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Insurgency

ZX Spectrum • 2014

Should you play it?

Take to the streets for intense close quarters combat, where a team's survival depends upon securing crucial strongholds and destroying enemy supply in this multiplayer and cooperative Source Engine based experience.

What works

  • Realistic and tactical gameplay
  • Strong emphasis on teamwork and communication
  • Immersive sound design
  • Free updates and mod support
  • Good value for price

Things to keep in mind

  • Steep learning curve for new players
  • Limited weapon and map variety compared to aaa shooters
  • Some community toxicity reported
  • Lack of ranked matchmaking
  • Outdated graphics engine

What to play next

Top picks

Games that feels the closest overall

  • Day of Infamy

  • Insurgency: Sandstorm

  • Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory

  • Arma Reforger

  • Caliber

  • Due Process

More fantastical

Games that feels like Insurgency but with more imaginative fiction

  • Dino D-Day

  • ZomDay

  • SCP: Secret Laboratory

  • After the Fall®

  • The Outlast Trials

  • Cat Warfare

More dominating

Games that feels like Insurgency but with more domination over others

  • Breachers™

  • Counter-Strike: Source

  • Pavlov

  • POLYGON

  • Task Force

  • Day of Defeat

More story-driven

Games that feels like Insurgency but with deeper narrative immersion

  • Six Days in Fallujah

  • Hell Let Loose

  • Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six® Vegas 2

  • America's Army: Proving Grounds

  • Call to Arms - Gates of Hell: Ostfront

  • Battlefield 3™

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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).
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  • 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).

Insurgency: Less representative of its motivational profile, with noticeable differences. Motivations that often define this kind of title include Competition, Status, Fellowship, Domination. Here, the score leans higher than usual among comparable games on Cooperation. It leans lower than usual among comparable games on Fantasy, Relaxation.

Last update: 03/08/2026