CODE VEIN similar games & best alternatives

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CODE VEIN

Xbox Series X|S, PC (Microsoft Windows), PlayStation 5 • 2019

Should you play it?

In the face of certain death, we rise. Team up and embark on a journey to the ends of hell to unlock your past and escape your living nightmare in CODE VEIN.

What works

  • Extensive character customization
  • Flexible class and build system
  • Engaging combat with companions
  • Emotional story and world-building
  • Good replayability and multiple endings

Things to keep in mind

  • Clunky and sometimes stiff combat
  • Repetitive enemy and level design
  • Maze-like confusing maps
  • Slow pacing in story delivery
  • Limited multiplayer and social features

What to play next

Top picks

Games that feels the closest overall

  • Mass Effect™: Andromeda Deluxe Edition

  • Nioh 3

  • Shadow Warrior 2

  • Remnant: From the Ashes

  • Sword Art Online: Hollow Realization Deluxe Edition

  • Hunted: The Demon’s Forge™

Less social

Games that feels like CODE VEIN but with less teamwork and cooperation

  • The First Berserker: Khazan

  • NieR:Automata™

  • Flintlock: The Siege of Dawn

  • Stray Blade

  • Tales of ARISE

  • The Surge 2

Less intimate

Games that feels like CODE VEIN but with less focus on close relationships

  • Atlas Fallen: Reign Of Sand

  • RuneScape: Dragonwilds

  • Risen 3 - Titan Lords

  • Solo Leveling: ARISE OVERDRIVE

  • STRANGER OF PARADISE FINAL FANTASY ORIGIN

  • Blades of Time

More competitive

Games that feels like CODE VEIN but with more competition against others

  • DARK SOULS™ III

  • Hellpoint

  • Nioh: Complete Edition

  • Nioh 2 – The Complete Edition

  • Borderlands 2

  • Monster Hunter: World

More leadership-focused

Games that feels like CODE VEIN but with more leadership over others

  • Warframe

  • SAMURAI WARRIORS 4 DX

  • Warhammer: Vermintide 2

  • Dragon's Dogma: Dark Arisen

  • REMNANT II®

  • Toukiden 2

Choose your own criteria ->

From the same developer

From the same developer, ranked by motivational fit.

  • GOD EATER 2 Rage Burst

  • Tales of Berseria™

  • Tales of ARISE

  • SCARLET NEXUS

  • Tales of Vesperia: Definitive Edition

Similarity map

How to compare these games

Compare nearby games

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

CODE VEIN: A very typical example of its motivational profile. Motivations that often define this kind of title include Cooperation, Fellowship, Intimacy, Leadership. Here, the score leans higher than usual among comparable games on Expression, Creativity. It leans lower than usual among comparable games on Leadership.

Last update: 21/08/2026