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Games like PAYDAY 2 and Black Squad

Looking for games like both PAYDAY 2 and Black Squad? Below are 24 Steam games ranked by imho.run's hybrid recommender for players who enjoy both titles. Both PAYDAY 2 and Black Squad 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 PAYDAY 2 and Black Squad 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.

PAYDAY 2 — Steam game coverBlack Squad — Steam game cover
Shared genres:Action

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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    PAYDAY 3 — Steam game cover

    PAYDAY 3

    Top pick for fans of both PAYDAY 2 and Black Squad. 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.

    ActionAdventureRPGDeck PlayableSteam ↗
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    PAYDAY™ The Heist — Steam game cover

    PAYDAY™ The Heist

    Second pick for fans of both PAYDAY 2 and Black Squad. 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”

    ActionDeck PlayableSteam ↗
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    Counter-Strike — Steam game cover

    Counter-Strike

    Third pick for fans of both PAYDAY 2 and Black Squad. 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.

    ActionDeck PlayableSteam ↗
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    GTFO — Steam game cover

    GTFO

    Ranked #4 for fans of both PAYDAY 2 and Black Squad. 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.

    ActionDeck PlayableSteam ↗
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    Counter-Strike: Source — Steam game cover

    Counter-Strike: Source

    Ranked #5 for fans of both PAYDAY 2 and Black Squad. Shares Action with both games.

    Counter-Strike: Source blends Counter-Strike's award-winning teamplay action with the advanced technology of Source™ technology.

    ActionDeck PlayableSteam ↗
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    Call of Duty®: Black Ops II — Steam game cover

    Call of Duty®: Black Ops II

    Ranked #6 for fans of both PAYDAY 2 and Black Squad. 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

    ActionSteam ↗
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    Insurgency — Steam game cover

    Insurgency

    Ranked #7 for fans of both PAYDAY 2 and Black Squad. 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.

    ActionStrategyIndieSteam ↗
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    Battlefield: Bad Company™ 2 — Steam game cover

    Battlefield: Bad Company™ 2

    Ranked #8 for fans of both PAYDAY 2 and Black Squad. 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.

    ActionDeck PlayableSteam ↗
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    Apex Legends™ — Steam game cover

    Apex Legends™

    Ranked #9 for fans of both PAYDAY 2 and Black Squad. 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.

    ActionAdventureFree To PlayFreeSteam ↗
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    Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six® Vegas 2 — Steam game cover

    Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six® Vegas 2

    Ranked #10 for fans of both PAYDAY 2 and Black Squad. Shares Action with both games.

    Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six® Vegas 2 - the sequel to the award-winning next-generation first-person shooter - returns to Sin City. Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Vegas 2 is your last chance to rescue America's sexiest city from an escalating terrorist siege that will force you into heart-pounding action from beginning to end.

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    Rising Storm 2: Vietnam — Steam game cover

    Rising Storm 2: Vietnam

    Ranked #11 for fans of both PAYDAY 2 and Black Squad. Shares Action and Strategy with both games.

    Red Orchestra Series' take on Vietnam: 64-player MP matches; 20+ maps; US Army & Marines, PAVN/NVA, NLF/VC; Australians and ARVN forces; 50+ weapons; 4 flyable helicopters; mines, traps and tunnels; Brutal. Authentic. Gritty. Character customization. And napalm in the morning.

    ActionStrategySimulationDeck PlayableSteam ↗
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    Insurgency: Sandstorm — Steam game cover

    Insurgency: Sandstorm

    Ranked #12 for fans of both PAYDAY 2 and Black Squad. Shares Action with both games.

    Insurgency: Sandstorm is a hardcore tactical FPS built on lethal close-quarters combat and ruthless intensity. Every bullet count, every step matters, and teamwork is your only path to survival in the brutality of modern warfare.

    ActionDeck PlayableSteam ↗
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    Battlefield 3™ — Steam game cover

    Battlefield 3™

    Ranked #13 for fans of both PAYDAY 2 and Black Squad. Shares Action with both games.

    Enjoy total freedom to fight the way you want. Explore 29 massive multiplayer maps and use loads of vehicles, weapons, and gadgets to help you turn up the heat. Every second of battle gets you closer to unlocking tons of extras and moving up in the Ranks. So get in the action.

    ActionSteam ↗
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    Block N Load — Steam game cover

    Block N Load

    Ranked #14 for fans of both PAYDAY 2 and Black Squad. Shares Action and Strategy with both games.

    Five of you. Five of them. Face off in a battle where everything you build, destroy, construct or shoot has a devastating impact on the entire game. Build defences using a crazy range of block types and work together in this FPS where no game is EVER the same. NOW FREE TO PLAY.

    ActionStrategyMassively MultiplayerSteam ↗
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    Escape from Tarkov — Steam game cover

    Escape from Tarkov

    Ranked #15 for fans of both PAYDAY 2 and Black Squad. Shares Action and Simulation with both games.

    Escape from Tarkov is the original extraction FPS where every raid is a gamble with death. Prep your raid, bleed, endure and fight through ruthless PMC players and Scavs, gain tactical advantage and cling to your loot — only extraction decides if you live or lose it all.

    ActionSimulationMassively MultiplayerSteam ↗
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    PlanetSide 2 — Steam game cover

    PlanetSide 2

    Ranked #16 for fans of both PAYDAY 2 and Black Squad. Shares Action and Massively Multiplayer with both games.

    PlanetSide 2 is an all-out planetary war, where thousands of players battle as one across enormous continents. Utilize infantry, ground and air vehicles, and teamwork to destroy your enemies in this revolutionary first-person shooter on a massive scale.

    ActionMassively MultiplayerFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
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    Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon: Future Soldier™ — Steam game cover

    Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon: Future Soldier™

    Ranked #17 for fans of both PAYDAY 2 and Black Squad. Shares Action with both games.

    In Ghost Recon Future Soldier join an elite team of highly trained, cut-throat special-ops soldiers. Armed to the teeth with unrivalled combat technology, Ghost Recon takes you to the globe’s most deadly warzones to hunt down the highest value targets.

    ActionDeck PlayableSteam ↗
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    Deep Rock Galactic — Steam game cover

    Deep Rock Galactic

    Ranked #18 for fans of both PAYDAY 2 and Black Squad. 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!

    ActionDeck PlayableSteam ↗
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    Ready or Not — Steam game cover

    Ready or Not

    Ranked #19 for fans of both PAYDAY 2 and Black Squad. 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.

    ActionIndieAdventureDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
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    Arma 2: Operation Arrowhead — Steam game cover

    Arma 2: Operation Arrowhead

    Ranked #20 for fans of both PAYDAY 2 and Black Squad. Shares Action and Strategy with both games.

    Three years after the conflict in Chernarus, portrayed in the original Arma 2, a new flashpoint explodes in the Green Sea Region. Coalition forces led by the US Army are deployed to Takistan to quickly restore peace and prevent further civilian casualties.

    ActionStrategySimulationDeck PlayableSteam ↗
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    Squad — Steam game cover

    Squad

    Ranked #21 for fans of both PAYDAY 2 and Black Squad. Shares Action and Strategy with both games.

    Squad is a tactical FPS that provides authentic combat experiences through teamwork, communication, and realistic combat. It bridges the gap between arcade shooter and military realism with 100-player battles, combined-arms warfare, and base building.

    ActionStrategyIndieDeck PlayableSteam ↗
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    SWAT Commander — Steam game cover

    SWAT Commander

    Ranked #22 for fans of both PAYDAY 2 and Black Squad. Shares Action and Indie with both games.

    Take charge of a SWAT unit as an elite operator. Command a specialized AI squad or team up in co-op to seize suspects, rescue civilians, and restore order. Study the briefing, kit out your team, and execute your plan with disciplined precision.

    ActionIndieSimulationDeck PlayableSteam ↗
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    World War 3 — Steam game cover

    World War 3

    Ranked #23 for fans of both PAYDAY 2 and Black Squad. Shares Action and Free To Play with both games.

    World War 3 is a free-to-play tactical online multiplayer FPS where the world is your battleground. Outgun the enemy in thrilling, team-based skirmishes with a huge arsenal of weapons, vehicles, gadgets, and drones at your disposal.

    ActionFree To PlayFreeSteam ↗
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    Borderlands 2 — Steam game cover

    Borderlands 2

    Ranked #24 for fans of both PAYDAY 2 and Black Squad. Shares Action and RPG with both games.

    The Ultimate Vault Hunter’s Upgrade lets you get the most out of the Borderlands 2 experience.

    ActionRPGDeck PlayableSteam ↗

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