Games like Warhammer 40,000: Darktide
If Warhammer 40,000: Darktide is your kind of game, the closest matches are Incursion: Reforged, The Midnight Walkers and MORDHAU — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its classes feel mechanically unique, crafting adds replayability and high stakes horde survival. 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 →Set in the grimdark future of the Warhammer 40,000 universe, Darktide drops players into the polluted industrial city of Tertium, where condemned rejects fight through overwhelming hordes of enemies. The action shooter emphasizes horde-management and tactical dodge-rolls across several class specializations, with players describing the combat as intense and immersive. Fatshark designed a crafting system that adds significant replayability, while cross-play allows teams to tackle high-stakes survival scenarios across platforms. Jesper Kyd's soundtrack contributes to an atmospheric experience that reviewers highlight as enhancing immersion. Players note that classes feel mechanically unique, with weapons like shotguns and chainswords delivering visceral feedback. The title released in 2022 at $39.99 and maintains a 75% positive rating from over 71,000 Steam reviews.
About Warhammer 40,000: Darktide: Take back the city of Tertium from hordes of bloodthirsty foes in this intense and brutal action shooter. Warhammer 40,000: Darktide is the new co-op focused experience from the award-winning team behind the Vermintide series. As Tertium falls, Rejects Will Rise.
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Incursion: Reforged
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Top pick for Warhammer 40,000: Darktide fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Warhammer 40,000: Darktide.
Incursion is an indie FPS that aims for a unique wave survival experience with class-based combat for both co-op and singleplayer. Fight alongside strangers or friends and take advantage of unique weapon combinations, perks, and classes to win in this solo-developed indie title.
The Midnight Walkers
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Shares class specialization and an intense mood with Warhammer 40,000: Darktide.
Second-strongest match for Warhammer 40,000: Darktide fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Warhammer 40,000: Darktide.
Fight, scavenge, and extract in The Midnight Walkers, a hardcore FPS game with deadly zombies, dangerous players, and valuable loot. Craft weapons, armor, and consumables; trade items; and maintain your hideout. Escape Liberty Grand Center mega complex, and thrive...or die and lose everything.
MORDHAU
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Third-strongest match for Warhammer 40,000: Darktide fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Warhammer 40,000: Darktide.
MORDHAU is a multiplayer medieval slasher. Create your mercenary and fight in brutal battles where you will experience fast paced combat, castle sieges, cavalry charges, and more.
Trouble Town
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Ranked #4 for Warhammer 40,000: Darktide fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Warhammer 40,000: Darktide.
Online game based on teamwork. Play with your friends and join one of the class groups to win. Recomended 4 players or more.
Warhammer 40,000: Eternal Crusade
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Shares an intense mood with Warhammer 40,000: Darktide.
Ranked #5 for Warhammer 40,000: Darktide fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Warhammer 40,000: Darktide.
Eldar, Orks, Chaos or Space Marines, in the fiercest battles for universal peace, through any means. Try the Free Demo - or buy the Full Premium Game below. We will not give up.
Primal Carnage: Extinction
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Shares an intense mood with Warhammer 40,000: Darktide.
Ranked #6 for Warhammer 40,000: Darktide fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Warhammer 40,000: Darktide.
Hunt humans, slay dinosaurs. It's chaotic prehistoric PvP, pick a side. Think fast, or you're extinct!
Codename CURE II
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Ranked #7 for Warhammer 40,000: Darktide fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Warhammer 40,000: Darktide.
Codename CURE II is an upcoming co-operative first person shooter set in the aftermath of a zombie apocalypse. Create an elite military squad with up to five players and fight your way through hordes of zombies in a variety of dynamic objective missions.
Warhammer 40,000: Speed Freeks
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Shares an epic mood with Warhammer 40,000: Darktide.
Ranked #8 for Warhammer 40,000: Darktide fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries.
High-orktane combat racing in the Warhammer 40,000 universe! Drive buggies, tanks and helicopters, mastering advanced movement and explosive weaponry online or against bots. Unlock gear, customize your rides and use the NEW Creation Workshop to create, share, and play custom maps from the community!
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Warhammer: Vermintide 2
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Shares an intense mood with Warhammer 40,000: Darktide.
Reviewers of Warhammer 40,000: Darktide cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and RPG with Warhammer 40,000: Darktide.
The critically acclaimed Vermintide 2 is a visually stunning and groundbreaking melee action game pushing the boundaries of the first person co-op genre. Join the fight now!
Left 4 Dead
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Shares a dark mood with Warhammer 40,000: Darktide.
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From Valve (the creators of Counter-Strike, Half-Life and more) comes Left 4 Dead, a co-op action horror game for the PC and Xbox 360 that casts up to four players in an epic struggle for survival against swarming zombie hordes and terrifying mutant monsters.
Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2
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Shares an epic mood with Warhammer 40,000: Darktide.
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Embody the superhuman skill and brutality of a Space Marine. Unleash deadly abilities and devastating weaponry to obliterate the relentless Tyranid swarms. Defend the Imperium in spectacular third-person action in solo or multiplayer modes.
PAYDAY 2
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PAYDAY 2 is an action-packed, four-player co-op shooter that once again lets gamers don the masks of the original PAYDAY crew - Dallas, Hoxton, Wolf and Chains - as they descend on Washington DC for an epic crime spree.
Deep Rock Galactic
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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!
PAYDAY 3
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Shares an intense mood with Warhammer 40,000: Darktide.
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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.
MENACE
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Shares a dark mood with Warhammer 40,000: Darktide.
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Lead a strike force against an alien threat in this turn-based tactical RPG from the developers of Battle Brothers. Answer distress calls across different worlds, train and equip infantry, deploy tanks and mechs, and plan and execute missions in detailed turn-based battles.
Back 4 Blood
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Shares an immersive mood with Warhammer 40,000: Darktide.
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Back 4 Blood is a thrilling cooperative first-person shooter from the creators of the critically acclaimed Left 4 Dead franchise. Experience the intense 4 player co-op narrative campaign, competitive multiplayer as human or Ridden, and frenetic gameplay that keeps you in the action.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Warhammer 40,000: Darktide at current Steam store prices.
Terraria
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Priced ~75% under Warhammer 40,000: Darktide on Steam right now. Shares Action and Adventure with Warhammer 40,000: Darktide.
Dig, fight, explore, build! Nothing is impossible in this action-packed adventure game. Four Pack also available!
Stardew Valley
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Priced ~63% under Warhammer 40,000: Darktide on Steam right now. Shares RPG with Warhammer 40,000: Darktide.
You've inherited your grandfather's old farm plot in Stardew Valley. Armed with hand-me-down tools and a few coins, you set out to begin your new life. Can you learn to live off the land and turn these overgrown fields into a thriving home?
Phasmophobia
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Priced ~50% under Warhammer 40,000: Darktide on Steam right now. Shares Action with Warhammer 40,000: Darktide.
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 ~75% under Warhammer 40,000: Darktide on Steam right now. Shares Action and Adventure with Warhammer 40,000: Darktide.
A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.
Left 4 Dead 2
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Shares an intense mood with Warhammer 40,000: Darktide.
Priced ~75% under Warhammer 40,000: Darktide on Steam right now. Shares Action with Warhammer 40,000: Darktide.
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 ~50% under Warhammer 40,000: Darktide on Steam right now. Shares Action with Warhammer 40,000: Darktide.
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 ~63% under Warhammer 40,000: Darktide on Steam right now. Shares Action and Adventure with Warhammer 40,000: Darktide.
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 ~50% under Warhammer 40,000: Darktide on Steam right now. Shares Action and Adventure with Warhammer 40,000: Darktide.
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.
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Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with Warhammer 40,000: Darktide.
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 Warhammer 40,000: Darktide.
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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 Warhammer 40,000: Darktide.
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.).
Dagon: by H. P. Lovecraft
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Warhammer 40,000: Darktide.
Face unspeakable horrors. Succumb to madness. Welcome to a free daemonic narrative experience inspired by H. P. Lovecraft.
The Lab
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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!
93, Kuindzhi
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Warhammer 40,000: Darktide.
Kuindzhi, 93 is an atmospheric first-person narrative vignette about an 18-year-old boy from Donbas. The story takes us to March 2022, when the world changed forever — into a space where the past, fears, and doubts find their voice.
Cube Escape: Paradox
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Warhammer 40,000: Darktide.
The tenth Cube Escape follows the story of detective Dale Vandermeer who finds himself trapped in two different universes and needs to escape. Cube Escape: Paradox will be released together with the accompanying Paradox: A Rusty Lake Film.
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Warhammer: Vermintide 2
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Shares an intense mood with Warhammer 40,000: Darktide.
Another title from Fatshark, the studio behind Warhammer 40,000: Darktide. Shares Action and RPG with Warhammer 40,000: Darktide.
The critically acclaimed Vermintide 2 is a visually stunning and groundbreaking melee action game pushing the boundaries of the first person co-op genre. Join the fight now!
Warhammer: End Times - Vermintide
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Shares a dark mood with Warhammer 40,000: Darktide.
Another title from Fatshark, the studio behind Warhammer 40,000: Darktide. Shares Action with Warhammer 40,000: Darktide.
Vermintide is an epic co-operative action combat adventure set in the End Times of the iconic Warhammer Fantasy world.
Escape Dead Island
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Shares a dark mood with Warhammer 40,000: Darktide.
Another title from Fatshark, the studio behind Warhammer 40,000: Darktide. Shares Adventure with Warhammer 40,000: Darktide.
Escape Dead Island is a Survival-Mystery adventure that lets players delve into the Dead Island universe and unravel the origins of the zombie outbreak.
Lead and Gold: Gangs of the Wild West
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Shares an immersive mood with Warhammer 40,000: Darktide.
Another title from Fatshark, the studio behind Warhammer 40,000: Darktide. Shares Action with Warhammer 40,000: Darktide.
Lead and Gold: Gangs of the Wild West is a third-person shooter that delivers an intense team-based multiplayer experience. Relive the violent era of the Wild West with adrenaline-fueled action and fast-paced gunfights. Engage in gritty battles in beautifully rendered classic Western settings.
Bloodsports.TV
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Shares a dark mood with Warhammer 40,000: Darktide.
Another title from Fatshark, the studio behind Warhammer 40,000: Darktide. Shares Action with Warhammer 40,000: Darktide.
Co-Op Hero Defense set in a deadly post-apocalyptic Sweden. Team up with your friends and protect the Missile Silo against horrific beasts and outlaws.
Hamilton's Great Adventure
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Another title from Fatshark, the studio behind Warhammer 40,000: Darktide. Shares Adventure with Warhammer 40,000: Darktide.
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Hamilton's Great Adventure - Retro Fever DLC
WHY THIS
Another title from Fatshark, the studio behind Warhammer 40,000: Darktide. Shares Adventure with Warhammer 40,000: Darktide.
This map pack contains new levels that bring back the irrepressible charm, and also that daunting touch of hardcore difficulty, that could only be found in the 80’s. They are inspired by famous levels found in legendary NES titles and carry names such as It’s a me, Hamilton! and Dungeon #9.
Frequently asked about Warhammer 40,000: Darktide
- Does Warhammer 40,000: Darktide run on Steam Deck?
- Warhammer 40,000: Darktide 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 Warhammer 40,000: Darktide cost?
- Warhammer 40,000: Darktide is listed on Steam at 39.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- Does Warhammer 40,000: Darktide have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Warhammer 40,000: Darktide supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Cross-Platform Multiplayer, Online Co-op).
- What games are most similar to Warhammer 40,000: Darktide?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Warhammer 40,000: Darktide are Incursion: Reforged, The Midnight Walkers, MORDHAU.
- Who developed Warhammer 40,000: Darktide?
- Warhammer 40,000: Darktide was developed by Fatshark.
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