BioShock (Series) AlternativesFirst-Person Shooters and other similar apps like BioShock (Series)

BioShock is described as 'Going beyond "run and gun corridors," "monster-closet AIs" and static worlds, BioShock creates a living, unique and unpredictable FPS experience. After your plane crashes into icy uncharted waters, you discover a rusted bathysphere and descend into Rapture, a' and is a first-person shooter in the games category. There are more than 10 games similar to BioShock for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Steam, Mac, Xbox and Playstation apps. The best BioShock alternative is Fallout. It's not free, so if you're looking for a free alternative, you could try Destiny 2 or Hexen II. Other BioShock like games are Halo, The Darkness II, Clive Barker's Undying and Singularity.

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  1. Fallout icon
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    Fallout is a series of post-apocalyptic role-playing video games—and later action role-playing games—created by Interplay Entertainment.

    34 Fallout alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Pay once
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Android Tablet
    • iPad
    • Bethesda Launcher
    • Steam
    • Playstation
    • Xbox
     
    • Fallout is the most popular Windows, Android, iPhone & iPad alternative to BioShock.

    • Fallout is the most popular commercial alternative to BioShock.

    • Fallout is Paid and ProprietaryBioShock is also Paid and Proprietary
  2. Halo icon
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    Halo is a science fiction, first-person shooter video game series, that centers on an interstellar war between humanity and a theocratic alliance of aliens known as the Covenant.

    Cost / License

    • Pay once
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Steam
    • Xbox
     
    • Halo is the most popular Mac alternative to BioShock.

    • Halo is Paid and ProprietaryBioShock is also Paid and Proprietary
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    The Darkness II is an intense first person shooter that puts you in the role of Jackie Estacado, don of a New York crime family and wielder of an ancient force of chaos known as The Darkness.

    Cost / License

    • Pay once
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
     
  4. Destiny 2 icon
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    Humanity's last safe city has fallen to an overwhelming invasion force, led by Ghaul, the imposing commander of the brutal Red Legion. He has stripped the city's Guardians of their power, and forced the survivors to flee.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Pay once)
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Steam
    • Playstation
    • Xbox
    • Stadia
     
    • Destiny 2 is the most popular free alternative to BioShock.

    • Destiny 2 is Freemium and ProprietaryBioShock is Paid and Proprietary
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    The game begins in 1923, after World War I veteran Patrick Galloway receives an urgent letter from his friend Jeremiah Covenant. Covenant, well aware of Galloway's reputation for dealing with occult matters, is in failing health and raves about a curse that has destroyed his...

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
     
  6. Singularity icon
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    Singularity is a first-person shooter with survival-horror elements. A main gameplay device is an artifact known as the Time Manipulation Device (TMD). The TMD is powered by an E-99 core, and can manipulate time.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Steam
     
  7. Bulletstorm icon
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    Bulletstorm focuses on combat, both with firearms and melee attacks. There are a variety of fictional firearms available, although the game also places heavy emphasis on kicking enemies and using the energy leash.

    9 Bulletstorm alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Pay once
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  8. Rage icon
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    Developed by id® Software, the creators of DOOM® and QUAKE®, RAGE is a groundbreaking first-person shooter set in the not-too-distant future after an asteroid impacts Earth, leaving a ravaged world behind.

    30 Rage alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Pay once
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Bethesda Launcher
    • Steam
    • Playstation
    • Xbox
     
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    From the independent studio that brought you Contrast, We Happy Few is an action/adventure game set in a drug-fuelled, retrofuturistic city in an alternative 1960s England. Hide, fight and conform your way out of this delusional, Joy-obsessed world.

    Cost / License

    • Pay once
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
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    You are John Blade, commander of HardCorps, an elite security force dedicated to protecting the people of Freeport City. Four years have passed since your first battle with Elexis Sinclaire, a beautiful, brilliant, and ruthless scientist who is out to remake humanity according...

    Cost / License

    • Pay once
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
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    Jericho's core gameplay consists of leading the game's seven-man team codenamed Jericho, allowing control of all team members by jumping to each character during certain points in the game, through various environments that have been warped by the Firstborn while...

    42 Clive Barker's Jericho alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  12. Hexen II icon
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    The Hammer of Thyrion project is a cross-platform source port effort of Raven Software's Hexen. Last updated 2018-06-06.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • MS-DOS
     
    • Hexen II is the most popular Linux alternative to BioShock.

    • Hexen II is the most popular Open Source alternative to BioShock.

    • Hexen II is Free and Open SourceBioShock is Paid and Proprietary
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