6 Games like Star Wars: Shadows of the Empire on Xbox that you should try

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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.

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We filtered the 50 games similar to Star Wars: Shadows of the Empire down to the 6 that fit the “Xbox” category. Sleeping Dogs, Second Sight and Pragmata top the list, ranked by affinity and similarity score to Star Wars: Shadows of the Empire.

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The best games like Star Wars: Shadows of the Empire on Xbox

6 similar games foundUpdated May 2026

Handpicked by our similarity algorithm, these are the titles with the highest gameplay match to Star Wars: Shadows of the Empire. Each one has been evaluated across 8 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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SoloMeleeThird PersonNarrativeOpen World

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 deep RPG systems, action RPG combat and sandbox freedom, 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.

Released 16 years after Star Wars: Shadows of the Empire.

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SoloMeleeSci-FiThird PersonStealth

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 strong narrative focus, stealth mechanics and ranged combat, while skipping setting space

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.

Released 8 years after Star Wars: Shadows of the Empire.

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SoloSci-FiThird PersonNarrative

Steam👍 97%· 43KIGDB88· 6OC86· 189

Year 2026Dev CapcomOn Xbox · Switch · PC

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

≠ Its own twist: strong narrative focus, while skipping melee combat

Released 30 years after Star Wars: Shadows of the Empire.

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SoloThird PersonDarkNarrativeHorror

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Year 2023Dev Remedy Entertainment · Epic Games PublishingOn Xbox · PC · PS5

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

≠ Where it differs: brings survival mechanics, dark, oppressive atmosphere and strong narrative focus, while skipping melee combat

Where it drifts furthest from Star Wars: Shadows of the Empire: setting.

Released 27 years after Star Wars: Shadows of the Empire.

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#5Cronos: The New Dawn

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SoloThird PersonDarkHorror

Steam👍 88%· 10KIGDB81· 5OC78· 161

Year 2025Dev Bloober TeamOn Xbox · Linux · Switch

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

≠ Stands apart with puzzle design, survival mechanics and dark, oppressive atmosphere, while skipping melee combat

Where it drifts furthest from Star Wars: Shadows of the Empire: setting.

Released 29 years after Star Wars: Shadows of the Empire.

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SoloMeleeThird PersonMagicRanged

Steam👍 96%· 8.4KRAWG👍 72%· 434MC83IGDB86· 4

Year 2011Dev Robot Entertainment · Microsoft StudiosPlaytime ~3hOn PC · Xbox

✓ Both are third-person shooters — sharing shooter, third-person shooting and melee combat

≠ Stands apart with tower defense planning, combat magic and ranged combat, while skipping adventure storytelling

Orcs Must Die! is a tower-defense game where you, as the War Mage, need to protect the world from the hordes of evil creatures such as Orcs and Ogres. To complete your mission, you need to keep enemies out from magical Rifts that must not be destroyed.

Where it drifts furthest from Star Wars: Shadows of the Empire: setting.

Released 15 years after Star Wars: Shadows of the Empire.

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