Dishonored similar games & best alternatives

Dishonored

PlayStation 3, PC (Microsoft Windows), Xbox 360 • 2012

Should you play it?

Dishonored is an immersive first-person action game that casts you as a supernatural assassin driven by revenge. With Dishonored’s flexible combat system, creatively eliminate your targets as you combine the supernatural abilities, weapons and unusual gadgets at your disposal.

What works

  • High player freedom and multiple playstyles
  • Immersive world and atmosphere
  • Excellent level design with many paths
  • Strong replay value with multiple endings
  • Well-balanced stealth and combat mechanics

Things to keep in mind

  • Somewhat predictable story
  • Dated graphics and character models
  • Limited ai complexity
  • Short main campaign length
  • No multiplayer or social features

What to play next

Top picks

Games that feels the closest overall

  • Dishonored 2

  • Prey

  • Mandragora: Whispers of the Witch Tree

  • Divinity II: Developer's Cut

  • Deus Ex: Human Revolution - Director's Cut

  • Hell is Us

More intense

Games that feels like Dishonored but with a more intense feel

  • Dead Space

  • The Evil Within

  • Tormented Souls 2

  • Lies of P

  • Witchfire

  • The Surge 2

Less expressive

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

  • Styx: Master of Shadows

  • Skydance's BEHEMOTH

  • Alone in the Dark

  • GYLT

  • Wolfenstein: The Old Blood

  • Prince of Persia: The Forgotten Sands™

Less creative

Games that feels like Dishonored but with less focus on creating and customizing

  • Darksiders Warmastered Edition

  • Legacy of Kain: Defiance Remastered

  • Terminator: Resistance

  • Stray Blade

  • The Morrigan

  • Assassin’s Creed Shadows

Choose your own criteria ->

From the same developer

From the same developer, ranked by motivational fit.

  • Prey

  • Dishonored 2

  • Arx Fatalis

  • Dark Messiah of Might & Magic

  • DEATHLOOP

Similarity map

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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.
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  • 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).

Dishonored: Less representative of its motivational profile, with noticeable differences. Motivations that often define this kind of title include Violence, Survival, Fellowship, Intimacy. Here, the score leans higher than usual among comparable games on Relaxation. It leans lower than usual among comparable games on Competition, Leadership.

Last update: 03/08/2026