Far Cry 3 - Blood Dragon similar games & best alternatives

Far Cry 3 - Blood Dragon

PlayStation 3, PC (Microsoft Windows), Xbox 360 • 2013

Should you play it?

Far Cry® 3: Blood Dragon is THE Kick-Ass Cyber Shooter.Welcome to an 80’s vision of the future. The year is 2007 and you are Sargent Rex Colt, a Mark IV Cyber Commando. Your mission: get the girl, kill the baddies, and save the world.

What works

  • Unique 80s retro-futuristic style and humor
  • Engaging and fun combat mechanics
  • Excellent synthwave soundtrack
  • Short and focused gameplay without filler
  • Memorable voice acting and parody narrative

Things to keep in mind

  • Short game length
  • Annoying ubisoft server connection issues
  • Limited exploration and side content
  • No multiplayer or social features
  • Some dated graphics and mechanics

What to play next

Top picks

Games that feels the closest overall

  • Hubris

  • STAR WARS™: Bounty Hunter™

  • Pumpkin Jack

  • Luna Abyss

  • Boiling Steel

  • Destroy All Humans!

More continuation-driven

Games that feels like Far Cry 3 - Blood Dragon but with an even stronger pull to keep playing

  • Ziggurat 2

  • RoboCop: Rogue City - Unfinished Business

  • Deadlink

  • Advent Rising

  • Selaco

  • Sublevel Zero Redux

Choose your own criteria ->

From the same developer

From the same developer, ranked by motivational fit.

  • Assassin's Creed Freedom Cry

  • Assassin's Creed™: Director's Cut Edition

  • Assassin's Creed Mirage

  • Far Cry 3

  • Assassin's Creed 2

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.
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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).

Far Cry 3 - Blood Dragon: Broadly representative of its motivational profile, with a few distinct shifts. Motivations that often define this kind of title include Expression, Fellowship, Cooperation, Leadership. Here, the score leans higher than usual among comparable games on Expression, Violence. It leans lower than usual among comparable games on Continuation.

Last update: 04/08/2026