10 games similar to Destiny, a Shooter, Role-playing (RPG) game, drawn from IGDB's similarity data. Each pick below notes the genres it shares with Destiny.
01Shares Role-playing (RPG)Both games center on a resurrected protagonist driven by vengeance against overwhelming darkness. Destiny's shared-world shooter structure and Shadow of Mordor's open-world action-RPG deliver persistent combat through real-time encounters where you face named enemies with distinct roles. Each game emphasizes character progression through RPG elements and rewards exploration across hostile environments, grounding their sci-fi and fantasy settings in tactical, skill-based combat.
Games like Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor →
02Shares ShooterBoth games blend action-shooter combat with science fiction settings and offer cooperative multiplayer alongside single-player modes. Watch Dogs 2 shares Destiny's focus on real-time combat and exploration, though it trades the shared-world structure for an open-world sandbox. Like Destiny, it emphasizes character progression through achievements and downloadable content, grounding gameplay in a near-future tech-driven world.
Games like Watch Dogs 2 →
03Shares ShooterBoth games are first-person shooters built around combat in warfare settings, with explosions and enemy encounters driving the action. Enemy Front emphasizes player choice in how to engage foes, whether through direct combat or stealth, while Destiny layers RPG progression onto its gunplay. Each game rewards achievements and supports multiplayer modes alongside single-player campaigns, though Enemy Front's historical WWII setting contrasts with Destiny's sci-fi universe.
04Shares Role-playing (RPG)Both games blend first-person and third-person perspectives in shared-world multiplayer spaces where you level up your character across cooperative and competitive modes. Each casts you as a resurrected hero fighting against supernatural invasion, with matchmaking connecting you to other players for real-time combat. Character customization and progression anchor the experience in both, letting you develop your Guardian or adventurer through ongoing content and quests.
Games like The Elder Scrolls Online →
05Shares ShooterBoth games blend first-person shooting with science fiction warfare across futuristic settings. Black Ops III shares Destiny's emphasis on character customization and cybernetic enhancement, letting you build a soldier tailored to your playstyle. Like Destiny, it supports cooperative missions alongside competitive multiplayer, with progression tracked through achievements. The campaign follows a squad of enhanced operatives fighting through a dark, technologically advanced world.
Games like Call of Duty: Black Ops III →
06Shares Role-playing (RPG)ShooterDestiny 2 continues the shared-world shooter formula with first-person combat, character customization, and cooperative multiplayer across the solar system. Both games emphasize alien warfare, auto-aim gunplay, and grinding for gear and achievements. Destiny 2 expands the campaign with a stronger narrative following humanity's invasion, maintaining the blend of single-player story and matchmade multiplayer missions that defined the original.
Games like Destiny 2 →
07Shares Role-playing (RPG)Both games cast you as a lone warrior resurrecting into a hostile world to fight mysterious threats. Bloodborne shares Destiny's real-time combat and character leveling progression, rewarding skill and persistence through action-focused encounters. Where Destiny emphasizes cooperative multiplayer, Bloodborne isolates you in gothic horror, but both structure their narratives around uncovering secrets through combat across dangerous, interconnected environments.
Games like Bloodborne →
08Shares ShooterBoth games are first-person shooters set in a sci-fi future where humanity faces large-scale military conflict across the solar system. Infinite Warfare shares Destiny's focus on futuristic warfare and multiplayer achievements, with comparable progression systems and online matchmaking. While Destiny emphasizes shared-world exploration, Infinite Warfare delivers a more traditional campaign structure alongside competitive multiplayer modes that reward tactical gameplay.
Games like Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare →
09Shares ShooterBoth Destiny and Call of Duty: Ghosts are first-person shooters set in sci-fi futures threatened by alien invasion, grounding their warfare in near-future military settings. Ghosts shares Destiny's cooperative multiplayer structure, offering squad-based combat alongside competitive modes. Each game emphasizes progression through achievements and real-time combat, though Ghosts focuses on a tighter campaign experience rather than Destiny's shared-world design.
Games like Call of Duty: Ghosts →
10Shares ShooterBoth games are first-person shooters set in sci-fi futures where you fight alien threats across hostile planets. Bulletstorm emphasizes creative combat through its skillshot system, rewarding players for inventive kills in ways that echo Destiny's focus on combat achievements. Each game features cyborgs and features downloadable content, though Bulletstorm concentrates its action into a tighter single-player campaign rather than Destiny's shared-world structure.
Games like Bulletstorm →
Frequently asked
10 games similar to Destiny: Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor, Watch Dogs 2, Enemy Front, The Elder Scrolls Online, Call of Duty: Black Ops III, Destiny 2, Bloodborne, Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare.
Most of these games share Action, Shooter, Science fiction, Warfare and Role-playing (RPG) with Destiny, based on IGDB's similarity data. Each pick has a short note explaining what it has in common with Destiny.