19 Games Like Red Dead Redemption
Our games like Red Dead Redemption list features games with similar themes, open worlds, player choice and action gameplay across PC and consoles. In these expansive landscapes players will explore as they desire while following a main questline, completing various side activities, stumbling upon random encounters while developing their characters skills and equipment.
Assassin’s Creed
Giving birth to a long running franchise the original Assassin’s Creed provides players a high quality stealth focused open world adventure which continues to serve as the foundation of the franchise in the modern day. Launching in 2007 the franchise has now expanded to over a dozen core game and spin-off titles with an almost yearly release cycle. This original Assassin’s Creed takes players fare into the past as they find themselves in the depths of the Holy Land during the time of the Crusade...[Read More]
The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings
The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings is the sequel to the popular action role playing game expanding on the universe and story. After the original release on Windows, Mac, Linux and Xbox 360 an enhanced edition was released the following year dramatically building on the content and addressing a number of important bug fixes and tweaks. Like the first Witcher the game is loosely based on the book series with the same name by Andrzej Sapkowski, a setting that has proven extremely popular amongst fan...[Read More]
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt takes an already impressive franchise and elevates it to a whole new level of action role playing. In this 2015 addition to the Witcher Series of video games you’ll explore vast sprawling open landscapes, make moral quest decisions that ripple through the game, engage in combat, play cards with NPCs and investigate countless side missions on horseback. Geralt of Rivia is once again your protagonist for this adventure who is a powerful and professional monster hunte...[Read More]
The Godfather II
The Godfather II continues with the Godfather series of video games with another crime based open world experience for players to dive into. Retaining the core blend of action, adventure, story, combat and crime players will also find an enhanced array of strategic pathways to help you undermine the other crime families that you compete against for control. The second game in the Godfather video game series and starts in 1958 with some loose ties to the Godfather film franchise. Once again you&#...[Read More]
Saints Row IV
Saints Row IV pushes the series into new insane heights and is packed full of strange, comedic and simply wacky moments across a familiar open world structure of the past adventures in the franchise. First released in 2013 the game follows the story of the third Saints Row title and has subsequently seen a number of ports from original release platforms. Your single player story in Saints Row IV is set half a decade after the third game and features the same player created character from your pa...[Read More]
The Saboteur
The Saboteur explores a different setting to most open world action adventure titles with a World War II theme that has players trying to sabotage everything within reach to help the war effort. With a setting that the genre hasn’t touched before you’re guaranteed a unique adventure as you play on Windows, Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3. The game focuses on Paris during its Nazi occupation with players taking on the role of Sean Devlin as he attempts to sabotage the Nazi’s from within as...[Read More]
Gun
Gun is an open world action adventure game set in the Wild West that was released in 2005 for Windows and consoles with an enhanced PlayStation Portable version a year later (Gun: Showdown). Often compared to the highly popular Red Dead Redemption franchise that would be released 5 years later Gun is one of the original video games that opt to explore the 1880 Wild West setting. Within Gun players take on the role of Colton White as he attempts to take revenge on those that have wronged him in h...[Read More]
Saints Row: The Third
Saints Row: The Third offers a massive open world and a similar game experience to the Grand Theft Auto series while adding elements of over the top fiction that the series is known for. Originally released for Windows, Nintendo Switch Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 a remastered edition expanded the availability to the next generation of platforms. With familiar game elements from the past Saints Row series titles players take control of a member within the Third Street Saints in the fictional world...[Read More]
Mafia II
Mafia II offers a third person action packed experience that puts players inside the mob and builds on the original Mafia experience to once again challenge players to rise the criminal ranks. Originally released in 2010 a Definitive Edition remastered the experience with HD graphics for modern platforms (PS4 and Xbox One) and combined all of the downloadable content to date in 2020. Serving as an action adventure sequel to Mafia players will return to the fictional Empire Bay between the era 19...[Read More]
Assassin’s Creed Unity
The Assassin’s Creed franchise continues its historical based adventure series with the 2014 release in the series called Unity. Taking players deep into Paris to play a key role in the French revolution players will explore the DNA memories of Arno Dorian as they unravel the true story and motives behind the famous historical revolt. While Unity pushed the limits of hardware of the day to deliver it’s stunning graphics the age of the title now puts it in easy reach of modern hardware. Arn...[Read More]
Skyrim
Skyrim is the fifth game in the expansive Elder Scrolls franchise and continues building on the success of the previous games with a large open world and sharp role playing adventure as you design your own character and craft their story within the fantasy realm. First released in 2011 the game has since been remastered, ported and had an anniversary edition released that alter various elements of gameplay and package up the DLC expansions. The core Skyrim storyline strikes a balance of distance...[Read More]
The Witcher
The Witcher is a role playing game set in a dark fantasy world that kicked off a highly popular fantasy role playing franchise. Based on the book series of Polish author Anrzej Sapkowski and features a world filled with grey moral choices centred around the trials faced by the Witchers. Playing as one of these Witchers players will be challenged in the decisions they make throughout the story which all have long term consequences on the game world and your own adventure. Playing as Geralt of Riv...[Read More]
Mafia: The City of Lost Heaven
Mafia: The City of Lost Heaven is the first in a series of games that focus on the Mafia while placing players into a third person shooter free roam setting that is similar to that of the GTA series. The game was originally released in 2002 for Windows and eventually made its way to Xbox and PlayStation 2 with console game ports a few years later. Playing as Tommy Angelo who finds himself in the middle of a crime family war and forced to join one side to protect himself you’ll make your ow...[Read More]
Fable III
Fable III is the third game in the Fable series and has players again exploring what Albion has to offer with a relatively open adventure in the familiar world. Set 50 years after the second game it is available on the Xbox 360 (later Xbox One with backwards compatibility) and Windows. The continent of Albion has advanced quite a bit in the 50 years since players last had the opportunity to explore the continent. Most notably is the player character from the previous game has now become the rule...[Read More]
Mad Max
Mad Max drives the familiar franchise into the video game arena with a 2015 release that has players explore the deadly post-apocalyptic wasteland on your quest for revenge in this battered environment. Available for both console and computer gamers you’ll find an action adventure experience that blends melee combat, firearms, stealth and a range of abilities to help your survive and progress. Your character in this Mad Max video game adventure is the patrol officer Max Rockatansky who doe...[Read More]
Call of Juarez: Bound in Blood
Call of Juarez: Bound in Blood is a first person adventure that takes you through a Wild West themed game world of quests and discovery. Serving as the second game in the series of Call of Juarez games this sequel builds on the foundations of the original to provide a broader open world journey this time around. The game follows Ray and Thomas McCall, the outlaw brothers who quest across the West for the Gold of Juarez. While there history was with the Confederate Army during the American Civil ...[Read More]
Mafia III
Mafia III builds on the fundamentals of the previous games in the Mafia franchise and once again offers players the opportunity to rise through the criminal ranks in a fictional but realistic setting. Released in 2016 Mafia III explores a darker storyline than the franchise to date with players embarking on various quests across the fictional New Bordeaux as you play Vietnam War veteran Lincoln Clay across both console and PC. Set in 1968 the story revolves around the orphan and veteran of the V...[Read More]
Red Dead Revolver
Red Dead Revolver is the spiritual predecessor to the critically acclaimed Red Dead Redemption franchise with a similar old western theme and open adventure. Red Dead Revolver launched for the Xbox and PlayStation 2 in 2004 and eventually was brought over to PlayStation 4 for players to relive the adventure on new hardware. Just like the franchise that came after it players will be experiencing the Wild West through a third person perspective filled with adventure. Taking place in the 1880 perio...[Read More]
The Godfather: The Game
The Godfather: The Game is a 2006 release based in the Godfather universe that allows players to live out a life of crime in an open world environment. Leading the Mafia in this action based adventure game players will find a number of references to the Godfather films as they build and maintain their profitable crime empire. This means that fans of the respective Godfather films will instantly recognise many of the characters from the movie and the game even includes voice acting from a number ...[Read More]