Games like Half-Life 2 and Team Fortress 2
Looking for games like both Half-Life 2 and Team Fortress 2? Below are 24 Steam games ranked by imho.run's hybrid recommender for players who enjoy both titles. Both Half-Life 2 and Team Fortress 2 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 Team Fortress 2 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 Team Fortress 2. 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 Team Fortress 2. 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 Team Fortress 2. Shares Action and Indie with both games.
Relive Half-Life.
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Counter-Strike: Source
Ranked #4 for fans of both Half-Life 2 and Team Fortress 2. 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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Left 4 Dead 2
Ranked #5 for fans of both Half-Life 2 and Team Fortress 2. 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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Half-Life: Blue Shift
Ranked #6 for fans of both Half-Life 2 and Team Fortress 2. 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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Team Fortress Classic
Ranked #7 for fans of both Half-Life 2 and Team Fortress 2. Shares Action with both games.
One of the most popular online action games of all time, Team Fortress Classic features over nine character classes -- from Medic to Spy to Demolition Man -- enlisted in a unique style of online team warfare. Each character class possesses unique weapons, items, and abilities, as teams compete online in a variety of game play modes.
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Unreal Tournament 2004: Editor's Choice Edition
Ranked #8 for fans of both Half-Life 2 and Team Fortress 2. 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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Natural Selection 2
Ranked #9 for fans of both Half-Life 2 and Team Fortress 2. 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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Day of Defeat: Source
Ranked #11 for fans of both Half-Life 2 and Team Fortress 2. Shares Action with both games.
Valve's WWII Multiplayer Classic - Now available for Mac.
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Titanfall™
Ranked #12 for fans of both Half-Life 2 and Team Fortress 2. 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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Deep Rock Galactic
Ranked #13 for fans of both Half-Life 2 and Team Fortress 2. Shares Action with both games.
Deep Rock Galactic is a 1-4 player co-op FPS featuring dwarven space miners, procedurally-generated destructible environments, and endless hordes of alien monsters. Explore cave systems, mine for minerals, and work together to survive!
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Overwatch®
Ranked #14 for fans of both Half-Life 2 and Team Fortress 2. 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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Call of Duty®: Black Ops III
Ranked #15 for fans of both Half-Life 2 and Team Fortress 2. 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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BioShock™
Ranked #16 for fans of both Half-Life 2 and Team Fortress 2. 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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Paladins®
Ranked #17 for fans of both Half-Life 2 and Team Fortress 2. 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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Half-Life: Opposing Force
Ranked #18 for fans of both Half-Life 2 and Team Fortress 2. Shares Action with both games.
Return to the Black Mesa Research Facility as one of the military specialists assigned to eliminate Gordon Freeman. Experience an entirely new episode of single player action. Meet fierce alien opponents, and experiment with new weaponry. Named 'Game of the Year' by the Academy of Interactive Arts and Sciences.
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Dirty Bomb®
Ranked #19 for fans of both Half-Life 2 and Team Fortress 2. Shares Action and Free To Play with both games.
Work together or die alone! Fight to restore peace to London or tear it down for profit in the most challenging team based shooter around.
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Serious Sam II
Ranked #20 for fans of both Half-Life 2 and Team Fortress 2. Shares Action and Indie with both games.
Serious Sam II is a shot of adrenaline to the hearts of first-person shooter fans across the world. This is serious!
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Evolve Stage 2
Ranked #21 for fans of both Half-Life 2 and Team Fortress 2. Shares Action and Free To Play with both games.
Play Evolve for free with Evolve Stage 2! Evolve Stage 2 is a next-generation free multiplayer shooter featuring addictive 4v1 gameplay. One player-controlled monster must evade and outsmart a team of four uniquely skilled hunters.
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Contagion
Ranked #22 for fans of both Half-Life 2 and Team Fortress 2. Shares Action and Indie with both games.
Contagion isn't your average Zombie Shooter but instead takes a more realistic and different approach to the popular genre with unique characters, environments, weapons, items, and a built in system that makes every round completely unpredictable with resources, objectives, and paths ever changing.
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Crysis
Ranked #23 for fans of both Half-Life 2 and Team Fortress 2. Shares Action with both games.
Adapt to Survive An epic story thrusts players into an ever-changing environment, forcing them to adapt their tactics and approach to conquer battlefields ranging from newly frozen jungle to zero-gravity alien environments. Suit up! A high-tech Nanosuit allows gamers to augment their abilities in real time on the battlefield.
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PAYDAY 2
Ranked #24 for fans of both Half-Life 2 and Team Fortress 2. Shares Action and RPG with both games.
PAYDAY 2 is an action-packed, four-player co-op shooter that once again lets gamers don the masks of the original PAYDAY crew - Dallas, Hoxton, Wolf and Chains - as they descend on Washington DC for an epic crime spree.