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1988PEGI 7PC

An arcade top-down shooter where you pick from twenty fighters with different weapons and rescue captured comrades. Smart rotation and protecting your squad is the key to surviving the tough levels.

  • Shooting and gunplay
  • A party of several characters
  • Playing together in co-op
  • Challenging difficulty

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In short: Games like Gain Ground

Each of these 10 games shares something of what makes Gain Ground special. The reasons are listed right on each game.

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Ikari Warriors

85 %Match

1986PlayStation

Brings what grabs you about Gain Ground: good gunplay, playing together in co-op and a demanding difficulty.

A classic vertically scrolling arcade shooter where you fight alone or with a friend through jungles, rivers and ruins. Machine guns, grenades and rocket launchers drive fast, punishing action.

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Insurgency

Challenging difficulty

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.

Wild Guns

Pixel art

A fast arcade shooting gallery set in a steampunk Wild West, where you play Annie or Clint, dodging fire and blasting outlaws and robots in the background. Short, intense stages with a tough challenge, playable in co-op.

Capcom Arcade 2nd Stadium

Pixel art

A compilation of over 30 classic Capcom arcade games from the 80s and 90s, spanning shooters, brawlers and platformers. Modern features like online leaderboards, rewind and extras make these punishing coin-eaters easy to revisit today.

Virtua Cop

Fast pace

A classic arcade light-gun shooter where you play a cop blasting criminals in quick succession while avoiding civilians. Its early polygonal graphics and fast, reflex-driven pacing influenced later rail shooters like Time Crisis and House of the Dead.

Delta Force 2

Challenging difficulty

A 1999 tactical military shooter where you take on counter-terror missions as a Delta Force operative across large outdoor maps. Long-range sniping and open terrain define the play, with multiplayer matches on top.

Running With Rifles

Pixel art

A top-down tactical shooter where you control a single soldier within an army of hundreds, fighting chaotic battles across open maps. It offers a single-player campaign as well as online multiplayer and co-op.

Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Rogue Spear

A party of several characters

A realistic tactical first-person shooter where you plan teams and loadouts before each mission and coordinate precise counter-terrorism raids. One or two hits can kill, so careful planning matters more than speed.

Counter-Strike: Source

Challenging difficulty

A classic tactical team shooter where Terrorists and Counter-Terrorists fight round by round with no respawns, racing to plant or defuse bombs or rescue hostages. Precise aim, positioning and teamwork decide the outcome.

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