Now that aDead Spaceremake has been officially announced, it’s only a matter of time until fans get to jump back into Isaac Clarke’s boots. Of course, it will indeed be a bit of time until anyone actually gets to play the next installment in the franchise: Electronic Arts said that this newDead Spaceis coming to both the Xbox Series X and PS5, but it won’t be for a year or more. The good news is that there is a way to kill some time until it finally arrives. While EA has a game on its hands that re-defined a genre, there are others that can bring about a similar gameplay experience.
Dead Spacewas as beloved as it was because it offered some really good fights, an interesting science fiction setting, and some legit scares. Some of it was just off the wall, bonkers kind of gameplay. The formula led to not just oneDead Spacegame, but three. However, it’s been a long, long time since anyone has been able to get their hands on new content in the series.Dead Space 3was released in February of 2013. Until users really are able to play another title in the universe, there are some games that stand out from the pack that will help capture a similar vibe when playing through them.
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Alice: The Madness Returnsis actually the sequel toAmerican McGee’s Alice, but in a lot of ways, it outdoes its predecessor. TheVictorian-eraAlice: The Madness Returnsmight not seem like one that would be a particularly good match withDead Space, but this game manages to do it. Like the science-fiction-basedDead Space, this game offers a unique combination of psychological horror, action, adventure, and puzzle-solving.
Because the protagonist is going inside a world created in her own mind, there’s no limit to the kind of craziness that can ensue at any given time. The game manages to be plenty spooky, to the point where playing it in the dark when someone is home alone is going to bring plenty of frights.
LikeAlice: The Madness Returns,The Evil Withindoesn’t offer a one-to-one comparison toDead Space. The setting here isn’t in space and doesn’t involve fighting space mutants. However, the baseline feel and atmosphere ofThe Evil Withinis going to give fans of the EA series plenty of chills and thrills as if they were indeed playing the science-fiction-based shooter.The Evil Withinis a third-person based survival horrorgame, though players aren’t going to be blasting away in this title.
Instead, users have to find creative ways to sneak around the hordes of creeps and monsters they’ll encounter, as well as find a way to take down the big bosses without an insane amount of ammo at their disposal. This game has the protagonist largely being the hunted, instead of the hunter. There’s still enough of the atmospheric approach to the title that those who areDead Spaceaficionados will definitely get the same kind of vibe from this title.
If users have ever found themselves wondering whatDead Spacewould be like if it was basically the same kind of game, but an entirely different setting, then they probably hadBioShockin mind. There are more similarities between the two titles than setting, too.BioShockis the game that kicked off a rather popular series that then sat idle for several years. However, just likeDead Space, the fans' love for the franchise appears to have finally convinced some developers to releaseanother installment in theBioShockuniverse.
While the protagonist of this game isn’t wearing a rather high-tech suit, there are characters in the originalBioShockthat do even look a bit like they are donning space outfits. There’s certainly a deep science-fiction base with this game, and there’s also plenty of dread and scares to check off that box for those looking for something similar toDead Space. There’s even a bit of “returning to the scene of the crime” in this series withBioShock 2, but if users really want to get that sort of first glance at this world, they need to play the first in this franchise.
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There are actually quite a few games that are going to give users the same kind of vibe asDead Space, without actually being set in space.Then there’sPrey, which has the same kind of vibeof players fighting creatures on a horrifying space station, and even has the protagonist wearing a futuristic spacesuit. It really does feel that if this game isn’t supposed to be a direct continuation of theDead Spaceseries, it could certainly be an offshoot.
The one big difference here is that the monsters the protagonist fights are a bit more straightforward in that they are aliens, rather than some sort of mutated bunch of creatures.Preydoes have plenty of creeping scenes and settings that will have users on the edge of their seat during the playthrough. There’s the added bonus that this game was released relatively recently, and also just got an Xbox Series X visual boost.
Yet another game that has a lot of the same kind of feel ofDead Spacewithout actually being set in space isMetro 2033. The game has players roaming around a Russian countryside after a nuclear disaster had seemingly left it nothing more than wasteland. The last group of surviving humans will have to skulk around some rather dark areas in order to take down mutated creatures of all shapes and sizes. This game too, recently got a couple of different visual upgradesthat makeMetro 2033look even betterthan it did when it was first released. It’s also got some thrills and chills that can remind users of what they went through when they played theDead Spacegames.
Dead Spaceis in development for PC, PS5, and Xbox Series X.
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