Games like Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare® 2 (2009)
If Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare® 2 (2009) is your kind of game, the closest matches are Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare® 2 (2009), Call of Duty®: Black Ops 6 and Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare® 4 — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its iconic weapons, tactical positioning matters 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 →Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 is a 2009 action game from Infinity Ward. Players engage in class-based tactical combat across both competitive multiplayer battles and online co-op modes. Reviewers highlight the iconic weapons and the degree to which tactical positioning matters during firefights, while players describe the overall experience as competitive and intense. The game holds a Metacritic score of 86 and maintains a 90% positive rating from over 4,200 Steam reviews. Priced at $19.99, it runs at a playable level on Steam Deck, offering medium-length sessions suited to seated play with normal difficulty.
About Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare® 2 (2009): The most-anticipated game of the year and the sequel to the best-selling first-person action game of all time, Modern Warfare 2 continues the gripping and heart-racing action as players face off against a new threat dedicated to bringing the world to the brink of collapse.
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Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare® 2 (2009)
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Shares an intense mood with Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare® 2 (2009).
Top pick for Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare® 2 (2009) fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare® 2 (2009).
The most-anticipated game of the year and the sequel to the best-selling first-person action game of all time, Modern Warfare 2 continues the gripping and heart-racing action as players face off against a new threat dedicated to bringing the world to the brink of collapse.
Call of Duty®: Black Ops 6
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Second-strongest match for Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare® 2 (2009) fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare® 2 (2009).
Call of Duty®: Black Ops 6 is signature Black Ops across a cinematic single-player Campaign, a best-in-class Multiplayer experience and with the epic return of Round-Based Zombies.
Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare® 4
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Third-strongest match for Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare® 2 (2009) fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare® 2 (2009).
War erupts on the Korean Peninsula as North Korea launches an invasion that threatens to destabilize the world in Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare® 4.
Call of Duty® 4: Modern Warfare® (2007)
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Ranked #4 for Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare® 2 (2009) fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare® 2 (2009).
The new action-thriller from the award-winning team at Infinity Ward, the creators of the Call of Duty® series, delivers the most intense and cinematic action experience ever. Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare arms gamers with an arsenal of advanced and powerful modern day firepower and transports them to the most treacherous hotspots...
Call of Duty®: Warzone™
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Ranked #5 for Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare® 2 (2009) fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare® 2 (2009).
Welcome to Call of Duty®: Warzone™, the massive free-to-play combat arena. Experience thrilling modes & new gameplay features across Endgame (for a limited time), Battle Royale, Black Ops Royale, and Resurgence.
Call of Duty®: Black Ops
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Ranked #6 for Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare® 2 (2009) fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare® 2 (2009).
The biggest first-person action series of all time and the follow-up to critically acclaimed Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare 2 returns with Call of Duty®: Black Ops.
Counter-Strike: Condition Zero
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Ranked #7 for Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare® 2 (2009) fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare® 2 (2009).
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.
Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare® 3 (2011)
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Ranked #8 for Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare® 2 (2009) fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare® 2 (2009).
The best-selling first-person action series of all-time returns with an epic sequel to the multiple GOTY award winner Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare® 2
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare® 2 (2009) at current Steam store prices.
Terraria
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Priced ~50% under Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare® 2 (2009) on Steam right now. Shares Action with Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare® 2 (2009).
Dig, fight, explore, build! Nothing is impossible in this action-packed adventure game. Four Pack also available!
Lethal Company
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Priced ~50% under Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare® 2 (2009) on Steam right now. Shares Action with Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare® 2 (2009).
A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.
Left 4 Dead 2
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Priced ~50% under Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare® 2 (2009) on Steam right now. Shares Action with Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare® 2 (2009).
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.
People Playground
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Priced ~50% under Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare® 2 (2009) on Steam right now. Shares Action with Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare® 2 (2009).
Shoot, stab, burn, poison, tear, vaporise, or crush ragdolls in a large open space.
Portal 2
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Priced ~50% under Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare® 2 (2009) on Steam right now. Shares Action with Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare® 2 (2009).
The "Perpetual Testing Initiative" has been expanded to allow you to design co-op puzzles for you and your friends!
Fallout: New Vegas
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Priced ~50% under Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare® 2 (2009) on Steam right now. Shares Action with Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare® 2 (2009).
Welcome to Vegas. New Vegas. Enjoy your stay!
Vampire Survivors
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Priced ~75% under Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare® 2 (2009) on Steam right now. Shares Action with Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare® 2 (2009).
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!
R.E.P.O.
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Priced ~65% under Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare® 2 (2009) on Steam right now. Shares Action with Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare® 2 (2009).
An online co-op horror game with up to 6 players. Locate valuable, fully physics-based objects and handle them with care as you retrieve and extract to satisfy your creator's desires.
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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 Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare® 2 (2009).
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 Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare® 2 (2009).
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 Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare® 2 (2009).
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 Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare® 2 (2009).
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 Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare® 2 (2009).
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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Call of Duty®
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Another title from Infinity Ward, the studio behind Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare® 2 (2009). Shares Action with Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare® 2 (2009).
The Call of Duty® experience supports Call of Duty®: Black Ops 7, Call of Duty®: Black Ops 6, and Call of Duty®: Warzone™.
Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare®
WHY THIS
Shares an intense mood with Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare® 2 (2009).
Another title from Infinity Ward, the studio behind Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare® 2 (2009). Shares Action with Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare® 2 (2009).
Experience a visceral Campaign or assemble your team in the ultimate online playground with multiple Special Ops challenges and a mix of Multiplayer maps and modes.
Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare® 2 (2009)
WHY THIS
Shares an intense mood with Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare® 2 (2009).
Another title from Infinity Ward, the studio behind Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare® 2 (2009). Shares Action with Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare® 2 (2009).
The most-anticipated game of the year and the sequel to the best-selling first-person action game of all time, Modern Warfare 2 continues the gripping and heart-racing action as players face off against a new threat dedicated to bringing the world to the brink of collapse.
Call of Duty® 4: Modern Warfare® (2007)
WHY THIS
Another title from Infinity Ward, the studio behind Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare® 2 (2009). Shares Action with Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare® 2 (2009).
The new action-thriller from the award-winning team at Infinity Ward, the creators of the Call of Duty® series, delivers the most intense and cinematic action experience ever. Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare arms gamers with an arsenal of advanced and powerful modern day firepower and transports them to the most treacherous hotspots...
Call of Duty®: Infinite Warfare
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Another title from Infinity Ward, the studio behind Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare® 2 (2009). Shares Action with Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare® 2 (2009).
Infinite Warfare delivers three unique game modes: Campaign, Multiplayer, and Zombies.
Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare® III
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Shares a competitive mood with Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare® 2 (2009).
Another title from Infinity Ward, the studio behind Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare® 2 (2009). Shares Action with Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare® 2 (2009).
In the direct sequel to the record-breaking Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare® II, Captain Price and Task Force 141 face off against the ultimate threat.
Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare® 3 (2011)
WHY THIS
Shares a competitive mood with Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare® 2 (2009).
Another title from Infinity Ward, the studio behind Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare® 2 (2009). Shares Action with Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare® 2 (2009).
The best-selling first-person action series of all-time returns with an epic sequel to the multiple GOTY award winner Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare® 2
Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare® 3 (2011)
WHY THIS
Another title from Infinity Ward, the studio behind Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare® 2 (2009). Shares Action with Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare® 2 (2009).
The best-selling first-person action series of all-time returns with an epic sequel to the multiple GOTY award winner Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare® 2
Frequently asked about Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare® 2 (2009)
- Does Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare® 2 (2009) run on Steam Deck?
- Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare® 2 (2009) 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 Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare® 2 (2009) cost?
- Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare® 2 (2009) is listed on Steam at 19.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- Does Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare® 2 (2009) have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare® 2 (2009) supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Co-op).
- What games are most similar to Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare® 2 (2009)?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare® 2 (2009) are Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare® 2 (2009), Call of Duty®: Black Ops 6, Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare® 4.
- Who developed Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare® 2 (2009)?
- Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare® 2 (2009) was developed by Infinity Ward and published by Activision.
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