Sunset Overdrive similar games & best alternatives

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Sunset Overdrive

PC (Microsoft Windows), Xbox One • 2018

Should you play it?

Sunset Overdrive transforms an open-world apocalypse into your tactical playground. Zip, grind and wall-run across Sunset City with an unconventional arsenal. Hyper-agility, unique weapons, and customizable abilities deliver an explosive and irreverent adventure in the end times.

What works

  • Fun and fluid movement system
  • Creative and varied weapons
  • Vibrant art style and soundtrack
  • Strong player freedom and customization
  • Humorous and lighthearted tone

Things to keep in mind

  • Pc port has bugs and save corruption issues
  • Repetitive side missions and grind
  • Lack of multiplayer/cooperative play on pc
  • Some technical instability and crashes
  • Story is light and sometimes juvenile

What to play next

Top picks

Games that feels the closest overall

  • Hi-Fi RUSH

  • Disney Infinity 3.0: Gold Edition

  • Rustil: Eternal Labyrinth Castle

  • Stellar Blade™

  • Gori: Cuddly Carnage

  • Dolls Nest

More intense

Games that feels like Sunset Overdrive but with a more intense feel

  • DOOM Eternal

  • The Surge

  • METAL GEAR RISING: REVENGEANCE

  • Turbo Overkill

  • METAL EDEN

  • Valfaris: Mecha Therion

More social

Games that feels like Sunset Overdrive but with more teamwork and cooperation

  • Dying Light 2 Stay Human: Reloaded Edition

  • Saints Row IV: Re-Elected

  • Serious Sam: Siberian Mayhem

  • Hellsweeper VR

  • Destroy All Humans! 2 - Reprobed

  • Soulstice

Choose your own criteria ->

From the same developer

From the same developer, ranked by motivational fit.

  • Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart

  • Marvel's Spider-Man 2

  • Marvel’s Spider-Man Remastered

  • Marvel’s Spider-Man: Miles Morales

  • Song of the Deep

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).

Sunset Overdrive: 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 Expression, Relaxation. It leans lower than usual among comparable games on Survival.

Last update: 03/08/2026