Games like Resident Evil 5
Closest overall match: Resident Evil 6 (★ 3.4). Highest rated: Dead Space (2008) at ★ 4.4. Quickest to finish: Doom 3 at about 1 hours.
We compared Resident Evil 5 against every game in our catalog on shared tags, genre, rating, playtime and release era, and these 12 came closest. The strongest common threads are cooperative, Singleplayer and Zombies. Updated Oct 16, 2026.
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70%
1. Resident Evil 6
Shares Survival Horror, Third-Person Shooter, Zombies, Online Co-Op and cooperative and 1 more tags; same developer; rated 0.4 lower.
- Year
- 2012
- Rating
- ★ 3.4
- Metacritic
- 67
- Playtime
- 8h
- Finish rate
- 78%
- Shared genres
- 2, 4
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64%
2. F.E.A.R. 2: Project Origin
Shares Zombies, cooperative and Singleplayer; about 7h shorter; same release year.
- Year
- 2009
- Rating
- ★ 3.9
- Metacritic
- 79
- Playtime
- 4h
- Finish rate
- 87%
- Shared genres
- 2, 4
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64%
3. Resident Evil Revelations
Shares Survival Horror, Third-Person Shooter, Zombies, Online Co-Op and cooperative and 1 more tags; same developer.
- Year
- 2012
- Rating
- ★ 3.8
- Metacritic
- 77
- Playtime
- 8h
- Finish rate
- 82%
- Shared genres
- 4
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63%
4. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3
Shares Zombies, Online Co-Op, cooperative and Singleplayer; released within 2 years.
- Year
- 2011
- Rating
- ★ 3.8
- Metacritic
- 85
- Playtime
- 8h
- Finish rate
- 90%
- Shared genres
- 2, 4
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63%
5. Dead Space (2008)
Shares Survival Horror, Third-Person Shooter, Zombies and Singleplayer; rated 0.6 higher; about 8h shorter; released within 1 year.
- Year
- 2008
- Rating
- ★ 4.4
- Metacritic
- 86
- Playtime
- 3h
- Finish rate
- 79%
- Shared genres
- 2, 4
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62%
6. Dead Space 3
Shares Survival Horror, Third-Person Shooter, Online Co-Op, cooperative and Singleplayer; about 7h shorter.
- Year
- 2013
- Rating
- ★ 3.7
- Metacritic
- 77
- Playtime
- 4h
- Finish rate
- 78%
- Shared genres
- 2, 4
-
62%
7. Zombie Army Trilogy
Shares Survival Horror, Third-Person Shooter, Zombies, cooperative and Singleplayer; rated 0.5 lower; about 7h shorter.
- Year
- 2015
- Rating
- ★ 3.3
- Metacritic
- 72
- Playtime
- 4h
- Finish rate
- 54%
- Shared genres
- 2, 4
-
62%
8. Doom 3
Shares Survival Horror, Zombies, cooperative and Singleplayer; about 10h shorter.
- Year
- 2004
- Rating
- ★ 3.9
- Metacritic
- 87
- Playtime
- 1h
- Finish rate
- 70%
- Shared genres
- 2, 4
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62%
9. Dead Space 2
Shares Survival Horror, Third-Person Shooter, cooperative and Singleplayer; rated 0.6 higher; about 6h shorter; released within 2 years.
- Year
- 2011
- Rating
- ★ 4.4
- Metacritic
- 87
- Playtime
- 5h
- Finish rate
- 88%
- Shared genres
- 2, 4
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61%
10. Call of Duty: Black Ops
Shares Zombies, Online Co-Op, cooperative and Singleplayer; released within 1 year.
- Year
- 2010
- Rating
- ★ 4.1
- Metacritic
- 81
- Playtime
- 9h
- Finish rate
- 89%
- Shared genres
- 2, 4
-
61%
11. Aliens vs. Predator
Shares Survival Horror, Online Co-Op, cooperative and Singleplayer; about 8h shorter; released within 1 year.
- Year
- 2010
- Rating
- ★ 3.6
- Metacritic
- 68
- Playtime
- 3h
- Finish rate
- 71%
- Shared genres
- 2, 4
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61%
12. Call of Duty: Black Ops II
Shares Zombies, Online Co-Op, cooperative and Singleplayer; about 6h shorter.
- Year
- 2012
- Rating
- ★ 4.0
- Metacritic
- 74
- Playtime
- 5h
- Finish rate
- 84%
- Shared genres
- 2, 4
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Questions people ask
What is the best game like Resident Evil 5?
On our similarity model, Resident Evil 6 is the closest match to Resident Evil 5 — shares Survival Horror, Third-Person Shooter, Zombies, Online Co-Op and cooperative and 1 more tags; same developer; rated 0.4 lower.
Which game like Resident Evil 5 is rated highest?
Dead Space (2008) holds the highest player rating in this list at 4.4/5 from 2,222 players.
Are there games like Resident Evil 5 on Nintendo Switch?
Yes — we found 7 games like Resident Evil 5 on Nintendo Switch. See the dedicated list.
How this list is built
Every game in our catalog is scored against Resident Evil 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.