Best Adventure Games Like Far Cry 6

The best adventure games like Far Cry 6 are Far Cry 5, Just Cause 3 and Metal Gear Solid V. Below are 7, each with the reason it is here — and, at the end, what filtering to adventure costs you.

Why Adventure Is a Good Answer for Far Cry 6

Filtering to adventure means the place and the story are what you want back, not the challenge. It is the right filter when the thing you remember is where you were rather than what you did.

What you get: A world with a reason to wander it, and writing that survives being read rather than skipped.

What made Far Cry 6 worth playing in the first place is covered on the full list. This page is the adventure part of that answer, and only the adventure part.

7 Adventure Games Like Far Cry 6

  1. 1. Far Cry 5

    The tightest of the modern entries and the best map in the series.

  2. 2. Just Cause 3

    The same sandbox with the physics dialled far past sensible.

  3. 3. Metal Gear Solid V

    The best version of this loop by a distance — plan, infiltrate, improvise.

  4. 4. Ghost Recon Wildlands

    Outpost clearing with co-op and a much larger map.

  5. 5. Days Gone

    Open-world survival where the traversal and the hordes carry it.

  6. 6. Dying Light 2

    Outposts plus parkour, and the night changes everything.

  7. 7. Saints Row IV

    For the same chaos with none of the seriousness.

What This Filter Leaves Out

Mechanical depth. Several of the best adventure games have combat that is deliberately unsatisfying, because they want your attention somewhere else.

Specifically, these are strong answers for Far Cry 6 that are not adventure games, so they are not on this page:

  • Sniper Elite 5 — If the planning-and-approach part is what you like.
  • Rage 2 — Far Cry's structure with far better shooting.

The full list is on games like Far Cry 6 — 9 picks, no genre filter.

Frequently Asked Questions

What is the best adventure game like Far Cry 6?

Far Cry 5. The tightest of the modern entries and the best map in the series.

Are all of these on the PC & Modern Multi-Platform?

No. Far Cry 6 released on the PC & Modern Multi-Platform, but a recommendation is only useful if you can play it, so the picks above span platforms and eras. What they share is the genre and the reason.

What counts as an adventure game?

Anywhere the story and the place matter more than the skill ceiling — point-and-click, walking sims, narrative thrillers and most open worlds. The label alone tells you very little, which is why each pick here says what it actually is.

Are adventure games long?

They split hard. Open-world adventures run to a hundred hours; the narrative ones are often finishable in an evening, and the short ones are usually the better written.

How are these chosen?

By hand. Each pick was written for the full Far Cry 6 list first, on what the game actually does, and this page is the part of that list that is adventure — never a genre tag lookup, which is how "best racing games like Super Mario 64" used to be a page on this site.

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Or read the adventure guide for where to start in the genre generally.