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Within the “Sci-Fi” category, the closest game to Metroid Prime 4: Beyond is Metroid Prime — scoring 84/100 on our similarity scale. Metroid Prime 3: Corruption and Ratchet & Clank Future: A Crack in Time follow close behind.
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Handpicked by our similarity algorithm, these are the titles with the highest gameplay match to Metroid Prime 4: Beyond. Each one has been evaluated across 8 real attributes — from combat style and progression mechanics to world structure and visual perspective — so every recommendation is based on how the game actually plays, not just its genre label.
✓ Fits the first-person shooters cluster, with shooter, first-person shooting and precision platforming
≠ Its own twist: Metroidvania exploration and open world exploration
It predates Metroid Prime 4: Beyond by 23 years, with what that implies technically.
✓ Fits the first-person shooters cluster, with shooter, first-person shooting and precision platforming
≠ Stands apart with Metroidvania exploration
It predates Metroid Prime 4: Beyond by 18 years, with what that implies technically.
✓ Fits the first-person shooters cluster, with shooter, first-person shooting and precision platforming
≠ Its own twist: open world exploration, fantasy world and visual third person
It predates Metroid Prime 4: Beyond by 16 years, with what that implies technically.
✓ Same family of first-person shooters: shooter, first-person shooting and precision platforming
≠ Stands apart with visual third person, while skipping exploration and discovery
It predates Metroid Prime 4: Beyond by 15 years, with what that implies technically.
✓ Same family of first-person shooters: shooter, first-person shooting and precision platforming
≠ Where it differs: brings Metroidvania exploration, strong narrative focus and dark, oppressive atmosphere, while skipping visual first person
Where it drifts furthest from Metroid Prime 4: Beyond: visuals.
It predates Metroid Prime 4: Beyond by 31 years, with what that implies technically.
✓ Same family of first-person shooters: shooter, first-person shooting and adventure storytelling
≠ Where it differs: brings deep RPG systems, strong narrative focus and dark, oppressive atmosphere, while skipping precision platforming
It predates Metroid Prime 4: Beyond by 9 years, with what that implies technically.
✓ Same family of first-person shooters: shooter, first-person shooting and adventure storytelling
≠ Stands apart with deep simulation, sandbox freedom and cozy, relaxing feel, while skipping precision platforming
In the far-distant future, far, far away in space (to be exact, a thousand light-years from the Earth), on the planet Far, Far Range, mega-corporations (they, it turns out, will be with us in the distant future!) discovered the ideal source of income, universal natural resource - Plort.
It predates Metroid Prime 4: Beyond by 9 years, with what that implies technically.
✓ Both are first-person shooters — sharing shooter, first-person shooting and adventure storytelling
≠ Where it differs: brings horror tension, puzzle design and survival mechanics, while skipping precision platforming
Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth is a first-person horror game that combines intense action and adventure elements. You will draw upon your skills in exploration, investigation, and combat while faced with the seemingly impossible task of battling evil incarnate.
It predates Metroid Prime 4: Beyond by 20 years, with what that implies technically.
✓ Fits the first-person shooters cluster, with shooter, first-person shooting and adventure storytelling
≠ Its own twist: deep RPG systems, puzzle design and horror tension, while skipping precision platforming
FPS with RPG elements, Bioshock invites players to experience horrors of underwater isolation in the city of Rapture, the failed project of the better future. After surviving the plane crash, the protagonist has only one way to go – to the giant lighthouse that opens a way to the underwater utopia.
Where it drifts furthest from Metroid Prime 4: Beyond: progression.
It predates Metroid Prime 4: Beyond by 18 years, with what that implies technically.
✓ Same family of first-person shooters: shooter, first-person shooting and adventure storytelling
≠ Its own twist: deep RPG systems, puzzle design and strong narrative focus, while skipping precision platforming
Where it drifts furthest from Metroid Prime 4: Beyond: setting.
It predates Metroid Prime 4: Beyond by 14 years, with what that implies technically.
✓ Both are first-person shooters — sharing shooter, first-person shooting and adventure storytelling
≠ Stands apart with deep RPG systems, strong narrative focus and dark, oppressive atmosphere, while skipping precision platforming
Where it drifts furthest from Metroid Prime 4: Beyond: setting.
✓ Both are first-person shooters — sharing shooter, first-person shooting and adventure storytelling
≠ Its own twist: survival mechanics, deep RPG systems and strong narrative focus, while skipping precision platforming
Where it drifts furthest from Metroid Prime 4: Beyond: setting.
✓ Both are first-person shooters — sharing shooter, first-person shooting and adventure storytelling
≠ Where it differs: brings puzzle design, stealth mechanics and melee combat, while skipping precision platforming
It predates Metroid Prime 4: Beyond by 21 years, with what that implies technically.
✓ Both are first-person shooters — sharing shooter, first-person shooting and adventure storytelling
≠ Stands apart with ranged combat, melee combat and visual pixel, while skipping precision platforming
STAR WARS - Dark Forces uses the Jedi game engine which was developed for this game exclusively. At the time the game presented new features of first person shooter genre, one of which is the ability to look up and down and also it presented the new approach to level design with multiple floors.
It predates Metroid Prime 4: Beyond by 30 years, with what that implies technically.
✓ Fits the first-person shooters cluster, with shooter, first-person shooting and adventure storytelling
≠ Its own twist: deep RPG systems, horror tension and puzzle design, while skipping precision platforming
Where it drifts furthest from Metroid Prime 4: Beyond: setting and progression.
It predates Metroid Prime 4: Beyond by 8 years, with what that implies technically.
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Thief
Shooter · FPS
Half-Life 2: Episode One
Shooter · FPS
Doom: The Dark Ages
Shooter · FPS
Half-Life 2: Episode Two
Shooter · FPS
Scorn
Shooter · FPS
Turok: Dinosaur Hunter
Shooter · FPS
Star Wars Outlaws
Shooter · FPS
Shadow Warrior
Shooter · FPS
Shadow Warrior 3
Shooter · FPS
System Shock
Shooter · FPS
Quantum Break
Shooter · FPS
Vanquish
Shooter · FPS
Dead Space
Shooter · FPS
Half-Life 2: Lost Coast
Shooter · FPS
Ion Fury
Shooter · FPS
Doom 64
Shooter · FPS
Clive Barker's Jericho
Shooter · FPS
Deus Ex: Invisible War
Shooter · FPS
Freaking Meatbags
Shooter · FPS
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