Games like Call of Duty®: Black Ops II
If Call of Duty®: Black Ops II is your kind of game, the closest matches are Call of Duty®: Black Ops II, Insurgency and Rising Storm Game of the Year Edition — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its competitive, intense and nostalgic. 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 II is a 2012 first-person action shooter developed by Treyarch that tasks players with a challenging, massive grind through its pick-10 loadout system, diamond-camos, and league-play features alongside scorestreaks for constant progression. Reviewers highlight that league-play pioneered competitive COD esports, while players describe the maps as iconic and memorable, and the experience as competitive, intense, and nostalgic. The game supports online cooperative play alongside its multiplayer offerings at 59.99 USD, though it is not supported on Steam Deck. It holds a review score of 92% positive based on 4,067 Steam reviews.
About Call of Duty®: Black Ops II: 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
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Call of Duty®: Black Ops II
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Top pick for Call of Duty®: Black Ops II fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Call of Duty®: Black Ops II.
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
Insurgency
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Second-strongest match for Call of Duty®: Black Ops II fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Call of Duty®: Black Ops II.
Take to the streets for intense close quarters combat, where a team's survival depends upon securing crucial strongholds and destroying enemy supply in this multiplayer and cooperative Source Engine based experience.
Rising Storm Game of the Year Edition
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Third-strongest match for Call of Duty®: Black Ops II fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Call of Duty®: Black Ops II.
Also contains all multi-player content from Red Orchestra 2: Heroes of Stalingrad
PlanetSide 2
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Shares an intense mood with Call of Duty®: Black Ops II.
Ranked #4 for Call of Duty®: Black Ops II fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Call of Duty®: Black Ops II.
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.
Left 4 Dead
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Ranked #5 for Call of Duty®: Black Ops II fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Call of Duty®: Black Ops II.
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.
Apex Legends™
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Shares a competitive mood with Call of Duty®: Black Ops II.
Ranked #6 for Call of Duty®: Black Ops II fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Call of Duty®: Black Ops II.
Apex Legends is the award-winning, free-to-play Hero Shooter from Respawn Entertainment. Master an ever-growing roster of legendary characters with powerful abilities, and experience strategic squad play and innovative gameplay in the next evolution of Hero Shooter and Battle Royale.
Battlefield™ 2042
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Shares an intense mood with Call of Duty®: Black Ops II.
Ranked #7 for Call of Duty®: Black Ops II fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Call of Duty®: Black Ops II.
Battlefield™ 2042 is a first-person shooter that marks the return to the iconic all-out warfare of the franchise.
Arma 3
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Ranked #8 for Call of Duty®: Black Ops II fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Call of Duty®: Black Ops II.
Experience true combat gameplay in a massive military sandbox. Deploy with a wide variety of single- and multiplayer content, a massive arsenal of modern weapons and vehicles, and limitless opportunities for content creation. Authentic, diverse, open - Arma 3 sends you to war.
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Titanfall® 2
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Shares an intense mood with Call of Duty®: Black Ops II.
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Respawn Entertainment gives you the most advanced titan technology in its new, single player campaign & multiplayer experience. Combine & conquer with new titans & pilots, deadlier weapons, & customization and progression systems that help you and your titan flow as one unstoppable killing force.
BattleBit Remastered
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Shares an intense mood with Call of Duty®: Black Ops II.
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BattleBit Remastered is a low-poly, massive multiplayer FPS, supporting 254 players per server. Battle on a near-fully destructible map with various vehicles!
THE FINALS
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Shares an intense mood with Call of Duty®: Black Ops II.
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THE FINALS is the world’s first Dynamism Shooter, a free-to-play, fast-paced, physics-driven, first-person shooter set on the stage of the biggest Gameshow of the future! Fight for Fans and fortune in fully-destructible, virtual Arenas that guarantee no two rounds will ever play the same!
Insurgency: Sandstorm
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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.
Battlefield 4™
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Shares a competitive mood with Call of Duty®: Black Ops II.
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Embrace unrivaled destruction in Battlefield 4™. Revel in the glorious chaos of all-out war packed with rewarding, tactical challenges in an interactive environment.
Battlefield™ 1
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Battlefield™ 1 takes you back to The Great War, WW1, where new technology and worldwide conflict changed the face of warfare forever.
Quake III Arena
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Shares a competitive mood with Call of Duty®: Black Ops II.
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The greatest warriors of all time and space have been summoned to battle for the amusement of an ancient alien race. Wield a variety of guns and power-ups as you fight for glory against ruthless combatants in this fast-paced single-player and multiplayer FPS.
Battlefield™ 2042
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Shares an intense mood with Call of Duty®: Black Ops II.
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Phasmophobia
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Priced ~67% under Call of Duty®: Black Ops II on Steam right now. Shares Action with Call of Duty®: Black Ops II.
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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Left 4 Dead 2
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Priced ~83% under Call of Duty®: Black Ops II on Steam right now. Shares Action with Call of Duty®: Black Ops II.
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 ~67% under Call of Duty®: Black Ops II on Steam right now. Shares Action with Call of Duty®: Black Ops II.
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 ~75% under Call of Duty®: Black Ops II on Steam right now. Shares Action with Call of Duty®: Black Ops II.
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 II on Steam right now. Shares Action with Call of Duty®: Black Ops II.
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People Playground
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Priced ~83% under Call of Duty®: Black Ops II on Steam right now. Shares Action with Call of Duty®: Black Ops II.
Shoot, stab, burn, poison, tear, vaporise, or crush ragdolls in a large open space.
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
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Another title from Treyarch, the studio behind Call of Duty®: Black Ops II. Shares Action with Call of Duty®: Black Ops II.
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Call of Duty®: Black Ops III
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Shares a competitive mood with Call of Duty®: Black Ops II.
Another title from Treyarch, the studio behind Call of Duty®: Black Ops II. Shares Action with Call of Duty®: Black Ops II.
Call of Duty®: Black Ops III Zombies Chronicles Edition includes the full base game plus the Zombies Chronicles content expansion.
Call of Duty: World at War
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Another title from Treyarch, the studio behind Call of Duty®: Black Ops II. Shares Action with Call of Duty®: Black Ops II.
Call of Duty is back, redefining war like you've never experienced before. Building on the Call of Duty 4®: Modern Warfare engine, Call of Duty: World at War immerses players into the most gritty and chaotic WWII combat ever experienced.
Call of Duty®: Black Ops II
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Another title from Treyarch, the studio behind Call of Duty®: Black Ops II. Shares Action with Call of Duty®: Black Ops II.
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
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Shares a nostalgic mood with Call of Duty®: Black Ops II.
Another title from Treyarch, the studio behind Call of Duty®: Black Ops II. Shares Action with Call of Duty®: Black Ops II.
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.
Call of Duty®: Black Ops
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Shares a competitive mood with Call of Duty®: Black Ops II.
Another title from Treyarch, the studio behind Call of Duty®: Black Ops II. Shares Action with Call of Duty®: Black Ops II.
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.
Call of Duty®: Black Ops Cold War
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Shares a nostalgic mood with Call of Duty®: Black Ops II.
Another title from Treyarch, the studio behind Call of Duty®: Black Ops II. Shares Action with Call of Duty®: Black Ops II.
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.
Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare® III
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Shares a competitive mood with Call of Duty®: Black Ops II.
Another title from Treyarch, the studio behind Call of Duty®: Black Ops II. Shares Action with Call of Duty®: Black Ops II.
In the direct sequel to the record-breaking Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare® II, Captain Price and Task Force 141 face off against the ultimate threat.
Frequently asked about Call of Duty®: Black Ops II
- Does Call of Duty®: Black Ops II work on Steam Deck?
- Call of Duty®: Black Ops II 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 II cost?
- Call of Duty®: Black Ops II is listed on Steam at 59.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- Does Call of Duty®: Black Ops II have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Call of Duty®: Black Ops II supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Co-op).
- What games are most similar to Call of Duty®: Black Ops II?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Call of Duty®: Black Ops II are Call of Duty®: Black Ops II, Insurgency, Rising Storm Game of the Year Edition.
- Who developed Call of Duty®: Black Ops II?
- Call of Duty®: Black Ops II was developed by Treyarch and published by Activision.
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