Games like Control on Xbox
Closest overall match: Resident Evil 7: Biohazard (★ 4.3). Quickest to finish: Alan Wake's American Nightmare at about 3 hours.
These 20 games score highest on our similarity model for Control — weighted by shared tags, genre overlap, rating proximity and release era. What ties them together most: Singleplayer, Full controller support and Third Person. Updated Oct 15, 2026.
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61%
1. Resident Evil 7: Biohazard
Shares Detective, Cinematic, Action-Adventure, Exploration and Full controller support and 1 more tags; released within 2 years.
- Year
- 2017
- Rating
- ★ 4.3
- Metacritic
- 85
- Playtime
- 10h
- Finish rate
- 85%
- Shared genres
- 2, 3, 4
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59%
2. The Evil Within
Shares Cinematic, Third Person, Full controller support and Singleplayer.
- Year
- 2014
- Rating
- ★ 4.0
- Metacritic
- 68
- Playtime
- 6h
- Finish rate
- 73%
- Shared genres
- 2, 3, 4
-
59%
3. Alan Wake
Shares Supernatural, Cinematic, Third Person, Full controller support and Singleplayer; same developer.
- Year
- 2010
- Rating
- ★ 4.1
- Metacritic
- 83
- Playtime
- 5h
- Finish rate
- 80%
- Shared genres
- 2, 3, 4
-
59%
4. Hitman 3
Shares Cinematic, Third Person, Full controller support and Singleplayer; released within 2 years.
- Year
- 2021
- Rating
- ★ 4.3
- Metacritic
- 83
- Playtime
- 6h
- Finish rate
- 77%
- Shared genres
- 2, 3, 4
-
59%
5. Sniper Elite 3
Shares Third Person, Full controller support and Singleplayer; same developer; rated 0.6 lower.
- Year
- 2014
- Rating
- ★ 3.5
- Metacritic
- 67
- Playtime
- 5h
- Finish rate
- 60%
- Shared genres
- 2, 3, 4
-
58%
6. Far Cry 6
Shares Action-Adventure, Female Protagonist, Exploration and Singleplayer; rated 0.8 lower; released within 2 years.
- Year
- 2021
- Rating
- ★ 3.4
- Metacritic
- 75
- Playtime
- 8h
- Finish rate
- 66%
- Shared genres
- 2, 3, 4
-
58%
7. The Evil Within 2
Shares Singleplayer; about 5h longer; released within 2 years.
- Year
- 2017
- Rating
- ★ 4.1
- Metacritic
- 82
- Playtime
- 11h
- Finish rate
- 85%
- Shared genres
- 2, 3, 4
-
58%
8. STAR WARS Battlefront II
Shares Third Person and Singleplayer; rated 0.6 lower; released within 2 years.
- Year
- 2017
- Rating
- ★ 3.6
- Metacritic
- 74
- Playtime
- 4h
- Finish rate
- 54%
- Shared genres
- 2, 3, 4
-
58%
9. Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy
Shares Cinematic, Action-Adventure, Exploration, Full controller support and Singleplayer; released within 2 years.
- Year
- 2021
- Rating
- ★ 4.3
- Playtime
- 10h
- Finish rate
- 87%
- Shared genres
- 2, 3, 4
-
57%
10. Indiana Jones and the Great Circle
Shares Action-Adventure, Exploration, Full controller support and Singleplayer; about 6h longer.
- Year
- 2024
- Rating
- ★ 4.3
- Playtime
- 12h
- Finish rate
- 82%
- Shared genres
- 2, 3, 4
-
57%
11. Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night
Shares Metroidvania, Female Protagonist, Full controller support and Singleplayer; same developer; same release year.
- Year
- 2019
- Rating
- ★ 4.0
- Metacritic
- 81
- Playtime
- 6h
- Finish rate
- 70%
- Shared genres
- 3, 4
-
57%
12. Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order
Shares Metroidvania, Exploration and Third Person; same release year.
- Year
- 2019
- Rating
- ★ 4.1
- Metacritic
- 80
- Playtime
- 8h
- Finish rate
- 83%
- Shared genres
- 3, 4
-
57%
13. Shadow Warrior 2
Shares Full controller support and Singleplayer; rated 0.6 lower.
- Year
- 2016
- Rating
- ★ 3.5
- Metacritic
- 78
- Playtime
- 5h
- Finish rate
- 57%
- Shared genres
- 2, 3, 4
-
56%
14. Shadow of the Tomb Raider
Shares Action-Adventure, Female Protagonist, Exploration, Third Person and Full controller support and 1 more tags; released within 1 year.
- Year
- 2018
- Rating
- ★ 3.9
- Metacritic
- 78
- Playtime
- 10h
- Finish rate
- 84%
- Shared genres
- 3, 4
-
56%
15. Sniper Elite 4
Shares Third Person, Full controller support and Singleplayer; rated 0.6 lower; released within 2 years.
- Year
- 2017
- Rating
- ★ 3.6
- Metacritic
- 78
- Playtime
- 6h
- Finish rate
- 55%
- Shared genres
- 2, 3, 4
-
56%
16. Atomic Heart
Shares Singleplayer; about 6h longer.
- Year
- 2023
- Rating
- ★ 3.9
- Metacritic
- 73
- Playtime
- 12h
- Finish rate
- 73%
- Shared genres
- 2, 3, 4
-
56%
17. Quantum Break
Shares Cinematic, Female Protagonist, Third Person, Full controller support and Singleplayer; same developer.
- Year
- 2016
- Rating
- ★ 3.9
- Metacritic
- 66
- Playtime
- 6h
- Finish rate
- 81%
- Shared genres
- 2, 4
-
56%
18. Hitman 2
Shares 3rd-Person Perspective, Third Person and Singleplayer; released within 1 year.
- Year
- 2018
- Rating
- ★ 4.0
- Metacritic
- 83
- Playtime
- 5h
- Finish rate
- 68%
- Shared genres
- 2, 4
-
56%
19. Metro Exodus
Shares Cinematic, Exploration, Full controller support and Singleplayer; same release year.
- Year
- 2019
- Rating
- ★ 4.2
- Metacritic
- 81
- Playtime
- 6h
- Finish rate
- 82%
- Shared genres
- 2, 4
-
55%
20. Alan Wake's American Nightmare
Shares Supernatural, Detective, Cinematic, Third Person and Full controller support and 1 more tags; same developer; rated 0.7 lower.
- Year
- 2012
- Rating
- ★ 3.4
- Metacritic
- 73
- Playtime
- 3h
- Finish rate
- 80%
- Shared genres
- 2, 4
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What is the best game like Control on Xbox?
On our similarity model, Resident Evil 7: Biohazard is the closest match to Control on Xbox — shares Detective, Cinematic, Action-Adventure, Exploration and Full controller support and 1 more tags; released within 2 years.
How this list is built
Every game in our catalog is scored against Control 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.
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