Borderlands 3 similar games & best alternatives

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Borderlands 3

Xbox Series X|S, PlayStation 4, PC (Microsoft Windows), PlayStation 5, Mac, Xbox One • 2020

Should you play it?

The original shooter-looter returns, packing bazillions of guns and a mayhem-fueled adventure! Blast through new worlds and enemies as one of four new Vault Hunters.

What works

  • Excellent gunplay and weapon variety
  • Extensive character customization and skill builds
  • Large, diverse maps and planets to explore
  • Strong cooperative multiplayer features
  • High replayability with dlc and endgame modes

Things to keep in mind

  • Weak and poorly written story
  • Some frustrating boss mechanics with immunity phases
  • Ui and menu navigation can be clunky
  • Performance and optimization issues reported
  • Dlc pricing and season pass monetization criticized

What to play next

Top picks

Games that feels the closest overall

  • Hellsweeper VR

  • Blades of Time

  • STRANGER OF PARADISE FINAL FANTASY ORIGIN

  • Prodeus

  • Dying Light

  • RAGE

More intimate

Games that feels like Borderlands 3 but with more focus on close relationships

  • Destiny 2

  • Borderlands 2

  • Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2

  • Remnant: From the Ashes

  • GOD EATER 3

  • Borderlands Game of the Year Enhanced

More story-driven

Games that feels like Borderlands 3 but with deeper narrative immersion

  • Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy

  • DARK SOULS™ III

  • Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel

  • Hellpoint

  • Resident Evil 6

  • Dead Effect 2 VR

Less social

Games that feels like Borderlands 3 but with less teamwork and cooperation

  • The Surge

  • DOOM Eternal

  • Vampire Hunters

  • DOOM

  • ARMORED CORE™ VI FIRES OF RUBICON™

  • Killer Instinct

Choose your own criteria ->

From the same developer

From the same developer, ranked by motivational fit.

  • Borderlands 2

  • Borderlands Game of the Year Enhanced

  • Duke Nukem 3D: 20th Anniversary World Tour

  • Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel

  • Homeworld Remastered Collection

Similarity map

How to compare these games

Compare nearby games

Each card is a nearby game on the similarity map, compared with Borderlands 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 Borderlands 3. These titles are not in What to play next.

Borderlands 3: Broadly representative of its motivational profile, with a few distinct shifts. 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. It leans lower than usual among comparable games on Intimacy, Leadership.

Last update: 21/08/2026