Games Like Plants vs. Zombies™ Garden Warfare 2: Deluxe Edition

Kick some grass in Plants vs. Zombies: Battle for Neighborville, the wackiest shooter yet!

Why similar: Hero Shooter 26.4% ★, Third-Person Shooter 18.8%, Zombies 17.4%, PvP 7.9%, Multiplayer 7.9%

Why You'll Like It: The closest alternative is Garden Warfare’s follow-up, retaining the goofy Plants vs. Zombies factions, distinct character classes, third-person combat, and team-based multiplayer.

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

Why similar: Third-Person Shooter 25.8%, Multiplayer 14.8%, Shooter 11.6%, PvP 9.9%, Co-op 9.6%

Why You'll Like It: It similarly combines accessible third-person shooting, class-based team battles, hero characters, customization, and large-scale casual multiplayer modes.

Marvel Rivals is a Super Hero Team-Based PVP Shooter! Assemble an all-star Marvel squad, devise countless strategies by combining powers to form unique Team-Up skills and fight in destructible, ever-changing battlefields across the continually evolving Marvel universe!

Why similar: Hero Shooter 32.1% ★, Third-Person Shooter 18%, Team-Based 13.8%, PvP 10%, Multiplayer 9.9%

Why You'll Like It: Its colorful third-person hero battles center on memorable characters with radically different abilities, team synergies, and playful objective-based PvP.

Take part of history’s greatest battle of Green VS. Tan. Fight amongst and against others online. Jump, shoot and roll your way into victory with fast paced objective based gameplay. Sometimes the greatest battles are fought by the smallest of soldiers.

Why similar: Third-Person Shooter 38%, Multiplayer 19.4%, Shooter 14.4%, Funny 12.7%, Action 7.1%

Why You'll Like It: Its tiny plastic-soldier battlefields deliver the same lighthearted, toy-like third-person multiplayer spirit and easy-to-grasp team shooting.

Join 20+ million players in Rogue Company, the ultimate third-person tactical action shooter! Become an agent of Rogue Company and wield powerful weapons, high-tech gadgets, and game-changing abilities. Accept the mission and jump into a variety of 4v4 and 6v6 game modes. Play FREE today!

Why similar: Third-Person Shooter 23.8%, Hero Shooter 18.7% ★, Multiplayer 11.9%, Shooter 10.8%, PvP 10.3%

Why You'll Like It: This approachable third-person team shooter emphasizes character abilities, compact objective modes, cosmetics, and fast arcade-style gunplay.

Exoprimal is an online, team-based action game that pits humanity's cutting-edge exosuit technology against history's most ferocious beasts – dinosaurs.​​

Why similar: Team-Based 19.6%, PvP 18.5%, Shooter 17.6%, Third-Person Shooter 13.4%, Multiplayer 10.3%

Why You'll Like It: This class-based third-person shooter mixes colorful sci-fi heroes, dinosaur hordes, abilities, and a distinctive blend of co-op PvE and competitive racing objectives.

GO GIGANTIC! THE UNIQUE MOBA HERO SHOOTER RETURNS!

Why similar: Hero Shooter 36.2% ★, Third-Person Shooter 17%, PvP 14.9%, Multiplayer 9.7%, Action 4.9%

Why You'll Like It: This vibrant third-person hero game rewards team composition and ability mastery while keeping a colorful, less-serious visual personality.

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: Hero Shooter 72.9% ★, Multiplayer 7.2%, Team-Based 6.6%, Shooter 4.2%, Funny 3%

Why You'll Like It: This enduring class shooter has cartoon charm, silly weapons, memorable characters, and relaxed team modes that helped define the genre’s playful side.

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: Hero Shooter 29.2% ★, Third-Person Shooter 16.2%, Team-Based 15.6%, PvP 8.5%, Multiplayer 7.4%

Why You'll Like It: Its personality-driven heroes, role-based teams, approachable objectives, and constant ability interactions match Garden Warfare 2’s PvP appeal, despite being first-person.

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

Why similar: Third-Person Shooter 41.8%, Third Person 16.1%, Character Customization 12.5%, Shooter 9.2%, Co-op 8.8%

Why You'll Like It: Warframe offers highly customizable third-person characters, unusual weapons and powers, and a huge amount of cooperative PvE shooting.

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: Hero Shooter 90.9% ★, Team-Based 2.3%, Multiplayer 1.6%, Shooter 1.4%, PvP 1.2%

Why You'll Like It: Paladins provides a broad roster of colorful heroes, loadout customization, casual objective modes, and an accessible free-to-play team-shooter structure.

The First Descendant is a third-person looter shooter powered by Unreal Engine 5. Become a Descendant. Fight for the survival of humanity. Descendants have unique abilities to tackle both solo and co-op missions. Up to 4 players use varied mechanics to defeat giant bosses. BE THE FIRST DESCENDANT!

Why similar: Third-Person Shooter 30.8%, Multiplayer 14.5%, Character Customization 12.3%, Shooter 10.9%, Third Person 9.1%

Why You'll Like It: This third-person co-op shooter focuses on collectible, ability-driven heroes, flashy combat, character builds, and repeatable PvE missions.

Escape a chaotic alien planet by fighting through hordes of frenzied monsters – with your friends, or on your own. Combine loot in surprising ways and master each character until you become the havoc you feared upon your first crash landing.

Why similar: Third-Person Shooter 43.3%, Multiplayer 17.2%, Co-op 14.7%, Shooter 8.2%, Third Person 6.5%

Why You'll Like It: Although primarily PvE, it shares Garden Warfare 2’s readable third-person combat, wild character abilities, humorous chaos, and cooperative replayability.

From one of gaming’s most acclaimed sagas, Gears is bigger than ever. With all-out war descending, Kait Diaz breaks away to uncover her connection to the enemy and discovers the true danger to Sera – herself.

Why similar: Third-Person Shooter 31.4%, Hero Shooter 19.8% ★, Multiplayer 13.1%, Co-op 12%, Shooter 10.2%

Why You'll Like It: Its polished third-person cover shooting, character classes, versus modes, and excellent co-op Horde mode make it a strong action-heavy alternative.

Become a god and wage war in SMITE 2, the free-to-play Unreal Engine 5-powered sequel to the legendary third-person action MOBA. If you love challenging competition, intense action, ability-driven combat, rewarding teamwork, or godly mythology, you’ll see why 40+ million players love SMITE.

Why similar: Team-Based 25.2%, PvP 16.7%, Third Person 14.3%, Multiplayer 12.1%, Co-op 9.7%

Why You'll Like It: It translates hero-based team competition into a third-person perspective, with varied playable gods, ability combos, skins, and objective-driven matches.

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: Zombies 36.7%, Third-Person Shooter 17.3%, Multiplayer 11.5%, Co-op 8.1%, Shooter 7.8%

Why You'll Like It: Its class-based co-op campaigns and enormous zombie swarms make it an excellent choice for players seeking more substantial horde-focused teamwork.

Zombies are invading your home, and the only defense is your arsenal of plants! Armed with an alien nursery-worth of zombie-zapping plants like peashooters and cherry bombs, you'll need to think fast and plant faster to stop dozens of types of zombies dead in their tracks.

Why similar: Zombies 79.4%, Funny 10.5%, Casual 5.3%, Cute 4.8%

Why You'll Like It: It lacks the shooter gameplay but remains the essential starting point for the seed game’s charming plants-versus-zombies world and humorous tone.

Shotgun Farmers is the multplayer shooter where missed shots grow guns. Fire your bullets into the ground to plant your ammo. The longer a gun plant grows the more ammo you will get!

Why similar: Team-Based 19%, Multiplayer 11%, Shooter 10.5%, Character Customization 10.2%, PvP 10%

Why You'll Like It: This bright, absurd multiplayer shooter shares Garden Warfare 2’s fondness for agricultural comedy, whimsical weapons, and low-pressure arcade combat.

Slice, burn, toss, zap, grind and gib massive hordes of repugnant orcs in this long-awaited successor to the award-winning Orcs Must Die! series.

Why similar: Third-Person Shooter 36.1%, Co-op 19.9%, Multiplayer 10.8%, Third Person 9.2%, Funny 8.9%

Why You'll Like It: This playful third-person co-op game combines shooting, character abilities, trap customization, and defending against huge waves of enemies.

Hitler’s hordes are back for more in this spine-chilling shooter from the makers of Sniper Elite 4! Abominable occult enemies, epic weapons and a harrowing new campaign for 1-4 players await in 1940s Europe, as you fight to save humankind from undead Armageddon!

Why similar: Zombies 31.8%, Third-Person Shooter 20.3%, Shooter 11.7%, Multiplayer 11.4%, Co-op 10.3%

Why You'll Like It: It offers satisfying third-person co-op shooting against zombie hordes, with character progression and a knowingly pulpy tone.

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: Third-Person Shooter 36.1%, Multiplayer 14.8%, Shooter 13.9%, Co-op 11.5%, Online Co-Op 10.3%

Why You'll Like It: It is a more intense but still humorous third-person co-op shooter built around class loadouts, overwhelming enemy hordes, and emergent team chaos.

The classic Plants vs. Zombies returns in glorious HD! The original battle between Plants and Zombies is back — bigger, brighter, and crazier than ever before! Experience the game that started it all, now remastered with stunning HD graphics and packed with new secrets and content to uncover.

Why similar: Zombies 38.7%, Cartoon 13.7%, PvP 11.3%, Funny 10.4%, Co-op 8.1%

Why You'll Like It: This refreshed take on the original preserves the familiar characters, comedic presentation, and strategic plant defense that underpin Garden Warfare’s setting.

Worms Rumble is Worms like you’ve never played it before, with intense, real-time, arena-based 32 player cross-platform combat. Get ready for Deathmatch and Last Worm Standing modes where you’re only ever a Holy Hand Grenade away from death!

Why similar: Third-Person Shooter 20.4%, Multiplayer 13.7%, PvP 13%, Character Customization 12.3%, Team-Based 10.4%

Why You'll Like It: It condenses Worms’ cartoon warfare into real-time online arena shooting with customization, comedic weapons, and breezy multiplayer matches.

A frantic, online PvP shooter that combines combat and deck building. Choose a character, customize your card-based loadout, and get ready for the fights of your life!

Why similar: Hero Shooter 28.7% ★, Team-Based 16.5%, PvP 10.8%, Co-op 8.6%, Shooter 7.7%

Why You'll Like It: Fast rounds, humorous presentation, weird modifiers, and accessible online shooting make it a good fit for the seed game’s party-game sensibility.

Hypercharge is a first and third-person shooter action figure game you've always dreamed of! Grab your friends, complete objectives, defend the Hypercore against waves of weaponized toys, and defeat Major Evil together in the story campaign!

Why similar: Third-Person Shooter 48.8%, Shooter 19.2%, Third Person 14.7%, Online Co-Op 11.1%, Action 3.3%

Why You'll Like It: Toy-scale arenas, cheerful visuals, online co-op, PvP, and defend-the-base horde modes closely capture the seed game’s family-friendly shooter energy.

Dungeon Defenders II is a cooperative Action Tower Defense game packed with roleplaying elements like loot, leveling, and pets.

Why similar: Team-Based 27.4%, Multiplayer 23.3%, Character Customization 17.2%, Online Co-Op 13.5%, Third Person 12.1%

Why You'll Like It: Its colorful heroes, gear progression, co-op missions, and blend of direct combat with wave defense suit players who enjoy Garden Warfare 2’s PvE side.

Welcome to the coziest way to kill your friends. Super Animal Royale is a 64-player, top-down 2D battle royale where adorably murderous animals fight tooth, claw, and machine gun. Then, relax in Super Animal World with fishing, hamsterball races, and story quests before the next fight to the death.

Why similar: PvP 18.4%, Character Customization 15.8%, Multiplayer 13.1%, Shooter 13%, Funny 11.9%

Why You'll Like It: Its cute visual style, animal characters, simple controls, and lighthearted online combat offer a similarly friendly alternative, albeit from a top-down view.

Stand and fight for humanity. This arcade shooter takes place in the year 2022, as the Earth Defense Force fends off an all-out attack by unknown life forms. Become an EDF soldier, battle against endless hordes of immense enemies, and restore peace to the earth.

Why similar: Third-Person Shooter 34.3%, Co-op 13.1%, Shooter 12.5%, Action 10.7%, Online Co-Op 9.4%

Why You'll Like It: Its intentionally exuberant co-op combat against enormous enemy swarms offers the same gleeful, chaotic action and varied character roles on a larger scale.

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: Third-Person Shooter 28.5%, Character Customization 15%, Shooter 13.7%, Co-op 13.7%, Third Person 7.2%

Why You'll Like It: Players choose distinct classes and work together in third-person against dense enemy swarms, making it a strong co-op-focused counterpart to Garden Ops-style play.

From the creators of Bloons TD6... Bloons TD Battles 2 is a brand new installment of the top-rated head-to-head tower defense game. Gather your Hero, choose your team of powerful Monkey Towers, and prepare to battle one on one against other players and relentless waves of Bloons!

Why similar: PvP 30.1%, Multiplayer 21.9%, Character Customization 18.3%, Funny 9.7%, Colorful 9.7%

Sunset Overdrive transforms an open-world apocalypse into your tactical playground. Zip, grind and wall-run across Sunset City with an unconventional arsenal. Hyper-agility, unique weapons, and customizable abilities deliver an explosive and irreverent adventure in the end times.

Why similar: Third-Person Shooter 30.3%, Character Customization 18.9%, Zombies 18.8%, Funny 11.6%, Action 5.6%

Why You'll Like It: Its colorful world, exaggerated weapons, irreverent humor, and highly mobile third-person shooting capture much of Garden Warfare 2’s playful feel in a solo-focused format.

The legendary mobile multiplayer FPS Pixel Gun 3D comes to PC! Experience an enhanced world of colorful, blocky action. Featuring dozens of game modes and maps, 1500+ guns plus cross-platform multiplayer and progression.

Why similar: Hero Shooter 25.7% ★, Third-Person Shooter 16.3%, PvP 15.3%, Character Customization 11.4%, Shooter 9.6%

The Bloons are back and better than ever! Get ready for a massive 3D tower defense game designed to give you hours and hours of the best strategy gaming available.

Why similar: Multiplayer 31.2%, Co-op 25.4%, Online Co-Op 16.4%, Funny 11.7%, Cute 6.9%

Neighbors: Suburban Warfare is a chaotic online multiplayer party brawler where suburban rivals go to war. Team up with friends in wild PvE and PvP matches, destroy rival houses with everyday items turned weapons, and defend your home using traps, gadgets, and crazy team combos.

Why similar: Hero Shooter 33.4% ★, Team-Based 18.5%, PvP 11.1%, Character Customization 10.8%, Multiplayer 8.2%

Zombieville USA 3D is a stylized arcade shooter combining retro gameplay with strikingly polished visuals. Fight through an endless undead horde in the bleak hellscape of suburbia! Choose your weapons, grab a friend, and see how long you can survive.

Why similar: Zombies 35.4%, Shooter 15.9%, Character Customization 14.2%, Co-op 13.9%, Funny 12.4%

Go head to head with other players in a Bloon-popping battle for victory. From the creators of best-selling Bloons TD 6, this all new Battles game is specially designed for multiplayer combat, featuring the ability to control bloons directly and send them charging past your opponent's defenses.

Why similar: Multiplayer 38.1%, PvP 26.9%, Funny 12.4%, Co-op 11.5%, Action 7.3%

Take your best shot with energizing arcade fun! Aim, shoot, clear the orange pegs, then sit back and cheer as 10 whimsical teachers guide you to Peggle greatness.

Why similar: Casual 46.2%, Multiplayer 31.1%, Funny 22.7%

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

Why similar: Third-Person Shooter 25.9%, Shooter 15%, Multiplayer 13.3%, PvP 13%, Co-op 10.8%

Call of Duty®: Black Ops III Zombies Chronicles Edition includes the full base game plus the Zombies Chronicles content expansion.

Why similar: Zombies 34%, Multiplayer 20.6%, Hero Shooter 18.7% ★, Shooter 12.4%, Co-op 9.2%

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: Hero Shooter 20.3% ★, Shooter 17.5%, Multiplayer 17.4%, PvP 14.4%, Team-Based 13.6%

You’ve tossed, burned and sliced them by the thousands – now orcs must die more than ever before! Grab a friend and slay orcs in untold numbers in this sequel to the 2011 AIAS Strategy Game of the Year from Robot Entertainment.

Why similar: Third-Person Shooter 25.2%, Co-op 21.1%, Multiplayer 10.7%, Shooter 10.1%, Third Person 10%

Morphies Law is a wacky mass stealing, robot morphing 3D shooter where size really matters!

Why similar: Team-Based 19.7%, Third-Person Shooter 14.7%, PvP 11.8%, Shooter 9.4%, Funny 8.6%

Five-star tower defense with unrivaled depth and replayability. The Bloons are back in full HD glory and this time they mean business! Build awesome towers, choose your favorite upgrades, hire new Special Agents, and pop every last invading Bloon in the most popular tower defense series in history.

Why similar: Co-op 30.6%, Multiplayer 22.6%, Funny 13.2%, Online Co-Op 9.6%, Action 9.3%

Orcs Must Die! Deathtrap combines chaotic third-person combat with devious trap-laying strategy. Enjoy endless replayability as your War Mage grows stronger through roguelite progression. Repel relentless orc hordes solo or with up to 4 players.

Why similar: Hero Shooter 30.2% ★, Third-Person Shooter 22.5%, Co-op 9.3%, Funny 8.5%, Multiplayer 8.2%

Load your weapons and experience a whole new dimension in destructive turn-based cartoon action!

Why similar: Multiplayer 38.8%, Funny 29.3%, Third Person 16.5%, Action 6.5%, Co-op 5.5%

Microvolts Recharged is a quirky lobby-based third-person shooter with a unique toy theme. The game features a fun character cast and freely swappable 7 weapon types. Battle it out across dozens of large well-designed maps and frag your enemies!

Why similar: Hero Shooter 22.7% ★, Third-Person Shooter 15.5%, Team-Based 12.8%, PvP 8.6%, Character Customization 8.3%

Defend the Oval Office from an endless alien invasion by harnessing the abilities of your favorite (or least favorite) U.S. Presidents.

Why similar: Hero Shooter 42.7% ★, Third-Person Shooter 22.4%, Funny 8.2%, Third Person 7.7%, Online Co-Op 7%

Attention! Tiny Troopers: Global Ops is a fast-paced arcade twin-stick shooter in which you lead an elite squad of Tiny Troopers on action-packed missions to take down hordes of unscrupulous enemies from all corners of the world!

Why similar: Character Customization 18.3%, Shooter 14.8%, Funny 13.1%, Multiplayer 12.6%, Co-op 12.6%

Embark on an epic adventure full of whimsy, wonder, and high-powered weaponry! Roll your own multiclass hero then shoot, loot, slash, and cast on a quest to stop the Dragon Lord.

Why similar: Character Customization 23.5%, Shooter 20.8%, Multiplayer 20.5%, Co-op 17.1%, Online Co-Op 11.5%

Embark on an exotic journey into danger in this rip-roaring 1930s third person adventure for 1-4 players! Encounter pulse-pounding action, treacherous traps and tales of derring-do!

Why similar: Zombies 26%, Third-Person Shooter 15.1%, Co-op 12.5%, Shooter 11%, Multiplayer 10.7%

Fight your way through an exciting action-adventure game, inspired by classic dungeon crawlers and set in the Minecraft universe!

Why similar: Multiplayer 28.1%, Funny 19.3%, Action 15.5%, Colorful 13.7%, Cute 13.6%

Deep in the jungle lie hidden temples bursting with traps and trickery, and it's up to you to uncover their treasures. Fire magical balls from your stone frog idol to make matches of three or more and clear the deadly chain before it reaches the golden skull.

Why similar: Funny 37.9%, Cute 21.4%, Colorful 14.8%, Shooter 11.2%, Casual 10.4%

KILL IT WITH FIRE! 2 is the ultimate co-op spider-hunting experience! Either solo or as a team of Exterminators, unleash an arsenal of crazy weapons, wreak havoc, and complete dozens of challenges across seven dimensions under spider siege.

Why similar: Multiplayer 24.2%, Funny 23.5%, Co-op 23.3%, Online Co-Op 14.5%, Action 8.2%

HELLDIVERS™ is a hardcore, cooperative, twin stick shooter. As part of the elite unit called the HELLDIVERS, players must work together to protect SUPER EARTH and defeat the enemies of mankind in an intense intergalactic war.

Why similar: Co-op 31.2%, Online Co-Op 19.8%, Multiplayer 18.7%, Shooter 12.9%, Funny 10.3%

Dream up the ultimate Minifigure brawlers and bash your way through all of your favorite LEGO® themes in the first team action brawler set in the LEGO universe. Play with friends at home or around the world and see how you stack up against the competition.

Why similar: Team-Based 22.8%, Character Customization 15.6%, PvP 15.4%, Multiplayer 11.5%, Funny 10.7%

Bullet Yeeters - jetpack chaos in your own home! A third-person shooter where tiny agents with big guns battle it out in giant household arenas. Fly with a jetpack, fight crazy bosses, customize your hero, and unleash explosive mayhem in kitchens, garages, and living rooms!

Why similar: Hero Shooter 31.7% ★, Third-Person Shooter 18.9%, Cartoon 9.2%, Shooter 9%, PvP 8.4%

Explosions. Tanks. Bosses. And more explosions. Crazy fun with your friends. Hundreds of maps. Boom.

Why similar: Hero Shooter 51.6% ★, Shooter 11.8%, Co-op 11.8%, Combat 9.2%, Cute 5.2%