Games Like Squad 44

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: World War II 28.8% ★, Military 11.5%, FPS 9.5%, War 9%, Massively Multiplayer 7.3%

Why You'll Like It: Its 50v50 WW2 battles, command structure, logistics, infantry roles, tanks, and strong emphasis on communication make it the closest large-scale alternative.

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

Why You'll Like It: Although set in modern conflicts, it shares Squad 44's deliberate pacing, role-based squads, player-built logistics, vehicle coordination, and reliance on voice communication.

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: World War II 41% ★, FPS 11.1%, Military 10.8%, War 9.3%, Realistic 5.6%

Why You'll Like It: A focused WW2 multiplayer FPS built around objective pushes, classes, lethal ballistics, limited equipment, and coordinated attacks.

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: World War II 28.3% ★, Military 12.8%, FPS 9.2%, War 8.6%, Team-Based 6.5%

Why You'll Like It: Its expansive WW2 campaigns and sandbox-style battles emphasize authentic weapons, vehicles, objectives, and a lower-budget simulation-minded approach.

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: World War II 38.1% ★, FPS 12.6%, War 8.9%, Massively Multiplayer 7.8%, Multiplayer 7%

Why You'll Like It: It combines WW2 infantry, vehicles, and objective warfare with controllable AI squadmates, making it a more accessible but still large-scale alternative.

Contains full Rising Storm content as well!

Why similar: World War II 38.6% ★, FPS 10.3%, Realistic 8.8%, War 7.4%, Military 7.4%

Why You'll Like It: This hardcore WW2 shooter delivers lethal weapons, authentic Eastern Front atmosphere, tanks, objectives, and infantry combat with little arcade forgiveness.

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 26.7%, FPS 13.7%, War 11.4%, Realistic 10.4%, Multiplayer 7%

Why You'll Like It: Its open military sandbox, serious weapon handling, player-led operations, vehicles, and mod support closely fit Squad 44's organized milsim side despite its Cold War setting.

Command your own troops, man authentic weaponry and take to the sky in deadly warplanes.

Why similar: World War II 28% ★, Military 13.6%, War 9.6%, FPS 9%, Realistic 6.3%

Why You'll Like It: Built on the ARMA framework, it offers methodical WW2 infantry and vehicle simulation with large maps, realistic ballistics, and mod-friendly systems.

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 19.4%, War 14%, FPS 13.5%, Massively Multiplayer 10.5%, Historical 8.5%

Why You'll Like It: It translates the same large-team, role-based tactical shooter formula into World War we, with trenches, melee, artillery, and brutal close-range assaults.

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 22%, World War II 14.2% ★, FPS 13.8%, War 9.7%, Realistic 9.6%

Why You'll Like It: This free tactical shooter centers on organized squads, objective warfare, vehicles, modding, and communication-heavy battles reminiscent of Squad 44's structure.

WWII Online: Chokepoint is an authentic F2P WW2 multiplayer tactical shooter, driven by teamwork and built-in voice comms. Jump in feet first with the US Airborne or join the Wehrmacht and fight to control iconic chokepoints as an infantryman in Europe between 1944-45. Are you ready for WAR?

Why similar: World War II 23.5% ★, Military 13.8%, FPS 13.5%, War 8%, Realistic 7.5%

Why You'll Like It: This persistent WW2 war features an enormous shared battlefield where infantry, armor, aircraft, supply, and territorial objectives all affect the wider campaign.

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 16.5%, War 16.1%, Historical 12%, FPS 9.7%, Massively Multiplayer 9.7%

Why You'll Like It: Its Civil War setting differs, but its huge organized battles, strict formations, officer leadership, proximity voice chat, and historical immersion strongly suit tactical-sim players.

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 24.9%, FPS 10.5%, War 10.2%, Multiplayer 9%, Realistic 8.7%

Why You'll Like It: A deep military sandbox for coordinated operations, realistic combined arms, large terrains, and extensive community-made WW2 content.

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 18.6%, Massively Multiplayer 15.2%, Team-Based 9.9%, War 9.4%, Realistic 9%

Why You'll Like It: A WW1 mountain-front shooter with classes, officer support, artillery, fortifications, and objective battles that reward coordinated teams over individual kill chasing.

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: Massively Multiplayer 16.3%, Military 14%, FPS 10.3%, War 10%, Historical 7.2%

Why You'll Like It: Its squad-based WW1 trench warfare uses specialized roles, attritional objectives, and lethal combat to create a similarly serious historical shooter experience.

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 17.7%, Massively Multiplayer 15.6%, FPS 13.4%, War 12.2%, Team-Based 7.6%

Why You'll Like It: Its asymmetrical teams, punishing weapons, helicopters, commanders, and communication-driven objectives make it an excellent non-WW2 counterpart.

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 22.2%, FPS 20.4%, Realistic 11.7%, War 8.8%, Multiplayer 7.6%

Why You'll Like It: Smaller-scale but similarly lethal and grounded, it rewards careful movement, class coordination, realistic weapon handling, and objective-focused teamwork.

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 20.4%, FPS 13.1%, War 12%, Realistic 9.3%, Team-Based 8%

Why You'll Like It: Its tense cooperative infantry missions emphasize communication, room clearing, suppression, navigation, and the uncertainty of realistic urban combat.

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: Military 14.8%, FPS 13.8%, War 13.4%, Team-Based 11%, Realistic 9.6%

Why You'll Like It: This WW1 Eastern Front shooter adds broader maneuver warfare and squad roles while retaining the authentic, unforgiving multiplayer combat of Verdun.

Fight in the theatre of war that changed the world forever. Battle alongside your compatriots on some of the most inhospitable environments of the Eastern Front in Red Orchestra: Ostfront 41-45. Red Orchestra places you in the most realistic WWII first-person multi-player combat to date on the PC, allowing the player to fight through...

Why similar: World War II 44.3% ★, FPS 11.2%, Military 8.8%, War 6.8%, Realistic 6%

Why You'll Like It: An older but influential hardcore WW2 FPS whose lethal combat, iron sights, tanks, and Eastern Front battles helped establish the style Squad 44 follows.

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 20.7%, War 15.1%, FPS 14.5%, Historical 10.4%, Multiplayer 8.7%

Why You'll Like It: Its historical multiplayer battles reward organized regiments, formations, voice coordination, artillery, and large objective pushes, albeit with a less realistic presentation.

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: World War II 29.5% ★, Military 16.4%, Massively Multiplayer 15.6%, War 10.1%, Team-Based 6.5%

Why You'll Like It: Though played from a top-down perspective, its persistent player-run war, supply chains, fortifications, vehicles, and dependence on coordinated logistics mirror Squad 44's teamwork ethos.

Days of War is an online FPS that re-imagines the team-based, close quarters, nonstop action of classic World War II multiplayer shooters.

Why similar: World War II 41.7% ★, War 14.8%, FPS 10.5%, Action 4.7%, Shooter 4.6%

Why You'll Like It: A fast but class-based WW2 multiplayer shooter with objective modes, period weapons, and teamwork-oriented map control.

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 16.1%, Massively Multiplayer 13.5%, FPS 13.3%, War 10.6%, Realistic 7.3%

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: World War II 33.4% ★, FPS 13%, Military 12.2%, War 9.9%, Massively Multiplayer 9%

Why You'll Like It: It is much more arcade-oriented, but its WW2 infantry, tanks, aircraft, destructible environments, and large objective modes provide accessible combined-arms battles.

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 23.1%, War 19.7%, Massively Multiplayer 13.1%, Multiplayer 13%, Historical 8.1%

Why You'll Like It: Its WW1 setting, enormous maps, vehicles, classes, and cinematic objective battles offer a polished but less simulation-heavy historical alternative.

The award-winning series returns as Karl Fairburne fights to uncover Project Kraken in 1944 France. The genre-defining authentic sniping, with enhanced kill cam, has never looked or felt better as you fight across immersive maps to stop the Nazi war machine in its tracks.

Why similar: World War II 52.9% ★, Multiplayer 10.3%, War 7.4%, FPS 6.6%, Shooter 6.3%

Why You'll Like It: Its WW2 setting, authentic weapons, invasions, cooperative missions, and tactical use of cover make it a good option for players wanting a more deliberate single-player or co-op experience.

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: FPS 16.5%, War 14.6%, Historical 11.2%, Multiplayer 10.4%, Realistic 10.1%

Brothers in Arms Hell's Highway brings the critically acclaimed squad-based WWII shooter into the next generation of gaming with amazing graphics and sound, new cutting-edge gameplay features and a totally redesigned online component.

Why similar: World War II 47.1% ★, FPS 13.6%, Military 13.3%, Tactical 5.6%, War 4.5%

Why You'll Like It: This squad-command WW2 campaign emphasizes suppression, flanking, cover, and leading infantry teammates rather than simply running and gunning.

Call to Arms - Gates of Hell is a realistic RTS/ RTT game that offers endless replay value. Command all types of troops in historical singleplayer, dynamic campaign, PvP and PvE battles. Are you ready for some serious immersion in World War 2?

Why similar: World War II 42.8% ★, Military 14.9%, War 11.5%, Historical 9%, Realistic 6.9%

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 17.3%, Massively Multiplayer 13%, FPS 10.8%, War 9.3%, Historical 8.2%

Steel Division 2 is a historically-accurate WW2 real-time strategy game set on the Eastern Front. Features 1:1-scale turn-based army management and real-time tactical battles with thousands of men at your order.

Why similar: World War II 38.3% ★, Military 17.2%, War 10.3%, Historical 6%, Realistic 5.6%

WWII Online is a massive, persistent free-to-play MMO FPS driven entirely by players. Fight as Army, Air, or Naval forces and earn Victory Points to access more units. One global server. No scripts. Real outcomes. No zones. Huge world (300,000 km²). ENLIST NOW!

Why similar: World War II 27.7% ★, FPS 18.8%, Massively Multiplayer 11.5%, Military 9%, Shooter 7.6%

Tank Squad is a tactical-combat action game. Take part in big tank battles during World War II. Play single-player or coop (4 players). Repair your tanks, replenish supplies, manage the crew and get back to the action!

Why similar: World War II 32.1% ★, Military 14.2%, War 10.7%, FPS 7.8%, Realistic 5.7%

Steel Division: Normandy is a tactical real-time strategy (RTS) game that pits players against AI enemies in a single-player campaign -- or against several opponents in massive 10-on-10 multiplayer battles.

Why similar: World War II 52.3% ★, Military 15.8%, War 7.9%, Strategy 5.1%, Multiplayer 4.5%

Men of War: Assault Squad 2 expands the real-time tactics series with new skirmish missions, massive multiplayer battles, enhanced visuals, improved AI, and full Direct Control. Command five factions across 65 maps, 250 vehicles, and 200 soldiers in one of the most detailed WWII RTS experiences.

Why similar: World War II 42.2% ★, Military 13.1%, War 12.4%, Strategy 6.7%, Simulation 4.6%

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 26.4%, FPS 15.9%, Realistic 14.1%, Tactical 10.8%, Multiplayer 6.9%

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: World War II 29.1% ★, Military 10.4%, FPS 10%, Massively Multiplayer 8.8%, War 8.7%

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 22.5%, FPS 15.5%, War 12.1%, Realistic 10.3%, Multiplayer 8.4%

Men of War: Assault Squad delivers a deeply tactical WWII experience, blending large-scale strategy with intense, hands-on combat. Fight across multiple fronts – from European countryside to Pacific jungles and command every unit and every bullet on the battlefield.

Why similar: World War II 41.6% ★, Military 13.7%, War 11.5%, Strategy 6.9%, Realistic 5.8%

Lead a platoon of WWII tanks in this immersive TPP and FPP game. Engage in realistic, tactical combat across historic battlefields. Play through campaign or challenge yourself in skirmish mode as either German or US forces.

Why similar: World War II 44.6% ★, Military 14.9%, War 10%, Realistic 8.4%, Historical 7.1%

Tactical Multiplayer FPS shooter with a story based on the events of the World War II. Strategic battles with a variety of vehicles, including artillery. Multiple game modes. Ranks, titles, awards, career.

Why similar: World War II 46.4% ★, FPS 13.9%, Massively Multiplayer 13%, Multiplayer 8.1%, War 3.3%

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 28.1%, War 14.1%, Multiplayer 9.3%, FPS 9.2%, Strategy 9.2%

Realistic, immersive, breathtaking. WARNO is the ultimate World War III battle simulator from the masters of strategy, Eugen Systems. A Cold War turns decisively hot as you command hundreds of units on a beautiful and brutal battlefield. Outsmart, outfight, and lead your forces to total victory.

Why similar: Military 28.9%, War 16.2%, Massively Multiplayer 11.5%, Historical 9.2%, Realistic 8.8%

Tactical Multiplayer FPS shooter with a story based on the events of the World War II. Strategic battles with a variety of vehicles, including artillery. Multiple game modes. Ranks, titles, awards, career.

Why similar: World War II 30% ★, Massively Multiplayer 11.9%, Military 10.4%, FPS 9.4%, War 6.8%

Experience warfare like never before! Men of War II, the anticipated sequel to the highly acclaimed RTS franchise is here with all-new units, locations, campaigns, game modes and true trademarks of the series: historical fidelity and action-filled gameplay on the Eastern and Western Fronts of WWII.

Why similar: World War II 40.8% ★, Military 16.6%, Historical 8.4%, Realistic 8.4%, Multiplayer 8.1%

With its unprecedented combination of authenticity, compelling story and squad-based action, the Brothers in Arms franchise has established itself as a benchmark for military action games, receiving the highest average review scores of any console WWII game to date (www.gamerankings.com).

Why similar: World War II 49.4% ★, FPS 16.1%, Military 15%, War 6.7%, Tactical 4.8%

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 18.4%, FPS 17.1%, Realistic 11.6%, Tactical 10.8%, Multiplayer 9.4%

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: World War II 34.5% ★, FPS 33.4%, War 7%, Multiplayer 5.3%, Military 4.7%

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

Why similar: World War II 40.9% ★, FPS 16.8%, Military 9.6%, War 6.8%, Multiplayer 5.5%

Commander in the ranks. Soldier at heart. Choose a faction and deploy and command your army into massive physics-driven WWII battles to the last man standing. Destroy everything on sight with an insane amount of units that will behave tactically.

Why similar: World War II 48.6% ★, War 14.6%, Simulation 9.2%, Strategy 7.4%, FPS 5.1%

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 20.2%, Massively Multiplayer 16.7%, FPS 13.9%, Team-Based 9.5%, Realistic 8.9%

Battle Cry of Freedom brings brutal real-time first and third-person combat set in the 19th Century America, presenting players with the opportunity to re-fight the American Civil War as either the Union or the Confederates.

Why similar: Military 16.5%, Massively Multiplayer 13.6%, FPS 11.9%, War 10.5%, Historical 8.4%

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 20.2%, FPS 15.3%, Massively Multiplayer 12.6%, War 10.4%, Realistic 10.3%

BATTALION: Legacy recaptures the core of classic shooters in the final iteration of Battalion 1944. Return to the simple days of playing first person shooters with your friends. Grab your bolt action rifle in 'rifles only' mode or compete in 5v5 Search and Destroy.

Why similar: World War II 31.2% ★, Military 15.2%, FPS 14.5%, War 8.9%, Massively Multiplayer 7%

Join a Tank as a Driver, Gunner or Commander and team up with and against other Tanks in Tank Vs Tank combat where tactics and communication is key

Why similar: World War II 45.1% ★, Military 14.3%, Team-Based 10.2%, War 9.6%, Multiplayer 8.4%

ENEMY FRONT is the first truly modern WW2 FPS, featuring stunning visuals, open-ended levels and a richly interactive combat experience that breaks out of the standard model of highly linear scripted FPS experiences, giving the player full freedom to own their playing style.

Why similar: World War II 46.8% ★, FPS 16.8%, War 7.6%, Military 6.1%, Multiplayer 5.8%