Games like Contain
If Contain is your kind of game, the closest matches are THE WASTE, SCP: 5K and SWAT Commander — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its scanner reveals objectives intermittently, strong gunplay foundation and atmospheric. 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 Contain: Contain is a Tactical Co-Op FPS game. Form your squad of four players to fight against the anomalies. Try to "Contain" them where the line between ordinary and extraordinary is blurred.
Players who liked Contain also play
Steam players who put hours into Contain 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.
THE WASTE
WHY THIS
Top pick for Contain fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Contain.
THE WASTE – a brutal and stylish action game about bloody street shootouts and survival in a city after a global collapse, where authority has fallen, and crime thrives. Two factions fight for control over the city, its resources, and survivors.
SCP: 5K
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Contain.
Second-strongest match for Contain fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Contain.
SCP: 5K is a co-op or singleplayer tactical horror FPS project that puts players in the midst of a conspiracy where the SCP Foundation has turned on humanity. Enjoy Early Access as we continue to work towards a completed full release of the project!
SWAT Commander
WHY THIS
Shares a tense mood with Contain.
Third-strongest match for Contain fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Contain.
Take charge of a SWAT unit as an elite operator. Command a specialized AI squad or team up in co-op to seize suspects, rescue civilians, and restore order. Study the briefing, kit out your team, and execute your plan with disciplined precision.
LIGHTNING
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Contain fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Early Access with Contain.
Fast-paced competitive FPS with character abilities. Combining realistic settings with superpowers. Geared toward ESPORT with In-game Map Editor. Organize tournaments, customize weapons and characters, replay matches, manage your team, variety of modes and exclusive attention to gunplay.
GROUND BRANCH
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Contain.
Ranked #5 for Contain fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Contain.
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.
Alpha Response
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Contain fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Early Access with Contain.
From Gooseman, creator of the original Counter-Strike mod - Alpha Response delivers intense police action in dynamic, real-world environments. Fight solo or with friends against diverse enemies in high-stakes missions that demand fast reflexes, teamwork and split-second decision making.
OPERATOR
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Contain.
Ranked #7 for Contain fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Contain.
In OPERATOR, you will play as an elite Tier 1 operator undergoing dangerous clandestine operations all over the globe. With a strategic, measured, and unforgiving style of gameplay. You are the tactical advantage, Good luck.
Escape from Tarkov
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Contain.
Ranked #8 for Contain fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Contain.
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.
Reviewers mention these as similar to Contain
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Squad
WHY THIS
Shares a tense mood with Contain.
Reviewers of Contain cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Contain.
Squad is a tactical FPS that provides authentic combat experiences through teamwork, communication, and realistic combat. It bridges the gap between arcade shooter and military realism with 100-player battles, combined-arms warfare, and base building.
Phasmophobia
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Contain.
Reviewers of Contain cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Contain.
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.
SCP: 5K
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Contain.
Reviewers of Contain cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Contain.
SCP: 5K is a co-op or singleplayer tactical horror FPS project that puts players in the midst of a conspiracy where the SCP Foundation has turned on humanity. Enjoy Early Access as we continue to work towards a completed full release of the project!
Ready or Not
WHY THIS
Shares a tense mood with Contain.
Reviewers of Contain cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Contain.
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.
Stalker
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Contain cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie with Contain.
The background story of "Stalker" is that a teenager encounters various events on the road following a young girl. The teenager(player) can selectively interact and give repairs / help due to these events. How you will lead to different ending. The game was developed during the Global Game Jam 2020.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Contain at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~64% under Contain on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Contain.
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 ~64% under Contain on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Contain.
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 ~50% under Contain on Steam right now. Shares Action and Early Access with Contain.
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 ~43% under Contain on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Contain.
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 ~68% under Contain on Steam right now. Shares Action with Contain.
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.
Slay the Spire
WHY THIS
Priced ~55% under Contain on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Contain.
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 ~43% under Contain on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Contain.
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...
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~64% under Contain on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Contain.
An idle game about making cookies! Originally released in 2013 on the web, and actively developed since then. This is the official version for Steam.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Contain.
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 and Indie with Contain.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Bongo Cat
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Contain.
Bongo cat needs your help. Bongo cat needz more hatz!!! Every time you press a key, Bongo cat will punch your taskbar. Type, click, play, work to collect more points. Which hats will you find?
ENA: Dream BBQ
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Contain.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Contain.
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.
The Looker
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Contain.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
Counter-Strike:Global Offensive
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Contain.
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.).
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Frequently asked about Contain
- Does Contain run on Steam Deck?
- Contain is rated Playable on Steam Deck — it runs, but expect some manual adjustments (control remapping, text size, or graphics settings) for the best experience.
- How much does Contain cost?
- Contain is listed on Steam at 13.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- Does Contain have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Contain supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Online Co-op, Co-op).
- What games are most similar to Contain?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Contain are THE WASTE, SCP: 5K, SWAT Commander.
- Who developed Contain?
- Contain was developed by SinginGiant.
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