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More about this game →We filtered the 50 games similar to Battleborn down to the 24 that fit the “Shooter” category. Warhammer: End Times - Vermintide, Killing Floor 2 and Warhammer 40,000: Darktide top the list, ranked by affinity and similarity score to Battleborn.
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Within the “Shooter” category, the closest game to Battleborn is Warhammer: End Times - Vermintide — scoring 79/100 on our similarity scale. Killing Floor 2 and Warhammer 40,000: Darktide follow close behind.
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Handpicked by our similarity algorithm, these are the titles with the highest gameplay match to Battleborn. Each one has been evaluated across 19 real attributes — from combat style and progression mechanics to world structure and visual perspective — so every recommendation is based on how the game actually plays, not just its genre label.
✓ Same family of first-person Action RPGs: deep RPG systems, action RPG combat and shooter
≠ Stands apart with adventure storytelling, survival mechanics and horror tension, while skipping real-time strategy
Where it drifts furthest from Battleborn: setting.
✓ Both are first-person Action RPGs — sharing deep RPG systems, action RPG combat and shooter
≠ Stands apart with survival mechanics, horror tension and dark, oppressive atmosphere, while skipping real-time strategy
Where it drifts furthest from Battleborn: setting.
✓ Both are first-person Action RPGs — sharing deep RPG systems, action RPG combat and shooter
≠ Where it differs: brings horror tension, adventure storytelling and dark, oppressive atmosphere, while skipping real-time strategy
Where it drifts furthest from Battleborn: setting.
Released 6 years after Battleborn.
✓ Same family of first-person Action RPGs: deep RPG systems, action RPG combat and shooter
≠ Its own twist: adventure storytelling, strong narrative focus and open world exploration, while skipping real-time strategy
Where it drifts furthest from Battleborn: game mode and setting.
Released 3 years after Battleborn.
✓ Both are first-person Action RPGs — sharing deep RPG systems, action RPG combat and first-person shooting
≠ Its own twist: survival mechanics, horror tension and adventure storytelling, while skipping real-time strategy
Dying Light is a first-person action horror game with the elements of survival. It is a first part of the Dying light series followed by Dying Light 2. The game is set in the open-world environment of fictional Harran city.
Where it drifts furthest from Battleborn: setting and progression.
✓ Same family of first-person Action RPGs: deep RPG systems, action RPG combat and shooter
≠ Where it differs: brings adventure storytelling, horror tension and survival mechanics, while skipping real-time strategy
Where it drifts furthest from Battleborn: setting and progression.
Released 7 years after Battleborn.
✓ Fits the first-person Action RPGs cluster, with deep RPG systems, action RPG combat and shooter
≠ Where it differs: brings survival mechanics, third-person shooting and dark, oppressive atmosphere, while skipping real-time strategy
Where it drifts furthest from Battleborn: setting and game mode.
It predates Battleborn by 9 years, with what that implies technically.
✓ Fits the first-person Action RPGs cluster, with deep RPG systems, action RPG combat and shooter
≠ Stands apart with survival mechanics, dark, oppressive atmosphere and horror setting, while skipping real-time strategy
Where it drifts furthest from Battleborn: setting.
✓ Same family of first-person Action RPGs: deep RPG systems, action RPG combat and shooter
≠ Where it differs: brings survival mechanics, dark, oppressive atmosphere and open world exploration, while skipping real-time strategy
Where it drifts furthest from Battleborn: setting and game mode.
✓ Like Battleborn, it's known for deep RPG systems, action RPG combat and shooter
≠ Where it differs: brings adventure storytelling, dark, oppressive atmosphere and exploration and discovery, while skipping real-time strategy
Where it drifts furthest from Battleborn: visuals.
Released 3 years after Battleborn.
✓ Same family of first-person Action RPGs: deep RPG systems, action RPG combat and shooter
≠ Its own twist: adventure storytelling, dark, oppressive atmosphere and punishing difficulty, while skipping real-time strategy
Where it drifts furthest from Battleborn: game mode.
Released 5 years after Battleborn.
✓ Fits the first-person Action RPGs cluster, with deep RPG systems, action RPG combat and shooter
≠ Stands apart with adventure storytelling, sandbox freedom and deep simulation, while skipping real-time strategy
At its best in the hand-built cities and the faction questlines, where the writing and the systems both hold. Ship building is deeper than it first appears. The exploration loop is the weak point — procedurally generated planets repeat their points of interest quickly, and the constant loading screens between surface, ship and space break any sense of continuity.
Where it drifts furthest from Battleborn: game mode and setting.
Released 7 years after Battleborn.
✓ Same family of first-person Action RPGs: deep RPG systems, action RPG combat and shooter
≠ Its own twist: adventure storytelling, strong narrative focus and dark, oppressive atmosphere, while skipping real-time strategy
Where it drifts furthest from Battleborn: game mode and setting.
Released 7 years after Battleborn.
✓ Same family of first-person Action RPGs: deep RPG systems, action RPG combat and first-person shooting
≠ Where it differs: brings precision platforming, punishing difficulty and ranged combat, while skipping real-time strategy
Movement-first shooting where healing comes from standing close to what you are killing, so the loop pushes you into danger constantly. Style ranking rewards variety over efficiency. Its ceiling is very high and very demanding — the systems assume you will learn cancels and parries, and it is still in early access with the final chapters unfinished.
Where it drifts furthest from Battleborn: game mode and combat.
Released 4 years after Battleborn.
✓ Same family of first-person Action RPGs: deep RPG systems, action RPG combat and shooter
≠ Stands apart with horror tension, puzzle design and adventure storytelling, while skipping real-time strategy
Where it drifts furthest from Battleborn: progression and game mode.
Released 7 years after Battleborn.
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