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We filtered the 50 games similar to Drive Beyond Horizons down to the 38 that fit the “Shooter” category. The Darkness II, Generation Zero and RAGE top the list, ranked by affinity and similarity score to Drive Beyond Horizons.

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The best shooter games like Drive Beyond Horizons

38 similar games foundUpdated May 2026

Handpicked by our similarity algorithm, these are the titles with the highest gameplay match to Drive Beyond Horizons. 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.

#1The Darkness IIClosest overall match

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SoloMultiplayerCo-opMeleeOpen WorldHorrorExplorationFirst Person

Steam👍 92%· 21KIGDB77· 11

Year 2012Dev Digital Extremes · 2K GamesOn PlayStation 3 · PC

✓ Fits the open-world action games cluster, with shooter, first-person shooting and survival mechanics

≠ Its own twist: dark, oppressive atmosphere and strong narrative focus, while skipping deep simulation

Quad-wielding combat: two guns plus two demon arms that grab, throw and tear, which makes fights faster and more physical than the first game. The comic-book art style holds up well. It is short — a single sitting for many players — and the darkness-and-light mechanic reduces most encounters to shooting out the same lamps.

Where it drifts furthest from Drive Beyond Horizons: tone.

It predates Drive Beyond Horizons by 13 years, with what that implies technically.

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MultiplayerCo-opSoloMeleeOpen WorldPost-ApocalypticHorrorExplorationFirst Person

Steam👍 72%· 42KIGDB53· 12OC49· 65

Year 2019Dev Systemic ReactionOn PS4 · PC · PS5

✓ Both are open-world action games — sharing shooter, first-person shooting and survival mechanics

≠ Its own twist: sandbox freedom, strong narrative focus and sandbox world, while skipping deep simulation

Where it drifts furthest from Drive Beyond Horizons: tone and progression.

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#3RAGE

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SoloMultiplayerCo-opMeleeOpen WorldPost-ApocalypticHorrorExplorationFirst Person

Steam👍 78%· 18KRAWG👍 52%· 834MC79IGDB81· 10

Year 2011Dev Aspyr Media · Bethesda SoftworksPlaytime ~5hOn PC · PS · Xbox

✓ Same family of open-world action games: first-person shooting, shooter and racing gameplay

≠ Its own twist: deep RPG systems, strong narrative focus and dark, oppressive atmosphere, while skipping deep simulation

id Software shooting at its most precise, wrapped in a wasteland that mostly exists to connect combat arenas. The gunfeel and enemy animation still hold up. Everything around it is weaker: driving sections pad the runtime, the world is a hub-and-spoke rather than open, and it ends abruptly enough that many players assume they missed a final act.

Where it drifts furthest from Drive Beyond Horizons: tone and combat.

It predates Drive Beyond Horizons by 14 years, with what that implies technically.

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#4Strange BrigadeClosest on game mode

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Co-opSoloMultiplayerOnlineMeleeOpen WorldHorrorExploration

Steam👍 84%· 11KIGDB73· 12OC74· 93

Year 2018Dev Rebellion DevelopmentsOn PS4 · PC · Xbox

✓ Both are open-world action games — sharing adventure storytelling, shooter and first-person shooting

≠ Where it differs: brings puzzle design, third-person shooting and dark, oppressive atmosphere, while skipping deep simulation

Where it drifts furthest from Drive Beyond Horizons: tone and visuals.

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SoloMultiplayerCo-opOnlineMeleeOpen WorldPost-ApocalypticExplorationFirst Person

Steam👍 75%· 34KIGDB72· 11OC73· 146

Year 2019Dev Ubisoft Montreal · Ubisoft EntertainmentOn Xbox · PS4 · PC

✓ Both are open-world action games — sharing shooter, first-person shooting and adventure storytelling

≠ Its own twist: deep RPG systems, strong narrative focus and stealth mechanics, while skipping deep simulation

Where it drifts furthest from Drive Beyond Horizons: tone.

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#6Saints Row: The Third

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SoloMultiplayerCo-opOnlineMeleeOpen WorldHorrorExploration

Steam👍 96%· 69KIGDB85· 10

Year 2011Dev Volition · Square EnixOn PlayStation 3 · Linux · PC

✓ Same family of open-world action games: shooter, adventure storytelling and racing gameplay

≠ Stands apart with third-person shooting, sandbox freedom and dark, oppressive atmosphere, while skipping deep simulation

Where it drifts furthest from Drive Beyond Horizons: tone and visuals.

It predates Drive Beyond Horizons by 14 years, with what that implies technically.

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GenreActionSubgenreOpen World Action

Co-opMultiplayerSoloOnlineMeleeOpen WorldExplorationFirst Person

Steam👍 71%· 34KIGDB82· 11OC77· 185

Year 2021Dev Ubisoft Toronto · Ubisoft EntertainmentOn Xbox · PS4 · PC

✓ Both are open-world action games — sharing shooter, first-person shooting and adventure storytelling

≠ Its own twist: sandbox freedom, strong narrative focus and sandbox world, while skipping deep simulation

Where it drifts furthest from Drive Beyond Horizons: tone and setting.

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GenreActionSubgenreOpen World Action

SoloMultiplayerCo-opOnlineMeleeOpen WorldExplorationFirst Person

Steam👍 88%· 129KIGDB90· 15

Year 2012Dev Ubisoft Montreal · Ubisoft EntertainmentOn PlayStation 3 · PC

✓ Both are open-world action games — sharing shooter, first-person shooting and adventure storytelling

≠ Its own twist: sandbox freedom, strong narrative focus and sandbox world, while skipping deep simulation

The template every later Far Cry followed: outposts to liberate, towers to climb, and a genuinely good stealth loop with a bow that makes clearing a camp silently the most satisfying thing in it. The second half loses the plot once the antagonist exits, and the island's activities repeat well before you finish clearing them.

Where it drifts furthest from Drive Beyond Horizons: tone and combat.

It predates Drive Beyond Horizons by 13 years, with what that implies technically.

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SoloMultiplayerCo-opMeleeOpen WorldHorrorExploration

Steam👍 63%· 3.9KIGDB58· 12

Year 2013Dev Spark Unlimited · CapcomOn PlayStation 3 · PC · Xbox

✓ Fits the open-world action games cluster, with shooter, first-person shooting and adventure storytelling

≠ Its own twist: third-person shooting, strong narrative focus and setting scifi, while skipping deep simulation

Where it drifts furthest from Drive Beyond Horizons: tone and visuals.

On reception: its Steam reviews are mixed, against mostly positive for Drive Beyond Horizons.

It predates Drive Beyond Horizons by 12 years, with what that implies technically.

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#10Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas

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SoloCo-opMultiplayerMeleeOpen WorldExplorationFirst Person

Steam👍 92%· 83KRAWG👍 93%· 4.1KMC93IGDB93· 6

Year 2004Dev Rockstar North · CapcomPlaytime ~2hOn PC · PS · Xbox

✓ Same family of open-world action games: adventure storytelling, racing gameplay and shooter

≠ Stands apart with sandbox freedom, third-person shooting and strong narrative focus, while skipping deep simulation

The largest of the PS2-era entries by a distance: three cities, countryside between them, and systems the series never repeated — stat training, gang territory, vehicle variety from bikes to planes. It is also the most uneven. Mission difficulty spikes without warning, and the RPG-ish stat grind sits oddly against the pace of everything else.

Where it drifts furthest from Drive Beyond Horizons: tone and combat.

It predates Drive Beyond Horizons by 21 years, with what that implies technically.

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#11Rise of the Tomb Raider

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SoloCo-opMultiplayerMeleeOpen WorldExplorationFirst Person

Steam👍 94%· 152KIGDB87· 25OC86· 108

Year 2015Dev Crystal Dynamics · Microsoft StudiosOn PS4 · Linux · PC

✓ Both are open-world action games — sharing adventure storytelling, shooter and survival mechanics

≠ Its own twist: puzzle design, third-person shooting and deep RPG systems, while skipping deep simulation

Bigger and better paced than the 2013 reboot: tombs are more numerous and more elaborate, and the crafting and hunting loops give the hub areas a reason to exist. Traversal is excellent. The story is forgettable and the survival framing sits awkwardly beside a protagonist who kills dozens of people without comment.

Where it drifts furthest from Drive Beyond Horizons: tone and progression.

It predates Drive Beyond Horizons by 10 years, with what that implies technically.

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#12Grand Theft Auto 2

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SoloMultiplayerMeleeOpen WorldExploration

Steam👍 92%· 491IGDB70· 1

Year 1999Dev DMA Design · Take-Two InteractiveOn PC

✓ Both are open-world action games — sharing shooter, first-person shooting and racing gameplay

≠ Where it differs: brings dark, oppressive atmosphere, visual isometric and visual 2d, while skipping deep simulation

Where it drifts furthest from Drive Beyond Horizons: tone and visuals.

It predates Drive Beyond Horizons by 26 years, with what that implies technically.

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#13Saints Row: Gat Out of Hell

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GenreActionSubgenreOpen World Action

SoloMultiplayerCo-opOnlineMeleeOpen WorldHorrorExploration

Steam👍 75%· 9.7KIGDB64· 11OC67· 69

Year 2015Dev High Voltage Software · Deep SilverOn PlayStation 3 · PS4 · Linux

✓ Same family of open-world action games: shooter, adventure storytelling and first-person shooting

≠ Its own twist: third-person shooting, sandbox freedom and dark, oppressive atmosphere, while skipping deep simulation

A standalone expansion set in Hell, built around flight: you unlock wings early and the whole map is designed for vertical movement rather than driving. That traversal is the best part. It is very short — a few hours — and reuses the systems and much of the structure of Saints Row IV without adding a real campaign.

Where it drifts furthest from Drive Beyond Horizons: tone and visuals.

It predates Drive Beyond Horizons by 10 years, with what that implies technically.

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GenreActionSubgenreOpen World Action

SoloMultiplayerCo-opOnlineMeleeOpen WorldExploration

Steam👍 76%· 21KRAWG👍 64%· 897MC78IGDB81· 6

Year 2008Dev Volition · Deep SilverPlaytime ~2hOn PC · PS · Xbox

✓ Same family of open-world action games: adventure storytelling, shooter and racing gameplay

≠ Its own twist: third-person shooting, sandbox freedom and sandbox world, while skipping deep simulation

The entry most fans point to: an open city with genuine variety in activities, co-op through the entire campaign, and a tone that swings between crude comedy and surprisingly dark story beats. The PC port is the problem — it shipped badly and still needs community patches to run properly, which is a real barrier before you start.

Where it drifts furthest from Drive Beyond Horizons: visuals.

It predates Drive Beyond Horizons by 17 years, with what that implies technically.

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#15AXYOSClosest on tone

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MultiplayerOnlineCo-opSoloMeleeCasualOpen WorldExplorationFirst Person

Steam👍 51%· 2.3KRAWG👍 8%· 24

Year 2014Dev Axyos GamesPlaytime ~5hOn PC

✓ Both are open-world action games — sharing first-person shooting, shooter and survival mechanics

≠ Its own twist: turn-based strategy, MOBA team gameplay and ranged combat, while skipping adventure storytelling

AXYOS is an experimental FPS being made for players by players! Inspired by giants of gaming industry, we made a decision to create our own game, which would inherit some key aspects of FPS and MOBA genres but was built relying on opinions of common gamers. This is how AXYOS came to be.

Where it drifts furthest from Drive Beyond Horizons: setting and combat.

On reception: its Steam reviews are mixed, against mostly positive for Drive Beyond Horizons.

It predates Drive Beyond Horizons by 11 years, with what that implies technically.

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