Games Like Team Fortress Classic

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 56.2% ★, FPS 9.2%, Class-Based 7.5% ★, Multiplayer 7.5%, Team-Based 5.9%

Why You'll Like It: The direct successor to Team Fortress Classic, refining the class-based mechanics into a modern hero-shooter standard.

For over two decades, Counter-Strike has offered an elite competitive experience, one shaped by millions of players from across the globe. And now the next chapter in the CS story is about to begin. This is Counter-Strike 2.

Why similar: FPS 30.2%, Team-Based 16.4%, Multiplayer 11.7%, Shooter 10.6%, Competitive 9.6% ★

Why You'll Like It: The modern evolution of the team-based tactical shooter that shares the same engine and community roots as the original Team Fortress.

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 26.9% ★, Team-Based 17%, FPS 16.5%, Multiplayer 9.2%, Competitive 6.9% ★

Why You'll Like It: The definitive modern hero-shooter that expands on the class-based roles and objective-focused gameplay pioneered by TFC.

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 87.6% ★, FPS 3.5%, Team-Based 2.6%, Multiplayer 2%, Shooter 1.5%

Why You'll Like It: A free-to-play hero shooter that emphasizes distinct class roles and tactical team-based objective play.

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

Why similar: FPS 32.6%, Team-Based 13.2%, Classic 13.1% ★, Multiplayer 10.3%, Class-Based 10% ★

Why You'll Like It: A team-based, class-oriented WWII shooter built on the same engine heritage as the original Team Fortress.

Step into the Arena. Compete against players from around the world in this fast-paced shooter that combines the dark mythos of the original Quake with the skill-based competition of Quake III Arena. Become a Champion.

Why similar: Hero Shooter 59.3% ★, FPS 13.6%, Multiplayer 6.4%, Classic 5.7% ★, Fast-Paced 3.4%

Why You'll Like It: Features unique hero abilities within a fast-paced arena shooter framework that mirrors the intensity of TFC.

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

Why similar: FPS 27.9%, Team-Based 25.8%, Multiplayer 16.6%, Action 12%, Competitive 6.7% ★

Why You'll Like It: Combines class-based FPS combat with strategic team-based objectives in a unique asymmetrical multiplayer environment.

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

Why similar: Classic 32.1% ★, FPS 24.3%, Action 9.7%, Multiplayer 9.4%, 1990's 6.1%

Why You'll Like It: The quintessential fast-paced arena shooter that defined the competitive multiplayer era of the late 90s.

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: FPS 34.4%, Team-Based 18.8%, Action 13.8%, Shooter 13.1%, Multiplayer 11.1%

Why You'll Like It: Offers massive-scale team warfare with distinct classes and specialized roles in a persistent open-world setting.

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

Why similar: Team-Based 20.8%, FPS 20.4%, 1990's 12.1%, Action 10.2%, Shooter 9.8%

Why You'll Like It: A cooperative evolution of the GoldSrc engine that emphasizes team coordination and objective completion.

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

Why similar: FPS 31.3%, Multiplayer 15%, Action 11.2%, Shooter 10.3%, Team-Based 9.3%

Why You'll Like It: Fast-paced arena shooting that emphasizes movement, portal mechanics, and team coordination.

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

Why similar: FPS 30.7%, Action 30%, Multiplayer 14.9%, Shooter 8.3%, Competitive 5.2% ★

Why You'll Like It: A fast-paced arena-style shooter built on the Source engine that emphasizes physics-based combat.

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

Why similar: Action 37.7%, Classic 23.4% ★, FPS 16.6%, Multiplayer 6.6%, Shooter 5.4%

Why You'll Like It: A direct homage to the original Quake deathmatch experience that heavily influenced the development of TFC.

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

Why similar: FPS 47.7%, Classic 14.6% ★, Team-Based 8.8%, Multiplayer 7.3%, Class-Based 6.5% ★

Why You'll Like It: The original WWII team-based shooter that shares the same tactical, class-based roots as TFC.

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

Why similar: FPS 26.6%, Shooter 21.6%, Team-Based 15.2%, Action 14.5%, Multiplayer 12%

Why You'll Like It: A classic team-based tactical shooter that shares the same engine and community roots as the original TFC.

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

Why similar: FPS 29.2%, Classic 23.7% ★, Multiplayer 14.3%, Action 12.9%, Shooter 9.4%

Why You'll Like It: A classic team-based objective shooter that heavily influenced the design of class-based multiplayer games.

From one of gaming's most iconic sagas, Halo is bigger than ever. Featuring an expansive open-world campaign and a dynamic free to play multiplayer experience.

Why similar: FPS 31.3%, Multiplayer 17.5%, Action 13.9%, Shooter 12.9%, Competitive 10.6% ★

Why You'll Like It: Features role-based multiplayer modes that echo the team-focused design and arena-style combat of classic shooters.

You decide the combat role you want to assume in the world of Brink as you fight to save yourself and mankind’s last refuge!

Why similar: FPS 30.7%, Class-Based 16.5% ★, Action 13.4%, Multiplayer 13.3%, Team-Based 8.9%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on objective-based team gameplay with class-specific movement and utility mechanics.

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

Why similar: Classic 34.3% ★, FPS 23.6%, Multiplayer 11.1%, Action 8%, Shooter 6.7%

Why You'll Like It: A refined, competitive version of the classic arena shooter experience that remains a staple of the genre.

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

Why similar: Classic 32.3% ★, FPS 22%, 1990's 10.7%, Multiplayer 9.7%, Action 9.3%

Why You'll Like It: The foundational game that provided the engine, atmosphere, and movement mechanics for TFC.

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: FPS 30.7%, Multiplayer 16.4%, Team-Based 11.8%, Action 11.3%, Shooter 10.7%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on cooperative team-based survival with distinct character roles and intense combat encounters.

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

Why similar: FPS 46.5%, Classic 27.2% ★, Action 10.1%, Shooter 6.3%, 1990's 5.3%

Why You'll Like It: Expands on the original Half-Life universe with new weapons and tactical elements that feel familiar to TFC fans.

Made by Gearbox Software and originally released in 2001 as an add-on to Half-Life, Blue Shift is a return to the Black Mesa Research Facility in which you play as Barney Calhoun, the security guard sidekick who helped Gordon out of so many sticky situations.

Why similar: FPS 41.1%, Classic 26.1% ★, Action 14.3%, Shooter 8.1%, 1990's 5.2%

Why You'll Like It: Provides a classic single-player experience within the same engine and world as the original TFC.

Hell’s armies have invaded Earth. Become the Slayer in an epic single-player campaign to conquer demons across dimensions and stop the final destruction of humanity. The only thing they fear... is you.

Why similar: FPS 34.6%, Action 18.5%, Shooter 12.2%, Fast-Paced 12%, Multiplayer 10.5%

Why You'll Like It: While single-player focused, its fast-paced movement and weapon variety mirror the high-intensity combat of TFC.

Serious Sam 4 reignites the classic FPS series in a high-powered prequel loaded with an explosive arsenal, intergalactic carnage, and perfectly timed one-liners.

Why similar: FPS 27.2%, Classic 17.9% ★, Action 15.4%, Multiplayer 11.2%, Shooter 10%

Why You'll Like It: Captures the chaotic, high-intensity combat and massive enemy counts of 90s-era shooters.

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

Why similar: Classic 35.5% ★, FPS 24.7%, Action 10.1%, 1990's 7.6%, Shooter 6.1%

Why You'll Like It: A classic shooter that helped establish the fast-paced, movement-heavy gameplay that TFC players enjoy.

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

Why similar: FPS 25.1%, Mod 14.3% ★, Action 13.5%, Multiplayer 13.4%, Shooter 12.1%

Why You'll Like It: A unique team-based multiplayer shooter with a distinct class-like weapon system set in the Wild West.

Developed by id Software, and originally released in 1993 and 1994, the definitive, newly enhanced versions of DOOM + DOOM II are available as a combined product.

Why similar: Classic 39.1% ★, FPS 22.2%, 1990's 8.7%, Action 7.3%, Shooter 5%

Why You'll Like It: The definitive retro shooter experience that set the standard for the genre's movement and level design.

Play the world's number 1 online action game. Engage in an incredibly realistic brand of terrorist warfare in this wildly popular team-based game. Ally with teammates to complete strategic missions. Take out enemy sites. Rescue hostages. Your role affects your team's success. Your team's success affects your role.

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

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

Why similar: FPS 27.3%, Classic 22.4% ★, Action 22.3%, Multiplayer 12.4%, Shooter 8.1%

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

Why similar: Action 40.1%, Classic 22.4% ★, FPS 17.3%, Multiplayer 8.7%, Shooter 3.8%

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

Why similar: FPS 25.8%, Action 18.9%, Classic 18.6% ★, Shooter 9.4%, Multiplayer 8.9%

Serious Sam is a high-adrenaline single-play and 16-player co-operative arcade-action FPS and Gamespot's Game of the Year 2001!

Why similar: Classic 38.8% ★, FPS 25.7%, Action 14.3%, Shooter 6.2%, Multiplayer 5.6%

Serious Sam Classic: The Second Encounter is a high-adrenaline single-play and 16-player co-operative arcade-action FPS and Gamespot's Game of the Month February 2002!

Why similar: Classic 35.3% ★, FPS 25%, Action 15.9%, Shooter 6.2%, Multiplayer 5.1%

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

Why similar: Classic 38.1% ★, FPS 23.4%, Action 7.9%, 1990's 6.6%, Shooter 6.5%

Relive Half-Life.

Why similar: Classic 32% ★, FPS 27.9%, Action 13.1%, Shooter 9%, Multiplayer 7.4%

Serious Sam is a high-adrenaline arcade-action shooter heavily focused on frantic action. In a world where cyberpunk meets fantasy-fiction and advanced technology is mixed with black magic and psycho-powers, Sam travels through four beautiful worlds, confronting countless foes on his way to Mental's base.

Why similar: Classic 34% ★, FPS 25.5%, Action 16.2%, Shooter 7.8%, Multiplayer 4.6%

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

Why similar: FPS 26.5%, Multiplayer 15.8%, Team-Based 15.5%, Action 12.6%, Co-op 9.2%

Aliens Versus Predator Classic 2000 features the Colonial Marine, Alien and Predator Campaigns and the frenetic single-player Skirmish mode from the original title: Alien Versus Predator Gold Edition, which was released to massive acclaim in 2000.

Why similar: Classic 41.1% ★, FPS 25.1%, Action 11.7%, Multiplayer 8.2%, Shooter 6.5%

Strike Force Heroes is an oldschool arena shooter rebuilt with modern mechanics with full co-operative and PvP online multiplayer. It melds over the top action with epic story-telling in this intense remake of the hit Flash game.

Why similar: Action 34.8%, Shooter 29.5%, Multiplayer 25.6%, Co-op 10%

Serious Sam HD: The First Encounter is a visually upgraded and fully Steam supported remake version of the original high-adrenaline single-play and 16-player co-operative arcade-action FPS which was Gamespot's Game of the Year 2001 and which scored overall of 87% on Metacritic!

Why similar: FPS 33.6%, Classic 20.9% ★, Action 14.6%, Shooter 7.8%, Multiplayer 7.3%

Strap on your combat sandals...Lo Wang is coming to the Land of the Rising Sun to turn out the lights. Experience total blood immersion. If you can't touch, kill or drive something...then blow it away! Whether you're wielding shurikens, an Uzi, or a freshly plundered Guardian head...you've got your work cut out for you.

Why similar: Classic 42% ★, FPS 25%, Action 10.4%, 1990's 6.2%, Shooter 5.2%

Co-operative multiplayer game and complete code base available for free.

Why similar: Action 19.5%, Multiplayer 18.4%, Class-Based 16.1% ★, Co-op 13.6%, Shooter 13.3%

Serious Sam HD: The Second Encounter is a visually upgraded and fully Steam supported remake of the original high-adrenaline single-play and 16-player co-operative arcade-action FPS and Gamespot's Game of the Month!

Why similar: FPS 32.5%, Classic 21.9% ★, Action 16.4%, Shooter 8.9%, Multiplayer 8.4%

Work together or die alone! Fight to restore peace to London or tear it down for profit in the most challenging team based shooter around.

Why similar: Hero Shooter 41.6% ★, FPS 15.2%, Team-Based 9.6%, Multiplayer 7.3%, Class-Based 6.1% ★

Get ready for intense, skill-based FPS action with AQtion! Featuring the best of Action Quake 2, enjoy fast-paced combat, realistic weapons, and thrilling multiplayer battles. Dominate the arena now on Steam!

Why similar: FPS 25.4%, Action 14.5%, Multiplayer 13.9%, 1990's 13.4%, Shooter 11.1%

Step into the ultimate three-way war for honor, glory, and gold! This beloved community-driven game brings together swashbuckling Pirates, battle-hardened Vikings, and chivalrous Knights in hilarious and intense class-based combat. Join the fun, embrace the chaos, and fight your way to victory!

Why similar: FPS 24.4%, Multiplayer 24.3%, Action 21.1%, Mod 11.7% ★, First-Person 6.4%

Combat Arms: the Classic is a multiplayer game, free-to-play modern first-person shooter. The game is a relaunch of Combat Arms in its glory days delivering gamers a nostalgic high-quality FPS with an extensive arsenal of weapons.

Why similar: FPS 38.6%, Action 25.3%, Shooter 14.7%, Multiplayer 8.9%, Competitive 8.5% ★

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: Hero Shooter 26.2% ★, FPS 18.2%, Team-Based 11.1%, Multiplayer 9.4%, Action 9%

Teeworlds is a free online multiplayer game, available for all major operating systems. Battle with up to 16 players in a variety of game modes, including Team Deathmatch and Capture The Flag. You can even design your own maps!

Why similar: Multiplayer 34%, Action 28.8%, Shooter 15.3%, Team-Based 11.5%, Co-op 6.5%

The HUNT Returns... AGAIN! Play the original Cult Classic '90s FPS remastered in 4K Ultrawide with UNLIMITED frame rates, RESTORED content, NEW episodes, a LEVEL EDITOR, online MULTIPLAYER, LUDICROUS gameplay options and MORE. Make 'em EAT LEAD or they'll bury you in a lunchbox!

Why similar: FPS 37.5%, Shooter 16.5%, Action 14.9%, First-Person 10%, Multiplayer 8%

Play the enhanced version of the original game released on the Nintendo 64 in 1997. Years have passed since you stopped Hell’s invasion of Earth. Quarantined for humanity’s safety, the UAC research facilities on Mars were abandoned and forgotten...until now.

Why similar: Classic 34.9% ★, FPS 21.1%, Action 13.5%, 1990's 10.4%, Shooter 6.3%