Games like Red Dead Online
If Red Dead Online is your kind of game, the closest matches are Red Dead Redemption 2, The Elder Scrolls Online: Necrom and The Legend of California — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, challenging and contemplative. Each pick is ranked by what players of this game also play, shared genres and tags, and review-mined similarity — not a generic popularity list.
Get personalized picks →Red Dead Online is an action-adventure multiplayer game set in frontier America, developed and published by Rockstar Games as a standalone evolution of their single-player Western. The open world supports online cooperation with role-specialization, letting players pursue paths like trading and collecting, alongside bounty hunting, hunting, fishing, and moonshine running. Reviewers describe the experience as atmospheric and contemplative, noting that attention to detail elevates immersion in the Wild West setting. The game supports modding and private lobby management, the latter allowing players to explore without interference. Currently priced at $9.99, it holds an 82 percent positive rating from over 30,000 Steam reviews and is marked as playable on Steam Deck.
About Red Dead Online: Step into the vibrant, ever-evolving world of Red Dead Online and experience life in frontier America. Chase down bounties, battle outlaw gangs and other players, hunt, fish and trade, search for exotic treasures, run Moonshine, and much more to discover in a world of astounding depth and detail.
Players who liked Red Dead Online also play
Steam players who put hours into Red Dead Online also tend to own these titles — a signal called collaborative filtering. imho.run cross-references millions of library ownership patterns to surface games whose real audiences overlap, regardless of whether their genre tags match.
Red Dead Redemption 2
WHY THIS
Shares open world exploration and an atmospheric mood with Red Dead Online.
Top pick for Red Dead Online fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Red Dead Online.
Arthur Morgan and the Van der Linde Gang are outlaws on the run. With federal agents and bounty hunters massing on their heels, the gang must rob, steal, and fight their way across the rugged heartland in order to survive.
The Elder Scrolls Online: Necrom
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Red Dead Online fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Red Dead Online.
Traverse the Telvanni Peninsula in Morrowind and preserve secrets ascribed to the unfathomable realms of Apocrypha. Unlock the runic power of a brand-new class - the Arcanist - and fight to uphold reality itself.
The Legend of California
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Red Dead Online fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Red Dead Online.
The Legend of California is an open world, action-survival shooter set on the mythical Island of California during the gold rush era. Explore a vast, untamed frontier and forge your legacy alone or with friends.
The Elder Scrolls® Online
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Red Dead Online.
Ranked #4 for Red Dead Online fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Red Dead Online.
Every legend starts somewhere and in The Elder Scrolls Online, it starts with you. Join millions of players in an online, fantasy RPG set in a vast living Elder Scrolls world.
Tom Clancy’s The Division® 2
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Red Dead Online.
Ranked #5 for Red Dead Online fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Red Dead Online.
Join The Division in this open world tactical shooter. Engage in intense cover-based combat, team up with friends, and build your ultimate agent to save Washington, D.C.
Hunt: Showdown 1896
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Red Dead Online.
Ranked #6 for Red Dead Online fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Red Dead Online.
Hunt: Showdown 1896 is the brutally rewarding extraction shooter. Track twisted monsters and overcome ruthless PvP. Take bounties in corrupted backwaters lost to history. With a team, you might survive. Die with nothing or get out with everything.
Deadside
WHY THIS
Shares open world exploration and an immersive mood with Red Dead Online.
Ranked #7 for Red Dead Online fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Red Dead Online.
An Open World Survival Shooter blending hardcore PVP and PVE action. Secure precious loot in safe zones or build your own fortress in the wild. With intense gunfights, stunning visuals, and performance smooth enough for any system, the challenge awaits!
New World: Aeternum
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Red Dead Online.
Ranked #8 for Red Dead Online fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Red Dead Online.
Experience a thrilling action RPG set on the supernatural island of Aeternum. Forge your destiny on an adventure filled with danger and opportunity.
Reviewers mention these as similar to Red Dead Online
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Red Dead Redemption 2
WHY THIS
Shares open world exploration and an atmospheric mood with Red Dead Online.
Reviewers of Red Dead Online cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Adventure with Red Dead Online.
Arthur Morgan and the Van der Linde Gang are outlaws on the run. With federal agents and bounty hunters massing on their heels, the gang must rob, steal, and fight their way across the rugged heartland in order to survive.
Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Red Dead Online cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with Red Dead Online.
From the creators of Batman: Arkham, Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League is a genre-defying third-person action shooter where the ultimate band of misfits must do the impossible: Kill the Justice League.
STAR WARS Jedi: Fallen Order™
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Red Dead Online.
Reviewers of Red Dead Online cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Adventure with Red Dead Online.
A galaxy-spanning adventure awaits in Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order, a 3rd person action-adventure title from Respawn. An abandoned Padawan must complete his training, develop new powerful Force abilities, and master the art of the lightsaber - all while staying one step ahead of the Empire.
The Last of Us™ Part II Remastered
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Red Dead Online.
Reviewers of Red Dead Online cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Adventure with Red Dead Online.
Experience the winner of over 300 Game of the Year awards, now on PC. Discover Ellie and Abby’s story with graphical enhancements, gameplay modes like the roguelike survival experience No Return, and more.
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Red Dead Online.
Reviewers of Red Dead Online cross-mention this title as a similar play.
You are Geralt of Rivia, mercenary monster slayer. Before you stands a war-torn, monster-infested continent you can explore at will. Your current contract? Tracking down Ciri — the Child of Prophecy, a living weapon that can alter the shape of the world.
Hollow Knight
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Red Dead Online.
Reviewers of Red Dead Online cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Adventure with Red Dead Online.
Forge your own path in Hollow Knight! An epic action adventure through a vast ruined kingdom of insects and heroes. Explore twisting caverns, battle tainted creatures and befriend bizarre bugs, all in a classic, hand-drawn 2D style.
Pathologic 2
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Red Dead Online cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with Red Dead Online.
Pathologic 2 is a groundbreaking open-world horror RPG. Resist the plague. Make medicine. Heal people. Perform an autopsy. Trade to get what you need. Fight and kill if necessary. Survive. Struggle with an outbreak in a secluded rural town that is rapidly turning into hell.
Assassin's Creed® Odyssey
WHY THIS
Shares open world exploration and an immersive mood with Red Dead Online.
Reviewers of Red Dead Online cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Adventure with Red Dead Online.
In this action-adventure game, set sail for Ancient Greece to alter its fate. Fight in visceral battles on land and sea, shape your destiny from outcast to legend, and uncover secrets of your past.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Red Dead Online at current Steam store prices.
Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Red Dead Online on Steam right now. Shares Action with Red Dead Online.
Mow down thousands of night creatures and survive until dawn! Vampire Survivors is a gothic horror casual game with rogue-lite elements, where your choices can allow you to quickly snowball against the hundreds of monsters that get thrown at you. Be the bullet hell!
Titanfall® 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~55% under Red Dead Online on Steam right now. Shares Action with Red Dead Online.
Respawn Entertainment gives you the most advanced titan technology in its new, single player campaign & multiplayer experience. Combine & conquer with new titans & pilots, deadlier weapons, & customization and progression systems that help you and your titan flow as one unstoppable killing force.
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~90% under Red Dead Online on Steam right now. Shares Action and Adventure with Red Dead Online.
Live a week in the life of "The POSTAL Dude"; a hapless everyman just trying to check off some chores. Buying milk, returning an overdue library book, getting Gary Coleman's autograph, what could possibly go wrong?
Buckshot Roulette
WHY THIS
Priced ~70% under Red Dead Online on Steam right now. Shares Action with Red Dead Online.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
Brotato
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Red Dead Online on Steam right now. Shares Action with Red Dead Online.
Brotato is a top-down arena shooter roguelite where you play a potato wielding up to 6 weapons at a time to fight off hordes of aliens. Choose from a variety of traits and items to create unique builds and survive until help arrives.
Your Only Move Is HUSTLE
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Red Dead Online on Steam right now. Shares Action with Red Dead Online.
Master your technique, execute flashy combos, and outsmart opponents across the world, frame-by-frame. Slow down the clock to fine-tune your fighting style in this innovative, turn-based combat simulator. Pulverize your friends and choreograph spectacular fight scenes. No training mode required.
GRIS
WHY THIS
Priced ~63% under Red Dead Online on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Red Dead Online.
Gris is a hopeful young girl lost in her own world, dealing with a painful experience in her life. Her journey through sorrow is manifested in her dress, which grants new abilities to better navigate her faded reality.
The Test
WHY THIS
Priced ~80% under Red Dead Online on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Red Dead Online.
You will answer a series of questions that will reveal truths from deep within. These questions may make you uncomfortable, but with great knowledge comes great sacrifice. Can you make it all the way through The Test, and if you do, are you sure you want the answers you seek?
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Doki Doki Literature Club!
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
The Literature Club is full of cute girls! Will you write the way into their heart? This game is not suitable for children or those who are easily disturbed.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with Red Dead Online.
Episode 1 now FREE! Life is Strange is an award-winning and critically acclaimed episodic adventure game that allows the player to rewind time and affect the past, present and future.
Ultimate Custom Night
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Red Dead Online.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Bongo Cat
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Bongo cat needs your help. Bongo cat needz more hatz!!! Every time you press a key, Bongo cat will punch your taskbar. Type, click, play, work to collect more points. Which hats will you find?
ENA: Dream BBQ
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Red Dead Online.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with Red Dead Online.
Explore the abandoned childhood wonder of Indigo Park! Guided by Rambley the Raccoon, help restore power to the destroyed amusement park while you run from the reason it shut down.
STRAFTAT
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Red Dead Online.
STRAFTAT is a 1v1/2v2 ONLINE first person SHOOTER with quick rounds in over 350 MAPS ; Including all WEAPONS, proximity chat and 4 players FFA.
The Looker
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
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More from Rockstar Games
Other recommendable Steam games by Rockstar Games, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
Red Dead Redemption 2
WHY THIS
Shares open world exploration and an atmospheric mood with Red Dead Online.
Another title from Rockstar Games, the studio behind Red Dead Online. Shares Action and Adventure with Red Dead Online.
Arthur Morgan and the Van der Linde Gang are outlaws on the run. With federal agents and bounty hunters massing on their heels, the gang must rob, steal, and fight their way across the rugged heartland in order to survive.
Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Red Dead Online.
Another title from Rockstar Games, the studio behind Red Dead Online. Shares Action and Adventure with Red Dead Online.
Five years ago Carl Johnson escaped from the pressures of life in Los Santos, San Andreas... a city tearing itself apart with gang trouble, drugs and corruption. Where filmstars and millionaires do their best to avoid the dealers and gangbangers. Now, it's the early 90s. Carl's got to go home.
Grand Theft Auto: Vice City
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Red Dead Online.
Another title from Rockstar Games, the studio behind Red Dead Online. Shares Action and Adventure with Red Dead Online.
Welcome to Vice City. Welcome to the 1980s. From the decade of big hair, excess and pastel suits comes a story of one man's rise to the top of the criminal pile.
Red Dead Redemption
WHY THIS
Shares open world exploration and an atmospheric mood with Red Dead Online.
Another title from Rockstar Games, the studio behind Red Dead Online. Shares Action with Red Dead Online.
Experience the story of former outlaw John Marston as he tracks down the last remaining members of the notorious Van der Linde Gang in the PC debut of the critically acclaimed predecessor to Red Dead Redemption 2.
Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas – The Definitive Edition
WHY THIS
Another title from Rockstar Games, the studio behind Red Dead Online. Shares Action and Adventure with Red Dead Online.
Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas: It’s the early ’90s. After a couple of cops frame him for homicide, Carl ‘CJ’ Johnson is forced on a journey that takes him across the entire state of San Andreas, to save his family and to take control of the streets.
Grand Theft Auto III
WHY THIS
Shares open world exploration and an atmospheric mood with Red Dead Online.
Another title from Rockstar Games, the studio behind Red Dead Online. Shares Action and Adventure with Red Dead Online.
Welcome to Liberty City. Where it all began. With stellar voice acting, a darkly comic storyline, a stunning soundtrack and revolutionary open-world gameplay, Grand Theft Auto III is the game that defined the open world genre for a generation.
Grand Theft Auto: Vice City – The Definitive Edition
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Red Dead Online.
Another title from Rockstar Games, the studio behind Red Dead Online. Shares Action and Adventure with Red Dead Online.
Welcome to the 1980s. From the decade of big hair and pastel suits comes the story of one man's rise to the top of the criminal pile. Grand Theft Auto returns with Tommy Vercetti’s tale of betrayal and revenge in a neon-soaked tropical town full of excess and brimming with possibilities.
Grand Theft Auto III – The Definitive Edition
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Red Dead Online.
Another title from Rockstar Games, the studio behind Red Dead Online. Shares Action and Adventure with Red Dead Online.
It all starts in Liberty City. With revolutionary freedom to go anywhere and jack anyone, Grand Theft Auto III puts the center of the criminal underworld at your fingertips, if you have enough guts to take it.
Frequently asked about Red Dead Online
- Does Red Dead Online run on Steam Deck?
- Red Dead Online is rated Playable on Steam Deck — it runs, but expect some manual adjustments (control remapping, text size, or graphics settings) for the best experience.
- How much does Red Dead Online cost?
- Red Dead Online is listed on Steam at 9.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- Does Red Dead Online have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Red Dead Online supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Online PvP, Online Co-op).
- What games are most similar to Red Dead Online?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Red Dead Online are Red Dead Redemption 2, The Elder Scrolls Online: Necrom, The Legend of California.
- Who developed Red Dead Online?
- Red Dead Online was developed by Rockstar Games.
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