Red Faction similar games & best alternatives

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Red Faction

PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, PC (Microsoft Windows), Mac, PlayStation 2 • 2009

Should you play it?

JOIN THE REVOLUTION! Lured to Mars by the Ultor Corporation's promise of a better life, thousands have come to seek their fortune and work for the massive mining company. But all is not as it seems. A deadly plague is sweeping through the barracks, and miners suffer daily abuse at the hands of the Ultor guards.

What works

  • Innovative destructible environments (geo-mod technology)
  • Varied weapons and vehicles
  • Engaging single player campaign
  • Nostalgic and immersive sci-fi setting
  • Active multiplayer community

Things to keep in mind

  • Dated graphics and sound
  • Lack of autosave and occasional bugs
  • Limited cooperative gameplay
  • Some frustrating stealth sections
  • Short campaign length

What to play next

Top picks

Games that feels the closest overall

  • POSTAL: Brain Damaged

  • Half-Life

  • Black Mesa

  • DOOM Eternal

  • DEATHLOOP

  • Warhammer 40,000: Boltgun

Less competitive

Games that feels like Red Faction but with less competition against others

  • Project: Snowblind

  • Rogue Trooper

  • Advent Rising

  • STAR WARS™: Bounty Hunter™

  • Zortch

  • SiN Gold

More social

Games that feels like Red Faction but with more teamwork and cooperation

  • Borderlands 3

  • Judge Dredd: Dredd vs. Death

  • Quake 4

  • Quake II

  • Return to Castle Wolfenstein

  • Turok 2: Seeds of Evil

Choose your own criteria ->

From the same developer

From the same developer, ranked by motivational fit.

  • Saints Row: Gat out of Hell

  • Red Faction Guerrilla Re-Mars-tered

  • Saints Row 2

  • Summoner

  • Saints Row IV: Re-Elected

Similarity map

How to compare these games

Compare nearby games

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

Red Faction: A very typical example of its motivational profile. Motivations that often define this kind of title include Competition, Status, Story, Fantasy. Here, the score leans higher than usual among comparable games on Violence, Story. It leans lower than usual among comparable games on Expression.

Last update: 21/08/2026