Quantum Break similar games & best alternatives

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Quantum Break

PC (Microsoft Windows), Xbox One • 2016

Should you play it?

From Remedy Entertainment, the masters of cinematic action games, comes Quantum Break, a time-amplified suspenseful blockbuster. The Quantum Break experience is part game, part live action show—where decisions in one dramatically affect the other.

What works

  • Unique blend of game and live-action series
  • Engaging time manipulation mechanics
  • Strong, complex narrative and characters
  • High-quality graphics and cinematic presentation
  • Meaningful player choices affecting story branches

Things to keep in mind

  • Short game length
  • Somewhat repetitive combat
  • Mandatory streaming of live-action episodes
  • Optimization issues on pc
  • Limited weapon variety and clunky controls

What to play next

Top picks

Games that feels the closest overall

  • Alan Wake

  • The Chant

  • Luna Abyss

  • Prince of Persia: The Two Thrones™

  • Singularity™

  • Collapse

More expressive

Games that feels like Quantum Break but with more self-expression and customization

  • Deus Ex: Human Revolution - Director's Cut

  • CONTROL Ultimate Edition

  • Hell is Us

  • STAR WARS Jedi: Survivor™

  • Shadow of the Tomb Raider: Definitive Edition

  • Dead Space™ 2

Less exploratory

Games that feels like Quantum Break but with less exploration of areas and secrets

  • F.E.A.R. 2: Project Origin

  • Advent Rising

  • Metro Awakening

  • Bright Memory

  • Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne

  • Lost Planet™: Extreme Condition

Choose your own criteria ->

From the same developer

From the same developer, ranked by motivational fit.

  • CONTROL Ultimate Edition

  • Alan Wake

  • Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne

  • Alan Wake's American Nightmare

  • Max Payne

Similarity map

How to compare these games

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

Quantum Break: A very typical example of its motivational profile. Motivations that often define this kind of title include Expression, Fellowship, Cooperation, Competition. Here, the score leans higher than usual among comparable games on Story, Creativity, Violence.

Last update: 21/08/2026