Battlefield 3™ similar games & best alternatives

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Battlefield 3™

PlayStation 3, PC (Microsoft Windows), Xbox 360 • 2020

Should you play it?

Enjoy total freedom to fight the way you want. Explore 29 massive multiplayer maps and use loads of vehicles, weapons, and gadgets to help you turn up the heat. Every second of battle gets you closer to unlocking tons of extras and moving up in the Ranks. So get in the action.

What works

  • Highly immersive multiplayer with large-scale battles
  • Strong graphics and sound design for its time
  • Engaging and nostalgic campaign
  • Deep class and vehicle gameplay
  • Active community with some servers still populated

Things to keep in mind

  • Complicated and outdated launcher system
  • Multiplayer servers declining in population
  • Campaign considered average and short
  • Technical issues with punkbuster and launching
  • Some bugs and ai issues in single-player

What to play next

Top picks

Games that feels the closest overall

  • Company of Heroes - Legacy Edition

  • Battlefield™ 1

  • Company of Heroes 2

  • Battlefield™ V

  • Company of Heroes

  • Company of Heroes: Opposing Fronts

More fantastical

Games that feels like Battlefield 3™ but with more imaginative fiction

  • Halo: The Master Chief Collection

  • STAR WARS™ Battlefront™ II

  • Warhammer 40,000: Darktide

  • Dino D-Day

  • EARTH DEFENSE FORCE 4.1 The Shadow of New Despair

  • Borderlands 2

Less dominating

Games that feels like Battlefield 3™ but with less domination over others

  • Call to Arms - Gates of Hell: Ostfront

  • Zero Caliber 2 Remastered

  • Counter-Strike: Condition Zero

  • Nuclear Dawn

  • Tom Clancy’s The Division® 2

  • Tom Clancy’s The Division™

Choose your own criteria ->

From the same developer

From the same developer, ranked by motivational fit.

  • Battlefield™ V

  • Battlefield™ 1

  • Battlefield 4™

  • STAR WARS™ Battlefront

  • Mirror's Edge™ Catalyst

Similarity map

How to compare these games

Compare nearby games

Each card is a nearby game on the similarity map, compared with Battlefield 3™. Swipe sideways to move between games. Titles already listed in What to play next are left out.

  • Cover and title: open that game’s page.
  • What works / keep in mind: the same highlights as the desktop comparison panel.
  • Bars: the main motivational differences versus this game.
How to use the graph

Similarity map

Each dot is a game placed from its motivation profile relative to this page’s game. Direction shows which motivation differs most; distance along that axis shows how large the gap is.

  • Purple star: this page’s game at the centre — everything is relative to it.
  • Direction: each axis is a main motivational difference vs this game (e.g. more / less competitive).
  • Distance on an axis: how large that difference is (ring scales show +/− points).
  • Coloured chips: click to highlight games that mainly differ on that motivation; click again to reset.
  • Dotted line: link between this page’s game and the one selected for comparison.
  • Hover a dot to preview that game in the panel on the right; click to keep that comparison.
  • Scroll or double-click the chart to zoom.

How to read the map This is a polar difference map: direction = which motivation differs, and distance = how much (same units as the sidebar deltas).

Swipe to compare nearby games with Battlefield 3™. These titles are not in What to play next.

Battlefield 3™: A very typical example of its motivational profile. Motivations that often define this kind of title include Competition, Status, Fellowship, Domination. Here, the score leans higher than usual among comparable games on Violence, Cooperation. It leans lower than usual among comparable games on Fantasy.

Last update: 21/08/2026