Games like Dota 2 and Garry's Mod
Looking for games like both Dota 2 and Garry's Mod? Below are 24 Steam games ranked by imho.run's hybrid recommender for players who enjoy both titles. Each pick is scored by combining collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries — players who own Dota 2 and Garry's Mod also tend to own these — with content overlap on genres, categories, and storefront tags, plus review-mined vibe embeddings that catch tonal similarity even when genre labels differ. No Steam login required.
Best matches for fans of both games
Ranked by collaborative filtering, genre overlap, and review-mined vibes — the same signals that power imho.run.
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Counter-Strike
Top pick for fans of both Dota 2 and Garry's Mod. Shares Action with both games.
Play the world's number 1 online action game. Engage in an incredibly realistic brand of terrorist warfare in this wildly popular team-based game. Ally with teammates to complete strategic missions. Take out enemy sites. Rescue hostages. Your role affects your team's success. Your team's success affects your role.
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Counter-Strike: Source
Second pick for fans of both Dota 2 and Garry's Mod. Shares Action with both games.
Counter-Strike: Source blends Counter-Strike's award-winning teamplay action with the advanced technology of Source™ technology.
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Team Fortress 2
Third pick for fans of both Dota 2 and Garry's Mod. Shares Action and Free To Play with both games.
Nine distinct classes provide a broad range of tactical abilities and personalities. Constantly updated with new game modes, maps, equipment and, most importantly, hats!
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Overwatch®
Ranked #4 for fans of both Dota 2 and Garry's Mod. Shares Action and Free To Play with both games.
Overwatch®, A FUTURE WORTH FIGHTING FOR! Overwatch® is an always-on and ever-evolving free-to-play, team-based action game set in an optimistic future, where every match is the ultimate 5v5 or 6v6 battlefield brawl.
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Half-Life 2
Ranked #5 for fans of both Dota 2 and Garry's Mod. Shares Action with both games.
Reawakened from stasis in the occupied metropolis of City 17, Gordon Freeman is joined by Alyx Vance as he leads a desperate human resistance. Experience the landmark first-person shooter packed with immersive world-building, boundary-pushing physics, and exhilarating combat.
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Left 4 Dead 2
Ranked #6 for fans of both Dota 2 and Garry's Mod. Shares Action with both games.
Set in the zombie apocalypse, Left 4 Dead 2 is a co-operative action horror FPS takes you and your friends through the cities, swamps and cemeteries of the Deep South, from Savannah to New Orleans across five expansive campaigns.
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Battlerite
Ranked #7 for fans of both Dota 2 and Garry's Mod. Shares Action and Free To Play with both games.
BATTLERITE is an action-packed team arena brawler. Experience the unique combination of top-down shooter meets fast-paced fighting game and challenge friends and foes in a battle of reaction. The Arena awaits!
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Arma 3
Ranked #8 for fans of both Dota 2 and Garry's Mod. Shares Action and Strategy with both games.
Experience true combat gameplay in a massive military sandbox. Deploy with a wide variety of single- and multiplayer content, a massive arsenal of modern weapons and vehicles, and limitless opportunities for content creation. Authentic, diverse, open - Arma 3 sends you to war.
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Insurgency
Ranked #9 for fans of both Dota 2 and Garry's Mod. Shares Action and Strategy with both games.
Take to the streets for intense close quarters combat, where a team's survival depends upon securing crucial strongholds and destroying enemy supply in this multiplayer and cooperative Source Engine based experience.
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Rust
Ranked #10 for fans of both Dota 2 and Garry's Mod. Shares Action and Indie with both games.
The only aim in Rust is to survive. Everything wants you to die - the island’s wildlife, other inhabitants, the environment, and other survivors. Do whatever it takes to last another night.
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Don't Starve Together
Ranked #12 for fans of both Dota 2 and Garry's Mod. Shares Action and Strategy with both games.
Fight, Farm, Build and Explore Together in the standalone multiplayer expansion to the uncompromising wilderness survival game, Don't Starve.
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Factorio
Ranked #13 for fans of both Dota 2 and Garry's Mod. Shares Strategy and Indie with both games.
Factorio is a game about building and creating automated factories to produce items of increasing complexity, within an infinite 2D world. Use your imagination to design your factory, combine simple elements into ingenious structures, and finally protect it from the creatures who don't really like you.
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Rocket League®
Ranked #14 for fans of both Dota 2 and Garry's Mod. Shares Action and Sports with both games.
Rocket League is a high-powered hybrid of arcade-style soccer and vehicular mayhem with easy-to-understand controls and fluid, physics-driven competition. Rocket League includes casual and competitive Online Matches, a fully-featured offline Season Mode, special “Mutators” that let you change the rules entirely, hockey and...
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SMITE®
Ranked #15 for fans of both Dota 2 and Garry's Mod. Shares Action and Strategy with both games.
Join 40+ million players in SMITE, the Battleground of the Gods! Wield Thor’s hammer, turn your foes to stone as Medusa, or flex your divine power as one of 100+ other mythological icons. Become a God and play FREE today!
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Natural Selection 2
Ranked #16 for fans of both Dota 2 and Garry's Mod. Shares Action and Strategy with both games.
A fast paced multiplayer shooter that pits aliens against humans in a strategic and action-packed struggle for survival!
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Left 4 Dead
Ranked #18 for fans of both Dota 2 and Garry's Mod. Shares Action with both games.
From Valve (the creators of Counter-Strike, Half-Life and more) comes Left 4 Dead, a co-op action horror game for the PC and Xbox 360 that casts up to four players in an epic struggle for survival against swarming zombie hordes and terrifying mutant monsters.
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Paladins®
Ranked #19 for fans of both Dota 2 and Garry's Mod. Shares Action and Strategy with both games.
Paladins is the ultimate fantasy team-based shooter experience, with over 50 customizable Champions fighting in 5v5 action across a diverse Realm of modes and maps!
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SMITE 2
Ranked #20 for fans of both Dota 2 and Garry's Mod. Shares Action and Strategy with both games.
Become a god and wage war in SMITE 2, the free-to-play Unreal Engine 5-powered sequel to the legendary third-person action MOBA. If you love challenging competition, intense action, ability-driven combat, rewarding teamwork, or godly mythology, you’ll see why 40+ million players love SMITE.
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Half-Life
Ranked #21 for fans of both Dota 2 and Garry's Mod. Shares Action with both games.
Named Game of the Year by over 50 publications, Valve's debut title blends action and adventure with award-winning technology to create a frighteningly realistic world where players must think to survive. Also includes an exciting multiplayer mode that allows you to play against friends and enemies around the world.
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Satisfactory
Ranked #22 for fans of both Dota 2 and Garry's Mod. Shares Strategy and Indie with both games.
Satisfactory is a first-person open-world factory building game with a dash of exploration and combat. Play alone or with friends, explore an alien planet, create multi-story factories, and enter conveyor belt heaven!
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Insurgency: Sandstorm
Ranked #23 for fans of both Dota 2 and Garry's Mod. Shares Action with both games.
Insurgency: Sandstorm is a hardcore tactical FPS built on lethal close-quarters combat and ruthless intensity. Every bullet count, every step matters, and teamwork is your only path to survival in the brutality of modern warfare.
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Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege
Ranked #24 for fans of both Dota 2 and Garry's Mod. Shares Action and Free To Play with both games.
Rainbow Six® Siege is the reference in tactical team shooters, where elite strategy and execution triumph. Enjoy free access to Quick Match, Unranked, and Dual Front game modes with a selection of operators.