Games like Left 4 Dead and PAYDAY 2
Looking for games like both Left 4 Dead and PAYDAY 2? Below are 24 Steam games ranked by imho.run's hybrid recommender for players who enjoy both titles. Both Left 4 Dead and PAYDAY 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 Left 4 Dead and PAYDAY 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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Left 4 Dead 2
Top pick for fans of both Left 4 Dead and PAYDAY 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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GTFO
Second pick for fans of both Left 4 Dead and PAYDAY 2. 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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PAYDAY 3
Third pick for fans of both Left 4 Dead and PAYDAY 2. Shares Action and Adventure with both games.
PAYDAY 3 is the ultimate co-op FPS crime fantasy. Choose between stealth or loud playstyles, customize your character, and get ready to pull off the perfect heist.
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PAYDAY™ The Heist
Ranked #4 for fans of both Left 4 Dead and PAYDAY 2. Shares Action with both games.
Take on the role of a hardened career criminal executing intense, dynamic heists in constant pursuit of the next “big score”
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Killing Floor
Ranked #5 for fans of both Left 4 Dead and PAYDAY 2. Shares Action with both games.
6-player co-op survival horror at its finest! Free updates, free special events and a ridiculous amount of fun!
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Back 4 Blood
Ranked #6 for fans of both Left 4 Dead and PAYDAY 2. 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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Deep Rock Galactic
Ranked #7 for fans of both Left 4 Dead and PAYDAY 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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After the Fall®
Ranked #8 for fans of both Left 4 Dead and PAYDAY 2. Shares Action and Adventure with both games.
From the team that brought you Arizona Sunshine® comes an epic VR action FPS with intense co-op gameplay at its core. Team up with friends and take on a hostile VR world filled with ferocious undead--mutated and twisted by the relentless cold.
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Borderlands 2
Ranked #9 for fans of both Left 4 Dead and PAYDAY 2. Shares Action and RPG with both games.
The Ultimate Vault Hunter’s Upgrade lets you get the most out of the Borderlands 2 experience.
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Counter-Strike
Ranked #10 for fans of both Left 4 Dead and PAYDAY 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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RAID: World War II
Ranked #11 for fans of both Left 4 Dead and PAYDAY 2. Shares Action and Adventure with both games.
RAID: World War II is an action-packed four player cooperative shooter set during a time when the Nazi war machine was still winning, and hope was in short supply.
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Insurgency
Ranked #12 for fans of both Left 4 Dead and PAYDAY 2. Shares Action and Strategy with both games.
Take to the streets for intense close quarters combat, where a team's survival depends upon securing crucial strongholds and destroying enemy supply in this multiplayer and cooperative Source Engine based experience.
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Half-Life 2
Ranked #13 for fans of both Left 4 Dead and PAYDAY 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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Ready or Not
Ranked #14 for fans of both Left 4 Dead and PAYDAY 2. Shares Action and Indie with both games.
Ready or Not is an intense, tactical, first-person shooter that depicts a modern-day world in which SWAT police units are called to defuse hostile and confronting situations.
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Killing Floor 2
Ranked #15 for fans of both Left 4 Dead and PAYDAY 2. 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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Tom Clancy’s The Division® 2
Ranked #16 for fans of both Left 4 Dead and PAYDAY 2. Shares Action and Adventure with both games.
Join The Division in this open world tactical shooter. Engage in intense cover-based combat, team up with friends, and build your ultimate agent to save Washington, D.C.
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Dying Light
Ranked #17 for fans of both Left 4 Dead and PAYDAY 2. 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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Contagion
Ranked #18 for fans of both Left 4 Dead and PAYDAY 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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Counter-Strike: Condition Zero
Ranked #19 for fans of both Left 4 Dead and PAYDAY 2. Shares Action with both games.
With its extensive Tour of Duty campaign, a near-limitless number of skirmish modes, updates and new content for Counter-Strike's award-winning multiplayer game play, plus over 12 bonus single player missions, Counter-Strike: Condition Zero is a tremendous offering of single and multiplayer content.
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Day of Defeat
Ranked #20 for fans of both Left 4 Dead and PAYDAY 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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Call of Duty®: Black Ops II
Ranked #21 for fans of both Left 4 Dead and PAYDAY 2. Shares Action with both games.
Pushing the boundaries of what fans have come to expect from the record-setting entertainment franchise, Call of Duty®: Black Ops II propels players into a near future Cold War
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Second Extinction™
Ranked #22 for fans of both Left 4 Dead and PAYDAY 2. Shares Action and Early Access with both games.
Big map. Big dinosaurs. Big guns. Face an ever changing threat level with your friends. Second Extinction is an online FPS with bite.
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Battlefield: Bad Company™ 2
Ranked #23 for fans of both Left 4 Dead and PAYDAY 2. Shares Action with both games.
Battlefield: Bad Company 2™ brings the award-winning Battlefield gameplay to the forefront of PC gaming with best-in-class vehicular combat and unexpected "Battlefield moments." New vehicles like the ATV and a transport helicopter allow for all-new multiplayer tactics on the Battlefield. With the Frostbite-enabled Destruction 2.
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Half-Life
Ranked #24 for fans of both Left 4 Dead and PAYDAY 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.