Games Like Red Dead Redemption
Quick Answer
The closest games to Red Dead Redemption are Red Dead Redemption 2, Ghost of Tsushima, The Witcher 3, Call of Juarez: Gunslinger and Kingdom Come: Deliverance II. Below are 9 picks with the reason for each — what carries over from Red Dead Redemption, and what does not.
What Made Red Dead Redemption Work
Red Dead Redemption is a slow open world where the travelling is the point. Dead Eye makes the gunfights cinematic rather than difficult, the random encounters give the map a life of its own, and the story is unusually restrained for the studio. Fast open worlds are the wrong match — pace is the thing.
Red Dead Redemption is Rockstar San Diego's 2010 open-world western for PS3 and Xbox 360, later ported to PS4 and Switch in 2023 and PC in 2024. Former outlaw John Marston is forced by federal agents to hunt down his old gang in 1911, as the frontier gives way to the modern world. Dead Eye slows time to mark targets, and the open world is filled with random encounters, hunting and side stories. Fans usually want a slower open world with a strong sense of time and place.
Also written as RDR, Red Dead — same game, same list.
9 Games Like Red Dead Redemption
1.Red Dead Redemption 2
The prequel, slower still, and the most detailed open world made.
Why it fits: Rockstar Games' 2018 prequel, set in 1899, follows Arthur Morgan and the Van der Linde gang, with an even more detailed world and slower pace.
What is different: Much slower: camp chores, eating and horse care fill the time, and the story is longer and heavier than John Marston's.
Where to play it: PS4, Xbox One and PC.
More about this game →2.Ghost of Tsushima
The same unhurried travelling, with far better combat.
Why it fits: Sucker Punch Productions' 2020 PS4 game has a guiding wind instead of a mini-map, encouraging you to travel on horseback through landscapes.
What is different: Swords rather than revolvers, feudal Japan rather than the frontier, and the combat is stance-based duelling rather than cover shooting.
Where to play it: PS4, PS5 and PC.
More about this game →3.The Witcher 3
An open world where the side stories are the reason to play.
Why it fits: CD Projekt Red's 2015 RPG has side quests widely considered among the best written in any open world.
What is different: A fantasy RPG with levels, gear and monster contracts; you fight with swords and signs, and horses are for travel rather than gunfights.
Where to play it: PC, PS4, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S and Switch.
More about this game →4.Call of Juarez: Gunslinger
The best pure western shooter, and short.
Why it fits: Techland's 2013 shooter is told by an unreliable narrator, Silas Greaves, who changes the level as he retells his story in a saloon.
What is different: A linear first-person shooter with no open world; it is a few hours of arcade gunplay and a narrator rewriting the level as you go.
Where to play it: PC, PS3, Xbox 360 and Switch.
More about this game →5.Kingdom Come: Deliverance II
A living historical world that refuses to be convenient.
Why it fits: Warhorse Studios' 2025 RPG is set in 15th-century Bohemia, with a realistic world where travel, reputation and survival take effort.
What is different: Medieval Europe, swords and crossbows, and far stricter survival and combat systems — there are no Dead Eye shortcuts.
Where to play it: PS5, Xbox Series X|S and PC.
More about this game →6.Hunt: Showdown 1896
Western atmosphere with genuine tension, if you can take PvP.
Why it fits: Crytek's PvPvE bounty-hunting shooter, first released in 2019 and relaunched as Hunt: Showdown 1896 in 2024, is set in the late-19th-century American South.
What is different: Competitive and online only, with no story; each match is a tense hunt where dying loses your hunter and gear.
Where to play it: PC, PS5 and Xbox Series X|S.
More about this game →7.Days Gone
Open-world travel where the journey and the bike are the game.
Why it fits: Bend Studio's 2019 PS4 game (PC in 2021) is an open-world survival game in Oregon, where your motorbike is your lifeline.
What is different: A motorbike instead of a horse, zombie-like hordes instead of outlaws, and a modern-day Oregon setting.
Where to play it: PS4 and PC; remastered for PS5.
More about this game →8.Assassin's Creed Odyssey
If the scale and the exploring were the appeal.
Why it fits: Ubisoft Quebec's 2018 open-world RPG is set in ancient Greece, with a huge map to explore on horseback and by ship.
What is different: A levelled RPG where enemies outscale you, with far more loot, dialogue choices and naval battles, and a much less grounded story.
Where to play it: PS4, Xbox One and PC.
Games like this →9.Weird West
Immersive-sim western with real consequences.
Why it fits: WolfEye Studios, co-founded by Arkane co-founder Raphaël Colantonio, released this 2022 immersive-sim western with systemic choices and consequences.
What is different: Viewed from above, with supernatural enemies and a party of characters; the systems matter more than the storytelling.
Where to play it: PC, PS4 and Xbox One.
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Where to Start
Red Dead Redemption 2 is the obvious next game if you have not played it. For another open world with the same patience, Ghost of Tsushima is the best alternative. Call of Juarez: Gunslinger is the choice if you want a short, pure western shooter.
How We Picked These Games
Picks needed either an unhurried open world with a sense of journey, a western setting, or a restrained, character-driven story. We avoided open worlds built mostly around checklists and fast travel, and included one competitive game for players who want western atmosphere with tension.
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How These Picks Match Red Dead Redemption
Red Dead Redemption is catalogued here as an open-world crime game and third-person shooter on the PlayStation 3. All nine picks share at least one of its genre tags — nine action games and four shooters among them.
Going by the "where to play it" notes, nine can be played on PC, nine can be played on a PlayStation, two can be played on a Nintendo system and seven can be played on an Xbox.
| Game | Genre | Shares with Red Dead Redemption | Where to play |
|---|---|---|---|
| Red Dead Redemption 2 | Action, Adventure, Shooter | Action, Shooter | PS4, Xbox One and PC. |
| Ghost of Tsushima | Action, Adventure, RPG | Action | PS4, PS5 and PC. |
| The Witcher 3 | RPG, Action, Adventure | Action | PC, PS4, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S and Switch. |
| Call of Juarez: Gunslinger | Shooter, Action, Arcade | Action, Shooter | PC, PS3, Xbox 360 and Switch. |
| Kingdom Come: Deliverance II | RPG, Action, Simulation | Action | PS5, Xbox Series X|S and PC. |
| Hunt: Showdown 1896 | Shooter, Action | Action, Shooter | PC, PS5 and Xbox Series X|S. |
| Days Gone | Action, Adventure, Shooter | Action, Shooter | PS4 and PC; remastered for PS5. |
| Assassin's Creed Odyssey | Action, RPG, Adventure | Action | PS4, Xbox One and PC. |
| Weird West | RPG, Action, Adventure | Action | PC, PS4 and Xbox One. |
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