Games like Operation Wolf Returns: First Mission
If Operation Wolf Returns: First Mission is your kind of game, the closest matches are VIRTUAL SOLDIERS, Malignant and Heavy Fire: Shattered Spear — 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.
Get personalized picks →About Operation Wolf Returns: First Mission: Experience once again the iconic Rail Shooter released for Arcade back in 1987, now reinterpreted in a regular or VR version. The game captures the essence of the original game, immersing you in an action-packed atmosphere reminiscent of the non-stop action films of the 1980s.
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VIRTUAL SOLDIERS
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Top pick for Operation Wolf Returns: First Mission fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Operation Wolf Returns: First Mission.
A rail shooter. Grab one of 6 weapons, blast through levels filled with enemies, blow up the environments, grab health packs dropped from enemies, and defeat the unique bosses.
Malignant
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Second-strongest match for Operation Wolf Returns: First Mission fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Operation Wolf Returns: First Mission.
Sometimes to beat them... you have to join them. Mutate mid-combat, weaponize your own body, and fight through a grotesque, lore-rich nightmare in this 80s themed horde-shooter.
ActionSteam ↗Heavy Fire: Shattered Spear
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Third-strongest match for Operation Wolf Returns: First Mission fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Operation Wolf Returns: First Mission.
Iran has nuclear weapons and one is sitting on a fully fueled ICBM going through its final launch checklist. Fight your way through Afghanistan, make it over the Iranian border, infiltrate the missile base and permanently stop the countdown in this super fast, high intensity on-rails shooter.
Operation Night Strikers
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Ranked #4 for Operation Wolf Returns: First Mission fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Operation Wolf Returns: First Mission.
Taito's 80's arcade hits hit back! Four milestones of the 80s arcade movement in one action-packed compilation!
HORIZON VANGUARD
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Ranked #5 for Operation Wolf Returns: First Mission fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Operation Wolf Returns: First Mission.
Blast your hovercycle through the enemy's crushing forces under a bright blue sky! Dodge enemy fire, attack huge mechanical targets, and score critical pistol hits in this new style of forward-scrolling arcade action. This is VR Arcade Shooting.
Serious Sam Fusion 2017 (beta)
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Ranked #6 for Operation Wolf Returns: First Mission fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Operation Wolf Returns: First Mission.
Serious Sam Fusion is a central hub for several existing Serious Sam games developed by Croteam. Cool new features, engine upgrades, patches and updates will be released to existing owners for FREE!
Heavy Fire: Afghanistan
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Ranked #7 for Operation Wolf Returns: First Mission fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Operation Wolf Returns: First Mission.
Heavy Fire: Afghanistan is a super fast playing on-rails shooter set in modern-day Afghanistan featuring tanks, assault vehicles and helicopters. The game offers 60 awards, one machine co-op for up to four, Steam Cloud, Leaderboards and Trading Cards.
Fast and Low
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Ranked #8 for Operation Wolf Returns: First Mission fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Operation Wolf Returns: First Mission.
Play in VR or with traditional FPS controls as you breach and clear your way through 23 handcrafted levels. Fast and Low is the only tactical shooter where a VR player and a keyboard player can team up side-by-side, locally or online, in intense co-op missions.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Operation Wolf Returns: First Mission at current Steam store prices.
Terraria
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Priced ~60% under Operation Wolf Returns: First Mission on Steam right now. Shares Action with Operation Wolf Returns: First Mission.
Dig, fight, explore, build! Nothing is impossible in this action-packed adventure game. Four Pack also available!
Lethal Company
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Priced ~60% under Operation Wolf Returns: First Mission on Steam right now. Shares Action with Operation Wolf Returns: First Mission.
A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.
Left 4 Dead 2
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Priced ~60% under Operation Wolf Returns: First Mission on Steam right now. Shares Action with Operation Wolf Returns: First Mission.
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 ~60% under Operation Wolf Returns: First Mission on Steam right now. Shares Action with Operation Wolf Returns: First Mission.
Shoot, stab, burn, poison, tear, vaporise, or crush ragdolls in a large open space.
Portal 2
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Priced ~60% under Operation Wolf Returns: First Mission on Steam right now. Shares Action with Operation Wolf Returns: First Mission.
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 ~60% under Operation Wolf Returns: First Mission on Steam right now. Shares Action with Operation Wolf Returns: First Mission.
Welcome to Vegas. New Vegas. Enjoy your stay!
Vampire Survivors
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Priced ~80% under Operation Wolf Returns: First Mission on Steam right now. Shares Action with Operation Wolf Returns: First Mission.
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 ~72% under Operation Wolf Returns: First Mission on Steam right now. Shares Action with Operation Wolf Returns: First Mission.
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.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
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 Operation Wolf Returns: First Mission.
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 Operation Wolf Returns: First Mission.
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 Operation Wolf Returns: First Mission.
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 Expendabros
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Operation Wolf Returns: First Mission.
The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.
Iron Snout
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Operation Wolf Returns: First Mission.
Iron Snout is a fast, colorful and brutal fighting game in which you will be helping a piglet fight for its life against hordes of wolves.
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!
SuchArt: Creative Space
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Operation Wolf Returns: First Mission.
Paint on any surfaces with numerous tools in Creative Space — a free sandbox version of SuchArt: Genius Artist Simulator. Create masterpieces, complete commissions, and decorate your studio in the most advanced artist sim!
Waves
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Operation Wolf Returns: First Mission.
Waves is an Arcade Twin-Stick Shooter that's all about High Scores. Build your combo and drop bombs in pursuit of Leaderboard dominance over seven game-modes!
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Frequently asked about Operation Wolf Returns: First Mission
- How much does Operation Wolf Returns: First Mission cost?
- Operation Wolf Returns: First Mission is listed on Steam at 24.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- Does Operation Wolf Returns: First Mission have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Operation Wolf Returns: First Mission supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Shared/Split Screen Co-op, Co-op).
- What games are most similar to Operation Wolf Returns: First Mission?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Operation Wolf Returns: First Mission are VIRTUAL SOLDIERS, Malignant, Heavy Fire: Shattered Spear.
- Who developed Operation Wolf Returns: First Mission?
- Operation Wolf Returns: First Mission was developed by VIRTUALLYZ GAMING and published by Microids.
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