Games like System Critical: The Race Against Time
If System Critical: The Race Against Time is your kind of game, the closest matches are System Critical 2, Metro Awakening and Raw Data — picked from the ranked list below. Each pick is ranked by what players of this game also play, shared genres and tags, and review-mined similarity — not a generic popularity list.
Get personalized picks →About System Critical: The Race Against Time: Fun and challenging retro style run and gun platform shooter. Blast your arm cannon, use grenades, shields, and melee weapons, dodge projectiles and make your way through the carefully crafted levels. Discover secret areas and destroy objects while navigating obstacles and defeat bosses to progress
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System Critical 2
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Top pick for System Critical: The Race Against Time fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with System Critical: The Race Against Time.
System Critical 2 is bigger & badder than ever before! Get ready to experience a platformer shooter like no other in VR. Blast your arm cannon and use guns, melee weapons, grenades,& shields to make your way through the carefully crafted levels with epic boss battles and tons of enemies to kill.
Metro Awakening
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Second-strongest match for System Critical: The Race Against Time fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with System Critical: The Race Against Time.
Metro Awakening is a story-driven first person adventure built for VR that blends atmospheric exploration, stealth and combat in the most immersive Metro experience yet. Don your gas mask, brave the crippling radiation and venture into the depths of the Metro where threats haunt your every step.
Raw Data
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Third-strongest match for System Critical: The Race Against Time fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with System Critical: The Race Against Time.
Built from the ground up for VR, Raw Data’s action gameplay, intuitive controls, challenging enemies, and sci-fi atmosphere will completely immerse you within the surreal world of Eden Corp. Go solo or team up and become the adrenaline-charged heroes of your own futuristic technothriller.
After the Fall®
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Ranked #4 for System Critical: The Race Against Time fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with System Critical: The Race Against Time.
From the team that brought you Arizona Sunshine® comes an epic VR action FPS with intense co-op gameplay at its core. Team up with friends and take on a hostile VR world filled with ferocious undead--mutated and twisted by the relentless cold.
LONN
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Ranked #5 for System Critical: The Race Against Time fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with System Critical: The Race Against Time.
Grab. Throw. Obliterate. Physics-driven VR where telekinesis meets cyberpunk chaos. You're an elite bounty hunter dismantling a mind-transfer cult—using swords, guns, and anything you can hurl. 8hr campaign, roguelike missions, arena battles. Total freedom. Zero limits.
MOTHERGUNSHIP: FORGE
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Ranked #6 for System Critical: The Race Against Time fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with System Critical: The Race Against Time.
Craft. Shoot. Die. Repeat. Forge absurdly powerful guns and fight through the belly of a metal alien monstrosity in this VR FPS roguelite follow up to MOTHERGUNSHIP. Wanna build a rocket-firing-shotgun or a toxic spike-ball-launcher? Unleash your inner mad scientist, then take on the MOTHERGUNSHIP.
Aeon
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Ranked #7 for System Critical: The Race Against Time fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with System Critical: The Race Against Time.
A primitive god in ancient Greek mythology who controls time, is resurrected in the virtual world, Inspired by "The Matrix" and "Deadpool" (remember,the slower you move the slow time goes）
Budget Cuts
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Ranked #8 for System Critical: The Race Against Time fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with System Critical: The Race Against Time.
Budget Cuts is a VR stealth game where you dexterously zip, sneak or rambo your way forward through thrilling, oil-splatter filled combat!
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below System Critical: The Race Against Time at current Steam store prices.
POSTAL 2
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Priced ~80% under System Critical: The Race Against Time on Steam right now. Shares Action and Adventure with System Critical: The Race Against Time.
Live a week in the life of "The POSTAL Dude"; a hapless everyman just trying to check off some chores. Buying milk, returning an overdue library book, getting Gary Coleman's autograph, what could possibly go wrong?
The Test
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Priced ~60% under System Critical: The Race Against Time on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with System Critical: The Race Against Time.
You will answer a series of questions that will reveal truths from deep within. These questions may make you uncomfortable, but with great knowledge comes great sacrifice. Can you make it all the way through The Test, and if you do, are you sure you want the answers you seek?
Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk
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Priced ~70% under System Critical: The Race Against Time on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with System Critical: The Race Against Time.
A short story about what sort of challenges everyday little things can be. Help the girl buy milk, be the first not to disappoint her.
Blood and Bacon
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Priced ~80% under System Critical: The Race Against Time on Steam right now. Shares Action and Adventure with System Critical: The Race Against Time.
This Co-op Shooter , has Day and Night levels, multiple maps, players will take on 25 enemy types and numerous bosses, like Gargantuan Monsters and Minibosses every 10 days as you explore, shoot and run for your life against the onslaught of porcine monstrosities.
STAR WARS™ Republic Commando™
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Priced ~50% under System Critical: The Race Against Time on Steam right now. Shares Action with System Critical: The Race Against Time.
You are the leader of an elite squad of Republic Commandos, your mission is to infiltrate, dominate, and ultimately, annihilate the enemy. Your squad will follow your orders and your lead, working together as a team - instinctively, intelligently, instantly. You are their leader. They are your weapon.
STAR WARS™ Jedi Knight - Jedi Academy™
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Priced ~50% under System Critical: The Race Against Time on Steam right now. Shares Action with System Critical: The Race Against Time.
Forge your weapon and follow the path of the Jedi Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy is the latest installment of the highly acclaimed Jedi Knight series. Take on the role of a new student eager to learn the ways of the Force from Jedi Master Luke Skywalker.
The Test: Hypothesis Rising
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Priced ~60% under System Critical: The Race Against Time on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with System Critical: The Race Against Time.
The second chapter in The Test trilogy. Answer a series of in-depth questions to reveal hidden truths about yourself and unlock secrets to discover how your life can change drastically with just a few, slight modifications. ...But are you sure you want the answers you seek?
The NOexistenceN of you AND me
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Priced ~60% under System Critical: The Race Against Time on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with System Critical: The Race Against Time.
Use "game" as a medium to showcase the world of "you/girl". Explore the truth of "you/girl/world" through the form of a "visual novel".
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Doki Doki Literature Club!
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
The Literature Club is full of cute girls! Will you write the way into their heart? This game is not suitable for children or those who are easily disturbed.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with System Critical: The Race Against Time.
Episode 1 now FREE! Life is Strange is an award-winning and critically acclaimed episodic adventure game that allows the player to rewind time and affect the past, present and future.
Ultimate Custom Night
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with System Critical: The Race Against Time.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
ENA: Dream BBQ
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with System Critical: The Race Against Time.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with System Critical: The Race Against Time.
Explore the abandoned childhood wonder of Indigo Park! Guided by Rambley the Raccoon, help restore power to the destroyed amusement park while you run from the reason it shut down.
STRAFTAT
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with System Critical: The Race Against Time.
STRAFTAT is a 1v1/2v2 ONLINE first person SHOOTER with quick rounds in over 350 MAPS ; Including all WEAPONS, proximity chat and 4 players FFA.
Counter-Strike:Global Offensive
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with System Critical: The Race Against Time.
Counter-Strike:Global Offensive (CS:GO) expands upon the team-based action gameplay that it pioneered when it was launched over 2 decades ago. CS:GO features new maps, characters, weapons, and game modes, and delivers updated versions of the classic CS content (de_dust2, etc.).
The Expendabros
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with System Critical: The Race Against Time.
The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.
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Frequently asked about System Critical: The Race Against Time
- How much does System Critical: The Race Against Time cost?
- System Critical: The Race Against Time is listed on Steam at 4.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to System Critical: The Race Against Time?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside System Critical: The Race Against Time are System Critical 2, Metro Awakening, Raw Data.
- Who developed System Critical: The Race Against Time?
- System Critical: The Race Against Time was developed by Old Formulas.
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