Games like DIRECT CONTACT

If the tense and dark rhythm of DIRECT CONTACT stuck with you, this helps. You will find a few strong contenders among these games. Many of them are fun to share with friends.

GROUND BRANCH
A tactical shooter built the slow, deliberate way: true first-person, deep weapon and gear customization, and unforgiving firefights where one mistake ends the round. Play 8-player co-op or 8v8 PvP with friends who plan before they shoot. Take your time, think ahead, get the job done.
Also in Co-op · Tense, Dark, Brutal
83% of 22,535 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 264$23.99
OPERATOR
OPERATOR is a slow, strict tactical shooter where you play a Tier 1 operator on clandestine missions around the world. Every corner, doorway, and magazine counts, with full-body first person movement, detailed weapon building, and planning to match. Worth playing if you want gunfights that punish rushing.
Also in Co-op · Tense, Dark, Brutal
86% of 9,285 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 955$19.99
Dagger Directive
A retro tactical FPS where every mission is yours to shape: pick your loadout, choose the time of day, then cross a huge open map and decide whether to strike hard or move like a ghost. Modern ballistics, old-school looks, full co-op.
Also in Co-op · Tense, Brutal
82% of 853 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 11$19.99
Black One Blood Brothers
A tactical squad shooter in the spirit of the old Rainbow Six and Ghost Recon games. Plan every operator's route on the map, then take control of any of them in first or third person. Twenty campaign missions, permanent death, seven extra modes and a map editor: it rewards patience and gives it back in spades.
Tense, Dark, Brutal
77% of 1,401 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 8$17.99
Operation: Harsh Doorstop
Play solo against bots, or team up in multiplayer and co-op. Rough around the edges, deep where it counts.
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77% of 21,022 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 160Free
Incursion Red River
A tactical PvE extraction shooter in a destabilized Vietnam. Drop in with your own gear, loot, fight AI squads that flank and suppress, and reach extraction alive to keep it all. Play solo or with up to three friends, tune the difficulty, and uncover why you are really there.
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76% of 8,823 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1,762$21.99
Warbox
A sandbox game that enables players to watch or take part in a warzone. Players will have access to a variety of tools and features that give them access to customize and change the battlefield however they like.
Tense, Dark, Brutal
54% of 3,459 Steam reviews are positive$9.99
Contain
Contain is a Tactical Co-Op FPS game. Form your squad of four players to fight against the anomalies. Try to "Contain" them where the line between ordinary and extraordinary is blurred.
Also in Co-op · Tense, Dark
55% of 674 Steam reviews are positive$13.99
Door Kickers 2: Task Force North
Command special operations squads in tense, top-down raids: pause time, draw your plan, then watch it play out. Breach walls, clear rooms, rescue hostages and lose nobody, or start over. Real-time tactics with no turns, no hexes, and plenty of ways in.
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96% of 12,503 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 599$24.99
Squad
Squad is a 50 vs. 50 tactical shooter where 9-player squads win through teamwork, talking, and supply runs as much as marksmanship. Expect long walks, real scopes, tanks overhead, and the rare defense that feels like a war film.
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82% of 182,342 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 5,172$39.99
Six Days in Fallujah
A realistic tactical shooter built on true stories from the Second Battle of Fallujah. Clear houses room by room with an AI fireteam or three friends, against enemies who flank, ambush and set traps. Procedural buildings mean no two missions play the same, and every door could be your last.
Also in Co-op · Tense, Dark, Brutal
79% of 13,114 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 40$39.99
Gray Zone Warfare
A PvE-first open-world tactical shooter on a quarantined island torn by faction warfare. Deploy solo or with a squad, run 250+ tasks, earn reputation, loot and tune your guns, and pick apart the mystery behind the Event at your own pace.
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72% of 71,487 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 13,564$39.99

Cheaper than DIRECT CONTACT

Warbox

A sandbox game that enables players to watch or take part in a warzone.

$9.99

Contain

Contain is a Tactical Co-Op FPS game. Form your squad of four players to fight against the anomalies.

$13.99

Zero Caliber VR

A VR military shooter where you fight through a dystopian water war, solo or with up to three friends.

$7.49

Rogue Point

From the creators of Black Mesa: Welcome to Rogue Point! A 4-player co-op shooter where teamwork is everything.

$9.99

Zero Hour

Coordinate with your squad, clear rooms door by door, and live with every split-second call when one mistake ends the mission.

$4.99

Breach & Clear

Command a four-man special operations team through short, tense missions you plan turn by turn and execute in real time.

$9.99

Unconventional Warfare

In this top-down tactical shooter RPG, guide a band of cute soldiers through a warzone to safety.

$9.99

Takedown: Red Sabre

TAKEDOWN is a thinking-person’s shooter; brutal, hardcore and deadly - like the real thing.

$4.99

Last Group Out

A top-down extraction shooter for people who like the loop but not the sweat.

$9.99

Phantom Squad

Phantom Squad is a 1-4 player co-op tactical top-down shooter blending fast-paced combat with real-time strategy.

$13.99

DRONE PERSPECTIVE

Real-time dynamic tactics with the strong focus on squad positioning and collaboration.

$12.99

Due Process

A team-based tactical FPS where you sketch the attack before you make it, on new maps every week.

$9.99

Hidden gems like DIRECT CONTACT

Dagger Directive

Plan the op, gear up, pick dusk or midnight, and take on a global special forces campaign solo or with friends.

$19.99

Legend Battles

Drop in with your squad, gear up fast, and fight your way back out of a match where every round goes sideways differently.

Free

GERONIMO

Stack up at the door, pick your way in, and clear the room with a squad of six or on your own.

$19.99

Gunman Contracts - Stand Alone

A VR and flat-screen shooter built like an action movie. You play the Gunman, a hitman clearing contracts for a shadowy order, and every fight is…

$29.99

Glory To The Heroes™

Fight as one soldier on real battlefields, where a bad loadout or one wrong step can cost you everything you carried in.

$29.99

Phantom Squad

Phantom Squad is a 1-4 player co-op tactical top-down shooter blending fast-paced combat with real-time strategy.

$13.99

No Plan B

Carefully plan your team's tactics in close quarters battles.

$14.99

Door Kickers 2: Task Force North

Draw up a squad plan, pause the action to adjust it, and watch the breach unfold in real time.

$24.99

SWAT Commander

Brief your squad, pick their loadouts and clear dangerous buildings one careful room at a time, alone or with friends.

$19.99

Warhounds

Lead a mercenary squad through lethal turn-based firefights, then keep the whole company alive between missions.

$34.99

Breachers™

A tactical 5v5 VR shooter where attackers fight through walls and defenders set the traps, one round at a time.

$19.99

GROUND BRANCH

A tactical shooter built the slow, deliberate way: true first-person, deep weapon and gear customization, and unforgiving firefights where one…

$23.99

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