Half-Life: Opposing Force
You were sent to Black Mesa to silence Gordon Freeman. Instead, your helicopter goes down and Corporal Adrian Shephard has to survive the same disaster from the other side. A full new campaign with new weapons, a new alien race and a fresh look at Half-Life's story, told the classic way: no cutscenes, all momentum.
Story-driven, Atmospheric, Tense
95% of 25,746 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 127$4.99
Transmissions: Element 120
A short Half-Life universe adventure built around one brilliant idea: a gravity weapon that launches you over buildings and lets you survive the fall. Explore a dark, abandoned place at night, work out why you were sent, and shoot zombies along the way. It runs a couple of hours and makes them count.
Atmospheric, Cinematic, Scary
94% of 9,966 Steam reviews are positiveFree
Prospekt
Adrian Shephard, the Marine from Opposing Force, is pulled out of stasis and dropped into Nova Prospekt to back up Gordon Freeman. A standalone Half-Life 2 shooter with 13 levels, scripted puzzles, heavy firefights and a return to Xen, built on the Source engine with updated lighting and textures.
Story-driven, Atmospheric, Tense
61% of 1,541 Steam reviews are positive$5.99
Half-Life Deathmatch: Source
The first multiplayer game set in the Half-Life universe, back for another round. All the classic weapons, the most-played maps, and pure deathmatch, now running on the Source engine. Fast, old-school arena shooting where the crowbar is still a legitimate strategy.
74% of 4,403 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 18
Sven Co-op
Half-Life built for a crowd. Sven Co-op takes the classic shooter and turns it into a team game: fight computer-controlled enemies, solve puzzles together and push through missions side by side. The difficulty is tuned for a squad, the old-school look is intact, and the real fun is watching a serious sci-fi disaster fall apart with friends in the room.
Tense
93% of 32,632 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 297Free
System Shock
SHODAN, the station's AI, has gone mad and turned the crew of Citadel Station into cyborgs and mutants. Earth is next. This remake of the 1994 classic drops you into a labyrinthine space station with no objective markers and no mercy: explore, scavenge, hack and fight your way through a horror landmark that still plays like nothing else.
Story-driven, Atmospheric, Tense
90% of 9,945 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 197$39.99
Hunt Down The Freeman
Just another mission, or so you thought… until aliens from another dimension start invading Earth before a scientist with a crowbar hospitalizes you after wiping out your entire squad. Just when you thought you were finished, a man with a briefcase offers you the chance for another beginning.
Story-driven, Tense, Cinematic
54% of 3,795 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 7$9.99
Quake
The original dark fantasy shooter, back and sharper than ever. Sprint through castles, bases and lava dungeons as Ranger, blast twisted creatures with a rocket launcher that still sets the standard, and do it all to Trent Reznor's ominous soundtrack. Fast, grim and still genuinely fun thirty years on.
Atmospheric, Tense, Dark
96% of 14,133 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 185$9.99
Vertigo Remastered
Vertigo Remastered is a story-driven VR shooter where you are the alien trapped in the Planck Interdimensional Quantum Reactor, a huge underground facility ready for outsiders like you. With physics-driven guns, upgrades, and puzzles, you fight and climb toward the surface and home in a short campaign that players describe as getting better as it goes on.
Story-driven, Atmospheric, Tense
92% of 1,339 Steam reviews are positive$19.99
Dead Space
Engineer Isaac Clarke boards the mining ship USG Ishimura for a routine repair job and finds the crew slaughtered, his partner Nicole missing, and creatures called Necromorphs in the vents. Armed with repurposed engineering tools, you carve your way through a derelict that gets under your skin and stays there.
Story-driven, Atmospheric, Tense
90% of 64,455 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 548$59.99
Red Alliance
Red Alliance is an atmospheric, dark action thriller single player game with elements of horror. The game takes place in Eastern Europe where the society is under oppressive regime enforced by a mysterious scientist whom the player must stop to restore justice.
Story-driven, Atmospheric, Tense
77% of 267 Steam reviews are positive$11.99
Portal 2
Shoot blue and orange portals, bend space, and outsmart the ruins of Aperture Science. Portal 2 pairs clever physics puzzles with GLaDOS at her most cutting, plus a full co-op campaign for two robots. Funny, sharp, and worth every test chamber.
Story-driven, Atmospheric, Cinematic
98% of 392,971 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 2,287$9.99

Cheaper than Black Mesa

Half-Life: Opposing Force

A soldier cut off in Black Mesa fights through new weapons, new aliens and a fresh angle on the Half-Life story.

$4.99

Half-Life 2

Fight through a dystopian city with a silent hero, gravity as a weapon and a resistance worth rooting for.

$9.99

Half-Life

Fight soldiers and monsters, solve your way through labs and tunnels, and try to survive. Still sharp, still tense, and still worth playing.

$9.99

Half-Life: Blue Shift

Half-Life: Blue Shift puts you in the worn shoes of Barney Calhoun, the security guard who spent the original game holding doors for Gordon Freeman.

$4.99

Prospekt

Play the Marine who was left in stasis, now teleported in to help Gordon Freeman fight his way out of a Combine prison.

$5.99

Hunt Down The Freeman

Just another mission, or so you thought… until aliens from another dimension start invading Earth before a scientist with a crowbar hospitalizes you…

$9.99

Quake

Sprint through grim dungeons and blast twisted creatures in the fast, dark shooter that set the standard, now with co-op and multiplayer.

$9.99

Quake II

Crash-land alone on the Strogg homeworld and shoot your way out, alone or with friends in co-op.

$9.99

Red Alliance

Red Alliance is an atmospheric, dark action thriller single player game with elements of horror.

$11.99

Portal 2

Fire linked portals to solve physics puzzles through the ruined labs of Aperture, with a sharp story and a co-op campaign for two robots.

$9.99

Portal

A first-person puzzle platformer set in the Aperture Science Laboratories.

$9.99

Arizona Sunshine® VR Remake

Take up arms in VR and blast your way through a sun-baked zombie campaign, solo or with friends.

$9.99

Hidden gems like Black Mesa

System Shock 2: 25th Anniversary Remaster

Scavenge, upgrade and fight your way through a haunted starship where SHODAN is always listening, alone or with a friend in co-op.

$29.99

Arizona Sunshine® VR Remake

Take up arms in VR and blast your way through a sun-baked zombie campaign, solo or with friends.

$9.99

Classic Marathon

A security officer fights off an alien invasion aboard a colony ship, blasting through maze-like levels and piecing the plot together on terminals.

Free

A.A.U. Black Site

As an agent of the secret special forces A.A.U., your covert mission in Serbia goes wrong fast.

$11.99

Classic Marathon Infinity

From the team that brought you Aleph One, the classic sci-fi FPS Marathon Infinity from Bungie on Mac revived for modern hardware by the fan…

Free

Kvark

Kvark is an FPS game set in a fictional version of the 80s Czech Republic.

$19.99

Selaco

Fight through a falling station as Dawn Collins, blasting apart offices and uncovering what Selaco is hiding.

$24.99

ADACA

A Sci-fi FPS set on the mysterious planet ADACA. - Use your GRAVITY-MANIPULATING arm to HURL objects at your foes or even RIP weapons directly from…

$24.99

Supplice

Supplice is a stylish throwback shooter inspired by the mid-90s FPS glory days and the legendary Doom modding community.

$14.99

System Shock

Fight and hack your way through a haunted space station while its deranged AI watches your every move.

$39.99

Vertigo Remastered

Play the alien in a tense, fast VR shooter with physics-driven guns, puzzles and a story that climbs from a deep underground reactor toward home.

$19.99

Destroy All Humans! 2 - Reprobed

Play a snarky alien invader zapping hippies, flying a saucer and causing mayhem with a friend in split-screen co-op.

$39.99

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