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Games like The Outer Worlds

2019 ★ 82/100 Game details →
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10 games similar to The Outer Worlds, a Shooter, Adventure, Role-playing (RPG) game, drawn from IGDB's similarity data. Each pick below notes the genres it shares with The Outer Worlds.

  1. Immortal: Unchained cover
    Shares AdventureRole-playing (RPG)Shooter

    Both games blend action gameplay with RPG progression in science fiction settings, mixing ranged combat with character development across single-player campaigns. Immortal: Unchained takes a souls-inspired approach to its shooter-RPG hybrid, while The Outer Worlds emphasizes faction-driven narrative choices. If you want sci-fi action that prioritizes combat alongside role-playing mechanics, Immortal: Unchained delivers a different but complementary take on the shooter-RPG formula.

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  2. Gene Rain cover
    Gene Rain 2018 ★ 36
    Shares AdventureRole-playing (RPG)Shooter

    Both games combine action-heavy shooter gameplay with science fiction settings and RPG mechanics in single-player campaigns. The Outer Worlds emphasizes player choice across branching narratives, while Gene Rain delivers its futuristic story through a linear third-person perspective. If you enjoyed The Outer Worlds' blend of combat and sci-fi world-building, Gene Rain offers a more streamlined approach to similar themes.

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  3. Borderlands 3 cover
    Borderlands 3 2019 ★ 79
    Shares AdventureRole-playing (RPG)Shooter

    Both games combine first-person shooting with RPG character progression across open-world sci-fi settings. Like The Outer Worlds, Borderlands 3 has you create a customizable character and explore alien worlds while encountering competing factions. The action-driven gameplay and space-exploration premise create similar pacing, though Borderlands 3 emphasizes cooperative play and procedural loot over narrative choice.

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  4. Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon: Breakpoint cover
    Shares AdventureShooter

    Both games feature open-world exploration across hostile environments where character customization shapes your approach to encounters. The Outer Worlds emphasizes faction-driven choices in a sci-fi setting, while Ghost Recon: Breakpoint focuses on tactical combat against a rogue military force on a mysterious island. Each rewards player agency through customizable loadouts and playstyle options within their respective action-adventure frameworks.

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  5. Rebel Galaxy Outlaw cover
    Shares AdventureRole-playing (RPG)Shooter

    Both games cast you as a customizable character navigating space through first-person action and dialogue choices that shape your story. Rebel Galaxy Outlaw shares The Outer Worlds' emphasis on player agency, letting you pursue the main narrative or ignore it entirely to forge your own path as a mercenary, trader, or pirate across multiple systems. Each game prioritizes your decisions over linear progression.

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  6. Remnant: From the Ashes cover
    Shares AdventureRole-playing (RPG)Shooter

    Both Remnant: From the Ashes and The Outer Worlds blend first-person shooting with RPG character progression through customizable builds. Each game structures its narrative around player choice, where your decisions shape how the story unfolds across a hostile world. Remnant emphasizes weapon modification and gear crafting alongside combat, while The Outer Worlds prioritizes faction dynamics, but both reward experimentation with how you approach encounters.

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  7. Death Stranding cover
    Death Stranding 2019 ★ 85
    Shares AdventureRole-playing (RPG)Shooter

    Both games are single-player action RPGs set in science fiction worlds where your choices shape the narrative. The Outer Worlds emphasizes faction politics and character customization to determine outcomes, while Death Stranding focuses on reconnecting a fractured society through exploration and resource management. Each game prioritizes player agency and atmospheric world-building over conventional combat, rewarding thoughtful engagement with their post-collapse settings.

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  8. Rage 2 cover
    Rage 2 2019 ★ 69
    Shares AdventureRole-playing (RPG)Shooter

    Both games deliver first-person action in hostile open worlds where you shape your character through customization. The Outer Worlds emphasizes faction politics and narrative choice, while Rage 2 prioritizes combat mayhem across a dystopian wasteland. Each casts you as an outsider threatening the established order, though Rage 2 trades dialogue-driven storytelling for explosive, vehicle-fueled confrontation in a post-apocalyptic setting.

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  9. Gears 5 cover
    Gears 5 2019 ★ 84
    Shares AdventureShooter

    Both games combine action-heavy gameplay with science fiction settings, though Gears 5 trades The Outer Worlds' first-person exploration for third-person combat. Where The Outer Worlds emphasizes player choice and faction politics, Gears 5 focuses on a personal story of self-discovery amid war. Both were nominated for performance awards, delivering polished sci-fi experiences with distinct narrative approaches.

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  10. Sky Break cover
    Sky Break 2016 ★ 58
    Shares AdventureRole-playing (RPG)

    Both games drop you into sci-fi open worlds where survival depends on exploration and adaptation. The Outer Worlds emphasizes faction politics and character choice, while Sky Break focuses on mastering a hostile alien environment and hacking mechas for survival. Each presents an action-adventure structure where your decisions shape how you navigate dangerous, isolated settings filled with threats to humanity's future.

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10 games similar to The Outer Worlds: Immortal: Unchained, Gene Rain, Borderlands 3, Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon: Breakpoint, Rebel Galaxy Outlaw, Remnant: From the Ashes, Death Stranding, Rage 2.

Most of these games share Action, Adventure, Shooter, Role-playing (RPG) and Science fiction with The Outer Worlds, based on IGDB's similarity data. Each pick has a short note explaining what it has in common with The Outer Worlds.

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