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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
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Co-op or multiplayer
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The closest matches for It Takes a War are Insurgency, Hell Let Loose and Insurgency: Sandstorm. Each of these 10 games shares something of what makes It Takes a War special – the reasons are listed right on each game.

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Best alternative overall: Insurgency 93% match – Playing together in co-op
To play together: Hell Let Loose 93% match – with co-op

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Insurgency

93 %Match

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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Hell Let Loose

Playing together in co-op

A realistic WWII tactical shooter with huge 50-vs-50 battles where squads, supply lines and vehicles must work together. Teamwork and communication decide who wins the front.

Insurgency: Sandstorm

Playing together in co-op

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.

America's Army

Playing together in co-op

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.

Day of Infamy

Playing together in co-op

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.

Red Orchestra 2: Heroes of Stalingrad

Shooting and gunplay

An unforgiving, realism-focused WWII shooter set in the Battle of Stalingrad, where one or two hits kill and teamwork, cover and squad command decide every match. Large multiplayer battles with tanks and weighty, authentic weapon handling.

Isonzo

Shooting and gunplay

A team-based multiplayer WW1 shooter set on the Italian Isonzo front, featuring class-based combat, shifting frontlines and trench-style warfare across Alpine peaks and Italian towns, a slower and grittier alternative to modern shooters.

Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Vegas

Realistic visuals

A first-person tactical shooter where you lead an elite squad through a besieged Las Vegas. Cover-based gunplay, squad commands and rappelling define the missions, backed by co-op and online modes.

Onward

Playing together in co-op

Onward is a tactical VR shooter where you team up with a squad for co-op missions against AI or compete in PvP firefights. Realistic weapon handling and unforgiving combat make every movement and shot count.

Rising Storm 2: Vietnam

Shooting and gunplay

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.

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