The closest games to Evil West are Gears of War, Space Marine 2 and Devil May Cry 5. Below, 9 picks with the reason for each — what carries over from Evil West, and what does not.
Evil West is a linear third-person action game in an era that mostly stopped making them — no open world, no crafting tree you have to manage, just levels, a gauntlet that punches vampires across the screen, and co-op. It is about six hours a playthrough and it does not waste any of them.
Evil West released on the PlayStation 5. The list below is not restricted to that console — a recommendation is only useful if you can actually play it, so it spans generations and platforms.
The heavy, level-based third-person shooter this is descended from.
The current best heavy third-person action game, and built for the same appetite.
If the combat and not the guns was the reason.
The same trade of length for spectacle, in Victorian London.
Third-person co-op shooting with real difficulty.
Short, linear, and built around one very good mechanic.
The best pure western shooter, and just as short.
Supernatural frontier, from the immersive-sim direction.
Another handsome, short, execution-led action game.
Several of these have their own page here: games like Gears of War, games like Devil May Cry 5, games like Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance, games like Ryse: Son of Rome.
The 4 of these picks that have a page here, and the console each is catalogued under. Most are on more platforms than one — remasters and back catalogues move constantly — so treat this as where to start looking rather than a complete availability list.
| Game | Catalogued under |
|---|---|
| Gears of War | Xbox 360 |
| Devil May Cry 5 | PS2 |
| Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance | PS3 |
| Ryse: Son of Rome | Xbox One |
Gears of War. The heavy, level-based third-person shooter this is descended from.
Gears of War, Space Marine 2 and Devil May Cry 5 are the closest. The full list of Evil West similar games is on this page — 9 of them, each with the reason it is here rather than a genre tag that happens to match.
The picks above span platforms rather than sticking to the PS5, because the thing worth copying about Evil West is not a property of the hardware. The PS5 list further down is the place to go for more from that library.
Because the thing you liked about Evil West is not a property of the hardware. Restricting the list to one console would drop most of the good answers, so the picks above span platforms and eras. If you specifically want more from that library, the PS5 list further down is the place to start.
By hand, one game at a time, on what the source game actually does — its pacing, its movement, its difficulty, its tone. Genre tags alone put Evil West next to games that feel nothing like it, so they are not the basis for this list. Each pick carries the reason it is here so you can judge it yourself.
No. The whole list is on this page, free, with no sign-in and no email. We earn a small affiliate commission if you buy through a retailer link, which is what pays for the site.
If you already know what kind of answer you want, these are the same list cut by genre — and each one says what it leaves out as well as what it includes:
More from the PlayStation 5 library, each with its own recommendations page: