Games like Halo: The Master Chief Collection
If Halo: The Master Chief Collection is your kind of game, the closest matches are Classic Marathon Infinity, Classic Marathon 2 and Ghost Battalion — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its beautiful graphics, immersive audio and lovely story. 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 →Halo: The Master Chief Collection compiles six Halo titles into a single first-person shooter experience, released for PC in 2019 by 343 Industries alongside Splash Damage and Ruffian Games at $39.99. Players navigate a sci-fi setting through campaign missions or engage in multiplayer battles, with mod support and workshop tools enabling community content creation. Players describe the collection as nostalgic and retro, appreciating the beloved story that spans the entire saga. Reviewers highlight beautiful graphics and immersive audio, while player feedback emphasizes significant brain usage gameplay. Currently holding a 92% positive rating from over 161,000 Steam reviews, the collection is marked as playable on Steam Deck.
About Halo: The Master Chief Collection: The Master Chief’s iconic journey includes six games, built for PC and collected in a single integrated experience. Whether you’re a long-time fan or meeting Spartan 117 for the first time, The Master Chief Collection is the definitive Halo gaming experience.
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Classic Marathon Infinity
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Shares a nostalgic mood with Halo: The Master Chief Collection.
Top pick for Halo: The Master Chief Collection fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Halo: The Master Chief Collection.
From the team that brought you Aleph One, the classic sci-fi FPS Marathon Infinity from Bungie on Mac revived for modern hardware by the fan community.
Classic Marathon 2
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Shares first person shooter and a retro mood with Halo: The Master Chief Collection.
Second-strongest match for Halo: The Master Chief Collection fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Halo: The Master Chief Collection.
From the team that brought you Aleph One, the classic sci-fi FPS Marathon 2: Durandal from Bungie on Mac revived for modern hardware by the fan community.
Ghost Battalion
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Third-strongest match for Halo: The Master Chief Collection fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Halo: The Master Chief Collection.
A retro Sci-Fi First Person/Third Person shooter game similar to Star Wars: Battlefront and Rogue Squadron series. The player can choose to battle the alien race and their monster creations in Single-Player or in Multiplayer mode.
Halo Infinite
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Ranked #4 for Halo: The Master Chief Collection fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Halo: The Master Chief Collection.
From one of gaming's most iconic sagas, Halo is bigger than ever. Featuring an expansive open-world campaign and a dynamic free to play multiplayer experience.
Black Mesa
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Ranked #5 for Halo: The Master Chief Collection fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Halo: The Master Chief Collection.
Relive Half-Life.
STAR WARS™: Battlefront Classic Collection
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Shares a retro mood with Halo: The Master Chief Collection.
Ranked #6 for Halo: The Master Chief Collection fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Halo: The Master Chief Collection.
Play the classic STAR WARS™ Battlefront games, online and offline in this definitive collection.
Earthfall
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Ranked #7 for Halo: The Master Chief Collection fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Halo: The Master Chief Collection.
NOW AVAILABLE! When the Earth falls to an extra-terrestrial invasion, humanity becomes an endangered species. Earthfall is a four-player cooperative shooter that challenges players to survive hordes of ruthless alien drones and their inscrutable masters.
Unreal Tournament 3
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Shares a retro mood with Halo: The Master Chief Collection.
Ranked #8 for Halo: The Master Chief Collection fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Halo: The Master Chief Collection.
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.
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Mass Effect (2007)
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As Commander Shepard, you lead an elite squad on a heroic, action-packed adventure throughout the galaxy.
Destiny 2
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Destiny 2 is an action MMO with a single evolving world that you and your friends can join anytime, anywhere, absolutely free.
Halo 4 Mod Tools - MCC
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ActionSteam ↗Call of Duty®: Warzone™
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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.
Warframe
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Awaken as an unstoppable warrior and battle alongside your friends in this story-driven free-to-play online action game
Borderlands 2
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The Ultimate Vault Hunter’s Upgrade lets you get the most out of the Borderlands 2 experience.
Halo Infinite
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Reviewers of Halo: The Master Chief Collection cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with Halo: The Master Chief Collection.
From one of gaming's most iconic sagas, Halo is bigger than ever. Featuring an expansive open-world campaign and a dynamic free to play multiplayer experience.
Skyforge
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Reviewers of Halo: The Master Chief Collection cross-mention this title as a similar play.
Discover a universe of adventure in Skyforge, the sci-fi action MMO brought to you by Innova Co SARL. Explore the breathtaking world of Aelion, become an Immortal, switch between 18+ classes, and master amazing powers to defend the planet from invasion. Play for free today!
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Halo: The Master Chief Collection at current Steam store prices.
Terraria
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Priced ~75% under Halo: The Master Chief Collection on Steam right now. Shares Action with Halo: The Master Chief Collection.
Dig, fight, explore, build! Nothing is impossible in this action-packed adventure game. Four Pack also available!
Phasmophobia
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Priced ~50% under Halo: The Master Chief Collection on Steam right now. Shares Action with Halo: The Master Chief Collection.
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 ~75% under Halo: The Master Chief Collection on Steam right now. Shares Action with Halo: The Master Chief Collection.
A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.
Left 4 Dead 2
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Priced ~75% under Halo: The Master Chief Collection on Steam right now. Shares Action with Halo: The Master Chief Collection.
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 ~50% under Halo: The Master Chief Collection on Steam right now. Shares Action with Halo: The Master Chief Collection.
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 ~63% under Halo: The Master Chief Collection on Steam right now. Shares Action with Halo: The Master Chief Collection.
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 ~50% under Halo: The Master Chief Collection on Steam right now. Shares Action with Halo: The Master Chief Collection.
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 ~75% under Halo: The Master Chief Collection on Steam right now. Shares Action with Halo: The Master Chief Collection.
Shoot, stab, burn, poison, tear, vaporise, or crush ragdolls in a large open space.
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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 Halo: The Master Chief Collection.
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 Halo: The Master Chief Collection.
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 Halo: The Master Chief Collection.
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 Halo: The Master Chief Collection.
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.
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 Halo: The Master Chief Collection.
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.).
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Halo Infinite
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Another title from 343 Industries, the studio behind Halo: The Master Chief Collection. Shares Action with Halo: The Master Chief Collection.
From one of gaming's most iconic sagas, Halo is bigger than ever. Featuring an expansive open-world campaign and a dynamic free to play multiplayer experience.
Halo Wars: Definitive Edition
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Shares a nostalgic mood with Halo: The Master Chief Collection.
Another title from 343 Industries, the studio behind Halo: The Master Chief Collection.
Halo Wars: Definitive Edition is an enhanced version of the real-time strategy classic, Halo Wars, updated to run natively on PC. Halo Wars: Definitive Edition includes improved graphics, new achievements and all of the DLC created for the landmark real-time strategy game.
Halo: Spartan Assault
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Shares a nostalgic mood with Halo: The Master Chief Collection.
Another title from 343 Industries, the studio behind Halo: The Master Chief Collection. Shares Action with Halo: The Master Chief Collection.
Halo: Spartan Assault brings the excitement of Halo combat to Steam for the very first time. Battle your way through 30 action-packed missions against the Covenant as you explore the origin of the Spartan Ops program featured in Halo 4. *DirectX feature level 10 required. *
Halo: Spartan Strike
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Shares a nostalgic mood with Halo: The Master Chief Collection.
Another title from 343 Industries, the studio behind Halo: The Master Chief Collection. Shares Action with Halo: The Master Chief Collection.
Halo: Spartan Strike makes you a Spartan supersoldier battling evil forces. Delve into 30 challenging missions through cities and jungles using a devastating arsenal of weapons, abilities and vehicles including the iconic Warthog against the Covenant and Promethean enemies. *DirectX feature level 10 required*
Halo 3 Mod Tools - MCC
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Another title from 343 Industries, the studio behind Halo: The Master Chief Collection. Shares Action with Halo: The Master Chief Collection.
Halo 2 Mod Tools - MCC
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Another title from 343 Industries, the studio behind Halo: The Master Chief Collection.
2021Steam ↗Halo 2 Anniversary MP Mod Tools - MCC
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Another title from 343 Industries, the studio behind Halo: The Master Chief Collection. Shares Action with Halo: The Master Chief Collection.
ActionSteam ↗Halo 4 Mod Tools - MCC
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Another title from 343 Industries, the studio behind Halo: The Master Chief Collection. Shares Action with Halo: The Master Chief Collection.
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Frequently asked about Halo: The Master Chief Collection
- Does Halo: The Master Chief Collection run on Steam Deck?
- Halo: The Master Chief Collection 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 Halo: The Master Chief Collection cost?
- Halo: The Master Chief Collection is listed on Steam at 39.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- Does Halo: The Master Chief Collection have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Halo: The Master Chief Collection supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Cross-Platform Multiplayer, Online PvP).
- What games are most similar to Halo: The Master Chief Collection?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Halo: The Master Chief Collection are Classic Marathon Infinity, Classic Marathon 2, Ghost Battalion.
- Who developed Halo: The Master Chief Collection?
- Halo: The Master Chief Collection was developed by 343 Industries, Splash Damage, Ruffian Games and published by Xbox Game Studios.
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