Manhunt similar games & best alternatives

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Manhunt

Xbox, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, PC (Microsoft Windows), PlayStation 2 • 2008

Should you play it?

You awake to the sound of your own panicked breath. In Manhunt, you must run, hide and fight to survive. If you can stay alive long enough, you may find out who did this to you. This is a brutal blood sport.

What works

  • Unique stealth and horror gameplay
  • Strong atmosphere and story
  • Challenging and rewarding executions
  • Community patches fix technical issues
  • High replay value with unlockables

Things to keep in mind

  • Official pc port is buggy and unstable
  • Requires third-party patches to run
  • Dated graphics and clunky gunplay
  • Ai can be inconsistent or frustrating
  • Linear and sometimes repetitive gameplay

What to play next

Top picks

Games that feels the closest overall

  • Max Payne

  • F.E.A.R.

  • F.E.A.R. 2: Project Origin

  • The Pony Factory

  • Condemned: Criminal Origins

  • 03.04

More exploratory

Games that feels like Manhunt but with more exploration of areas and secrets

  • DUSK

  • SiN Gold

  • Nightmare of Decay

  • Zortch

  • Blood West

  • HROT

Choose your own criteria ->

From the same developer

From the same developer, ranked by motivational fit.

  • Grand Theft Auto IV: The Complete Edition

  • Red Dead Redemption

  • Grand Theft Auto: Episodes from Liberty City

  • L.A. Noire

  • Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories

Similarity map

How to compare these games

Compare nearby games

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

Manhunt: Broadly representative of its motivational profile, with a few distinct shifts. Motivations that often define this kind of title include Expression, Fellowship, Cooperation, Competition. Here, the score leans higher than usual among comparable games on Violence. It leans lower than usual among comparable games on Exploration, Relaxation.

Last update: 21/08/2026