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Games like HELLDIVERS™ Dive Harder Edition

If HELLDIVERS™ Dive Harder Edition is your kind of game, the closest matches are The Last Archwing, KosmoSquad and Ultra Mega Planet Battles — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its addictive gameplay loop, challenge loadout selection and cooperative gameplay. 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.

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HELLDIVERS™ Dive Harder Edition is a top-down twin-stick action game set in an intergalactic war where players fight as elite soldiers protecting SUPER EARTH. Developed by Arrowhead Game Studios and released in 2015, it supports up to four players in local and online co-op modes. Core mechanics include friendly-fire, loadout customization, mech combat, and stratagem call-ins that players use to deploy support strikes, supply drops, and other tactical tools during missions. Reviewers and players describe the experience as challenging and intense, highlighting an addictive gameplay loop, the strategic depth of loadout selection, and how teamwork becomes essential for survival. The game holds a 92% positive rating from over 10,000 Steam reviews, with players noting the high value for money. It is priced at $19.99 USD and runs at Playable level on Steam Deck.

About HELLDIVERS™ Dive Harder Edition: HELLDIVERS™ is a hardcore, cooperative, twin stick shooter. As part of the elite unit called the HELLDIVERS, players must work together to protect SUPER EARTH and defeat the enemies of mankind in an intense intergalactic war.

2015Action19.99 USDDeck PlayableMetacritic 83Windowsby Arrowhead Game Studios
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Steam players who put hours into HELLDIVERS™ Dive Harder Edition also tend to own these titles — a signal called collaborative filtering. imho.run cross-references millions of library ownership patterns to surface games whose real audiences overlap, regardless of whether their genre tags match.

  1. The Last Archwing

    WHY THIS

    Top pick for HELLDIVERS™ Dive Harder Edition fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with HELLDIVERS™ Dive Harder Edition.

    The Last Archwing is a fast paced, vertically scrolling space shooter. Will you and your friends take up the mantle as Earth's last defenders and thwart the plans of the evil Emperor Zarkhan?

    2020ActionIndieAdventure4.99 USDSteam ↗
  2. KosmoSquad

    WHY THIS

    Second-strongest match for HELLDIVERS™ Dive Harder Edition fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with HELLDIVERS™ Dive Harder Edition.

    KosmoSquad is a twin-stick arena shooter where you survive as long as you can against an ever-increasing hoard of enemies. Fight alone or with up to three friends and collect star multipliers to maximize your high score. Use your score points to purchase upgrades for your ship and try again!

    2020ActionIndie3.99 USDSteam ↗
  3. Ultra Mega Planet Battles

    WHY THIS

    Third-strongest match for HELLDIVERS™ Dive Harder Edition fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with HELLDIVERS™ Dive Harder Edition.

    Ultra Mega Planet Battles is an intense arcade-style, space-based, twin-stick shooter. Players can play by themselves, or with up to 3 friends local co-op or Steam Remote Play (total of 4 players). Select your character, select and modify your ship, then get shooting!

    2025ActionIndieAdventure2.99 USDSteam ↗
  4. Battlestage

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #4 for HELLDIVERS™ Dive Harder Edition fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with HELLDIVERS™ Dive Harder Edition.

    - Co-op Twin Stick Shooter

    2020Action10.99 USDSteam ↗
  5. Another Generic Space Shooter

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #5 for HELLDIVERS™ Dive Harder Edition fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with HELLDIVERS™ Dive Harder Edition.

    Choose your ship and command it against an army pitted against you in this wave-based arcade-style bullet hell space shooter. Fight for as long as you can with powerups acquired through the catalog, and blast through everything in your path.

    2023ActionIndie9.99 USDSteam ↗
  6. Retromancer

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #6 for HELLDIVERS™ Dive Harder Edition fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with HELLDIVERS™ Dive Harder Edition.

    What happens when nostalgia and necromancy mix? A Retromancer happens! Grab a few friends, choose your champions, and battle your way through 6 brutal zones filled with screeching bats, burrowing worms, deranged cultists, and giant ants.

    2019ActionIndie2.99 USDSteam ↗
  7. Uber Destruction

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #7 for HELLDIVERS™ Dive Harder Edition fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with HELLDIVERS™ Dive Harder Edition.

    Uber Destruction is a side-scrolling roguelike top-down shooter. loot chests, gather insane weapons and unique upgrades to battle the relentless hoards of foes. You can also embrace the action online with friends, or in local co-op mode. Destroy your way to victory!

    2024ActionIndieAdventure1.99 USDSteam ↗
  8. Undercrewed

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #8 for HELLDIVERS™ Dive Harder Edition fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with HELLDIVERS™ Dive Harder Edition.

    Grab your friends and build and fly your own customisable spaceship. With local and online co-op customise your spacecraft with a wide variety of components, you must work together to figure out the best way to survive your journey!

    2019ActionStrategyIndie11.99 USDSteam ↗

Reviewers mention these as similar to HELLDIVERS™ Dive Harder Edition

Surfaced from review text: when other players write 'if you liked X, try Y', we catch the name and resolve it back to a Steam game.

  1. Deep Rock Galactic

    WHY THIS

    Shares a challenging mood with HELLDIVERS™ Dive Harder Edition.

    Reviewers of HELLDIVERS™ Dive Harder Edition cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with HELLDIVERS™ Dive Harder Edition.

    Deep Rock Galactic is a 1-4 player co-op FPS featuring dwarven space miners, procedurally-generated destructible environments, and endless hordes of alien monsters. Explore cave systems, mine for minerals, and work together to survive!

    2020Action29.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. HELLDIVERS™ 2

    WHY THIS

    Shares an intense mood with HELLDIVERS™ Dive Harder Edition.

    Reviewers of HELLDIVERS™ Dive Harder Edition cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with HELLDIVERS™ Dive Harder Edition.

    The Galaxy’s Last Line of Offence. Enlist in the Helldivers and join the fight for freedom across a hostile galaxy in a fast, frantic, and ferocious third-person shooter.

    2024Action39.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. Starship Troopers: Extermination

    WHY THIS

    Shares friendly fire and a stressful mood with HELLDIVERS™ Dive Harder Edition.

    Reviewers of HELLDIVERS™ Dive Harder Edition cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with HELLDIVERS™ Dive Harder Edition.

    Starship Troopers: Extermination is a 16-player co-op FPS that puts you on the far-off frontlines of an all-out battle against the Bugs! Squad up, grab your rifle, and do your part as an elite Deep Space Vanguard Trooper to take back planets from the Arachnid threat!

    2024ActionIndie29.99 USDSteam ↗

Cheaper alternatives

Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below HELLDIVERS™ Dive Harder Edition at current Steam store prices.

  1. Terraria

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under HELLDIVERS™ Dive Harder Edition on Steam right now. Shares Action with HELLDIVERS™ Dive Harder Edition.

    Dig, fight, explore, build! Nothing is impossible in this action-packed adventure game. Four Pack also available!

    2011ActionIndieAdventure9.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  2. Lethal Company

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under HELLDIVERS™ Dive Harder Edition on Steam right now. Shares Action with HELLDIVERS™ Dive Harder Edition.

    A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.

    2023ActionIndieAdventure9.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. Left 4 Dead 2

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under HELLDIVERS™ Dive Harder Edition on Steam right now. Shares Action with HELLDIVERS™ Dive Harder Edition.

    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.

    2009Action9.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  4. People Playground

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under HELLDIVERS™ Dive Harder Edition on Steam right now. Shares Action with HELLDIVERS™ Dive Harder Edition.

    Shoot, stab, burn, poison, tear, vaporise, or crush ragdolls in a large open space.

    2019ActionIndieSimulation9.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. Portal 2

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under HELLDIVERS™ Dive Harder Edition on Steam right now. Shares Action with HELLDIVERS™ Dive Harder Edition.

    The "Perpetual Testing Initiative" has been expanded to allow you to design co-op puzzles for you and your friends!

    2011ActionAdventure9.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  6. Fallout: New Vegas

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under HELLDIVERS™ Dive Harder Edition on Steam right now. Shares Action with HELLDIVERS™ Dive Harder Edition.

    Welcome to Vegas. New Vegas. Enjoy your stay!

    2010ActionRPG9.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. Vampire Survivors

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~75% under HELLDIVERS™ Dive Harder Edition on Steam right now. Shares Action with HELLDIVERS™ Dive Harder Edition.

    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!

    2022ActionIndieRPG4.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  8. R.E.P.O.

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~65% under HELLDIVERS™ Dive Harder Edition on Steam right now. Shares Action with HELLDIVERS™ Dive Harder Edition.

    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.

    2025ActionEarly Access6.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Free alternatives

Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.

  1. Ultimate Custom Night

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with HELLDIVERS™ Dive Harder Edition.

    Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!

    2018ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  2. Counter-Strike:Global Offensive

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with HELLDIVERS™ Dive Harder Edition.

    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.).

    2012ActionFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. Awaria

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with HELLDIVERS™ Dive Harder Edition.

    Awaria is a short game about working in haunted maintenance tunnels.

    2024ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. The Expendabros

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with HELLDIVERS™ Dive Harder Edition.

    The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.

    2014ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  5. Iron Snout

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with HELLDIVERS™ Dive Harder Edition.

    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.

    2016ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. Star Fetchers

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with HELLDIVERS™ Dive Harder Edition.

    The introduction to a wild ride with gangsters and deep state conspiracy theories

    2020ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. Disfigure

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with HELLDIVERS™ Dive Harder Edition.

    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!

    2023ActionIndieFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. The Lab

    WHY THIS

    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!

    2016Free To PlayFreeSteam ↗

More from Arrowhead Game Studios

Other recommendable Steam games by Arrowhead Game Studios, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.

  1. HELLDIVERS™ 2

    WHY THIS

    Shares an intense mood with HELLDIVERS™ Dive Harder Edition.

    Another title from Arrowhead Game Studios, the studio behind HELLDIVERS™ Dive Harder Edition. Shares Action with HELLDIVERS™ Dive Harder Edition.

    The Galaxy’s Last Line of Offence. Enlist in the Helldivers and join the fight for freedom across a hostile galaxy in a fast, frantic, and ferocious third-person shooter.

    2024Action39.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Magicka

    WHY THIS

    Shares friendly fire with HELLDIVERS™ Dive Harder Edition.

    Another title from Arrowhead Game Studios, the studio behind HELLDIVERS™ Dive Harder Edition. Shares Action with HELLDIVERS™ Dive Harder Edition.

    Magicka is a satirical action-adventure game set in a rich fantasy world based on Norse mythology. The player assumes the role of a wizard from a sacred order tasked with stopping an evil sorcerer who has thrown the world into turmoil, his foul creations besieging the forces of good.

    2011ActionRPG9.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. Gauntlet™ Slayer Edition

    WHY THIS

    Shares an intense mood with HELLDIVERS™ Dive Harder Edition.

    Another title from Arrowhead Game Studios, the studio behind HELLDIVERS™ Dive Harder Edition. Shares Action with HELLDIVERS™ Dive Harder Edition.

    The classic Gauntlet 4-player co-op action gameplay returns in a completely new experience! Battle the endless hordes of foes as you and your friends fight for treasure and glory via both local and online co-op multiplayer. Invade the Darkness!

    2014ActionAdventureRPG19.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Frequently asked about HELLDIVERS™ Dive Harder Edition

Does HELLDIVERS™ Dive Harder Edition run on Steam Deck?
HELLDIVERS™ Dive Harder Edition is rated Playable on Steam Deck — it runs, but expect some manual adjustments (control remapping, text size, or graphics settings) for the best experience.
How much does HELLDIVERS™ Dive Harder Edition cost?
HELLDIVERS™ Dive Harder Edition is listed on Steam at 19.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
Does HELLDIVERS™ Dive Harder Edition have multiplayer or co-op?
Yes — HELLDIVERS™ Dive Harder Edition supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Online Co-op, Shared/Split Screen Co-op).
What games are most similar to HELLDIVERS™ Dive Harder Edition?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside HELLDIVERS™ Dive Harder Edition are The Last Archwing, KosmoSquad, Ultra Mega Planet Battles.
Who developed HELLDIVERS™ Dive Harder Edition?
HELLDIVERS™ Dive Harder Edition was developed by Arrowhead Game Studios and published by PlayStation Publishing LLC.

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