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Games like The Saboteur™

If The Saboteur™ is your kind of game, the closest matches are Sniper Elite 4, Sniper Elite 5 and Assassin's Creed 2 — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its beautifully rendered parisian setting, historical and cinematic storytelling and atmospheric. 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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The Saboteur is an action-adventure game set in Nazi-occupied Paris during World War II, developed by Pandemic Studios and published by Electronic Arts. Players navigate the city through cover-based shooting, open-world exploration, parkour, and sabotage missions, with stealth playing a key role in the experience. Reviewers highlight the beautifully-rendered Parisian setting and the dynamic day-night cycle that affects gameplay, while the noir aesthetic permeates the historical and cinematic storytelling. The single-player campaign offers a long experience with normal difficulty, available for $1.99. Players describe the game as atmospheric and immersive, and it runs as playable on Steam Deck, holding a 91% positive rating from over 1,200 Steam reviews.

About The Saboteur™: This open-world action thriller takes you through the seedy streets of Paris as you seek to undermine the German authority and lead a rebellion. Fight across rooftops and through dangerous alleys, and operate a wide variety of vehicles as you navigate your terrain.

2024ActionAdventure1.99 USDDeck PlayableWindowsby Pandemic Studios
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Players who liked The Saboteur™ also play

Steam players who put hours into The Saboteur™ 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. Sniper Elite 4

    WHY THIS

    Shares an immersive mood with The Saboteur™.

    Top pick for The Saboteur™ fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with The Saboteur™.

    Discover unrivalled sniping freedom in the largest and most advanced World War 2 shooter ever built. Experience tactical third-person combat, gameplay choice and epic longshots across gigantic levels as you liberate wartime Italy from the grip of Fascism.

    2017ActionAdventure59.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  2. Sniper Elite 5

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with The Saboteur™.

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

    The award-winning series returns as Karl Fairburne fights to uncover Project Kraken in 1944 France. The genre-defining authentic sniping, with enhanced kill cam, has never looked or felt better as you fight across immersive maps to stop the Nazi war machine in its tracks.

    2022ActionAdventure49.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. Assassin's Creed 2

    WHY THIS

    Shares an immersive mood with The Saboteur™.

    Third-strongest match for The Saboteur™ fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with The Saboteur™.

    An epic story of family, vengeance and conspiracy set in the pristine, yet brutal, backdrop of a Renaissance Italy. New low price!

    2010ActionAdventure19.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. Assassin's Creed® Syndicate

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with The Saboteur™.

    Ranked #4 for The Saboteur™ fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with The Saboteur™.

    London, 1868. Lead your underworld organization in the midst of the Industrial Revolution to break the corrupt stranglehold on the city in a visceral adventure filled with action, intrigue, and brutal combat.

    2015ActionAdventure29.99 USDSteam ↗
  5. Assassin’s Creed® Brotherhood

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with The Saboteur™.

    Ranked #5 for The Saboteur™ fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with The Saboteur™.

    It’s time to join the Brotherhood.

    2011ActionAdventure19.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. Enemy Front

    WHY THIS

    Shares an immersive mood with The Saboteur™.

    Ranked #6 for The Saboteur™ fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with The Saboteur™.

    ENEMY FRONT is the first truly modern WW2 FPS, featuring stunning visuals, open-ended levels and a richly interactive combat experience that breaks out of the standard model of highly linear scripted FPS experiences, giving the player full freedom to own their playing style.

    2014Action19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  7. Watch_Dogs® 2

    WHY THIS

    Shares open world exploration and an atmospheric mood with The Saboteur™.

    Ranked #7 for The Saboteur™ fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with The Saboteur™.

    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.

    2016ActionAdventure49.99 USDSteam ↗
  8. Rise of the Tomb Raider™

    WHY THIS

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

    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”.

    2016ActionAdventure29.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Reviewers mention these as similar to The Saboteur™

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. METAL GEAR & METAL GEAR 2: Solid Snake

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with The Saboteur™.

    Reviewers of The Saboteur™ cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with The Saboteur™.

    The first and second title in the METAL GEAR series that established the stealth action genre, as well as the basic mechanics of the series.

    2023Action19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  2. HITMAN™

    WHY THIS

    Reviewers of The Saboteur™ cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with The Saboteur™.

    There is a world beyond ours. Beyond nations, justice, ethics. It never sleeps. It exists everywhere. And once you enter....there is no going back. Welcome to the World of Assassination. You are Agent 47, the world's ultimate assassin.

    2016ActionSteam ↗
  3. Clandestine

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with The Saboteur™.

    Reviewers of The Saboteur™ cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with The Saboteur™.

    Clandestine is a 2-player or singleplayer stealth/hacking game set in 1996. Asymmetrical co-op allows one player to take the role of the spy while a friend provides overwatch and assistance as the hacker, and unravel a post-Cold War espionage conspiracy.

    2015ActionIndie9.99 USDSteam ↗
  4. Night City

    WHY THIS

    Reviewers of The Saboteur™ cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Adventure with The Saboteur™.

    "Night City" is a cooperative first-person horror game with survival elements, here you will play as one of the company's clones, and go down into the dungeons to search for resources. Death will be waiting at every step, so work as a team.

    2024ActionAdventureMassively Multiplayer4.99 USDSteam ↗
  5. Just Cause 2

    WHY THIS

    Shares an immersive mood with The Saboteur™.

    Reviewers of The Saboteur™ cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Adventure with The Saboteur™.

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

    2010ActionAdventure14.99 USDSteam ↗
  6. Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas

    WHY THIS

    Shares an immersive mood with The Saboteur™.

    Reviewers of The Saboteur™ cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Adventure with The Saboteur™.

    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.

    2008ActionAdventureDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. Mafia

    WHY THIS

    Shares open world exploration and an atmospheric mood with The Saboteur™.

    Reviewers of The Saboteur™ cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Adventure with The Saboteur™.

    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.

    2002ActionAdventure14.99 USDSteam ↗
  8. Wolfenstein: The New Order

    WHY THIS

    Reviewers of The Saboteur™ cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with The Saboteur™.

    Wolfenstein®: The New Order reignites the series that created the first-person shooter genre. Wolfenstein offers a deep game narrative packed with action, adventure and first-person combat.

    2014Action19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Cheaper alternatives

Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below The Saboteur™ at current Steam store prices.

  1. POSTAL 2

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under The Saboteur™ on Steam right now. Shares Action and Adventure with The Saboteur™.

    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?

    2012ActionIndieAdventure0.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  2. Blood and Bacon

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under The Saboteur™ on Steam right now. Shares Action and Adventure with The Saboteur™.

    This Co-op Shooter , has Day and Night levels, multiple maps, players will take on 25 enemy types and numerous bosses, like Gargantuan Monsters and Minibosses every 10 days as you explore, shoot and run for your life against the onslaught of porcine monstrosities.

    2016ActionAdventureCasual0.99 USDSteam ↗
  3. Shower With Your Dad Simulator 2015: Do You Still Shower With Your Dad

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under The Saboteur™ on Steam right now. Shares Action with The Saboteur™.

    "Shower With Your Dad Simulator 2015: Do You Still Shower With Your Dad?" is a fast paced shower-simulation where you shower with your 8-bit dad.It's good, clean fun!

    2015ActionIndieSimulation0.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  4. Bit Blaster XL

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under The Saboteur™ on Steam right now. Shares Action with The Saboteur™.

    Bit Blaster XL is a fast-paced, retro arcade shoot 'em up (shmup) inspired by the classic quarter-munchers of the ‘80s. Easy to pick up, hard to put down, boost, dodge, shoot, and chase high scores in this addictive, old-school action game!

    2016ActionIndieCasual0.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  5. TYRONE vs COPS

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under The Saboteur™ on Steam right now. Shares Action with The Saboteur™.

    Awaken the latent power of your melanin and kill cops in this thought-provoking game on police brutality in America.

    2022ActionIndie0.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. Orbt XL

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under The Saboteur™ on Steam right now. Shares Action with The Saboteur™.

    Defy gravity in Orbt XL! A fast-paced, addictive, 'just-one-more-round' arcade score chaser. Stay in orbit, dodge obstacles, and rack up points, the closer you are to the black hole, the higher your score! Easy to learn, tough to master, and perfect for quick play sessions while waiting in queue.

    2017ActionIndieCasual0.99 USDSteam ↗
  7. Landlord of the Woods

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under The Saboteur™ on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with The Saboteur™.

    You're 25, you feel like all of your peers are ahead of you in life so you apply for a new job to try to find some sort of meaning. Your new career is filled with physics-based puzzles, hand drawn art & a cute little story.

    2021IndieAdventureCasual0.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. Toree 2

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under The Saboteur™ on Steam right now. Shares Action with The Saboteur™.

    A bite-sized 3D Platformer sequel with more focus on the things people enjoyed in the first game like fast gameplay, flow focused levels and cute costumes (two this time).

    2021ActionIndieCasual0.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

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 The Saboteur™.

    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. 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 The Saboteur™.

    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 ↗
  3. 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.

    2022IndieFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. The Expendabros

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with The Saboteur™.

    The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.

    2014ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  5. Star Fetchers

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with The Saboteur™.

    The introduction to a wild ride with gangsters and deep state conspiracy theories

    2020ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. The Lab

    WHY THIS

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

    Welcome to The Lab, a compilation of Valve’s room-scale VR experiments set in a pocket universe within Aperture Science. Fix a robot, defend a castle, adopt a mechanical dog, and more. Still not sold? It’s free!

    2016Free To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  7. Higurashi When They Cry Hou - Ch.1 Onikakushi

    WHY THIS

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

    Higurashi When They Cry is a sound novel. The music, backgrounds and characters work together to create a world that is the stage of a novel for the user to read. They laugh and cry and get angry. The user takes the point of view of the protagonist to experience the story.

    2015AdventureFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  8. DORONKO WANKO

    WHY THIS

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

    『DORONKO WANKO』 is a DORONKO Action Game. In this game, You can become a cute, innocent Pomeranian, make your master's home messy and dirty. "Will the master be angry with me?" Don't worry. Because you are a sweet doggie.

    2024ActionSimulationFree To PlayFreeSteam ↗

More from Pandemic Studios

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

  1. STAR WARS™ Battlefront II (Classic, 2005)

    WHY THIS

    Another title from Pandemic Studios, the studio behind The Saboteur™. Shares Action with The Saboteur™.

    Join the rise of Darth Vader’s elite 501st Legion of Stormtroopers as you fight through an all new story-based saga where every action you take impacts the battlefront and, ultimately, the fate of the Star Wars galaxy.

    2009Action2.49 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Destroy All Humans!

    WHY THIS

    Another title from Pandemic Studios, the studio behind The Saboteur™. Shares Action and Adventure with The Saboteur™.

    The cult-classic returns! Terrorize the people of 1950's Earth in the role of the evil alien Crypto-137. Harvest their DNA and bring down the US government in the faithful remake of the legendary alien invasion action adventure. Annihilate puny humans using an assortment of alien weaponry and psychic abilities.

    2020ActionAdventure29.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. STAR WARS™ Battlefront (Classic, 2004)

    WHY THIS

    Shares an immersive mood with The Saboteur™.

    Another title from Pandemic Studios, the studio behind The Saboteur™. Shares Action with The Saboteur™.

    Fight the greatest battles in the STAR WARS universe any way you want to. The choice is yours.

    2019Action2.49 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. Army Men RTS

    WHY THIS

    Another title from Pandemic Studios, the studio behind The Saboteur™. Shares Action with The Saboteur™.

    Army Men RTS brings you back to the days of staging battles with tiny plastic soldiers in your backyard...except these green soldiers carry out your every command!

    2017ActionStrategy5.99 USDSteam ↗
  5. Full Spectrum Warrior

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with The Saboteur™.

    Another title from Pandemic Studios, the studio behind The Saboteur™. Shares Action with The Saboteur™.

    The U.S. Army is the most powerful ground force in the entire world. The backbone of a ground invasion is the U.S. Army Infantry, and in the midst of combat, their skills, courage, and teamwork are put to the test. While readiness continues to be the U.S. Army's top priority, how it goes about its business is changing.

    2007ActionStrategy9.99 USDSteam ↗
  6. Full Spectrum Warrior: Ten Hammers

    WHY THIS

    Another title from Pandemic Studios, the studio behind The Saboteur™. Shares Action with The Saboteur™.

    Sequel to the critically acclaimed, squad-based/real-time tactical combat game, Full Spectrum Warrior: Ten Hammers delivers the most authentic and realistic infantry combat experience ever. As Squad Leader, coordinate the actions of multiple infantry squads, leading them through over 12 levels of intense action.

    2007ActionStrategy9.99 USDSteam ↗

Frequently asked about The Saboteur™

Does The Saboteur™ run on Steam Deck?
The Saboteur™ 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 The Saboteur™ cost?
The Saboteur™ is listed on Steam at 1.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
What games are most similar to The Saboteur™?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside The Saboteur™ are Sniper Elite 4, Sniper Elite 5, Assassin's Creed 2.
Who developed The Saboteur™?
The Saboteur™ was developed by Pandemic Studios and published by Electronic Arts.

imho.run ranks Steam game alternatives using a mix of collaborative filtering (ALS / iALS / EASE / LightGCN), content scoring over genres, categories, Steam tags, developers, and publishers, plus AI-extracted vibes mined from review text. The page above is generated in seed mode anchored on The Saboteur™.

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