Games like Darksiders
Closest overall match: Devil May Cry 4 (★ 4.1). Highest rated: Assassin’s Creed Brotherhood at ★ 4.3. Quickest to finish: Blades of Time at about 1 hours.
These 12 games score highest on our similarity model for Darksiders — weighted by shared tags, genre overlap, rating proximity and release era. The strongest common threads are Third Person, Open World and Controller.
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69%
1. Devil May Cry 4
Shares Spectacle fighter, Character Action Game, Beat 'em up, Hack and Slash and Controller and 3 more tags; rated 0.4 higher; released within 2 years.
- Year
- 2008
- Rating
- ★ 4.1
- Metacritic
- 78
- Playtime
- 3h
- Finish rate
- 81%
- Shared genres
- 4
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65%
2. The Legend of Korra
Shares Spectacle fighter, Character Action Game, Beat 'em up, Hack and Slash and Third Person and 4 more tags; rated 0.5 lower.
- Year
- 2014
- Rating
- ★ 3.3
- Playtime
- 4h
- Finish rate
- 74%
- Shared genres
- 4
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63%
3. Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance
Shares Spectacle fighter, Character Action Game, Beat 'em up, Hack and Slash and Third Person and 3 more tags; rated 0.5 higher.
- Year
- 2013
- Rating
- ★ 4.3
- Metacritic
- 83
- Playtime
- 6h
- Finish rate
- 79%
- Shared genres
- 4
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62%
4. Assassin’s Creed III
Shares Action-Adventure, Controller, Third Person, Open World and Partial Controller Support and 1 more tags; about 19h longer; released within 2 years.
- Year
- 2012
- Rating
- ★ 3.8
- Metacritic
- 80
- Playtime
- 22h
- Finish rate
- 84%
- Shared genres
- 4
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61%
5. Dead Rising 2
Shares Third Person, Open World, Partial Controller Support, Steam Cloud and Steam Achievements and 1 more tags; same release year.
- Year
- 2010
- Rating
- ★ 3.5
- Metacritic
- 78
- Playtime
- 5h
- Finish rate
- 52%
- Shared genres
- 4
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60%
6. Assassin’s Creed Brotherhood
Shares Action-Adventure, Controller, Third Person, Open World and Partial Controller Support and 1 more tags; rated 0.5 higher; about 13h longer; same release year.
- Year
- 2010
- Rating
- ★ 4.3
- Metacritic
- 88
- Playtime
- 16h
- Finish rate
- 93%
- Shared genres
- 4
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60%
7. Blades of Time
Shares Spectacle fighter, Character Action Game, Hack and Slash, Controller and Third Person and 5 more tags; rated 0.5 lower; released within 2 years.
- Year
- 2012
- Rating
- ★ 3.2
- Metacritic
- 63
- Playtime
- 1h
- Finish rate
- 61%
- Shared genres
- 4
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60%
8. Assassin's Creed Revelations
Shares Action-Adventure, Controller, Third Person, Open World and Singleplayer; about 11h longer; released within 1 year.
- Year
- 2011
- Rating
- ★ 4.0
- Metacritic
- 80
- Playtime
- 14h
- Finish rate
- 92%
- Shared genres
- 4
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60%
9. Bloodstained: Curse of the Moon
Shares Metroidvania, Partial Controller Support, Steam Cloud, Steam Achievements and Singleplayer.
- Year
- 2018
- Rating
- ★ 3.9
- Metacritic
- 78
- Playtime
- 3h
- Finish rate
- 73%
- Shared genres
- 4
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60%
10. Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag
Shares Action RPG, Action-Adventure, Third Person, Open World and Singleplayer; rated 0.4 higher; about 22h longer.
- Year
- 2013
- Rating
- ★ 4.2
- Metacritic
- 85
- Playtime
- 25h
- Finish rate
- 80%
- Shared genres
- 4
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59%
11. Spider-Man: Shattered Dimensions
Same release year.
- Year
- 2010
- Rating
- ★ 3.9
- Metacritic
- 73
- Playtime
- 2h
- Finish rate
- 80%
- Shared genres
- 4
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59%
12. LEGO Harry Potter: Years 5-7
Shares Fantasy, Open World and Singleplayer; released within 1 year.
- Year
- 2011
- Rating
- ★ 3.7
- Metacritic
- 80
- Playtime
- 4h
- Finish rate
- 82%
- Shared genres
- 4
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Questions people ask
What is the best game like Darksiders?
On our similarity model, Devil May Cry 4 is the closest match to Darksiders — shares Spectacle fighter, Character Action Game, Beat 'em up, Hack and Slash and Controller and 3 more tags; rated 0.4 higher; released within 2 years.
Which game like Darksiders is rated highest?
Assassin’s Creed Brotherhood holds the highest player rating in this list at 4.3/5 from 1,741 players.
Are there games like Darksiders on Nintendo Switch?
Yes — we found 6 games like Darksiders on Nintendo Switch. See the dedicated list.
How this list is built
Every game in our catalog is scored against Darksiders 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.