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2015PEGI 12PC, PlayStation, Steam Deck playable90 % positive19.99 €

A top-down shooter for up to four players where teamwork is everything: you input stratagem codes to call in airstrikes and supplies, and friendly fire constantly threatens chaos. The satirical militaristic-democracy setting gives it a tongue-in-cheek tone.

  • Playing together in co-op
  • Co-op or multiplayer
  • Sci-fi setting
  • Shooting and gunplay

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Alien Swarm

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2010PEGI 16PC, Steam Deck playable94 % positivefree

Fits your focus: Systems like Helldivers.

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.

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Killing Floor 2

  • Systems like Helldivers

A brutal co-op wave shooter where up to six players use class-based perks to hold off hordes of grotesque Zed clones, set to a heavy metal soundtrack with slow-motion gore. Each match builds to a nasty boss fight, and leveling perks keeps you coming back.

Killing Floor

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A wave-based co-op shooter where up to six players fend off hordes of grotesque clone mutants and gear up at the trader between rounds. Class perks, teamwork and the brutal Patriarch boss fight define the experience.

Deep Rock Galactic

  • Systems like Helldivers

Play as gruff space dwarves carving through fully destructible procedural caves with up to three friends, mining minerals and holding off massive alien swarms. Complementary classes, dry humor and a famously wholesome community make every dive a blast – Rock and Stone!

Borderlands

Shooting and gunplay

The cel-shaded looter shooter that started it all, sending you across the lawless wasteland of Pandora to collect a seemingly endless stream of procedurally generated guns. Its irreverent humor and four-player co-op make it a classic loot grind.

Payday: The Heist

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A co-op first-person shooter where a four-person crew pulls off heists and holds out against waves of police. Frantic firefights, teamwork and a pulsing soundtrack turn every job into a tense test of nerves.

The Red Solstice

  • Systems like Helldivers

A co-op top-down tactical shooter with RPG elements set on Mars, where up to eight marines fight alien hordes together. Class choice, gear and teamwork decide success.

Warhammer 40,000: Darktide

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A brutal four-player co-op shooter set in the grim hive city of Tertium, mixing heavy melee and ranged combat against huge enemy hordes. Classes, weapons and talents drive long-term progression, while the Warhammer 40,000 atmosphere makes every fight feel weighty.

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