Games like God of War (2018)
Closest overall match: Days Gone (★ 4.0). Highest rated: Red Dead Redemption 2 at ★ 4.6. Quickest to finish: HELLDIVERS at about 5 hours.
Looking for something like God of War (2018)? Our model ranked 12 games by how much they share with it. What ties them together most: Action-Adventure, 3rd-Person Perspective and Full controller support. Updated Oct 15, 2026.
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65%
1. Days Gone
Shares 3rd-Person Perspective, Blood, exclusive, Action-Adventure and Violent and 6 more tags; rated 0.6 lower; about 5h shorter; released within 1 year.
- Year
- 2019
- Rating
- ★ 4.0
- Metacritic
- 74
- Playtime
- 10h
- Finish rate
- 74%
- Shared genres
- 4
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64%
2. Marvel's Spider-Man
Shares 3rd-Person Perspective, true exclusive, exclusive, Action-Adventure and Exploration and 1 more tags; about 9h shorter; same release year.
- Year
- 2018
- Rating
- ★ 4.5
- Metacritic
- 87
- Playtime
- 6h
- Finish rate
- 94%
- Shared genres
- 4
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60%
3. Devil May Cry 5
Shares 3rd-Person Perspective, Hack and Slash, Action-Adventure, Violent and Full controller support and 2 more tags; about 6h shorter; released within 1 year.
- Year
- 2019
- Rating
- ★ 4.3
- Metacritic
- 88
- Playtime
- 9h
- Finish rate
- 83%
- Shared genres
- 4
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60%
4. Red Dead Redemption 2
Shares 3rd-Person Perspective, Blood, Violent, Exploration and Third Person and 1 more tags; about 6h longer; same release year.
- Year
- 2018
- Rating
- ★ 4.6
- Metacritic
- 96
- Playtime
- 21h
- Finish rate
- 82%
- Shared genres
- 4
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57%
5. God of War: Ragnarök
Shares true exclusive, exclusive and Singleplayer; about 15h shorter.
- Year
- 2022
- Rating
- ★ 4.4
- Finish rate
- 94%
- Shared genres
- 4
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57%
6. Rise of the Tomb Raider
Shares Action-Adventure, Exploration, Third Person, Full controller support and Steam Cloud and 2 more tags; rated 0.5 lower.
- Year
- 2015
- Rating
- ★ 4.0
- Metacritic
- 86
- Playtime
- 14h
- Finish rate
- 87%
- Shared genres
- 4
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57%
7. Detroit: Become Human
Shares Remote Play on TV, 3rd-Person Perspective, Emotional, exclusive and Action-Adventure and 7 more tags; about 5h shorter; same release year.
- Year
- 2018
- Rating
- ★ 4.3
- Metacritic
- 79
- Playtime
- 10h
- Finish rate
- 94%
- Shared genres
- 4
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57%
8. HELLDIVERS
Shares Hack and Slash, Full controller support, Steam Cloud, Steam Achievements and Singleplayer; rated 0.9 lower; about 10h shorter.
- Year
- 2015
- Rating
- ★ 3.6
- Metacritic
- 83
- Playtime
- 5h
- Finish rate
- 29%
- Shared genres
- 4
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56%
9. Dishonored: Death of the Outsider
Shares Violent, Full controller support, Steam Cloud, Steam Achievements and Singleplayer; rated 0.5 lower; about 6h shorter; released within 1 year.
- Year
- 2017
- Rating
- ★ 4.1
- Metacritic
- 83
- Playtime
- 9h
- Finish rate
- 90%
- Shared genres
- 4
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55%
10. Armored Core VI: Fires of Rubicon
Shares Souls-like, combat, 3D, Action-Adventure and Third Person and 2 more tags; rated 0.4 lower.
- Year
- 2023
- Rating
- ★ 4.1
- Playtime
- 11h
- Finish rate
- 60%
- Shared genres
- 4
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55%
11. Tomb Raider
Shares Action-Adventure, Exploration, Third Person, Full controller support and Singleplayer; rated 0.5 lower; about 5h shorter.
- Year
- 2013
- Rating
- ★ 4.1
- Metacritic
- 86
- Playtime
- 10h
- Finish rate
- 89%
- Shared genres
- 4
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54%
12. Assassin's Creed Unity
Shares Action RPG, Third Person and Singleplayer; rated 0.9 lower.
- Year
- 2014
- Rating
- ★ 3.6
- Metacritic
- 71
- Playtime
- 14h
- Finish rate
- 76%
- Shared genres
- 4
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Questions people ask
What is the best game like God of War (2018)?
On our similarity model, Days Gone is the closest match to God of War (2018) — shares 3rd-Person Perspective, Blood, exclusive, Action-Adventure and Violent and 6 more tags; rated 0.6 lower; about 5h shorter; released within 1 year.
Which game like God of War (2018) is rated highest?
Red Dead Redemption 2 holds the highest player rating in this list at 4.6/5 from 5,582 players.
How this list is built
Every game in our catalog is scored against God of War (2018) 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.