41 Games with a sci-fi setting like Duke Nukem 3D that you should try

✓ Nearly identical: shooter, first-person shooting and melee combat.

≠ Missing: puzzle design.

✓ Both are first-person shooters — sharing shooter, first-person shooting and setting scifi

≠ Its own twist: precision platforming, adventure storytelling and Metroidvania exploration, while skipping puzzle design

✓ Fits the first-person shooters cluster, with shooter, first-person shooting and setting scifi

≠ Stands apart with precision platforming, adventure storytelling and Metroidvania exploration, while skipping puzzle design

✓ Fits the first-person shooters cluster, with shooter, first-person shooting and setting scifi

≠ Stands apart with precision platforming, while skipping puzzle design

✓ Fits the first-person shooters cluster, with shooter, first-person shooting and setting scifi

≠ Stands apart with precision platforming, adventure storytelling and exploration and discovery, while skipping puzzle design

✓ Same family of first-person shooters: shooter, first-person shooting and setting scifi

≠ Where it differs: brings deep simulation, adventure storytelling and sandbox freedom, while skipping puzzle design

✓ Both are first-person shooters — sharing shooter, first-person shooting and melee combat

≠ Where it differs: brings adventure storytelling, setting space and visual third person, while skipping puzzle design

✓ Both are first-person shooters — sharing shooter, first-person shooting and melee combat

≠ Where it differs: brings dark, oppressive atmosphere and horror setting, while skipping puzzle design

✓ Same family of first-person shooters: shooter, first-person shooting and setting scifi

≠ Stands apart with dark, oppressive atmosphere and horror setting, while skipping puzzle design

✓ Both are first-person shooters — sharing shooter, first-person shooting and setting scifi

≠ Its own twist: dark, oppressive atmosphere and horror setting, while skipping puzzle design

✓ Fits the first-person shooters cluster, with shooter, first-person shooting and setting scifi

≠ Where it differs: brings post-apocalyptic world and visual third person, while skipping puzzle design

✓ Same family of first-person shooters: shooter, first-person shooting and melee combat

≠ Its own twist: horror tension, dark, oppressive atmosphere and strong narrative focus, while skipping puzzle design

✓ Fits the first-person shooters cluster, with shooter, first-person shooting and melee combat

≠ Its own twist: horror tension, dark, oppressive atmosphere and strong narrative focus, while skipping puzzle design

✓ Same family of first-person shooters: shooter, first-person shooting and setting scifi

≠ Where it differs: brings fantasy world, historical setting and visual third person, while skipping puzzle design

✓ Same family of first-person shooters: shooter, first-person shooting and puzzle design

≠ Its own twist: ranged combat