FIFA 22 similar games & best alternatives

FIFA 22

Xbox Series X|S, PC (Microsoft Windows), PlayStation 5 • 2021

Should you play it?

Powered by Football™, EA SPORTS™ FIFA 22 brings the game even closer to the real thing with fundamental gameplay advances and a new season of innovation across every mode.

What works

  • Realistic and immersive football gameplay
  • Strong family and social bonding opportunities
  • Good graphics and soundtrack
  • Multiple game modes including career and ultimate team
  • Active modding community enhancing experience

Things to keep in mind

  • Bugs and technical issues reported
  • Online matchmaking and lag problems
  • Some repetitive gameplay and grind
  • Frustration with ai and competitive balance
  • Price and microtransaction concerns

What to play next

Top picks

Games that feels the closest overall

  • Soccer Online: Ball 3D

  • Pro Soccer Online

  • IOSoccer

  • Super Mega Baseball: Extra Innings

  • Disc Space

  • Disc Jam

Less intimate

Games that feels like FIFA 22 but with less focus on close relationships

  • Rugby 22

  • Rugby League Live 4

  • AO International Tennis

  • eBaseball™: PRO SPIRIT

  • Dark Roll: Free Kick Challenge

  • Pro 11 - Football Manager Game

More fantastical

Games that feels like FIFA 22 but with more imaginative fiction

  • Captain Tsubasa: Rise of New Champions

  • INAZUMA ELEVEN: Victory Road

  • Total Football Online

  • Gridiron

  • Slappyball

  • NBA THE RUN

More survival-focused

Games that feels like FIFA 22 but with a stronger survival pressure

  • Don Bradman Cricket 14

  • Tennis Elbow 2013

  • Tennis Elbow 4

  • Cricket 22

  • Cricket 19

  • SuperCupOnline

Choose your own criteria ->

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).

FIFA 22: Less representative of its motivational profile, with noticeable differences. Motivations that often define this kind of title include Competition, Status, Fellowship, Domination. It leans lower than usual among comparable games on Violence, Survival, Fantasy.

Last update: 03/08/2026