Games like Half-Life and Team Fortress 2
Looking for games like both Half-Life 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 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 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 2
Top pick for fans of both Half-Life and Team Fortress 2. 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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Counter-Strike
Second pick for fans of both Half-Life and Team Fortress 2. 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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Team Fortress Classic
Third pick for fans of both Half-Life 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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Black Mesa
Ranked #4 for fans of both Half-Life and Team Fortress 2. Shares Action and Indie with both games.
Relive Half-Life.
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Day of Defeat: Source
Ranked #5 for fans of both Half-Life and Team Fortress 2. Shares Action with both games.
Valve's WWII Multiplayer Classic - Now available for Mac.
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Counter-Strike: Source
Ranked #6 for fans of both Half-Life 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 #7 for fans of both Half-Life 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: Alyx
Ranked #8 for fans of both Half-Life 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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Deep Rock Galactic
Ranked #9 for fans of both Half-Life 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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Half-Life: Blue Shift
Ranked #10 for fans of both Half-Life 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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Titanfall™
Ranked #11 for fans of both Half-Life 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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Serious Sam HD: The Second Encounter
Ranked #12 for fans of both Half-Life and Team Fortress 2. 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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Left 4 Dead
Ranked #13 for fans of both Half-Life and Team Fortress 2. 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 #14 for fans of both Half-Life 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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Unreal Tournament: Game of the Year Edition
Ranked #15 for fans of both Half-Life and Team Fortress 2. 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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Overwatch®
Ranked #16 for fans of both Half-Life 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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Half-Life: Opposing Force
Ranked #17 for fans of both Half-Life 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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Day of Defeat
Ranked #18 for fans of both Half-Life and Team Fortress 2. Shares Action with both games.
Enlist in an intense brand of Axis vs. Allied teamplay set in the WWII European Theatre of Operations. Players assume the role of light/assault/heavy infantry, sniper or machine-gunner class, each with a unique arsenal of historical weaponry at their disposal. Missions are based on key historical operations.
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Quake
Ranked #19 for fans of both Half-Life and Team Fortress 2. 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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Titanfall® 2
Ranked #20 for fans of both Half-Life and Team Fortress 2. 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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Evolve Stage 2
Ranked #21 for fans of both Half-Life 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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Battlefield™ 6
Ranked #22 for fans of both Half-Life and Team Fortress 2. Shares Action with both games.
The ultimate all-out warfare experience. In a war of tanks, fighter jets, and massive combat arsenals, your squad is the deadliest weapon.
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Dirty Bomb®
Ranked #24 for fans of both Half-Life 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.