Games like Rise of the Triad
If Rise of the Triad is your kind of game, the closest matches are BLOODSHOT, Turbo Overkill and Bullet Speed — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its tactical positioning matters, writing quality is exceptional and nostalgic. 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 →Rise of the Triad is a 2013 remake developed by Interceptor Entertainment and published by Apogee Entertainment. This action game delivers an old-school first-person shooter experience with a medium-length campaign designed for solo players seeking a hard challenge. The experience combines weapon varieties and dismemberment mechanics with platforming sections and puzzle-solving sequences, punctuated by boss-fights throughout. Reviewers describe the atmosphere as nostalgic and retro, noting that tactical positioning matters in combat encounters. The game holds a 67 on Metacritic and achieved approximately 68% positive reviews from over 1,400 Steam users, priced at $14.99.
About Rise of the Triad: Apogee Software and Interceptor Entertainment proudly present the rebirth of the cult-classic first-person shooter, “Rise of the Triad”. Bigger, better and more ludicrous than ever before.
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BLOODSHOT
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Top pick for Rise of the Triad fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Rise of the Triad.
Player Speed = Bullet Speed. Move as fast as you can with sliding, dodging and bunny-hopping to outmanoeuvre your opponents and blast them into an early grave.
Turbo Overkill
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Second-strongest match for Rise of the Triad fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Rise of the Triad.
Enter Paradise as Johnny Turbo—half-metal, half-human, all-murder machine. Clean up the streets with a chainsaw leg, 15+ weapons and your hovercar as you battle the rogue AI Syn, rival bounty hunters and cyberpunks aplenty. Apogee’s most outrageous FPS since Duke Nukem 3D. Good hunting, Sir!
Bullet Speed
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Third-strongest match for Rise of the Triad fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Rise of the Triad.
Bullet speed is a lightning fast paced arena shooter seeing blood fueled robotic avatars cracked on adrenaline shooting each other. Move fast. Kill with style. Repeat.
Bloodspill
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Ranked #4 for Rise of the Triad fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Rise of the Triad.
Bloodspill is a fast-paced, pvp retro fps with one hit combat, featuring classic gamemodes like deathmatch, capture the flag and conquest!
Serious Sam Classics: Revolution
WHY THIS
Shares a retro mood with Rise of the Triad.
Ranked #5 for Rise of the Triad fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Rise of the Triad.
Serious Sam is a high-adrenaline arcade-action shooter heavily focused on frantic action. In a world where cyberpunk meets fantasy-fiction and advanced technology is mixed with black magic and psycho-powers, Sam travels through four beautiful worlds, confronting countless foes on his way to Mental's base.
Ion Fury
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Shares a retro mood with Rise of the Triad.
Ranked #6 for Rise of the Triad fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Rise of the Triad.
3D Realms, creators of Duke Nukem 3D, Prey, and Max Payne, team up with Voidpoint to bring back the legendary Build Engine, famous for classic shooters like Duke Nukem 3D, Shadow Warrior, and Blood. Fast-paced FPS combat across huge, secret-packed levels. Ion Fury is the real deal!
Painkiller Hell & Damnation
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Ranked #7 for Rise of the Triad fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Rise of the Triad.
Evil has returned! Demonic powers are manifesting themselves as a myriad of dark creatures, fighting over the fates of imprisoned souls caught in Purgatory.
DOOM + DOOM II
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Shares a nostalgic mood with Rise of the Triad.
Ranked #8 for Rise of the Triad fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Rise of the Triad.
Developed by id Software, and originally released in 1993 and 1994, the definitive, newly enhanced versions of DOOM + DOOM II are available as a combined product.
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Unreal Tournament: Game of the Year Edition
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Shares a nostalgic mood with Rise of the Triad.
Reviewers of Rise of the Triad cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with Rise of the Triad.
Unreal Tournament is the original King of the Hill in the frag-or-be-fragged multiplayer gaming world. As the undisputed 1999 Game of the Year, Unreal Tournament grabbed the first person shooter genre by the soiled seat of its pants and knocked it around the room with its never-before-seen graphics, brutal edge-of-your-seat gameplay and...
Quake
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Shares a retro mood with Rise of the Triad.
Reviewers of Rise of the Triad cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with Rise of the Triad.
Developed by the award-winning id Software, Quake® is the ground-breaking, original dark fantasy first-person shooter that inspires today’s retro-style FPS games. With Quake (Enhanced), experience the authentic, updated, and visually enhanced version of the original.
POSTAL 2
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Reviewers of Rise of the Triad cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with Rise of the Triad.
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?
Shadow Warrior
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Reviewers of Rise of the Triad cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with Rise of the Triad.
Shadow Warrior is a bold reimagining of the classic 3D Realms’ shooter from independent developer Flying Wild Hog (Hard Reset) starring the legendary and quick-witted warrior Lo Wang.
Shadow Warrior 2
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Reviewers of Rise of the Triad cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with Rise of the Triad.
Shadow Warrior 2 is the stunning evolution of Flying Wild Hog’s offbeat first-person shooter starring the brash warrior Lo Wang, who must again wield a devastating combination of guns, blades, magic and wit to strike down the demonic legions overwhelming the world.
Rise of the Triad: Dark War
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Shares a retro mood with Rise of the Triad.
Reviewers of Rise of the Triad cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with Rise of the Triad.
You are part of an elite group of operatives called HUNT (High-risk United Nations Taskforce), and you must stop a maniac cult leader from killing millions of people. You are equipped with high-tech weaponry and magical instruments that defy description to invade the monastery and stop the madness.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Rise of the Triad at current Steam store prices.
Vampire Survivors
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Priced ~67% under Rise of the Triad on Steam right now. Shares Action with Rise of the Triad.
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!
R.E.P.O.
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Priced ~53% under Rise of the Triad on Steam right now. Shares Action with Rise of the Triad.
An online co-op horror game with up to 6 players. Locate valuable, fully physics-based objects and handle them with care as you retrieve and extract to satisfy your creator's desires.
PEAK
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Priced ~47% under Rise of the Triad on Steam right now. Shares Action with Rise of the Triad.
PEAK is a co-op climbing game where the slightest mistake can spell your doom. Either solo or as a group of lost nature scouts, your only hope of rescue from a mysterious island is to scale the mountain at its center. Do you have what it takes to reach the PEAK?
Titanfall® 2
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Priced ~70% under Rise of the Triad on Steam right now. Shares Action with Rise of the Triad.
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.
Noita
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Priced ~47% under Rise of the Triad on Steam right now. Shares Action with Rise of the Triad.
Noita is a magical action roguelite set in a world where every pixel is physically simulated. Fight, explore, melt, burn, freeze and evaporate your way through the procedurally generated world using spells you've created yourself.
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~93% under Rise of the Triad on Steam right now. Shares Action with Rise of the Triad.
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
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Priced ~80% under Rise of the Triad on Steam right now. Shares Action with Rise of the Triad.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
Brotato
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Priced ~67% under Rise of the Triad on Steam right now. Shares Action with Rise of the Triad.
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.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Doki Doki Literature Club!
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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.
Ultimate Custom Night
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Rise of the Triad.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
ENA: Dream BBQ
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Rise of the Triad.
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
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Rise of the Triad.
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
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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.
Counter-Strike:Global Offensive
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Rise of the Triad.
Counter-Strike:Global Offensive (CS:GO) expands upon the team-based action gameplay that it pioneered when it was launched over 2 decades ago. CS:GO features new maps, characters, weapons, and game modes, and delivers updated versions of the classic CS content (de_dust2, etc.).
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Frequently asked about Rise of the Triad
- How much does Rise of the Triad cost?
- Rise of the Triad is listed on Steam at 14.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- Does Rise of the Triad have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Rise of the Triad supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Online PvP, PvP).
- What games are most similar to Rise of the Triad?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Rise of the Triad are BLOODSHOT, Turbo Overkill, Bullet Speed.
- Who developed Rise of the Triad?
- Rise of the Triad was developed by Interceptor Entertainment and published by Apogee Entertainment.
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