Games like Outwars
If Outwars is your kind of game, the closest matches are Dead Space™ 2, Dead Space (2008) and STAR WARS™: Battlefront Classic Collection — picked from the ranked list below. 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.
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Dead Space™ 2
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Top pick for Outwars fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Outwars.
Three years after the Necromorph infestation aboard the USS Ishimura, Isaac Clarke awakens from a coma, confused, disoriented, and on a space station called The Sprawl. Explore this world and its zero-g environments to discover the truth about the Unitology and its role in the Necromorph epidemic.
Dead Space (2008)
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Second-strongest match for Outwars fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Outwars.
You are Isaac Clarke, an engineer on the spacecraft USG Ishimura. You're not a warrior. You're not a soldier. You are, however, the last line of defense for the remaining living crew.
STAR WARS™: Battlefront Classic Collection
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Third-strongest match for Outwars fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Outwars.
Play the classic STAR WARS™ Battlefront games, online and offline in this definitive collection.
Dead Space
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Ranked #4 for Outwars fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Outwars.
The sci-fi survival-horror classic returns, completely rebuilt to offer an even more immersive experience — including visual, audio, and gameplay improvements — while staying faithful to the original game’s thrilling vision.
Alien Breed: Impact
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Ranked #5 for Outwars fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Outwars.
Experience the explosive science fiction arcade-shooter that resurrects a much revered franchise in an epic single player and co-op multiplayer campaign.
Dead Space™ 3
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Ranked #6 for Outwars fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Outwars.
Journey across space to the icy planet of Tau Volantis with Isaac Clarke and Sgt. John Carver to discover and destroy the source of the Necromorph outbreak.
EARTH DEFENSE FORCE 5
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Ranked #7 for Outwars fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Outwars.
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.
EARTH DEFENSE FORCE 4.1 The Shadow of New Despair
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Ranked #8 for Outwars fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Outwars.
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.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Outwars at current Steam store prices.
POSTAL 2
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Priced ~83% under Outwars on Steam right now. Shares Action with Outwars.
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 ~50% under Outwars on Steam right now. Shares Action with Outwars.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
Blood and Bacon
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Priced ~83% under Outwars on Steam right now. Shares Action with Outwars.
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.
Crypt of the NecroDancer
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Priced ~50% under Outwars on Steam right now. Shares Action with Outwars.
Crypt of the NecroDancer is an award winning hardcore roguelike rhythm game. Move to the music and deliver beatdowns to the beat! Groove to the epic Danny Baranowsky soundtrack, or select songs from your own MP3 collection!
Super Hexagon
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Priced ~50% under Outwars on Steam right now. Shares Action with Outwars.
Super Hexagon is a minimal action game by Terry Cavanagh, with music by Chipzel.
STAR WARS™ Republic Commando™
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Priced ~58% under Outwars on Steam right now. Shares Action with Outwars.
You are the leader of an elite squad of Republic Commandos, your mission is to infiltrate, dominate, and ultimately, annihilate the enemy. Your squad will follow your orders and your lead, working together as a team - instinctively, intelligently, instantly. You are their leader. They are your weapon.
Superflight
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Priced ~50% under Outwars on Steam right now. Shares Action with Outwars.
Superflight is an intense, easy to learn wingsuit game with an infinite number of beautiful procedurally generated maps. A great game to relax for half an hour and chase your latest highscore!
Post Void
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Priced ~50% under Outwars on Steam right now. Shares Action with Outwars.
Post Void is a hypnotic scramble of early first-person shooter design that values speed above all else. Keep your head full and reach the end; Kill what you can to see it mend; Get the high score or try again.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
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!
South Scrimshaw, Part One
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
South Scrimshaw is the story of a newborn whale in a vast alien ocean. It is a richly illustrated experimental visual novel, written in the style of a nature documentary.
SCP: Secret Laboratory
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Outwars.
Deep within a secure underground facility, a sudden containment breach allows many of the secured anomalies to escape from their chambers. Assist the Foundation in re-securing the facility, help the Insurgency in their goal to capture it, or wreak havoc as an SCP in a frantic bid to escape.
STAR WARS™: The Old Republic™
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
STAR WARS™: The Old Republic™ is a free-to-play MMORPG that puts you at the center of your own story-driven saga. Play as a Jedi, Sith, Bounty Hunter, or one of many other iconic STAR WARS roles in the galaxy far, far away over three thousand years before the classic films.
PlanetSide 2
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Outwars.
PlanetSide 2 is an all-out planetary war, where thousands of players battle as one across enormous continents. Utilize infantry, ground and air vehicles, and teamwork to destroy your enemies in this revolutionary first-person shooter on a massive scale.
Alien Swarm
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Outwars.
Co-operative multiplayer game and complete code base available for free.
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Frequently asked about Outwars
- How much does Outwars cost?
- Outwars is listed on Steam at 5.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Outwars?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Outwars are Dead Space™ 2, Dead Space (2008), STAR WARS™: Battlefront Classic Collection.
- Who developed Outwars?
- Outwars was developed by SingleTrac Entertainment Technologies and published by Ziggurat.
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