Paladins® similar games & best alternatives

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Paladins®

2018

Should you play it?

Paladins is the ultimate fantasy team-based shooter experience, with over 50 customizable Champions fighting in 5v5 action across a diverse Realm of modes and maps!

What works

  • Free to play
  • Diverse champions and customization
  • Team-based strategic gameplay
  • Frequent updates and new content
  • Runs well on low-end pcs

Things to keep in mind

  • Toxic player community reported
  • Matchmaking can be unbalanced
  • Bugs and server instability
  • Limited maps and game modes
  • Slow progression for free players

What to play next

Top picks

Games that feels the closest overall

  • Battlerite

  • FragPunk

  • Dota Underlords

  • Battlerite Royale

  • Iron League

  • Farlight 84

More exploratory

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

  • RIFT

  • Champions Online

  • Plants vs. Zombies™ Garden Warfare 2: Deluxe Edition

  • Borderlands 3

  • Last Flag

  • AdventureQuest 3D

More dominating

Games that feels like Paladins® but with more domination over others

  • Marvel Rivals

  • PWND

  • Soul Dossier

  • Brawlhalla

  • ONRAID

  • SMITE®

Less social

Games that feels like Paladins® but with less teamwork and cooperation

  • Ultra Street Fighter® IV

  • FATAL FURY: City of the Wolves

  • Honkai Impact 3rd

  • Rushdown Revolt

  • Rivals of Aether II

  • Power Rangers: Battle for the Grid

Choose your own criteria ->

Similarity map

How to compare these games

Compare nearby games

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

Paladins®: A very typical example of its motivational profile. Motivations that often define this kind of title include Competition, Status, Fellowship, Domination. Here, the score leans higher than usual among comparable games on Cooperation. It leans lower than usual among comparable games on Domination, Exploration.

Last update: 21/08/2026