4 Platformer games like Half-Life: Blue Shift that you should try

It shares the essentials of what Half-Life: Blue Shift does: strong narrative focus, ranged combat and horror setting. The common ground extends to single-player focus and a first-person view. It sets itself apart with horror tension and multiplayer gameplay.

It shares the essentials of what Half-Life: Blue Shift does: strong narrative focus, ranged combat and a sci-fi setting. Both also lean on single-player focus and a first-person view. The distance is in game mode — its own ground is multiplayer gameplay.

What brings it close to Half-Life: Blue Shift is strong narrative focus, ranged combat and a sci-fi setting, and the two track each other on genre, combat and tone. To that it adds single-player focus and a first-person view. They part company on game mode: this one brings multiplayer gameplay.

Shelved next to Half-Life: Blue Shift for good reason: dark, oppressive atmosphere, melee combat and single-player focus. Where the two diverge is visuals and tone: punishing difficulty and pixel art.