10 games similar to Assassin's Creed II, a Platform, Adventure game, drawn from IGDB's similarity data. Each pick below notes the genres it shares with Assassin's Creed II.
01Shares AdventureBoth games center on charismatic assassins navigating historical open worlds, from Renaissance Italy to pirate-ruled Caribbean seas. Each features the series' signature stealth and combat freedom, letting you approach targets through rooftops, disguises, and freeform combat. Black Flag expands the formula with naval exploration and a larger sandbox, but maintains the revenge-driven narrative and action-adventure core that defined Assassin's Creed II.
Games like Assassin's Creed IV Black Flag →
02Shares AdventureBrotherhood continues Ezio's revenge saga across Renaissance Italy with the same blend of stealth, climbing, and open-world assassination. You'll scale rooftops, recruit allies, and eliminate targets through active stealth and combat across historical settings. The game expands the formula with collectibles and new missions while maintaining the series' signature acrobatics and anti-hero protagonist navigating conspiracy and power.
Games like Assassin's Creed Brotherhood →
03Shares AdventureBoth games cast you as an anti-hero assassin seeking revenge, armed with bows, blades, and acrobatic movement through detailed environments. Dishonored shares Assassin's Creed II's emphasis on stealth and active combat choices, letting you eliminate targets through supernatural abilities or direct confrontation. Each mission's outcome shifts based on your approach, offering the same flexible freedom in how you complete objectives.
Games like Dishonored →
04Shares AdventureBoth games center on an anti-hero navigating a historical open world through stealth and combat, pursuing revenge and power within criminal networks. Assassin's Creed II's Italian Renaissance assassination missions parallel Mafia II's organized crime jobs in 1940s Empire Bay. Each game structures its story around a protagonist rising through ranks while managing moral compromises, with alternate costumes and era-specific settings grounding the narrative in historical detail.
Games like Mafia II →
05Shares AdventureWatch Dogs 2 shares Assassin's Creed II's open-world sandbox structure and emphasis on stealth-based infiltration across sprawling urban environments. Both games let you scale buildings and navigate rooftops to reach objectives, with climbing and parkour central to traversal. Where Assassin's Creed II uses historical conspiracy, Watch Dogs 2 grounds its hacking-focused stealth in near-future technology, maintaining that blend of action and infiltration.
Games like Watch Dogs 2 →
06Shares AdventureBoth games blend historical settings with science fiction elements and emphasize stealth alongside direct combat. Wolfenstein's alternate-history 1960s and Assassin's Creed II's Renaissance Italy provide richly detailed backdrops for revenge-driven narratives. Each rewards player choice in approach, whether through stealth takedowns or open confrontation, with collectibles and achievements encouraging exploration throughout their single-player campaigns.
Games like Wolfenstein: The New Order →
07Shares AdventurePlatformBoth games center on a lone assassin navigating historical settings through parkour and stealth, with active stealth gameplay letting you choose between direct combat and silent elimination. The original Assassin's Creed establishes the open-world sandbox structure and conspiracy-driven narrative that Assassin's Creed II refines, following a protagonist learning the assassin's creed across a richly detailed historical world.
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08Shares AdventurePlatformBoth games follow a young protagonist's transformation through survival and combat across dangerous environments. Like Assassin's Creed II, Tomb Raider emphasizes traversal and platforming alongside action, using bow and arrow alongside melee combat. Each game builds a revenge narrative grounded in historical mystery, with boss fights and finishing moves punctuating the story of an ordinary person becoming a hardened warrior.
Games like Tomb Raider →
09Shares AdventureBoth games cast you as an anti-hero seeking revenge through brutal combat across mythological settings. Assassin's Creed II and God of War III share a focus on finishing moves and context-sensitive kills that reward aggressive play, along with boss fights that punctuate their narratives. Each offers alternate costumes and collectibles while maintaining a single-player action-adventure structure centered on a protagonist's personal vendetta.
Games like God of War III →
10Shares AdventureBoth games follow an anti-hero protagonist seeking redemption through violent means in historically grounded settings shadowed by conspiracy. Assassin's Creed II emphasizes stealth and parkour across Renaissance Italy, while BioShock Infinite shifts to first-person combat in an alternate 1912 Columbia, but both reward exploration, feature boss encounters, and weave science fiction elements into their historical narratives.
Games like BioShock Infinite →
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10 games similar to Assassin's Creed II: Assassin's Creed IV Black Flag, Assassin's Creed Brotherhood, Dishonored, Mafia II, Watch Dogs 2, Wolfenstein: The New Order, Assassin's Creed, Tomb Raider.
Most of these games share Action, Adventure, Stealth, Historical and Fantasy with Assassin's Creed II, based on IGDB's similarity data. Each pick has a short note explaining what it has in common with Assassin's Creed II.