Games like Saints Row: The Third
If Saints Row: The Third is your kind of game, the closest matches are Saints Row IV: Re-Elected, Saints Row 2 and Saints Row — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its endless chaotic sandbox freedom, stat progression feels rewarding and comedic. 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 →Saints Row: The Third is a 2011 open-world action game developed by Volition in which players build their criminal empire by battling the Syndicate. The gameplay loop centers on over-the-top combat, property acquisition, and reputation-based upgrades that drive stat progression. Players describe the experience as comedic and lighthearted, with sandbox freedom that lets them approach missions and chaos with equal enthusiasm. The writing deliberately refuses to take itself seriously, balancing humor and absurdity according to those who have reviewed it. Character customization and online co-op round out the core features. The game holds an 84 on Metacritic and a 94% positive rating from over 18,000 Steam reviews, currently available for $9.99 and marked as playable on Steam Deck.
About Saints Row: The Third: Get ready for the most out-landish gameplay scenarios ever seen as the Third Street Saints take on the Syndicate!
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Saints Row IV: Re-Elected
WHY THIS
Shares a comedic mood with Saints Row: The Third.
Top pick for Saints Row: The Third fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Saints Row: The Third.
Experience the insane antics of Saints Row IV. The Saints have gone from the Penthouse to the White House - but Earth has been invaded and it’s up to you to save it with an arsenal of superpowers and strange weapons, in the wildest open world game ever.
Saints Row 2
WHY THIS
Shares a comedic mood with Saints Row: The Third.
Second-strongest match for Saints Row: The Third fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Saints Row: The Third.
Saints Row 2 brings true freedom to open-world gaming. Players can play as who they want, how they want, and with whomever they want in this sequel to the much acclaimed and tremendously successful Saints Row.
Saints Row
WHY THIS
Shares a comedic mood with Saints Row: The Third.
Third-strongest match for Saints Row: The Third fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Saints Row: The Third.
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.
Saints Row: Gat out of Hell
WHY THIS
Shares a comedic mood with Saints Row: The Third.
Ranked #4 for Saints Row: The Third fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Saints Row: The Third.
Join Johnny Gat & Kinzie Kensington as you tear apart Hell in a quest to save the Boss’ soul. Historical icons, old friends, older enemies, a talking gun, a full length musical number & a whole lot more shenanigans await!
Grand Theft Auto: Episodes from Liberty City
WHY THIS
Shares an epic mood with Saints Row: The Third.
Ranked #5 for Saints Row: The Third fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Saints Row: The Third.
Grand Theft Auto: Episodes from Liberty City includes both The Lost and Damned and The Ballad of Gay Tony together and does not require a copy of the original Grand Theft Auto IV to play.
Grand Theft Auto: Vice City
WHY THIS
Shares property acquisition and an epic mood with Saints Row: The Third.
Ranked #6 for Saints Row: The Third fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Saints Row: The Third.
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.
Grand Theft Auto III
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Saints Row: The Third fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Saints Row: The Third.
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 IV: The Complete Edition
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Saints Row: The Third fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Saints Row: The Third.
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.
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Mafia
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Saints Row: The Third cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with Saints Row: The Third.
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.
Saints Row IV: Re-Elected
WHY THIS
Shares a comedic mood with Saints Row: The Third.
Reviewers of Saints Row: The Third cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with Saints Row: The Third.
Experience the insane antics of Saints Row IV. The Saints have gone from the Penthouse to the White House - but Earth has been invaded and it’s up to you to save it with an arsenal of superpowers and strange weapons, in the wildest open world game ever.
Saints Row 2
WHY THIS
Shares a comedic mood with Saints Row: The Third.
Reviewers of Saints Row: The Third cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with Saints Row: The Third.
Saints Row 2 brings true freedom to open-world gaming. Players can play as who they want, how they want, and with whomever they want in this sequel to the much acclaimed and tremendously successful Saints Row.
Saints Row
WHY THIS
Shares a comedic mood with Saints Row: The Third.
Reviewers of Saints Row: The Third cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with Saints Row: The Third.
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.
Sunset Overdrive
WHY THIS
Shares an epic mood with Saints Row: The Third.
Reviewers of Saints Row: The Third cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with Saints Row: The Third.
Sunset Overdrive transforms an open-world apocalypse into your tactical playground. Zip, grind and wall-run across Sunset City with an unconventional arsenal. Hyper-agility, unique weapons, and customizable abilities deliver an explosive and irreverent adventure in the end times.
Tales from the Borderlands
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Shares a funny mood with Saints Row: The Third.
Reviewers of Saints Row: The Third cross-mention this title as a similar play.
Tales from the Borderlands is a five-part episodic game set on the unforgiving world of Pandora between the events of Borderlands 2 and Borderlands 3. This is a story full of Borderlands' trademark humor, following two adventurers on their quest for greatness.
LISA: The Painful
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Reviewers of Saints Row: The Third cross-mention this title as a similar play.
The miserable journey of a broken man...
METAL GEAR & METAL GEAR 2: Solid Snake
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Saints Row: The Third cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with Saints Row: The Third.
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.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Saints Row: The Third at current Steam store prices.
Vampire Survivors
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Priced ~50% under Saints Row: The Third on Steam right now. Shares Action with Saints Row: The Third.
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 Saints Row: The Third on Steam right now. Shares Action with Saints Row: The Third.
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 Saints Row: The Third on Steam right now. Shares Action with Saints Row: The Third.
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 ~70% under Saints Row: The Third on Steam right now. Shares Action with Saints Row: The Third.
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 ~50% under Saints Row: The Third on Steam right now. Shares Action with Saints Row: The Third.
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 Saints Row: The Third on Steam right now. Shares Action with Saints Row: The Third.
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.
Blood and Bacon
WHY THIS
Priced ~90% under Saints Row: The Third on Steam right now. Shares Action with Saints Row: The Third.
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.
Half-Life: Opposing Force
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Saints Row: The Third on Steam right now. Shares Action with Saints Row: The Third.
Return to the Black Mesa Research Facility as one of the military specialists assigned to eliminate Gordon Freeman. Experience an entirely new episode of single player action. Meet fierce alien opponents, and experiment with new weaponry. Named 'Game of the Year' by the Academy of Interactive Arts and Sciences.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Saints Row: The Third.
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 Saints Row: The Third.
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
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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.
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!
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Saints Row: The Third.
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 Saints Row: The Third.
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.
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Other recommendable Steam games by Volition, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
Saints Row 2
WHY THIS
Shares a comedic mood with Saints Row: The Third.
Another title from Volition, the studio behind Saints Row: The Third. Shares Action with Saints Row: The Third.
Saints Row 2 brings true freedom to open-world gaming. Players can play as who they want, how they want, and with whomever they want in this sequel to the much acclaimed and tremendously successful Saints Row.
Red Faction Guerrilla Steam Edition
WHY THIS
Shares an epic mood with Saints Row: The Third.
Another title from Volition, the studio behind Saints Row: The Third. Shares Action with Saints Row: The Third.
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.
Saints Row
WHY THIS
Shares a comedic mood with Saints Row: The Third.
Another title from Volition, the studio behind Saints Row: The Third. Shares Action with Saints Row: The Third.
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.
Red Faction Guerrilla Re-Mars-tered
WHY THIS
Shares an epic mood with Saints Row: The Third.
Another title from Volition, the studio behind Saints Row: The Third.
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.
Red Faction®: Armageddon™
WHY THIS
Another title from Volition, the studio behind Saints Row: The Third. Shares Action with Saints Row: The Third.
Red Faction: Armageddon Path to War includes 4 new missions, 2 unlockable items and 10 new achievements!
Red Faction
WHY THIS
Another title from Volition, the studio behind Saints Row: The Third. Shares Action with Saints Row: The Third.
JOIN THE REVOLUTION! Lured to Mars by the Ultor Corporation's promise of a better life, thousands have come to seek their fortune and work for the massive mining company. But all is not as it seems. A deadly plague is sweeping through the barracks, and miners suffer daily abuse at the hands of the Ultor guards.
Red Faction II
WHY THIS
Another title from Volition, the studio behind Saints Row: The Third. Shares Action with Saints Row: The Third.
Twenty-second century Earth. Five years after the rebellion on Mars. For the last 15 years, Sopot, the corrupt dictator, has oppressed the people of the Commonwealth. His relentless pursuit of unification with the neighboring United Republic has left the country soaked in unnecessary bloodshed and poverty.
Summoner
WHY THIS
Shares an epic mood with Saints Row: The Third.
Another title from Volition, the studio behind Saints Row: The Third. Shares Action with Saints Row: The Third.
Summoners have toppled empires and challenged gods. They are venerated as saviours and feared as destroyers. With rings crafted by the ancient Khosani, the gifted can call forth demons, dragons, and elementals, but only the strongest can control the forces they unleash.
Frequently asked about Saints Row: The Third
- Does Saints Row: The Third run on Steam Deck?
- Saints Row: The Third 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 Saints Row: The Third cost?
- Saints Row: The Third is listed on Steam at 9.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- Does Saints Row: The Third have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Saints Row: The Third supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Co-op).
- What games are most similar to Saints Row: The Third?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Saints Row: The Third are Saints Row IV: Re-Elected, Saints Row 2, Saints Row.
- Who developed Saints Row: The Third?
- Saints Row: The Third was developed by Volition and published by Deep Silver.
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