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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Unreal Tournament: Game of the Year Edition
Ranked #5 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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Left 4 Dead 2
Ranked #6 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 #7 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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Half-Life: Blue Shift
Ranked #8 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 #9 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 #10 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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Day of Defeat: Source
Ranked #11 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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Natural Selection 2
Ranked #12 for fans of both Half-Life 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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Paladins®
Ranked #13 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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Half-Life: Opposing Force
Ranked #14 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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Overwatch®
Ranked #15 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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Quake
Ranked #16 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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Deep Rock Galactic
Ranked #17 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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Dirty Bomb®
Ranked #18 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.
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Battlefield™ 6
Ranked #19 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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BioShock™
Ranked #20 for fans of both Half-Life 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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DOOM
Ranked #21 for fans of both Half-Life and Team Fortress 2. 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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Apex Legends™
Ranked #23 for fans of both Half-Life and Team Fortress 2. Shares Action and Adventure with both games.
Apex Legends is the award-winning, free-to-play Hero Shooter from Respawn Entertainment. Master an ever-growing roster of legendary characters with powerful abilities, and experience strategic squad play and innovative gameplay in the next evolution of Hero Shooter and Battle Royale.
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Crysis
Ranked #24 for fans of both Half-Life 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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