Games like Cold Fear
Closest overall match: Dead Rising (★ 3.7). Highest rated: Resident Evil 2 (1998) at ★ 4.3. Quickest to finish: Manhunt at about 1 hours.
Looking for something like Cold Fear? Our model ranked 12 games by how much they share with it. What ties them together most: Singleplayer, Third Person and Horror.
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67%
1. Dead Rising
Shares Survival Horror, Zombies, Third Person, Horror and Singleplayer; released within 1 year.
- Year
- 2006
- Rating
- ★ 3.7
- Metacritic
- 82
- Playtime
- 5h
- Finish rate
- 56%
- Shared genres
- 4
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67%
2. Resident Evil: Operation Raccoon City
Shares Survival Horror, Third-Person Shooter, Zombies, Third Person and Horror and 1 more tags; rated 1.2 lower.
- Year
- 2012
- Rating
- ★ 2.6
- Metacritic
- 48
- Playtime
- 3h
- Finish rate
- 66%
- Shared genres
- 4
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66%
3. Manhunt
Shares Survival Horror, Third Person, Horror and Singleplayer; released within 2 years.
- Year
- 2003
- Rating
- ★ 3.9
- Metacritic
- 75
- Playtime
- 1h
- Finish rate
- 64%
- Shared genres
- 4
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65%
4. Resident Evil 2 (1998)
Shares Survival Horror, Zombies, Third Person, Horror and Singleplayer; same developer; rated 0.5 higher; about 12h longer.
- Year
- 1998
- Rating
- ★ 4.3
- Metacritic
- 90
- Playtime
- 13h
- Finish rate
- 81%
- Shared genres
- 4
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63%
5. Condemned: Criminal Origins
Shares Survival Horror, Horror and Singleplayer; same release year.
- Year
- 2005
- Rating
- ★ 3.8
- Metacritic
- 80
- Playtime
- 1h
- Finish rate
- 78%
- Shared genres
- 4
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62%
6. Resident Evil 5
Shares Survival Horror, Third-Person Shooter, Zombies and Singleplayer; about 10h longer.
- Year
- 2009
- Rating
- ★ 3.8
- Metacritic
- 86
- Playtime
- 11h
- Finish rate
- 84%
- Shared genres
- 4
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62%
7. Silent Hill Homecoming
Shares Survival Horror, Third Person, Horror and Singleplayer; rated 0.6 lower.
- Year
- 2008
- Rating
- ★ 3.2
- Metacritic
- 64
- Playtime
- 1h
- Finish rate
- 67%
- Shared genres
- 4
-
61%
8. Dead Rising 2
Shares Zombies, Third Person, Horror and Singleplayer; rated 0.3 lower.
- Year
- 2010
- Rating
- ★ 3.5
- Metacritic
- 78
- Playtime
- 5h
- Finish rate
- 52%
- Shared genres
- 4
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61%
9. Just Cause
Shares Third-Person Shooter, Third Person and Singleplayer; rated 0.5 lower; released within 1 year.
- Year
- 2006
- Rating
- ★ 3.3
- Metacritic
- 75
- Playtime
- 1h
- Finish rate
- 56%
- Shared genres
- 4
-
60%
10. Devil May Cry 4
Shares Third Person, Horror and Singleplayer; rated 0.3 higher.
- Year
- 2008
- Rating
- ★ 4.1
- Metacritic
- 78
- Playtime
- 3h
- Finish rate
- 81%
- Shared genres
- 4
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59%
11. Obscure
Shares Survival Horror, Third Person, Horror and Singleplayer; released within 1 year.
- Year
- 2004
- Rating
- ★ 3.8
- Metacritic
- 63
- Playtime
- 2h
- Finish rate
- 73%
- Shared genres
- 4
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59%
12. Sniper Elite
Shares Third-Person Shooter, Third Person and Singleplayer; rated 0.5 lower; same release year.
- Year
- 2005
- Rating
- ★ 3.4
- Metacritic
- 76
- Playtime
- 3h
- Finish rate
- 57%
- Shared genres
- 4
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Questions people ask
What is the best game like Cold Fear?
On our similarity model, Dead Rising is the closest match to Cold Fear — shares Survival Horror, Zombies, Third Person, Horror and Singleplayer; released within 1 year.
Which game like Cold Fear is rated highest?
Resident Evil 2 (1998) holds the highest player rating in this list at 4.3/5 from 940 players.
How this list is built
Every game in our catalog is scored against Cold Fear 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.