Games like Far Cry 3
If you like Far Cry 3 (open world, shooter and stealth), these 10 games are similar in what you do and how you play. They go from most to least similar.
Middle-earth™: Shadow of Mordor™
- In common: action and progression
When you're out for revenge: hunting down the orc captains who have beaten you and crashing their duels and feasts.
Assassin's Creed 2
- In common: long sessions and exploring
When you want an open world that doesn't drag on for ever: the main story, if you get straight to it, takes around 15-20 hours.
Days Gone
- In common: long sessions and action
When you have plenty of free evenings: the story alone runs around 35-40 hours and every horde is a sprint for survival.
Middle-earth™: Shadow of War™
- In common: action and long sessions
When you have plenty of free evenings and fancy recruiting orcs and storming fortresses with them.
Mad Max
- In common: action and long sessions
When you fancy clearing the map without much thought: PCWorld's reviewer put around 30 hours into it.
Ghost of Tsushima DIRECTOR'S CUT
- In common: action and long sessions
- Difference: more co-op
When you have hours to spare and fancy roaming spectacular landscapes with satisfying combat.
METAL GEAR SOLID V: THE PHANTOM PAIN
- In common: long sessions and progression
- Difference: more management
When you have plenty of evenings ahead: Destructoid's reviewer took around 40 hours to finish the campaign.
Batman™: Arkham Origins
- In common: action and exploring
When you've finished Arkham City and want more: the same formula, in a Gotham roughly twice as big.
Wolfenstein: The New Order
- In common: action and story
- Difference: less exploring
When you fancy a shooter campaign with a proper beginning and end: Game Informer puts it at around 20 hours.
BioShock® 2
- In common: action and story
When you've finished the first BioShock and want to go back to Rapture: the campaign lasts around 10 hours.
How we pick them
We compare the tags the Steam community gives each game with our own classification: what you do (action, story, building…), the difficulty, how long sessions last and whether you play alone or with others. Nobody pays to appear.
About Far Cry 3
An open-world first-person shooter: as Jason Brody, a tourist kidnapped by pirates on the Rook Islands, you liberate outposts with guns blazing or by stealth, climb radio towers and hunt animals to craft upgrades.
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