Co-op games like Arma 2

Remember how dark and brutal Arma 2 felt at its best? These co-op games offer a similar pull for your backlog. You can bring friends along for most of these.

Arma Reforger
Cold War military sandbox where you and co-op friends run special operations, hold ground, or fight long US vs Soviet battles across forested islands. Realistic guns, map-and-compass navigation, trucks, helicopters, and base-building included.
Dark, Brutal, Tense
80% of 53,515 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 14,162$39.99
Combat Mission Shock Force 2
A 1:1 tactical wargame about a hypothetical NATO-Syrian war, where you command Strykers, infantry squads and tanks street by street. For co-op friends it is strictly head-to-head: you plan 60 seconds, then watch both orders play out together.
Dark, Brutal, Competitive
80% of 627 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 27$59.99
Easy Red 2
Easy Red 2 is a large-scale World War II shooter with infantry, tanks, artillery and aircraft across destructible open maps. Bring co-op friends into campaign missions, join each other's squads, split roles like medic and radioman, and push objectives together against the AI.
Brutal, Tense, Competitive
90% of 15,073 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1,240$5.84
Combat Mission Black Sea
A military-grade simulation of a fictional 2017 war between Russia, Ukraine and NATO. Command real battalions down to single squads in true 3D, where drones spot, precision artillery strikes and electronic warfare jams.
Dark, Tense, Competitive
81% of 425 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 11$59.99
Call to Arms
Call to Arms mixes real-time strategy with first and third-person shooting in modern warfare. Order squads around rural towns and factories, then jump into any soldier, tank, or helicopter and fight yourself. With co-op friends, one of you can command while the other brings the air support.
Brutal, Tense, Competitive
80% of 17,513 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 118
Men of War: Assault Squad 2
A detailed WWII real-time tactics game with 40 skirmish missions, five factions, and huge arsenals of vehicles and soldiers. It is worth playing with co-op friends because up to eight of you can hold a line together, share tanks, infantry, and bad decisions, and turn a sniper infiltration or tank assault around by hand.
Brutal, Tense, Competitive
91% of 35,849 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 982$29.99
Glory To The Heroes™
A tactical PvPvE shooter set in the Russian-Ukrainian war, built around squads, real battle locations, and gear you can lose. Team up with co-op friends, hold positions together, and extract before your kit is gone.
Dark, Brutal, Tense
78% of 251 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 37$29.99
Six Days in Fallujah
Six Days in Fallujah is a realistic first-person tactical shooter about urban combat in Fallujah, built with dozens of Marines and Soldiers who fought there. Take it on solo with an AI fireteam or in 4-player online co-op, clearing houses where every doorway could hide something new.
Dark, Brutal, Tense
79% of 13,114 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 45$39.99
Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon®
Eastern Europe, 2008, and your small Green Beret squad has to hold the line for NATO. This is a slow, deadly tactical shooter where one shot can end you, so co-op friends plan angles, split teams, and clear camps together. Brutal, tense, and satisfying when the plan holds.
Dark, Brutal, Tense
91% of 1,639 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 21$2.99
Door Kickers 2: Task Force North
Command special ops squads in top-down raids where every door can hide a bomber or a hostage. Plan with pause-at-will, breach walls, and coordinate with co-op friends in tense missions for up to 4 players. Worth playing for the satisfaction of a clean, well-timed entry.
Brutal, Tense, Replayable
96% of 12,503 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 576$24.99
OPERATOR
OPERATOR is a tactical first-person shooter where you and co-op friends clear clandestine missions as Tier 1 operators. Expect careful movement, realistic weapons and injuries, and plans that fall apart fast without coordination. It also has competitive Force on Force matches for when teamwork ends.
Dark, Brutal, Tense
86% of 9,270 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 832$19.99
GROUND BRANCH
GROUND BRANCH is a slow, deliberate tactical shooter for up to 8 co-op friends or 8v8 adversarial rounds. You plan in a shared Ready Room, pick insertion points, then clear non-linear maps with no hit markers and no second chances. Built for talk-it-through teamwork, not run-and-gun.
Dark, Brutal, Tense
83% of 22,545 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 709$23.99

Hidden gems like Arma 2

Dagger Directive

Dagger Directive is a retro-styled tactical FPS built for co-op friends to plan and clear missions together.

$19.99

Glory To The Heroes™

A tactical PvPvE shooter set in the Russian-Ukrainian war, built around squads, real battle locations, and gear you can lose.

$29.99

Door Kickers 2: Task Force North

Command special ops squads in top-down raids where every door can hide a bomber or a hostage.

$24.99

GROUND BRANCH

GROUND BRANCH is a slow, deliberate tactical shooter for up to 8 co-op friends or 8v8 adversarial rounds.

$23.99

Headquarters: World War II

Command American, British or German forces in fast turn-based battles across the Battle of Normandy.

$39.99

Call to Arms: Panzer Elite

Lead a small platoon of WWII tanks with co-op friends through France in 1944, from St. Lô to the Ardennes.

$29.99

OPERATOR

OPERATOR is a tactical first-person shooter where you and co-op friends clear clandestine missions as Tier 1 operators.

$19.99

WARNO

Cold War goes hot in 1989, and you hold a custom battlegroup of NATO or Warsaw Pact steel.

$13.59

Combat Mission Black Sea

Command American, Ukrainian or Russian forces in a brutal near-peer conflict, one careful order at a time.

$59.99

Command: Modern Operations

Command: Modern Operations puts you in the chair of a theater commander, running air, sea, land, space and cyber forces on a global map.

$79.99

Easy Red 2

Easy Red 2 is a large-scale World War II shooter with infantry, tanks, artillery and aircraft across destructible open maps.

$5.84

Six Days in Fallujah

Six Days in Fallujah is a realistic first-person tactical shooter about urban combat in Fallujah, built with dozens of Marines and Soldiers who…

$39.99

Newest co-op games like Arma 2

Glory To The Heroes™

A tactical PvPvE shooter set in the Russian-Ukrainian war, built around squads, real battle locations, and gear you can lose.

$29.99

Dagger Directive

Dagger Directive is a retro-styled tactical FPS built for co-op friends to plan and clear missions together.

$19.99

GROUND BRANCH

GROUND BRANCH is a slow, deliberate tactical shooter for up to 8 co-op friends or 8v8 adversarial rounds.

$23.99

Army Troop

Army Troop is an old-school PvP World War 2 online first-person shooter. Reminding you of the good old days World War games.

$14.99

Call to Arms: Panzer Elite

Lead a small platoon of WWII tanks with co-op friends through France in 1944, from St. Lô to the Ardennes.

$29.99

Commandos: Origins

A slow, careful WWII stealth-tactics game about six specialists pulling off raids, sabotage, and rescues.

$49.99

Door Kickers 2: Task Force North

Command special ops squads in top-down raids where every door can hide a bomber or a hostage.

$24.99

Enlisted

Enlisted puts you in charge of a whole WWII squad, not just one soldier. Lose a rifleman and you jump straight to the next one and keep pushing.

Free

WARNO

Cold War goes hot in 1989, and you hold a custom battlegroup of NATO or Warsaw Pact steel.

$13.59

Headquarters: World War II

Command American, British or German forces in fast turn-based battles across the Battle of Normandy.

$39.99

Armored War

Armored War is a realistic multiplayer tactical first-person shooter set in the realities of modern conflict.

$10.99

Arma Reforger

Cold War military sandbox where you and co-op friends run special operations, hold ground, or fight long US vs Soviet battles across forested islands.

$39.99