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Name three games you loved. We match them by what they ask of you - the hands, the reads, the luck, the planning - and return five games you can play right now, each with why it fits and what will feel different.
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GTA 6 is not out, so nobody has played it and we have not scored it. This page does not predict whether you will like it - it finds games that test you the way your three favourites do.
Open-world action games with a lawless or crime-ridden setting - a city, a frontier or an island - where you decide where to go and what to do next. Crime-city games come first, then cities with a hero, then chaos sandboxes, then frontiers and wastelands.
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The series this page is named for, and the one Grand Theft Auto game listed here: a city built to be misbehaved in, with driving, gunplay and heists in one open world.
What feels different: It is the baseline for the rest of the list. On your own, the test is mostly driving and shooting rather than out-thinking anyone.
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A loud crime sandbox where the fun is escalation: you take over a city, and the game keeps handing you sillier ways to do it.
What feels different: It plays everything for laughs, so expect less grit than a crime drama.
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An undercover cop works his way into Hong Kong's gangs - crime-city storytelling with a lived-in map to drive and brawl through.
What feels different: Fights are mostly close-range martial arts rather than gunfights.
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San Francisco as a toy box: hack, sneak or shoot your way through jobs in whatever order you like.
What feels different: Hacking and stealth carry more of the play than a straight firefight.
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A revenge story in a 1960s Southern city, built around taking it over from rival gangs one district at a time.
What feels different: A slower, more repetitive loop than GTA, and a darker tone with little of its comedy.
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A dense, neon crime drama set in 1980s Japan, with a city full of side stories to wander into.
What feels different: Street brawling and menus rather than driving and gunplay, and the mood swings between grim crime and absurd comedy.
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Swinging across a full city is the draw, with crime to stop and side tasks filling the streets between story missions.
What feels different: It has a superhero's tone: you stop the crooks rather than join them.
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A walled-off slice of a city to prowl at night, mixing open-world traversal with a lot of fighting and stealth.
What feels different: Built around one hero's gadgets and combat, so the freedom is in how you approach each encounter, not in what you can drive or buy.
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Pure sandbox mayhem: an island under a dictator to blow up, with a grappling hook and a parachute to cross it.
What feels different: There is no crime-drama story to speak of. The point is the chaos.
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A city overrun by infection and soldiers, and a monstrous protagonist free to tear through both.
What feels different: Superpowered brawling replaces guns and cars, and the tone is bleak rather than satirical.
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Rockstar's outlaw epic: a gang, a vast frontier and a world that keeps running whether or not you are watching.
What feels different: Slower and heavier than GTA. It wants you to settle into its pace rather than rush from mission to mission.
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Pirates, ports and open sea to roam, taking prizes however you like.
What feels different: Sailing and stealth sit alongside the combat, and there are no car chases.
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An island run by a pirate warlord, with outposts to take over any way you like.
What feels different: A shooter at heart: gunplay and hunting drive it more than driving or city life.
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A hostile open wasteland where your car is both your home base and your weapon.
What feels different: Vehicle combat and scavenging replace city crime.
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An open world of roads and camps, ridden on a motorbike, where you pick fights with scavengers and the infected.
What feels different: A survival game: supplies run short, so it plays tenser than GTA.
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A Bolivia run by a drug cartel, to take apart region by region in whatever order and manner you choose.
What feels different: A tactical shooter: planning an approach and aiming matter more than driving or style.
Gamorium's scores found the candidates - open-world action games that test the hands moderately and almost never test reads against another player - and a person then checked each one against the claim above, cutting any whose own entry contradicted it. Every game here can be played alone; Ghost Recon Wildlands also has co-op. The list is popular, still-sold games only. We have not checked which platforms each game is on, so look at the store page for yours. Game data and cover art are from IGDB.