Games like Fear Effect 2: Retro Helix
If Fear Effect 2: Retro Helix is your kind of game, the closest matches are Fear Effect, Hellboy Web of Wyrd and MDK 2 — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, dark and intense. 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.
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Fear Effect
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Shares tank controls, quicktime events, action adventure and an atmospheric mood with Fear Effect 2: Retro Helix.
Top pick for Fear Effect 2: Retro Helix fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Fear Effect 2: Retro Helix.
Fear Effect, the pioneering cel-shaded cinematic action game, returns!
Hellboy Web of Wyrd
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Fear Effect 2: Retro Helix.
Second-strongest match for Fear Effect 2: Retro Helix fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Fear Effect 2: Retro Helix.
Hellboy Web of Wyrd is a roguelike action brawler with an original story created in partnership with Dark Horse Comics and Hellboy creator Mike Mignola. When an agent of the B.P.R.D. goes missing, Hellboy is sent to investigate; pulling him into the depths of the Wyrd.
MDK 2
WHY THIS
Shares character switching, puzzle solving and an atmospheric mood with Fear Effect 2: Retro Helix.
Third-strongest match for Fear Effect 2: Retro Helix fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Fear Effect 2: Retro Helix.
3 Unlikely Heroes, 1 Ultimate Goal Kurt Hectic is back to save the universe. This time he is teamed with the genius Dr. Hawkins and the 6-legged gun-toting robotic dog, Max. Together they must out-sneak, out-blast and out-think their enemies as they attempt to reclaim earth from a vile alien menace.
Demon Slayer -Kimetsu no Yaiba- The Hinokami Chronicles
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Fear Effect 2: Retro Helix.
Ranked #4 for Fear Effect 2: Retro Helix fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Fear Effect 2: Retro Helix.
Become the Blade that Destroys Demons!
HITMAN World of Assassination
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Fear Effect 2: Retro Helix.
Ranked #5 for Fear Effect 2: Retro Helix fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Fear Effect 2: Retro Helix.
Enter the world of the ultimate assassin. HITMAN World of Assassination delivers the definitive stealth action experience, putting you in the shoes of Agent 47, a master assassin. Explore immersive locations, uncover hidden secrets, and eliminate targets with complete freedom of approach.
Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy
WHY THIS
Shares boss fights with Fear Effect 2: Retro Helix.
Ranked #6 for Fear Effect 2: Retro Helix fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Fear Effect 2: Retro Helix.
Fire up a wild ride across the cosmos with a fresh take on Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy. In this action-adventure game, you are Star-Lord leading the unpredictable Guardians from one explosion of chaos to the next. You got this. Probably.
Rogue Trooper Redux
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Shares an atmospheric mood with Fear Effect 2: Retro Helix.
Ranked #7 for Fear Effect 2: Retro Helix fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Fear Effect 2: Retro Helix.
A pioneering tactical shooter and landmark comic book adaptation, Rogue Trooper is back, remastered and revitalised in true high definition. Experience acclaimed third-person action in this BAFTA-nominated tale of betrayal and revenge at the far reaches of the galaxy!
METAL GEAR SOLID V: THE PHANTOM PAIN
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Shares an atmospheric mood with Fear Effect 2: Retro Helix.
Ranked #8 for Fear Effect 2: Retro Helix fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Fear Effect 2: Retro Helix.
Ushering in a new era for the METAL GEAR franchise with cutting-edge technology powered by the Fox Engine, METAL GEAR SOLID V: The Phantom Pain, will provide players a first-rate gaming experience as they are offered tactical freedom to carry out open-world missions.
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Resident Evil
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Shares inventory management, puzzle solving and an atmospheric mood with Fear Effect 2: Retro Helix.
Reviewers of Fear Effect 2: Retro Helix cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Adventure with Fear Effect 2: Retro Helix.
The game that defined the survival-horror genre is back! Check out the remastered HD version of Resident Evil.
Tomb Raider: Legend
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Shares an atmospheric mood with Fear Effect 2: Retro Helix.
Reviewers of Fear Effect 2: Retro Helix cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Adventure with Fear Effect 2: Retro Helix.
Follow Lara Croft down a path of discovery as she travels the globe to remote, exotic locales in search of one of history's greatest artifacts, that unleashes unwelcome figures from Lara's mysterious past.
Tomb Raider Game of the Year
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Reviewers of Fear Effect 2: Retro Helix cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Adventure with Fear Effect 2: Retro Helix.
Tomb Raider explores the intense origin story of Lara Croft and her ascent from a young woman to a hardened survivor.
Fear Effect
WHY THIS
Shares tank controls, quicktime events, action adventure and an atmospheric mood with Fear Effect 2: Retro Helix.
Reviewers of Fear Effect 2: Retro Helix cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Adventure with Fear Effect 2: Retro Helix.
Fear Effect, the pioneering cel-shaded cinematic action game, returns!
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Fear Effect 2: Retro Helix at current Steam store prices.
Vampire Survivors
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Priced ~50% under Fear Effect 2: Retro Helix on Steam right now. Shares Action with Fear Effect 2: Retro Helix.
Mow down thousands of night creatures and survive until dawn! Vampire Survivors is a gothic horror casual game with rogue-lite elements, where your choices can allow you to quickly snowball against the hundreds of monsters that get thrown at you. Be the bullet hell!
Titanfall® 2
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Priced ~55% under Fear Effect 2: Retro Helix on Steam right now. Shares Action with Fear Effect 2: Retro Helix.
Respawn Entertainment gives you the most advanced titan technology in its new, single player campaign & multiplayer experience. Combine & conquer with new titans & pilots, deadlier weapons, & customization and progression systems that help you and your titan flow as one unstoppable killing force.
POSTAL 2
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Priced ~90% under Fear Effect 2: Retro Helix on Steam right now. Shares Action and Adventure with Fear Effect 2: Retro Helix.
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?
Buckshot Roulette
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Priced ~70% under Fear Effect 2: Retro Helix on Steam right now. Shares Action with Fear Effect 2: Retro Helix.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
Brotato
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Fear Effect 2: Retro Helix on Steam right now. Shares Action with Fear Effect 2: Retro Helix.
Brotato is a top-down arena shooter roguelite where you play a potato wielding up to 6 weapons at a time to fight off hordes of aliens. Choose from a variety of traits and items to create unique builds and survive until help arrives.
Your Only Move Is HUSTLE
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Priced ~50% under Fear Effect 2: Retro Helix on Steam right now. Shares Action with Fear Effect 2: Retro Helix.
Master your technique, execute flashy combos, and outsmart opponents across the world, frame-by-frame. Slow down the clock to fine-tune your fighting style in this innovative, turn-based combat simulator. Pulverize your friends and choreograph spectacular fight scenes. No training mode required.
GRIS
WHY THIS
Priced ~63% under Fear Effect 2: Retro Helix on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Fear Effect 2: Retro Helix.
Gris is a hopeful young girl lost in her own world, dealing with a painful experience in her life. Her journey through sorrow is manifested in her dress, which grants new abilities to better navigate her faded reality.
The Test
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Priced ~80% under Fear Effect 2: Retro Helix on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Fear Effect 2: Retro Helix.
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?
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Doki Doki Literature Club!
WHY THIS
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.
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with Fear Effect 2: Retro Helix.
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
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Fear Effect 2: Retro Helix.
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.
The Looker
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
Counter-Strike:Global Offensive
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Fear Effect 2: Retro Helix.
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.).
Iron Snout
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Fear Effect 2: Retro Helix.
Iron Snout is a fast, colorful and brutal fighting game in which you will be helping a piglet fight for its life against hordes of wolves.
UNBEATABLE [white label]
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with Fear Effect 2: Retro Helix.
A young girl learns a song. An exclusive side-story set in the world of D-CELL GAMES' upcoming rhythm-adventure.
Star Fetchers
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with Fear Effect 2: Retro Helix.
The introduction to a wild ride with gangsters and deep state conspiracy theories
![UNBEATABLE [white label] — Steam game cover](https://shared.akamai.steamstatic.com/store_item_assets/steam/apps/1290490/header.jpg?t=1736770503)
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Fear Effect
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Shares tank controls, quicktime events, action adventure and an atmospheric mood with Fear Effect 2: Retro Helix.
Another title from Implicit Conversions, the studio behind Fear Effect 2: Retro Helix. Shares Action and Adventure with Fear Effect 2: Retro Helix.
Fear Effect, the pioneering cel-shaded cinematic action game, returns!
Fighting Force Collection
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Another title from Implicit Conversions, the studio behind Fear Effect 2: Retro Helix. Shares Action with Fear Effect 2: Retro Helix.
The legendary 3D beat 'em up is back: Fighting Force!
Milano's Odd Job Collection
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Another title from Implicit Conversions, the studio behind Fear Effect 2: Retro Helix.
Milano is on her own for summer vacation, and she’s ready to live her best life! Take on part-time jobs, personalize your home, or spend the day eating popcorn at the park. Experience this retro classic for the first time outside of Japan, now with modern improvements.
Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
Fear Effect
WHY THIS
Shares tank controls, quicktime events, action adventure and an atmospheric mood with Fear Effect 2: Retro Helix.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Adventure with Fear Effect 2: Retro Helix.
Fear Effect, the pioneering cel-shaded cinematic action game, returns!
Hellboy Web of Wyrd
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Fear Effect 2: Retro Helix.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Adventure with Fear Effect 2: Retro Helix.
Hellboy Web of Wyrd is a roguelike action brawler with an original story created in partnership with Dark Horse Comics and Hellboy creator Mike Mignola. When an agent of the B.P.R.D. goes missing, Hellboy is sent to investigate; pulling him into the depths of the Wyrd.
Demon Slayer -Kimetsu no Yaiba- The Hinokami Chronicles
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Fear Effect 2: Retro Helix.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Adventure with Fear Effect 2: Retro Helix.
Become the Blade that Destroys Demons!
HITMAN World of Assassination
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Fear Effect 2: Retro Helix.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Adventure with Fear Effect 2: Retro Helix.
Enter the world of the ultimate assassin. HITMAN World of Assassination delivers the definitive stealth action experience, putting you in the shoes of Agent 47, a master assassin. Explore immersive locations, uncover hidden secrets, and eliminate targets with complete freedom of approach.
Frequently asked about Fear Effect 2: Retro Helix
- Is Fear Effect 2: Retro Helix verified for Steam Deck?
- Yes — Fear Effect 2: Retro Helix is Steam Deck Verified, meaning Valve has confirmed it runs well on the Deck with full controller, text legibility, and default configuration support.
- How much does Fear Effect 2: Retro Helix cost?
- Fear Effect 2: Retro Helix is listed on Steam at 9.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Fear Effect 2: Retro Helix?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Fear Effect 2: Retro Helix are Fear Effect, Hellboy Web of Wyrd, MDK 2.
- Who developed Fear Effect 2: Retro Helix?
- Fear Effect 2: Retro Helix was developed by Implicit Conversions and published by Limited Run Games.
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