Games Like Squad

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 28%, FPS 11.3%, Realistic 10.7%, War 8.9%, Shooter 7.9%

Why You'll Like It: Its Cold War sandbox emphasizes radio communication, organized units, infantry tactics, vehicles, and player-created operations on a scale that closely suits Squad players.

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 19.4%, FPS 12.6%, War 11.4%, Realistic 11.1%, Massively Multiplayer 8.4%

Why You'll Like It: Large 50-versus-50 battles, class roles, supply networks, commanders, armor, and proximity voice teamwork make it one of the closest organized-war alternatives.

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 23%, FPS 12.7%, Massively Multiplayer 11.7%, Realistic 9.3%, War 9.3%

Why You'll Like It: Built around the same kind of squad coordination, logistics, rally points, vehicle warfare, and large objective battles, but set in World War II.

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 27.8%, Realistic 9.6%, FPS 9.2%, War 8.5%, Tactical 8.5%

Why You'll Like It: This deeper military sandbox supports massive combined-arms operations, modded realism units, commanding, and cooperative missions beyond Squad's match-based format.

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 23.8%, FPS 17.3%, Realistic 12.4%, Tactical 10.1%, Shooter 8.6%

Why You'll Like It: While smaller in scale, its lethal gunplay, objective-focused modes, fire support, and emphasis on communication deliver similarly tense modern infantry 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 26.5%, FPS 13.1%, Realistic 11.4%, Tactical 9.7%, War 8.7%

Why You'll Like It: A free-to-play tactical military FPS with squad-based objective modes, vehicles, deployable assets, and extensive modding inspired by games such as Squad.

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 20.3%, FPS 13.3%, Massively Multiplayer 11.2%, Team-Based 10.8%, War 9.3%

Why You'll Like It: Its lightweight visuals hide huge destructible combined-arms battles with squad spawning, medic support, building destruction, and a notably teamwork-friendly pace.

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 27.3%, Tactical 16.3%, Realistic 14.3%, FPS 13%, Shooter 6.3%

Why You'll Like It: This highly configurable tactical FPS focuses on realistic weapon handling, careful room clearing, deliberate communication, and extensive loadout customization.

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 16.5%, Wargame 12.9%, Team-Based 10.1%, Massively Multiplayer 9.9%, FPS 9.8%

Why You'll Like It: Brutal time-to-kill, asymmetric factions, large maps, helicopters, commander support, and team coordination make its Vietnam battles feel especially grounded.

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 33.7%, Military 13.5%, Realistic 9.9%, Tactical 9.2%, Team-Based 7.6%

Why You'll Like It: The original delivers the same high-lethality, communication-driven objective combat as Sandstorm in a leaner and more unforgiving format.

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 15.1%, Massively Multiplayer 14.3%, FPS 12.8%, Team-Based 10.2%, Online Co-Op 8.5%

Why You'll Like It: Its large-scale Warfare mode mixes squads, revives, class abilities, armored vehicles, helicopters, and modern objective battles in a more accessible package.

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 16.3%, Tactical 14%, FPS 12%, Realistic 10.1%, Shooter 8.5%

Why You'll Like It: It trades open battlefields for close-quarters scenarios, but its slow movement, tactical planning, realistic gunplay, and team communication are highly compatible with Squad's feel.

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 26%, FPS 16.3%, War 12.3%, Multiplayer 10.7%, Shooter 8.8%

Why You'll Like It: It is more arcade-oriented than Squad, but its large modern maps, infantry-and-vehicle combat, destruction, and conquest objectives remain a strong combined-arms fit.

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 22.3%, FPS 12.3%, War 12%, PvP 9%, Massively Multiplayer 8.3%

Why You'll Like It: Its World War we setting still delivers Squad-like organized pushes through large maps, officer roles, class cooperation, and punishing frontline combat.

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 19.9%, Team-Based 11.1%, Wargame 10.7%, FPS 10%, Tactical 9.3%

Why You'll Like It: This tactical co-op shooter centers on coordinated room clearing, uncertain enemy positions, realistic urban combat, and careful use of squadmates.

Contains full Rising Storm content as well!

Why similar: Realistic 13.4%, Wargame 13.2%, FPS 12.6%, Team-Based 12.2%, Military 11.5%

Why You'll Like It: This hardcore historical shooter rewards coordinated assaults, suppression, armor support, lethal weapons, and disciplined objective play.

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: Tactical 23.5%, FPS 21.3%, Realistic 19.9%, Shooter 11.2%, Multiplayer 9.7%

Why You'll Like It: Its co-op and PvP tactical operations prioritize methodical movement, role discipline, communication, and realistic consequences rather than run-and-gun play.

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 19.7%, Wargame 15.4%, Massively Multiplayer 12.8%, Team-Based 11.2%, War 9%

Why You'll Like It: Although played from a top-down perspective, its player-run logistics, construction, command structure, and persistent combined-arms war strongly echo Squad's teamwork and base-building appeal.

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 18.1%, FPS 10.8%, Tactical 9.6%, Realistic 9.1%, Massively Multiplayer 7.8%

Why You'll Like It: Its tactical open-world PvPvE deployment model, realistic ballistics, faction coordination, and methodical engagements appeal to players who enjoy Squad's milsim side.

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 15.8%, Team-Based 13.5%, War 10.5%, PvP 9%, Multiplayer 8.6%

Why You'll Like It: Large historical battles with infantry squads, tanks, aircraft, engineers, and capture objectives provide a more casual but still combined-arms alternative.

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: Massively Multiplayer 21.8%, FPS 19.1%, Team-Based 13.3%, Shooter 9.2%, War 7.7%

Why You'll Like It: Its persistent continent-wide wars let organized outfits coordinate infantry, armor, aircraft, logistics, and base captures at a scale beyond Squad.

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 16.6%, FPS 11.8%, Team-Based 11.3%, Wargame 11.3%, Tactical 10.2%

Why You'll Like It: Its extremely immersive presentation, realistic weapon feel, quick lethality, and tense multiplayer firefights suit players seeking Squad's modern-combat intensity in smaller engagements.

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 17.3%, Wargame 13.3%, Team-Based 13.2%, Massively Multiplayer 9.7%, Realistic 8.3%

Why You'll Like It: Methodical World War we attacks, role-specific equipment, artillery support, fortifications, and hard-fought objectives make teamwork essential.

Experience close-quarters battles in iconic WWII settings. Defend the line, storm the beach, torch the enemy, or use a radio to call in fire support. Day of Infamy is a teamwork-oriented shooter that will keep you on your toes and coming back for more with its diverse game modes and authentic arsenal.

Why similar: Military 22%, FPS 17.8%, War 14.2%, Realistic 11.1%, Tactical 8.4%

Why You'll Like It: Its World War II objective modes reward smoke use, suppression, class cooperation, and disciplined pushes in compact but intense battles.

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 22.3%, FPS 12.1%, Realistic 10.1%, War 8.9%, Tactical 8.2%

Why You'll Like It: For VR players, it offers highly tactical multiplayer built around realistic weapons, communication, cautious movement, and coordinated squad engagements.

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%, Wargame 11.9%, Team-Based 11.2%, Massively Multiplayer 9.5%, FPS 9%

Merciless trench warfare immerses you and your squad in intense battles of attack and defense. Verdun is the first multiplayer FPS set in an authentic World War One setting offering a rarely seen battlefield experience.

Why similar: Military 14.6%, Wargame 11.7%, Massively Multiplayer 11.6%, PvP 10.3%, Shooter 8.7%

Why You'll Like It: Its attritional trench warfare, squad roles, officer support, and punishing weapon handling capture the slower tactical rhythm of organized frontline combat.

Starship Troopers: Extermination is an up to 16-player co-op FPS that puts you on the far-off frontlines of an all-out battle against the Bugs! Squad up, grab your rifle, and do your part as an elite Deep Space Vanguard Trooper to take back planets from the Arachnid threat!

Why similar: Wargame 19.4%, FPS 15.1%, Online Co-Op 11.5%, Realistic 10.6%, PvE 9.7%

Why You'll Like It: It shifts Squad's squad cohesion, classes, construction, revives, and defensive objectives into a large-scale cooperative sci-fi war against alien hordes.

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 20.1%, Wargame 13.2%, FPS 11.1%, War 11%, Team-Based 9.3%

Why You'll Like It: Its historical combat is less realistic, but large multiplayer formations, officer commands, artillery, cavalry, and proximity-chat coordination create memorable team battles.

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 13.3%, Massively Multiplayer 11.8%, War 10.1%, Realistic 9.2%

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 23.3%, War 16.9%, Realistic 11.4%, FPS 10.8%, Massively Multiplayer 9.3%

Why You'll Like It: This Civil War multiplayer simulation demands formation discipline, officer leadership, voice communication, and coordinated assaults on a very large battlefield.

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: Tactical 13.7%, Realistic 13.4%, FPS 13.2%, War 12.4%, Shooter 9.8%

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 19%, Massively Multiplayer 9.8%, Team-Based 9.3%, FPS 9.3%, Wargame 8.7%

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 31.4%, War 11.7%, Tactical 9.5%, FPS 8.1%, Multiplayer 8%

POLYGON is a tactical multiplayer team 1st person shooter. Using various weapons, you will battle with up to 32 players on large-scale maps. Properly managing your arsenal and skills, you will lead your team to victory!

Why similar: Military 18.7%, Massively Multiplayer 11%, FPS 10.6%, War 10.2%, Wargame 9.3%

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 27.8%, FPS 13.1%, Tactical 12.9%, Wargame 10.1%, Realistic 9.6%

Caliber is a team-based online shooter focused on special forces units from all over the world. More than 70 operators with unique abilities and weapons as well as various game modes and maps are waiting for you.

Why similar: Military 17.6%, Team-Based 11.3%, Massively Multiplayer 11%, Wargame 10.4%, War 9.1%

Experience authentic First World War action with 64 player battles of maneuver on the Eastern Front. Grab your rifle, ready your sabre and keep your gas mask close as you prepare to play a part in one of the most significant conflicts in history!

Why similar: Team-Based 14.8%, Military 13.9%, Wargame 13.4%, FPS 10.2%, War 9.4%

Thunder Tier One is a realistic top-down shooter where you join an elite special operations team tasked with stopping a dangerous terrorist organization wreaking havoc across the fictional Eastern European country of Salobia.

Why similar: Military 22.4%, Team-Based 12.9%, Tactical 11.8%, Online Co-Op 11%, Realistic 10.2%

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

Why similar: FPS 13.4%, Military 12.6%, Tactical 11.1%, Team-Based 10.4%, PvP 9.6%

Escape from Tarkov is the original extraction FPS where every raid is a gamble with death. Prep your raid, bleed, endure and fight through ruthless PMC players and Scavs, gain tactical advantage and cling to your loot — only extraction decides if you live or lose it all.

Why similar: Military 17%, Massively Multiplayer 10.3%, FPS 9.2%, War 8.8%, Tactical 8.3%

FPV Kamikaze Drone is a tactical game focused on FPV drones in modern warfare. Control drones in first-person in single-player and co-op, and in multiplayer play as a third-person soldier who finds and uses FPV drones during combat.

Why similar: War 31.1%, Shooter 14.2%, Massively Multiplayer 11.9%, Military 10.6%, First-Person 10.3%

The ultimate spy-vs-guards simulator. Carefully sneak your way to the objective as Intruders or use the wide variety of tactical gadgets to trap your opponents as Guards. Intruder allows for stealth, teamwork, and environmental interactions never before seen in a multiplayer game.

Why similar: Military 25.8%, Team-Based 16.4%, FPS 14.5%, PvP 10.3%, Tactical 9.6%

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: Wargame 19.5%, Tactical 16.8%, Online Co-Op 11.5%, War 11.1%, Shooter 10.8%

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%, FPS 18.8%, Tactical 10.3%, Shooter 8.9%, Multiplayer 8.6%

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: Military 23.3%, FPS 14.6%, Team-Based 13.1%, Tactical 11.9%, Realistic 10.2%

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 21%, Team-Based 15.4%, FPS 11.9%, War 10.5%, Tactical 10%

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: Team-Based 13.9%, FPS 13.6%, War 11.4%, Tactical 10.4%, Realistic 10.3%

Experience hyper-realistic visuals and fluid controls from an unprecedented Bodycam perspective. The world's first shooter with truly playable 3DGS environments. Every pulse-pounding firefight and precise tactical move is captured by your chest-mounted camera for unmatched battlefield immersion.

Why similar: Military 15.4%, Team-Based 10.8%, Wargame 9.5%, FPS 9.2%, Tactical 8.1%

Join the fight in War Dust VR, the ultimate FPS shooter with immersive VR gameplay. Dominate expansive battlefields with diverse vehicles, exciting mechanics, and strategic control points. Join your team and become a champion of this multiplayer war today!

Why similar: Military 15.1%, Wargame 11.2%, Team-Based 10.3%, Massively Multiplayer 8.3%, FPS 8.3%

EXFIL delivers raw tactical FPS intensity with no distractions. No loot grinding, no gimmicks, just pure realism. EXFIL tests your strategy, comms, and teamwork in high-stakes tactical engagements. Will your squad rise to the challenge?

Why similar: Military 19.4%, Wargame 13.9%, Team-Based 12.4%, FPS 9.7%, Tactical 9.3%

Poly Squad; multiplayer, team-based, it is the kind of game where you can fight as a team on, large maps using various weapons up to 16 - 32 players.

Why similar: Military 21.9%, FPS 12.3%, War 11.7%, Massively Multiplayer 10%, PvP 9%

Dagger Directive is a tactical FPS that allows you to approach each mission in your own way. Select equipment, decide the time of day, then move methodically to complete your mission. Enjoy the modern mechanics and old school graphics as you fight across a variety of missions and environments.

Why similar: Military 21.7%, Wargame 18.5%, FPS 13.5%, Shooter 8.5%, Tactical 8.3%

Breachers™ is a tactical 5v5 VR FPS. Plan your assault or orchestrate your defense as a team through intense close-quarters combat. Climb, vault, rappel, swing, shoot and strategize your way to victory in stunning environments.Supports cross-play with Quest and PSVR2 player base.

Why similar: Military 14.3%, Team-Based 13.7%, FPS 13%, PvP 9.6%, Shooter 7.6%

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

Why similar: FPS 30.5%, Military 14.1%, Multiplayer 13.5%, Shooter 10.9%, Massively Multiplayer 10.4%

Army Troop is an old-school PvP World War 2 online first-person shooter. Reminding you of the good old days World War games.

Why similar: Military 17.1%, FPS 13%, War 10.7%, Realistic 10%, Massively Multiplayer 9.9%

Contain is a Tactical Co-Op FPS game. Form your squad of four players to fight against the anomalies. Try to "Contain" them where the line between ordinary and extraordinary is blurred.

Why similar: Military 19.4%, FPS 14.5%, Team-Based 13.4%, Tactical 9.6%, Realistic 9.2%

Operation Valor is a tactical top-down multiplayer shooter that provides large scale combined-arms combat through base building and teamwork.

Why similar: Military 22.9%, War 12.3%, Team-Based 12.3%, Tactical 12.3%, PvP 10.2%