Games Like PAYDAY 2

Take on the role of a hardened career criminal executing intense, dynamic heists in constant pursuit of the next “big score”

Why similar: Heist 26.8% ★, FPS 13.2%, Co-op 13.1%, Crime 11.8%, Online Co-Op 7.5%

Why You'll Like It: It is the original blueprint for PAYDAY 2, with the same four-player co-op heist structure, special enemy pressure, and mask-on robbery fantasy in a leaner form.

PAYDAY 3 is the ultimate co-op FPS crime fantasy. Choose between stealth or loud playstyles, customize your character, and get ready to pull off the perfect heist.

Why similar: Heist 29.1% ★, Crime 12.5%, Co-op 11.7%, FPS 8.4%, Stealth 8.3%

Why You'll Like It: As the direct sequel, it keeps the stealth-to-chaos heist loop, role-based teamwork, and objective-driven co-op that define PAYDAY 2.

Crime Boss: Rockay City is a 1-4 player co-op FPS heist game with enjoyable stealth and epic killing spree combat. Featuring a solo roguelike campaign that combines FPS and strategy elements with the most hilariously cheesy voice acting that make you laugh.

Why similar: Heist 22.5% ★, Looter Shooter 13.3% ★, Crime 10.8%, Co-op 10%, FPS 7.7%

Why You'll Like It: Its co-op robberies, loud firefights, bag-looting, and criminal crew theme make it one of the closest modern alternatives.

One-armed robber is a chaotic first-person heist game that centers around a uniquely challenging premise. Players take the role of a determined robber equipped with only one arm, tasked with pulling off daring heists on banks, shops, and various establishments.

Why similar: Heist 37.5% ★, Co-op 16.9%, Multiplayer 11.6%, FPS 9.6%, Stealth 9.2%

Why You'll Like It: This is one of the closest indie takes on PAYDAY-style co-op heists, with casing, stealing, drills, and getaway-focused chaos.

RAID: World War II is an action-packed four player cooperative shooter set during a time when the Nazi war machine was still winning, and hope was in short supply.

Why similar: Heist 27.6% ★, Co-op 19.2%, FPS 16.3%, Stealth 9.8%, Multiplayer 8.5%

Why You'll Like It: Built by developers tied to PAYDAY, it translates the same class-based four-player co-op shooting and objective missions into a WWII setting.

Monaco: What's Yours Is Mine is a single player or co-op heist game. Assemble a crack team of thieves, case the joint, and pull off the perfect heist.

Why similar: Heist 31.2% ★, Co-op 27.3%, Stealth 15.3%, Crime 8%, Online Co-Op 7.7%

Why You'll Like It: Even from a top-down view, its co-op stealth robberies and coordinated role-based heists hit a very similar teamwork fantasy.

Perfect Heist 2 is a round-based online game, where robbers try to hide in plain sight while robbing a bank without being noticed by the cop team!

Why similar: Heist 41.2% ★, Stealth 17.1%, FPS 11.8%, Multiplayer 8.3%, Shooter 6.8%

Why You'll Like It: It captures the cops-vs-robbers tension, stealth setup, and sudden gunfight escalation that make PAYDAY matches so memorable.

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 20.4%, Co-op 19.7%, Crime 12.8%, Tactical 12.3%, Gun Customization 10.2% ★

Why You'll Like It: Its methodical room-clearing, equipment coordination, and tactical co-op reward the same kind of communication-heavy play as stealthier PAYDAY runs.

GTFO is a hardcore cooperative horror shooter that throws you from gripping suspense to explosive action in a heartbeat. Stealth, strategy, and teamwork are necessary to survive in your deadly, underground prison. Work together or die together.

Why similar: Co-op 19.9%, Online Co-Op 16.1%, FPS 15.3%, Stealth 12.4%, Team-Based 8.8%

Why You'll Like It: It replaces crime with sci-fi horror, but its brutally coordinated four-player objective runs feel very close to PAYDAY's high-pressure co-op teamwork.

Rogue Heist is a fresh take on Heist; what happens when both the sides are eyeing the same prize. A 6v6 multiplayer game where are you are sent in with your team to steal and outrun an opponent at the same time.

Why similar: Heist 33.5% ★, Crime 16.5%, Team-Based 13.8%, Gun Customization 10.1% ★, Multiplayer 9.4%

Why You'll Like It: It mixes multiplayer heists, character classes, and PvE/PvP robbery action in a way that clearly targets the PAYDAY crowd.

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.

Why similar: Co-op 30.9%, FPS 21%, Online Co-Op 13.4%, Multiplayer 11.3%, Team-Based 7.6%

Why You'll Like It: It lacks the heist theme, but its four-player co-op, special-enemy pressure, and replayable mission runs scratch a very similar squad shooter itch.

Steal everything. Even the people. The Break-In lets you take whatever you want, from TVs to fridges to toilets. And all in 1-4 player co-op, VR and non VR. Select your getaway vehicle, anything from a bicycle to a stolen police van, and load up with gear like hammers and rocket boosters, and steal.

Why similar: Heist 33.8% ★, Crime 16.7%, Stealth 13.9%, Co-op 11%, Online Co-Op 10.6%

Why You'll Like It: It focuses more on burglary than gunfights, but its co-op sneaking, loot hauling, and planning make it a strong heist-oriented companion pick.

Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six® Vegas 2 - the sequel to the award-winning next-generation first-person shooter - returns to Sin City. Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Vegas 2 is your last chance to rescue America's sexiest city from an escalating terrorist siege that will force you into heart-pounding action from beginning to end.

Why similar: Co-op 22.5%, FPS 20.8%, Tactical 11.7%, Online Co-Op 10.8%, Multiplayer 7.1%

Why You'll Like It: This is a classic squad-based tactical shooter with strong co-op mission play and a grounded, breach-and-clear style that overlaps with PAYDAY's more serious moments.

The Ultimate Vault Hunter’s Upgrade lets you get the most out of the Borderlands 2 experience.

Why similar: Looter Shooter 30.5% ★, Co-op 21%, FPS 15%, Shooter 9.4%, Multiplayer 9.3%

Why You'll Like It: It shares the loot chase, co-op shooting, and distinct build-driven classes, even if it swaps heists for a more RPG-like campaign.

Deep Rock Galactic is a 1-4 player co-op FPS featuring dwarven space miners, procedurally-generated destructible environments, and endless hordes of alien monsters. Explore cave systems, mine for minerals, and work together to survive!

Why similar: Co-op 31.9%, Looter Shooter 26% ★, FPS 19%, Shooter 8%, PvE 6.5%

Why You'll Like It: Like PAYDAY 2, it thrives on class synergy, objective-based co-op missions, frantic firefights, and endlessly replayable progression.

In KILLING FLOOR 2, players descend into continental Europe after it has been overrun by horrific, murderous clones called Zeds that were created by rogue elements of the Horzine Corporation. 6-player Co-Op & 12-player VS Zed-slaughtering mayhem.

Why similar: Co-op 21.4%, FPS 17%, Team-Based 16.6%, Online Co-Op 16%, Multiplayer 9.7%

Why You'll Like It: The class-based co-op gunplay, wave survival, and teamwork under pressure make it a great fit if you love PAYDAY 2's combat side.

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 16.6%, Co-op 16.3%, Online Co-Op 10.7%, Tactical 10.6%, Multiplayer 8.9%

Why You'll Like It: Its small-team tactical raids and emphasis on coordination, gadgets, and careful execution appeal to players who enjoy organized PAYDAY crews.

Back 4 Blood is a thrilling cooperative first-person shooter from the creators of the critically acclaimed Left 4 Dead franchise. Experience the intense 4 player co-op narrative campaign, competitive multiplayer as human or Ridden, and frenetic gameplay that keeps you in the action.

Why similar: Online Co-Op 23.1%, Co-op 23.1%, FPS 20.1%, Multiplayer 13.1%, Shooter 9.2%

Why You'll Like It: Its modern four-player campaign co-op, build customization, and mission-based structure echo PAYDAY's replayable team-focused format.

The original shooter-looter returns, packing bazillions of guns and a mayhem-fueled adventure! Blast through new worlds and enemies as one of four new Vault Hunters.

Why similar: Looter Shooter 30.6% ★, Co-op 18%, FPS 14.7%, Online Co-Op 13.7%, Multiplayer 8.7%

Why You'll Like It: Its polished gunplay, four-player co-op, and build variety make it a natural recommendation for players who enjoy PAYDAY's progression and shooting.

The critically acclaimed Vermintide 2 is a visually stunning and groundbreaking melee action game pushing the boundaries of the first person co-op genre. Join the fight now!

Why similar: Co-op 38.9%, Online Co-Op 19.8%, FPS 12.8%, Multiplayer 11.9%, First-Person 6.4%

Why You'll Like It: It delivers the same satisfying blend of squad roles, elite enemy threats, and repeatable co-op missions, just in melee-heavy fantasy form.

Launch into the Borderlands universe and shoot ‘n’ loot your way through a brand new adventure that rockets you onto Pandora’s moon in Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel!

Why similar: Looter Shooter 27.6% ★, Co-op 18.8%, FPS 14.5%, Online Co-Op 13.4%, Multiplayer 8.1%

Why You'll Like It: Like the other Borderlands games, it offers chaotic co-op shooting and character builds that appeal to the looter-shooter side of PAYDAY 2 fans.

Take back the city of Tertium from hordes of bloodthirsty foes in this intense and brutal action shooter. Warhammer 40,000: Darktide is the new co-op focused experience from the award-winning team behind the Vermintide series. As Tertium falls, Rejects Will Rise.

Why similar: Co-op 28.2%, Team-Based 23.1%, FPS 21.3%, Shooter 9.8%, PvE 6.7%

Why You'll Like It: Its mission-based four-player structure, build variety, and constant pressure from hordes and specials line up well with PAYDAY's teamwork-driven action.

Discover the original co-op shooter-looter, crammed with new enhancements! As one of 4 trigger-happy mercenaries with RPG progression, equip bazillions of guns to take on the desert planet Pandora.

Why similar: Co-op 23.8%, FPS 19.6%, Looter Shooter 17% ★, Online Co-Op 16.6%, Shooter 8.6%

Why You'll Like It: This is a solid pick if you want an older-school co-op FPS with loot progression and a similar mission-to-mission power climb.

A tactical open world third-person shooter set in New York after a deadly pandemic. Team up or go solo to restore order against deadly factions, secure loot, and conquer high-risk endgame challenges.

Why similar: Looter Shooter 34.8% ★, Co-op 19.3%, Online Co-Op 11.8%, Multiplayer 10.1%, Shooter 6.9%

Why You'll Like It: Though third-person and more open-ended, it matches PAYDAY 2's gear grind, co-op combat roles, and urban criminal-ops atmosphere.

World War Z is a heart-pounding coop third-person shooter for up to 4 players featuring massive swarms of hundreds of zombies, focused on fast-paced, gruesomely spectacular action.

Why similar: Co-op 24.1%, Online Co-Op 22%, Multiplayer 14.8%, FPS 10.3%, Gun Customization 9.2% ★

Why You'll Like It: Its fast, replayable co-op runs, class progression, and intense swarm fights make it a strong fit for players who mainly love PAYDAY's cooperative combat loop.

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: Looter Shooter 43.8% ★, Online Co-Op 17.7%, Co-op 13%, Multiplayer 11.4%, Shooter 7.2%

Why You'll Like It: It expands the same cover-based co-op looter-shooter formula with strong endgame builds and coordinated team play.

Awaken as an unstoppable warrior and battle alongside your friends in this story-driven free-to-play online action game

Why similar: Looter Shooter 51.4% ★, Co-op 17.8%, Online Co-Op 13.2%, Action 6.3%, Shooter 6.3%

Why You'll Like It: Its mission-based co-op structure, endless progression, and buildcraft-heavy teamwork make it a good fit for players hooked on PAYDAY 2's grind.

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 31.1%, Co-op 14.6%, Online Co-Op 12%, Shooter 11.5%, Multiplayer 11.3%

Why You'll Like It: The co-op PvE mode offers tense, tactical objective pushes and punishing firefights that reward the same disciplined teamwork as harder PAYDAY jobs.

Aliens: Fireteam Elite is a cooperative third-person survival game set in the iconic Alien Universe. Battle through hordes of different types of Xenomorph, customize your character and gear, and level-up as you try to contain this ever-growing threat.

Why similar: Co-op 41.8%, Online Co-Op 23.4%, Shooter 14.2%, Multiplayer 8.8%, Action 6.8%

Why You'll Like It: This is another objective-based three-player co-op shooter where positioning, loadouts, and special enemy control matter as much as raw aim.

You’re out of jail, but the debt isn’t gone. Sneak, steal, and break into houses solo or in 4-player co-op. Use lockpicks, sleeping gas, and brute force to complete jobs, outsmart security, and make enough money before time runs out. Will you pay back what you owe, or lose everything?

Why similar: Heist 34% ★, Crime 17.3%, Online Co-Op 11.3%, FPS 9.7%, Multiplayer 8.3%

The chances of you surviving this all out war of society and the undead are slim to none. Already, there are millions of the walking dead shambling about, searching for food to eat. There's no known cure. One bite can possibly end it all for you. However, you aren't alone in this nightmare.

Why similar: Co-op 29.5%, Online Co-Op 19%, Multiplayer 18.4%, FPS 17.7%, Shooter 6%

Why You'll Like It: This free co-op shooter emphasizes survival, teamwork, and tense objective completion in a way that appeals to fans of PAYDAY's older-school cooperative challenge.

Become the best thief. Gather intel, steal things and sell them to buy hi-tech equipment. Do everything that a real thief does.

Why similar: Heist 30.3% ★, Crime 20.6%, Stealth 18.1%, Co-op 14.7%, FPS 6.5%

6-player co-op survival horror at its finest! Free updates, free special events and a ridiculous amount of fun!

Why similar: Co-op 30.5%, FPS 25.8%, Online Co-Op 13.6%, Multiplayer 9.1%, Team-Based 8.9%

Crime Simulator: Playgrounds is a short, chaotic, and hilarious entry in the Crime Simulator franchise. Throw hammers, spray pepper gas, and cause mayhem solo or with up to 4 players. Take over hideouts, complete absurd missions, and unleash destruction with the wildest weapons. No rules—just fun!

Why similar: Heist 35.3% ★, Crime 16.7%, Co-op 14%, Online Co-Op 10.7%, FPS 7.5%

Nine distinct classes provide a broad range of tactical abilities and personalities. Constantly updated with new game modes, maps, equipment and, most importantly, hats!

Why similar: FPS 23.3%, Multiplayer 19%, Team-Based 14.3%, Co-op 11.2%, Online Co-Op 10.2%

Get your crew back together for the ultimate heist experience! Return to Monaco, plan your operation, and skedaddle when things inevitably go awry in this co-op heist game. The city is yours for the taking!

Why similar: Heist 39.6% ★, Co-op 18%, Crime 13.3%, Stealth 10.3%, Online Co-Op 7.9%

Get ready for the most out-landish gameplay scenarios ever seen as the Third Street Saints take on the Syndicate!

Why similar: Co-op 32.6%, Crime 16.9%, Online Co-Op 15.8%, Great Soundtrack 9.9%, Action 9.1%

The Galaxy’s Last Line of Offence. Enlist in the Helldivers and join the fight for freedom across a hostile galaxy in a fast, frantic, and ferocious third-person shooter.

Why similar: Online Co-Op 26.7%, Co-op 25.5%, Multiplayer 13.6%, Great Soundtrack 10.5%, Shooter 10.2%

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 20.3%, Online Co-Op 17.2%, Co-op 13%, Team-Based 11.7%, Multiplayer 10.6%

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 24.9%, Co-op 16.8%, Multiplayer 15.5%, Online Co-Op 9.2%, Shooter 8.3%

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 48.5%, Co-op 9.9%, Team-Based 8.1%, Multiplayer 8.1%, Tactical 7.2%

Tactical squad-based heist game set in 1970s. The 2D top-down view gives you a great overview of what's happening at any given moment, allowing you to be a real criminal mastermind. Can you pull off the greatest heist in the history of mankind?

Why similar: Heist 44% ★, Crime 19.3%, Stealth 14.5%, Great Soundtrack 9.3%, Tactical 6.7%

Experience the insane antics of Saints Row IV. The Saints have gone from the Penthouse to the White House - but Earth has been invaded and it’s up to you to save it with an arsenal of superpowers and strange weapons, in the wildest open world game ever.

Why similar: Co-op 43.3%, Online Co-Op 19.4%, Action 12.5%, Great Soundtrack 11.4%, Multiplayer 9%

Harry, a bank robber aims to rob a government bank, so he choose the day that the bank is open to visitors, and takes the opportunity to carry out the robbery. Upon arriving at the bank, learns some routines, of how things work and then begins to put his plan into practice.

Why similar: Heist 28.9% ★, Looter Shooter 18.8% ★, Crime 13.5%, Stealth 11%, FPS 9.9%

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)

Why similar: Crime 26.9%, Co-op 26.9%, Heist 22.2% ★, Action 8.4%, Shooter 6.5%

Take charge of a SWAT unit as an elite operator. Command a specialized AI squad or team up in co-op to seize suspects, rescue civilians, and restore order. Study the briefing, kit out your team, and execute your plan with disciplined precision.

Why similar: Co-op 15.6%, FPS 15.1%, Crime 11.8%, Team-Based 10.6%, Gun Customization 9.4% ★

Go on heists through Midnight City alone or with up to four players to fulfill tasks as a hacker for various organizations. Improve your reputation, earn money, and uncover the secrets of shady companies all while being hunted by terrifying entities.

Why similar: Heist 46.6% ★, Crime 15.2%, Online Co-Op 13.6%, Co-op 11.2%, Multiplayer 6%

Sneak Thief is a first person, shooter, strategy, stealth and puzzle game that lets you choose how you want to play. Use your wits and expertise to setup and perform heists whether that be by using brute force to smash your way through or by getting away without making a sound.

Why similar: Heist 37.7% ★, Stealth 25.7%, FPS 9.4%, Crime 6.8%, Multiplayer 6.3%

Welcome to San Francisco. Play as Marcus, a brilliant young hacker, and join the most notorious hacker group, DedSec. Your objective: execute the biggest hack of history.

Why similar: Stealth 26.3%, Crime 25.8%, Co-op 16.3%, Multiplayer 14.4%, Shooter 8.7%

Tired of political exploitation? Join me and let's rebuild our thieving business together! Let's steal cars, radios, and TVs - anything that catches your eye can be yours! Recall what it's like to be a thief in Thief Simulator 2: Prologue!

Why similar: Heist 31.3% ★, Co-op 20.8%, Crime 20.1%, Multiplayer 9.5%, Stealth 5.4%

The System built a world of injustice and oppression. Pressed up against the wall, it now fights for its survival. Uphold the law as an elite police officer or join the Stagers to liberate the world, defining the future of society in this multiplayer isometric tactical shooter!

Why similar: Heist 32.1% ★, Gun Customization 11.9% ★, Co-op 10.9%, Crime 9.3%, Online Co-Op 8.5%

Saints Row 2 brings true freedom to open-world gaming. Players can play as who they want, how they want, and with whomever they want in this sequel to the much acclaimed and tremendously successful Saints Row.

Why similar: Co-op 28.1%, Crime 25.8%, Online Co-Op 13.1%, Action 8.9%, Great Soundtrack 8.5%

Perfect Heist is a round-based online game, where the robber team tries to execute a bank robbery without getting noticed, and the cop team tries to prevent it. Robbers hide in plain sight and try to slowly infiltrate the bank while the Cops try to figure out who is a normal customer, and who is a robber!

Why similar: Heist 46.6% ★, FPS 15.1%, Crime 12.3%, Multiplayer 9.3%, Shooter 6.7%

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: Co-op 29.6%, FPS 19.4%, Online Co-Op 12.4%, Multiplayer 11.6%, Team-Based 10.7%

Gunfire Reborn is a level-based adventure game featuring FPS, Roguelite and RPG. Players can control heroes with various abilities to experience diverse Build gameplay, use various weapons to explore procedurally-generated levels. You can play the game alone, or join 4-player coop.

Why similar: Looter Shooter 23.3% ★, Co-op 22.8%, FPS 19.5%, Online Co-Op 17.5%, Multiplayer 9%

Paladins is the ultimate fantasy team-based shooter experience, with over 50 customizable Champions fighting in 5v5 action across a diverse Realm of modes and maps!

Why similar: FPS 24.7%, Team-Based 17.3%, Multiplayer 14.5%, Online Co-Op 11.3%, Co-op 10.9%