Showgunners similar games & best alternatives

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Showgunners

Xbox Series X|S, PlayStation 4, PC (Microsoft Windows), PlayStation 5, Xbox One • 2023

Should you play it?

As a contestant on a high stakes reality game show of the future, you must survive a dangerous urban environment packed with traps, confounding puzzles, and heavily armed psychopaths. Turn-based combat in hand crafted levels, built for entertainment.

What works

  • Engaging tactical combat
  • Unique dystopian game show setting
  • Well-crafted hand-made levels
  • Solid progression and skill systems
  • Polished graphics and sound design

Things to keep in mind

  • Limited character customization
  • Short campaign with low replayability
  • Some ui and camera issues
  • Story is straightforward and somewhat generic
  • Small squad size limits tactical variety early on

What to play next

Top picks

Games that feels the closest overall

  • TRIANGLE STRATEGY

  • Warhammer 40,000: Battlesector

  • Zoria: Prologue (2020)

  • The Dungeon Of Naheulbeuk: The Amulet Of Chaos

  • Garbage: Hobo Prophecy

  • Blightstone

More expressive

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

  • Cyber Knights: Flashpoint

  • Warhammer 40,000: Mechanicus

  • Druidstone: The Secret of the Menhir Forest

  • Sword of Convallaria

  • Disciples: Liberation

  • Gears Tactics

More social

Games that feels like Showgunners but with more teamwork and cooperation

  • The Red Solstice

  • Aarklash: Legacy

  • Terrinoth®: Heroes of Descent

  • Satellite Reign

  • Solstice Chronicles: MIA

  • Gorky 17

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Showgunners: Less representative of its motivational profile, with noticeable differences. Motivations that often define this kind of title include Violence, Survival, Fellowship, Intimacy. Here, the score leans higher than usual among comparable games on Leadership, Status. It leans lower than usual among comparable games on Expression.

Last update: 21/08/2026