Games like Half-Life 2: Deathmatch
If Half-Life 2: Deathmatch is your kind of game, the closest matches are Teamkill, Counter-Strike: Source and eBall — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its fast and responsive gameplay, satisfying weapons and stunning physics. 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 →Half-Life 2: Deathmatch is a first-person arena shooter released in 2004 by Valve, set in the Half-Life 2 universe. Players select characters and compete across community-supported maps in fast-paced multiplayer combat, with physics-based mechanics and the iconic gravity gun enabling creative weapon interactions. Reviewers highlight the fast-and-responsive gameplay, satisfying weapons, and well-balanced combat, while players describe the experience as competitive, intense, and occasionally whimsical. The game supports modding and offers both free-for-all and team-based modes, maintaining 90% positive reviews from over 4,600 Steam users. It is Playable on Steam Deck.
About Half-Life 2: Deathmatch: Fast multiplayer action set in the Half-Life 2 universe! HL2's physics adds a new dimension to deathmatch play. Play straight deathmatch or try Combine vs. Resistance teamplay. Toss a toilet at your friend today!
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Teamkill
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Top pick for Half-Life 2: Deathmatch fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Half-Life 2: Deathmatch.
Teamkill is a fast and chaotic team-based multiplayer shooter where the teams are always changing and every shot counts.
Counter-Strike: Source
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Shares a competitive mood with Half-Life 2: Deathmatch.
Second-strongest match for Half-Life 2: Deathmatch fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Half-Life 2: Deathmatch.
Counter-Strike: Source blends Counter-Strike's award-winning teamplay action with the advanced technology of Source™ technology.
eBall
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Third-strongest match for Half-Life 2: Deathmatch fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Half-Life 2: Deathmatch.
eBall is an old-school multiplayer arena shooter with high speed gameplay and a minimalistic look. An old school rocket and grenade in combination with rattling speed gameplay and predictive air shoot of a classic arena FPS with the power of modern gaming technology.
Deathmatch Classic
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Ranked #4 for Half-Life 2: Deathmatch fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Half-Life 2: Deathmatch.
Enjoy fast-paced multiplayer gaming with Deathmatch Classic (a.k.a. DMC). Valve's tribute to the work of id software, DMC invites players to grab their rocket launchers and put their reflexes to the test in a collection of futuristic settings.
Screws Loose
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Ranked #5 for Half-Life 2: Deathmatch fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Half-Life 2: Deathmatch.
Be the best battle bot in this fun multiplayer shooter. Challenge others to this deathmatch style game across various maps and battlegrounds. Get more kills than your foe and win the match.
Unreal Tournament: Game of the Year Edition
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Shares a competitive mood with Half-Life 2: Deathmatch.
Ranked #6 for Half-Life 2: Deathmatch fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Half-Life 2: Deathmatch.
Unreal Tournament is the original King of the Hill in the frag-or-be-fragged multiplayer gaming world. As the undisputed 1999 Game of the Year, Unreal Tournament grabbed the first person shooter genre by the soiled seat of its pants and knocked it around the room with its never-before-seen graphics, brutal edge-of-your-seat gameplay and...
Counter-Strike
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Shares a competitive mood with Half-Life 2: Deathmatch.
Ranked #7 for Half-Life 2: Deathmatch fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Half-Life 2: Deathmatch.
Play the world's number 1 online action game. Engage in an incredibly realistic brand of terrorist warfare in this wildly popular team-based game. Ally with teammates to complete strategic missions. Take out enemy sites. Rescue hostages. Your role affects your team's success. Your team's success affects your role.
Quake Live
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Shares a competitive mood with Half-Life 2: Deathmatch.
Ranked #8 for Half-Life 2: Deathmatch fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Half-Life 2: Deathmatch.
Experience the most exciting and fast-paced FPS gameplay while competing with players from around the world in over 100 arenas, a dozen game modes, and with persistent career stats tracking, in this online features-focused successor to Quake III Arena.
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Prey
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Reviewers of Half-Life 2: Deathmatch cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with Half-Life 2: Deathmatch.
In Prey, you awaken aboard Talos I, a space station orbiting the moon in the year 2032. You are the key subject of an experiment meant to alter humanity forever – but things have gone terribly wrong. The space station has been overrun by hostile aliens and you are now being hunted.
Fallout 4
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Reviewers of Half-Life 2: Deathmatch cross-mention this title as a similar play.
From Bethesda Game Studios, the award-winning creators of Starfield and The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, comes Fallout 4. A landmark in open-world RPG design and winner of over 200 ‘Best Of’ honors, including the DICE and BAFTA Game of the Year.
Team Fortress 2
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Shares a competitive mood with Half-Life 2: Deathmatch.
Reviewers of Half-Life 2: Deathmatch cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with Half-Life 2: Deathmatch.
Nine distinct classes provide a broad range of tactical abilities and personalities. Constantly updated with new game modes, maps, equipment and, most importantly, hats!
BioShock™
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Reviewers of Half-Life 2: Deathmatch cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with Half-Life 2: Deathmatch.
BioShock is a shooter unlike any you've ever played, loaded with weapons and tactics never seen. You'll have a complete arsenal at your disposal from simple revolvers to grenade launchers and chemical throwers, but you'll also be forced to genetically modify your DNA to create an even more deadly weapon: you.
System Shock® 2 (1999)
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Reviewers of Half-Life 2: Deathmatch cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with Half-Life 2: Deathmatch.
"Remember, it is my will that guided you here. It is my will that gave you your cybernetic implants, the only beauty in that meat you call a body. If you value that meat... you will do as I tell you." The cult classic sci-fi horror FPS-RPG has returned.
Singularity™
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Reviewers of Half-Life 2: Deathmatch cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with Half-Life 2: Deathmatch.
FIGHT THE PAST TO SAVE THE FUTURE. STOP THE SINGULARITY. Learn the truth behind a massive cover-up of the catastrophic SINGULARITY, an event that fractured time and threatens the world as we know it. Armed with powerful, advanced weaponry and the experimental Time Manipulation Device, fight enemies from the past, the present, and...
ADACA
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Reviewers of Half-Life 2: Deathmatch cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with Half-Life 2: Deathmatch.
A Sci-fi FPS set on the mysterious planet ADACA. - Use your GRAVITY-MANIPULATING arm to HURL objects at your foes or even RIP weapons directly from their hands! - EXPLORE and manipulate the environment in this EERIE and HOSTILE world!
Metro 2033 Redux
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Reviewers of Half-Life 2: Deathmatch cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with Half-Life 2: Deathmatch.
In 2013 the world was devastated by an apocalyptic event, annihilating almost all mankind and turning the Earth's surface into a poisonous wasteland. A handful of survivors took refuge in the depths of the Moscow underground, and human civilization entered a new Dark Age. The year is 2033.
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Doki Doki Literature Club!
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
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
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Half-Life 2: Deathmatch.
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
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Half-Life 2: Deathmatch.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Bongo Cat
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
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
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Half-Life 2: Deathmatch.
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
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Half-Life 2: Deathmatch.
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.
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Counter-Strike 2
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Another title from Valve, the studio behind Half-Life 2: Deathmatch. Shares Action with Half-Life 2: Deathmatch.
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.
Left 4 Dead 2
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Shares an intense mood with Half-Life 2: Deathmatch.
Another title from Valve, the studio behind Half-Life 2: Deathmatch. Shares Action with Half-Life 2: Deathmatch.
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Portal 2
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Shares a whimsical mood with Half-Life 2: Deathmatch.
Another title from Valve, the studio behind Half-Life 2: Deathmatch. Shares Action with Half-Life 2: Deathmatch.
The "Perpetual Testing Initiative" has been expanded to allow you to design co-op puzzles for you and your friends!
Half-Life 2
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Shares modding support with Half-Life 2: Deathmatch.
Another title from Valve, the studio behind Half-Life 2: Deathmatch. Shares Action with Half-Life 2: Deathmatch.
Reawakened from stasis in the occupied metropolis of City 17, Gordon Freeman is joined by Alyx Vance as he leads a desperate human resistance. Experience the landmark first-person shooter packed with immersive world-building, boundary-pushing physics, and exhilarating combat.
Portal
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Another title from Valve, the studio behind Half-Life 2: Deathmatch. Shares Action with Half-Life 2: Deathmatch.
Portal™ is a new single player game from Valve. Set in the mysterious Aperture Science Laboratories, Portal has been called one of the most innovative new games on the horizon and will offer gamers hours of unique gameplay.
Counter-Strike
WHY THIS
Shares a competitive mood with Half-Life 2: Deathmatch.
Another title from Valve, the studio behind Half-Life 2: Deathmatch. Shares Action with Half-Life 2: Deathmatch.
Play the world's number 1 online action game. Engage in an incredibly realistic brand of terrorist warfare in this wildly popular team-based game. Ally with teammates to complete strategic missions. Take out enemy sites. Rescue hostages. Your role affects your team's success. Your team's success affects your role.
Counter-Strike: Source
WHY THIS
Shares a competitive mood with Half-Life 2: Deathmatch.
Another title from Valve, the studio behind Half-Life 2: Deathmatch. Shares Action with Half-Life 2: Deathmatch.
Counter-Strike: Source blends Counter-Strike's award-winning teamplay action with the advanced technology of Source™ technology.
Half-Life
WHY THIS
Another title from Valve, the studio behind Half-Life 2: Deathmatch. Shares Action with Half-Life 2: Deathmatch.
Named Game of the Year by over 50 publications, Valve's debut title blends action and adventure with award-winning technology to create a frighteningly realistic world where players must think to survive. Also includes an exciting multiplayer mode that allows you to play against friends and enemies around the world.
Frequently asked about Half-Life 2: Deathmatch
- Does Half-Life 2: Deathmatch run on Steam Deck?
- Half-Life 2: Deathmatch is rated Playable on Steam Deck — it runs, but expect some manual adjustments (control remapping, text size, or graphics settings) for the best experience.
- Does Half-Life 2: Deathmatch have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Half-Life 2: Deathmatch supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player).
- What games are most similar to Half-Life 2: Deathmatch?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Half-Life 2: Deathmatch are Teamkill, Counter-Strike: Source, eBall.
- Who developed Half-Life 2: Deathmatch?
- Half-Life 2: Deathmatch was developed by Valve.
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