The closest games to Just Cause 3 are Just Cause 4, Saints Row IV and Teardown. Below, 9 picks with the reason for each — what carries over from Just Cause 3, and what does not.
Just Cause 3 is a physics toy. The grapple, parachute and wingsuit chain into movement you never stop doing, and the tethers let you attach anything to anything. The missions are an excuse. Recommendations should be sandboxes that reward messing about, not story-led open worlds.
Also written as Just Cause — this is the same game, and the same list applies however you spell it.
Just Cause 3 released on the PC & Modern Multi-Platform. 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.
More tethers, more options, and the wingsuit is unchanged.
Superpowered traversal in an open city with the same silliness.
The best pure physics sandbox there is — everything is destructible.
Traversal-first open world where the movement is the upgrade.
Open-world chaos with a grapple and a wingsuit of its own.
Movement in any direction as the core toy.
The best traversal in an open city, if you want it precise.
The other great blow-everything-up sandbox.
If the vehicle chaos and destruction were the appeal, with other people.
Several of these have their own page here: games like Crackdown, games like Spider-Man.
Just Cause 4. More tethers, more options, and the wingsuit is unchanged.
Just Cause 4, Saints Row IV and Teardown are the closest. The full list of Just Cause 3 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 PC, because the thing worth copying about Just Cause 3 is not a property of the hardware. The PC list further down is the place to go for more from that library.
Because the thing you liked about Just Cause 3 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 PC 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 Just Cause 3 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.
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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 PC & Modern Multi-Platform library, each with its own recommendations page: