Games like EARTH DEFENSE FORCE 5
If EARTH DEFENSE FORCE 5 is your kind of game, the closest matches are EARTH DEFENSE FORCE: IRON RAIN, EARTH DEFENSE FORCE 4.1 The Shadow of New Despair and EARTH DEFENSE FORCE 6 — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its classes feel genuinely unique, comedic and epic. 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 →EARTH DEFENSE FORCE 5 is a third-person action shooter developed by SANDLOT and published by D3PUBLISHER, released in 2019 at $59.99. Players select from distinct classes and battle massive alien and insect invasions across sci-fi environments, with gameplay centered on co-op survival against overwhelming odds. The experience features vehicle sections, persistent weapon upgrades earned through drops, and brutal difficulty that scales as battles intensify. Players describe the action as both epic and comedic, with chaotic explosions delivering endlessly satisfying moments while each class offers genuinely unique combat styles. The cooperative mode transforms otherwise impossible encounters into survivable challenges, and reviewers highlight the absurdly swarming enemy proportions as a defining hook. The game holds a 96% positive rating from over 5,500 Steam reviews and runs in playable state on Steam Deck.
About EARTH DEFENSE FORCE 5: Stand and fight for humanity. This arcade shooter takes place in the year 2022, as the Earth Defense Force fends off an all-out attack by unknown life forms. Become an EDF soldier, battle against endless hordes of immense enemies, and restore peace to the earth.
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EARTH DEFENSE FORCE: IRON RAIN
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Top pick for EARTH DEFENSE FORCE 5 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with EARTH DEFENSE FORCE 5.
Save the world without hope. Year 2040. An action TPS where you will become one of the EDF soldiers and fight against the invaders from outer space which ruined the world. In the world settings which differs from the original "EARTH DEFENSE FORCE" series, more than 50 missions in five difficulties await for your challenge.
EARTH DEFENSE FORCE 4.1 The Shadow of New Despair
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Shares an epic mood with EARTH DEFENSE FORCE 5.
Second-strongest match for EARTH DEFENSE FORCE 5 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with EARTH DEFENSE FORCE 5.
It's a fight for the future of the planet between the Ravagers, a merciless swarm of alien invaders, and the Earth Defense Force (EDF) in this third-person shooter.Play as four different classes in over 80 missions with a range of 800 weapons at your disposal.Co-op play supported.
EARTH DEFENSE FORCE 6
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Shares difficulty scaling and an epic mood with EARTH DEFENSE FORCE 5.
Third-strongest match for EARTH DEFENSE FORCE 5 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with EARTH DEFENSE FORCE 5.
Live the future of despair.The year is 2024 AD. The survivors fought against the remaining threats while trying their best to continue their recovery.Three years passed in the year 2027. In a new world without hope, the time has come to once again resist the fate of the Earth.
Tank Brawl 2: Armor Fury
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Shares an epic mood with EARTH DEFENSE FORCE 5.
Ranked #4 for EARTH DEFENSE FORCE 5 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with EARTH DEFENSE FORCE 5.
Satisfy your need of destruction by smashing armor vehicles to pieces in spectacular fashions during the epic 4 players co-op campaign. Vehicles and drivers have unique upgrades and class combination. Multiple weapons such as laser beam, giant hammer, Mech's katana.
Steel Graves
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Ranked #5 for EARTH DEFENSE FORCE 5 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with EARTH DEFENSE FORCE 5.
A nervous Action / Strategy / Building game in multiplayer that oppose humans against aliens in huge battlefields. Build your base anywhere, upgrade your equipment, recruit hundreds of IA soldiers, and take part in the greatest intergalactic war.
STAR WARS™: Battlefront Classic Collection
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Shares an epic mood with EARTH DEFENSE FORCE 5.
Ranked #6 for EARTH DEFENSE FORCE 5 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with EARTH DEFENSE FORCE 5.
Play the classic STAR WARS™ Battlefront games, online and offline in this definitive collection.
SilverFrame(纯白星原)
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Ranked #7 for EARTH DEFENSE FORCE 5 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with EARTH DEFENSE FORCE 5.
This is a 3D space combat game.You will be driving a transformable mecha to perform missions singly or with your partner.There are large fleet, missile barrage, super beam cannon, dog-fighting and other exciting challenges waiting for you.
DAEMON X MACHINA
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Ranked #8 for EARTH DEFENSE FORCE 5 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with EARTH DEFENSE FORCE 5.
Pilot your fully customizable Arsenal mech and join your fellow mercenaries in defending humanity from the corrupted machines and gigantic robots in this post-apocalyptic action game!
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Prototype™
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Shares an epic mood with EARTH DEFENSE FORCE 5.
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You are the Prototype, Alex Mercer, a man without memory armed with amazing shape-shifting abilities, hunting your way to the heart of the conspiracy which created you; making those responsible pay. Fast & Deadly Shape-Shifting Combat: Reconfigure your body to the situation at hand.
Assassin's Creed™: Director's Cut Edition
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Assassin's Creed™ is the next-gen game developed by Ubisoft Montreal that redefines the action genre. While other games claim to be next-gen with impressive graphics and physics, Assassin's Creed merges technology, game design, theme and emotions into a world where you instigate chaos and become a vulnerable, yet powerful, agent of...
Mirror's Edge™
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In a city where information is heavily monitored, couriers called Runners transport sensitive data. In this seemingly utopian paradise, a crime has been committed, & you are being hunted. You are a Runner called Faith and this innovative first-person action-adventure is your story.
Need For Speed: Hot Pursuit
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Shares an epic mood with EARTH DEFENSE FORCE 5.
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Need for Speed Hot Pursuit launches you into a new open-world landscape behind the wheel of the world's fastest and most beautiful cars. From Criterion, the award-winning studio behind the Burnout series, Hot Pursuit will redefine racing games for a whole new generation.
Starship Troopers: Extermination
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Shares an intense mood with EARTH DEFENSE FORCE 5.
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Starship Troopers: Extermination is a 16-player co-op FPS that puts you on the far-off frontlines of an all-out battle against the Bugs! Squad up, grab your rifle, and do your part as an elite Deep Space Vanguard Trooper to take back planets from the Arachnid threat!
Ultimate Destruction Simulator
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Slow down time, spawn tornadoes, change gravity, create your own maps, play maps created by others! All kinds of missiles, grenades and charges, different sized tornadoes, black holes, earth shatters. Different material types to build from with their own properties. All that and more in this Sim
STARSHIP BLOOPERS
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STARSHIP BLOOPERS is a chaotic co-op space survival game where one wrong move can doom the mission. Play with 2 to 6 crewmates as you traverse space, gather resources, survive disasters, battle aliens and each other's incompetence before the sun goes supernova. Can you keep your SHIP together?
HELLDIVERS™ 2
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Shares a comedic mood with EARTH DEFENSE FORCE 5.
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The Galaxy’s Last Line of Offence. Enlist in the Helldivers and join the fight for freedom across a hostile galaxy in a fast, frantic, and ferocious third-person shooter.
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Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below EARTH DEFENSE FORCE 5 at current Steam store prices.
Phasmophobia
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Priced ~67% under EARTH DEFENSE FORCE 5 on Steam right now. Shares Action with EARTH DEFENSE FORCE 5.
Phasmophobia is a 4 player online co-op psychological horror. Paranormal activity is on the rise and it’s up to you and your team to use all the ghost-hunting equipment at your disposal in order to gather as much evidence as you can.
Lethal Company
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Priced ~83% under EARTH DEFENSE FORCE 5 on Steam right now. Shares Action with EARTH DEFENSE FORCE 5.
A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.
Left 4 Dead 2
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Priced ~83% under EARTH DEFENSE FORCE 5 on Steam right now. Shares Action with EARTH DEFENSE FORCE 5.
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.
Schedule I
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Priced ~67% under EARTH DEFENSE FORCE 5 on Steam right now. Shares Action with EARTH DEFENSE FORCE 5.
From small-time dope pusher to kingpin - manufacture and distribute a range of drugs throughout the grungy city of Hyland Point. Expand your empire with properties, businesses, employees and more.
Hollow Knight
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Priced ~75% under EARTH DEFENSE FORCE 5 on Steam right now. Shares Action with EARTH DEFENSE FORCE 5.
Forge your own path in Hollow Knight! An epic action adventure through a vast ruined kingdom of insects and heroes. Explore twisting caverns, battle tainted creatures and befriend bizarre bugs, all in a classic, hand-drawn 2D style.
The Forest
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Priced ~67% under EARTH DEFENSE FORCE 5 on Steam right now. Shares Action with EARTH DEFENSE FORCE 5.
As the lone survivor of a passenger jet crash, you find yourself in a mysterious forest battling to stay alive against a society of cannibalistic mutants. Build, explore, survive in this terrifying first person survival horror simulator.
People Playground
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Priced ~83% under EARTH DEFENSE FORCE 5 on Steam right now. Shares Action with EARTH DEFENSE FORCE 5.
Shoot, stab, burn, poison, tear, vaporise, or crush ragdolls in a large open space.
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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.
Ultimate Custom Night
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with EARTH DEFENSE FORCE 5.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Bongo Cat
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Bongo cat needs your help. Bongo cat needz more hatz!!! Every time you press a key, Bongo cat will punch your taskbar. Type, click, play, work to collect more points. Which hats will you find?
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 EARTH DEFENSE FORCE 5.
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 EARTH DEFENSE FORCE 5.
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
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with EARTH DEFENSE FORCE 5.
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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Frequently asked about EARTH DEFENSE FORCE 5
- Does EARTH DEFENSE FORCE 5 run on Steam Deck?
- EARTH DEFENSE FORCE 5 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 EARTH DEFENSE FORCE 5 cost?
- EARTH DEFENSE FORCE 5 is listed on Steam at 59.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- Does EARTH DEFENSE FORCE 5 have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — EARTH DEFENSE FORCE 5 supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Online PvP, Online Co-op).
- What games are most similar to EARTH DEFENSE FORCE 5?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside EARTH DEFENSE FORCE 5 are EARTH DEFENSE FORCE: IRON RAIN, EARTH DEFENSE FORCE 4.1 The Shadow of New Despair, EARTH DEFENSE FORCE 6.
- Who developed EARTH DEFENSE FORCE 5?
- EARTH DEFENSE FORCE 5 was developed by SANDLOT and published by D3PUBLISHER.
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