Saints Row IV: Re-Elected similar games & best alternatives

Saints Row IV: Re-Elected

PlayStation 4, PC (Microsoft Windows), Xbox One, Nintendo Switch • 2013

Should you play it?

Experience the insane antics of Saints Row IV. The Saints have gone from the Penthouse to the White House - but Earth has been invaded and it’s up to you to save it with an arsenal of superpowers and strange weapons, in the wildest open world game ever.

What works

  • Extensive character and vehicle customization
  • Humorous and absurd story with many references
  • Superpowers add fresh gameplay
  • Cooperative multiplayer support
  • Large open world with many activities

Things to keep in mind

  • Some technical bugs and crashes reported
  • Story is short and sometimes nonsensical
  • Vehicles become less useful due to superpowers
  • Repetitive side missions
  • Multiplayer servers no longer supported officially

What to play next

Top picks

Games that feels the closest overall

  • Saints Row: The Third

  • Sword Art Online: Fatal Bullet

  • Mass Effect™: Andromeda Deluxe Edition

  • Borderlands Game of the Year Enhanced

  • EARTH DEFENSE FORCE 4.1 The Shadow of New Despair

  • Champions Online

More competitive

Games that feels like Saints Row IV: Re-Elected but with more competition against others

  • STAR WARS™ Battlefront™ II

  • STAR WARS™ Jedi Knight II - Jedi Outcast™

  • STAR WARS™ Jedi Knight - Jedi Academy™

  • Resident Evil 6

  • Dying Light

  • Turok 2: Seeds of Evil

Less intimate

Games that feels like Saints Row IV: Re-Elected but with less focus on close relationships

  • Borderlands 3

  • Destroy All Humans! 2 - Reprobed

  • LEGO® MARVEL's Avengers

  • Saints Row 2

  • Bulletstorm: Full Clip Edition

  • Saints Row®: The Third™ Remastered

Less social

Games that feels like Saints Row IV: Re-Elected but with less teamwork and cooperation

  • High On Life 2

  • Batman: Arkham City - Game of the Year Edition

  • Sunset Overdrive

  • The Outer Worlds: Spacer's Choice Edition

  • DEATHLOOP

  • The Outer Worlds 2

Choose your own criteria ->

From the same developer

From the same developer, ranked by motivational fit.

  • Saints Row: The Third

  • Saints Row 2

  • Saints Row: Gat out of Hell

  • Summoner

  • Freespace 2

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).

Saints Row IV: Re-Elected: A very typical example of its motivational profile. Motivations that often define this kind of title include Cooperation, Fellowship, Intimacy, Leadership. Here, the score leans higher than usual among comparable games on Expression, Violence. It leans lower than usual among comparable games on Strategy.

Last update: 03/08/2026