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Games like Max Payne

Remedy Entertainment · 2011 · 89 % positive of 14,653

24 games that play like Max Payne and 24 that look like it. Closest by gameplay: Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne, Max Payne 3 and Manhunt.

Player tags

  • Action
  • Noir
  • Classic
  • Third-Person Shooter
  • Bullet Time
  • Story Rich
  • Atmospheric
  • Dark

At a glance

What games like Max Payne have in common

  • The tags they share most often with Max Payne: Third-Person Shooter (15 of 24), Story Rich (12) and Classic (7).
  • They came out between 2002 and 2024, 16 of them after Max Payne (2011).
  • Best rated by Steam players: Batman: Arkham City (98 % positive of 2,106).
  • 4 games both play and look like Max Payne, among them Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne, Max Payne 3 and Manhunt.

By gameplay

Plays like Max Payne

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

More matches

  1. El Matador71 % positive of 525Shared: Classic · Third-Person Shooter · Bullet Time
  2. PAYDAY 343 % positive of 58,692Shared: Shooter · Crime · Action
  3. Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell Conviction™71 % positive of 4,440Shared: Third-Person Shooter · Story Rich · Third Person
  4. DARK53 % positive of 1,356Shared: Noir · Third-Person Shooter · Dark
  5. Hitman: Absolution™92 % positive of 55,701Shared: Third-Person Shooter · Story Rich · Third Person
  6. GUN™92 % positive of 2,014Shared: Classic · Third-Person Shooter · Bullet Time
  7. Alan Wake's American Nightmare72 % positive of 8,960Shared: Third-Person Shooter · Story Rich · Third Person
  8. The Hong Kong Massacre74 % positive of 1,671Shared: Bullet Time · Story Rich · Shooter
  9. Thief74 % positive of 23,263Shared: Dark · Horror · Action
  10. Mafia87 % positive of 15,257Shared: Classic · Third-Person Shooter · Story Rich
  11. Red Dead Redemption92 % positive of 10,406Shared: Classic · Third-Person Shooter · Story Rich
  12. Batman: Arkham City98 % positive of 2,106Shared: Third Person · Action · Singleplayer

By look

Looks like Max Payne

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

More matches

  1. Half-Life96 % positive of 148,221
  2. Counter-Strike: Condition Zero91 % positive of 26,558
  3. Kingpin: Reloaded36 % positive of 356
  4. Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines94 % positive of 13,868
  5. NecroVision68 % positive of 1,735
  6. SiN Gold (1998)79 % positive of 415
  7. Hitman: Codename 4771 % positive of 4,239
  8. Dark Sector76 % positive of 2,829
  9. Freedom Fighters94 % positive of 2,126
  10. Max Payne 386 % positive of 57,076
  11. Cry of Fear88 % positive of 74,408
  12. Conflict: Denied Ops51 % positive of 434

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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