Games Like Arma Reforger

Experience true combat gameplay in a massive military sandbox. Deploy with a wide variety of single- and multiplayer content, a massive arsenal of modern weapons and vehicles, and limitless opportunities for content creation. Authentic, diverse, open - Arma 3 sends you to war.

Why similar: Military 26.7%, Shooter 9.3%, Realistic 8.8%, War 8.7%, FPS 8.2%

Why You'll Like It: The closest overall alternative, offering an even larger military sandbox with extensive modding, mission editing, combined arms, and both cooperative and competitive scenarios.

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.

Why similar: Military 28%, FPS 11.3%, Realistic 10.7%, War 8.9%, Shooter 7.9%

Why You'll Like It: Its large organized multiplayer battles, logistics, command structure, vehicles, and emphasis on radio communication closely match Reforger's teamwork-focused combat.

Operation: Harsh Doorstop is the ultimate, free to play, tactical shooter sandbox. Play singleplayer, multiplayer, or co-op modes and explore thousands of community-created maps, weapons, and vehicles via the Steam Workshop. Created by developers of the cancelled Project Reality 2 project.

Why similar: Military 26.9%, FPS 12.3%, Realistic 11.1%, War 9.4%, Shooter 8.3%

Why You'll Like It: This free military sandbox is heavily inspired by Arma-style combined-arms gameplay and supports community-made maps, modes, and mods.

Three years after the conflict in Chernarus, portrayed in the original Arma 2, a new flashpoint explodes in the Green Sea Region. Coalition forces led by the US Army are deployed to Takistan to quickly restore peace and prevent further civilian casualties.

Why similar: Military 26.6%, Simulation 9%, Realistic 8.5%, FPS 8.1%, Tactical 7.7%

Why You'll Like It: Reforger's direct predecessor in spirit delivers open military operations, AI-driven battles, vehicles, mission editing, and tactical sandbox play.

Join the ever expanding experience of Hell Let Loose - a hardcore World War Two first person shooter with epic battles of 100 players with infantry, tanks, artillery, a dynamically shifting front line and a unique resource based RTS-inspired meta-game.

Why similar: Military 21.2%, War 13.2%, FPS 12.7%, Realistic 11.6%, Shooter 11%

Why You'll Like It: It captures the same sense of organized, large-scale warfare through officer-led squads, resource logistics, armor, artillery, and broad battlefield objectives.

Building on 10 years of constant engine development, ARMA II boasts the most realistic combat environment in the world. It models real world ballistics & round deflection, materials penetration, features a realtime day/night cycle and dynamic wind, weather and environmental effects.

Why similar: Military 26.7%, FPS 9.5%, Realistic 9.3%, Tactical 8%, Simulation 7.7%

Why You'll Like It: It provides a classic large-scale military simulation experience with open maps, modding, dynamic missions, and extensive infantry and vehicle combat.

Enter a high-stakes PvE-first open-world tactical shooter set on a quarantined Southeast Asian island torn apart by faction warfare. Deploy as an elite operator, fight solo or with your squad to carry out missions, earn reputation, and explore the truth behind the Event igniting the conflict.

Why similar: Military 22.1%, FPS 12.2%, Realistic 10.6%, Tactical 9%, War 9%

Why You'll Like It: Its open-world tactical shooting, persistent operations, realistic pacing, and cooperative military atmosphere appeal to players who enjoy Reforger's immersion.

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.

Why similar: Military 29.2%, Realistic 14.7%, Tactical 13.6%, FPS 12.8%, Shooter 8.1%

Why You'll Like It: A highly configurable tactical shooter focused on realistic weapons handling, deliberate planning, and player-controlled loadouts for serious military simulation fans.

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.

Why similar: Military 23.1%, Cold War 15.2% ★, FPS 12.7%, War 12.6%, Realistic 8.7%

Why You'll Like It: Cold War-era firefights, asymmetrical factions, helicopters, large maps, and teamwork-heavy objectives make it an especially fitting historical alternative.

Play for free in operator-based extraction and full-scale combined arms warfare. Become elite Operators, customize an ever-expanding arsenal of weapons, and deploy into thrill-packed missions across multiple modes.

Why similar: Military 24.8%, FPS 19.5%, Shooter 14.2%, Multiplayer 10.9%, Tactical 8.6%

Why You'll Like It: Its large multiplayer warfare modes combine infantry combat, ground vehicles, aircraft, objectives, and squad coordination in a modern military setting.

Team up and join the frontline in Squad 44, the most authentic tactical WW2 shooter. Experience ruthless realism with an immense arsenal of faithfully recreated weapons and vehicles across massive WW2 battlefields.

Why similar: Military 26.7%, FPS 13.7%, War 11.4%, Realistic 10.4%, Multiplayer 7%

Why You'll Like It: This World War II tactical shooter brings Squad-like communication, chain-of-command systems, logistics, and combined infantry-armor battles.

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.

Why similar: Military 26.1%, FPS 17.4%, Realistic 13%, Shooter 11.3%, Tactical 8.5%

Why You'll Like It: It trades Reforger's huge sandbox for tighter battles but retains punishing realism, tactical movement, lethal gunfights, and cooperative play.

BattleBit Remastered is a low-poly, massive multiplayer FPS, supporting 254 players per server. Battle on a near-fully destructible map with various vehicles!

Why similar: Military 27.7%, FPS 16.7%, War 13.5%, Shooter 12.4%, Multiplayer 8.8%

Why You'll Like It: Despite its minimalist visuals, it offers enormous destructible-map battles with squads, vehicles, helicopters, logistics, and a strong community-server culture.

Set in the muddy trenches of WW1, Beyond The Wire is a 50v50 multiplayer FPS that immerses players in the desperate & brutal circumstances of the Great War. Featuring an arsenal of historic weapons, ten massive maps, ten playable factions, era-specific tanks, & a brutal melee combat system.

Why similar: Military 24.8%, War 14.1%, FPS 12.6%, Shooter 9.4%, Realistic 7.6%

Why You'll Like It: Its World War we setting still delivers disciplined squad tactics, role-based objectives, and intense large-scale multiplayer warfare.

Six Days in Fallujah is an intensely realistic first-person tactical shooter based on true stories from one of this century’s toughest urban battles.

Why similar: Military 27.4%, War 12.8%, FPS 12.8%, Realistic 11.7%, Tactical 10%

Why You'll Like It: Its methodical urban combat, procedural mission layouts, and reliance on careful squad coordination provide a grounded modern-military experience.

In Enlisted, you are not only commanding a single soldier, but an entire squad! This MMO squad based shooter recreates the key battles of the bloodiest war of the 20th century, with hundreds of soldiers, tanks and aircraft taking part in each battle.

Why similar: FPS 21%, War 16.1%, Shooter 13.8%, Realistic 11.7%, Multiplayer 11.4%

Why You'll Like It: Large historical battles let players command AI squadmates while fighting alongside tanks and aircraft, creating accessible combined-arms action.

Call to Arms offers an innovative mix of real-time strategy and 3rd, as well as 1st person controls. Set in the time of modern warfare, the game offers realistically modeled vehicles and heavy weaponry. Command your troops to victory or fight by yourself in the 3rd or 1st person action mode.

Why similar: Military 29.7%, War 11.7%, Strategy 8.8%, Shooter 7.7%, FPS 7.1%

Why You'll Like It: This hybrid RTS lets you directly control individual soldiers and vehicles in combat, making it a strong fit for players who enjoy military sandbox command.

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.

Why similar: FPS 22.4%, Realistic 21.6%, Tactical 20.7%, Shooter 15.3%, Multiplayer 10.1%

Why You'll Like It: For players drawn to Reforger's tactical discipline, it offers deliberate cooperative operations where communication, planning, and rules of engagement are essential.

Foxhole is a massively multiplayer game where thousands of players shape the outcome of a persistent online war. Every individual soldier is a player that contributes to the war effort through logistics, base building, reconnaissance, combat, and more.

Why similar: Military 30.2%, War 14.7%, Sandbox 10.4%, Tactical 9.3%, Shooter 8.3%

Why You'll Like It: Although viewed from above, its persistent player-run war, logistics chains, construction, vehicles, and coordinated operations echo Reforger's emergent warfare appeal.

Battlefield™ 2042 is a first-person shooter that marks the return to the iconic all-out warfare of the franchise.

Why similar: Military 31.1%, FPS 17.3%, War 15.6%, Shooter 12.7%, Multiplayer 9.1%

Why You'll Like It: It is far more arcade-oriented, but its huge maps, infantry squads, armored vehicles, aircraft, and dynamic objective battles scratch the combined-arms itch.

Ghost Recon Breakpoint is a tactical third-person shooter set in a vast open world. You must survive, adapt, and fight a rogue spec ops faction, using stealth, strategy, and high-tech gear in solo or co-op.

Why similar: Military 32%, Shooter 14.4%, Open World 12.8%, Multiplayer 9.5%, Realistic 8.5%

Why You'll Like It: Its open-world military setting supports solo or cooperative infiltration, customizable gear, vehicles, and flexible tactical approaches.

Call to Arms - Gates of Hell is a realistic RTS/ RTT game that offers endless replay value. Command all types of troops in historical singleplayer, dynamic campaign, PvP and PvE battles. Are you ready for some serious immersion in World War 2?

Why similar: Military 22.9%, Real Time Tactics 16.2%, War 14%, Realistic 10%, Shooter 8.4%

Why You'll Like It: Its detailed World War II battles allow direct control of troops and vehicles while preserving the tactical planning and combined-arms focus of a wargame.

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

Why similar: Military 25.1%, FPS 12.6%, Realistic 10.9%, Shooter 10.8%, War 10.7%

Why You'll Like It: For VR players, it delivers slow-paced tactical firefights, realistic weapon handling, coordinated squad play, and military-simulation tension.

Experience massive battles with infantry, tanks, artillery, and aircraft on large destructible open-world maps. Equip yourself, coordinate with your squad, and fight through World War II in singleplayer, co-op, or multiplayer!

Why similar: Military 20.2%, War 10.7%, FPS 10.6%, Realistic 8.2%, Shooter 8.2%

Why You'll Like It: Its moddable World War II campaigns feature large battlefields, vehicles, AI allies, and a sandbox-like solo military experience.

Black One Blood Brothers is a tactical military shooter game where strategy and coordination are key. Command a squad of top operators, with unique skills, through high-risk missions around the globe. Customize your crew, plan your missions, and adjust on the fly for a vast replayability.

Why similar: Military 25.7%, FPS 11.2%, Tactical 9.2%, Realistic 8.5%, Shooter 8.1%

Why You'll Like It: It combines planning and real-time control of special-forces teams, with customizable operators and tactical missions for simulation-minded players.

Step into the explosive fury of war with Hell Let Loose: Vietnam. Play a decisive role in one of the most iconic conflicts in history with expansive 50v50 player battles, where teamwork, tactics and an arsenal of destructive weapons combine to shape the battlefield in your favour.

Why similar: Military 20.5%, FPS 12.3%, War 10.7%, Shooter 9.4%, Realistic 8.8%

Silica blends FPS and RTS in epic, photorealistic battles. Choose to fight on the ground or command from above as humans or aliens. Dive into thrilling multiplayer combat or master strategic command. Are you ready to survive and conquer?

Why similar: FPS 26.2%, Shooter 19.6%, Multiplayer 14.8%, PvP 11%, Strategy 9.7%

Why You'll Like It: It uniquely mixes first-person combat with real-time strategy command, allowing players to fight on the ground or direct units in large combined-arms battles.

Realistic, immersive, breathtaking. WARNO is the ultimate World War III battle simulator from the masters of strategy, Eugen Systems. A Cold War turns decisively hot as you command hundreds of units on a beautiful and brutal battlefield. Outsmart, outfight, and lead your forces to total victory.

Why similar: Military 26.2%, Cold War 14.7% ★, Real Time Tactics 14%, War 11.6%, Realistic 7.5%

In the anarchic world of Freeman: Guerrilla Warfare, only the mightiest warlord rules. Start with a pistol and a few militias, you will set yourself on a wild and ambitious journey towards world domination. Enjoy the immersive combination of intense FPS and sandbox strategy.

Why similar: FPS 15%, Shooter 14.4%, Military 14.4%, War 8.5%, Sandbox 8.3%

Why You'll Like It: This open-ended single-player military sandbox combines first-person firefights, squad leadership, recruiting, territory control, and strategic campaign management.

WARDOGS is a TACTICAL ALL OUT WARFARE FPS where one hundred players split across three teams fight over the control zone. Set in the derelict industrial mountains of Eastern Europe on a destructible battlefield where teamwork pays and cash is king.

Why similar: Military 26.4%, FPS 13.2%, Realistic 11%, Shooter 9.9%, Tactical 9.8%

Zero Hour is a tactical FPS with online team-based game play that takes place in a variety of fictional locations interpreted in Bangladesh with Real-life scale & resource management. It brings a grounded, close quarter combat experience to the game.

Why similar: Military 20.6%, FPS 13.9%, Tactical 13.6%, Shooter 12.9%, Realistic 12.2%

The genre-defining military sim that began as Operation Flashpoint (2001), now a modernized, 64-bit, cross-platform build for Windows and Linux, with its engine released as open source. Over 2 million copies sold. The Cold War battlefield of Everon and Nogova, remastered for today's hardware.

Why similar: Military 23.5%, Cold War 12.8% ★, FPS 9.4%, Simulation 8.6%, War 7.2%

In OPERATOR, you will play as an elite Tier 1 operator undergoing dangerous clandestine operations all over the globe. With a strategic, measured, and unforgiving style of gameplay. You are the tactical advantage, Good luck.

Why similar: War 13.7%, Realistic 13.4%, FPS 12.8%, Shooter 12.3%, Tactical 11.1%

Bodycam is the first tactical multiplayer FPS with a true body-camera view in Unreal Engine 5. Close-quarters combats feel raw and loud. Every angle, callout, and bullet matters. Play Deathmatch, Team Deathmatch, and Wingman on photoreal maps where teamplay, tactics, and clutch skill are key.

Why similar: Military 23.6%, FPS 15.6%, Realistic 13.8%, Tactical 11.3%, Shooter 10%

ARMA: Gold is pack of ARMA: Armed Assault and an expansion pack ARMA: Queen's Gambit. ARMA is a first person tactical military shooter with large elements of realism and simulation. This game features a blend of large-scale military conflict spread over large areas alongside the more closed quarters battle.

Why similar: Military 33.1%, FPS 10.5%, Simulation 9.9%, Realistic 7.7%, Tactical 7.4%

The ultimate all-out warfare experience. In a war of tanks, fighter jets, and massive combat arsenals, your squad is the deadliest weapon.

Why similar: Military 28.6%, FPS 16.5%, War 15.1%, Shooter 11.3%, Multiplayer 9.6%

Gunner, HEAT, PC! (GHPC) is a simulation game about modern mounted combat, with special attention to authenticity and fun.

Why similar: Military 28.9%, Cold War 17.5% ★, Realistic 12.9%, FPS 9.2%, Shooter 8.4%

War of Rights is a first person multiplayer game featuring massive 400 player battles with a focus on historical authenticity, teamplay and immersion. It is set during the perilous days of the American Civil War, in the Maryland Campaign of September, 1862.

Why similar: Military 24.6%, War 18.9%, Realistic 11.6%, FPS 10.5%, Multiplayer 8.2%

Regiments is a Real-Time Tactics game set in Germany 1989. The Cold War has gone hot, and the inferno is raging. Lead your Regiment through the fires of conflict and the fog of war. Break through the lines, call in artillery, maneuver, feign retreats, stage defenses, counter-attack. Do not relent.

Why similar: Military 18.3%, Cold War 17.7% ★, Real Time Tactics 15.6%, War 12.3%, Realistic 10.8%

Fly near-future aircraft with immersive physics across dynamic battlefields, facing land, air, and sea threats. Wage war against AI or rival pilots using an array of advanced weaponry, including tactical and strategic nuclear weapons capable of annihilating anything in your path.

Why similar: Military 30.2%, War 16.6%, Realistic 12.1%, Sandbox 10.9%, Simulation 7.4%

Tactical Assault VR is an intense tactical shooter where you use real-world CQB (Close Quarters Battles) tactics to stack up, breach doors and eliminate threats. Play solo or join an online co-op special forces unit in missions around the world.

Why similar: Shooter 17.8%, Tactical 17.8%, War 16.1%, Sandbox 12.8%, Multiplayer 10.7%

From the lead designer of Cold Waters, Sea Power lets you control NATO and Warsaw Pact forces in modern naval conflict campaigns. Use your advanced naval weaponry and sensors to respect rules of engagement and defeat the enemy forces in a tense fight for initiative and air/naval supremacy.

Why similar: Military 28.1%, Cold War 18.8% ★, Real Time Tactics 15.6%, War 13.2%, Simulation 8.4%

Fight on multiple fronts in Holdfast: Nations At War - A multiplayer first and third-person shooter set during the great Napoleonic Era and WW1. Charge into battle with over 150 players per server!

Why similar: Military 25.1%, War 14.5%, FPS 12.8%, Shooter 10.7%, Multiplayer 7.5%

America’s Army: Proving Grounds is the official game of the U.S. Army and part of the highly acclaimed America’s Army game series. This free military game focuses on small unit tactical maneuvers and puts you to the test in a wide variety of new America’s Army maps and AA fan favorites.

Why similar: Military 27.4%, FPS 17.6%, Shooter 10.8%, Tactical 8.1%, Multiplayer 8.1%

Join massive multiplayer battles in Over The Top: WWI - an intense shooter set in the gritty backdrop of World War I. Pick your class, choose from a vast arsenal, including rifles, artillery, airplanes, and powerful tanks, and experience the chaos of fully destructible battlefields.

Why similar: FPS 14.5%, War 14%, Shooter 11.5%, Realistic 11.4%, Tactical 9.3%

How long can you survive a post-apocalyptic world? A land overrun with an infected "zombie" population, where you compete with other survivors for limited resources. Will you team up with strangers and stay strong together? Or play as a lone wolf to avoid betrayal? This is DayZ – this is your story.

Why similar: FPS 18.2%, Shooter 15.1%, Sandbox 14.2%, Open World 11.8%, Multiplayer 10.7%

Command your own troops, man authentic weaponry and take to the sky in deadly warplanes.

Why similar: Military 19.6%, War 10.9%, FPS 9.4%, Realistic 8.5%, Shooter 7.7%

Broken Arrow is a large-scale real-time modern warfare tactics game that combines the complexity of joint-forces wargaming with action-packed real-time tactics gameplay.

Why similar: Real Time Tactics 20.4%, Military 18.6%, War 17%, Realistic 11.9%, Tactical 10.8%

Total Conflict: Resistance is a unique symbiosis of global strategy, tactics and first-person action. Realistic mass battles, many types of armored vehicles, weapons, uniforms, unique mechanics, immersive free gameplay. Lead any state and bring it to greatness!

Why similar: Military 22.7%, War 14.1%, Real Time Tactics 12.8%, FPS 12.3%, Realistic 11.3%

Carrier Command 2 is the real-time strategy game that puts you in command of a futuristic carrier capable of deploying a vast array of aircraft and amphibious units. Compete against AI or human players and hop into every single vehicle to take matters into your own hands!

Why similar: Military 29%, War 20.5%, Real Time Tactics 18.7%, Simulation 9.7%, Strategy 7.8%

Armored Brigade II revolutionizes real-time tactical warfare in 3D, focusing on the intense combined arms combat of the Cold War era, from 1965 to 1991. Boasting a meticulously researched database and huge real-world terrain maps, this game offers an unparalleled combat simulation experience.

Why similar: Military 23%, Cold War 18.2% ★, War 16.2%, Realistic 14.6%, Simulation 12.8%

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.

Why similar: FPS 36.3%, Military 15.8%, Realistic 11%, Tactical 8.3%, Shooter 7.9%

Land on the beaches of Gallipoli and fight intense 50-player objective-based battles on the Ottoman Fronts! Experience WW1 trench warfare and desert expeditions as one of 10 historic classes, armed with authentic weaponry. Gallipoli brings the most immersive WW1 FPS battles yet.

Why similar: Military 26.1%, FPS 11.8%, War 11.1%, Realistic 10.2%, Shooter 8.4%

Lead a platoon of WWII tanks in this immersive TPP and FPP game. Engage in realistic, tactical combat across historic battlefields. Play through campaign or challenge yourself in skirmish mode as either German or US forces.

Why similar: Military 25.2%, Real Time Tactics 18.4%, War 13.4%, Realistic 13.3%, Simulation 9.3%

Arena Breakout: Infinite is a high-stakes tactical extraction shooter where every decision matters. Fight, loot, and extract—or lose it all. With stunningly realistic visuals, lifelike sound, and unforgiving PvPvE combat, every raid is a gamble between glory and ruin.

Why similar: FPS 22.1%, Realistic 17.5%, Shooter 15.2%, Multiplayer 12.7%, War 12.6%