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2025PCSteam Deck playable91 % positive5.89 €

A team-based tactical shooter for PC that drops you into a realistic battlefield where your squad faces a relentless enemy. This rating relies only on the sparse metadata available.

Playing together in co-op
Shooting and gunplay
Co-op or multiplayer
Tactical depth

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Insurgency

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2014PC91 % positive12.49 €

A tactical multiplayer shooter with brutally lethal close-quarters combat where a single hit can decide a fight. Teamwork, positioning and objective play matter as much as raw aim, in both competitive and co-op modes.

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