Sniper Elite 5 similar games & best alternatives

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Sniper Elite 5

Xbox Series X|S, PlayStation 4, PC (Microsoft Windows), iOS, PlayStation 5, Mac, Xbox One • 2022

Should you play it?

The award-winning series returns as Karl Fairburne fights to uncover Project Kraken in 1944 France. The genre-defining authentic sniping, with enhanced kill cam, has never looked or felt better as you fight across immersive maps to stop the Nazi war machine in its tracks.

What works

  • Large, detailed maps with multiple approaches
  • Engaging stealth and sniping mechanics
  • Robust weapon customization
  • Co-op and multiplayer modes
  • Immersive wwii atmosphere and visuals

Things to keep in mind

  • Some bugs and ai inconsistencies
  • Limited weapon variety at launch
  • Invasion mode can be frustrating for some
  • Dlc pricing considered high
  • Some players find story weak or clichéd

What to play next

Top picks

Games that feels the closest overall

  • Dying Light

  • Enlisted

  • Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell Blacklist

  • Far Cry® 4

  • Shatterline

  • Sniper Elite: Resistance

Less competitive

Games that feels like Sniper Elite 5 but with less competition against others

  • Dead Space™ 3

  • Serious Sam: Siberian Mayhem

  • Dying Light 2 Stay Human: Reloaded Edition

  • Aragami 2

  • John Carpenter's Toxic Commando

  • Warhammer 40,000: Darktide

More intimate

Games that feels like Sniper Elite 5 but with more focus on close relationships

  • Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2

  • Killing Floor 2

  • Resident Evil 5

  • Warhammer: Vermintide 2

  • Hunt: Showdown 1896

  • Borderlands 2

Choose your own criteria ->

From the same developer

From the same developer, ranked by motivational fit.

  • Sniper Elite: Resistance

  • Strange Brigade

  • Sniper Elite 4

  • Sniper Elite 3

  • Zombie Army 4: Dead War

Similarity map

How to compare these games

Compare nearby games

Each card is a nearby game on the similarity map, compared with Sniper Elite 5. 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 Sniper Elite 5. These titles are not in What to play next.

Sniper Elite 5: 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 Violence. It leans lower than usual among comparable games on Intimacy, Domination.

Last update: 21/08/2026