Dishonored 2 similar games & best alternatives

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Dishonored 2

PlayStation 4, PC (Microsoft Windows), Xbox One • 2016

Should you play it?

Reprise your role as a supernatural assassin in Dishonored 2. Declared a “masterpiece” by Eurogamer and hailed “a must-play revenge tale” by Game Informer, Dishonored 2 is the follow up to Arkane’s 1st-person action blockbuster & winner of 100+ 'Game of the Year' awards, Dishonored.

What works

  • Highly replayable with multiple characters and endings
  • Creative and flexible gameplay with many approaches
  • Rich, immersive world and story
  • Excellent level design and atmosphere
  • Strong player autonomy and choice

Things to keep in mind

  • Initial performance and optimization issues on pc
  • Story considered less compelling than original by some
  • Some bugs and ai quirks reported
  • Lack of multiplayer or social features
  • Some players find resource collection tedious

What to play next

Top picks

Games that feels the closest overall

  • Prey

  • Mandragora: Whispers of the Witch Tree

  • Dishonored

  • Deus Ex: Mankind Divided

  • Divinity II: Developer's Cut

  • Horizon Forbidden West™ Complete Edition

More intense

Games that feels like Dishonored 2 but with a more intense feel

  • Dead Space

  • GRIME

  • The Evil Within 2

  • Lies of P

  • DOOM: The Dark Ages

  • The Surge 2

Choose your own criteria ->

From the same developer

From the same developer, ranked by motivational fit.

  • Prey

  • Dishonored

  • Dark Messiah of Might & Magic

  • DEATHLOOP

  • Arx Fatalis

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).

Dishonored 2: 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 Exploration, Story. It leans lower than usual among comparable games on Leadership.

Last update: 03/08/2026