Games like Half-Life: Alyx

4.4average player rating•5 games

Half-Life: Alyx’s pull is physical gunplay you feel — hand-loaded magazines, panicked grabs, and puzzles solved by actually touching the world. These picks carry that hands-first VR design across campaigns, firefights, and problem-solving.

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Games5

Avg. Metacritic77

Avg. player rating4.4/5

Avg. playtime5h

Main genreAction

Released2019–2022

What these games share

The genres these 5 picks have in common, straight from their store data.

Action5 of 5
Adventure4 of 5
Indie4 of 5
Simulation2 of 5

The picks

Ranked by player rating, Metacritic breaks ties.

1
Red Matter 2
ActionAdventureIndie
Diegetic tools and tactile puzzles — levers, valves, hacking — that make you look, reach, and reason inside the world.
4.6/5Player ratingMC84View game
2
BONEWORKS
ActionAdventureIndie
Heft, two-handed gun models, manual mags, and gravity-assisted grabs — the same physical vocabulary, pushed to its limits.
4.6/5Player ratingMC72View game
3
The Walking Dead: Saints & Sinners
ActionAdventureIndie
Manual reloading and desperate, one-handed holds while the other yanks a clip or shoves a walker off.
4.3/5Player ratingView game
4
Into the Radius VR
Action
Slow, methodical scavenging where every mag is counted, guns jam, and firefights punish sloppy movement and noise.
4.2/5Player ratingMC76View game
5
Vertigo 2
ActionAdventureIndie
Setpiece VR firefights, crouch-and-peek cover, and gadget puzzles — the same hands-first rhythm, just wilder.
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