Games like Left 4 Dead 2 and Grand Theft Auto IV: The Complete Edition
Looking for games like both Left 4 Dead 2 and Grand Theft Auto IV: The Complete Edition? Below are 24 Steam games ranked by imho.run's hybrid recommender for players who enjoy both titles. Both Left 4 Dead 2 and Grand Theft Auto IV: The Complete Edition 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 Left 4 Dead 2 and Grand Theft Auto IV: The Complete Edition 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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Left 4 Dead
Top pick for fans of both Left 4 Dead 2 and Grand Theft Auto IV: The Complete Edition. 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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Grand Theft Auto V Enhanced
Second pick for fans of both Left 4 Dead 2 and Grand Theft Auto IV: The Complete Edition. Shares Action and Adventure with both games.
Experience entertainment blockbusters Grand Theft Auto V and Grand Theft Auto Online — now upgraded for a new generation with stunning visuals, faster loading, 3D audio, and more, plus exclusive content for GTA Online players.
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Grand Theft Auto III
Third pick for fans of both Left 4 Dead 2 and Grand Theft Auto IV: The Complete Edition. Shares Action and Adventure with both games.
Welcome to Liberty City. Where it all began. With stellar voice acting, a darkly comic storyline, a stunning soundtrack and revolutionary open-world gameplay, Grand Theft Auto III is the game that defined the open world genre for a generation.
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Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas
Ranked #4 for fans of both Left 4 Dead 2 and Grand Theft Auto IV: The Complete Edition. Shares Action and Adventure with both games.
Five years ago Carl Johnson escaped from the pressures of life in Los Santos, San Andreas... a city tearing itself apart with gang trouble, drugs and corruption. Where filmstars and millionaires do their best to avoid the dealers and gangbangers. Now, it's the early 90s. Carl's got to go home.
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Zombie Army Trilogy
Ranked #5 for fans of both Left 4 Dead 2 and Grand Theft Auto IV: The Complete Edition. Shares Action with both games.
The cult horror shooter series comes to an apocalyptic conclusion with an epic new third chapter, a heart-pumping new horde mode, and remastered editions of the best-selling Nazi Zombie Army 1 & 2.
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Resident Evil 4 (2005)
Ranked #6 for fans of both Left 4 Dead 2 and Grand Theft Auto IV: The Complete Edition. Shares Action and Adventure with both games.
(Release: 2014) Special agent Leon S. Kennedy is sent on a mission to rescue the U.S. President’s daughter who has been kidnapped.
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Back 4 Blood
Ranked #7 for fans of both Left 4 Dead 2 and Grand Theft Auto IV: The Complete Edition. Shares Action with both games.
Back 4 Blood is a thrilling cooperative first-person shooter from the creators of the critically acclaimed Left 4 Dead franchise. Experience the intense 4 player co-op narrative campaign, competitive multiplayer as human or Ridden, and frenetic gameplay that keeps you in the action.
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Half-Life 2
Ranked #8 for fans of both Left 4 Dead 2 and Grand Theft Auto IV: The Complete Edition. 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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Grand Theft Auto: Episodes from Liberty City
Ranked #9 for fans of both Left 4 Dead 2 and Grand Theft Auto IV: The Complete Edition. Shares Action with both games.
Grand Theft Auto: Episodes from Liberty City includes both The Lost and Damned and The Ballad of Gay Tony together and does not require a copy of the original Grand Theft Auto IV to play.
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PAYDAY 2
Ranked #10 for fans of both Left 4 Dead 2 and Grand Theft Auto IV: The Complete Edition. 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.
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Killing Floor 2
Ranked #11 for fans of both Left 4 Dead 2 and Grand Theft Auto IV: The Complete Edition. Shares Action with both games.
In KILLING FLOOR 2, players descend into continental Europe after it has been overrun by horrific, murderous clones called Zeds that were created by rogue elements of the Horzine Corporation. 6-player Co-Op & 12-player VS Zed-slaughtering mayhem.
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Mafia
Ranked #12 for fans of both Left 4 Dead 2 and Grand Theft Auto IV: The Complete Edition. Shares Action and Adventure with both games.
It’s 1930. After an inadvertent brush with the mafia, cabdriver Tommy Angelo is reluctantly thrust into the world of organized crime. Initially, he is uneasy about falling in with the Salieri family, but soon the rewards become too big to ignore.
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GTFO
Ranked #13 for fans of both Left 4 Dead 2 and Grand Theft Auto IV: The Complete Edition. Shares Action with both games.
GTFO is a hardcore cooperative horror shooter that throws you from gripping suspense to explosive action in a heartbeat. Stealth, strategy, and teamwork are necessary to survive in your deadly, underground prison. Work together or die together.
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Dying Light
Ranked #14 for fans of both Left 4 Dead 2 and Grand Theft Auto IV: The Complete Edition. Shares Action and RPG with both games.
First-person action survival game set in a post-apocalyptic open world overrun by flesh-hungry zombies. Roam a city devastated by a mysterious virus epidemic. Scavenge for supplies, craft weapons, and face hordes of the infected.
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The Evil Within 2
Ranked #15 for fans of both Left 4 Dead 2 and Grand Theft Auto IV: The Complete Edition. Shares Action and Adventure with both games.
Detective Sebastian Castellanos has lost everything, including his daughter, Lily. To save her, he must descend into the nightmarish world of STEM. Horrifying threats emerge from every corner, and he must rely on his wits to survive. For his one chance at redemption, the only way out is in.
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Saints Row 2
Ranked #16 for fans of both Left 4 Dead 2 and Grand Theft Auto IV: The Complete Edition. Shares Action with both games.
Saints Row 2 brings true freedom to open-world gaming. Players can play as who they want, how they want, and with whomever they want in this sequel to the much acclaimed and tremendously successful Saints Row.
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Contagion
Ranked #17 for fans of both Left 4 Dead 2 and Grand Theft Auto IV: The Complete Edition. 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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Risk of Rain 2
Ranked #18 for fans of both Left 4 Dead 2 and Grand Theft Auto IV: The Complete Edition. Shares Action and Indie with both games.
Escape a chaotic alien planet by fighting through hordes of frenzied monsters – with your friends, or on your own. Combine loot in surprising ways and master each character until you become the havoc you feared upon your first crash landing.
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RAGE 2
Ranked #19 for fans of both Left 4 Dead 2 and Grand Theft Auto IV: The Complete Edition. Shares Action with both games.
RAGE 2 brings together two studio powerhouses – Avalanche Studios, masters of open world insanity, and id Software, creators of the first-person shooter – to deliver a carnival of carnage where you can go anywhere, shoot anything, and explode everything.
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Gears 5
Ranked #20 for fans of both Left 4 Dead 2 and Grand Theft Auto IV: The Complete Edition. Shares Action and Adventure with both games.
From one of gaming’s most acclaimed sagas, Gears is bigger than ever. With all-out war descending, Kait Diaz breaks away to uncover her connection to the enemy and discovers the true danger to Sera – herself.
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World War Z
Ranked #21 for fans of both Left 4 Dead 2 and Grand Theft Auto IV: The Complete Edition. Shares Action with both games.
World War Z is a heart-pounding coop third-person shooter for up to 4 players featuring massive swarms of hundreds of zombies, focused on fast-paced, gruesomely spectacular action.
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Call of Duty®: Black Ops
Ranked #22 for fans of both Left 4 Dead 2 and Grand Theft Auto IV: The Complete Edition. Shares Action with both games.
The biggest first-person action series of all time and the follow-up to critically acclaimed Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare 2 returns with Call of Duty®: Black Ops.
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Max Payne 3
Ranked #23 for fans of both Left 4 Dead 2 and Grand Theft Auto IV: The Complete Edition. Shares Action with both games.
No longer a New York City cop, Max Payne moves to São Paulo to protect a wealthy family in an effort to finally escape his troubled past. This complete edition of Max Payne 3 includes the complete original game and all previously released downloadable content.
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Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2
Ranked #24 for fans of both Left 4 Dead 2 and Grand Theft Auto IV: The Complete Edition. Shares Action and Adventure with both games.
Embody the superhuman skill and brutality of a Space Marine. Unleash deadly abilities and devastating weaponry to obliterate the relentless Tyranid swarms. Defend the Imperium in spectacular third-person action in solo or multiplayer modes.