Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare® similar games & best alternatives

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Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare®

2023

Should you play it?

Experience a visceral Campaign or assemble your team in the ultimate online playground with multiple Special Ops challenges and a mix of Multiplayer maps and modes.

What works

  • Engaging and cinematic campaign
  • Robust and skill-based multiplayer
  • High-quality graphics and sound
  • Weapon customization and progression
  • Crossplay and active community

Things to keep in mind

  • Large installation size (~160-220gb)
  • Short campaign length
  • Presence of cheaters in multiplayer
  • Spec ops mode less polished and less popular
  • Some technical bugs and crashes reported

What to play next

Top picks

Games that feels the closest overall

  • Battlefield™ V

  • Battlefield™ 1

  • Battlefield 3™

  • Call of Duty®: Black Ops II

  • Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare® 3 (2011)

  • Tom Clancy’s The Division™

More fantastical

Games that feels like Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare® but with more imaginative fiction

  • Zombie Army 4: Dead War

  • Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine - Anniversary Edition

  • STAR WARS™ Battlefront™ II

  • Halo: The Master Chief Collection

  • Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2

  • Mortal Kombat 1

Less dominating

Games that feels like Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare® but with less domination over others

  • Resident Evil 6

  • Caliber

  • Zombie Army Trilogy

  • Crossfire: Sierra Squad

  • Killing Floor 2

  • Ready or Not

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How to compare these games

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Each card is a nearby game on the similarity map, compared with Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare®. 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 Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare®. These titles are not in What to play next.

Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare®: 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 Story. It leans lower than usual among comparable games on Fantasy, Value.

Last update: 21/08/2026