Games like Half-Life 2 and Black Desert
Looking for games like both Half-Life 2 and Black Desert? Below are 24 Steam games ranked by imho.run's hybrid recommender for players who enjoy both titles. Both Half-Life 2 and Black Desert share Action roots, making the overlapping player base a strong signal for what to play next. Each pick is scored by combining collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries — players who own Half-Life 2 and Black Desert 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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Half-Life
Top pick for fans of both Half-Life 2 and Black Desert. 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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Half-Life: Alyx
Second pick for fans of both Half-Life 2 and Black Desert. Shares Action and Adventure with both games.
Half-Life: Alyx is Valve’s VR return to the Half-Life series. It’s the story of an impossible fight against a vicious alien race known as the Combine, set between the events of Half-Life and Half-Life 2. Playing as Alyx Vance, you are humanity’s only chance for survival.
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Black Mesa
Third pick for fans of both Half-Life 2 and Black Desert. Shares Action and Indie with both games.
Relive Half-Life.
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DRAGON BALL XENOVERSE 2
Ranked #4 for fans of both Half-Life 2 and Black Desert. Shares Action and Adventure with both games.
DRAGON BALL XENOVERSE 2 builds upon the highly popular DRAGON BALL XENOVERSE with enhanced graphics that will further immerse players into the largest and most detailed Dragon Ball world ever developed.
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FINAL FANTASY XIV Online
Ranked #5 for fans of both Half-Life 2 and Black Desert. Shares Massively Multiplayer and RPG with both games.
Join over 30 million adventurers worldwide and take part in an epic and ever-changing FINAL FANTASY. Experience an unforgettable story, exhilarating battles, and a myriad of captivating environments to explore.
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The Elder Scrolls® Online
Ranked #6 for fans of both Half-Life 2 and Black Desert. Shares Action and Adventure with both games.
Every legend starts somewhere and in The Elder Scrolls Online, it starts with you. Join millions of players in an online, fantasy RPG set in a vast living Elder Scrolls world.
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Guild Wars 2®
Ranked #8 for fans of both Half-Life 2 and Black Desert. Shares Adventure and Massively Multiplayer with both games.
Guild Wars 2 is an award-winning online roleplaying game with fast-paced action combat, deep character customization, and no subscription fee required. Choose from an arsenal of professions and weapons, explore a vast open world, compete in PVP modes and more. Join over 16 million players now!
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Half-Life: Blue Shift
Ranked #9 for fans of both Half-Life 2 and Black Desert. Shares Action with both games.
Made by Gearbox Software and originally released in 2001 as an add-on to Half-Life, Blue Shift is a return to the Black Mesa Research Facility in which you play as Barney Calhoun, the security guard sidekick who helped Gordon out of so many sticky situations.
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EVE Online
Ranked #10 for fans of both Half-Life 2 and Black Desert. Shares Action and Strategy with both games.
Over 20 years of legendary space battles! Explore a massive living universe of danger and opportunity in a challenging and highly rewarding space adventure. Fight, trade, build, and connect with a universe driven and shaped directly by players.
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Secret World Legends
Ranked #11 for fans of both Half-Life 2 and Black Desert. Shares Action and Adventure with both games.
Secret World Legends is a story-driven, shared-world action RPG that plunges players into a shadowy war against the supernatural, where ancient myths and legends cross over into the modern day.
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Throne and Liberty
Ranked #12 for fans of both Half-Life 2 and Black Desert. Shares Action and Adventure with both games.
Throne and Liberty captures the essence of classic MMORPGs while introducing new gameplay elements, depth and excitement at every turn. Gather your guild, prepare for battle, and set forth for throne... and liberty!
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Divinity: Original Sin 2 - Definitive Edition
Ranked #13 for fans of both Half-Life 2 and Black Desert. Shares Strategy and Adventure with both games.
The critically acclaimed RPG that raised the bar, from the creators of Baldur's Gate 3. Gather your party. Master deep, tactical combat. Venture as a party of up to four - but know that only one of you will have the chance to become a God.
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TERA - Action MMORPG
Ranked #15 for fans of both Half-Life 2 and Black Desert. Shares Action and Adventure with both games.
TERA is an epic fantasy MMORPG experience. Master the action-packed combat system and prove yourself in solo and multiplayer adventures – all in the stunningly beautiful world of Arborea!
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BioShock™
Ranked #16 for fans of both Half-Life 2 and Black Desert. Shares Action and RPG with both games.
BioShock is a shooter unlike any you've ever played, loaded with weapons and tactics never seen. You'll have a complete arsenal at your disposal from simple revolvers to grenade launchers and chemical throwers, but you'll also be forced to genetically modify your DNA to create an even more deadly weapon: you.
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RIFT
Ranked #17 for fans of both Half-Life 2 and Black Desert. Shares Action and Adventure with both games.
Dive into a world of epic adventure! Create your perfect hero thanks to a uniquely customizable class system. Collect, craft, and customize your gear. Go it alone or group up to challenge dungeons, raids, dynamic open-world content, and your fellow players.
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Dishonored
Ranked #18 for fans of both Half-Life 2 and Black Desert. Shares Action and Adventure with both games.
Dishonored is an immersive first-person action game that casts you as a supernatural assassin driven by revenge. With Dishonored’s flexible combat system, creatively eliminate your targets as you combine the supernatural abilities, weapons and unusual gadgets at your disposal.
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Left 4 Dead 2
Ranked #19 for fans of both Half-Life 2 and Black Desert. 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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Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord
Ranked #20 for fans of both Half-Life 2 and Black Desert. Shares Action and Strategy with both games.
A strategy/action RPG. Create a character, engage in diplomacy, craft, trade and conquer new lands in a vast medieval sandbox. Raise armies to lead into battle and command and fight alongside your troops in massive real-time battles using a deep but intuitive skill-based combat system.
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Tom Clancy’s The Division® 2
Ranked #21 for fans of both Half-Life 2 and Black Desert. Shares Action and Adventure with both games.
Join The Division in this open world tactical shooter. Engage in intense cover-based combat, team up with friends, and build your ultimate agent to save Washington, D.C.
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Neverwinter
Ranked #22 for fans of both Half-Life 2 and Black Desert. Shares Action and Adventure with both games.
Neverwinter is a free, action MMORPG based on the acclaimed Dungeons & Dragons fantasy roleplaying game. Epic stories, action combat and classic roleplaying await those heroes courageous enough to enter the fantastic world of Neverwinter!
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Deus Ex: Human Revolution - Director's Cut
Ranked #23 for fans of both Half-Life 2 and Black Desert. Shares Action and RPG with both games.
You play Adam Jensen, an ex-SWAT specialist who's been handpicked to oversee the defensive needs of one of America's most experimental biotechnology firms. Your job is to safeguard company secrets, but when a black ops team breaks in and kills the very scientists you were hired to protect, everything you thought you knew about your job...
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New World: Aeternum
Ranked #24 for fans of both Half-Life 2 and Black Desert. Shares Action and Adventure with both games.
Experience a thrilling action RPG set on the supernatural island of Aeternum. Forge your destiny on an adventure filled with danger and opportunity.