Hello, my name is ColdBeer and this time I’ve made a list of games more or less similar
to Bioshock.
Let’s start with
Prey
It has a cool story that has you playing as a scientist exploring a space station ravaged
by an alien life form.
Yeah, I know, that sounds a bit like an Alien Isolation, but it’s nothing like that.
It’s a first person shooter with all the benefits of modern FPS games.
Prey’s story is shrouded in mystery, and exploring the Talos space station is an experience
you will get in a few first person shooter games.
Prey gives you a variety of weapons to use, along with superpowers like telepathy or the
ability to trick enemies by turning yourself into everyday items.
Wait, what?
Yeah, if you never played Prey before it can sound like nonsense, but it’s not.
You can truly acquire alien abilities and use them by stopping time or turning yourself
into a cup of vodka and then rolling around like crazy.
Basically Prey is like Half-life and Bioshock had a baby and it might as well be a full
tribute to Bioshock.
Everything from the art direction, gameplay, audio recordings and other things are straight
from the first Bioshock.
Although Prey incorporates more Role Playing elements than what you might find in BioShock,
Oh roleplaying, I like to, I like to roleplay.
Oh, aren’t we all.
So, it’s not a problem I guess.
Anyway the act of exploring the space station and finding creative ways to take down enemies
is definitely very similar to Bioshock, you have my recommendations and blessing to try
this amazing.
System Shock 2
In many ways, BioShock is seen as the spiritual successor to System Shock 2 which was developed
by Ken Levine and Irrational Games, the same creators of BioShock and BioShock Infinite.
Game takes place aboard the spaceship named Von Braun, I guess to honor the Nazi scientist
who sent Americans to the Moon.
So here you wake up from cryo-sleep with amnesia and an illegal cyber-neural interface implanted
into your body.
Soon enough you will find out that the ship has been overtaken by an infectious being
known as The Many, and it’s up to you to unravel the mystery of what they want and
stop them.
There are a lot of elements shared between the System Shock 2 and Bioshock, like a hacking
minigame, an in-game currency and even a research system that lets you collect parts off of
dead enemies to increase damage against them, similar to BioShock’s photography.
Also while doing my research I found one interesting feature - one of the composers of System Shock
2 was Ramin Djawadi - the same dude who created famous Game of Thrones and Westworld themes.
Back then, in 1999 he was only 26 years old.
Also you should check on System Shock Remastered.
A completely reworked title, with great graphics and the same classic experience.
I have played the demo, I took this video from my own gameplay and I do recommend you
to check this video out.
The best thing, for me, a man who never played the original System Shock, was shocking experience,
pun intended, when I realized that this is not a linear shooter: you can actually decide
where to go first, what areas to explore and you will also have to make a mental map of
the space station in your head, because it is huge and it's easy to get lost.
Game is not released yet, but you can find the demo on Steam and play it for free.
It is quite scary, so be sure that you are not a pussy... pussy pussy pussy.
Demo has no save games, so every death is permanent.
Be careful, or you can just watch my gameplay instead and feed your inner energy vampire
on my struggles.
And that is not all about System Shock - third part was announced with this awesome looking
trailer, but later developers ran out of resources (and so on), the creation process stopped
completely and now the rights of System Shock belong to Tencent - a giant company that owns
Riot Games and 40% of Epic Games - yes, the one Donald Trump hates so much.
Sadly there is no news about resumed development of the game for now.
That’s a damn shame.
Yeah, because the provided gameplay looks awesome.
Anyway, if you stay with my channel I promise, you will be one of the first to know all the
news, just press that subscribe and notifications button.
Soma
Genre is different, but the whole setting of underwater exploration gives you the desired
vibes.
That is a lie.
No it is not.
This is one of the best games I have ever played so far.
Here you will explore an abandoned isolated underwater facility full of scary things where
you must find a way out.
Or even deeper in.
You don’t know.
That’s the joy!
It’s really hard to talk about Soma without spoiling the story, but the plot is really
original and not only brightens up your imagination about the future, but also raises philosophical
questions, like what makes us human, what life is, what exactly defines existence in
general, and why is vodka so cheap in Lidl.
Ok, maybe not the last one, that is the greatest question of humanity nobody has an answer
for, but, all in all, this is one of the best scary story games I ever played and if you
have humongous balls, as I have, just dive into adventure and find your way up, or down
the abyss.
Half-life 2
Many of you might argue that the gameplay of Half-life 2 is not exactly the same as
that of BioShock and that is true, like vodka is not the same as whiskey, but the desired
result of imbibing those drinks is absolutely the same.
Yep, that.
So the storyline for both games here is very similar.
In Half-life 2 you control the character who arrives at an unknown city and needs to unravel
all of its mysteries.
The city has been invaded by an aggressive alien species and has turned into a complete
totalitarian state somehow similar to the cities of Soviet Union.
But believe me, life in Soviet Union was somehow still worse than in Half-life.
I know that I was born in Soviet Union back then.
So here human life is not important at all, the alien creatures simply have no reckoning
of civilization and will stop at nothing to achieve their cause.
There is a big chance that you have played the game already and you are watching of this
review only for the possible jokes, so there is one bad for you:
What did Gordon Freeman experience when he turned 40?
A half-life crisis.
Dishonored 1 and 2
Series shares a lot in common with BioShock.
Here you are the assassin, who is given supernatural abilities by a mysterious entity.
This is a stealth game, although you can play it as a brute force lover as well - you just
have to be way better with controls, because fighting multiple enemies is a real challenge
here.
The powers game gives you feels a bit like Plasmids, with abilities like Blink letting
you teleport short distances and Devouring Swarm summoning a group of ghoulish rats to
kill your enemies.
The real fun of Dishonored comes in combining all your powers with your weapons and finding
your own way through the semi-open environments.
Interesting thing is that the genre of Dishonored games is whalepunk - a subgenre of steampunk,
where most of the energy is gathered from the hunted whales and their fat.
Singularity
Here you will learn the truth beyond the 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,
you will fight enemies from the past, the present, and abominations caught somewhere
in between.
One of the coolest things here is the previously mentioned Time Manipulation Device which will
help you to change the age of objects and enemies and bend time to your will.
Imagine if you had this device when you wake up in the morning with a terrible hangover
and you could just rewind time so you could... drink all that delicious vodka over again.
So here, with the help of this magical device, you will age enemies to dust in seconds, manipulate
objects outside the laws of gravity, and degrade things to a withered state or renew them to
their pristine form.
You will be a real time bender here.
I control time and space.
Yeah, like that.
Singularity is a true epic sci-fi action thriller, heart-pounding, first person combat action
that will immerse you in a world where the past and present collide.
We Happy Few
This is the tale of a plucky bunch of moderately terrible people trying to escape from a lifetime
of cheerful denial.
In this alternative 1960s England, conformity is key.
You’ll have to fight or blend in with the drug-addicted delusional inhabitants, most
of whom don’t take kindly to people who won’t abide by their not-so-normal rules.
In other words - you are in the world of psychos and you have to survive and... you know...
stay alive.
Yep, that.
Here you will discover the city's dark history as you play through the intertwined narratives
of three rebellious citizens, each with their own strengths and weaknesses, as they face
their pasts, prepare for the future, and engage in activities that aren’t exactly what you
could call blending-in.
Although many people are talking that the change of narrative, when jumping from one
character to another is too big of a change and is annoying.
Also this game is very expensive - it was released in 2018 and after a few years it
still costs 60 Euros on Steam.
This is way too much in my opinion, because the game is not perfect, it’s world is a
bit generic and lifeless and exploitable AI makes it even worse, but in general 73% of
reviews on Steam are positive.
Not the greatest result, but I’ve seen worse, so grab it on a sale if you are intrigued.
Metro Series
Games are based on the story written by Dmitry Alexeevich Glukhovsky and is set in the ruins
of Moscow following a nuclear war, where the survivors are forced to live in underground
tunnels.
You play as Artyom, a man who must save his home station from the dangers lurking within
the tunnels.
And there are plenty of dangers: various mutants and humans relentlessly try to put you out
of your misery.
Literally, because living in those conditions is nothing less than misery, so monsters are
actually trying to help you.
To die.
There are three games in the series, and the last one, Metro Exodus, was released in 2019.
Here you finally get out of the tunnels and try to make a living in the post-apocalyptic
wasteland of the former Russian Federation full of mutants and dangerous men.
And I speak like this not just to make a joke, but because every character in this game speaks
like this.
Check it out:
Atomic Heart
Look what resurrected from the dead!
No it’s not your alcoholic uncle, when he’s in coma, nobody can wake him, I’m talking
about Atomic Heart, a game that was announced at least 3 years ago and went through a development
hell, so they were not developing the game for some time, thus they were not developers
for some time and then they started to develop again.
Recently they presented an epic-looking trailer where you can admire the gorgeous and weird
gameplay at the same time.
To be fair, just about a year ago, everyone was thinking that Atomic Heart is never happening,
but it seems that tables have turned.
Also developers managed to hire one of the greatest videogame music composers - Mick
Gordon is writing the score.
The same dude who wrote all those amazing Doom tracks.
Although he somehow fucked up works with Doom Eternal, that doesn’t make him any worse
composer than he is.
Events of Atomic Heart unfold in an alternative universe, during the high noon of the Soviet
Union.
The main character of the game is a special agent, who was sent to a highly secret object
by the Soviet government after it went radio silent.
So, as you can guess, the weak batteries of local radio is not the issue - the monsters
and various robots are.
They went amok, haywire and crazy - and only you can stop them and by doing that unveil
the creepy secrets of creepy Soviet facility.
Close to The Sun
It’s 1897.
Deep in international waters, the Helios stands still.
Born of Nikola Tesla’s vision, the Helios station serves as a haven for the greatest
scientific minds.
An unbound utopia for research, independent from the state and isolated from the gaze
of society.
Free to push the boundaries of matter and time.
So you will step aboard the Helios in search of your sister and you will quickly discover
that something went wrong: grand halls stand empty and a stench of rotting flesh lingers
in the air.
Because there are bodies on the ground.
Rotting.
Yeah, when you see that, it can ring a bell in your mind that it might not be the usual
state of this beautiful place.
Or is it?
That’s what you have to find out.
Despite the similar setting, Close to The Sun is a game of a different genre than Bioshock
- Game has a great story, but otherwise it is a walking simulator with few puzzles that
are quite easy to solve.
But if you want the feeling of mystery, weird facilities and strange creatures – this
is a great game to try.
Also it has very positive reviews on Steam at the moment so you won’t be risking anything.
Main list is over, but I have few honorable mentions: it’s Wolfenstein The New Order,
The Old Blood and Wolfenstein 2: The New Colossus, these are great games you will probably enjoy
if you liked Bioshock.
Also, is it just me or somebody else also doing that: when I say Wolfenstein in my mind,
it always sounds like a Hitler from some comedy movie would say: Dy Wulfinshtain.
And speaking about horrors - Dead Space games are also great choice if you are not... you
know.
Pussy.
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