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SANDLOT · 2016 · 95 % positive of 10,054

24 games that play like EARTH DEFENSE FORCE 4.1 The Shadow of New Despair and 24 that look like it. Closest by gameplay: EARTH DEFENSE FORCE 5, EARTH DEFENSE FORCE 6 and Earth Defense Force: Insect Armageddon.

Player tags

  • Action
  • Third-Person Shooter
  • Co-op
  • Online Co-Op
  • Aliens
  • Mechs
  • Sci-fi
  • Local Co-Op

At a glance

What games like EARTH DEFENSE FORCE 4.1 The Shadow of New Despair have in common

  • The tags they share most often with EARTH DEFENSE FORCE 4.1 The Shadow of New Despair: Co-op (20 of 24), Online Co-Op (17) and Third-Person Shooter (14).
  • They came out between 2006 and 2026, 16 of them after EARTH DEFENSE FORCE 4.1 The Shadow of New Despair (2016).
  • Best rated by Steam players: Alien Swarm: Reactive Drop (94 % positive of 22,649).
  • 4 games both play and look like EARTH DEFENSE FORCE 4.1 The Shadow of New Despair, among them EARTH DEFENSE FORCE 5, EARTH DEFENSE FORCE 6 and EARTH DEFENSE FORCE: IRON RAIN.

By gameplay

Plays like EARTH DEFENSE FORCE 4.1 The Shadow of New Despair

Matched from Steam descriptions and player tags. The tags under each game are the ones both games share.

More matches

  1. The Last Salvage Squad98 % positive of 554
  2. Defiance 205048 % positive of 2,287Shared: Third-Person Shooter · Co-op · Sci-fi
  3. Alien Breed: Impact74 % positive of 1,789Shared: Third-Person Shooter · Co-op · Online Co-Op
  4. Aliens vs. Ghosts90 % positive of 487Shared: Co-op · Online Co-Op · Aliens
  5. Starship Troopers: Extermination80 % positive of 31,022Shared: Co-op · Online Co-Op · Aliens
  6. SAS: Zombie Assault 486 % positive of 9,112Shared: Co-op · Online Co-Op · Sci-fi
  7. Alien Swarm: Reactive Drop94 % positive of 22,649Shared: Third-Person Shooter · Co-op · Aliens
  8. Alien Shooter - Last Hope77 % positive of 288Shared: Aliens · Sci-fi · Shooter
  9. HELLDIVERS™ Dive Harder Edition90 % positive of 31,519Shared: Co-op · Online Co-Op · Mechs
  10. Fortified74 % positive of 1,710Shared: Third-Person Shooter · Co-op · Online Co-Op
  11. Alien Swarm94 % positive of 21,274Shared: Third-Person Shooter · Co-op · Online Co-Op
  12. Aliens: Fireteam Elite79 % positive of 24,731Shared: Third-Person Shooter · Co-op · Online Co-Op

By look

Looks like EARTH DEFENSE FORCE 4.1 The Shadow of New Despair

Matched from screenshots. Each card shows the screenshot closest to the look of this game.

More matches

  1. Iron Brigade85 % positive of 1,152
  2. F.E.A.R. 2: Project Origin85 % positive of 8,549
  3. METAL GEAR RISING: REVENGEANCE96 % positive of 83,293
  4. CONTRA: ROGUE CORPS43 % positive of 273
  5. METRO CONFLICT: THE ORIGIN54 % positive of 1,462
  6. Prototype™80 % positive of 12,357
  7. EARTH DEFENSE FORCE: IRON RAIN59 % positive of 1,413
  8. Ultimate Zombie Defense85 % positive of 3,188
  9. Bedlam75 % positive of 878
  10. Anarchy Online82 % positive of 268
  11. EPOCH82 % positive of 163
  12. War Tech Fighters77 % positive of 335

How these matches work

Matches come from embeddings of Steam descriptions, player tags and screenshots, computed offline. “Plays like” compares what the games are about and how players tag them; “Looks like” compares their screenshots. The share of positive reviews is based on Steam user reviews.

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