Games like Counter-Strike
If Counter-Strike is your kind of game, the closest matches are Counter-Strike: Source, Counter-Strike 2 and Fireteam Breach — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its tactical positioning matters, tight and responsive controls and competitive. Each pick is ranked by what players of this game also play, shared genres and tags, and review-mined similarity — not a generic popularity list.
Get personalized picks →Counter-Strike is a classic tactical first-person shooter released by Valve in 2000. Players engage in team-based combat across missions involving site attacks and hostage rescues. The game emphasizes movement skills, tactical positioning, and teamwork coordination alongside robust support for custom maps and modes. Currently priced at $9.99, it maintains a 97% positive rating from over 34,000 Steam reviews and is marked playable on Steam Deck. Players describe the experience as competitive and intense, with reviewers highlighting endless replayability through custom content and the way tactical positioning matters in every match. Tight and responsive controls receive consistent praise for creating satisfying and precise gunplay.
About Counter-Strike: 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.
Players who liked Counter-Strike also play
Steam players who put hours into Counter-Strike also tend to own these titles — a signal called collaborative filtering. imho.run cross-references millions of library ownership patterns to surface games whose real audiences overlap, regardless of whether their genre tags match.
Counter-Strike: Source
WHY THIS
Shares tactical positioning and a competitive mood with Counter-Strike.
Top pick for Counter-Strike fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Counter-Strike.
Counter-Strike: Source blends Counter-Strike's award-winning teamplay action with the advanced technology of Source™ technology.
Counter-Strike 2
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Counter-Strike fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Counter-Strike.
For over two decades, Counter-Strike has offered an elite competitive experience, one shaped by millions of players from across the globe. And now the next chapter in the CS story is about to begin. This is Counter-Strike 2.
Fireteam Breach
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Counter-Strike fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Counter-Strike.
Fireteam Breach is a tactical 5v5 FPS where precision and teamwork decide victory. Master round-based combat as Attackers or Defenders in Bomb, Hostage, and Secure Area modes. Use strategy, destruction, and unique operators with gadgets to outplay the enemy.
Lightphobe
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Counter-Strike fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Counter-Strike.
Beware of the darkness... Lightphobe is an asymmetrical team-based PVP game that blends stealth action with fast-paced shooter gameplay. Pick a side and work together as a team to emerge victorious!
Counter-Strike: Condition Zero
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Counter-Strike fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Counter-Strike.
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.
Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege
WHY THIS
Shares an intense mood with Counter-Strike.
Ranked #6 for Counter-Strike fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Counter-Strike.
Rainbow Six® Siege is the reference in tactical team shooters, where elite strategy and execution triumph. Enjoy free access to Quick Match, Unranked, and Dual Front game modes with a selection of operators.
Master Arena
WHY THIS
Shares an intense mood with Counter-Strike.
Ranked #7 for Counter-Strike fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Counter-Strike.
Unleash your combat prowess in Master Arena: Immerse yourself in the pulse-pounding FPS action featuring dynamic movement, 9 powerful weapons, 24 unique arenas, and a strategic perk system. Engage your adversaries with finesse in tactical duels, evolving to claim the title of the ultimate champion.
Team Fortress Classic
WHY THIS
Shares a competitive mood with Counter-Strike.
Ranked #8 for Counter-Strike fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Counter-Strike.
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.
Reviewers mention these as similar to Counter-Strike
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Escape from Tarkov
WHY THIS
Shares an intense mood with Counter-Strike.
Reviewers of Counter-Strike cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with Counter-Strike.
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.
Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege
WHY THIS
Shares an intense mood with Counter-Strike.
Reviewers of Counter-Strike cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with Counter-Strike.
Rainbow Six® Siege is the reference in tactical team shooters, where elite strategy and execution triumph. Enjoy free access to Quick Match, Unranked, and Dual Front game modes with a selection of operators.
Insurgency: Sandstorm
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Counter-Strike cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with Counter-Strike.
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.
Hunt: Showdown 1896
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Counter-Strike cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with Counter-Strike.
Hunt: Showdown 1896 is the brutally rewarding extraction shooter. Track twisted monsters and overcome ruthless PvP. Take bounties in corrupted backwaters lost to history. With a team, you might survive. Die with nothing or get out with everything.
Ready or Not
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Counter-Strike cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with Counter-Strike.
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.
Insurgency
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Counter-Strike cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with Counter-Strike.
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.
守卫魔兽-Guardian of Warcraft
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Counter-Strike cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with Counter-Strike.
This is a summoning tower defense strategy game, with different abilities of monsters and traps, with different effects. the player will continue to upgrade while defending, Become stronger, and summoning more powerful monsters to resist the brave.
Tannenberg
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Counter-Strike cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with Counter-Strike.
Experience authentic First World War action with 64 player battles of maneuver on the Eastern Front. Grab your rifle, ready your sabre and keep your gas mask close as you prepare to play a part in one of the most significant conflicts in history!
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Counter-Strike at current Steam store prices.
Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Counter-Strike on Steam right now. Shares Action with Counter-Strike.
Mow down thousands of night creatures and survive until dawn! Vampire Survivors is a gothic horror casual game with rogue-lite elements, where your choices can allow you to quickly snowball against the hundreds of monsters that get thrown at you. Be the bullet hell!
Titanfall® 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~55% under Counter-Strike on Steam right now. Shares Action with Counter-Strike.
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.
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~90% under Counter-Strike on Steam right now. Shares Action with Counter-Strike.
Live a week in the life of "The POSTAL Dude"; a hapless everyman just trying to check off some chores. Buying milk, returning an overdue library book, getting Gary Coleman's autograph, what could possibly go wrong?
Buckshot Roulette
WHY THIS
Priced ~70% under Counter-Strike on Steam right now. Shares Action with Counter-Strike.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
Brotato
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Counter-Strike on Steam right now. Shares Action with Counter-Strike.
Brotato is a top-down arena shooter roguelite where you play a potato wielding up to 6 weapons at a time to fight off hordes of aliens. Choose from a variety of traits and items to create unique builds and survive until help arrives.
Your Only Move Is HUSTLE
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Counter-Strike on Steam right now. Shares Action with Counter-Strike.
Master your technique, execute flashy combos, and outsmart opponents across the world, frame-by-frame. Slow down the clock to fine-tune your fighting style in this innovative, turn-based combat simulator. Pulverize your friends and choreograph spectacular fight scenes. No training mode required.
Blood and Bacon
WHY THIS
Priced ~90% under Counter-Strike on Steam right now. Shares Action with Counter-Strike.
This Co-op Shooter , has Day and Night levels, multiple maps, players will take on 25 enemy types and numerous bosses, like Gargantuan Monsters and Minibosses every 10 days as you explore, shoot and run for your life against the onslaught of porcine monstrosities.
Half-Life: Opposing Force
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Counter-Strike on Steam right now. Shares Action with Counter-Strike.
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.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Ultimate Custom Night
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Counter-Strike.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
STRAFTAT
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Counter-Strike.
STRAFTAT is a 1v1/2v2 ONLINE first person SHOOTER with quick rounds in over 350 MAPS ; Including all WEAPONS, proximity chat and 4 players FFA.
Counter-Strike:Global Offensive
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Counter-Strike.
Counter-Strike:Global Offensive (CS:GO) expands upon the team-based action gameplay that it pioneered when it was launched over 2 decades ago. CS:GO features new maps, characters, weapons, and game modes, and delivers updated versions of the classic CS content (de_dust2, etc.).
The Expendabros
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Counter-Strike.
The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.
The Lab
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Welcome to The Lab, a compilation of Valve’s room-scale VR experiments set in a pocket universe within Aperture Science. Fix a robot, defend a castle, adopt a mechanical dog, and more. Still not sold? It’s free!
Hog Hunter 2021
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Counter-Strike.
Hog hunter is a short atmospheric game about catching hogs out in the wild, be careful though not everything in the woods is safe...
Counter-Strike 2
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Counter-Strike.
For over two decades, Counter-Strike has offered an elite competitive experience, one shaped by millions of players from across the globe. And now the next chapter in the CS story is about to begin. This is Counter-Strike 2.
Dota 2
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Counter-Strike.
Every day, millions of players worldwide enter battle as one of over a hundred Dota heroes. And no matter if it's their 10th hour of play or 1,000th, there's always something new to discover. With regular updates that ensure a constant evolution of gameplay, features, and heroes, Dota 2 has taken on a life of its own.
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Counter-Strike 2
WHY THIS
Another title from Valve, the studio behind Counter-Strike. Shares Action with Counter-Strike.
For over two decades, Counter-Strike has offered an elite competitive experience, one shaped by millions of players from across the globe. And now the next chapter in the CS story is about to begin. This is Counter-Strike 2.
Left 4 Dead 2
WHY THIS
Shares an intense mood with Counter-Strike.
Another title from Valve, the studio behind Counter-Strike. Shares Action with Counter-Strike.
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.
Half-Life 2
WHY THIS
Another title from Valve, the studio behind Counter-Strike. Shares Action with Counter-Strike.
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.
Portal
WHY THIS
Another title from Valve, the studio behind Counter-Strike. Shares Action with Counter-Strike.
Portal™ is a new single player game from Valve. Set in the mysterious Aperture Science Laboratories, Portal has been called one of the most innovative new games on the horizon and will offer gamers hours of unique gameplay.
Counter-Strike: Source
WHY THIS
Shares tactical positioning and a competitive mood with Counter-Strike.
Another title from Valve, the studio behind Counter-Strike. Shares Action with Counter-Strike.
Counter-Strike: Source blends Counter-Strike's award-winning teamplay action with the advanced technology of Source™ technology.
Half-Life
WHY THIS
Another title from Valve, the studio behind Counter-Strike. Shares Action with Counter-Strike.
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.
Half-Life: Alyx
WHY THIS
Another title from Valve, the studio behind Counter-Strike. Shares Action with Counter-Strike.
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.
Frequently asked about Counter-Strike
- Does Counter-Strike run on Steam Deck?
- Counter-Strike is rated Playable on Steam Deck — it runs, but expect some manual adjustments (control remapping, text size, or graphics settings) for the best experience.
- How much does Counter-Strike cost?
- Counter-Strike is listed on Steam at 9.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- Does Counter-Strike have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Counter-Strike supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Online PvP, Shared/Split Screen PvP).
- What games are most similar to Counter-Strike?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Counter-Strike are Counter-Strike: Source, Counter-Strike 2, Fireteam Breach.
- Who developed Counter-Strike?
- Counter-Strike was developed by Valve.
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