Games like BioShock

4.1average player rating•5 games

BioShock is a shooter you remember for the place, not the guns: a broken city that explains itself through audio logs and architecture. These give you a world worth reading, and the tools to break it.

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Games5

Avg. Metacritic82

Avg. player rating4.1/5

Avg. playtime10h

Main genreAction

Released2011–2023

What these games share

The genres these 5 picks have in common, straight from their store data.

Action5 of 5
Adventure3 of 5
RPG3 of 5
Shooter3 of 5

The picks

Ranked by player rating, Metacritic breaks ties.

1
Dishonored
ActionAdventureRPG
Same designers' lineage. Powers you combine creatively, in a city with more story in its streets than its cutscenes.
4.4/5Player ratingMC91View game
2
Deus Ex: Human Revolution
ActionRPG
Augment yourself, then choose the vent, the hack, or the front door. Choice as the whole design.
4.4/5Player ratingMC89View game
3
Prey
ActionShooterRPG
The truest heir: a station full of systems, alien powers instead of plasmids, and total freedom in how you solve a room.
4.3/5Player ratingMC80View game
4
System Shock
ActionShooterAdventure
BioShock's own ancestor, rebuilt. SHODAN is still the best AI villain games have produced.
3.9/5Player ratingMC78View game
5
Atomic Heart
ActionShooterAdventure
A retro-futurist utopia gone wrong, gloved hand full of powers. The most literal BioShock riff on the list.
3.9/5Player ratingMC73View game