Altitude similar games & best alternatives

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Altitude

PC (Microsoft Windows) • 2009

Should you play it?

Now Available on PC, Mac and Linux!

What works

  • Addictive and fun gameplay
  • Multiple game modes including unique plane football
  • Low system requirements
  • Good balance and variety of planes
  • Free to play

Things to keep in mind

  • Small and dwindling player base
  • Some elitism in community
  • Limited replayability for long sessions
  • No narrative or single-player campaign
  • Leveling system can create imbalance

What to play next

Top picks

Games that feels the closest overall

  • Arena of Kings

  • ONRAID

  • Bomb Bots Arena

  • Rocket Bot Royale

  • Soldat 2

  • Sky Knights

More story-driven

Games that feels like Altitude but with deeper narrative immersion

  • Enemy Mind

  • Zero-K

  • Space Pirates and Zombies

  • Colony Siege

  • CounterAttack: Uprising

  • SAS: Zombie Assault 4

Less dominating

Games that feels like Altitude but with less domination over others

  • Sky Force Reloaded

  • Entropy Survivors

  • Crimsonland

  • Bloodsports.TV

  • Temtem: Swarm

  • Crystal Clash

More exploratory

Games that feels like Altitude but with more exploration of areas and secrets

  • Chicken Invaders Universe

  • CS2D

  • Soldat

  • Dinogen Online

  • Starblast

  • Stick Fight: The Game

Choose your own criteria ->

Similarity map

How to use the graph

Similarity map

Each dot is a game placed from its motivation profile relative to this page’s game. Direction shows which motivation differs most; distance along that axis shows how large the gap is.

  • Purple star: this page’s game at the centre — everything is relative to it.
  • Direction: each axis is a main motivational difference vs this game (e.g. more / less competitive).
  • Distance on an axis: how large that difference is (ring scales show +/− points).
  • Coloured chips: click to highlight games that mainly differ on that motivation; click again to reset.
  • Dotted line: link between this page’s game and the one selected for comparison.
  • Hover a dot to preview that game in the panel on the right; click to keep that comparison.
  • Scroll or double-click the chart to zoom.

How to read the map This is a polar difference map: direction = which motivation differs, and distance = how much (same units as the sidebar deltas).

Altitude: A very typical example of its motivational profile. Motivations that often define this kind of title include Competition, Status, Fellowship, Domination. Here, the score leans higher than usual among comparable games on Cooperation. It leans lower than usual among comparable games on Story, Exploration.

Last update: 04/08/2026