Games Like Battlefield™ 2042

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 20.8%, FPS 17.9%, War 16.3%, Multiplayer 10.9%, Shooter 9.9%

Why You'll Like It: It is the closest alternative, carrying Battlefield’s large-scale infantry-and-vehicle warfare, destructible environments, squad objectives, and modern military setting forward.

Embrace unrivaled destruction in Battlefield 4™. Revel in the glorious chaos of all-out war packed with rewarding, tactical challenges in an interactive environment.

Why similar: Military 21.9%, FPS 18.9%, War 16.3%, Multiplayer 12.9%, Shooter 10.8%

Why You'll Like It: Its contemporary maps, extensive vehicle sandbox, Conquest mode, and emphasis on huge combined-arms battles make it one of the most direct predecessors to 2042.

Enjoy total freedom to fight the way you want. Explore 29 massive multiplayer maps and use loads of vehicles, weapons, and gadgets to help you turn up the heat. Every second of battle gets you closer to unlocking tons of extras and moving up in the Ranks. So get in the action.

Why similar: FPS 19.2%, Team-Based 14.2%, Shooter 13%, Multiplayer 11.6%, Destruction 9.9%

Why You'll Like It: This is a classic modern Battlefield built around cinematic infantry firefights, jets, tanks, helicopters, and objective-driven multiplayer.

This is the ultimate Battlefield V experience. Enter mankind’s greatest conflict with the complete arsenal of weapons, vehicles, and gadgets plus the best customization content of Year 1 and 2.

Why similar: FPS 20.4%, Military 17.7%, War 16.9%, Multiplayer 10.7%, Shooter 10.6%

Why You'll Like It: It delivers Battlefield’s signature squad revives, destructible cover, vehicle combat, and sprawling objective modes in a World War II setting.

Battlefield™ 1 takes you back to The Great War, WW1, where new technology and worldwide conflict changed the face of warfare forever.

Why similar: FPS 24.7%, War 22.8%, Multiplayer 14.1%, Shooter 12.4%, Destruction 7.6%

Why You'll Like It: Its cinematic large-scale Conquest battles, powerful vehicles, destructible maps, and class teamwork preserve the Battlefield formula in World War we.

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 17.7%, FPS 16%, War 12.9%, Team-Based 10.1%, Destruction 9.7%

Why You'll Like It: This low-poly shooter captures the chaotic 100-plus-player battles, class roles, vehicles, destruction, and squad coordination that define Battlefield at its best.

Strategy. Speed. Story. These are the core pillars of Battlefield™ Hardline, a cops vs. criminals experience unlike any other.

Why similar: FPS 22.1%, War 19.2%, Shooter 18.2%, Multiplayer 18.1%, PvP 6.9%

Why You'll Like It: Although its cops-versus-criminals theme differs, it retains Battlefield’s large maps, vehicles, destructive environments, classes, and team objectives.

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: FPS 20.4%, Military 17.4%, Team-Based 12.7%, Shooter 12%, Multiplayer 11.8%

Why You'll Like It: It offers free-to-play modern military multiplayer with large maps, vehicles, squad play, and Battlefield-like objective modes alongside extraction gameplay.

PlanetSide 2 is an all-out planetary war, where thousands of players battle as one across enormous continents. Utilize infantry, ground and air vehicles, and teamwork to destroy your enemies in this revolutionary first-person shooter on a massive scale.

Why similar: FPS 28.6%, Team-Based 15.6%, Shooter 14.6%, War 13.3%, Multiplayer 9.7%

Why You'll Like It: It escalates the all-out-war fantasy into a persistent massively multiplayer conflict with enormous infantry, armor, air, and base-capture battles.

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 24.7%, FPS 14.9%, Team-Based 13%, War 11.8%, Shooter 8.4%

Why You'll Like It: It trades arcade accessibility for deeper communication and realism while retaining large-scale combined-arms warfare, capture points, and coordinated squads.

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 21.4%, War 19.8%, FPS 19.1%, Shooter 13.4%, Multiplayer 11.4%

Why You'll Like It: This World War II shooter emphasizes 50-versus-50 battles, squad leadership, resource-driven objectives, and tanks alongside tense infantry combat.

Respawn Entertainment gives you the most advanced titan technology in its new, single player campaign & multiplayer experience. Combine & conquer with new titans & pilots, deadlier weapons, & customization and progression systems that help you and your titan flow as one unstoppable killing force.

Why similar: FPS 23.9%, Military 13%, Shooter 12.2%, Multiplayer 11.2%, Futuristic 8.1%

Why You'll Like It: It offers exceptionally polished multiplayer gunplay, fast objective modes, and dramatic mech-versus-infantry warfare with a more mobile sci-fi twist.

Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare® II drops players into an unprecedented global conflict that features the iconic Operators of Task Force 141.

Why similar: FPS 20.9%, Military 18.9%, Shooter 12.7%, War 12.2%, Multiplayer 10.9%

Why You'll Like It: It provides slick contemporary military gunplay, fast objective modes, loadout progression, and Ground War matches for a more compact large-scale option.

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.

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

Why You'll Like It: It provides a more simulation-driven take on modern combined arms, with open battlefields, player-led squads, vehicles, and military sandbox freedom.

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 27.4%, FPS 27.4%, Shooter 14.3%, War 12.9%, Multiplayer 10.4%

Why You'll Like It: Its modern military gunplay, objective modes, class roles, and lethal close-quarters combat suit players wanting a grittier, more tactical Battlefield pace.

Experience a visceral Campaign or assemble your team in the ultimate online playground with multiple Special Ops challenges and a mix of Multiplayer maps and modes.

Why similar: Military 24.5%, FPS 20.7%, Shooter 12%, Multiplayer 11.4%, Modern 8.5%

Why You'll Like It: Its grounded modern-combat presentation, sharp weapon handling, large-player modes, and cinematic military atmosphere overlap well with Battlefield’s appeal.

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 29.1%, War 14.1%, FPS 13.4%, Shooter 12.2%, Multiplayer 11.7%

Why You'll Like It: It is a deeper military sandbox for players who enjoy Battlefield’s vehicles and combined arms but want expansive maps, modding, and simulation systems.

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 19.7%, War 15%, Vehicular Combat 13.7%, Team-Based 13.2%, Multiplayer 11.1%

Why You'll Like It: Its massive World War II battles combine infantry squads, aircraft, tanks, fortifications, and capture-point objectives in a highly Battlefield-like structure.

In the direct sequel to the record-breaking Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare® II, Captain Price and Task Force 141 face off against the ultimate threat.

Why similar: FPS 19.5%, Military 18%, War 13.5%, Shooter 12.9%, Modern 8.8%

Why You'll Like It: Its modern arsenal, responsive arcade shooting, varied multiplayer objectives, and large-map modes make it a natural alternative for 2042 players.

Be the hero in the ultimate STAR WARS™ battle fantasy with STAR WARS™ Battlefront™ II: Celebration Edition!

Why similar: FPS 21.1%, Multiplayer 18.1%, Vehicular Combat 17.1%, Shooter 15.3%, Combat 7.7%

Why You'll Like It: Its large objective battles, classes, heroes, vehicles, aerial combat, and cinematic presentation translate Battlefield-style warfare into Star Wars.

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.

Why similar: Military 21.3%, FPS 21.2%, War 15.9%, Shooter 15%, First-Person 7.3%

Why You'll Like It: It offers polished competitive FPS action, flexible movement, modern military themes, and a broad selection of team-based multiplayer modes.

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 20.1%, FPS 16.5%, War 16.4%, Team-Based 13.3%, Vehicular Combat 13.2%

Why You'll Like It: Large Vietnam-era maps, helicopters, asymmetric factions, squad objectives, and intense 64-player battles make it a strong historical alternative.

Fight upon the Ravenfield together with your Blue allies! Take down those pesky Reds using helicopters, tanks, guns, and active ragdoll physics!

Why similar: Military 23.2%, War 22%, FPS 19.9%, Shooter 11.8%, Team-Based 9.9%

Why You'll Like It: Its offline bot battles let you freely enjoy Battlefield-style flags, classes, vehicles, aircraft, and large maps without relying on a multiplayer population.

Ferocious Alpine warfare will test your tactical skills in this authentic WW1 FPS. Battle among the scenic peaks, rugged valleys and idyllic towns of northern Italy. The Great War on the Italian Front is brought to life and elevated to unexpected heights!

Why similar: Military 23.7%, Team-Based 19.5%, War 14.1%, FPS 11.8%, PvP 9.5%

Why You'll Like It: It provides large World War we frontline battles with class specialties, attack-and-defend objectives, artillery support, and a strong sense of scale.

THE FINALS is the world’s first Dynamism Shooter, a free-to-play, fast-paced, physics-driven, first-person shooter set on the stage of the biggest Gameshow of the future! Fight for Fans and fortune in fully-destructible, virtual Arenas that guarantee no two rounds will ever play the same!

Why similar: Destruction 20.4%, FPS 17.7%, Team-Based 17.2%, Shooter 11.3%, Multiplayer 10.5%

Why You'll Like It: While smaller in scale, its class-based squads, objective heists, spectacular destruction, and highly dynamic arenas capture Battlefield’s chaotic emergent 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 30.5%, FPS 20.8%, War 15.8%, Multiplayer 12.3%, Shooter 11.4%

Why You'll Like It: This free-to-play military sandbox supports large-scale community warfare with squads, vehicles, modding, and a more simulation-oriented Battlefield feel.

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 26.1%, FPS 20%, War 16.6%, Multiplayer 10.7%, Team-Based 9.6%

Why You'll Like It: This WWII-focused tactical shooter delivers big coordinated battles, squad roles, authentic weapons, armor, and more deliberate objective warfare.

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 16.7%, FPS 12.5%, Team-Based 12.1%, Vehicular Combat 12%, Destruction 9.2%

The Call of Duty® experience supports Modern Warfare® 4, Black Ops 7 and Call of Duty®: Warzone™.

Why similar: Military 21.1%, FPS 20.3%, War 16%, Shooter 11.2%, Multiplayer 10.6%

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 23.5%, War 19.9%, FPS 17.8%, Shooter 10.7%, PvP 8.8%

Why You'll Like It: Its World War we setting centers on team coordination, class-based roles, trench assaults, and large tactical battles with a grittier pace.

Now entering REDSEC, the ultimate free-to-play FPS destination built on Battlefield’s iconic DNA. Featuring Battle Royale, Gauntlet, & the power of Portal.

Why similar: Military 21.2%, FPS 17.5%, War 16.6%, Multiplayer 10.5%, Shooter 10.1%

Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege is an elite, tactical team-based shooter where superior planning and execution triumph.

Why similar: FPS 17%, Military 11.5%, Hero Shooter 11.5% ★, Team-Based 10.3%, Shooter 10.2%

Online multiplayer FPS, team based or solo. TDM, Gun Game, FFA, and Conquest. Includes custom map editor.

Why similar: FPS 19.6%, Military 16.7%, Shooter 14.1%, War 12.8%, Vehicular Combat 8.8%

Join The Division in this open world tactical shooter. Engage in intense cover-based combat, team up with friends, and build your ultimate agent to save Washington, D.C.

Why similar: Multiplayer 32.1%, Shooter 26.3%, Military 19.4%, PvP 6.9%, Action 6.7%

Fight Today's War: Elite Special Forces in a gritty combat campaign using the surgical tactics of Tier 1 Operators combined with the sledgehammer force of Army Rangers.

Why similar: FPS 26.2%, Military 22%, War 14.1%, Shooter 11.9%, Multiplayer 9.6%

The most-anticipated game of the year and the sequel to the best-selling first-person action game of all time, Modern Warfare 2 continues the gripping and heart-racing action as players face off against a new threat dedicated to bringing the world to the brink of collapse.

Why similar: FPS 26.9%, Military 15.8%, War 14.2%, Multiplayer 13.6%, Shooter 12%

Apex Legends is the award-winning, free-to-play Hero Shooter from Respawn Entertainment. Master an ever-growing roster of legendary characters with powerful abilities, and experience strategic squad play and innovative gameplay in the next evolution of Hero Shooter and Battle Royale.

Why similar: FPS 25.3%, Shooter 15.6%, Multiplayer 15.3%, Team-Based 13.3%, Hero Shooter 10.1% ★

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 39%, Shooter 21.2%, Multiplayer 18.1%, FPS 11.3%, Action 4.5%

Pushing the boundaries of what fans have come to expect from the record-setting entertainment franchise, Call of Duty®: Black Ops II propels players into a near future Cold War

Why similar: FPS 28.2%, Multiplayer 18.6%, Shooter 13.2%, War 13.1%, Team-Based 9%

For over two decades, Counter-Strike has offered an elite competitive experience, one shaped by millions of players from across the globe. And now the next chapter in the CS story is about to begin. This is Counter-Strike 2.

Why similar: FPS 27.5%, Team-Based 14.9%, Shooter 13%, Military 11.7%, Multiplayer 11.1%

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.

Why similar: FPS 30.2%, Multiplayer 17.9%, Shooter 16.7%, PvP 10.2%, First-Person 8.7%

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 21.2%, FPS 19%, War 16.5%, Shooter 11.7%, Vehicular Combat 7.5%

Homefront®: The Revolution is an open-world first person shooter where you must lead the Resistance movement in guerrilla warfare against a superior military force.

Why similar: FPS 25.8%, War 16.7%, Military 14.2%, Shooter 13.7%, Multiplayer 12.1%

Black Ops Cold War, the direct sequel to Call of Duty®: Black Ops, will drop fans into the depths of the Cold War’s volatile geopolitical battle of the early 1980s.

Why similar: FPS 23.6%, Military 22.7%, Multiplayer 14%, Shooter 12.2%, War 9.1%

Counter-Strike: Source blends Counter-Strike's award-winning teamplay action with the advanced technology of Source™ technology.

Why similar: Shooter 25.7%, FPS 23.6%, Team-Based 13.5%, Multiplayer 11.2%, Military 7.8%

Battle Teams 2 is a fast-paced multiplayer tactical shooter with Asian aesthetics. PvP offers action-packed game modes set in a rigorously balanced competitive gameplay environment. Cooperative PvE gameplay throws you and your friends into wave after wave of merciless adversaries.

Why similar: FPS 18.3%, Military 15.8%, War 13%, Team-Based 12.4%, Shooter 10.4%

In Call of Duty®: Black Ops 7, Treyarch and Raven Software are bringing players the biggest Black Ops ever across an innovative Co-Op Campaign, an electrifying Multiplayer experience, and the legendary Round-Based Zombies mode.

Why similar: FPS 22%, Shooter 13.3%, Military 13%, Multiplayer 11.5%, War 10.8%

One of the most critically-acclaimed games in history, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare is back, remastered in true high-definition, featuring improved textures, physically based rendering, high-dynamic range lighting and much more.

Why similar: FPS 25.9%, Military 19.7%, War 19.1%, Shooter 12.7%, Multiplayer 11.7%

Hired Ops is a session-based online shooter dedicated to fierce conflicts between rival mercenary groups battling on a global scale.

Why similar: FPS 35.7%, Multiplayer 16.3%, Shooter 13.4%, Military 11.9%, Modern 10.4%

A simple, early beta 3D multiplayer fps!

Why similar: FPS 22.2%, Military 15%, Multiplayer 15%, Shooter 12.5%, PvP 10.8%

The STAR WARS™ Battlefront™ Ultimate Edition includes the STAR WARS™ Battlefront™ Deluxe Edition as well as the STAR WARS™ Battlefront™ Season Pass.

Why similar: Vehicular Combat 22.5%, Shooter 21%, Multiplayer 17.1%, PvP 10.3%, First-Person 7.4%

Overwatch®, A FUTURE WORTH FIGHTING FOR! Overwatch® is an always-on and ever-evolving free-to-play, team-based action game set in an optimistic future, where every match is the ultimate 5v5 or 6v6 battlefield brawl.

Why similar: Team-Based 20.1%, FPS 19.7%, Hero Shooter 15% ★, Multiplayer 11.5%, Shooter 9.8%

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 47.2%, Military 13.7%, Team-Based 8.4%, Shooter 8.3%, Multiplayer 8.2%

Frontlines™: Fuel of War™ is an open-world First Person Shooter set on the frontlines of tomorrow. In a world ravaged by a global energy crisis, environmental decay, and economic depression, players assume the role of an elite soldier in the Western Coalition Army on an epic crusade against the Red Star Alliance to control the last of...

Why similar: FPS 32.1%, Military 20.8%, Shooter 15.2%, War 10.2%, Multiplayer 8.7%

World War Next is a low poly multiplayer FPS set during a WW3 conflict, Choose from over 25 countries. Vehicles like tanks, helicopters, boats and armored cars help players get around quickly.

Why similar: Military 15.3%, War 12.5%, Team-Based 11.7%, FPS 11.7%, Vehicular Combat 11.6%

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 23.5%, FPS 17.6%, War 14.9%, Shooter 12.1%, Multiplayer 9.8%