Games like Counter-Strike: Condition Zero
If Counter-Strike: Condition Zero is your kind of game, the closest matches are Counter-Strike: Condition Zero, Counter-Strike and Counter-Strike: Source — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its level design is strong, single player campaign exists and tactical positioning matters. 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: Condition Zero is a 2004 first-person tactical shooter developed and published by Valve. Priced at $9.99, the game presents a medium-length solo campaign with challenging gameplay that incorporates bomb-defusal, hostage-rescue, and stealth missions alongside AI pathfinding and varied level design. Players describe the overall experience as atmospheric, tense, and cinematic, with reviewers highlighting that the level design is strong and that the variety of mission objectives keeps the campaign engaging. The single-player experience emphasizes tactical positioning, with missions that reward careful planning over run-and-gun play. The game holds a 93% positive rating from 1,674 Steam reviews and runs in a playable state on Steam Deck.
About Counter-Strike: Condition Zero: 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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Counter-Strike: Condition Zero
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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.
Counter-Strike
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Second-strongest match for Counter-Strike: Condition Zero fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Counter-Strike: Condition Zero.
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.
Counter-Strike: Source
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Counter-Strike: Condition Zero fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Counter-Strike: Condition Zero.
Counter-Strike: Source blends Counter-Strike's award-winning teamplay action with the advanced technology of Source™ technology.
Fireteam Breach
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Ranked #4 for Counter-Strike: Condition Zero fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Counter-Strike: Condition Zero.
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.
Counter-Strike 2
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Ranked #5 for Counter-Strike: Condition Zero fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Counter-Strike: Condition Zero.
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.
Day of Defeat: Source
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Shares a tense mood with Counter-Strike: Condition Zero.
Ranked #6 for Counter-Strike: Condition Zero fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Counter-Strike: Condition Zero.
Valve's WWII Multiplayer Classic - Now available for Mac.
Day of Defeat
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Ranked #7 for Counter-Strike: Condition Zero fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Counter-Strike: Condition Zero.
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.
Insurgency
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Shares a tense mood with Counter-Strike: Condition Zero.
Ranked #8 for Counter-Strike: Condition Zero fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Counter-Strike: Condition Zero.
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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Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege
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Shares a tense mood with Counter-Strike: Condition Zero.
Reviewers of Counter-Strike: Condition Zero cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with Counter-Strike: Condition Zero.
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.
Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell®
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Reviewers of Counter-Strike: Condition Zero cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with Counter-Strike: Condition Zero.
Enter the world of cinematic stealth action with Splinter Cell, the game that propelled the genre to cult status. You are Sam Fisher, an elite covert agent in the NSA's top-secret division: Third Echelon.
Tom Clancy's EndWar™
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Shares a tense mood with Counter-Strike: Condition Zero.
Reviewers of Counter-Strike: Condition Zero cross-mention this title as a similar play.
Live the thrilling career of an army commander and lead your army to victory in a massive online World War III! Take control of the U.S.-led Joint Strike Force, the European Enforcers Corps, or the Russian Spetsnaz Guards Brigade in a persistent ongoing World War.
Medal of Honor: Airborne
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Shares an epic mood with Counter-Strike: Condition Zero.
Reviewers of Counter-Strike: Condition Zero cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with Counter-Strike: Condition Zero.
Step into the boots of Boyd Travers, Private First Class of the “All-American” 82nd Airborne Division, and revolutionize the way the war is fought. From a rocky beginning in Sicily to war winning triumphs in the heart of Germany, fight the epic WWII battles that turned America’s first paratroopers into combat legends.
Medal of Honor™
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Shares an atmospheric mood with Counter-Strike: Condition Zero.
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Fight Today's War: Elite Special Forces in a gritty combat campaign using the surgical tactics of Tier 1 Operators combined with the sledgehammer force of Army Rangers.
Ready or Not
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Shares a tense mood with Counter-Strike: Condition Zero.
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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.
Rainbow Sea
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Reviewers of Counter-Strike: Condition Zero cross-mention this title as a similar play.
Rainbow Sea is a multi-ending adventure with pixel-art style based on the myth of the traditional Japanese gods — Seven Lucky Gods. You explore inside a treasure ship and make choices to change the storyline. All twenty two endings are true endings, and only you can know the authentic story.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Counter-Strike: Condition Zero at current Steam store prices.
Vampire Survivors
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Priced ~50% under Counter-Strike: Condition Zero on Steam right now. Shares Action with Counter-Strike: Condition Zero.
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
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Priced ~55% under Counter-Strike: Condition Zero on Steam right now. Shares Action with Counter-Strike: Condition Zero.
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
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Priced ~90% under Counter-Strike: Condition Zero on Steam right now. Shares Action with Counter-Strike: Condition Zero.
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
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Priced ~70% under Counter-Strike: Condition Zero on Steam right now. Shares Action with Counter-Strike: Condition Zero.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
Brotato
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Priced ~50% under Counter-Strike: Condition Zero on Steam right now. Shares Action with Counter-Strike: Condition Zero.
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
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Priced ~50% under Counter-Strike: Condition Zero on Steam right now. Shares Action with Counter-Strike: Condition Zero.
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
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Priced ~90% under Counter-Strike: Condition Zero on Steam right now. Shares Action with Counter-Strike: Condition Zero.
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
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Priced ~50% under Counter-Strike: Condition Zero on Steam right now. Shares Action with Counter-Strike: Condition Zero.
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.
Doki Doki Literature Club!
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
The Literature Club is full of cute girls! Will you write the way into their heart? This game is not suitable for children or those who are easily disturbed.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Counter-Strike: Condition Zero.
Episode 1 now FREE! Life is Strange is an award-winning and critically acclaimed episodic adventure game that allows the player to rewind time and affect the past, present and future.
Ultimate Custom Night
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Counter-Strike: Condition Zero.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
ENA: Dream BBQ
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Counter-Strike: Condition Zero.
Explore the abandoned childhood wonder of Indigo Park! Guided by Rambley the Raccoon, help restore power to the destroyed amusement park while you run from the reason it shut down.
STRAFTAT
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Counter-Strike: Condition Zero.
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.
The Looker
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
Counter-Strike:Global Offensive
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Counter-Strike: Condition Zero.
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.).
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Counter-Strike 2
WHY THIS
Another title from Valve, the studio behind Counter-Strike: Condition Zero. Shares Action with Counter-Strike: Condition Zero.
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
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Shares a tense mood with Counter-Strike: Condition Zero.
Another title from Valve, the studio behind Counter-Strike: Condition Zero. Shares Action with Counter-Strike: Condition Zero.
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.
Portal 2
WHY THIS
Another title from Valve, the studio behind Counter-Strike: Condition Zero. Shares Action with Counter-Strike: Condition Zero.
The "Perpetual Testing Initiative" has been expanded to allow you to design co-op puzzles for you and your friends!
Half-Life 2
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Shares an atmospheric mood with Counter-Strike: Condition Zero.
Another title from Valve, the studio behind Counter-Strike: Condition Zero. Shares Action with Counter-Strike: Condition Zero.
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
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Another title from Valve, the studio behind Counter-Strike: Condition Zero. Shares Action with Counter-Strike: Condition Zero.
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
WHY THIS
Another title from Valve, the studio behind Counter-Strike: Condition Zero. Shares Action with Counter-Strike: Condition Zero.
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.
Counter-Strike: Source
WHY THIS
Another title from Valve, the studio behind Counter-Strike: Condition Zero. Shares Action with Counter-Strike: Condition Zero.
Counter-Strike: Source blends Counter-Strike's award-winning teamplay action with the advanced technology of Source™ technology.
Half-Life
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Counter-Strike: Condition Zero.
Another title from Valve, the studio behind Counter-Strike: Condition Zero. Shares Action with Counter-Strike: Condition Zero.
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.
Frequently asked about Counter-Strike: Condition Zero
- Does Counter-Strike: Condition Zero run on Steam Deck?
- Counter-Strike: Condition Zero 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: Condition Zero cost?
- Counter-Strike: Condition Zero is listed on Steam at 9.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- Does Counter-Strike: Condition Zero have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Counter-Strike: Condition Zero supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player).
- What games are most similar to Counter-Strike: Condition Zero?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Counter-Strike: Condition Zero are Counter-Strike: Condition Zero, Counter-Strike, Counter-Strike: Source.
- Who developed Counter-Strike: Condition Zero?
- Counter-Strike: Condition Zero was developed by Valve.
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