28 Sandbox games like Saints Row: The Third that you should try

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

≠ Stands apart with strong narrative focus, stealth mechanics and ranged combat, while skipping horror setting

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

≠ Its own twist: strong narrative focus and stealth mechanics, while skipping horror setting

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

≠ Its own twist: strong narrative focus, while skipping racing gameplay

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

≠ Missing: racing gameplay.

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

≠ Stands apart with precision platforming and post-apocalyptic world, while skipping racing gameplay

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

≠ Its own twist: ranged combat, while skipping first-person shooting

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

≠ Its own twist: strong narrative focus, while skipping racing gameplay

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

≠ Stands apart with strong narrative focus, while skipping racing gameplay

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

≠ Where it differs: brings ranged combat, while skipping first-person shooting

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

≠ Stands apart with puzzle design, strong narrative focus and ranged combat, while skipping first-person shooting

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

≠ Where it differs: brings strong narrative focus, stealth mechanics and setting scifi, while skipping racing gameplay

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

≠ Its own twist: horror tension and strong narrative focus, while skipping first-person shooting

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

≠ Stands apart with procedural generation and ranged combat, while skipping first-person shooting

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

≠ Where it differs: brings strong narrative focus and ranged combat, while skipping racing gameplay

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

≠ Its own twist: ranged combat and setting scifi, while skipping racing gameplay