Games like Call of Duty®: Black Ops Cold War
If Call of Duty®: Black Ops Cold War is your kind of game, the closest matches are Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare®, Call of Duty®: Vanguard and Call of Duty®: Black Ops 7 — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its campaign has cinematic storytelling, cinematic and dark. 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®: Black Ops Cold War is a first-person military shooter developed by Treyarch, Raven Software, and High Moon Studios, published by Activision. The long-form campaign offers a choice-driven protagonist experience set during the early 1980s Cold War era, with additional multiplayer modes featuring a scorestreak system and skill-based matchmaking, plus online co-op zombies survival. Reviewers describe the atmosphere as dark and tense, with players highlighting the campaign's cinematic storytelling and nostalgic Call of Duty atmosphere. The modular DLC structure lets players tailor their experience to their preferences. Shotguns and sniping feel satisfying to players, while the zombies co-op mode stands out as a particular highlight. Currently priced at $59.99, the game holds an 80% positive rating from over 10,000 Steam reviews but is not supported on Steam Deck.
About Call of Duty®: Black Ops Cold War: Black Ops Cold War, the direct sequel to Call of Duty®: Black Ops, will drop fans into the depths of the Cold War’s volatile geopolitical battle of the early 1980s.
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Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare®
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Shares a cinematic mood with Call of Duty®: Black Ops Cold War.
Top pick for Call of Duty®: Black Ops Cold War fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Call of Duty®: Black Ops Cold War.
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®: Vanguard
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Shares a cinematic mood with Call of Duty®: Black Ops Cold War.
Second-strongest match for Call of Duty®: Black Ops Cold War fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Call of Duty®: Black Ops Cold War.
Call of Duty®: Vanguard includes a deeply engaging single player Campaign, a massive Multiplayer offering featuring over 20 maps including 16 built for core Multiplayer and an exciting new Zombies experience developed by Treyarch.
Call of Duty®: Black Ops 7
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Third-strongest match for Call of Duty®: Black Ops Cold War fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Call of Duty®: Black Ops Cold War.
In Call of Duty®: Black Ops 7, Treyarch and Raven Software are bringing players the biggest Black Ops ever across an innovative Co-Op Campaign, an electrifying Multiplayer experience, and the legendary Round-Based Zombies mode.
Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare® 4
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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®: Black Ops 6
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Ranked #5 for Call of Duty®: Black Ops Cold War fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Call of Duty®: Black Ops Cold War.
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.
Insurgency: Sandstorm
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Shares a tense mood with Call of Duty®: Black Ops Cold War.
Ranked #6 for Call of Duty®: Black Ops Cold War fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Call of Duty®: Black Ops Cold War.
Insurgency: Sandstorm is a hardcore tactical FPS built on lethal close-quarters combat and ruthless intensity. Every bullet count, every step matters, and teamwork is your only path to survival in the brutality of modern warfare.
Call of Duty®
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Shares a tense mood with Call of Duty®: Black Ops Cold War.
Ranked #7 for Call of Duty®: Black Ops Cold War fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Call of Duty®: Black Ops Cold War.
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®: Black Ops
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Shares a tense mood with Call of Duty®: Black Ops Cold War.
Ranked #8 for Call of Duty®: Black Ops Cold War fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Call of Duty®: Black Ops Cold War.
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.
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Modern Naval Warfare
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Shares a tense mood with Call of Duty®: Black Ops Cold War.
Reviewers of Call of Duty®: Black Ops Cold War cross-mention this title as a similar play.
Command the silent service. Modern Naval Warfare is the definitive tactical simulation that puts you inside the pressure hull of a Virginia-Class nuclear submarine. This uncompromising tactical simulation offers unparalleled depth in graphics, physics, and authentic combat systems.
Call of Duty® 4: Modern Warfare® (2007)
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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®: Black Ops III
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Shares a dark mood with Call of Duty®: Black Ops Cold War.
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Call of Duty®: Black Ops III Zombies Chronicles Edition includes the full base game plus the Zombies Chronicles content expansion.
Call of Duty®: Black Ops II
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Shares a cinematic mood with Call of Duty®: Black Ops Cold War.
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Pushing the boundaries of what fans have come to expect from the record-setting entertainment franchise, Call of Duty®: Black Ops II propels players into a near future Cold War
Call of Duty®: Black Ops 6
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Reviewers of Call of Duty®: Black Ops Cold War cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with Call of Duty®: Black Ops Cold War.
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®: Black Ops
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Shares a tense mood with Call of Duty®: Black Ops Cold War.
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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.
World War 3
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Shares a tense mood with Call of Duty®: Black Ops Cold War.
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World War 3 is a free-to-play tactical online multiplayer FPS where the world is your battleground. Outgun the enemy in thrilling, team-based skirmishes with a huge arsenal of weapons, vehicles, gadgets, and drones at your disposal.
Call of Duty®: Vanguard
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Shares a cinematic mood with Call of Duty®: Black Ops Cold War.
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Call of Duty®: Vanguard includes a deeply engaging single player Campaign, a massive Multiplayer offering featuring over 20 maps including 16 built for core Multiplayer and an exciting new Zombies experience developed by Treyarch.
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Terraria
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Priced ~83% under Call of Duty®: Black Ops Cold War on Steam right now. Shares Action with Call of Duty®: Black Ops Cold War.
Dig, fight, explore, build! Nothing is impossible in this action-packed adventure game. Four Pack also available!
Phasmophobia
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Priced ~67% under Call of Duty®: Black Ops Cold War on Steam right now. Shares Action with Call of Duty®: Black Ops Cold War.
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 ~83% under Call of Duty®: Black Ops Cold War on Steam right now. Shares Action with Call of Duty®: Black Ops Cold War.
A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.
Left 4 Dead 2
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Shares a tense mood with Call of Duty®: Black Ops Cold War.
Priced ~83% under Call of Duty®: Black Ops Cold War on Steam right now. Shares Action with Call of Duty®: Black Ops Cold War.
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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Hollow Knight
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Priced ~75% under Call of Duty®: Black Ops Cold War on Steam right now. Shares Action with Call of Duty®: Black Ops Cold War.
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 ~67% under Call of Duty®: Black Ops Cold War on Steam right now. Shares Action with Call of Duty®: Black Ops Cold War.
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.
People Playground
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Shoot, stab, burn, poison, tear, vaporise, or crush ragdolls in a large open space.
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Ultimate Custom Night
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Indigo Park: Chapter 1
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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.
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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 Call of Duty®: Black Ops Cold War.
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The Expendabros
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Call of Duty®: Black Ops Cold War.
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Star Fetchers
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Shares a dark mood with Call of Duty®: Black Ops Cold War.
Another title from Treyarch, the studio behind Call of Duty®: Black Ops Cold War. Shares Action with Call of Duty®: Black Ops Cold War.
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Call of Duty: World at War
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Shares a dark mood with Call of Duty®: Black Ops Cold War.
Another title from Treyarch, the studio behind Call of Duty®: Black Ops Cold War. Shares Action with Call of Duty®: Black Ops Cold War.
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Call of Duty®: Black Ops II
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Shares a cinematic mood with Call of Duty®: Black Ops Cold War.
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Shares a nostalgic mood with Call of Duty®: Black Ops Cold War.
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Shares a tense mood with Call of Duty®: Black Ops Cold War.
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Another title from Treyarch, the studio behind Call of Duty®: Black Ops Cold War. Shares Action with Call of Duty®: Black Ops Cold War.
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Shares a tense mood with Call of Duty®: Black Ops Cold War.
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Frequently asked about Call of Duty®: Black Ops Cold War
- Does Call of Duty®: Black Ops Cold War work on Steam Deck?
- Call of Duty®: Black Ops Cold War is currently rated Unsupported on Steam Deck. It may not launch or may have significant issues that block normal play.
- How much does Call of Duty®: Black Ops Cold War cost?
- Call of Duty®: Black Ops Cold War is listed on Steam at 59.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- Does Call of Duty®: Black Ops Cold War have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Call of Duty®: Black Ops Cold War supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Cross-Platform Multiplayer, Online PvP).
- What games are most similar to Call of Duty®: Black Ops Cold War?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Call of Duty®: Black Ops Cold War are Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare®, Call of Duty®: Vanguard, Call of Duty®: Black Ops 7.
- Who developed Call of Duty®: Black Ops Cold War?
- Call of Duty®: Black Ops Cold War was developed by Treyarch, Raven Software, High Moon Studios and published by Activision.
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