Games like Marauders
If Marauders is your kind of game, the closest matches are The Cycle: Frontier, ExpressLane and Hunt: Showdown 1896 — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its unique player interactions, anxious and stressful. 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 →Marauders is a tactical first-person extraction shooter released in 2022 by Small Impact Games, set in an alternate-history sci-fi universe where players assume the role of space pirates navigating hostile battlegrounds. The game features WWII-era weaponry within an extraction-looter shooter framework, with players working solo or in squads of up to three to hunt for loot, craft gear, and survive against both environmental threats and hostile players. Reviewers highlight the fresh-take-on-pvpve gameplay and unique-player-interactions, though players describe the experience as anxious and stressful. The title incorporates guild systems and progression wipes, contributing to its challenging nature. Marauders supports online co-op play and currently holds a 70% positive rating from over 10,000 Steam reviews, priced at $29.99 USD and not supported on Steam Deck.
About Marauders: Marauders is a tactical first-person multiplayer looter shooter set in a sci-fi universe. As a space pirate, work solo, or in a squad with up to 3 other players to navigate a hostile battleground, hunt for loot, craft new weapons and gear, and salvage what you’ll need to survive.
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The Cycle: Frontier
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Shares extraction shooter with Marauders.
Top pick for Marauders fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Marauders.
The Cycle: Frontier is a free-to-play PvPvE Extraction Shooter driven by suspense and danger. Prospect for resources and other riches on an abandoned alien world ravaged by a deadly storm, inhabited by monsters and other ambitious Prospectors.
ExpressLane
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Second-strongest match for Marauders fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Early Access with Marauders.
Your island comes with you. Everything else is up for grabs. ExpressLane is a free-to-play multiplayer survival FPS where squads bring persistent floating island bases into chaotic skybound matches. Build, loot, raid, fight bosses, and make it home before everything falls apart.
Hunt: Showdown 1896
WHY THIS
Shares a stressful mood with Marauders.
Third-strongest match for Marauders fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Marauders.
Hunt: Showdown 1896 is the brutally rewarding extraction shooter. Track twisted monsters and overcome ruthless PvP. Take bounties in corrupted backwaters lost to history. With a team, you might survive. Die with nothing or get out with everything.
Reaper Actual
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Ranked #4 for Marauders fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Early Access with Marauders.
Reaper Actual is an Open-World Persistent Shooter where hundreds of players engage in FPS combat against each other and 5 NPC Factions on the massive war-torn island of Marova. Level your Reapers, maintain a home Base, and complete missions to earn gear and reshape the world.
Blood of Rations
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Ranked #5 for Marauders fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Early Access with Marauders.
A PvP first-person WW2 extraction looter shooter. Slip alone into a war-torn Europe to scavenge what the dead left behind. Hunt loot. Fight strangers. Extract alive — or lose it all. Every raid begins in your warm, safe bunker. If you're lucky, it ends there too.
Gräuel
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Ranked #6 for Marauders fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Early Access with Marauders.
GRÄUEL is a cooperative horde shooter (1 to 4 players). Travel through dimensions. Choose your class, face the creatures, scavenge, combine your findings to increase their rarity, sell them to upgrade yourself. Uncover the secrets of Dr. Schmidt.
GRIDLANDS
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Ranked #7 for Marauders fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Early Access with Marauders.
GRIDLANDS is a PvE extraction shooter set in a fallen world where sentient machines hunt what remains of humanity. Scavenge, survive, and extract through hostile industrial dead zones where every run could be your last.
Wildgate
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Shares player vs player with Marauders.
Ranked #8 for Marauders fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Marauders.
Wildgate is a PvPvE multiplayer shooter that blends tactical ship-to-ship combat with fast-paced first-person action. Evade deadly environmental hazards, search for powerful weapons and ship upgrades, and be the first crew to escape with the Artifact... or the last crew left flying.
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Escape from Tarkov
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Shares player vs player and a stressful mood with Marauders.
Reviewers of Marauders cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with Marauders.
Escape from Tarkov is the original extraction FPS where every raid is a gamble with death. Prep your raid, bleed, endure and fight through ruthless PMC players and Scavs, gain tactical advantage and cling to your loot — only extraction decides if you live or lose it all.
Dishonored
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Reviewers of Marauders cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with Marauders.
Dishonored is an immersive first-person action game that casts you as a supernatural assassin driven by revenge. With Dishonored’s flexible combat system, creatively eliminate your targets as you combine the supernatural abilities, weapons and unusual gadgets at your disposal.
Metro 2033 Redux
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Reviewers of Marauders cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with Marauders.
In 2013 the world was devastated by an apocalyptic event, annihilating almost all mankind and turning the Earth's surface into a poisonous wasteland. A handful of survivors took refuge in the depths of the Moscow underground, and human civilization entered a new Dark Age. The year is 2033.
Metro: Last Light Redux
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Reviewers of Marauders cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with Marauders.
It is the year 2034. Beneath the ruins of post-apocalyptic Moscow, in the tunnels of the Metro, the remnants of mankind are besieged by deadly threats from outside – and within. Mutants stalk the catacombs beneath the desolate surface, and hunt amidst the poisoned skies above.
Metro Exodus
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Reviewers of Marauders cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with Marauders.
Flee the shattered ruins of the Moscow Metro and embark on an epic, continent-spanning journey across the post-apocalyptic Russian wilderness. Explore vast, non-linear levels, lose yourself in an immersive, sandbox survival experience, and follow a thrilling story-line that spans an entire year in the greatest Metro adventure yet.
Wolfenstein: The Old Blood
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Reviewers of Marauders cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with Marauders.
Wolfenstein®: The Old Blood™ is a standalone prequel to the critically acclaimed first-person action-adventure shooter, Wolfenstein®: The New Order. This adventure spans eight chapters and features the hallmarks of MachineGames – thrilling action, immersive story, and intense FPS combat.
Wolfenstein: The New Order
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Reviewers of Marauders cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with Marauders.
Wolfenstein®: The New Order reignites the series that created the first-person shooter genre. Wolfenstein offers a deep game narrative packed with action, adventure and first-person combat.
FINAL FANTASY VII
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Reviewers of Marauders cross-mention this title as a similar play.
The RPG classic FINAL FANTASY VII returns to PC, now with brand new online features!
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Marauders at current Steam store prices.
Lethal Company
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Priced ~67% under Marauders on Steam right now. Shares Action and Early Access with Marauders.
A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.
Left 4 Dead 2
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Priced ~67% under Marauders on Steam right now. Shares Action with Marauders.
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.
Hollow Knight
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Priced ~50% under Marauders on Steam right now. Shares Action with Marauders.
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.
People Playground
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Priced ~67% under Marauders on Steam right now. Shares Action with Marauders.
Shoot, stab, burn, poison, tear, vaporise, or crush ragdolls in a large open space.
Fallout: New Vegas
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Priced ~67% under Marauders on Steam right now. Shares Action with Marauders.
Welcome to Vegas. New Vegas. Enjoy your stay!
The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth
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Priced ~50% under Marauders on Steam right now. Shares Action with Marauders.
The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth is a randomly generated action RPG shooter with heavy Rogue-like elements. Following Isaac on his journey players will find bizarre treasures that change Isaac’s form giving him super human abilities and enabling him to fight off droves of mysterious creatures, discover secrets and fight his way to safety.
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Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
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 Marauders.
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.).
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.
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.
Hog Hunter 2021
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Marauders.
Hog hunter is a short atmospheric game about catching hogs out in the wild, be careful though not everything in the woods is safe...
Counter-Strike 2
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Marauders.
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.
Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Marauders.
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.
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Frequently asked about Marauders
- Does Marauders work on Steam Deck?
- Marauders is currently rated Unsupported on Steam Deck. It may not launch or may have significant issues that block normal play.
- How much does Marauders cost?
- Marauders is listed on Steam at 29.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- Does Marauders have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Marauders supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Online PvP, Online Co-op).
- What games are most similar to Marauders?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Marauders are The Cycle: Frontier, ExpressLane, Hunt: Showdown 1896.
- Who developed Marauders?
- Marauders was developed by Small Impact Games.
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