Games Like Perfect Dark
Quick Answer
The closest games to Perfect Dark are GoldenEye 007, TimeSplitters 2, Deus Ex, Hitman: World of Assassination and Deathloop. Below are 9 picks with the reason for each — what carries over from Perfect Dark, and what does not.
What Made Perfect Dark Work
Perfect Dark is GoldenEye's engine with more of everything — objectives that change with difficulty, a co-op campaign, a counter-operative mode and bots in multiplayer before that was normal. The single-player is a stealth-leaning shooter with mission objectives, not a corridor.
Perfect Dark is Rare's 2000 Nintendo 64 first-person shooter and the spiritual successor to GoldenEye 007. Agent Joanna Dark of the Carrington Institute investigates the dataDyne corporation across missions whose objectives grow with each difficulty level. It added a co-op campaign, a Counter-Operative mode where a second player controls enemies, and multiplayer bots called Simulants. People asking usually want either the objective-driven spy missions or the split-screen multiplayer.
9 Games Like Perfect Dark
1.GoldenEye 007
The game Perfect Dark is built on, and the multiplayer is still the reason.
Why it fits: Rare's 1997 Nintendo 64 shooter, based on the Bond film, introduced the objective-per-difficulty structure and split-screen deathmatch that Perfect Dark built on.
What is different: Fewer gadgets, no co-op campaign and no bots in multiplayer, and the story is a film adaptation.
Where to play it: Nintendo 64; since 2023 also on Switch through Nintendo Switch Online and on Xbox.
Games like this →2.TimeSplitters 2
By the same people after they left Rare, and the best of the lineage.
Why it fits: Free Radical Design, founded by members of the GoldenEye and Perfect Dark team, released it in 2002 for PS2, Xbox and GameCube, with time-travelling missions, bots and a map maker.
What is different: Shorter, more comic missions across time periods, and the spy story is gone.
Where to play it: PS2, Xbox and GameCube.
More about this game →3.Deus Ex
Objective-based missions with real freedom in how you finish them.
Why it fits: Ion Storm's 2000 PC game combines shooting, stealth and RPG skills, letting you solve missions through combat, hacking or dialogue.
What is different: An RPG with skill points and dialogue, and its shooting is weaker than its choices.
Where to play it: PC and PS2.
More about this game →4.Hitman: World of Assassination
Modern objective-and-approach design at its very best.
Why it fits: IO Interactive's 2023 collection brings together the 2016-2021 Hitman trilogy, where each level is a sandbox with many ways to complete the target.
What is different: Third-person and about not being seen; shooting your way through is usually the failure case.
Where to play it: PS4, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S and PC.
More about this game →5.Deathloop
Arkane's take on the stylish spy shooter.
Why it fits: Arkane Lyon's 2021 first-person game is a stylised, 1960s-inspired time-loop shooter where you plan the perfect route to eight targets in one day.
What is different: One day on an island repeated until you solve it, with no split-screen and a player-invader instead.
Where to play it: PS5, PC and Xbox Series X|S.
More about this game →6.No One Lives Forever 2
Spy-fi shooting with a sense of humour and clever missions.
Why it fits: Monolith Productions' 2002 PC shooter is a comedic 1960s spy game starring agent Cate Archer, with gadgets and missions that allow stealth or combat.
What is different: A 1960s spy comedy on PC with no split-screen, and it is hard to buy today.
Where to play it: PC.
More about this game →7.Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory
If the stealth half of Perfect Dark was the part you liked.
Why it fits: Ubisoft Montreal's 2005 stealth game has large levels with optional objectives and a co-op mode for two spies.
What is different: Pure stealth in third person; guns are a last resort and the tone is serious.
Where to play it: PC, Xbox, PS2 and GameCube.
More about this game →8.Halo: Combat Evolved
The console shooter that took the crown next, and worth revisiting.
Why it fits: Bungie's 2001 Xbox launch shooter became the next defining console FPS, with a strong campaign, co-op and local multiplayer.
What is different: Large outdoor battles and vehicles rather than spy missions, and no objectives that change with difficulty.
Where to play it: Xbox and PC; Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S and PC in The Master Chief Collection.
Games like this →9.Crysis
Open missions, many approaches, very good sandbox AI.
Why it fits: Crytek's 2007 PC shooter gives you a nanosuit with modes for armour, speed, strength and cloaking, letting you approach open levels in many ways.
What is different: An open jungle and a suit of powers rather than gadgets, and no local multiplayer.
Where to play it: PC; the Remastered version on PS4, Xbox One and Switch.
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Where to Start
GoldenEye 007 is the obvious companion if you have not played it. TimeSplitters 2 is the best continuation of the multiplayer and the bot matches. For the spy missions, Hitman: World of Assassination is the modern peak of objective-driven design.
How We Picked These Games
Each pick shares one of Perfect Dark's pillars: mission-based spy shooting, open-ended objectives, or classic console multiplayer. We included the direct lineage — GoldenEye and TimeSplitters — and then the games that best carry the mission-design side forward.
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How These Picks Match Perfect Dark
Perfect Dark is catalogued here as a first-person shooter on the Nintendo 64. All nine picks share at least one of its genre tags — nine shooters, nine action games and four adventures among them.
Going by the "where to play it" notes, seven can be played on PC, six can be played on a PlayStation, four can be played on a Nintendo system and seven can be played on an Xbox.
This list also answers "games like GoldenEye 007": eight of the picks we wrote for it are on this page, so the two lists are kept as one.
| Game | Genre | Shares with Perfect Dark | Where to play |
|---|---|---|---|
| GoldenEye 007 | Shooter, Action | Shooter, Action | Nintendo 64; since 2023 also on Switch through Nintendo Switch Online and on Xbox. |
| TimeSplitters 2 | Shooter, Action, Arcade | Shooter, Action | PS2, Xbox and GameCube. |
| Deus Ex | Shooter, RPG, Action | Shooter, Action | PC and PS2. |
| Hitman: World of Assassination | Action, Adventure, Shooter | Shooter, Action, Adventure | PS4, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S and PC. |
| Deathloop | Shooter, Action, Adventure | Shooter, Action, Adventure | PS5, PC and Xbox Series X|S. |
| No One Lives Forever 2 | Shooter, Action, Adventure | Shooter, Action, Adventure | PC. |
| Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory | Action, Adventure, Shooter | Shooter, Action, Adventure | PC, Xbox, PS2 and GameCube. |
| Halo: Combat Evolved | Shooter, Action | Shooter, Action | Xbox and PC; Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S and PC in The Master Chief Collection. |
| Crysis | Shooter, Action | Shooter, Action | PC; the Remastered version on PS4, Xbox One and Switch. |
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