Games like Kane and Lynch: Dead Men™
If Kane and Lynch: Dead Men™ is your kind of game, the closest matches are Kane & Lynch 2: Dog Days, 171 and Gears 5 — picked from the ranked list below. 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 Kane and Lynch: Dead Men™: Kane and Lynch: Dead Men is the new action shooter franchise by Io-Interactive, creators of the multi-million selling Hitman series. Kane & Lynch: Dead Men follows the violent and chaotic journey of two men - a flawed mercenary and a medicated psychopath - and their brutal attitude towards right and wrong.
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Steam players who put hours into Kane and Lynch: Dead Men™ 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.
Kane & Lynch 2: Dog Days
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Top pick for Kane and Lynch: Dead Men™ fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Kane and Lynch: Dead Men™.
Pure adrenaline of non-stop action in Single Player, Online Co-op and Multiplayer. Double the pleasure and mayhem with new multiplayer DLCs! (click for details)
Gears 5
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Third-strongest match for Kane and Lynch: Dead Men™ fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Kane and Lynch: Dead Men™.
From one of gaming’s most acclaimed sagas, Gears is bigger than ever. With all-out war descending, Kait Diaz breaks away to uncover her connection to the enemy and discovers the true danger to Sera – herself.
Grand Theft Auto III
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Ranked #4 for Kane and Lynch: Dead Men™ fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Kane and Lynch: Dead Men™.
Welcome to Liberty City. Where it all began. With stellar voice acting, a darkly comic storyline, a stunning soundtrack and revolutionary open-world gameplay, Grand Theft Auto III is the game that defined the open world genre for a generation.
Grand Theft Auto: Vice City
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Ranked #5 for Kane and Lynch: Dead Men™ fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Kane and Lynch: Dead Men™.
Welcome to Vice City. Welcome to the 1980s. From the decade of big hair, excess and pastel suits comes a story of one man's rise to the top of the criminal pile.
Resident Evil 6
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Ranked #6 for Kane and Lynch: Dead Men™ fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Kane and Lynch: Dead Men™.
Blending action and survival horror, Resident Evil 6 promises to be the dramatic horror experience of 2013.
Mafia
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Ranked #7 for Kane and Lynch: Dead Men™ fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Kane and Lynch: Dead Men™.
It’s 1930. After an inadvertent brush with the mafia, cabdriver Tommy Angelo is reluctantly thrust into the world of organized crime. Initially, he is uneasy about falling in with the Salieri family, but soon the rewards become too big to ignore.
Mafia: Definitive Edition
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Ranked #8 for Kane and Lynch: Dead Men™ fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Kane and Lynch: Dead Men™.
An inadvertent brush with the mob thrusts cabdriver Tommy Angelo into the world of organized crime. Initially uneasy about falling in with the Salieri family, the rewards become too big to ignore.
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Manhunt
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Reviewers of Kane and Lynch: Dead Men™ cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with Kane and Lynch: Dead Men™.
You awake to the sound of your own panicked breath. In Manhunt, you must run, hide and fight to survive. If you can stay alive long enough, you may find out who did this to you. This is a brutal blood sport.
Mass Effect (2007)
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As Commander Shepard, you lead an elite squad on a heroic, action-packed adventure throughout the galaxy.
Max Payne 3
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No longer a New York City cop, Max Payne moves to São Paulo to protect a wealthy family in an effort to finally escape his troubled past. This complete edition of Max Payne 3 includes the complete original game and all previously released downloadable content.
PAYDAY 2
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PAYDAY 2 is an action-packed, four-player co-op shooter that once again lets gamers don the masks of the original PAYDAY crew - Dallas, Hoxton, Wolf and Chains - as they descend on Washington DC for an epic crime spree.
Wooden Battles: Spec Ops
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Wooden Battles: Spec Ops is a stealth action strategy game. Take control of a group of 4 special forces units with unique abilities, infiltrate the enemy base and complete the mission objectives. Use the in-game level editor to create your own missions and upload them to the Steam Workshop.
Into The Matrix
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"Into The Matrix" is a multiplayer horror game where you and your friends must explore, survive, and outsmart dangers . Many entities are after you, but the Overseer is the true threat. Can you escape its grasp?
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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 Kane and Lynch: Dead Men™.
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 Kane and Lynch: Dead Men™.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
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 Kane and Lynch: Dead Men™.
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 Kane and Lynch: Dead Men™.
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.
The Looker
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
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Kane & Lynch 2: Dog Days
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Another title from IO Interactive, the studio behind Kane and Lynch: Dead Men™. Shares Action with Kane and Lynch: Dead Men™.
Pure adrenaline of non-stop action in Single Player, Online Co-op and Multiplayer. Double the pleasure and mayhem with new multiplayer DLCs! (click for details)
Mini Ninjas
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Another title from IO Interactive, the studio behind Kane and Lynch: Dead Men™. Shares Action with Kane and Lynch: Dead Men™.
Mini Ninjas is a game that combines furious action with stealth and exploration for an experience that appeals to a wide audience across age groups and preferences. It’s an action-adventure with a strong focus on allowing the player freedom to explore the world and has the depth to allow for very varied gameplay and approaches to getting...
HITMAN Classic Trilogy Remastered
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Another title from IO Interactive, the studio behind Kane and Lynch: Dead Men™. Shares Action with Kane and Lynch: Dead Men™.
Step into the origins of the world’s deadliest assassin, faithfully remastered for modern platforms. Follow the evolution of Agent 47 from his creation to his most dangerous assignments across a world defined by deception, power, and consequence.
Frequently asked about Kane and Lynch: Dead Men™
- Does Kane and Lynch: Dead Men™ work on Steam Deck?
- Kane and Lynch: Dead Men™ is currently rated Unsupported on Steam Deck. It may not launch or may have significant issues that block normal play.
- Does Kane and Lynch: Dead Men™ have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Kane and Lynch: Dead Men™ supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player).
- What games are most similar to Kane and Lynch: Dead Men™?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Kane and Lynch: Dead Men™ are Kane & Lynch 2: Dog Days, 171, Gears 5.
- Who developed Kane and Lynch: Dead Men™?
- Kane and Lynch: Dead Men™ was developed by IO Interactive and published by Square Enix.
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