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Games like Mafia

Illusion Softworks · 2002 · 87 % positive of 15,257

24 games that play like Mafia and 24 that look like it. Closest by gameplay: Mafia: Definitive Edition, Mafia II (Classic) and Mafia: The Old Country.

Player tags

  • Action
  • Story Rich
  • Crime
  • Open World
  • Classic
  • Atmospheric
  • Singleplayer
  • Great Soundtrack

At a glance

What games like Mafia have in common

  • The tags they share most often with Mafia: Crime (21 of 24), Open World (19) and Story Rich (12).
  • They came out between 2008 and 2025, 22 of them after Mafia (2002).
  • Best rated by Steam players: Sleeping Dogs (94 % positive of 17,084).
  • 4 games both play and look like Mafia, among them Mafia: Definitive Edition, Mafia II: Definitive Edition and Max Payne.

By gameplay

Plays like Mafia

Matched from Steam descriptions and player tags. The tags under each game are the ones both games share.

More matches

  1. Vivat Slovakia66 % positive of 582Shared: Story Rich · Crime · Open World
  2. Max Payne89 % positive of 14,653Shared: Story Rich · Crime · Classic
  3. Saints Row57 % positive of 6,769Shared: Crime · Open World · Third Person
  4. L.A. Noire85 % positive of 34,026Shared: Story Rich · Crime · Open World
  5. Grand Theft Auto V Enhanced69 % positive of 55,881Shared: Crime · Open World · Third Person
  6. Chicago 1930 : The Prohibition69 % positive of 158Shared: Crime · Classic
  7. FAST & FURIOUS CROSSROADS46 % positive of 164Shared: Third Person · Racing · Action
  8. The Precinct85 % positive of 5,190Shared: Crime · Open World · Action
  9. Grand Theft Auto IV: Complete Edition82 % positive of 175,272Shared: Crime · Open World · Classic
  10. Saints Row®: The Third™ Remastered70 % positive of 3,393Shared: Open World · Third Person · Third-Person Shooter
  11. Sleeping Dogs94 % positive of 17,084Shared: Story Rich · Crime · Open World
  12. American Theft 80s74 % positive of 881Shared: Crime · Open World · Third Person

By look

Looks like Mafia

Matched from screenshots. Each card shows the screenshot closest to the look of this game.

More matches

  1. Kane and Lynch: Dead Men™64 % positive of 3,334
  2. The Bureau: XCOM Declassified70 % positive of 11,786
  3. Death to Spies76 % positive of 939
  4. The Terrible Old Man88 % positive of 629
  5. Omerta - City of Gangsters66 % positive of 2,336
  6. Deadly Premonition: The Director's Cut66 % positive of 4,463
  7. WISE GUYS91 % positive of 238
  8. Hitman: Blood Money94 % positive of 14,034
  9. Fahrenheit: Indigo Prophecy Remastered80 % positive of 6,909
  10. Sherlock Holmes: Crimes and Punishments89 % positive of 7,191
  11. Murdered: Soul Suspect85 % positive of 16,651
  12. 1979 Revolution: Black Friday76 % positive of 1,077

How these matches work

Matches come from embeddings of Steam descriptions, player tags and screenshots, computed offline. “Plays like” compares what the games are about and how players tag them; “Looks like” compares their screenshots. The share of positive reviews is based on Steam user reviews.

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