Games like Quantum Break
If Quantum Break is your kind of game, the closest matches are Life is Strange - Episode 1, Temporal Gunslinger and Rewindead — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its cinematic, immersive and intense. 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 →Quantum Break is a third-person action game developed by Remedy Entertainment and released in 2016 for $39.99 USD. It blends shooter gameplay with live-action video episodes in a hybrid format that players describe as fresh and experimental, where the two formats feel connected as part of a unified experience. The game features branching narratives with choices that subtly alter the story flow, driven by character interactions that players note carry emotional weight. Combat centers on time-manipulation powers that players highlight as creating satisfying combat combos. Reviewers have described the overall experience as cinematic, immersive, intense, and mysterious. The game holds an 84% positive rating from over 7,200 Steam reviews and runs as playable on Steam Deck, with a medium-length single-player campaign at normal difficulty.
About Quantum Break: From Remedy Entertainment, the masters of cinematic action games, comes Quantum Break, a time-amplified suspenseful blockbuster. The Quantum Break experience is part game, part live action show—where decisions in one dramatically affect the other.
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Steam players who put hours into Quantum Break 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.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
WHY THIS
Top pick for Quantum Break fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Quantum Break.
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.
Temporal Gunslinger
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Quantum Break fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Quantum Break.
Play as a supernatural gunslinger with the power to redirect bullets and rewind time in this action puzzle game. Travel across different time periods and slay the Reaper's traitorous Heralds. Achieve mastery over time and projectiles.
Rewindead
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Quantum Break fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Quantum Break.
Rewindead is a third-person shooter blending brutal action with time-looping puzzle mechanics. Assassinate your target, rewind time, then hunt your past selves before they beat you to the kill.
ActionSteam ↗Max Payne 3
WHY THIS
Shares an intense mood with Quantum Break.
Ranked #4 for Quantum Break fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Quantum Break.
No longer a New York City cop, Max Payne moves to São Paulo to protect a wealthy family in an effort to finally escape his troubled past. This complete edition of Max Payne 3 includes the complete original game and all previously released downloadable content.
Singularity™
WHY THIS
Shares a mysterious mood with Quantum Break.
Ranked #5 for Quantum Break fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Quantum Break.
FIGHT THE PAST TO SAVE THE FUTURE. STOP THE SINGULARITY. Learn the truth behind a massive cover-up of the catastrophic SINGULARITY, an event that fractured time and threatens the world as we know it. Armed with powerful, advanced weaponry and the experimental Time Manipulation Device, fight enemies from the past, the present, and...
Area 75
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Quantum Break fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Quantum Break.
Area 75 is a story-driven Horror TPS-Shooter where you experience the chaos unfolding in a secret military laboratory, where they experimented with dark matter, from Rick Gerrison's perspective. Rick is the only person who can use these special powers. Be part of this story!
Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne
WHY THIS
Shares a cinematic mood with Quantum Break.
Ranked #7 for Quantum Break fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Quantum Break.
Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne is a violent, film-noir love story. Dark, tragic and intense, the in-depth story is a thrill-ride of shocking twists and revelations. Love hurts.
TimeShift™
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Quantum Break.
Ranked #8 for Quantum Break fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Quantum Break.
Master time to become the ultimate weapon! Dr. Aiden Krone has made a Time Jump across the space-time continuum - a reckless act with frightening consequences. Now, a disturbing alternate reality has evolved within the bleak and rain-soaked Alpha District.
Reviewers mention these as similar to Quantum Break
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Max Payne
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Quantum Break.
Reviewers of Quantum Break cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with Quantum Break.
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…
F.E.A.R.
WHY THIS
Shares a cinematic mood with Quantum Break.
Reviewers of Quantum Break cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with Quantum Break.
Experience the original F.E.A.R. along with F.E.A.R. Extraction Point and F.E.A.R. Perseus Mandate.
STAR WARS™ Jedi Knight II - Jedi Outcast™
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Quantum Break.
Reviewers of Quantum Break cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with Quantum Break.
The Legacy of Star Wars Dark Forces™ and Star Wars® Jedi Knight lives on in the intense first-person action of Jedi Outcast.
BioShock Infinite
WHY THIS
Shares a cinematic mood with Quantum Break.
Reviewers of Quantum Break cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with Quantum Break.
Indebted to the wrong people, with his life on the line, veteran of the U.S. Cavalry and now hired gun, Booker DeWitt has only one opportunity to wipe his slate clean. He must rescue Elizabeth, a mysterious girl imprisoned since childhood and locked up in the flying city of Columbia.
Second Sight
WHY THIS
Shares a mysterious mood with Quantum Break.
Reviewers of Quantum Break cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with Quantum Break.
Combining an atmospheric, psychological thriller narrative with paranormal psychic abilities, stealthy exploration and intense shooter action, Second Sight brings a new dimension to stealth action games, giving players control of a character endowed with incredible psychic abilities.
STAR WARS™: The Force Unleashed™ II
WHY THIS
Shares a cinematic mood with Quantum Break.
Reviewers of Quantum Break cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with Quantum Break.
The Star Wars® Saga continues with Star Wars®: The Force Unleashed™ II, the highly anticipated sequel to the fastest-selling Star Wars game ever created.
Alan Wake
WHY THIS
Shares a cinematic mood with Quantum Break.
Reviewers of Quantum Break cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with Quantum Break.
A Dark Presence stalks the small town of Bright Falls, pushing Alan Wake to the brink of sanity in his fight to unravel the mystery and save his love.
Max Payne 3
WHY THIS
Shares an intense mood with Quantum Break.
Reviewers of Quantum Break cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with Quantum Break.
No longer a New York City cop, Max Payne moves to São Paulo to protect a wealthy family in an effort to finally escape his troubled past. This complete edition of Max Payne 3 includes the complete original game and all previously released downloadable content.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Quantum Break at current Steam store prices.
Phasmophobia
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Quantum Break on Steam right now. Shares Action with Quantum Break.
Phasmophobia is a 4 player online co-op psychological horror. Paranormal activity is on the rise and it’s up to you and your team to use all the ghost-hunting equipment at your disposal in order to gather as much evidence as you can.
Lethal Company
WHY THIS
Priced ~75% under Quantum Break on Steam right now. Shares Action with Quantum Break.
A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.
Left 4 Dead 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~75% under Quantum Break on Steam right now. Shares Action with Quantum Break.
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.
Schedule I
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Quantum Break on Steam right now. Shares Action with Quantum Break.
From small-time dope pusher to kingpin - manufacture and distribute a range of drugs throughout the grungy city of Hyland Point. Expand your empire with properties, businesses, employees and more.
Hollow Knight
WHY THIS
Priced ~63% under Quantum Break on Steam right now. Shares Action with Quantum Break.
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.
The Forest
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Quantum Break on Steam right now. Shares Action with Quantum Break.
As the lone survivor of a passenger jet crash, you find yourself in a mysterious forest battling to stay alive against a society of cannibalistic mutants. Build, explore, survive in this terrifying first person survival horror simulator.
People Playground
WHY THIS
Priced ~75% under Quantum Break on Steam right now. Shares Action with Quantum Break.
Shoot, stab, burn, poison, tear, vaporise, or crush ragdolls in a large open space.
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 with Quantum Break.
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 Quantum Break.
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
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Quantum Break.
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 Quantum Break.
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.
missed messages.
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.
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More from Remedy Entertainment
Other recommendable Steam games by Remedy Entertainment, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
CONTROL Ultimate Edition
WHY THIS
Another title from Remedy Entertainment, the studio behind Quantum Break. Shares Action with Quantum Break.
Winner of over 80 awards, CONTROL is a visually stunning third-person action-adventure that will keep you on the edge of your seat.
Alan Wake
WHY THIS
Shares a cinematic mood with Quantum Break.
Another title from Remedy Entertainment, the studio behind Quantum Break. Shares Action with Quantum Break.
A Dark Presence stalks the small town of Bright Falls, pushing Alan Wake to the brink of sanity in his fight to unravel the mystery and save his love.
Max Payne
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Quantum Break.
Another title from Remedy Entertainment, the studio behind Quantum Break. Shares Action with Quantum Break.
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 2: The Fall of Max Payne
WHY THIS
Shares a cinematic mood with Quantum Break.
Another title from Remedy Entertainment, the studio behind Quantum Break. Shares Action with Quantum Break.
Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne is a violent, film-noir love story. Dark, tragic and intense, the in-depth story is a thrill-ride of shocking twists and revelations. Love hurts.
Alan Wake's American Nightmare
WHY THIS
Shares a mysterious mood with Quantum Break.
Another title from Remedy Entertainment, the studio behind Quantum Break. Shares Action with Quantum Break.
A thrilling new storyline, hordes of creepy enemies, serious firepower and beautiful Arizona locations, combined with a fun and challenging new game mode!
FBC: Firebreak
WHY THIS
Shares an intense mood with Quantum Break.
Another title from Remedy Entertainment, the studio behind Quantum Break. Shares Action with Quantum Break.
Purchase FBC: Firebreak and invite your friends to play the full game for free on any platform. FBC: Firebreak is a three-player cooperative first-person shooter set within a mysterious federal agency under assault by otherworldly forces.
Death Rally
WHY THIS
Shares an intense mood with Quantum Break.
Another title from Remedy Entertainment, the studio behind Quantum Break. Shares Action with Quantum Break.
Load your guns, start your engines...THE CLASSIC IS BACK! Brought to you from Remedy, renowned developers of Max Payne and Alan Wake, Remedy's Death Rally classic top down racer is back, stronger and more vicious than ever.
Frequently asked about Quantum Break
- Does Quantum Break run on Steam Deck?
- Quantum Break 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 Quantum Break cost?
- Quantum Break is listed on Steam at 39.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Quantum Break?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Quantum Break are Life is Strange - Episode 1, Temporal Gunslinger, Rewindead.
- Who developed Quantum Break?
- Quantum Break was developed by Remedy Entertainment and published by Xbox Game Studios.
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