Games like Insurgency
If Insurgency is your kind of game, the closest matches are Insurgency: Sandstorm, Fireteam Breach and Counter-Strike: Source — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its sound design is exceptional, tactical positioning matters and stressful. 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 →Insurgency is a multiplayer and cooperative tactical shooter developed and published by New World Interactive. Released in 2014, it is built on the Source Engine and priced at $14.99. The game focuses on realistic combat mechanics and team-based objectives, with voice communication central to coordinated play. Players describe the experience as stressful and tense, noting that tactical positioning matters as much as individual marksmanship in close-quarters engagements. The title holds a 92% positive review score from over 35,000 Steam reviews. Insurgency is not currently supported on Steam Deck.
About Insurgency: 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.
Players who liked Insurgency also play
Steam players who put hours into Insurgency 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.
Insurgency: Sandstorm
WHY THIS
Shares a stressful mood with Insurgency.
Top pick for Insurgency fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Insurgency.
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.
Fireteam Breach
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Insurgency fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Insurgency.
Fireteam Breach is a tactical 5v5 FPS where precision and teamwork decide victory. Master round-based combat as Attackers or Defenders in Bomb, Hostage, and Secure Area modes. Use strategy, destruction, and unique operators with gadgets to outplay the enemy.
Counter-Strike: Source
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Insurgency fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Insurgency.
Counter-Strike: Source blends Counter-Strike's award-winning teamplay action with the advanced technology of Source™ technology.
Day of Infamy
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Insurgency fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Insurgency.
Experience close-quarters battles in iconic WWII settings. Defend the line, storm the beach, torch the enemy, or use a radio to call in fire support. Day of Infamy is a teamwork-oriented shooter that will keep you on your toes and coming back for more with its diverse game modes and authentic arsenal.
Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege
WHY THIS
Shares a stressful mood with Insurgency.
Ranked #5 for Insurgency fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Insurgency.
Rainbow Six® Siege is the reference in tactical team shooters, where elite strategy and execution triumph. Enjoy free access to Quick Match, Unranked, and Dual Front game modes with a selection of operators.
Squad
WHY THIS
Shares a tense mood with Insurgency.
Ranked #6 for Insurgency fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Insurgency.
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.
Arma 2: Operation Arrowhead
WHY THIS
Shares a stressful mood with Insurgency.
Ranked #7 for Insurgency fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Insurgency.
Three years after the conflict in Chernarus, portrayed in the original Arma 2, a new flashpoint explodes in the Green Sea Region. Coalition forces led by the US Army are deployed to Takistan to quickly restore peace and prevent further civilian casualties.
Arma 3
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Insurgency fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Insurgency.
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.
Reviewers mention these as similar to Insurgency
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Ready or Not
WHY THIS
Shares a stressful mood with Insurgency.
Reviewers of Insurgency cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Insurgency.
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.
Red Orchestra 2: Heroes of Stalingrad with Rising Storm
WHY THIS
Shares a stressful mood with Insurgency.
Reviewers of Insurgency cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with Insurgency.
Contains full Rising Storm content as well!
Squad
WHY THIS
Shares a tense mood with Insurgency.
Reviewers of Insurgency cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Strategy with Insurgency.
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.
Counter-Strike:Global Offensive
WHY THIS
Shares a stressful mood with Insurgency.
Reviewers of Insurgency cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with Insurgency.
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.).
Insurgency: Sandstorm
WHY THIS
Shares a stressful mood with Insurgency.
Reviewers of Insurgency cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with Insurgency.
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.
Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell Double Agent®
WHY THIS
Shares a stressful mood with Insurgency.
Reviewers of Insurgency cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with Insurgency.
In the sequel to the 2005 Game of the Year, Splinter Cell: Double Agent, play as legendary covert operative Sam Fisher, infiltrate a ruthless terrorist organization, and destroy it from within.
Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell Conviction™
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Insurgency cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with Insurgency.
In this stealth-action thriller, Sam Fisher investigates his daughter’s death, only to uncover a betrayal by his former agency. Now hunted, he races against time to thwart a terrorist plot threatening millions.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Insurgency at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Insurgency on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Insurgency.
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 Insurgency on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Insurgency.
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 Insurgency on Steam right now. Shares Action with Insurgency.
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 Insurgency on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Insurgency.
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 Insurgency on Steam right now. Shares Action with Insurgency.
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 Insurgency on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Insurgency.
Create, discover, and download new player-created maps, scenarios, interfaces, and more!
Slay the Spire
WHY THIS
Priced ~58% under Insurgency on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Insurgency.
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 Insurgency on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Insurgency.
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
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Doki Doki Literature Club!
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Insurgency.
The Literature Club is full of cute girls! Will you write the way into their heart? This game is not suitable for children or those who are easily disturbed.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Insurgency.
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 Insurgency.
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 Insurgency.
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 Insurgency.
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 Insurgency.
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.
STRAFTAT
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Insurgency.
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.
The Looker
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Insurgency.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
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Frequently asked about Insurgency
- Does Insurgency work on Steam Deck?
- Insurgency is currently rated Unsupported on Steam Deck. It may not launch or may have significant issues that block normal play.
- How much does Insurgency cost?
- Insurgency is listed on Steam at 14.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- Does Insurgency have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Insurgency supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Cross-Platform Multiplayer, Co-op).
- What games are most similar to Insurgency?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Insurgency are Insurgency: Sandstorm, Fireteam Breach, Counter-Strike: Source.
- Who developed Insurgency?
- Insurgency was developed by New World Interactive.
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