Computed from player tags · Not ranked by quality
24 games like Sleeping Dogs (2026)
Every game below overlaps with Sleeping Dogs on things players said about it rather than on our opinion of what feels alike. Each entry shows what it matched on, so you can throw out the ones matching on the part you did not care about.
The short version
- Closest match: Mafia II (Classic), which both open world, crime, story-rich and atmospheric.
- Sleeping Dogs is tagged Open World, Action, Martial Arts, Third Person, Crime, Adventure, Fighting, Singleplayer by Steam players. Those tags are what the matching runs on.
- 24 games qualify, each with at least fifty player reviews behind its sentiment figure.
How these were matched
Steam tags carry the most weight, because players apply them and they describe how a game feels rather than how it was filed. Souls-like, Atmospheric and Cozy exist as tags and as nothing else, which is exactly the vocabulary this question needs. Formal genres count for less, themes and a shared studio for more.
Tags carried by more than a third of the catalogue are thrown out before matching. Nearly everything is tagged Singleplayer, so matching on it is matching on nothing. That cutoff is computed from the catalogue rather than fixed, so it moves as the catalogue grows.
All 24, closest first
- 1
Mafia II (Classic)
Why it matched: both open world, crime, story-rich and atmospheric; shares 9 player tags including Crime, Story Rich and Third Person.
Vito Scaletta has started to make a name for himself on the streets of Empire Bay as someone who can be trusted to get a job done. Together with his buddy Joe, he is working to prove himself to the Mafia, quickly escalating up the family ladder with crimes of larger reward, status and consequence… the life as a wise guy isn’t quite as...
Mafia II (Classic) at a glance Released 2011 Studio 2K Czech Player sentiment 94% positive of 58,640 Price $29.99 CrimeStory RichThird PersonThird-Person ShooterShooterAutomobile SimGreat SoundtrackDriving
- 2
Grand Theft Auto: Episodes from Liberty City
Why it matched: both open world, crime, story-rich and atmospheric; shares 9 player tags including Automobile Sim, Third Person and Crime.
Grand Theft Auto: Episodes from Liberty City includes both The Lost and Damned and The Ballad of Gay Tony together and does not require a copy of the original Grand Theft Auto IV to play.
Grand Theft Auto: Episodes from Liberty City at a glance Released 2010 Studio Rockstar North / Toronto Player sentiment 74% positive of 10,072 Price Not listed Automobile SimThird PersonCrimeShooterSandboxDrivingThird-Person ShooterGreat Soundtrack
- 3
Kane & Lynch 2: Dog Days
Why it matched: both open world, crime, story-rich and atmospheric; shares 7 player tags including Third-Person Shooter, Crime and Violent; published by the same company.
Pure adrenaline of non-stop action in Single Player, Online Co-op and Multiplayer. Double the pleasure and mayhem with new multiplayer DLCs! (click for details)
Kane & Lynch 2: Dog Days at a glance Released 2010 Studio IO Interactive Player sentiment 67% positive of 9,765 Price $9.99 Third-Person ShooterCrimeViolentShooterThird PersonStory RichGreat Soundtrack
- 4
Just Cause 4 Reloaded
Why it matched: both open world, crime, story-rich and atmospheric; shares 7 player tags including Sandbox, Third-Person Shooter and Shooter; published by the same company.
Rogue agent Rico Rodriguez journeys to Solis, a huge South American world home of conflict, oppression and extreme weather conditions. Strap into your wingsuit, equip your fully customizable grappling hook, and get ready to bring the thunder!
Just Cause 4 Reloaded at a glance Released 2018 Studio Avalanche Studios Player sentiment 62% positive of 32,247 Price Not listed SandboxThird-Person ShooterShooterViolentStory RichDrivingThird Person
- 5
Mafia III
Why it matched: both open world, crime, story-rich and atmospheric; shares 8 player tags including Crime, Story Rich and Third Person.
After Lincoln Clay's surrogate family, the black mob, is betrayed and killed by the Italian Mafia, Lincoln builds a new family and blazes a path of revenge through the Mafioso responsible.
Mafia III at a glance Released 2016 Studio Aspyr Player sentiment 57% positive of 64,036 Price $29.99 CrimeStory RichThird PersonViolentShooterGreat SoundtrackThird-Person ShooterSandbox
- 6
Mafia III: Definitive Edition
Why it matched: both open world, crime, story-rich and atmospheric; shares 8 player tags including Crime, Story Rich and Third Person.
After Lincoln Clay's surrogate family, the black mob, is betrayed and killed by the Italian Mafia, Lincoln builds a new family and blazes a path of revenge through the Mafioso responsible.
Mafia III: Definitive Edition at a glance Released 2020 Studio Hangar 13 Player sentiment 57% positive of 64,063 Price $29.99 CrimeStory RichThird PersonViolentShooterGreat SoundtrackThird-Person ShooterSandbox
- 7
Mafia
Why it matched: both open world, crime, story-rich and atmospheric; shares 7 player tags including Story Rich, Crime and Great Soundtrack.
It’s 1930. After an inadvertent brush with the mafia, cabdriver Tommy Angelo is reluctantly thrust into the world of organized crime. Initially, he is uneasy about falling in with the Salieri family, but soon the rewards become too big to ignore.
Mafia at a glance Released 2002 Studio Not recorded Player sentiment 88% positive of 16,301 Price $14.99 Story RichCrimeGreat SoundtrackThird PersonViolentThird-Person ShooterShooter
- 8
Mafia: Definitive Edition
Why it matched: both open world, crime, story-rich and atmospheric; shares 7 player tags including Crime, Story Rich and Third-Person Shooter.
An inadvertent brush with the mob thrusts cabdriver Tommy Angelo into the world of organized crime. Initially uneasy about falling in with the Salieri family, the rewards become too big to ignore.
Mafia: Definitive Edition at a glance Released 2020 Studio Hangar 13 Player sentiment 87% positive of 110,615 Price $39.99 CrimeStory RichThird-Person ShooterViolentThird PersonShooterGreat Soundtrack
- 9
Watch Dogs 2
Why it matched: both open world, crime, story-rich and atmospheric; shares 7 player tags including Parkour, Third Person and Shooter.
Welcome to San Francisco. Play as Marcus, a brilliant young hacker, and join the most notorious hacker group, DedSec. Your objective: execute the biggest hack of history.
Watch Dogs 2 at a glance Released 2016 Studio Ubisoft Romania Player sentiment 82% positive of 101,471 Price $49.99 ParkourThird PersonShooterCrimeThird-Person ShooterStory RichSandbox
- 10
Watch_Dogs 2
Why it matched: both open world, crime, story-rich and atmospheric; shares 7 player tags including Parkour, Third Person and Shooter.
Welcome to San Francisco. Play as Marcus, a brilliant young hacker, and join the most notorious hacker group, DedSec. Your objective: execute the biggest hack of history.
Watch_Dogs 2 at a glance Released 2016 Studio Ubisoft Player sentiment 82% positive of 101,514 Price $49.99 ParkourThird PersonShooterCrimeThird-Person ShooterStory RichSandbox
- 11
Mafia II
Why it matched: both open world, crime, story-rich and atmospheric; shares 7 player tags including Crime, Story Rich and Violent.
War hero Vito Scaletta becomes entangled with the mob in hopes of paying his father’s debts. Vito works to prove himself, climbing the family ladder with crimes of larger reward and consequence.
Mafia II at a glance Released 2010 Studio Not recorded Player sentiment 74% positive of 38,540 Price $29.99 CrimeStory RichViolentThird PersonThird-Person ShooterShooterGreat Soundtrack
- 12
Mafia II: Definitive Edition
Why it matched: both open world, crime, story-rich and atmospheric; shares 7 player tags including Crime, Story Rich and Violent.
War hero Vito Scaletta becomes entangled with the mob in hopes of paying his father’s debts. Vito works to prove himself, climbing the family ladder with crimes of larger reward and consequence.
Mafia II: Definitive Edition at a glance Released 2020 Studio Hangar 13 Player sentiment 74% positive of 38,558 Price $29.99 CrimeStory RichViolentThird PersonThird-Person ShooterShooterGreat Soundtrack
- 13
Rise of the Tomb Raider
Why it matched: both open world, story-rich and atmospheric; shares 7 player tags including Third Person, Story Rich and Third-Person Shooter; published by the same company.
Rise of the Tomb Raider: 20 Year Celebration includes the base game and Season Pass featuring all-new content. Explore Croft Manor in the new “Blood Ties” story, then defend it against a zombie invasion in “Lara’s Nightmare”.
Rise of the Tomb Raider at a glance Released 2015 Studio Crystal Dynamics Player sentiment 94% positive of 155,369 Price $4.49 Third PersonStory RichThird-Person ShooterParkourShooterRPGGreat Soundtrack
- 14
Yakuza 0
Why it matched: both open world, crime, story-rich and atmospheric; shares 6 player tags including Story Rich, Great Soundtrack and Crime.
SEGA’s legendary Japanese series finally comes to PC. Fight like hell through Tokyo and Osaka as junior yakuza Kiryu and Majima. Take a front row seat to 1980s life in Japan in an experience unlike anything else in video gaming, with uncapped framerates and 4K resolutions. A legend is born.
Yakuza 0 at a glance Released 2018 Studio Ryu Ga Gotoku Studio Player sentiment 95% positive of 77,742 Price Not listed Story RichGreat SoundtrackCrimeRPGViolentThird Person
- 15
Yakuza Kiwami
Why it matched: both open world, crime, story-rich and atmospheric; shares 6 player tags including Story Rich, RPG and Crime.
SEGA’s critically-acclaimed entry that started a legend. Become Kazuma Kiryu, an up-and-coming yakuza who takes the fall for the murder of a crime boss, only to emerge from prison ten years later to a changed world. Remastered from the ground up, now in 4K and uncapped framerates on PC.
Yakuza Kiwami at a glance Released 2019 Studio Ryu Ga Gotoku Studio Player sentiment 93% positive of 23,315 Price Not listed Story RichRPGCrimeGreat SoundtrackViolentThird Person
- 16
Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain
Why it matched: both open world, crime, story-rich and atmospheric; shares 6 player tags including Story Rich, Third Person and Great Soundtrack.
Ushering in a new era for the METAL GEAR franchise with cutting-edge technology powered by the Fox Engine, METAL GEAR SOLID V: The Phantom Pain, will provide players a first-rate gaming experience as they are offered tactical freedom to carry out open-world missions.
Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain at a glance Released 2015 Studio Not recorded Player sentiment 92% positive of 107,873 Price $19.99 Story RichThird PersonGreat SoundtrackThird-Person ShooterShooterSandbox
- 17
Shadow of the Tomb Raider
Why it matched: both open world, crime, story-rich and atmospheric; shares 5 player tags including Third Person, Story Rich and Violent; published by the same company.
As Lara Croft races to save the world from a Maya apocalypse, she must become the Tomb Raider she is destined to be.
Shadow of the Tomb Raider at a glance Released 2018 Studio Crystal Dynamics Player sentiment 85% positive of 87,978 Price $5.99 Third PersonStory RichViolentShooterGreat Soundtrack
- 18
Star Wars Outlaws
Why it matched: both open world, crime, story-rich and atmospheric; shares 6 player tags including Third Person, Shooter and Third-Person Shooter.
Experience the first-ever open world Star Wars™ game and explore distinct locations across the galaxy, both iconic and new. Risk it all as scoundrel Kay Vess, seeking freedom and the means to start a new life.
Star Wars Outlaws at a glance Released 2024 Studio Not recorded Player sentiment 72% positive of 12,488 Price $69.99 Third PersonShooterThird-Person ShooterStory RichRPGParkour
- 19
Max Payne
Why it matched: both crime, story-rich and atmospheric; shares 7 player tags including Third-Person Shooter, Story Rich and Third Person.
Max Payne is a man with nothing to lose in the violent, cold urban night. A fugitive undercover cop framed for murder, hunted by cops and the mob, Max is a man with his back against the wall, fighting a battle he cannot hope to win. Prepare for pain…
Max Payne at a glance Released 2001 Studio Not recorded Player sentiment 89% positive of 15,818 Price $3.49 Third-Person ShooterStory RichThird PersonShooterGreat SoundtrackCrimeViolent
- 20
Hitman: Contracts
Why it matched: both open world, crime and atmospheric; shares 7 player tags including Third Person, Great Soundtrack and Shooter.
Enter the world of a HITMAN - a world of crime, sin and greed. Delve into the mind of Agent 47 and encounter his greatest adversaries, completing the work that made him so brutally efficient and shaped him as an assassin. Eliminate your targets by any means necessary. There are no rules... only the contract, signed in blood.
Hitman: Contracts at a glance Released 2014 Studio Io-Interactive A/S Player sentiment 87% positive of 3,658 Price $8.99 Third PersonGreat SoundtrackShooterCrimeThird-Person ShooterSandboxViolent
- 21
Hitman 2: Silent Assassin
Why it matched: both crime, story-rich and atmospheric; shares 7 player tags including Third Person, Shooter and Sandbox.
Enter the realm of a retired assassin, forced back into action by treason. You may be a hired killer but you still have a sense of loyalty and justice. Visit the dark recesses of a world corrupted by crime, greed, degradation and dishonor. And a past that catches up with you.
Hitman 2: Silent Assassin at a glance Released 2002 Studio Not recorded Player sentiment 82% positive of 4,890 Price $8.99 Third PersonShooterSandboxGreat SoundtrackCrimeThird-Person ShooterStory Rich
- 22
Fallout 4
Why it matched: both open world, story-rich and atmospheric; shares 7 player tags including RPG, Shooter and Story Rich.
From Bethesda Game Studios, the award-winning creators of Starfield and The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, comes Fallout 4. A landmark in open-world RPG design and winner of over 200 ‘Best Of’ honors, including the DICE and BAFTA Game of the Year.
Fallout 4 at a glance Released 2015 Studio Bethesda Game Studios Player sentiment 81% positive of 428,604 Price $19.99 RPGShooterStory RichSandboxGreat SoundtrackThird PersonThird-Person Shooter
- 23
Assassin's Creed Origins
Why it matched: both open world, crime, story-rich and atmospheric; shares 5 player tags including RPG, Parkour and Third Person.
Explore Ancient Egypt in this action-adventure game. Battle powerful enemies, unveil conspiracies, and discover the origin story of the Assassin’s Brotherhood.
Assassin's Creed Origins at a glance Released 2017 Studio Ubisoft Montreal Player sentiment 86% positive of 128,629 Price $59.99 RPGParkourThird PersonStory RichGreat Soundtrack
- 24
Murdered: Soul Suspect
Why it matched: both open world, crime, story-rich and atmospheric; shares 4 player tags including Crime, Story Rich and Third Person; published by the same company.
MURDERED: SOUL SUSPECT™ takes players into a whole new realm of mystery where the case is personal and the clues just out of reach, challenging gamers to solve the hardest case of all… their own murder.
Murdered: Soul Suspect at a glance Released 2014 Studio Airtight Games Player sentiment 86% positive of 17,391 Price $19.99 CrimeStory RichThird PersonRPG
Common questions
What game is most like Sleeping Dogs?
Mafia II (Classic), on the evidence we have. It both open world, crime, story-rich and atmospheric. That is a statement about overlap, not a promise you will like it as much: two games can share every tag and still feel different to play.
How is "similar to Sleeping Dogs" decided?
By overlap on the tags Steam players applied to each game, the formal genres, the themes both sit in, and whether the same studio made them. Tags carry the most weight because players write them, so they describe how a game feels rather than how it was filed. Tags carried by more than a third of the catalogue are ignored: matching on "Singleplayer" is matching on nothing. Every entry below shows exactly what it matched on.
Are these ranked by quality?
No. They are ordered by how much they overlap with Sleeping Dogs. Where two games overlap equally, the better received one goes first, but that only moves a game a place or two. Each entry shows its own player sentiment so you can weigh that separately.
Do you get paid for these recommendations?
No. The order is computed from tag and genre overlap and nothing else. No placement here can be bought, and a game appearing high on this page is a statement about resemblance rather than an endorsement.