Games like The Red Solstice

If The Red Solstice scratched a tense and replayable itch for you, keep reading. You might settle into these games easily. You can bring friends along for most of these.

Solstice Chronicles: MIA
In this 2-player twin-stick shooter, use a friendly drone for a game-changing abilities. Survive waves, upgrade, and uncover the mystery in this cooperative, action-packed experience.
Also in Co-op · Tense, Dark, Fast-paced
69% of 245 Steam reviews are positive$14.99
Alien Swarm: Reactive Drop
Tactical, fast and tense, with Workshop maps, PvP modes and bots if your friends are asleep. One more mission always sounds like a good idea.
Also in Co-op · Tense, Replayable, Competitive
94% of 23,901 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 161Free
From Space
A top-down shooter about kicking a pink alien horde off Earth, alone or with up to three friends. Grab rocket launchers and flamethrowers, wire up turrets and barbed wire, and turn a beat-up planet into even more rubble. The apocalypse has never been this cheerful.
Also in Co-op · Tense, Fast-paced
67% of 1,430 Steam reviews are positive$14.99
Starship Troopers: Extermination
A 16-player co-op FPS on the far frontlines of the war against the Bugs. Squad up, grab your Morita rifle, build a fortress, and hold the line while hundreds of Arachnids come pouring over the walls. Fast, frantic and gloriously messy: this is bug hunting at planetary scale.
Also in Co-op · Tense, Replayable, Fast-paced
80% of 29,802 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 297$29.99
MarZ: Tactical Base Defense
Build your defense base to fight back the undead hordes of Mars and secure the future of the red planet. MarZ is a game of strategy and tactical defense where you must carefully manage your crew and resources as you try to uncover the terrible secrets of the undead.
Tense, Replayable, Dark
77% of 812 Steam reviews are positive$21.99
Aliens: Fireteam Elite
A co-op third-person shooter in the Aliens universe. Take a fireteam of marines through four campaigns on the planet LV-895, blast through waves of Xenomorphs, and hold defensive positions until extraction. Seven classes, 130+ perks and weapons that level as you use them make every run worth another go.
Also in Co-op · Tense, Replayable, Dark
80% of 21,776 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 144$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. Play solo or team up through online co-op and matchmaking, coordinating movement, positioning, and split-second decisions to survive intense, high-risk missions.
Also in Co-op · Tense, Replayable, Fast-paced
80% of 420 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1$13.99
Strain Tactics
Strain Tactics is a real-time-with-pause tactical game, where you command a squad of soldiers to liberate earth from an alien infestation. Using your helibase, deploy your custom squad and provide air support. Remember to keep your crew sane and motivated while staying clear of alien contamination!
Tense, Replayable, Dark
87% of 216 Steam reviews are positive$14.99
This Means Warp
It’s co-op space survival fun, Jim, but not as we know it. This Means Warp is an intense spaceship management roguelite experience for 1-4 players. Explore a procedurally generated universe, upgrade your ship, battle dangerous enemies and adapt your strategies to survive in a hostile galaxy.
Also in Co-op · Tense, Replayable, Fast-paced
71% of 439 Steam reviews are positive$19.99
Natural Selection 2
Marines against aliens, with a twist: one player on each team commands from above, dropping ammo, sentries and hives while everyone else fights it out on foot, on walls and in the air. A fast, tense team shooter where strategy and reflexes share the job, and a win actually feels earned.
Tense, Replayable, Competitive
85% of 8,654 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 126$4.99
Meltdown
Meltdown is a tactical arcade shooter featuring both singleplayer and intense online multiplayer. Become the most skilled soldier, choose your weapons, get the best upgrades, buckle up and start your mission. Be careful, each enemy has it’s own combat style, special AI and gear. Adapt to them to survive!
Also in Co-op · Tense, Replayable, Competitive
87% of 505 Steam reviews are positive$6.99
Dustwind
ARE YOU READY FOR CLASSIC REALTIME TACTICS? Be the nameless heroine in the wastelands of DUSTWIND's story campaign or find with two friends a new home or fight against and with human players in the elaborate Multiplayer mode or design your very own story campaigns and maps in the mighty map editor!
Also in Co-op · Tense, Replayable, Competitive
75% of 342 Steam reviews are positive$24.99

Cheaper than The Red Solstice

VERSUS SQUAD

Versus Squad is a fast action twin-stick shooter from the creator of Nation Red.

$7.99

Meltdown

Meltdown is a tactical arcade shooter featuring both singleplayer and intense online multiplayer.

$6.99

Natural Selection 2

Pick a side, grab a rifle or grow claws, and battle across a sci-fi map where every round plays out differently.

$4.99

Takedown: Red Sabre

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

$4.99

Survivor Squad

Survivor Squad is a Strategy Action game where you control a Squad of up to four survivors and guide them through a highly randomized world looking…

$2.99

Decision: Red Daze

Lead a squad of survivors through a zombie-ridden wasteland, claim its ruins and turn them into settlements that can hold out against the Red Daze.

$3.99

Xenopurge

Xenopurge is a tactical auto-battler where you are a Commander tasked with purging the Xenos threat.

$6.24

Deadstone

Based on the inhospitable frontier world of Mars, against the backdrop of a bacterial outbreak, Deadstone offers a compelling blend of frantic…

$7.99

Bunch of Heroes

Pick up the Horror Pack for free during the Steam Halloween Sale! Offer ends November 1st at 10AM Pacific.

$4.99

Blacklist Brigade

Blacklist Brigade is a co-op focused top-down shooter game, where players as a part of a mercenary group fight against banana republic dictators and…

$9.99

Element Space

Year 2199. Assemble an elite crew and make allies to combat a shadowy organization threatening the future of humanity.

$0.99

Scourge: Outbreak

Blast your way through Nogari Island as Echo Squad. Utilize a devastating array of weapons and special abilities to crush everything that stands in…

$5.99

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Xenopurge

Xenopurge is a tactical auto-battler where you are a Commander tasked with purging the Xenos threat.

$6.24

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

MENACE

Command improvised squads of marines and convicts through a grim, tense campaign where every loss stings and every run plays out differently.

$39.99

Void Crew

Take a role on a co-op spaceship, from pilot to gunner, and survive fast, chaotic runs through hostile space together.

$24.99

Section 13

Unravel a thrilling sci-fi mystery in this action-packed twin-stick roguelite shooter.

$19.99

Survivor Mercs

Purge the billionaires' robot army with your Merc squad! Fast-paced twin-stick action, frantic horde survival, tactical squad-building & tons of loot!

$9.99

EXOME

EXOME is a co-op sci-fi survival shooter that blends wave-based survival with open-world exploration.

$14.99

John Carpenter's Toxic Commando

Grab three friends, hop in a gun truck and carve a bloody, laughing path through the undead horde.

$39.99

Marathon

Marathon is Bungie's tense extraction shooter on the lost colony of Tau Ceti IV.

$39.99

This Means Warp

It’s co-op space survival fun, Jim, but not as we know it. This Means Warp is an intense spaceship management roguelite experience for 1-4 players.

$19.99

Decision: Red Daze

Lead a squad of survivors through a zombie-ridden wasteland, claim its ruins and turn them into settlements that can hold out against the Red Daze.

$3.99

Starship Troopers: Extermination

Squad up with 15 others, raise a fortress on an alien world, and defend it as hundreds of Bugs come pouring over the walls.

$29.99

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