Beyond Sunset similar games & best alternatives

Beyond Sunset

Linux, PC (Microsoft Windows), Mac • 2025

Should you play it?

Cyberpunk first-person shooter with a rich story and RPG elements. You are Lucy, an enhanced street samurai searching for lost memories. Fight in large, open, interactive levels overtaken by yakuza, zombies, robots and bosses!

What works

  • Immersive cyberpunk aesthetic and soundtrack
  • Challenging and satisfying combat mechanics
  • Large, detailed levels with secrets and exploration
  • Engaging upgrade and progression system
  • Good value for price

Things to keep in mind

  • Some confusing level design and navigation
  • Limited weapon variety
  • Performance issues on some hardware
  • Repetitive arena combat in later episodes
  • Lack of multiplayer or social features

What to play next

Top picks

Games that feels the closest overall

  • AMID EVIL

  • Fida Puti Samurai

  • Boiling Steel

  • ADACA

  • Project Warlock

  • Turok

Less expressive

Games that feels like Beyond Sunset but with less self-expression and customization

  • PowerSlave Exhumed

  • Ion Fury

  • Viscerafest

  • DOOM 64

  • ARMORED HEAD

  • DUSK

More intense

Games that feels like Beyond Sunset but with a more intense feel

  • Zortch

  • Selaco

  • Beyond Citadel

  • Project Warlock II

  • Dread Templar

  • Red Alliance

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Similarity map

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Each card is a nearby game on the similarity map, compared with Beyond Sunset. Swipe sideways to move between games. Titles already listed in What to play next are left out.

  • Cover and title: open that game’s page.
  • What works / keep in mind: the same highlights as the desktop comparison panel.
  • Bars: the main motivational differences versus this game.
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).

Swipe to compare nearby games with Beyond Sunset. These titles are not in What to play next.

Beyond Sunset: A very typical example of its motivational profile. Motivations that often define this kind of title include Violence, Survival, Fellowship, Intimacy. Here, the score leans higher than usual among comparable games on Violence. It leans lower than usual among comparable games on Leadership, Experimenting.

Last update: 21/08/2026