Games like Shadow Ops: Red Mercury
If Shadow Ops: Red Mercury is your kind of game, the closest matches are Men of Valor, Operation Flashpoint: Dragon Rising and Enemy Front — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its campaign has no checkpoints, cinematic and dark. 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 Shadow Ops: Red Mercury: Race against time and terrorism as a member of the elite counter terrorist team in this all-out first person shooter. Your duty is to hunt down a terrorist overlord carrying a nuclear device before untold disaster is unleashed.
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Men of Valor
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Shares a dark mood with Shadow Ops: Red Mercury.
Top pick for Shadow Ops: Red Mercury fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Shadow Ops: Red Mercury.
Vietnam, 1965. You are Dean Shepard, a "cherry" to the 'Nam with zero war experience other than standard boot camp training at Parris Island, SC. Along with your platoon, you will fight the NVA and the Vietcong in true historic locales and battles.
Operation Flashpoint: Dragon Rising
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Second-strongest match for Shadow Ops: Red Mercury fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Shadow Ops: Red Mercury.
Operation Flashpoint: Dragon Rising is a game about a fictitious conflict on one of the Sakhalin islands.
Enemy Front
WHY THIS
Shares a dark mood with Shadow Ops: Red Mercury.
Third-strongest match for Shadow Ops: Red Mercury fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Shadow Ops: Red Mercury.
ENEMY FRONT is the first truly modern WW2 FPS, featuring stunning visuals, open-ended levels and a richly interactive combat experience that breaks out of the standard model of highly linear scripted FPS experiences, giving the player full freedom to own their playing style.
Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six® Vegas
WHY THIS
Shares a nostalgic mood with Shadow Ops: Red Mercury.
Ranked #4 for Shadow Ops: Red Mercury fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Shadow Ops: Red Mercury.
Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six makes its next-generation hardware debut in the most dramatic installment of the renowned first-person shooter franchise to date. Rainbow operatives take to the chaotic streets of Las Vegas as an escalating terrorist siege in 'Sin City' threatens to take world terrorism to new, uncontrollable heights.
Delta Force 1
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Shares a nostalgic mood with Shadow Ops: Red Mercury.
Ranked #5 for Shadow Ops: Red Mercury fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Shadow Ops: Red Mercury.
As a member of Delta Force — The Army's Elite, top secret special forces unit — the word 'impossible' is not in your vocabulary. In Delta Force, you will conduct missions swiftly and silently, in every possible terrain, under every imaginable condition and through unconventional means.
Medal of Honor™
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Ranked #6 for Shadow Ops: Red Mercury fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Shadow Ops: Red Mercury.
Fight Today's War: Elite Special Forces in a gritty combat campaign using the surgical tactics of Tier 1 Operators combined with the sledgehammer force of Army Rangers.
Arma 3
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Ranked #7 for Shadow Ops: Red Mercury fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Shadow Ops: Red Mercury.
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.
Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon®
WHY THIS
Shares an epic mood with Shadow Ops: Red Mercury.
Ranked #8 for Shadow Ops: Red Mercury fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Shadow Ops: Red Mercury.
Eastern Europe, 2008. War has broken out on the borders of Russia and the fate of the world hangs in the balance. That's when the call goes out for the Ghostsan elite handful of specially trained Green Berets, armed with the latest technology and trained to use the deadliest weapons.
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Red Faction II
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Shares a dark mood with Shadow Ops: Red Mercury.
Reviewers of Shadow Ops: Red Mercury cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with Shadow Ops: Red Mercury.
Twenty-second century Earth. Five years after the rebellion on Mars. For the last 15 years, Sopot, the corrupt dictator, has oppressed the people of the Commonwealth. His relentless pursuit of unification with the neighboring United Republic has left the country soaked in unnecessary bloodshed and poverty.
Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare®
WHY THIS
Shares a cinematic mood with Shadow Ops: Red Mercury.
Reviewers of Shadow Ops: Red Mercury cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with Shadow Ops: Red Mercury.
Experience a visceral Campaign or assemble your team in the ultimate online playground with multiple Special Ops challenges and a mix of Multiplayer maps and modes.
Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare® III
WHY THIS
Shares a dark mood with Shadow Ops: Red Mercury.
Reviewers of Shadow Ops: Red Mercury cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with Shadow Ops: Red Mercury.
In the direct sequel to the record-breaking Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare® II, Captain Price and Task Force 141 face off against the ultimate threat.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Shadow Ops: Red Mercury at current Steam store prices.
POSTAL 2
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Priced ~86% under Shadow Ops: Red Mercury on Steam right now. Shares Action with Shadow Ops: Red Mercury.
Live a week in the life of "The POSTAL Dude"; a hapless everyman just trying to check off some chores. Buying milk, returning an overdue library book, getting Gary Coleman's autograph, what could possibly go wrong?
Buckshot Roulette
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Priced ~57% under Shadow Ops: Red Mercury on Steam right now. Shares Action with Shadow Ops: Red Mercury.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
Blood and Bacon
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Priced ~86% under Shadow Ops: Red Mercury on Steam right now. Shares Action with Shadow Ops: Red Mercury.
This Co-op Shooter , has Day and Night levels, multiple maps, players will take on 25 enemy types and numerous bosses, like Gargantuan Monsters and Minibosses every 10 days as you explore, shoot and run for your life against the onslaught of porcine monstrosities.
Crypt of the NecroDancer
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Priced ~57% under Shadow Ops: Red Mercury on Steam right now. Shares Action with Shadow Ops: Red Mercury.
Crypt of the NecroDancer is an award winning hardcore roguelike rhythm game. Move to the music and deliver beatdowns to the beat! Groove to the epic Danny Baranowsky soundtrack, or select songs from your own MP3 collection!
Super Hexagon
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Priced ~57% under Shadow Ops: Red Mercury on Steam right now. Shares Action with Shadow Ops: Red Mercury.
Super Hexagon is a minimal action game by Terry Cavanagh, with music by Chipzel.
STAR WARS™ Republic Commando™
WHY THIS
Priced ~64% under Shadow Ops: Red Mercury on Steam right now. Shares Action with Shadow Ops: Red Mercury.
You are the leader of an elite squad of Republic Commandos, your mission is to infiltrate, dominate, and ultimately, annihilate the enemy. Your squad will follow your orders and your lead, working together as a team - instinctively, intelligently, instantly. You are their leader. They are your weapon.
Streets of Rogue
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Priced ~43% under Shadow Ops: Red Mercury on Steam right now. Shares Action with Shadow Ops: Red Mercury.
Fight, sneak, and hack your way through randomly generated cities. It's like Nuclear Throne meets Deus Ex, mixed with the anarchy of GTA. Rogue-lite meets immersive sim, and goes completely insane.
Superflight
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Priced ~57% under Shadow Ops: Red Mercury on Steam right now. Shares Action with Shadow Ops: Red Mercury.
Superflight is an intense, easy to learn wingsuit game with an infinite number of beautiful procedurally generated maps. A great game to relax for half an hour and chase your latest highscore!
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
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 Shadow Ops: Red Mercury.
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 Lab
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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!
Counter-Strike 2
WHY THIS
Shares a dark mood with Shadow Ops: Red Mercury.
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Shadow Ops: Red Mercury.
For over two decades, Counter-Strike has offered an elite competitive experience, one shaped by millions of players from across the globe. And now the next chapter in the CS story is about to begin. This is Counter-Strike 2.
Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Shadow Ops: Red Mercury.
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.
Team Fortress 2
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Shadow Ops: Red Mercury.
Nine distinct classes provide a broad range of tactical abilities and personalities. Constantly updated with new game modes, maps, equipment and, most importantly, hats!
Unturned
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Shadow Ops: Red Mercury.
You're a survivor in the zombie infested ruins of society, and must work with your friends and forge alliances to remain among the living.
THE FINALS
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Shadow Ops: Red Mercury.
THE FINALS is the world’s first Dynamism Shooter, a free-to-play, fast-paced, physics-driven, first-person shooter set on the stage of the biggest Gameshow of the future! Fight for Fans and fortune in fully-destructible, virtual Arenas that guarantee no two rounds will ever play the same!
Paladins®
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Shadow Ops: Red Mercury.
Paladins is the ultimate fantasy team-based shooter experience, with over 50 customizable Champions fighting in 5v5 action across a diverse Realm of modes and maps!
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Daylight
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Another title from Zombie Studios, the studio behind Shadow Ops: Red Mercury. Shares Action with Shadow Ops: Red Mercury.
You awake, trapped in an abandoned hospital. Your only source of light is your phone. You hit a dead-end and must turn around, but behind you lurks an eerie presence and strange noises... Experience Daylight, a procedurally generated psychological thriller for your PC.
Guardians of Middle-earth
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Another title from Zombie Studios, the studio behind Shadow Ops: Red Mercury. Shares Action with Shadow Ops: Red Mercury.
A shadow grows over Middle-earth as the greatest armies of the Third Age prepare for the coming battle. Take up arms in the clash over Middle-earth as the most powerful heroes and villains from the greatest fantasy epic of all time.
Blacklight: Tango Down
WHY THIS
Shares a dark mood with Shadow Ops: Red Mercury.
Another title from Zombie Studios, the studio behind Shadow Ops: Red Mercury. Shares Action with Shadow Ops: Red Mercury.
In Blacklight: Tango Down, experience the bleeding edge of advanced warfare. Participate in the “NetWar”: a hyper-realistic battlefield letting you fight tomorrow’s conflicts with or against your friends in the gritty Blacklight universe.
Zork Nemesis: The Forbidden Lands
WHY THIS
Shares a dark mood with Shadow Ops: Red Mercury.
Another title from Zombie Studios, the studio behind Shadow Ops: Red Mercury.
Travel through five mind-bending worlds to discover the ancient secret of Alchemy that will free the trapped souls from evil’s grip…Do you dare enter the Forbidden Lands?
Frequently asked about Shadow Ops: Red Mercury
- How much does Shadow Ops: Red Mercury cost?
- Shadow Ops: Red Mercury is listed on Steam at 6.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- Does Shadow Ops: Red Mercury have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Shadow Ops: Red Mercury supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player).
- What games are most similar to Shadow Ops: Red Mercury?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Shadow Ops: Red Mercury are Men of Valor, Operation Flashpoint: Dragon Rising, Enemy Front.
- Who developed Shadow Ops: Red Mercury?
- Shadow Ops: Red Mercury was developed by Zombie Studios and published by Atari.
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