Games like Dead or Alive 5
Closest overall match: TEKKEN 6 (★ 3.8). Highest rated: Scott Pilgrim vs. the World: The Game at ★ 4.1. Quickest to finish: PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale at about 2 hours.
These 12 games score highest on our similarity model for Dead or Alive 5 — weighted by shared tags, genre overlap, rating proximity and release era. The strongest common threads are Story, battle and fighter.
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64%
1. TEKKEN 6
Shares character, battle and Story; rated 0.3 higher.
- Year
- 2007
- Rating
- ★ 3.8
- Metacritic
- 80
- Playtime
- 5h
- Finish rate
- 66%
- Shared genres
- Fighting, 11
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61%
2. Soul Calibur V
Shares fighter; rated 0.3 higher; about 8h shorter; same release year.
- Year
- 2012
- Rating
- ★ 3.8
- Metacritic
- 79
- Finish rate
- 67%
- Shared genres
- Fighting, 11
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60%
3. Tekken Tag Tournament 2
Shares combos; rated 0.5 higher; same release year.
- Year
- 2012
- Rating
- ★ 4.0
- Metacritic
- 83
- Playtime
- 9h
- Finish rate
- 68%
- Shared genres
- Fighting, 11
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57%
4. Mortal Kombat vs. DC Universe
Close match on genre and platform.
- Year
- 2008
- Rating
- ★ 3.3
- Metacritic
- 74
- Playtime
- 9h
- Finish rate
- 60%
- Shared genres
- Fighting, 11
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56%
5. Spartacus Legends
Shares character; rated 1.2 lower; about 8h shorter; released within 1 year.
- Year
- 2013
- Rating
- ★ 2.3
- Finish rate
- 18%
- Shared genres
- Fighting, 11
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52%
6. Scott Pilgrim vs. the World: The Game
Shares fighter and Story; rated 0.6 higher; about 8h shorter; released within 2 years.
- Year
- 2010
- Rating
- ★ 4.1
- Metacritic
- 75
- Finish rate
- 60%
- Shared genres
- Fighting, 11
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50%
7. One Piece: Burning Blood
Shares fighter, battle and Story; rated 0.4 lower; about 5h shorter.
- Year
- 2016
- Rating
- ★ 3.2
- Playtime
- 3h
- Finish rate
- 49%
- Shared genres
- Fighting, 11
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49%
8. Dragon Ball Xenoverse
Shares Story.
- Year
- 2015
- Rating
- ★ 3.5
- Metacritic
- 68
- Playtime
- 8h
- Finish rate
- 63%
- Shared genres
- Fighting, 11
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48%
9. The King of Fighters XIII
Released within 1 year.
- Year
- 2011
- Rating
- ★ 3.6
- Playtime
- 4h
- Finish rate
- 46%
- Shared genres
- Fighting, 11
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47%
10. Soul Calibur IV
Rated 0.4 higher; about 8h shorter.
- Year
- 2008
- Rating
- ★ 3.9
- Metacritic
- 85
- Finish rate
- 61%
- Shared genres
- Fighting, 11
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47%
11. BlazBlue: Chrono Phantasma EXTEND
Close match on genre and platform.
- Year
- 2015
- Rating
- ★ 3.8
- Metacritic
- 82
- Playtime
- 4h
- Finish rate
- 51%
- Shared genres
- Fighting, 11
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46%
12. PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale
Shares battle and Story; rated 0.5 lower; about 6h shorter; same release year.
- Year
- 2012
- Rating
- ★ 3.0
- Metacritic
- 74
- Playtime
- 2h
- Finish rate
- 51%
- Shared genres
- Fighting, 11
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Questions people ask
What is the best game like Dead or Alive 5?
On our similarity model, TEKKEN 6 is the closest match to Dead or Alive 5 — shares character, battle and Story; rated 0.3 higher.
Which game like Dead or Alive 5 is rated highest?
Scott Pilgrim vs. the World: The Game holds the highest player rating in this list at 4.1/5 from 166 players.
How this list is built
Every game in our catalog is scored against Dead or Alive 5 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.