HELLDIVERS™ Dive Harder Edition similar games & best alternatives

HELLDIVERS™ Dive Harder Edition

2015

Should you play it?

HELLDIVERS™ is a hardcore, cooperative, twin stick shooter. As part of the elite unit called the HELLDIVERS, players must work together to protect SUPER EARTH and defeat the enemies of mankind in an intense intergalactic war.

What works

  • Strong cooperative gameplay with up to 4 players
  • High skill and tactical depth with friendly fire mechanics
  • Procedurally generated missions and global war meta
  • Varied weapons, stratagems, and loadouts for customization
  • Active and friendly community with voice chat support

Things to keep in mind

  • Steep learning curve and punishing difficulty
  • Repetitive mission objectives and environments
  • Some essential dlc required for best experience
  • Shared screen limits individual autonomy in multiplayer
  • Small player base and occasional toxic players

What to play next

Top picks

Games that feels the closest overall

  • Alien Swarm: Reactive Drop

  • Bloodsports.TV

  • Awesomenauts

  • SUPERVIVE

  • CyberCorp

  • Madballs in Babo:Invasion

Less competitive

Games that feels like HELLDIVERS™ Dive Harder Edition but with less competition against others

  • Jump Space

  • Sunderfolk

  • The Red Solstice

  • SYNTHETIK: Arena

  • SYNTHETIK 2

  • Gatewalkers (Alpha)

Less leadership-focused

Games that feels like HELLDIVERS™ Dive Harder Edition but with less leadership over others

  • What the Fog

  • Entropy Survivors

  • SWORN

  • Apocalypse Party

  • Full Mojo Rampage

  • Strike Force Heroes

Choose your own criteria ->

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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).

HELLDIVERS™ Dive Harder Edition: A very typical example of its motivational profile. Motivations that often define this kind of title include Cooperation, Fellowship, Intimacy, Leadership. Here, the score leans higher than usual among comparable games on Leadership, Status, Competition.

Last update: 06/08/2026