What is the best game similar to Outcast: A New Beginning?

The closest game to Outcast: A New Beginning is Sleeping Dogs, scoring 88/100 on our similarity scale. They share 10 gameplay attributes, including shooter, third-person shooting and adventure storytelling. It's the most faithful alternative currently available.

What are the top games like Outcast: A New Beginning?

The three closest games to Outcast: A New Beginning are: 1. Sleeping Dogs (88/100, 10 shared attributes) 2. Jak II (74/100, 8 shared attributes) 3. Crackdown (75/100, 9 shared attributes). All share Outcast: A New Beginning's most important gameplay attributes, ranked out of 50 candidates across 12 dimensions.

Is Jak II similar to Outcast: A New Beginning?

Yes, very much so — Jak II scores 74/100 similarity to Outcast: A New Beginning. They share 8 attributes, including shooter and third-person shooting. It's one of the most direct alternatives available.

What Shooter games are similar to Outcast: A New Beginning?

The best Shooter games similar to Outcast: A New Beginning are Sleeping Dogs, Jak II, Crackdown and True Crime: Streets of LA. All share the Shooter genre alongside other key Outcast: A New Beginning attributes like shooter, third-person shooting and adventure storytelling.

How is similarity to Outcast: A New Beginning calculated?

We compare Outcast: A New Beginning against every game in our catalog using 12 gameplay attributes: genre, atmosphere, world structure, play modes, combat style, and more. Each category is weighted differently — genre matters more than visual style, for instance. The result is a 0-100 score reflecting how closely a game replicates the Outcast: A New Beginning experience, not just whether it shares the same genre label.

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Ranking compiled by Lluis Enric Mayans, Founder & Head of ContentUpdated May 19, 2026How this is calculatedOrdered by an attribute-similarity model, not editorial opinion.

Outcast: A New Beginning is hard to replace: few games combine shooter, strong narrative focus and open world exploration in quite the same way. We compared Outcast: A New Beginning against over 6,700 titles across 12 gameplay attributes and found 50 genuine alternatives — not generic genre suggestions. Sleeping Dogs, Jak II and Crackdown lead the list, with Sleeping Dogs reaching a 88/100 similarity score. Every game here is ranked by how closely it replicates what makes Outcast: A New Beginning special.

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Top games similar to Outcast: A New Beginning

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Handpicked by our similarity algorithm, these are the titles with the highest gameplay match to Outcast: A New Beginning. Each one has been evaluated across 12 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.

#1Sleeping DogsClosest overall match

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SoloMeleeNarrativeOpen WorldExplorationThird Person

Steam👍 94%· 17KRAWG👍 88%· 1.3KMC81IGDB82· 13

Year 2012Dev United Front Games · Square EnixPlaytime ~14hOn PC · PS · Xbox

✓ Fits the third-person shooters cluster, with shooter, third-person shooting and adventure storytelling

≠ Stands apart with action RPG combat, sandbox freedom and fighting mechanics, while skipping setting scifi

Sleeping Dogs is a third-person action shooter with RPG elements, having Hong Kong as its central location. The city is an open world for the player’s exploration, and many gameplay features revolve around interacting with the surroundings.

It predates Outcast: A New Beginning by 12 years, with what that implies technically.

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#2Jak IIClosest on setting

iRank90

GenreShooterSubgenreTPS

SoloOpen WorldSci-FiExplorationThird Person

IGDB90· 1

Year 2003Dev Naughty Dog · Sony Computer EntertainmentOn PS4

✓ Both are third-person shooters — sharing shooter, third-person shooting and adventure storytelling

≠ Its own twist: precision platforming, while skipping deep RPG systems

It predates Outcast: A New Beginning by 21 years, with what that implies technically.

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#3Crackdown

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SoloOpen WorldSci-FiExplorationThird Person

IGDB85· 2

Year 2007Dev Realtime Worlds · Microsoft Game Studios

✓ Same family of third-person shooters: shooter, third-person shooting and deep RPG systems

≠ Where it differs: brings fighting mechanics, sandbox freedom and sandbox world, while skipping strong narrative focus

Where it drifts furthest from Outcast: A New Beginning: game mode.

It predates Outcast: A New Beginning by 17 years, with what that implies technically.

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#4True Crime: Streets of LA

iRank74

GenreShooterSubgenreTPS

SoloMeleeNarrativeOpen WorldSci-FiExplorationThird Person

IGDB74· 3

Year 2003Dev Exakt Entertainment · ActivisionOn PC · Mac

✓ Same family of third-person shooters: shooter, third-person shooting and adventure storytelling

≠ Stands apart with racing gameplay, fighting mechanics and sandbox freedom, while skipping deep RPG systems

It predates Outcast: A New Beginning by 21 years, with what that implies technically.

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#5Pragmata

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SoloNarrativeSci-FiThird Person

Steam👍 97%· 43KIGDB88· 6OC86· 189

Year 2026Dev CapcomOn Xbox · Switch · PC

✓ Nearly identical: shooter, third-person shooting and adventure storytelling.

≠ Missing: deep RPG systems.

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SoloMeleeNarrativeSci-FiThird Person

Steam👍 82%· 309RAWG👍 88%· 65MC75IGDB73· 4

Year 2004Dev Free Radical Design · CodemastersPlaytime ~1hOn PC · PS · Xbox

✓ Fits the third-person shooters cluster, with shooter, third-person shooting and adventure storytelling

≠ Stands apart with stealth mechanics, ranged combat and visual first person, while skipping deep RPG systems

Second Sight is a science fiction action-adventure stealth Single-player video game, developed by Free Radical Design, and published by Codemasters for GameCube, PlayStation 2, Xbox and Microsoft Windows.

Where it drifts furthest from Outcast: A New Beginning: visuals.

It predates Outcast: A New Beginning by 20 years, with what that implies technically.

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#7Jak 3

iRank70

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SoloOpen WorldSci-FiExplorationThird Person

IGDB70· 2

Year 2004Dev Naughty Dog · Sony Interactive EntertainmentOn PS4

✓ Same family of third-person shooters: shooter, third-person shooting and adventure storytelling

≠ Where it differs: brings precision platforming, while skipping deep RPG systems

It predates Outcast: A New Beginning by 20 years, with what that implies technically.

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#8Infamous: First Light

iRank76

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SoloOpen WorldSci-FiExplorationThird Person

IGDB76· 7OC76· 50

Year 2014Dev Sucker Punch Productions · Sony Computer EntertainmentOn PS4

✓ Both are third-person shooters — sharing shooter, third-person shooting and adventure storytelling

≠ Where it differs: brings precision platforming, sandbox freedom and sandbox world, while skipping deep RPG systems

It predates Outcast: A New Beginning by 10 years, with what that implies technically.

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#9Tomb Raider II

iRank87

GenreShooterSubgenreTPS

SoloMeleeNarrativeThird PersonRanged

Steam👍 87%· 2.4K

Year 1997Dev Core Design · Eidos InteractiveOn PlayStation 3 · PC · Mac

✓ Both are third-person shooters — sharing shooter, third-person shooting and adventure storytelling

≠ Stands apart with puzzle design, precision platforming and first-person shooting, while skipping deep RPG systems

It predates Outcast: A New Beginning by 27 years, with what that implies technically.

Genre100Game mode100Tone100Combat74Visuals66

GenreShooterSubgenreTPS

SoloSci-FiExplorationThird Person

IGDB80· 1OC86· 89

Year 2002Dev Insomniac Games · Sony Computer Entertainment

✓ Fits the third-person shooters cluster, with shooter, third-person shooting and adventure storytelling

≠ Its own twist: precision platforming, while skipping deep RPG systems

It predates Outcast: A New Beginning by 22 years, with what that implies technically.

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#11Tomb Raider: Legend

iRank78

GenreShooterSubgenreTPS

SoloMeleeExplorationThird Person

Steam👍 87%· 5.9KIGDB60· 6

Year 2006Dev Crystal DynamicsOn PlayStation 3 · PC

✓ Fits the third-person shooters cluster, with shooter, third-person shooting and adventure storytelling

≠ Stands apart with precision platforming, puzzle design and first-person shooting, while skipping deep RPG systems

It predates Outcast: A New Beginning by 18 years, with what that implies technically.

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#12Infamous

iRank86

GenreShooterSubgenreTPS

SoloOpen WorldExplorationThird PersonSandbox World

IGDB86· 8

Year 2009Dev Sucker Punch Productions · Sony Computer EntertainmentOn PlayStation 3

✓ Fits the third-person shooters cluster, with shooter, third-person shooting and adventure storytelling

≠ Its own twist: precision platforming, sandbox freedom and sandbox world, while skipping deep RPG systems

It predates Outcast: A New Beginning by 15 years, with what that implies technically.

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#13The Godfather

iRank80

GenreShooterSubgenreTPS

SoloNarrativeOpen WorldExplorationThird Person

IGDB80· 1

Year 2006Dev Headgate Studios · Electronic ArtsOn PC

✓ Both are third-person shooters — sharing shooter, third-person shooting and adventure storytelling

≠ Stands apart with historical setting, while skipping deep RPG systems

Where it drifts furthest from Outcast: A New Beginning: setting.

It predates Outcast: A New Beginning by 18 years, with what that implies technically.

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#14Deadly Premonition

iRank89

GenreShooterSubgenreTPS

SoloNarrativeOpen WorldExplorationThird Person

IGDB89· 1

Year 2010Dev Access Games · UTV Ignition EntertainmentOn PlayStation 3

✓ Same family of third-person shooters: shooter, third-person shooting and adventure storytelling

≠ Its own twist: dark, oppressive atmosphere and horror setting, while skipping deep RPG systems

Where it drifts furthest from Outcast: A New Beginning: setting.

It predates Outcast: A New Beginning by 14 years, with what that implies technically.

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#15Duke Nukem: Manhattan Project

iRank74

GenreShooterSubgenreTPS

SoloMeleeSci-FiThird Person

Steam👍 89%· 123IGDB45· 2

Year 2002Dev Sunstorm Interactive · Apogee SoftwareOn PC · iOS · Mac

✓ Same family of third-person shooters: shooter, third-person shooting and adventure storytelling

≠ Where it differs: brings precision platforming, while skipping deep RPG systems

It predates Outcast: A New Beginning by 22 years, with what that implies technically.

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