Red Eclipse similar games & best alternatives

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Red Eclipse

Linux, PC (Microsoft Windows), Mac • 2019

Should you play it?

Building on over 15 years of gameplay design, Red Eclipse continues to focus on fast paced, agile, easily accessible first person shooter gameplay. For creators, the full power of the Tesseract engine is at your fingertips in the included realtime multiplayer editor.

What works

  • Free and open source with no microtransactions
  • Robust in-game map editor and modding support
  • Fast-paced, skill-based movement and combat
  • Active and friendly community
  • Runs well on low-end hardware

Things to keep in mind

  • Small and sparse playerbase limits multiplayer experience
  • Some clunky movement and ui elements
  • Limited number of maps currently
  • Occasional bugs and performance issues
  • Lack of tutorial and onboarding for new players

What to play next

Top picks

Games that feels the closest overall

  • Toaster Arena

  • Murder Miners

  • Splitgate

  • Blockstorm

  • Perfect Heist 2

  • Grapples Galore

More dominating

Games that feels like Red Eclipse but with more domination over others

  • Banana Shooter

  • Screencheat

  • Ratz Instagib

  • Grabity

  • Quake Live

  • Unturned

More story-driven

Games that feels like Red Eclipse but with deeper narrative immersion

  • System Shock 2: 25th Anniversary Remaster

  • Sven Co-op

  • SCP: Containment Breach 2

  • Dystopia

  • Unfortunate Spacemen

  • Quake II

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Similarity map

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

Red Eclipse: 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 Intimacy. It leans lower than usual among comparable games on Story, Domination.

Last update: 21/08/2026