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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 €

Fits your focus: Combat like It Takes a War and Systems like It Takes a War.

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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A brutally lethal tactical first-person shooter where a few hits decide everything and teamwork in close-quarters fights wins objectives. Played in PvP or co-op against AI.

Day of Infamy

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A tactical WWII first-person shooter from the makers of Insurgency, built around lethal close-quarters fights and teamwork in co-op and competitive multiplayer.

Rising Storm 2: Vietnam

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A punishing multiplayer tactical shooter set in the Vietnam War, featuring large-scale battles, lethal gunplay and asymmetric factions, with US forces and the Viet Cong fighting amid jungle traps and relying heavily on teamwork.

Counter-Strike: Global Offensive

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The definitive competitive tactical shooter: terrorists versus counter-terrorists in tense round-based matches where precise aim, team coordination and smart economy management decide every win.

America's Army

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A tactical online multiplayer shooter published by the U.S. Army, focused on realistic teamwork, rules of engagement and military training. Few hits are enough to kill, so coordination and caution matter.

Counter-Strike: Condition Zero

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A Counter-Strike spin-off with a bot-driven Tour of Duty campaign where you earn reputation to recruit better teammates mission by mission. It also includes the classic terrorist-versus-counter-terrorist online firefights.

America's Army: Proving Grounds

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A free team-based military shooter, the official game of the U.S. Army, that stresses realistic small-unit tactics and teamwork over lone-wolf action. Players fight multiplayer matches on maps including the series classics Hospital and Bridge.

Battlefield 2

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A landmark modern military shooter built around huge 64-player battles where infantry, tanks, jets and helicopters clash, with squads and a commander role rewarding real teamwork.

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