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Games like Just Cause™ 3

If Just Cause™ 3 is your kind of game, the closest matches are Just Cause 2, Just Cause 4 Reloaded and Red Faction Guerrilla Steam Edition — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its creative destruction, fluid movement mechanics and stunning visuals. 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.

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Just Cause 3 is a 2015 action-adventure game developed by Avalanche Studios and published by Square Enix. The game features grappling-hook-movement mechanics combined with open-world-exploration and vehicle-combat across a large sandbox setting. Players engage in creative-destruction throughout the environment using the game's fluid-movement-mechanics. Reviewers describe the experience as challenging and epic. The game holds an 87% positive rating from over 45,000 Steam reviews, with a Metacritic score of 74. It is currently priced at $19.99 USD and is marked as playable on Steam Deck.

About Just Cause™ 3: With over 1000 km² of complete freedom from sky to seabed, Rico Rodriguez returns to unleash chaos in the most creative and explosive ways imaginable.

2015ActionAdventure19.99 USDDeck PlayableMetacritic 74Windowsby Avalanche Studios
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Players who liked Just Cause™ 3 also play

Steam players who put hours into Just Cause™ 3 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.

  1. Just Cause 2

    WHY THIS

    Shares an epic mood with Just Cause™ 3.

    Top pick for Just Cause™ 3 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Just Cause™ 3.

    Dive into an adrenaline-fuelled free-roaming adventure with 400 square miles of rugged terrain and hundreds of weapons and vehicles.

    2010ActionAdventure14.99 USDSteam ↗
  2. Just Cause 4 Reloaded

    WHY THIS

    Shares an epic mood with Just Cause™ 3.

    Second-strongest match for Just Cause™ 3 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Just Cause™ 3.

    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!

    2018ActionAdventureDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. Red Faction Guerrilla Steam Edition

    WHY THIS

    Shares vehicle combat, open world exploration and an epic mood with Just Cause™ 3.

    Third-strongest match for Just Cause™ 3 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Just Cause™ 3.

    Set 50 years after the climactic events of the original Red Faction, Red Faction: Guerrilla allows players to take the role of an insurgent fighter with the newly re-established Red Faction movement as they battle for liberation from the oppressive Earth Defense Force.

    2009ActionDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  4. Red Faction Guerrilla Re-Mars-tered

    WHY THIS

    Shares vehicle combat and an epic mood with Just Cause™ 3.

    Ranked #4 for Just Cause™ 3 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries.

    Red Faction: Guerrilla re-defines the limits of destruction-based game-play with a huge open-world, fast-paced guerrilla-style combat, and true physics-based destruction.

    201819.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. Just Cause™ 3: Multiplayer Mod

    WHY THIS

    Shares an epic mood with Just Cause™ 3.

    Ranked #5 for Just Cause™ 3 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Just Cause™ 3.

    Just Cause 3 Multiplayer mod is a free fan-created project bringing an explosive and highly-customizable multiplayer.

    2017ActionMassively MultiplayerFreeSteam ↗
  6. Grand Theft Auto IV: The Complete Edition

    WHY THIS

    Shares open world exploration with Just Cause™ 3.

    Ranked #6 for Just Cause™ 3 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Just Cause™ 3.

    Niko Bellic, Johnny Klebitz and Luis Lopez all have one thing in common - they live in the worst city in America. Liberty City worships money and status, and is heaven for those who have them and a living nightmare for those who don't.

    2020ActionAdventure19.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. Flashing Lights - Police, Firefighting, Emergency Services (EMS) Simulator

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #7 for Just Cause™ 3 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Just Cause™ 3.

    Play solo or in up to 10-player multiplayer co-op! Flashing Lights is an open world police, firefighting and EMS simulator game with plenty of opportunity for role-play or more relaxed fun with friends. Become the law or save lives! Discover leagues of player-created mods!

    2023ActionIndieSimulation24.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. Just Cause 2: Multiplayer Mod

    WHY THIS

    Shares an epic mood with Just Cause™ 3.

    Ranked #8 for Just Cause™ 3 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Just Cause™ 3.

    JC2-MP is a project to bring multiplayer to Just Cause 2 in all of its magnificent glory. Imagine the chaos of normal Just Cause 2, then extending it out to dozens, hundreds, and even thousands of players.

    2013ActionAdventureFreeSteam ↗

Reviewers mention these as similar to Just Cause™ 3

Surfaced from review text: when other players write 'if you liked X, try Y', we catch the name and resolve it back to a Steam game.

  1. Saints Row

    WHY THIS

    Shares an epic mood with Just Cause™ 3.

    Reviewers of Just Cause™ 3 cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Adventure with Just Cause™ 3.

    Welcome to Santo Ileso, a vibrant fictional city in the American Southwest. In a world rife with crime, where lawless factions fight for power, a group of young friends embark on their own criminal venture, as they rise to the top in their bid to become Self Made.

    2023ActionAdventure29.99 USDSteam ↗
  2. Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon® Wildlands

    WHY THIS

    Shares an epic mood with Just Cause™ 3.

    Reviewers of Just Cause™ 3 cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Adventure with Just Cause™ 3.

    Create a team with up to 3 friends in Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon® Wildlands and enjoy the ultimate military shooter experience set in a massive, dangerous, and responsive open world.

    2017ActionAdventure49.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. Ghost of Tsushima DIRECTOR'S CUT

    WHY THIS

    Reviewers of Just Cause™ 3 cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Adventure with Just Cause™ 3.

    A storm is coming. Venture into the complete Ghost of Tsushima DIRECTOR’S CUT on PC; forge your own path through this open-world action adventure and uncover its hidden wonders. Brought to you by Sucker Punch Productions, Nixxes Software and PlayStation Studios.

    2024ActionAdventure59.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  4. Far Cry®

    WHY THIS

    Shares a challenging mood with Just Cause™ 3.

    Reviewers of Just Cause™ 3 cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with Just Cause™ 3.

    A tropical paradise seethes with hidden evil in Far Cry®, a cunningly detailed action shooter that pushes the boundaries of combat to shocking new levels. Freelance mariner Jack Carver is cursing the day he ever came to this island.

    2008Action9.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. Red Faction Guerrilla Re-Mars-tered

    WHY THIS

    Shares vehicle combat and an epic mood with Just Cause™ 3.

    Reviewers of Just Cause™ 3 cross-mention this title as a similar play.

    Red Faction: Guerrilla re-defines the limits of destruction-based game-play with a huge open-world, fast-paced guerrilla-style combat, and true physics-based destruction.

    201819.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. Mercenaries Blaze

    WHY THIS

    Shares an epic mood with Just Cause™ 3.

    Reviewers of Just Cause™ 3 cross-mention this title as a similar play.

    “Mercenaries Blaze”is the 5th fantasy tactical simulation RPG. Turn-based battles are carried out on an isometric map. Attack and defense results vary depending on the direction you face, distance and elevation, making gameplay challenging enough to satisfy the even pickiest strategy lovers.

    2021StrategyRPG19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  7. Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon® Breakpoint

    WHY THIS

    Shares open world exploration and a challenging mood with Just Cause™ 3.

    Reviewers of Just Cause™ 3 cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Adventure with Just Cause™ 3.

    Become a Ghost, fighting against a rogue spec ops faction called the Wolves, in the latest Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon®!

    2023ActionAdventure59.99 USDSteam ↗
  8. Prototype™

    WHY THIS

    Shares open world exploration and an epic mood with Just Cause™ 3.

    Reviewers of Just Cause™ 3 cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Adventure with Just Cause™ 3.

    You are the Prototype, Alex Mercer, a man without memory armed with amazing shape-shifting abilities, hunting your way to the heart of the conspiracy which created you; making those responsible pay. Fast & Deadly Shape-Shifting Combat: Reconfigure your body to the situation at hand.

    2009ActionAdventure19.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Cheaper alternatives

Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Just Cause™ 3 at current Steam store prices.

  1. Terraria

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Just Cause™ 3 on Steam right now. Shares Action and Adventure with Just Cause™ 3.

    Dig, fight, explore, build! Nothing is impossible in this action-packed adventure game. Four Pack also available!

    2011ActionIndieAdventure9.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  2. Lethal Company

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Just Cause™ 3 on Steam right now. Shares Action and Adventure with Just Cause™ 3.

    A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.

    2023ActionIndieAdventure9.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. Left 4 Dead 2

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Just Cause™ 3 on Steam right now. Shares Action with Just Cause™ 3.

    Set in the zombie apocalypse, Left 4 Dead 2 is a co-operative action horror FPS takes you and your friends through the cities, swamps and cemeteries of the Deep South, from Savannah to New Orleans across five expansive campaigns.

    2009Action9.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  4. People Playground

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Just Cause™ 3 on Steam right now. Shares Action with Just Cause™ 3.

    Shoot, stab, burn, poison, tear, vaporise, or crush ragdolls in a large open space.

    2019ActionIndieSimulation9.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. Portal 2

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Just Cause™ 3 on Steam right now. Shares Action and Adventure with Just Cause™ 3.

    The "Perpetual Testing Initiative" has been expanded to allow you to design co-op puzzles for you and your friends!

    2011ActionAdventure9.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  6. Fallout: New Vegas

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Just Cause™ 3 on Steam right now. Shares Action with Just Cause™ 3.

    Welcome to Vegas. New Vegas. Enjoy your stay!

    2010ActionRPG9.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. Vampire Survivors

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~75% under Just Cause™ 3 on Steam right now. Shares Action with Just Cause™ 3.

    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!

    2022ActionIndieRPG4.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  8. R.E.P.O.

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~65% under Just Cause™ 3 on Steam right now. Shares Action with Just Cause™ 3.

    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.

    2025ActionEarly Access6.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Free alternatives

Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.

  1. 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 Just Cause™ 3.

    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.

    2015ActionAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Helltaker

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Just Cause™ 3.

    Helltaker is a short game about sharply dressed demon girls.

    2020IndieAdventureFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. Ultimate Custom Night

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Just Cause™ 3.

    Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!

    2018ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  4. 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?

    2025IndieSimulationMassively MultiplayerFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. ENA: Dream BBQ

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Just Cause™ 3.

    Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.

    2025IndieAdventureFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  6. The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.

    Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!

    2023IndieSimulationFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. 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 Just Cause™ 3.

    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.

    2024ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. STRAFTAT

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Just Cause™ 3.

    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.

    2024ActionFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗

More from Avalanche Studios

Other recommendable Steam games by Avalanche Studios, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.

  1. Mad Max

    WHY THIS

    Another title from Avalanche Studios, the studio behind Just Cause™ 3. Shares Action and Adventure with Just Cause™ 3.

    Play as Mad Max, a reluctant hero and survivor who wants nothing more than to leave the madness behind and find solace.

    2015ActionAdventure19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  2. Just Cause 2

    WHY THIS

    Shares an epic mood with Just Cause™ 3.

    Another title from Avalanche Studios, the studio behind Just Cause™ 3. Shares Action and Adventure with Just Cause™ 3.

    Dive into an adrenaline-fuelled free-roaming adventure with 400 square miles of rugged terrain and hundreds of weapons and vehicles.

    2010ActionAdventure14.99 USDSteam ↗
  3. Just Cause 4 Reloaded

    WHY THIS

    Shares an epic mood with Just Cause™ 3.

    Another title from Avalanche Studios, the studio behind Just Cause™ 3. Shares Action and Adventure with Just Cause™ 3.

    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!

    2018ActionAdventureDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. RAGE 2

    WHY THIS

    Shares vehicle combat and an epic mood with Just Cause™ 3.

    Another title from Avalanche Studios, the studio behind Just Cause™ 3. Shares Action with Just Cause™ 3.

    RAGE 2 brings together two studio powerhouses – Avalanche Studios, masters of open world insanity, and id Software, creators of the first-person shooter – to deliver a carnival of carnage where you can go anywhere, shoot anything, and explode everything.

    2019Action39.99 USDSteam ↗
  5. Just Cause

    WHY THIS

    Shares an epic mood with Just Cause™ 3.

    Another title from Avalanche Studios, the studio behind Just Cause™ 3. Shares Action with Just Cause™ 3.

    Your world...Your rules!

    2007Action6.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. theHunter: Primal

    WHY THIS

    Another title from Avalanche Studios, the studio behind Just Cause™ 3. Shares Action and Adventure with Just Cause™ 3.

    Hunt - Explore - SurviveThe most realistic prehistoric survival game ever created. Featuring a huge Cretaceous environment populated by horrifying dinosaur all-stars, such as T-Rex, Triceratops, Utahraptor, Velociraptor and Quetzalcoatlus.

    2015ActionAdventureSimulationSteam ↗
  7. Renegade Ops

    WHY THIS

    Shares an epic mood with Just Cause™ 3.

    Another title from Avalanche Studios, the studio behind Just Cause™ 3. Shares Action with Just Cause™ 3.

    Blast your way through enemy lines to defeat Inferno, a madman intent on global domination. Destruction just got awesome.

    2011Action3.39 USDSteam ↗
  8. theHunter Classic

    WHY THIS

    Shares a challenging mood with Just Cause™ 3.

    Another title from Avalanche Studios, the studio behind Just Cause™ 3. Shares Action and Adventure with Just Cause™ 3.

    The most realistic hunting experience awaits. Explore 12 reserves and hunt 45 unique species, ranging from waterfowl to big game. Over 100 weapons from state-of-the art rifles to bows. Customize your load-out with stands, blinds and dogs. Play alone or in multiplayer with up to 7 friends.

    2014ActionSportsAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Frequently asked about Just Cause™ 3

Does Just Cause™ 3 run on Steam Deck?
Just Cause™ 3 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 Just Cause™ 3 cost?
Just Cause™ 3 is listed on Steam at 19.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
What games are most similar to Just Cause™ 3?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Just Cause™ 3 are Just Cause 2, Just Cause 4 Reloaded, Red Faction Guerrilla Steam Edition.
Who developed Just Cause™ 3?
Just Cause™ 3 was developed by Avalanche Studios and published by Square Enix.

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