Games like DIRECT CONTACT
If DIRECT CONTACT is your kind of game, the closest matches are WWII Tanks: Forgotten Battles, DEADPOINT and Valand — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, challenging and immersive. 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 DIRECT CONTACT: Direct Contact delivers an authentic and immersive first-person, Co-Op tactical experience, built for those who demand realism, strategy, and precision. Operate as Special Forces, utilizing a vast arsenal of real-world weapons and equipment. Engage in dynamic combat.
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Steam players who put hours into DIRECT CONTACT also tend to own these titles — a signal called collaborative filtering. imho.run cross-references millions of library ownership patterns to surface games whose real audiences overlap, regardless of whether their genre tags match.
WWII Tanks: Forgotten Battles
WHY THIS
Top pick for DIRECT CONTACT fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Simulation with DIRECT CONTACT.
Choose your side USA/Great Britain, Axis or USSR!Participate in the biggest historical tank battles of World War II!Go through the entire war on different tanks, feel the horror of war on your skin!
DEADPOINT
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for DIRECT CONTACT fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with DIRECT CONTACT.
"Deadpoint" is an engaging third-person survival game set in an apocalyptic world overrun by zombies. Players take on the role of a resourceful scavenger, tasked with navigating the dangerous landscape and ensuring their survival amid the hordes of undead.
Valand
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for DIRECT CONTACT fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with DIRECT CONTACT.
Valand is a Viking Age city builder. With your own strength you have to rebuild the whole settlement and bring it to prosperity.
Heavy Armored Assassin
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for DIRECT CONTACT fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with DIRECT CONTACT.
A military-themed stand-alone 3D simulation shooting game, drive vehicles through the enemy's rear, and at the same time command your two-vehicle formation, break through the enemy's defense line, search and destroy the intruder command post.
Battle Cry of Freedom
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with DIRECT CONTACT.
Ranked #5 for DIRECT CONTACT fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with DIRECT CONTACT.
Battle Cry of Freedom brings brutal real-time first and third-person combat set in the 19th Century America, presenting players with the opportunity to re-fight the American Civil War as either the Union or the Confederates.
War in the Gulf
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for DIRECT CONTACT fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with DIRECT CONTACT.
The Iraqi Republican Guard have overrun the oilfields of Northern Kuwait. War in the Gulf follows the fortunes of a crack unit of M1 tanks as the action unfolds.
Attack on Toys
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with DIRECT CONTACT.
Ranked #7 for DIRECT CONTACT fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with DIRECT CONTACT.
Relive Your Childhood Toys comes to life! Build your Army Toys, make battle scenario, watch the Toys battling each other, and customize your play with Attack on Toys Toy Box. Command your Army Toys to fight againts another toys strategically and keep them alive during battle!
Steel Division: Normandy 44
WHY THIS
Shares tactical positioning and a challenging mood with DIRECT CONTACT.
Ranked #8 for DIRECT CONTACT fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with DIRECT CONTACT.
Steel Division: Normandy is a tactical real-time strategy (RTS) game that pits players against AI enemies in a single-player campaign -- or against several opponents in massive 10-on-10 multiplayer battles.
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Ready or Not
WHY THIS
Shares a tense mood with DIRECT CONTACT.
Reviewers of DIRECT CONTACT cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Adventure with DIRECT CONTACT.
Ready or Not is an intense, tactical, first-person shooter that depicts a modern-day world in which SWAT police units are called to defuse hostile and confronting situations.
GROUND BRANCH
WHY THIS
Shares weapon customization and an atmospheric mood with DIRECT CONTACT.
Reviewers of DIRECT CONTACT cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Simulation with DIRECT CONTACT.
From one of the developers behind the original Rainbow Six® and Ghost Recon® games, comes a thinking-man's first-person shooter featuring in-depth character and weapon customization. Take your time. Think ahead. Get the job done.
Arma 3
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with DIRECT CONTACT.
Reviewers of DIRECT CONTACT cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Strategy with DIRECT CONTACT.
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.
Bodycam
WHY THIS
Shares team coordination, weapon customization and a tense mood with DIRECT CONTACT.
Reviewers of DIRECT CONTACT cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Strategy with DIRECT CONTACT.
Bodycam is the first tactical multiplayer FPS with a true body-camera view in Unreal Engine 5. Close-quarters combats feel raw and loud. Every angle, callout, and bullet matters. Play Deathmatch, Team Deathmatch, and Body Bomb on photoreal maps where teamplay, tactics, and clutch skill are key.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below DIRECT CONTACT at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under DIRECT CONTACT on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with DIRECT CONTACT.
Garry's Mod is a physics sandbox. There aren't any predefined aims or goals. We give you the tools and leave you to play.
Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under DIRECT CONTACT on Steam right now. Shares Action with DIRECT CONTACT.
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.
WHY THIS
Priced ~53% under DIRECT CONTACT on Steam right now. Shares Action and Early Access with DIRECT CONTACT.
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.
PEAK
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under DIRECT CONTACT on Steam right now. Shares Action and Adventure with DIRECT CONTACT.
PEAK is a co-op climbing game where the slightest mistake can spell your doom. Either solo or as a group of lost nature scouts, your only hope of rescue from a mysterious island is to scale the mountain at its center. Do you have what it takes to reach the PEAK?
Titanfall® 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~70% under DIRECT CONTACT on Steam right now. Shares Action with DIRECT CONTACT.
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.
Sid Meier's Civilization® V
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under DIRECT CONTACT on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with DIRECT CONTACT.
Create, discover, and download new player-created maps, scenarios, interfaces, and more!
Slay the Spire
WHY THIS
Priced ~58% under DIRECT CONTACT on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with DIRECT CONTACT.
We fused card games and roguelikes together to make the best single player deckbuilder we could. Craft a unique deck, encounter bizarre creatures, discover relics of immense power, and Slay the Spire!
Inscryption
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under DIRECT CONTACT on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Adventure with DIRECT CONTACT.
Inscryption is an inky black card-based odyssey that blends the deckbuilding roguelike, escape-room style puzzles, and psychological horror into a blood-laced smoothie. Darker still are the secrets inscrybed upon the cards...
Free alternatives
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Life is Strange - Episode 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with DIRECT CONTACT.
Episode 1 now FREE! Life is Strange is an award-winning and critically acclaimed episodic adventure game that allows the player to rewind time and affect the past, present and future.
Ultimate Custom Night
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with DIRECT CONTACT.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with DIRECT CONTACT.
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.
Counter-Strike:Global Offensive
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with DIRECT CONTACT.
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.).
Dagon: by H. P. Lovecraft
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with DIRECT CONTACT.
Face unspeakable horrors. Succumb to madness. Welcome to a free daemonic narrative experience inspired by H. P. Lovecraft.
The Lab
WHY THIS
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
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with DIRECT CONTACT.
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.
Landfall Archives
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Strategy with DIRECT CONTACT.
Break into the Landfall Archives to steal and play previously unreleased games, demos, interactive slide shows, and even an unreleased version of Totally Accurate Battle Simulator from 2017!
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Frequently asked about DIRECT CONTACT
- How much does DIRECT CONTACT cost?
- DIRECT CONTACT is listed on Steam at 14.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to DIRECT CONTACT?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside DIRECT CONTACT are WWII Tanks: Forgotten Battles, DEADPOINT, Valand.
- Who developed DIRECT CONTACT?
- DIRECT CONTACT was developed by Mountain 81.
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