Games like Portable Ops
If Portable Ops is your kind of game, the closest matches are DotStrike, Erroneous and Cerebral Clash — 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 Portable Ops: In POPS, every bullet fired pushes you further into the chaos of war. The story-driven campaign throws you into the boots of an elite operative. Fight through a series of intense missions, face overwhelming odds, unexpected betrayals, and brutal firefights where only the strongest survive.
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Steam players who put hours into Portable Ops 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.
DotStrike
WHY THIS
Top pick for Portable Ops fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Portable Ops.
DotStrike is a 3D online shooter in which alien invaders in the form of colored spheres fight each other in a seaport. But the aliens are not fighting alone.
Erroneous
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Portable Ops fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Portable Ops.
Join the Battle with your Friends in this futuristic First-Person Shooter with Team Deathmatch, Free-for-all, King of the Hill, and more!
Cerebral Clash
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Portable Ops fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Portable Ops.
Cerebral Clash is a multiplayer arcade shooter where you take control of a tank powered by an enigmatic sentient brain. Play solo in an intriguing campaign or battle online with friends and foes in thrilling warfare matches!
Tactical Force
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Portable Ops fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Portable Ops.
Tactical Force is a game where you and your friends will explore strange places and face sinister creatures. A co-op for up to 8 players. To have fun with friends
Eighteen Gold
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Portable Ops fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Portable Ops.
Enlist in law enforcement or misfortune, take the intensity of combat to a new level and control of the situation in your hands, with the magnificent shooting simulator with 85% realism, Eighteen Gold... (Now with Eighteen Gold SE + Eighteen Gold 2)
Battleground
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Portable Ops fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Simulation with Portable Ops.
Battleground - A game in the genre of last man standing or royal battle. Fly to the island, find the weapon, get ahead of the enemies and win the round!
Scourge Of War - Remastered
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Portable Ops fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Portable Ops.
Welcome to Scourge of War, a real-time 3D computer game/simulation developed by NorbSoftDev, the company headed by renowned game designer Norb Timpko, designer of Mad Minute Games' acclaimed Take Command series. Scourge of War is the epitome of historical command simulations.
RUNNING WITH RIFLES
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Portable Ops fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Portable Ops.
RUNNING WITH RIFLES is a top-down tactical shooter with open world RPG elements. In RWR, you join the ranks of an army as a common soldier, just like the thousands around you.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Portable Ops at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Portable Ops on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Portable Ops.
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 Portable Ops on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Portable Ops.
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 Portable Ops on Steam right now. Shares Action with Portable Ops.
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 Portable Ops on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Portable Ops.
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 Portable Ops on Steam right now. Shares Action with Portable Ops.
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
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Priced ~58% under Portable Ops on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Portable Ops.
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 Portable Ops on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Portable Ops.
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 ~67% under Portable Ops on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Portable Ops.
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.
Ultimate Custom Night
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Portable Ops.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
STRAFTAT
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Portable Ops.
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
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Portable Ops.
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.).
Disfigure
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Portable Ops.
Disfigure is a grim-dark action rogue-like where you battle relentless hordes of monsters lurking in the shadows. Unlock powerful weapons, craft god-like builds with hundreds of upgrades, slay colossal bosses, and push your limits in intense 20–30 minute survival runs!
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 Indie with Portable Ops.
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 Indie with Portable Ops.
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!
SuchArt: Creative Space
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Portable Ops.
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!
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Frequently asked about Portable Ops
- How much does Portable Ops cost?
- Portable Ops is listed on Steam at 14.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- Does Portable Ops have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Portable Ops supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Online PvP, Online Co-op).
- What games are most similar to Portable Ops?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Portable Ops are DotStrike, Erroneous, Cerebral Clash.
- Who developed Portable Ops?
- Portable Ops was developed by Sean Smith, Outlaw Games and published by Pixels Graphic Design.
imho.run ranks Steam game alternatives using a mix of collaborative filtering (ALS / iALS / EASE / LightGCN), content scoring over genres, categories, Steam tags, developers, and publishers, plus AI-extracted vibes mined from review text. The page above is generated in seed mode anchored on Portable Ops.
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