Games like StarCraft
Closest overall match: Metal Gear Solid (★ 4.4). Quickest to finish: Metal Gear Solid at about 1 hours.
We compared StarCraft against every game in our catalog on shared tags, genre, rating, playtime and release era, and these 10 came closest. The strongest common threads are Singleplayer, exclusive and cooperative.
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76%
1. Metal Gear Solid
Shares exclusive and Singleplayer; same release year.
- Year
- 1998
- Rating
- ★ 4.4
- Metacritic
- 94
- Playtime
- 1h
- Finish rate
- 89%
- Shared genres
- 4
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70%
2. The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker
Shares exclusive, cooperative and Singleplayer; about 36h longer.
- Year
- 2002
- Rating
- ★ 4.3
- Playtime
- 37h
- Finish rate
- 82%
- Shared genres
- 4
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62%
3. Crash Bandicoot 3: Warped
Shares exclusive and Singleplayer; same release year.
- Year
- 1998
- Rating
- ★ 4.4
- Metacritic
- 91
- Playtime
- 5h
- Finish rate
- 81%
- Shared genres
- 4
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60%
4. John Romero's Daikatana
Shares cooperative and Singleplayer; rated 2.0 lower; released within 2 years.
- Year
- 2000
- Rating
- ★ 2.4
- Playtime
- 1h
- Finish rate
- 26%
- Shared genres
- 4
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60%
5. Commandos: Behind Enemy Lines
Shares exclusive, cooperative and Singleplayer; same release year.
- Year
- 1998
- Rating
- ★ 4.2
- Playtime
- 1h
- Finish rate
- 71%
- Shared genres
- 4
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58%
6. Battle City
Shares cooperative and Singleplayer; about 19h longer.
- Year
- 1985
- Rating
- ★ 4.4
- Playtime
- 20h
- Finish rate
- 60%
- Shared genres
- 4
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58%
7. Perfect Dark
Shares exclusive; rated 0.4 lower; about 9h longer; released within 2 years.
- Year
- 2000
- Rating
- ★ 4.0
- Metacritic
- 97
- Playtime
- 10h
- Finish rate
- 56%
- Shared genres
- 4
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57%
8. Resident Evil 2 (1998)
Shares exclusive and Singleplayer; about 12h longer; same release year.
- Year
- 1998
- Rating
- ★ 4.3
- Metacritic
- 90
- Playtime
- 13h
- Finish rate
- 81%
- Shared genres
- 4
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57%
9. Resident Evil (2002)
Shares Singleplayer.
- Year
- 2002
- Rating
- ★ 4.4
- Metacritic
- 88
- Playtime
- 1h
- Finish rate
- 80%
- Shared genres
- 4
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57%
10. Super Smash Bros. Melee
Shares exclusive and Singleplayer.
- Year
- 2001
- Rating
- ★ 4.4
- Metacritic
- 92
- Finish rate
- 74%
- Shared genres
- 4
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Questions people ask
What is the best game like StarCraft?
On our similarity model, Metal Gear Solid is the closest match to StarCraft — shares exclusive and Singleplayer; same release year.
Are there games like StarCraft on Nintendo Switch?
Yes — we found 7 games like StarCraft on Nintendo Switch. See the dedicated list.
How this list is built
Every game in our catalog is scored against StarCraft 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.