Games like StarCraft on PC
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 5 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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60%
2. 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%
3. 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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57%
4. 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%
5. Resident Evil (2002)
Shares Singleplayer.
- Year
- 2002
- Rating
- ★ 4.4
- Metacritic
- 88
- Playtime
- 1h
- Finish rate
- 80%
- Shared genres
- 4
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Questions people ask
What is the best game like StarCraft on PC?
On our similarity model, Metal Gear Solid is the closest match to StarCraft on PC — shares exclusive and Singleplayer; same release year.
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.
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