Games like Half-Life 2: Update
Closest overall match: Counter-Strike: Source (★ 3.8). Highest rated: Halo 3 at ★ 4.4. Quickest to finish: Warsow at about 1 hours.
We compared Half-Life 2: Update against every game in our catalog on shared tags, genre, rating, playtime and release era, and these 11 came closest.
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55%
1. Counter-Strike: Source
Same developer; rated 0.4 lower; about 6h longer.
- Year
- 2004
- Rating
- ★ 3.8
- Metacritic
- 88
- Playtime
- 7h
- Finish rate
- 41%
- Shared genres
- 2
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53%
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52%
3. Medal of Honor: Pacific Assault
Rated 0.4 lower.
- Year
- 2004
- Rating
- ★ 3.8
- Metacritic
- 80
- Playtime
- 1h
- Finish rate
- 81%
- Shared genres
- 2
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51%
4. Counter-Strike: Global Offensive
Same developer; rated 0.6 lower; about 63h longer.
- Year
- 2012
- Rating
- ★ 3.6
- Metacritic
- 81
- Playtime
- 64h
- Finish rate
- 35%
- Shared genres
- 2
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50%
5. Battlefield 4
About 5h longer; released within 2 years.
- Year
- 2013
- Rating
- ★ 4.0
- Metacritic
- 81
- Playtime
- 6h
- Finish rate
- 75%
- Shared genres
- 2
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49%
6. Far Cry 4
Rated 0.3 lower; about 16h longer; released within 1 year.
- Year
- 2014
- Rating
- ★ 3.8
- Metacritic
- 80
- Playtime
- 17h
- Finish rate
- 76%
- Shared genres
- 2
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49%
7. Alien Swarm
Same developer; rated 0.8 lower.
- Year
- 2010
- Rating
- ★ 3.3
- Metacritic
- 77
- Playtime
- 2h
- Finish rate
- 44%
- Shared genres
- 2
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49%
8. Halo: Reach
About 10h longer.
- Year
- 2010
- Rating
- ★ 4.3
- Metacritic
- 91
- Playtime
- 11h
- Finish rate
- 86%
- Shared genres
- 2
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49%
9. Halo 3
Close match on genre and platform.
- Year
- 2007
- Rating
- ★ 4.4
- Metacritic
- 91
- Playtime
- 2h
- Finish rate
- 88%
- Shared genres
- 2
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48%
10. Singularity
Close match on genre and platform.
- Year
- 2010
- Rating
- ★ 4.0
- Metacritic
- 76
- Playtime
- 5h
- Finish rate
- 89%
- Shared genres
- 2
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48%
11. Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth
Close match on genre and platform.
- Year
- 2005
- Rating
- ★ 4.1
- Metacritic
- 76
- Playtime
- 1h
- Finish rate
- 69%
- Shared genres
- 2
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Questions people ask
What is the best game like Half-Life 2: Update?
On our similarity model, Counter-Strike: Source is the closest match to Half-Life 2: Update — same developer; rated 0.4 lower; about 6h longer.
Which game like Half-Life 2: Update is rated highest?
Halo 3 holds the highest player rating in this list at 4.4/5 from 782 players.
How this list is built
Every game in our catalog is scored against Half-Life 2: Update on five signals: weighted tag overlap (rare tags count more), genre overlap, platform family overlap, rating and playtime proximity, and release era. The list is recomputed nightly as ratings and new releases change.
Base game data via RAWG.