Mafia similar games & best alternatives

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Mafia

Web browser, Android, iOS • 2002

Should you play it?

It’s 1930. After an inadvertent brush with the mafia, cabdriver Tommy Angelo is reluctantly thrust into the world of organized crime. Initially, he is uneasy about falling in with the Salieri family, but soon the rewards become too big to ignore.

What works

  • Engaging and emotional story
  • Immersive 1930s atmosphere
  • Realistic driving physics
  • Detailed open world city
  • Nostalgic and replayable

Things to keep in mind

  • Dated graphics and controls
  • Clunky combat mechanics
  • Linear mission design
  • Missing original soundtrack by default
  • Some frustrating mission difficulty

What to play next

Top picks

Games that feels the closest overall

  • Jack Orlando: Director's Cut

  • Grand Theft Auto IV: The Complete Edition

  • Heavy Rain

  • Mafia II (Classic)

  • UNCHARTED™: Legacy of Thieves Collection

  • Sleeping Dogs: Definitive Edition

More fantastical

Games that feels like Mafia but with more imaginative fiction

  • Alone in the Dark

  • METAL GEAR SOLID 2: Sons of Liberty - Master Collection Version

  • Westworld Awakening

  • Legacy of Kain: Defiance (2003)

  • Dead Rising Deluxe Remaster

  • Prince of Persia®: The Sands of Time

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Mafia: Less representative of its motivational profile, with noticeable differences. Motivations that often define this kind of title include Violence, Survival, Fellowship, Intimacy. Here, the score leans higher than usual among comparable games on Story. It leans lower than usual among comparable games on Fantasy, Expression.

Last update: 21/08/2026