Games Like Counter-Strike

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 30.6%, Competitive 13.2% ★, Shooter 11.2%, Team-Based 10.7%, Multiplayer 10%

Why You'll Like It: It is the direct modern evolution of Counter-Strike, with the same bomb-defusal economy, map control, and high-stakes competitive rounds.

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

Why similar: FPS 27%, Shooter 22.7%, Multiplayer 10.3%, Team-Based 9.9%, Competitive 8.6% ★

Why You'll Like It: This is the closest classic-era follow-up to the original, preserving CS's tactical pacing while updating it on the Source engine.

With its extensive Tour of Duty campaign, a near-limitless number of skirmish modes, updates and new content for Counter-Strike's award-winning multiplayer game play, plus over 12 bonus single player missions, Counter-Strike: Condition Zero is a tremendous offering of single and multiplayer content.

Why similar: FPS 30.5%, Classic 16.6% ★, Shooter 11.5%, Action 10.9%, Multiplayer 8.9%

Why You'll Like It: It plays like a refined extension of the original Counter-Strike, with the same core weapons, round flow, and objective-based team combat.

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 58.2%, Multiplayer 8.2%, Shooter 7.8%, Team-Based 6.6%, Tactical 5.4%

Why You'll Like It: Its low time-to-kill, tight maps, and emphasis on positioning and disciplined team play make it one of the strongest non-CS alternatives.

Insurgency: Sandstorm is a team-based, tactical FPS based on lethal close quarters combat and objective-oriented multiplayer gameplay. Experience the intensity of modern combat where skill is rewarded, and teamwork wins the fight.

Why similar: FPS 43.3%, Shooter 17.3%, Multiplayer 13.2%, Tactical 8.7%, Military 6.8%

Why You'll Like It: It modernizes the same lethal, tactical firefights with heavier audio-visual intensity while keeping communication and map awareness crucial.

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: FPS 29.3%, Shooter 16.8%, Multiplayer 13.2%, Tactical 11.8%, Team-Based 10.4%

Why You'll Like It: This is a grounded tactical shooter built around slow clearing, angle discipline, and tense round-based gunfights that echo CS's methodical side.

Rainbow Six® Siege is the reference in tactical team shooters, where elite strategy and execution triumph. Enjoy free access to Quick Match, Unranked, and Dual Front game modes with a selection of operators.

Why similar: FPS 22.7%, Competitive 15.1% ★, eSports 12% ★, Shooter 10.5%, Multiplayer 9.9%

Why You'll Like It: Although more gadget-heavy, it delivers the same kind of round-based pressure, pixel-angle tension, and teamwork-dependent clutch moments.

Black Squad is a free-to-play military first-person-shooter. Players can master their skills and show off their strategies with a wide range of game maps, modes, and weapons to choose from. Join thousands of FPS players worldwide in one of the most played games on Steam!

Why similar: FPS 39%, Shooter 17.7%, Multiplayer 16.5%, Team-Based 7.1%, Action 6.5%

Why You'll Like It: This free-to-play shooter channels a very familiar competitive FPS rhythm with fast rounds, planted objectives, and straightforward military gunplay.

Enlist in an intense brand of Axis vs. Allied teamplay set in the WWII European Theatre of Operations. Players assume the role of light/assault/heavy infantry, sniper or machine-gunner class, each with a unique arsenal of historical weaponry at their disposal. Missions are based on key historical operations.

Why similar: FPS 57.7%, Classic 13.3% ★, Multiplayer 7.5%, Shooter 7.1%, Team-Based 6.9%

Why You'll Like It: Built on the same GoldSrc roots, it trades terrorists and counter-terrorists for WWII squads while keeping lethal, objective-focused team combat.

A PVP tactical FPS about PLANNING & EXECUTION. Sound strategy and good teamwork are essential for victory because new PROCEDURALLY-GENERATED MAPS are delivered every week. You'll face a new tactical challenge every round.

Why similar: FPS 22.8%, Team-Based 15.5%, Competitive 15.5% ★, eSports 12.6% ★, Shooter 10.8%

Why You'll Like It: Its team-based attack-and-defense structure and emphasis on planning, utility, and coordinated execution make it feel very close to tactical CS play.

Valve's WWII Multiplayer Classic - Now available for Mac.

Why similar: FPS 41.4%, Classic 12.6% ★, Multiplayer 11%, Team-Based 10.8%, Shooter 9.9%

Why You'll Like It: This keeps the same unforgiving, round-driven team shooter feel as CS while shifting it into a WWII setting on Source.

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: FPS 35.3%, Tactical 15.4%, Shooter 14.2%, Multiplayer 12.7%, Military 8.5%

Why You'll Like It: It leans more realistic than Counter-Strike, but its careful movement, lethal gunplay, and communication-focused tactics scratch a similar itch.

One of the most popular online action games of all time, Team Fortress Classic features over nine character classes -- from Medic to Spy to Demolition Man -- enlisted in a unique style of online team warfare. Each character class possesses unique weapons, items, and abilities, as teams compete online in a variety of game play modes.

Why similar: Classic 24.5% ★, FPS 22.9%, Action 14.1%, Team-Based 9.6%, Multiplayer 9.1%

Why You'll Like It: While more class-based and chaotic, it shares Counter-Strike's early Half-Life-era multiplayer roots and strong focus on team coordination.

The new action-thriller from the award-winning team at Infinity Ward, the creators of the Call of Duty® series, delivers the most intense and cinematic action experience ever. Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare arms gamers with an arsenal of advanced and powerful modern day firepower and transports them to the most treacherous hotspots...

Why similar: FPS 35.7%, Classic 21.4% ★, Multiplayer 13.3%, Shooter 10.6%, Action 7.7%

Why You'll Like It: Its classic multiplayer—especially Search and Destroy—captures some of the same round-based tension and quick-kill intensity as Counter-Strike.

A.V.A is a classic FPS shooter game featuring various types game Modes. Depending on the battlefield, you can choose Pointman, Rifleman, and Sniper and enjoy strategic team play.

Why similar: FPS 31.9%, Competitive 19.9% ★, Shooter 13.9%, Multiplayer 11.9%, Action 6.6%

Why You'll Like It: It offers old-school online FPS action with objective modes, tight maps, and a distinctly classic PC shooter feel similar to CS-era design.

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 42%, Multiplayer 17%, Shooter 14.4%, Action 13.7%, First-Person 4.6%

Why You'll Like It: It is more arcade-like than CS, but its classic competitive modes still reward sharp aim, map knowledge, and coordinated pushes.

Experience the most exciting and fast-paced FPS gameplay while competing with players from around the world in over 100 arenas, a dozen game modes, and with persistent career stats tracking, in this online features-focused successor to Quake III Arena.

Why similar: Classic 30.2% ★, FPS 27.4%, Multiplayer 10.9%, Competitive 8.7% ★, Shooter 8.1%

Why You'll Like It: It is much more movement-heavy and arena-based, yet it offers the same kind of mechanically demanding multiplayer competition that made classic CS so enduring.

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 40.8%, Shooter 17.3%, Multiplayer 15.5%, Tactical 15.4%, Action 5.9%

Why You'll Like It: It is primarily co-op rather than PvP, but its slow room-clearing, realistic gun handling, and tactical discipline appeal to Counter-Strike's serious side.

Fast multiplayer action set in the Half-Life 2 universe! HL2's physics adds a new dimension to deathmatch play. Play straight deathmatch or try Combine vs. Resistance teamplay. Toss a toilet at your friend today!

Why similar: FPS 39%, Action 18.7%, Multiplayer 16%, Shooter 10.9%, Competitive 8.9% ★

Why You'll Like It: It is deathmatch rather than objective-based, but its Source-engine gunplay and classic Valve multiplayer feel give it some familiar DNA.

The greatest warriors of all time and space have been summoned to battle for the amusement of an ancient alien race. Wield a variety of guns and power-ups as you fight for glory against ruthless combatants in this fast-paced single-player and multiplayer FPS.

Why similar: Classic 29.6% ★, FPS 29.6%, Multiplayer 9.6%, Competitive 9.1% ★, Shooter 6.7%

Why You'll Like It: It is far more arena-focused than Counter-Strike, yet it remains a landmark competitive FPS for players who want another pure skill-based classic.

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: FPS 28.2%, Team-Based 15.9%, Shooter 12.4%, Multiplayer 11.9%, Tactical 7.6%

Why You'll Like It: It scales the teamwork and communication aspects of Counter-Strike up to battlefield size, emphasizing coordination over lone-wolf fragging.

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: FPS 32%, Shooter 14.8%, Multiplayer 14.2%, Team-Based 13.2%, Tactical 6.3%

Why You'll Like It: It is larger in scale than CS, but its low-TTK gunfights, teamwork, and no-frills focus on infantry combat will still resonate.

Splitgate is a free-to-play, fast-paced multiplayer shooter that features player-controlled portals. This sci-fi shooter takes the FPS genre to a new dimension with its portal mechanics, delivering high-flying, multi-dimensional combat.

Why similar: FPS 35.3%, Multiplayer 14.2%, Shooter 12.1%, Competitive 10.5% ★, Team-Based 6.8%

Why You'll Like It: Its portal gimmick changes the flow, but beneath that is a tight, skill-driven competitive shooter built around map control and precision aiming.

Combat Arms is a multiplayer game, free-to-play modern first-person shooter. The game enlists players into various battlefields across the globe to face-off against other ambitious soldiers of fortune, delivering gamers a high-quality FPS with an extensive arsenal of weapons.

Why similar: FPS 38.2%, Shooter 22%, Multiplayer 16.5%, Action 15.7%, First-Person 5.6%

Why You'll Like It: It is a classic-style online military FPS with simple, competitive gunplay that will feel familiar to players who grew up on CS servers.

Multiplayer based, first person enabled, action packed and skill demanding shooter set in the Wild West times. A unique combination of non stop action and slow but powerful weaponry.

Why similar: FPS 37.9%, Shooter 18.9%, Multiplayer 17%, Action 10%, First-Person 7.4%

Why You'll Like It: This old-school multiplayer shooter delivers high-lethality duels and objective play with a stripped-down skill emphasis that feels surprisingly CS-like.

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 ex-developers of Squad, Red Orchestra, and Insurgency.

Why similar: FPS 36.6%, Multiplayer 17.4%, Shooter 15.3%, Tactical 9.4%, Military 8.4%

Why You'll Like It: This is a rougher, community-driven tactical FPS that emphasizes realism, teamwork, and lethal engagements over flashy modern shooter design.

Enjoy fast-paced multiplayer gaming with Deathmatch Classic (a.k.a. DMC). Valve's tribute to the work of id software, DMC invites players to grab their rocket launchers and put their reflexes to the test in a collection of futuristic settings.

Why similar: Action 26.4%, Classic 25.3% ★, FPS 23.6%, Shooter 8%, Multiplayer 8%

Named Game of the Year by over 50 publications, Valve's debut title blends action and adventure with award-winning technology to create a frighteningly realistic world where players must think to survive. Also includes an exciting multiplayer mode that allows you to play against friends and enemies around the world.

Why similar: Classic 30.8% ★, FPS 27.8%, Shooter 10.8%, Multiplayer 10.3%, 1990's 7%

Half-Life Deathmatch: Source is a recreation of the first multiplayer game set in the Half-Life universe. Features all the classic weapons and most-played maps, now running on the Source engine.

Why similar: FPS 34.7%, Classic 21.5% ★, Action 13.9%, Multiplayer 13.2%, Shooter 10.7%

A futuristic action game that challenges your agility as well as your aim, Ricochet features one-on-one and team matches played in a variety of futuristic battle arenas.

Why similar: Action 27.8%, FPS 24.5%, Classic 24% ★, Multiplayer 10.3%, Shooter 5.5%

Counter-Strike Nexon is a Free to Play MMOFPS offering competitive PvP and PvE action including content from the original Counter-Strike and all new game modes, map creation function, weapons, and hordes of Zombies!

Why similar: FPS 49.4%, Shooter 15.9%, Multiplayer 14.9%, Action 8.3%, First-Person 6.1%

Return to the Black Mesa Research Facility as one of the military specialists assigned to eliminate Gordon Freeman. Experience an entirely new episode of single player action. Meet fierce alien opponents, and experiment with new weaponry. Named 'Game of the Year' by the Academy of Interactive Arts and Sciences.

Why similar: FPS 54.7%, Classic 24.2% ★, Shooter 7.7%, Action 5.8%, 1990's 3.2%

Reawakened from stasis in the occupied metropolis of City 17, Gordon Freeman is joined by Alyx Vance as he leads a desperate human resistance. Experience the landmark first-person shooter packed with immersive world-building, boundary-pushing physics, and exhilarating combat.

Why similar: FPS 41.2%, Classic 33.3% ★, Shooter 9.5%, Action 8%, Multiplayer 4.5%

As a member of Delta Force — The Army's Elite, top secret special forces unit — the word 'impossible' is not in your vocabulary. In Delta Force, you will conduct missions swiftly and silently, in every possible terrain, under every imaginable condition and through unconventional means.

Why similar: Classic 35.8% ★, FPS 34.8%, Action 15.5%, Shooter 7.7%, Military 6.2%

Developed by the award-winning id Software, Quake® is the ground-breaking, original dark fantasy first-person shooter that inspires today’s retro-style FPS games. With Quake (Enhanced), experience the authentic, updated, and visually enhanced version of the original.

Why similar: Classic 38.7% ★, FPS 31.4%, Shooter 9%, Multiplayer 6.5%, Action 5.2%

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 48.2%, Shooter 16.8%, Multiplayer 13.9%, Action 10.2%, Military 6.3%

Raven Shield:Command an elite multinational squad of special operatives against hidden terrorist forces. In Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six 3: Raven Shield, the third installment to the wildly popular Rainbow Six series, Team Rainbow faces the hidden global forces of a new and secretive foe.

Why similar: FPS 37.4%, Classic 20.8% ★, Tactical 15%, Action 8.5%, Shooter 7.8%

Every day, millions of players worldwide enter battle as one of over a hundred Dota heroes. And no matter if it's their 10th hour of play or 1,000th, there's always something new to discover. With regular updates that ensure a constant evolution of gameplay, features, and heroes, Dota 2 has taken on a life of its own.

Why similar: Team-Based 23.6%, Multiplayer 23%, eSports 21.4% ★, Competitive 19.2% ★, Action 6.7%

You are humanity’s last hope to stop the Strogg, a hostile alien race waging war against Earth. Play this military sci-fi FPS, now upgraded for modern platforms with improved visuals, new campaign content, online multiplayer/co-op, and more.

Why similar: Classic 36.3% ★, FPS 33.3%, Shooter 8.6%, Action 6.7%, Multiplayer 5.8%

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: FPS 36%, Shooter 16.7%, Multiplayer 16.7%, Action 10%, Tactical 6.8%

Call of Duty® delivers the gritty realism and cinematic intensity of World War II's epic battlefield moments like never before.

Why similar: Classic 33.3% ★, FPS 32.9%, Shooter 10.2%, Multiplayer 9.7%, Action 7%

Wolfenstein®: Enemy Territory is a free-to-play, objective-based multiplayer World War 2 first-person shooter. Featuring up to 32 players, choose either the Axis or Allies, as you fight across six maps based on real-world battle locations.

Why similar: FPS 37.4%, Classic 23% ★, Multiplayer 15.4%, Shooter 12.4%, Action 8.1%

You're a member of the U.S. Army's best kept secret: the elite SPECIAL OPERATIONS unit known as Delta Force, formed to BATTLE TERRORISM throughout the world. When the best of the rest can't handle the op, YOU are called into action. Can you handle THE JOB? Features FREE NovaWorld™: online gaming supporting up to 50 players.

Why similar: FPS 31.3%, Classic 26.6% ★, Action 16.6%, Shooter 12.4%, Tactical 5.5%

Sven Co-op is a co-operative game originally based around Valve Software's Half-Life. In this game players must work together against computer controlled enemies and solve puzzles as a team.

Why similar: FPS 31.1%, Team-Based 20.4%, Shooter 15.4%, 1990's 9.6%, Multiplayer 9.2%

Havoc is an arcade tactical first-person shooter with semi-destructible environments. It offers a variety of game modes, including Bomb Defusal, Team Deathmatch, Free for All, and Gun Game, along with extensive options to customize lobby settings to your preferences.

Why similar: FPS 31.8%, Shooter 16.7%, Action 13.1%, Team-Based 10.3%, Multiplayer 10.3%

PUBG: BATTLEGROUNDS, the high-stakes winner-take-all shooter that started the Battle Royale craze, is free-to-play! Drop into diverse maps, loot unique weapons and supplies, and survive in an ever-shrinking zone where every turn could be your last.

Why similar: FPS 28.5%, Shooter 21.7%, Multiplayer 17.3%, Competitive 6.1% ★, Action 5.5%

A fast paced multiplayer shooter that pits aliens against humans in a strategic and action-packed struggle for survival!

Why similar: FPS 33.1%, Team-Based 19.6%, Multiplayer 16.5%, Competitive 10.8% ★, Action 6.9%

Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six makes its next-generation hardware debut in the most dramatic installment of the renowned first-person shooter franchise to date. Rainbow operatives take to the chaotic streets of Las Vegas as an escalating terrorist siege in 'Sin City' threatens to take world terrorism to new, uncontrollable heights.

Why similar: FPS 32.5%, Classic 18.8% ★, Action 12.3%, Multiplayer 11.4%, Shooter 10.3%

You are the leader of an elite squad of Republic Commandos, your mission is to infiltrate, dominate, and ultimately, annihilate the enemy. Your squad will follow your orders and your lead, working together as a team - instinctively, intelligently, instantly. You are their leader. They are your weapon.

Why similar: FPS 32.5%, Classic 23% ★, Shooter 10%, Action 8.6%, Tactical 8.2%

From Valve (the creators of Counter-Strike, Half-Life and more) comes Left 4 Dead, a co-op action horror game for the PC and Xbox 360 that casts up to four players in an epic struggle for survival against swarming zombie hordes and terrifying mutant monsters.

Why similar: FPS 35.3%, Multiplayer 17.7%, Team-Based 13.2%, Shooter 12.4%, Action 8.2%

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 39%, Multiplayer 20.4%, Shooter 14%, Action 11.5%, Team-Based 8%