Games like Insurgency: Sandstorm
If Insurgency: Sandstorm is your kind of game, the closest matches are Insurgency, Call of Duty®: Black Ops 6 and Day of Infamy — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its realistic combat scenarios, tactical positioning matters and writing quality is exceptional. 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 →Insurgency: Sandstorm is a tactical first-person shooter set in modern warfare environments, released in 2018 by New World Interactive and published by Focus Entertainment. The game emphasizes objective-based missions where teamwork and tactical positioning matter according to players and reviewers. Lethal close-quarters combat creates tense and stressful scenarios where every bullet counts and team coordination is essential for success. Priced at $29.99, it holds an 86% positive rating from over 59,000 Steam reviews and is marked as playable on Steam Deck.
About Insurgency: Sandstorm: 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.
Players who liked Insurgency: Sandstorm also play
Steam players who put hours into Insurgency: Sandstorm 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.
Insurgency
WHY THIS
Shares a stressful mood with Insurgency: Sandstorm.
Top pick for Insurgency: Sandstorm fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Insurgency: Sandstorm.
Take to the streets for intense close quarters combat, where a team's survival depends upon securing crucial strongholds and destroying enemy supply in this multiplayer and cooperative Source Engine based experience.
Call of Duty®: Black Ops 6
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Insurgency: Sandstorm fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Insurgency: Sandstorm.
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.
Day of Infamy
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Insurgency: Sandstorm fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Insurgency: Sandstorm.
Experience close-quarters battles in iconic WWII settings. Defend the line, storm the beach, torch the enemy, or use a radio to call in fire support. Day of Infamy is a teamwork-oriented shooter that will keep you on your toes and coming back for more with its diverse game modes and authentic arsenal.
Call of Duty®: Warzone™
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Insurgency: Sandstorm fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Insurgency: Sandstorm.
Welcome to Call of Duty®: Warzone™, the massive free-to-play combat arena. Experience thrilling modes & new gameplay features across Endgame (for a limited time), Battle Royale, Black Ops Royale, and Resurgence.
Call of Duty®
WHY THIS
Shares a stressful mood with Insurgency: Sandstorm.
Ranked #5 for Insurgency: Sandstorm fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Insurgency: Sandstorm.
The Call of Duty® experience supports Call of Duty®: Black Ops 7, Call of Duty®: Black Ops 6, and Call of Duty®: Warzone™.
Squad
WHY THIS
Shares a tense mood with Insurgency: Sandstorm.
Ranked #6 for Insurgency: Sandstorm fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Insurgency: Sandstorm.
Squad is a tactical FPS that provides authentic combat experiences through teamwork, communication, and realistic combat. It bridges the gap between arcade shooter and military realism with 100-player battles, combined-arms warfare, and base building.
Arma Reforger
WHY THIS
Shares a stressful mood with Insurgency: Sandstorm.
Ranked #7 for Insurgency: Sandstorm fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Insurgency: Sandstorm.
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.
Onward
WHY THIS
Shares team coordination and a tense mood with Insurgency: Sandstorm.
Ranked #8 for Insurgency: Sandstorm fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Insurgency: Sandstorm.
Onward is the most immersive tactical VR shooter. Join your squad for a wide variety of competitive PvP, co-op PvE, and solo game modes, including intense multiplayer battles or 4-player co-op missions. Realistic weaponry and combat mechanics will push your survival and combat skills to their limit
Reviewers mention these as similar to Insurgency: Sandstorm
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.
Squad
WHY THIS
Shares a tense mood with Insurgency: Sandstorm.
Reviewers of Insurgency: Sandstorm cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with Insurgency: Sandstorm.
Squad is a tactical FPS that provides authentic combat experiences through teamwork, communication, and realistic combat. It bridges the gap between arcade shooter and military realism with 100-player battles, combined-arms warfare, and base building.
Ready or Not
WHY THIS
Shares a stressful mood with Insurgency: Sandstorm.
Reviewers of Insurgency: Sandstorm cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with Insurgency: Sandstorm.
Ready or Not is an intense, tactical, first-person shooter that depicts a modern-day world in which SWAT police units are called to defuse hostile and confronting situations.
Red Orchestra 2: Heroes of Stalingrad with Rising Storm
WHY THIS
Shares a stressful mood with Insurgency: Sandstorm.
Reviewers of Insurgency: Sandstorm cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with Insurgency: Sandstorm.
Contains full Rising Storm content as well!
GROUND BRANCH
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Insurgency: Sandstorm cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with Insurgency: Sandstorm.
From one of the developers behind the original Rainbow Six® and Ghost Recon® games, comes a thinking-man's first-person shooter featuring in-depth character and weapon customization. Take your time. Think ahead. Get the job done.
Rising Storm 2: Vietnam
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Insurgency: Sandstorm cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with Insurgency: Sandstorm.
Red Orchestra Series' take on Vietnam: 64-player MP matches; 20+ maps; US Army & Marines, PAVN/NVA, NLF/VC; Australians and ARVN forces; 50+ weapons; 4 flyable helicopters; mines, traps and tunnels; Brutal. Authentic. Gritty. Character customization. And napalm in the morning.
Escape from Tarkov
WHY THIS
Shares a stressful mood with Insurgency: Sandstorm.
Reviewers of Insurgency: Sandstorm cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with Insurgency: Sandstorm.
Escape from Tarkov is the original extraction FPS where every raid is a gamble with death. Prep your raid, bleed, endure and fight through ruthless PMC players and Scavs, gain tactical advantage and cling to your loot — only extraction decides if you live or lose it all.
Day of Infamy
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Insurgency: Sandstorm cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with Insurgency: Sandstorm.
Experience close-quarters battles in iconic WWII settings. Defend the line, storm the beach, torch the enemy, or use a radio to call in fire support. Day of Infamy is a teamwork-oriented shooter that will keep you on your toes and coming back for more with its diverse game modes and authentic arsenal.
Delta Force: Black Hawk Down
WHY THIS
Shares a tense mood with Insurgency: Sandstorm.
Reviewers of Insurgency: Sandstorm cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with Insurgency: Sandstorm.
In late 1993, the United States launched dual military operations in Mogadishu Somalia. Delta Force Operatives and Army Rangers were sent in to capture Somali warlords and restore order. Experience the intense combat of Operation Restore Hope in this ground breaking first person shooter.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Insurgency: Sandstorm at current Steam store prices.
Lethal Company
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Insurgency: Sandstorm on Steam right now. Shares Action with Insurgency: Sandstorm.
A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.
Left 4 Dead 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Insurgency: Sandstorm on Steam right now. Shares Action with Insurgency: Sandstorm.
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.
Hollow Knight
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Insurgency: Sandstorm on Steam right now. Shares Action with Insurgency: Sandstorm.
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.
People Playground
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Insurgency: Sandstorm on Steam right now. Shares Action with Insurgency: Sandstorm.
Shoot, stab, burn, poison, tear, vaporise, or crush ragdolls in a large open space.
Fallout: New Vegas
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Insurgency: Sandstorm on Steam right now. Shares Action with Insurgency: Sandstorm.
Welcome to Vegas. New Vegas. Enjoy your stay!
The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Insurgency: Sandstorm on Steam right now. Shares Action with Insurgency: Sandstorm.
The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth is a randomly generated action RPG shooter with heavy Rogue-like elements. Following Isaac on his journey players will find bizarre treasures that change Isaac’s form giving him super human abilities and enabling him to fight off droves of mysterious creatures, discover secrets and fight his way to safety.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Doki Doki Literature Club!
WHY THIS
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
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Insurgency: Sandstorm.
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
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Insurgency: Sandstorm.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Bongo Cat
WHY THIS
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?
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Insurgency: Sandstorm.
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
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Insurgency: Sandstorm.
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
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Insurgency: Sandstorm.
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.).
missed messages.
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.
Narrow it down
Head-to-head comparisons
Frequently asked about Insurgency: Sandstorm
- Does Insurgency: Sandstorm run on Steam Deck?
- Insurgency: Sandstorm 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 Insurgency: Sandstorm cost?
- Insurgency: Sandstorm is listed on Steam at 29.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- Does Insurgency: Sandstorm have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Insurgency: Sandstorm supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Cross-Platform Multiplayer, Online PvP).
- What games are most similar to Insurgency: Sandstorm?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Insurgency: Sandstorm are Insurgency, Call of Duty®: Black Ops 6, Day of Infamy.
- Who developed Insurgency: Sandstorm?
- Insurgency: Sandstorm was developed by New World Interactive and published by Focus Entertainment.
imho.run ranks Steam game alternatives using a mix of collaborative filtering (ALS / iALS / EASE / LightGCN), content scoring over genres, categories, Steam tags, developers, and publishers, plus AI-extracted vibes mined from review text. The page above is generated in seed mode anchored on Insurgency: Sandstorm.
For library-aware picks tuned to your specific taste, sign in with Steam on the home page.