HELLDIVERS™ 2 similar games & best alternatives

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HELLDIVERS™ 2

Xbox Series X|S, PC (Microsoft Windows), PlayStation 5 • 2024

Should you play it?

The Galaxy’s Last Line of Offence. Enlist in the Helldivers and join the fight for freedom across a hostile galaxy in a fast, frantic, and ferocious third-person shooter.

What works

  • Engaging cooperative gameplay
  • Strong community and developer support
  • Dynamic and cinematic combat
  • Extensive customization and progression
  • Immersive sci-fi narrative

Things to keep in mind

  • Some bugs and occasional crashes
  • Confusing event mechanics leading to community frustration
  • Performance issues on lower-end hardware
  • Matchmaking can be toxic with random players
  • Lack of cross-progression between platforms

What to play next

Top picks

Games that feels the closest overall

  • Warhammer: Vermintide 2

  • Starship Troopers: Extermination

  • Nioh 2 – The Complete Edition

  • Warhammer: End Times - Vermintide

  • Warframe

  • Iron Brigade

More competitive

Games that feels like HELLDIVERS™ 2 but with more competition against others

  • Marathon

  • Hunt: Showdown 1896

  • Halo: The Master Chief Collection

  • Shatterline

  • PlanetSide 2

  • ARC Raiders

More relaxing

Games that feels like HELLDIVERS™ 2 but with a more relaxing feel

  • DEATH STRANDING DIRECTOR'S CUT

  • Enshrouded

  • Shadow Warrior 2

  • Borderlands 2

  • Killing Floor 2

  • John Carpenter's Toxic Commando

Less intimate

Games that feels like HELLDIVERS™ 2 but with less focus on close relationships

  • ELDEN RING

  • Atlas Fallen: Reign Of Sand

  • Space Hulk: Deathwing Enhanced Edition

  • Serious Sam: Siberian Mayhem

  • Warhammer 40,000: Darktide

  • No Rest for the Wicked

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Similarity map

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Each card is a nearby game on the similarity map, compared with HELLDIVERS™ 2. Swipe sideways to move between games. Titles already listed in What to play next are left out.

  • Cover and title: open that game’s page.
  • What works / keep in mind: the same highlights as the desktop comparison panel.
  • Bars: the main motivational differences versus this game.
How to use the graph

Similarity map

Each dot is a game placed from its motivation profile relative to this page’s game. Direction shows which motivation differs most; distance along that axis shows how large the gap is.

  • Purple star: this page’s game at the centre — everything is relative to it.
  • Direction: each axis is a main motivational difference vs this game (e.g. more / less competitive).
  • Distance on an axis: how large that difference is (ring scales show +/− points).
  • Coloured chips: click to highlight games that mainly differ on that motivation; click again to reset.
  • Dotted line: link between this page’s game and the one selected for comparison.
  • Hover a dot to preview that game in the panel on the right; click to keep that comparison.
  • Scroll or double-click the chart to zoom.

How to read the map This is a polar difference map: direction = which motivation differs, and distance = how much (same units as the sidebar deltas).

Swipe to compare nearby games with HELLDIVERS™ 2. These titles are not in What to play next.

HELLDIVERS™ 2: Broadly representative of its motivational profile, with a few distinct shifts. Motivations that often define this kind of title include Cooperation, Fellowship, Intimacy, Leadership. Here, the score leans higher than usual among comparable games on Status, Violence. It leans lower than usual among comparable games on Relaxation.

Last update: 21/08/2026