Call of Juarez: Bound in Blood similar games & best alternatives

Call of Juarez: Bound in Blood

PlayStation 3, PC (Microsoft Windows), Xbox 360 • 2009

Should you play it?

THE OLD WEST, 1864. In order to save their family, the McCall brothers will kill anyone who stands between them and the legendary Gold of Juarez.

What works

  • Engaging western story and characters
  • Two playable brothers with different playstyles
  • Improved gunplay and cover mechanics
  • Varied environments and some open world sections
  • Good value especially on sale

Things to keep in mind

  • Linear level design
  • Dead multiplayer
  • Repetitive duels
  • Some technical issues like low fov
  • Limited exploration and customization

What to play next

Top picks

Games that feels the closest overall

  • Far Cry 3

  • Star Wars Outlaws

  • Terminator: Resistance

  • Indiana Jones and the Great Circle

  • Rogue Trooper

  • Fallout 3

Less social

Games that feels like Call of Juarez: Bound in Blood but with less teamwork and cooperation

  • Call of Juarez: Gunslinger

  • Call of Juarez

  • The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings Enhanced Edition

  • Echoes of the End: Enhanced Edition

  • Witchfire

  • Oddworld: Stranger's Wrath HD

More fellowship-oriented

Games that feels like Call of Juarez: Bound in Blood but with a stronger sense of community

  • Borderlands Game of the Year Enhanced

  • Strange Brigade

  • Resident Evil 5

  • Dying Light 2 Stay Human: Reloaded Edition

  • Dying Light: The Beast

  • Serious Sam 4

Choose your own criteria ->

From the same developer

From the same developer, ranked by motivational fit.

  • Dying Light 2 Stay Human: Reloaded Edition

  • Call of Juarez

  • Call of Juarez: Gunslinger

  • Dying Light: The Beast

  • Dead Island: Riptide Definitive Edition

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).

Call of Juarez: Bound in Blood: A very typical example of its motivational profile. Motivations that often define this kind of title include Expression, Fellowship, Cooperation, Leadership. Here, the score leans higher than usual among comparable games on Cooperation, Expression, Violence.

Last update: 03/08/2026