10 games similar to Mafia, a Fighting, Racing, Shooter, Adventure game, drawn from IGDB's similarity data. Each pick below notes the genres it shares with Mafia.
01Shares AdventureShooterBoth games drop you into sprawling open worlds where crime and corruption define the landscape, requiring stealth and tactical approaches to complete objectives. Wildlands shares Mafia's emphasis on third-person action and moral weight, though it trades organized crime for military operations against a drug cartel. Each game structures missions around taking down a criminal power structure through careful planning and direct confrontation.
02Shares AdventureRacingShooterBoth games follow a street-level criminal protagonist climbing the ranks of organized crime in a fictional city during a specific era, with in-game radio and a notoriety system that tracks your standing. Vice City shares Mafia's open-world structure, third-person perspective, and emphasis on car chases, shootouts, and theft as core mechanics. Each game uses period music and radio stations to establish its 1980s and 1930s atmosphere respectively.
Games like Grand Theft Auto: Vice City →
03Shares AdventureRacingShooterBoth games drop you into an open-world crime story where you climb the ranks through missions for organized crime bosses. Grand Theft Auto III shares Mafia's notoriety system, in-game radio stations, and third-person action gameplay across a living city. Where Mafia focuses on 1930s mob hierarchy, GTA III lets you work for multiple criminal factions in a more anarchic, anything-goes sandbox.
Games like Grand Theft Auto III →
04Shares AdventureShooterBoth games center action around open worlds where you progress through crime-adjacent narratives, though Borderlands 3 trades organized crime for cult warfare. Where Mafia emphasizes third-person stealth and enforcer missions, Borderlands 3 shifts to first-person shooter combat with cooperative multiplayer. Both reward player agency within their respective settings: Mafia through notoriety and rank, Borderlands 3 through character progression and loot-driven loadouts.
Games like Borderlands 3 →
05Shares AdventureRacingShooterBoth games drop you into crime-driven open worlds where you climb the underworld hierarchy through missions involving car chases, shootouts, and murder. Like Mafia's rise through the Salieri family, Grand Theft Auto IV tracks Niko Bellic's entanglement with organized crime and gangs. Third-person action, notoriety systems, and in-game radio ground both in immersive 1930s-inspired crime narratives.
Games like Grand Theft Auto IV →
06Shares AdventureRacingBoth games drop you into a crime-driven open world where you climb the ranks through missions involving theft, murder, and violence. Vice City Stories shares Mafia's third-person perspective and notoriety system that tracks your criminal reputation. Each uses in-game radio and moral choices to build atmosphere, while checkpoints and save points structure your rise from street-level enforcer to something more powerful.
07Shares AdventureShooterBoth games center on rising through criminal underworlds in third-person open worlds, though Watch Dogs 2 swaps organized crime for hacking activism. Each emphasizes stealth alongside action, letting you approach missions through sneaking or direct confrontation. The anarchism theme connects Tommy Angelo's mob enforcer to Marcus Holloway's fight against corrupt systems, and both deliver car chases and heists across sprawling cities.
Games like Watch Dogs 2 →
08Shares AdventureRacingShooterMafia II continues the crime saga with the same third-person open-world structure, following another protagonist's rise through organized crime in a period American city. Both games emphasize aggressive door-opening, notoriety systems that escalate law enforcement response, and in-game radio alongside story-driven missions. The sequel maintains the series' focus on mob hits, getaway driving, and moral compromises within the criminal underworld.
Games like Mafia II →
09Shares AdventureRacingShooterBoth games cast you as a criminal rising through organized crime in open-world cities, earning notoriety through theft and murder. Grand Theft Auto strips away Mafia's narrative focus to emphasize sandbox freedom, letting you pursue crimes for points rather than following a structured story. Where Mafia grounds crime in 1930s atmosphere and character development, Grand Theft Auto prioritizes anarchic action and player choice.
Games like Grand Theft Auto →
10Shares AdventureShooterBoth games drop you into open worlds where you fight against overwhelming institutional power from the ground up. Mafia has you rise through organized crime ranks in 1930s Lost Heaven; Homefront puts you leading guerrilla resistance against military occupation in Philadelphia. Each game uses checkpoints to structure your progression through action-driven campaigns, and both reward you for completing objectives within their hostile, reactive environments.
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10 games similar to Mafia: Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon: Wildlands, Grand Theft Auto: Vice City, Grand Theft Auto III, Borderlands 3, Grand Theft Auto IV, Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories, Watch Dogs 2, Mafia II.
Most of these games share Open world, Action, Adventure, Shooter and Racing with Mafia, based on IGDB's similarity data. Each pick has a short note explaining what it has in common with Mafia.