Games like RUNNING WITH RIFLES
If RUNNING WITH RIFLES is your kind of game, the closest matches are Erroneous, DEFCON and Armored War — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its blaze through the map, commanding a squad and deeply rewarding. 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 →RUNNING WITH RIFLES is a top-down tactical military shooter released in 2015 by Osumia Games. Players take on the role of a rank-and-file soldier within a procedurally generated conflict, scavenging gear from fallen enemies as battles unfold across expansive maps. The game features squad command mechanics, reinforcement spawning, and supports modding alongside online cooperative play. Reviewers highlight the intensity of engagements where every bullet matters, and players describe the experience as both stressful and deeply rewarding as they blaze through the map commanding their squad. Priced at $14.99, the game runs verified on Steam Deck and holds an 89% positive rating from over 5000 Steam reviews.
About RUNNING WITH RIFLES: 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.
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Erroneous
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Top pick for RUNNING WITH RIFLES fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with RUNNING WITH RIFLES.
Join the Battle with your Friends in this futuristic First-Person Shooter with Team Deathmatch, Free-for-all, King of the Hill, and more!
DEFCON
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Shares a stressful mood with RUNNING WITH RIFLES.
Second-strongest match for RUNNING WITH RIFLES fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with RUNNING WITH RIFLES.
Inspired by the 1983 cult classic film, Wargames, DEFCON superbly evokes the tension, paranoia and suspicion of the Cold War era, playing on the fascinating aspects of psychological gameplay that occur during strategic nuclear warfare.
Armored War
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Third-strongest match for RUNNING WITH RIFLES fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with RUNNING WITH RIFLES.
Armored War is a realistic multiplayer tactical first-person shooter set in the realities of modern conflict. Take part in ground battles using a full arsenal of weapons and equipment
Portable Ops
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Ranked #4 for RUNNING WITH RIFLES fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with RUNNING WITH RIFLES.
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.
Scourge Of War - Gettysburg
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Shares a tense mood with RUNNING WITH RIFLES.
Ranked #5 for RUNNING WITH RIFLES fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with RUNNING WITH RIFLES.
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.
Ukrainian Fight Drone Simulator (UFDS) - FPV drone simulator
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Shares a tense mood with RUNNING WITH RIFLES.
Ranked #6 for RUNNING WITH RIFLES fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with RUNNING WITH RIFLES.
Ukrainian Fight Drone Simulator – Starter Edition is a public version of a leading ultra-realistic FPV drone trainer built on lessons from the Ukrainian frontline. Fly combat drones in true-to-life conditions, take on challenges, and feel the adrenaline of modern warfare.
Scourge Of War - Remastered
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Ranked #7 for RUNNING WITH RIFLES fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with RUNNING WITH RIFLES.
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.
Foxhole
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Shares a stressful mood with RUNNING WITH RIFLES.
Ranked #8 for RUNNING WITH RIFLES fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with RUNNING WITH RIFLES.
Foxhole is a massively multiplayer game where thousands of players shape the outcome of a persistent online war. Every individual soldier is a player that contributes to the war effort through logistics, base building, reconnaissance, combat, and more.
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Men of War™
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Reviewers of RUNNING WITH RIFLES cross-mention this title as a similar play.
Men of War is a stunning Real-Time Strategy game that takes place during the height of World War II. Intense battles span Europe and North Africa as gamers play as Soviet, Allied or German forces across 19 massive single-player missions.
WARZONE
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Reviewers of RUNNING WITH RIFLES cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie with RUNNING WITH RIFLES.
WARZONE is a tactical turn-based war game which requires a chess level of logical thinking and which provides an entertainment comparable to that of a tank shooter.
Gears of War: E-Day
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Reviewers of RUNNING WITH RIFLES cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with RUNNING WITH RIFLES.
Experience Emergence Day – the brutal origin story of one of gaming’s most acclaimed third-person shooter franchises.
Euro Truck Simulator 2
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Reviewers of RUNNING WITH RIFLES cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie with RUNNING WITH RIFLES.
Travel across Europe as king of the road, a trucker who delivers important cargo across impressive distances! With dozens of cities to explore, your endurance, skill and speed will all be pushed to their limits.
Enter the Gungeon
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Shares procedural generation with RUNNING WITH RIFLES.
Reviewers of RUNNING WITH RIFLES cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with RUNNING WITH RIFLES.
Enter the Gungeon is a bullet hell dungeon crawler following a band of misfits seeking to shoot, loot, dodge roll and table-flip their way to personal absolution by reaching the legendary Gungeon’s ultimate treasure: the gun that can kill the past.
Company of Heroes
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Shares modding and a stressful mood with RUNNING WITH RIFLES.
Reviewers of RUNNING WITH RIFLES cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with RUNNING WITH RIFLES.
Delivering a visceral WWII gaming experience, Company of Heroes redefines RTS by bringing the sacrifice of heroic soldiers, war-ravaged environments, and dynamic battlefields to life. Please visit the "Company of Heroes - Legacy Edition" page for additional user reviews.
Men of War: Assault Squad 2
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Reviewers of RUNNING WITH RIFLES cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with RUNNING WITH RIFLES.
Men of War: Assault Squad 2 expands the real-time tactics series with new skirmish missions, massive multiplayer battles, enhanced visuals, improved AI, and full Direct Control. Command five factions across 65 maps, 250 vehicles, and 200 soldiers in one of the most detailed WWII RTS experiences.
Call to Arms - Gates of Hell: Ostfront
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Shares a stressful mood with RUNNING WITH RIFLES.
Reviewers of RUNNING WITH RIFLES cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with RUNNING WITH RIFLES.
Call to Arms - Gates of Hell is a realistic RTS/ RTT game that offers endless replay value. Command all types of troops in historical singleplayer, dynamic campaign, PvP and PvE battles. Are you ready for some serious immersion in World War 2?
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Garry's Mod
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Priced ~67% under RUNNING WITH RIFLES on Steam right now. Shares Indie with RUNNING WITH RIFLES.
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
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Priced ~67% under RUNNING WITH RIFLES on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with RUNNING WITH RIFLES.
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.
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Priced ~53% under RUNNING WITH RIFLES on Steam right now. Shares Action with RUNNING WITH RIFLES.
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
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Priced ~47% under RUNNING WITH RIFLES on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with RUNNING WITH RIFLES.
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
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Priced ~70% under RUNNING WITH RIFLES on Steam right now. Shares Action with RUNNING WITH RIFLES.
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 RUNNING WITH RIFLES on Steam right now. Shares Indie with RUNNING WITH RIFLES.
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
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Priced ~47% under RUNNING WITH RIFLES on Steam right now. Shares Indie with RUNNING WITH RIFLES.
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
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Priced ~67% under RUNNING WITH RIFLES on Steam right now. Shares Indie with RUNNING WITH RIFLES.
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.
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Counter-Strike:Global Offensive
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with RUNNING WITH RIFLES.
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.).
The Expendabros
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with RUNNING WITH RIFLES.
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Disfigure
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with RUNNING WITH RIFLES.
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
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Princess Remedy in a World of Hurt
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with RUNNING WITH RIFLES.
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A top down twin stick zombie slaying shooter that you are sure to play again and again!
The Riftbreaker: Prologue
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with RUNNING WITH RIFLES.
The Riftbreaker: Prologue allows you to experience the events taking place before the story campaign of the main game. Explore an entirely new world. Gather resources. Build up a base. Defend yourself from thousands of alien creatures.
Jigsaw Puzzle Dreams
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with RUNNING WITH RIFLES.
Beautiful Multiplayer Jigsaw Puzzle game where you can design the room you play in!
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Frequently asked about RUNNING WITH RIFLES
- Is RUNNING WITH RIFLES verified for Steam Deck?
- Yes — RUNNING WITH RIFLES is Steam Deck Verified, meaning Valve has confirmed it runs well on the Deck with full controller, text legibility, and default configuration support.
- How much does RUNNING WITH RIFLES cost?
- RUNNING WITH RIFLES is listed on Steam at 14.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- Does RUNNING WITH RIFLES have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — RUNNING WITH RIFLES supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Cross-Platform Multiplayer, Online PvP).
- What games are most similar to RUNNING WITH RIFLES?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside RUNNING WITH RIFLES are Erroneous, DEFCON, Armored War.
- Who developed RUNNING WITH RIFLES?
- RUNNING WITH RIFLES was developed by Osumia Games.
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