Red Dead Online similar games & best alternatives

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Red Dead Online

Xbox Series X|S, PlayStation 4, PC (Microsoft Windows), Xbox One • 2020

Should you play it?

Step into the vibrant, ever-evolving world of Red Dead Online and experience life in frontier America. Chase down bounties, battle outlaw gangs and other players, hunt, fish and trade, search for exotic treasures, run Moonshine, and much more to discover in a world of astounding depth and detail.

What works

  • Immersive open world and atmosphere
  • Strong cooperative play with friends
  • Deep role and progression systems
  • High-quality graphics and sound
  • Variety of activities and exploration

Things to keep in mind

  • Presence of hackers and modders
  • Grindy progression and pay-to-win elements
  • Lack of recent content updates
  • Some repetitive missions and tasks
  • Technical bugs and server issues

What to play next

Top picks

Games that feels the closest overall

  • The Elder Scrolls® Online

  • Guild Wars 2®

  • Shatterline

  • Once Human

  • Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2

  • Borderlands 2

Less competitive

Games that feels like Red Dead Online but with less competition against others

  • Valheim

  • Risen 3 - Titan Lords

  • Red Dead Redemption 2

  • Warframe

  • Mass Effect™: Andromeda Deluxe Edition

  • Enshrouded

Less fantastical

Games that feels like Red Dead Online but with less imaginative fiction

  • Arma 3

  • Deadside

  • Battlefield™ 1

  • ICARUS

  • Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon® Wildlands

  • theHunter: Call of the Wild™

More dominating

Games that feels like Red Dead Online but with more domination over others

  • Gears 5

  • Conan Exiles Enhanced

  • Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord

  • STAR WARS™ Battlefront™ II

  • Halo: The Master Chief Collection

  • Total War: WARHAMMER III

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From the same developer

From the same developer, ranked by motivational fit.

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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).
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  • 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 Red Dead Online. These titles are not in What to play next.

Red Dead Online: Broadly representative of its motivational profile, with a few distinct shifts. Motivations that often define this kind of title include Competition, Status, Fellowship, Domination. Here, the score leans higher than usual among comparable games on Exploration, Story. It leans lower than usual among comparable games on Domination.

Last update: 21/08/2026