Games like Apocryph: an old-school shooter
If Apocryph: an old-school shooter is your kind of game, the closest matches are Duke Nukem 3D: 20th Anniversary World Tour, WRATH: Aeon of Ruin and Hellbound — 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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Duke Nukem 3D: 20th Anniversary World Tour
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Shares a retro mood with Apocryph: an old-school shooter.
Top pick for Apocryph: an old-school shooter fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Apocryph: an old-school shooter.
Frag like it’s 1996 – this time with even more asses to kick! Join the world’s greatest action hero in Duke Nukem 3D: 20th Anniversary World Tour as he saves Earth once again, kicking alien ass and saving babes across the globe along the way.
WRATH: Aeon of Ruin
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Shares an atmospheric mood with Apocryph: an old-school shooter.
Second-strongest match for Apocryph: an old-school shooter fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Apocryph: an old-school shooter.
Blast, slice and shred through your enemies in this hardcore FPS inspired by the icons of the '90s, powered by the legendary Quake-1 Tech. Taking place in a realm left to rot, take up arms, unearth long-forgotten secrets and hunt down the Guardians of the Old World.
Hellbound
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Shares secret hunting and a retro mood with Apocryph: an old-school shooter.
Third-strongest match for Apocryph: an old-school shooter fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Apocryph: an old-school shooter.
Classic First Person Shooter style game. Like the good old days. An action game focused on speed, gore, guns, and metal music. Inspired by the 90s’ classics with modern visuals and audio!
Prodeus
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Ranked #4 for Apocryph: an old-school shooter fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Apocryph: an old-school shooter.
Prodeus is a first-person shooter of old, re-imagined using modern rendering techniques and technology. Experience the quality you’d expect from a modern AAA game, designed with retro aesthetics and gameplay that invoke the tech-imposed limits of older hardware.
METRO CONFLICT: THE ORIGIN
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Ranked #5 for Apocryph: an old-school shooter fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Apocryph: an old-school shooter.
Metro Conflict: The Origin is a futuristic FPS experience offering unique characters, weapons, and suit skills in a team-based competitive gameplay. Choose your mercenary and become one of two factions in this strategic warfare and enter the battlefield.
STRAFE: Gold Edition
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Shares a retro mood with Apocryph: an old-school shooter.
Ranked #6 for Apocryph: an old-school shooter fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Apocryph: an old-school shooter.
STRAFE® is the worlds bloodiest roguelike first-person shooter! Featuring mind melting secrets and persistent gore that allows you to paint levels red with the excessive entrails of your enemies. 30+ weapons, 20+ enemies, & a red hot soundtrack.
Redemption: Saints And Sinners
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Ranked #7 for Apocryph: an old-school shooter fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Violent with Apocryph: an old-school shooter.
Squad of professional soldiers was sent to scout distant space station. After the accident, that station were evacuated long ago and all the exits were blocked with power shields. But the incoming signal from there made the Commander concerned. Squad's ship were fired upon and the survivors woke up at the station.
Turbo Overkill
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Ranked #8 for Apocryph: an old-school shooter fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Apocryph: an old-school shooter.
Enter Paradise as Johnny Turbo—half-metal, half-human, all-murder machine. Clean up the streets with a chainsaw leg, 15+ weapons and your hovercar as you battle the rogue AI Syn, rival bounty hunters and cyberpunks aplenty. Apogee’s most outrageous FPS since Duke Nukem 3D. Good hunting, Sir!
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Ziggurat
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Dungeon-Crawling First Person Shooting at its finest! Fast-paced combat! Dozens of perks, spells and enemies! Level ups! Random Dungeons! Traps! Badass bosses! Carrots!
Painkiller
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The classic Painkiller series is back! Battle through Purgatory in fast-paced co-op action, wielding infernal weapons against relentless demonic hordes. Condemned for your sins, the Voice of the Creator offers you a chance at redemption. Will you seize it or be lost to darkness?
Quake
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Developed by the award-winning id Software, Quake® is the ground-breaking, original dark fantasy first-person shooter that inspires today’s retro-style FPS games. With Quake (Enhanced), experience the authentic, updated, and visually enhanced version of the original.
Serious Sam 4
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Serious Sam 4 reignites the classic FPS series in a high-powered prequel loaded with an explosive arsenal, intergalactic carnage, and perfectly timed one-liners.
Descent 3
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The vertigo continues as the highly anticipated sequel to Descent I and II takes the mind-bending, pulse-pounding experience to another level!
Strife: Veteran Edition
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Hailed as the original FPS-RPG game that spawned countless imitators, Strife: Veteran Edition is a love letter to the classic from 1996.
DOOM
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Now includes all three premium DLC packs (Unto the Evil, Hell Followed, and Bloodfall), maps, modes, and weapons, as well as all feature updates including Arcade Mode, Photo Mode, and the latest Update 6.66, which brings further multiplayer improvements as well as revamps multiplayer progression.
DUSK
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Battle through an onslaught of mystical backwater cultists, possessed militants & even darker forces as you attempt to discover just what lurks beneath the Earth in this retro FPS inspired by the '90s legends.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Apocryph: an old-school shooter at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
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Priced ~67% under Apocryph: an old-school shooter on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Apocryph: an old-school shooter.
Garry's Mod is a physics sandbox. There aren't any predefined aims or goals. We give you the tools and leave you to play.
Vampire Survivors
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Priced ~67% under Apocryph: an old-school shooter on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Apocryph: an old-school shooter.
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!
R.E.P.O.
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Priced ~53% under Apocryph: an old-school shooter on Steam right now. Shares Action with Apocryph: an old-school shooter.
An online co-op horror game with up to 6 players. Locate valuable, fully physics-based objects and handle them with care as you retrieve and extract to satisfy your creator's desires.
PEAK
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Priced ~47% under Apocryph: an old-school shooter on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Apocryph: an old-school shooter.
PEAK is a co-op climbing game where the slightest mistake can spell your doom. Either solo or as a group of lost nature scouts, your only hope of rescue from a mysterious island is to scale the mountain at its center. Do you have what it takes to reach the PEAK?
Titanfall® 2
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Priced ~70% under Apocryph: an old-school shooter on Steam right now. Shares Action with Apocryph: an old-school shooter.
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.
Slay the Spire
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Priced ~58% under Apocryph: an old-school shooter on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Apocryph: an old-school shooter.
We fused card games and roguelikes together to make the best single player deckbuilder we could. Craft a unique deck, encounter bizarre creatures, discover relics of immense power, and Slay the Spire!
Inscryption
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Priced ~47% under Apocryph: an old-school shooter on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Apocryph: an old-school shooter.
Inscryption is an inky black card-based odyssey that blends the deckbuilding roguelike, escape-room style puzzles, and psychological horror into a blood-laced smoothie. Darker still are the secrets inscrybed upon the cards...
Cookie Clicker
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Priced ~67% under Apocryph: an old-school shooter on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Apocryph: an old-school shooter.
An idle game about making cookies! Originally released in 2013 on the web, and actively developed since then. This is the official version for Steam.
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. Shares Indie with Apocryph: an old-school shooter.
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
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Apocryph: an old-school shooter.
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 Apocryph: an old-school shooter.
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 Apocryph: an old-school shooter.
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 Indie with Apocryph: an old-school shooter.
The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.
Iron Snout
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Apocryph: an old-school shooter.
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.
Star Fetchers
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Apocryph: an old-school shooter.
The introduction to a wild ride with gangsters and deep state conspiracy theories
The Lab
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Welcome to The Lab, a compilation of Valve’s room-scale VR experiments set in a pocket universe within Aperture Science. Fix a robot, defend a castle, adopt a mechanical dog, and more. Still not sold? It’s free!
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Duke Nukem 3D: 20th Anniversary World Tour
WHY THIS
Shares a retro mood with Apocryph: an old-school shooter.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Adventure with Apocryph: an old-school shooter.
Frag like it’s 1996 – this time with even more asses to kick! Join the world’s greatest action hero in Duke Nukem 3D: 20th Anniversary World Tour as he saves Earth once again, kicking alien ass and saving babes across the globe along the way.
WRATH: Aeon of Ruin
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Apocryph: an old-school shooter.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action with Apocryph: an old-school shooter.
Blast, slice and shred through your enemies in this hardcore FPS inspired by the icons of the '90s, powered by the legendary Quake-1 Tech. Taking place in a realm left to rot, take up arms, unearth long-forgotten secrets and hunt down the Guardians of the Old World.
Hellbound
WHY THIS
Shares secret hunting and a retro mood with Apocryph: an old-school shooter.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Apocryph: an old-school shooter.
Classic First Person Shooter style game. Like the good old days. An action game focused on speed, gore, guns, and metal music. Inspired by the 90s’ classics with modern visuals and audio!
Turbo Overkill
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Apocryph: an old-school shooter.
Enter Paradise as Johnny Turbo—half-metal, half-human, all-murder machine. Clean up the streets with a chainsaw leg, 15+ weapons and your hovercar as you battle the rogue AI Syn, rival bounty hunters and cyberpunks aplenty. Apogee’s most outrageous FPS since Duke Nukem 3D. Good hunting, Sir!
Frequently asked about Apocryph: an old-school shooter
- Does Apocryph: an old-school shooter run on Steam Deck?
- Apocryph: an old-school shooter is rated Playable on Steam Deck — it runs, but expect some manual adjustments (control remapping, text size, or graphics settings) for the best experience.
- How much does Apocryph: an old-school shooter cost?
- Apocryph: an old-school shooter is listed on Steam at 14.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Apocryph: an old-school shooter?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Apocryph: an old-school shooter are Duke Nukem 3D: 20th Anniversary World Tour, WRATH: Aeon of Ruin, Hellbound.
- Who developed Apocryph: an old-school shooter?
- Apocryph: an old-school shooter was developed by Bigzur Games.
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