Games Like Dead Effect 2 (2026)

Shared: Skill Trees

Parkour-driven zombie survival RPG with best-in-class movement, a meaty open world, and all major DLC packed in. Still holds up years after launch.

Shared: Loot-Shooter

Handsome Jack is one of gaming's finest villains, and the 100-hour loot loop built around him still holds up over a decade later. Come for the guns, stay for the writing.

Shared: tier:indie

Four friends, one camera, and a procedurally generated underground full of things that want to kill you on film. Content Warning is the co-op horror bit that somehow became the social satire nobody asked for but everyone needed.

Shared: tier:indie

The dating-sim wrapper is bait, and MiSide knows it. What starts as idle chores with an anime girl becomes a genre-hopping psychological horror that two developers built better than most studios manage with a full team.

Shared: Co-op Campaign

Two years of CoD under one launcher: Black Ops 6 is still one of the tightest multiplayer packages the franchise has produced in years, while Black Ops 7 swings big and whiffs on almost every new idea it introduces.