Singularity™

Singularity is a remarkable game that offers a unique blend of action-packed gameplay and innovative time-manipulation mechanics. The game’s story is engaging, drawing players into a world where they can alter the course of history.
The game’s pacing is excellent, ensuring that there’s never a dull moment. The shooting mechanics are satisfying, and the addition of the TMD unique twist to the genre. It’s a game that doesn’t just rely on its time-travel gimmick but integrates it seamlessly into every aspect of the gameplay.

Singularity is an underrated gem that deserves more recognition.

There was a time when big publishers like Activision were not afraid to let their developers go crazy and take awesome risks and make creative stuff like Singularity. But in 2024 everything needs to be a live service fortnight clone or it is a no go! Which is a shame cause Singularity is great.
What is Singularity? It was probably inspiration for that awesome Titanfall 2 time travel mission cause there are similar vibes.
So yes, recommend. Runs great on Steam Deck too so could probably run on a potato these days!

This game is the definition of short and sweet. It's sad the people who made it are Call of Duty slaves now.

Firstly, a big con: no closed captioning. A real shame because there's a LOT of dialogue and exposition to understand.
Singularity's an odd one, a game that passed me by when I was a teen, but I remembered for its reputation as having some novel plot points, if not the coolest gameplay. After briefly delving in during 2020's lockdown, I returned in 2023 to finish the job. And over the course of about 6-7 hours, playing through on Hard difficulty, it's proven itself a fairly modest shooter - taking bits from Bioshock, Half-Life and Timeshift, putting a spin on the Cold War-escalation premise we know all too well.
It's really the more ambitiously complex plot points and neat 1950s setting that make it stand out - the enemies don't much at all and the mechanics never really come together in a way that make you feel like Singularity is on to a real winner with its central gameplay. The "TMD" was something I barely ever used in combat, never becoming more effective or valuable than the guns I had at my disposal. Chiefly, the upgrade system is completely borked and misbalanced. By not even halfway through the game I was only using two weapons consistently and swimming in upgrade points, to a degree that I could simply waltz through the last hour, demolishing enemies with a minigun and grenade launcher, all the while regaining health for every kill. Yes, there's a few tough sequences here and there, but nothing that got me stuck or required a lot of skill to overcome.
As for the narrative, it's a bit finnicky, as a lot of time travel stories are. The game is very particular about what changes the world and what doesn't as you move back and forth from present to past, to a point where I think you'd have to be more convinced by the characters (including the Alyx rip-off and generic bad-guy Russian commander) than you realistically will be. There's a lot of moving parts that, at first glance, come together, but the more you think about, the more it ultimately comes apart. The final conclusion has three options, none of which are hugely satisfying, but ultimately redeem the game from its fairly bland opening (spec-ops characters should be banned from existence, for all I care).
Still, it's a novel enough experience, striving for a humanity that it clunkily bundles between over-the-top plot points more to do with the setting than the base desire of its characters. With greater ambition, I really think Singularity could've been one of the best games of its era. Instead, it's a strange fusion of the aforementioned titles, never managing to be much more than any one of them.
TL;DR - Game is OK. Worth playing for the setting, plot is alright. Grab it for nothing on sale.

This game is underrated masterpiece, easily my fav Raven Software game, nothing more i have to say, Maybe if you like Half-Life 2, F.E.A.R. , BioShock and TimeShift, then you should play Singularity, it's very immersive game with good story and addictive gameplay.

Very underrated, I recommend to any fan of Bioshock or classic fun run and guns players. Cool story.

Singularity is a weird game. It is a story emphasized FPS like Bioshock in a Retro-Futuristic-Dystopian Soviet Union with the shooting mechanics of a CoD clone. It is a truly single player experience without much replay value, the story is not very engaging with only around three actual characters, and the gauntlet powers are basically useless. There are collectives that explain the lore of the game but they require you to either read or stay put for several minutes to listen to a tape recorder unlike Bioshock.
Still its an ok shooter with drab coloring and cookie cutter design which in a way works with the Soviet setting. If you want to play an early 2000s story shooter that is hard to come by in the modern market than it might be worth a shot when it is on sale for less than $10.