Games like Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare® III
If Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare® III is your kind of game, the closest matches are Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare® II, Call of Duty® and Call of Duty®: Black Ops 6 — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its addictive and responsive gunplay, competitive 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 →Call of Duty: Modern Warfare III, released in 2023 by Sledgehammer Games, Treyarch, and Infinity Ward, continues the military narrative as Captain Price and Task Force 141 face a new threat. Set in modern combat scenarios, this action shooter offers competitive multiplayer alongside online co-op modes. Players describe the gunplay as responsive and addictive, with deep weapon customization and loadout options forming a core part of the progression system. The game includes map recycling from previous titles and features achievement hunting alongside a progression reset mechanic. Priced at $69.99, it holds a 40% positive rating from 8,946 Steam reviews and is not supported on Steam Deck. Reviewers and players note the experience as intense, immersive, and dark in tone.
About Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare® III: 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.
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Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare® II
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Shares weapon customization, loadout customization, military and a competitive mood with Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare® III.
Top pick for Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare® III fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare® III.
Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare® II drops players into an unprecedented global conflict that features the iconic Operators of Task Force 141.
Call of Duty®
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Shares a stressful mood with Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare® III.
Second-strongest match for Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare® III fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare® III.
The Call of Duty® experience supports Call of Duty®: Black Ops 7, Call of Duty®: Black Ops 6, and Call of Duty®: Warzone™.
Call of Duty®: Black Ops 6
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Third-strongest match for Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare® III fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare® III.
Call of Duty®: Black Ops 6 is signature Black Ops across a cinematic single-player Campaign, a best-in-class Multiplayer experience and with the epic return of Round-Based Zombies.
Call of Duty®: Black Ops 7
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Ranked #4 for Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare® III fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare® III.
In Call of Duty®: Black Ops 7, Treyarch and Raven Software are bringing players the biggest Black Ops ever across an innovative Co-Op Campaign, an electrifying Multiplayer experience, and the legendary Round-Based Zombies mode.
Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare® 4
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Ranked #5 for Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare® III fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare® III.
War erupts on the Korean Peninsula as North Korea launches an invasion that threatens to destabilize the world in Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare® 4.
Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare®
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Shares a stressful mood with Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare® III.
Ranked #6 for Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare® III fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare® III.
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.
Battlefield™ REDSEC
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Ranked #7 for Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare® III fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare® III.
Now entering REDSEC, the ultimate free-to-play FPS destination built on Battlefield’s iconic DNA. Featuring Battle Royale, Gauntlet, & the power of Portal.
Arma Reforger
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Shares a stressful mood with Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare® III.
Ranked #8 for Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare® III fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare® III.
Engage in massive combined arms battles, create and curate combat missions in real time, and shape your experience with endless community mods. Deploy into the Cold War and experience the most authentic and immersive military sandbox ever created.
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Titanfall® 2
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Shares loadout customization and an intense mood with Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare® III.
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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.
Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare® 2 (2009)
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Shares an intense mood with Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare® III.
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The most-anticipated game of the year and the sequel to the best-selling first-person action game of all time, Modern Warfare 2 continues the gripping and heart-racing action as players face off against a new threat dedicated to bringing the world to the brink of collapse.
Insurgency: Sandstorm
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Shares a stressful mood with Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare® III.
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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.
BattleBit Remastered
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Shares an intense mood with Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare® III.
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BattleBit Remastered is a low-poly, massive multiplayer FPS, supporting 254 players per server. Battle on a near-fully destructible map with various vehicles!
Battlefield™ 2042
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Shares an intense mood with Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare® III.
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Battlefield™ 2042 is a first-person shooter that marks the return to the iconic all-out warfare of the franchise.
Unreal Tournament 3
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Shares an immersive mood with Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare® III.
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Now includes the free Titan Pack expansion! The Titan Pack gives players a substantial amount of enhanced features and new content, including many original environments, new gametypes, the namesake Titan mutator, powerful deployables and weapons, new characters, and the Stealthbender.
Battlefield 4™
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Shares loadout customization and a competitive mood with Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare® III.
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Embrace unrivaled destruction in Battlefield 4™. Revel in the glorious chaos of all-out war packed with rewarding, tactical challenges in an interactive environment.
THE FINALS
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Shares weapon customization and an intense mood with Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare® III.
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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!
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare® III at current Steam store prices.
Terraria
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Priced ~86% under Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare® III on Steam right now. Shares Action with Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare® III.
Dig, fight, explore, build! Nothing is impossible in this action-packed adventure game. Four Pack also available!
Phasmophobia
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Priced ~71% under Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare® III on Steam right now. Shares Action with Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare® III.
Phasmophobia is a 4 player online co-op psychological horror. Paranormal activity is on the rise and it’s up to you and your team to use all the ghost-hunting equipment at your disposal in order to gather as much evidence as you can.
Lethal Company
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Priced ~86% under Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare® III on Steam right now. Shares Action with Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare® III.
A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.
Left 4 Dead 2
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Priced ~86% under Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare® III on Steam right now. Shares Action with Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare® III.
Set in the zombie apocalypse, Left 4 Dead 2 is a co-operative action horror FPS takes you and your friends through the cities, swamps and cemeteries of the Deep South, from Savannah to New Orleans across five expansive campaigns.
Schedule I
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Priced ~71% under Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare® III on Steam right now. Shares Action with Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare® III.
From small-time dope pusher to kingpin - manufacture and distribute a range of drugs throughout the grungy city of Hyland Point. Expand your empire with properties, businesses, employees and more.
Hollow Knight
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Priced ~79% under Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare® III on Steam right now. Shares Action with Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare® III.
Forge your own path in Hollow Knight! An epic action adventure through a vast ruined kingdom of insects and heroes. Explore twisting caverns, battle tainted creatures and befriend bizarre bugs, all in a classic, hand-drawn 2D style.
The Forest
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Priced ~71% under Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare® III on Steam right now. Shares Action with Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare® III.
As the lone survivor of a passenger jet crash, you find yourself in a mysterious forest battling to stay alive against a society of cannibalistic mutants. Build, explore, survive in this terrifying first person survival horror simulator.
People Playground
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Priced ~86% under Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare® III on Steam right now. Shares Action with Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare® III.
Shoot, stab, burn, poison, tear, vaporise, or crush ragdolls in a large open space.
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
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Ultimate Custom Night
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare® III.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
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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 Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare® III.
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.
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 Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare® III.
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 with Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare® III.
The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.
Iron Snout
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare® III.
Iron Snout is a fast, colorful and brutal fighting game in which you will be helping a piglet fight for its life against hordes of wolves.
Star Fetchers
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Call of Duty®: WWII
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Shares an immersive mood with Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare® III.
Another title from Sledgehammer Games, the studio behind Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare® III. Shares Action with Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare® III.
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Call of Duty®: WWII
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Shares a dark mood with Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare® III.
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Call of Duty®: Black Ops Cold War
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Shares a tense mood with Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare® III.
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Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare® 3 (2011)
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Shares weapon customization, wave based survival, military and a competitive mood with Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare® III.
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The best-selling first-person action series of all-time returns with an epic sequel to the multiple GOTY award winner Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare® 2
Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare® 3 (2011)
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Shares a tense mood with Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare® III.
Another title from Sledgehammer Games, the studio behind Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare® III. Shares Action with Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare® III.
The best-selling first-person action series of all-time returns with an epic sequel to the multiple GOTY award winner Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare® 2
Call of Duty®: Black Ops 6
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Another title from Sledgehammer Games, the studio behind Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare® III. Shares Action with Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare® III.
Call of Duty®: Black Ops 6 is signature Black Ops across a cinematic single-player Campaign, a best-in-class Multiplayer experience and with the epic return of Round-Based Zombies.
Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare® II
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Shares weapon customization, loadout customization, military and a competitive mood with Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare® III.
Another title from Sledgehammer Games, the studio behind Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare® III. Shares Action with Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare® III.
Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare® II drops players into an unprecedented global conflict that features the iconic Operators of Task Force 141.
Frequently asked about Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare® III
- Does Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare® III work on Steam Deck?
- Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare® III is currently rated Unsupported on Steam Deck. It may not launch or may have significant issues that block normal play.
- How much does Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare® III cost?
- Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare® III is listed on Steam at 69.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- Does Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare® III have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare® III supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Cross-Platform Multiplayer, Online PvP).
- What games are most similar to Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare® III?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare® III are Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare® II, Call of Duty®, Call of Duty®: Black Ops 6.
- Who developed Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare® III?
- Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare® III was developed by Sledgehammer Games, Treyarch, Infinity Ward and published by Activision.
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