Games like Dead Rising
Closest overall match: Dead Rising 2 (★ 3.5). Highest rated: Devil May Cry 3: Dante's Awakening at ★ 4.4. Quickest to finish: Devil May Cry 3: Dante's Awakening at about 1 hours.
These 12 games score highest on our similarity model for Dead Rising — weighted by shared tags, genre overlap, rating proximity and release era. The strongest common threads are Horror, Survival and Third Person. Updated Oct 16, 2026.
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74%
1. Dead Rising 2
Shares Zombies, Comedy, Survival, Third Person and Horror and 6 more tags; same developer.
- Year
- 2010
- Rating
- ★ 3.5
- Metacritic
- 78
- Playtime
- 5h
- Finish rate
- 52%
- Shared genres
- 4
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72%
2. Dead Rising 2: Off the Record
Shares Beat 'em up, Survival Horror, Zombies, Comedy and Third Person and 8 more tags; same developer.
- Year
- 2011
- Rating
- ★ 3.5
- Metacritic
- 66
- Playtime
- 5h
- Finish rate
- 52%
- Shared genres
- 4
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68%
3. Devil May Cry 4
Shares Beat 'em up, Third Person, Horror, Great Soundtrack and Full controller support and 1 more tags; same developer; rated 0.5 higher; released within 2 years.
- Year
- 2008
- Rating
- ★ 4.1
- Metacritic
- 78
- Playtime
- 3h
- Finish rate
- 81%
- Shared genres
- 4
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68%
4. Dead Rising 4
Shares Nudity, Memes, Zombies, Comedy and Survival and 9 more tags; rated 0.5 lower.
- Year
- 2016
- Rating
- ★ 3.2
- Metacritic
- 74
- Playtime
- 5h
- Finish rate
- 53%
- Shared genres
- 4
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64%
5. Devil May Cry 3: Dante's Awakening
Shares Beat 'em up; same developer; rated 0.7 higher; released within 1 year.
- Year
- 2005
- Rating
- ★ 4.4
- Metacritic
- 78
- Playtime
- 1h
- Finish rate
- 81%
- Shared genres
- 4
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63%
6. Manhunt
Shares Survival Horror, Survival, Third Person, Horror and Great Soundtrack and 1 more tags.
- Year
- 2003
- Rating
- ★ 3.9
- Metacritic
- 75
- Playtime
- 1h
- Finish rate
- 64%
- Shared genres
- 4
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63%
7. Condemned: Criminal Origins
Shares Beat 'em up, Survival Horror, Survival, Horror and Singleplayer; released within 1 year.
- Year
- 2005
- Rating
- ★ 3.8
- Metacritic
- 80
- Playtime
- 1h
- Finish rate
- 78%
- Shared genres
- 4
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63%
8. Resident Evil Revelations
Shares Survival Horror, Zombies, Survival, Third Person and Horror and 7 more tags; same developer.
- Year
- 2012
- Rating
- ★ 3.8
- Metacritic
- 77
- Playtime
- 8h
- Finish rate
- 82%
- Shared genres
- 4
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62%
9. Killing Floor 2
Shares Survival Horror, Zombies, Survival, Horror and Open World and 5 more tags.
- Year
- 2016
- Rating
- ★ 3.5
- Metacritic
- 75
- Playtime
- 9h
- Finish rate
- 32%
- Shared genres
- 4
-
60%
10. The Darkness II
Shares Nudity, Horror, cooperative, Steam Achievements and Singleplayer.
- Year
- 2012
- Rating
- ★ 3.7
- Metacritic
- 77
- Playtime
- 3h
- Finish rate
- 81%
- Shared genres
- 4
-
60%
11. Rise of the Tomb Raider
Shares Survival, Third Person, Steam Leaderboards, Open World and Great Soundtrack and 5 more tags; rated 0.4 higher; about 9h longer.
- Year
- 2015
- Rating
- ★ 4.0
- Metacritic
- 86
- Playtime
- 14h
- Finish rate
- 87%
- Shared genres
- 4
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60%
12. Resident Evil 2 (1998)
Shares Survival Horror, Zombies, Third Person, Horror and Great Soundtrack and 1 more tags; same developer; rated 0.6 higher; about 8h longer.
- Year
- 1998
- Rating
- ★ 4.3
- Metacritic
- 90
- Playtime
- 13h
- Finish rate
- 81%
- Shared genres
- 4
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Questions people ask
What is the best game like Dead Rising?
On our similarity model, Dead Rising 2 is the closest match to Dead Rising — shares Zombies, Comedy, Survival, Third Person and Horror and 6 more tags; same developer.
Which game like Dead Rising is rated highest?
Devil May Cry 3: Dante's Awakening holds the highest player rating in this list at 4.4/5 from 559 players.
How this list is built
Every game in our catalog is scored against Dead Rising 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.