Games like Defiance
If Defiance is your kind of game, the closest matches are Defiance 2050, Afterinfection and PIONER — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its creative elementally empowered weapons, exciting world events and sizable open world. 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 →Defiance is a free-to-play open-world third-person shooter released in 2014 by Trion Worlds, combining action, RPG, and massively multiplayer elements. The game is set on a transformed future Earth where players cooperate to explore a sizable open world, collect loot drops, and engage in vehicle combat alongside environmental weapons. Reviewers highlight the dark and challenging atmosphere, with players drawn to creative elementally-empowered weapons and the appeal of participating in exciting world events. The cooperative online play supports long sessions, while the blend of shooter mechanics and RPG progression provides sustained engagement. The title holds a 72% positive rating from over 1,600 Steam reviews.
About Defiance: Join the futuristic online open-world shooter where thousands of players scour a transformed Earth competing for alien technology.
Players who liked Defiance also play
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Defiance 2050
WHY THIS
Shares a dark mood with Defiance.
Top pick for Defiance fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Massively Multiplayer and Free To Play with Defiance.
Join your friends and become an Ark Hunter in a massive cooperative online shooter like no other. Choose from an array of fully customizable weapons and classes, explore a unique futuristic open world, and engage in epic fast-paced third-person shooter combat.
Afterinfection
WHY THIS
Shares a dark mood with Defiance.
Second-strongest match for Defiance fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Defiance.
Afterinfection is a brand new zombie survival game designed in Unreal 4 and being developed by a small team from Thailand. After creating your survivor, you’ll start with nothing and have to make your way across a large island searching for food, water, weapons, and crafting supplies.
PIONER
WHY THIS
Shares open world exploration and a dark mood with Defiance.
Third-strongest match for Defiance fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Massively Multiplayer with Defiance.
PIONER drops players into a vast, grim world, where survival hinges on exploration, crafting, and smart resource management. As an MMO FPS, it offers both PvE missions and intense PvP zones, with unique crafting mechanics, hundreds of weapons and a deep story to explore.
Tom Clancy’s The Division™
WHY THIS
Shares a dark mood with Defiance.
Ranked #4 for Defiance fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and RPG with Defiance.
A tactical open world third-person shooter set in New York after a deadly pandemic. Team up or go solo to restore order against deadly factions, secure loot, and conquer high-risk endgame challenges.
Fallen Earth Classic
WHY THIS
Shares a dark mood with Defiance.
Ranked #5 for Defiance fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Massively Multiplayer and RPG with Defiance.
Fallen Earth Classic is a free-to-play massively multiplayer online role-playing game developed by Reloaded Productions and operated by Little Orbit. The game takes place in a post-apocalyptic wasteland located around the American Grand Canyon.
Tom Clancy’s The Division® 2
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Defiance.
Ranked #6 for Defiance fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and RPG with Defiance.
Join The Division in this open world tactical shooter. Engage in intense cover-based combat, team up with friends, and build your ultimate agent to save Washington, D.C.
Infestation: The New Beginning
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Defiance fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Massively Multiplayer with Defiance.
Infestation is a Survival Horror MMO that immerses players in a zombie-infested, post-apocalyptic world in which a viral outbreak has decimated the human population leaving in its wake, a nightmare of epic proportion.
Nether: Resurrected
WHY THIS
Shares a dark mood with Defiance.
Ranked #8 for Defiance fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Massively Multiplayer with Defiance.
Nether is a unique, first-person, multiplayer urban survival experience. Set in a post-apocalyptic world, Nether forces players to make life-saving decisions in a fast-paced struggle against players and the environment. Join tribes, hold territory, scavenge, craft, trade and loot your way to stay alive.
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 Free To Play with Defiance.
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 Defiance.
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 Free To Play with Defiance.
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 Massively Multiplayer and Free To Play with Defiance.
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?
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Free To Play with Defiance.
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.
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 and Free To Play with Defiance.
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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Other recommendable Steam games by Trion Worlds, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
Atlas Reactor
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Defiance.
Another title from Trion Worlds, the studio behind Defiance. Shares Free To Play with Defiance.
SEASON 6 NOW LIVE! The battle for Atlas continues as a hot (some might even say fiery) new freelancer enters the scene.
Atlas Reactor VR Character Viewer
WHY THIS
Another title from Trion Worlds, the studio behind Defiance.
Outwit to outlive in Atlas Reactor, the genre-breaking team tactics game coming soon from Trion Worlds.With the VR Character Viewer, you can check out all of Atlas’ most wanted Freelancers (and their skins, styles, and skills) in a revolutionary new way!
Defiance 2050
WHY THIS
Shares a dark mood with Defiance.
Another title from Trion Worlds, the studio behind Defiance. Shares Massively Multiplayer and Free To Play with Defiance.
Join your friends and become an Ark Hunter in a massive cooperative online shooter like no other. Choose from an array of fully customizable weapons and classes, explore a unique futuristic open world, and engage in epic fast-paced third-person shooter combat.
Frequently asked about Defiance
- Does Defiance have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Defiance supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Co-op).
- What games are most similar to Defiance?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Defiance are Defiance 2050, Afterinfection, PIONER.
- Who developed Defiance?
- Defiance was developed by Trion Worlds.
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