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Games like Descent
Parallax · 2014 · 96 % positive of 458
24 games that play like Descent and 24 that look like it. Closest by gameplay: Desecrators, Overload and Shattered Horizon.
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At a glance
What games like Descent have in common
- The tags they share most often with Descent: Shooter (22 of 24), FPS (14) and 6DOF (8).
- They came out between 2007 and 2025, 15 of them after Descent (2014).
- Best rated by Steam players: Deep Rock Galactic (97 % positive of 343,000).
- Descent: FreeSpace – The Great War and HYPERVIOLENT both play and look like Descent.
By gameplay
Plays like Descent
Matched from Steam descriptions and player tags. The tags under each game are the ones both games share.
Desecrators
97 % positive of 190
Shared: 6DOF · Shooter · Old School
Overload
94 % positive of 2,022
Shared: Classic · 6DOF · Shooter
Shattered Horizon
85 % positive of 503
Shared: 6DOF · Shooter · FPS
Alpha Prime
55 % positive of 1,465
Shared: Shooter · FPS · Space
PixelJunk™ Shooter
90 % positive of 601
Shared: Shooter · Sci-fi · Co-op
Exodus from the Earth
58 % positive of 231
Shared: Shooter · FPS · Sci-fi
Unreal Gold
89 % positive of 2,475
Shared: Classic · Shooter · Old School
Moon Mystery
70 % positive of 561
Shared: Shooter · FPS · Space
Miner Wars 2081
35 % positive of 379
Shared: 6DOF · Shooter · FPS
Deep Rock Galactic
97 % positive of 343,000
Shared: Shooter · FPS · Space
Sublevel Zero Redux
87 % positive of 512
Shared: 6DOF · Shooter · FPS
Forsaken Remastered
87 % positive of 255
Shared: Classic · 6DOF · FPS
More matches
- Perilous Warp74 % positive of 338Shared: Classic · Shooter · Old School
- Hidden Deep77 % positive of 4,408Shared: Shooter · Sci-fi · Co-op
- Polarity79 % positive of 4,690Shared: Shooter · FPS · Space
- Prodeus92 % positive of 7,556Shared: Classic · Shooter · FPS
- Descent: FreeSpace – The Great War77 % positive of 235Shared: 6DOF · Shooter · FPS
- Selaco91 % positive of 4,436Shared: Shooter · Old School · FPS
- Vertigo Remastered92 % positive of 1,487Shared: Shooter · Sci-fi · Action
- DOOMED56 % positive of 175Shared: Shooter · FPS · Retro
- Inversion™62 % positive of 664Shared: Shooter · Sci-fi · Co-op
- Miner Ultra Adventures 267 % positive of 595Shared: Old School · Co-op · Difficult
- HYPERVIOLENT56 % positive of 267Shared: Shooter · FPS · Space
- Deep Eclipse: New Space Odyssey66 % positive of 236Shared: 6DOF · Shooter · Space
By look
Looks like Descent
Matched from screenshots. Each card shows the screenshot closest to the look of this game.
X-COM: Interceptor
54 % positive of 209
Tachyon: The Fringe
90 % positive of 232
STAR WARS™ Dark Forces (Classic, 1995)
88 % positive of 2,971
Raptor: Call of The Shadows - 2015 Edition
72 % positive of 560
System Shock: Enhanced Edition
89 % positive of 2,172
Submarine Titans
85 % positive of 324
Descent: FreeSpace – The Great War
77 % positive of 235
Raptor: Call of the Shadows (1994 Classic Edition)
89 % positive of 215
STAR WARS™: TIE Fighter Special Edition
81 % positive of 602
Space Quest™ Collection
84 % positive of 381
1993 Space Machine
69 % positive of 339
X-COM: UFO Defense
94 % positive of 3,799
More matches
- Master of Orion 190 % positive of 398
- The Apogee Throwback Pack90 % positive of 334
- Star Explorers84 % positive of 226
- The Dig®91 % positive of 1,193
- STAR WARS™ - X-Wing Special Edition77 % positive of 435
- HYPERVIOLENT56 % positive of 267
- Uriel's Chasm18 % positive of 2,710
- STAR WARS™ Rebellion89 % positive of 1,355
- STAR WARS™: Rebel Assault I + II65 % positive of 254
- Blast Em!45 % positive of 297
- Master Levels for Doom II74 % positive of 799
- STAR WARS™ Jedi Knight - Mysteries of the Sith™66 % positive of 979
How these matches work
Matches come from embeddings of Steam descriptions, player tags and screenshots, computed offline. “Plays like” compares what the games are about and how players tag them; “Looks like” compares their screenshots. The share of positive reviews is based on Steam user reviews.