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Games like Half-Life 2 and Quake Champions

Looking for games like both Half-Life 2 and Quake Champions? Below are 24 Steam games ranked by imho.run's hybrid recommender for players who enjoy both titles. Both Half-Life 2 and Quake Champions 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 Quake Champions 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.

Half-Life 2 — Steam game coverQuake Champions — Steam game cover
Shared genres:Action

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 — Steam game cover

    Half-Life

    Top pick for fans of both Half-Life 2 and Quake Champions. 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 — Steam game cover

    Half-Life: Alyx

    Second pick for fans of both Half-Life 2 and Quake Champions. 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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    Quake — Steam game cover

    Quake

    Third pick for fans of both Half-Life 2 and Quake Champions. Shares Action with both games.

    Developed by the award-winning id Software, Quake® is the ground-breaking, original dark fantasy first-person shooter that inspires today’s retro-style FPS games. With Quake (Enhanced), experience the authentic, updated, and visually enhanced version of the original.

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    Black Mesa — Steam game cover

    Black Mesa

    Ranked #4 for fans of both Half-Life 2 and Quake Champions. Shares Action and Indie with both games.

    Relive Half-Life.

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    Unreal Tournament 2004: Editor's Choice Edition — Steam game cover

    Unreal Tournament 2004: Editor's Choice Edition

    Ranked #5 for fans of both Half-Life 2 and Quake Champions. Shares Action with both games.

    Unreal Tournament 2004 is a multiplayer first person shooter that combines the kill-or-be-killed experience of gladiatorial combat with cutting-edge technology. Ten game modes - both team-based and "every man for himself" -- provide even the most hardcore gamer with palm-sweating challenges through unbelievably detailed indoor...

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    Unreal Tournament: Game of the Year Edition — Steam game cover

    Unreal Tournament: Game of the Year Edition

    Ranked #6 for fans of both Half-Life 2 and Quake Champions. Shares Action with both games.

    Unreal Tournament is the original King of the Hill in the frag-or-be-fragged multiplayer gaming world. As the undisputed 1999 Game of the Year, Unreal Tournament grabbed the first person shooter genre by the soiled seat of its pants and knocked it around the room with its never-before-seen graphics, brutal edge-of-your-seat gameplay and...

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    Counter-Strike — Steam game cover

    Counter-Strike

    Ranked #7 for fans of both Half-Life 2 and Quake Champions. 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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    Quantum League — Steam game cover

    Quantum League

    Ranked #8 for fans of both Half-Life 2 and Quake Champions. Shares Action and Sports with both games.

    Quantum League is a revolutionary Time-Paradox Shooter: a competitive online FPS where you are battling within a time loop, tactically teaming up with your past and future selves in mind-blowing 1v1 and 2v2 matches.

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    Quake Live — Steam game cover

    Quake Live

    Ranked #9 for fans of both Half-Life 2 and Quake Champions. Shares Action with both games.

    Experience the most exciting and fast-paced FPS gameplay while competing with players from around the world in over 100 arenas, a dozen game modes, and with persistent career stats tracking, in this online features-focused successor to Quake III Arena.

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    Quake III Arena — Steam game cover

    Quake III Arena

    Ranked #10 for fans of both Half-Life 2 and Quake Champions. Shares Action with both games.

    The greatest warriors of all time and space have been summoned to battle for the amusement of an ancient alien race. Wield a variety of guns and power-ups as you fight for glory against ruthless combatants in this fast-paced single-player and multiplayer FPS.

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    Serious Sam HD: The Second Encounter — Steam game cover

    Serious Sam HD: The Second Encounter

    Ranked #11 for fans of both Half-Life 2 and Quake Champions. Shares Action and Indie with both games.

    Serious Sam HD: The Second Encounter is a visually upgraded and fully Steam supported remake of the original high-adrenaline single-play and 16-player co-operative arcade-action FPS and Gamespot's Game of the Month!

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    DOOM — Steam game cover

    DOOM

    Ranked #12 for fans of both Half-Life 2 and Quake Champions. Shares Action with both games.

    Now includes all three premium DLC packs (Unto the Evil, Hell Followed, and Bloodfall), maps, modes, and weapons, as well as all feature updates including Arcade Mode, Photo Mode, and the latest Update 6.66, which brings further multiplayer improvements as well as revamps multiplayer progression.

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    Left 4 Dead 2 — Steam game cover

    Left 4 Dead 2

    Ranked #13 for fans of both Half-Life 2 and Quake Champions. 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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    Team Fortress 2 — Steam game cover

    Team Fortress 2

    Ranked #14 for fans of both Half-Life 2 and Quake Champions. 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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    Half-Life: Blue Shift — Steam game cover

    Half-Life: Blue Shift

    Ranked #15 for fans of both Half-Life 2 and Quake Champions. 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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    Counter-Strike: Source — Steam game cover

    Counter-Strike: Source

    Ranked #16 for fans of both Half-Life 2 and Quake Champions. 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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    Quake 4 — Steam game cover

    Quake 4

    Ranked #17 for fans of both Half-Life 2 and Quake Champions. Shares Action with both games.

    As part of the elite Rhino Squad, you must spearhead Earth’s military invasion of a hostile alien homeworld. But, in this desperate war for humanity’s survival against an unrelenting enemy, you may discover that the only way to defeat them...is to become one of them.

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    Call of Duty®: Black Ops III — Steam game cover

    Call of Duty®: Black Ops III

    Ranked #18 for fans of both Half-Life 2 and Quake Champions. Shares Action and Adventure with both games.

    Call of Duty®: Black Ops III Zombies Chronicles Edition includes the full base game plus the Zombies Chronicles content expansion.

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    Titanfall® 2 — Steam game cover

    Titanfall® 2

    Ranked #19 for fans of both Half-Life 2 and Quake Champions. Shares Action with both games.

    Respawn Entertainment gives you the most advanced titan technology in its new, single player campaign & multiplayer experience. Combine & conquer with new titans & pilots, deadlier weapons, & customization and progression systems that help you and your titan flow as one unstoppable killing force.

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    Titanfall­™ — Steam game cover

    Titanfall­™

    Ranked #20 for fans of both Half-Life 2 and Quake Champions. Shares Action with both games.

    Titanfall delivers fast-paced, hyperkinetic vertical warfare that gives shooter fans the freedom to fight their way as both elite assault Pilots and fast, heavily armored Titans.

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    DOOM Eternal — Steam game cover

    DOOM Eternal

    Ranked #21 for fans of both Half-Life 2 and Quake Champions. Shares Action with both games.

    Hell’s armies have invaded Earth. Become the Slayer in an epic single-player campaign to conquer demons across dimensions and stop the final destruction of humanity. The only thing they fear... is you.

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    Crysis® 3 — Steam game cover

    Crysis® 3

    Ranked #22 for fans of both Half-Life 2 and Quake Champions. Shares Action and Strategy with both games.

    The fate of the world is in your hands. New and old enemies threaten the peace you worked so hard to achieve 24 years ago. Your search for the Alpha Ceph continues, but this time you'll also need to expose the truth behind the C.E.L.L. corporation.

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    BioShock™ — Steam game cover

    BioShock™

    Ranked #23 for fans of both Half-Life 2 and Quake Champions. 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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    Natural Selection 2 — Steam game cover

    Natural Selection 2

    Ranked #24 for fans of both Half-Life 2 and Quake Champions. 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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