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2010 PC free 👍 95 % Overwhelmingly positive, 21,274 reviews on Steam

A free top-down co-op shooter from Valve where a squad of four marines with distinct classes fights through hordes of aliens. Teamwork, loadouts and unlockable weapons drive frantic, tactical firefights.

What defines Alien Swarm:

  • Sci-fi setting
  • Co-op or multiplayer
  • Action-packed real-time combat
  • Dark, serious atmosphere

The closest matches for Alien Swarm are Aliens: Fireteam Elite 2, Aliens: Fireteam Elite and Space Hulk: Deathwing. Each of these 10 games shares something of what makes Alien Swarm special – the reasons are listed right on each game.

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Dark, serious atmosphere

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Livelock

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Shatterline

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Lost Planet 2

Action-packed real-time combat

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EVE: Valkyrie

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Resistance 2

Dark, serious atmosphere

A console first-person shooter set in an alternate 1950s, where humanity fights the Chimera invasion across the United States. Besides the campaign, it offers an eight-player class-based co-op mode and large-scale online multiplayer.

Level Zero: Extraction

Dark, serious atmosphere

A multiplayer extraction shooter with a horror twist: teams of mercenaries scavenge a sci-fi facility while other players hunt them as alien monsters. The blend of looting, tension and asymmetric play sets it apart.

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