Games like Half-Life 2

Miss the atmospheric and cinematic pull of Half-Life 2? These games offer a similar pull for your backlog.

Black Mesa
Half-Life rebuilt from the ground up by fans who love it. You are Gordon Freeman, a physicist whose routine experiment tears open a portal to an alien world. Fight through a secret research facility, a desert and beyond, against invaders and soldiers, with a crowbar and a very good soundtrack. A reimagining, not a copy: some levels changed, Xen expanded.
Atmospheric, Cinematic, Emotional
94% of 135,534 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 411$19.99
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.
Atmospheric, Cinematic, Emotional
98% of 392,971 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 2,287$9.99
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, Chaotic
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.
Atmospheric, Cinematic, Emotional
61% of 1,541 Steam reviews are positive$5.99
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 their hands! - EXPLORE and manipulate the environment in this EERIE and HOSTILE world!
Atmospheric, Cinematic, Emotional
91% of 869 Steam reviews are positive$24.99
SiN Episodes: Emergence
John Blade, one elite security force, and a scientist who wants to remake humanity. A fast, old-school shooter on the Source engine: smart enemies, three punchy guns, breakable everything, and a dynamic difficulty system that keeps the pressure on. Short, loud and fun, with a soundtrack worth lingering on the menu for.
Cinematic, Dark, Story-driven
88% of 1,156 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 3$9.99
Dead Space™ 2
Isaac Clarke wakes up three years after the Ishimura, on the Sprawl, a huge station around Saturn, with no memory and a dead girlfriend in his head. Another Necromorph outbreak is underway, and the only way through is to dismember your way to the truth. Fast, gory, cinematic horror action in zero gravity.
Atmospheric, Cinematic, Emotional
94% of 26,436 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 204$19.99
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.
Cinematic, Dark, Story-driven
54% of 3,795 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 7$9.99
Crysis 2 Remastered
Aliens have flattened New York, and you are the super-soldier in the Nanosuit 2.0 who can do something about it. Swap between Stealth, Armor and Power mid-fight, ghost past patrols or level the room, and fight through a cinematic campaign rebuilt for modern hardware. Fast, loud and staged like an action film you control.
Atmospheric, Cinematic, Dark
89% of 9,175 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 61$29.99
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.
Chaotic
93% of 32,632 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 297Free
Quake II
A marine crash-lands alone on the Strogg homeworld, and the shooting starts immediately. Quake II is fast, gory 90s FPS action, now remastered with sharper AI, a heavy rock soundtrack, every expansion ever made, and a brand-new campaign. Grab a shotgun, blast cyborgs into spare parts, and bring friends in co-op.
Cinematic, Dark
95% of 8,602 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 115$9.99
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.
Atmospheric, Cinematic, Dark
77% of 267 Steam reviews are positive$11.99

Cheaper than Half-Life 2

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

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

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

Alien Breed 2: Assault

Can you survive the alien onslaught? Gamers across the world will now have a chance to play the next chapter in this high-budget, high-quality series.

$1.99

Alien Shooter 2: Reloaded

Fight through alien-infested corridors in a fast, brutal shooter with RPG depth, from character builds to a shop full of weapons.

$4.99

Return to Castle Wolfenstein

The year is 1943 and Himmler's SS Paranormal Division is cooking up something awful in the occult labs. As Army Ranger B.J.

$4.99

Natural Selection 2

Pick a side, grab a rifle or grow claws, and battle across a sci-fi map where every round plays out differently.

$4.99

HALF DEAD 2

Test trap-filled cube rooms with thrown shoes, climb floor by floor, and survive alone, in co-op or against up to 16 players.

$4.99

Deus Ex: Game of the Year Edition

An augmented agent works through a crumbling 2052, choosing for each mission whether to talk, sneak or shoot.

$6.99

Bulletstorm: Full Clip Edition

A loud, funny shooter where inventing the most ridiculous kill earns the most points, and every gun feels better than the last.

$3.99

Severed Steel

An acrobatic shooter where slow-motion flips, crumbling voxel buildings and a one-armed heroine keep every firefight moving.

$1.74

Project: Snowblind

Experience the dramatic intensity of the frontlines of a war through the eyes of the first of a new breed of super soldiers in this gritty and epic…

$5.99

Hidden gems like Half-Life 2

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

Classic Marathon 2

From the team that brought you Aleph One, the classic sci-fi FPS Marathon 2: Durandal from Bungie on Mac revived for modern hardware by the fan…

Free

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

Heaven Dust 2

Deep inside a research base, waking up from a cryogenic pod, you find yourself trapped in a living hell, surrounded by zombies.

$14.99

System Shock

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

$39.99

Crysis 2 Remastered

Wear the Nanosuit 2.0 and fight your way through a ruined New York, switching between stealth, armor and raw power as the fight demands.

$29.99

G String

Survive a collapsing cyberpunk metropolis as a telekinetic girl in a Standard Issue Biosuit, and find out why the world is imploding.

$17.99

HALF DEAD 2

Test trap-filled cube rooms with thrown shoes, climb floor by floor, and survive alone, in co-op or against up to 16 players.

$4.99

Hidden Deep

Lead a rescue team into flooded tunnels, run drones and heavy machinery, and find out what happened to the crew that vanished down there.

$24.99

Red Alliance

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

$11.99

Half-Life: Alyx

Fight an alien occupation from inside City 17, where every reload, drawer and headcrab is right there in your hands.

$59.99

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