Resident Evil 5 similar games & best alternatives

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Resident Evil 5

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

Should you play it?

This game is a port of the Games for Windows - Live version that was released in 2009. If you buy the Untold Stories Bundle here on Steam, it will be the same as upgrading to Resident Evil 5 Gold Edition.

What works

  • Excellent cooperative gameplay
  • Engaging combat and boss fights
  • High replayability with dlc and modes
  • Strong narrative and cinematic presentation
  • Good weapon customization and progression

Things to keep in mind

  • Ai partner can be frustrating
  • Some bugs and technical issues
  • Linear level design limits exploration
  • Quick time events can be annoying
  • Less horror, more action focus

What to play next

Top picks

Games that feels the closest overall

  • World War Z

  • Resident Evil 6

  • Zombie Army Trilogy

  • SURV1V3

  • Left 4 Dead

  • Warhammer: Vermintide 2

Less competitive

Games that feels like Resident Evil 5 but with less competition against others

  • Dead Space™ 3

  • Space Hulk: Deathwing Enhanced Edition

  • Warhammer 40,000: Darktide

  • Warhammer: End Times - Vermintide

  • Dying Light 2 Stay Human: Reloaded Edition

  • Remnant: From the Ashes

Less intimate

Games that feels like Resident Evil 5 but with less focus on close relationships

  • Borderlands 3

  • Evil West

  • Mortal Kombat X

  • Dying Light

  • Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell Blacklist

  • Resident Evil Revelations

More dominating

Games that feels like Resident Evil 5 but with more domination over others

  • Gears 5

  • DARK SOULS™ III

  • ARC Raiders

  • STAR WARS™ Battlefront™ II

  • Hunt: Showdown 1896

  • DARK SOULS™ II

Choose your own criteria ->

From the same developer

From the same developer, ranked by motivational fit.

  • Resident Evil 6

  • Resident Evil Revelations 2

  • Resident Evil Revelations

  • Monster Hunter: World

  • Dragon's Dogma: Dark Arisen

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).

Resident Evil 5: Broadly representative of its motivational profile, with a few distinct shifts. Motivations that often define this kind of title include Competition, Status, Fellowship, Domination. Here, the score leans higher than usual among comparable games on Cooperation, Story, Violence.

Last update: 04/08/2026