Games like Mass Effect
Loved Mass Effect by BioWare? Here are 24 games that genuinely play like it — ranked by shared genres, mechanics and themes, not just labels.
Mass Effect2007MC 91
BioWare · ~30h to beat
Mass Effect is an action role-playing game set in the year 2183. The player takes the role of Commander Shepard, a customizable character who serves as Executive Officer aboard the SSV Normandy. After a routine mission goes wrong, Shepard assembles a squad and pursues a threat that escalates into a…
24 games similar to Mass Effect
93
5.0
Mass Effect 3
78% similarPermadeathParty-Based RpgThird-Person
96
5.1
Mass Effect 2
59% similarPermadeathParty-Based RpgThird-Person
92
6.0
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt
49% similarRpgStory RichExploration
61
5.0
The Lord of the Rings: War in the North
44% similarThird-PersonFemale ProtagonistRpg
93
5.0
Fallout 3
42% similarParty-Based RpgThird-PersonAliens
84
5.0
Borderlands
39% similarCrimeMilitaryRpg
84
5.0
Fallout: New Vegas
39% similarThird-PersonAliensCrime
94
5.0
Gears of War
38% similarThird-PersonAliensMilitary
87
5.1
Fallout 4
37% similarParty-Based RpgThird-PersonCrime
95
5.0
Red Dead Redemption
36% similarThird-PersonCrimeMilitary
85
5.0
The Outer Worlds
35% similarAliensSpaceScience Fiction
83
5.0
Resident Evil 5
35% similarThird-PersonMilitaryFemale Protagonist
86
5.0
Dragon Age: Origins
33% similarParty-Based RpgTacticalRpg
93
5.0
Uncharted 4: A Thief's End
32% similarThird-Person
94
5.0
Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic
32% similarParty-Based RpgAliensSpace
86
5.0
Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne
32% similarCrime
93
5.0
Resident Evil 4
31% similarThird-PersonCrime
86
5.0
Rise of the Tomb Raider
30% similarThird-PersonFemale ProtagonistExploration
86
5.1
Saints Row IV
30% similarThird-PersonAliensCrime
89
5.2
Borderlands 2
30% similarCrime
74
5.0
Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine III
30% similarThird-PersonTacticalStory Rich
91
5.7
Crysis
30% similarAliensMilitaryTactical
86
5.0
Dragon's Dogma II
29% similarParty-Based RpgRpgStory Rich
92
5.0
System Shock 2
29% similarAliensSpaceMilitary