Games like Saints Row 2
If Saints Row 2 is your kind of game, the closest matches are Saints Row: The Third, Saints Row and Saints Row IV: Re-Elected — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its character customization is deep, property management adds depth and self aware satire shines. 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 2 is a 2009 open-world action game set in a criminal underworld, now available for $9.99 on Steam and playable on Steam Deck. Players create and customise their own character as they build a criminal empire across a sprawling city, managing properties and pursuing side activities that include fight clubs and insurance fraud schemes. Reviewers highlight the depth of character and vehicle customisation options, while players describe the tone as comedic and lighthearted, with self-aware satire running through the missions and side content. The game supports online co-op play and offers substantial content for extended play sessions. It holds a 75% positive rating from over 8,200 Steam reviews, with players noting its nostalgic appeal as a notably distinct entry in the open-world crime genre.
About Saints Row 2: 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.
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Saints Row: The Third
WHY THIS
Shares a comedic mood with Saints Row 2.
Top pick for Saints Row 2 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Saints Row 2.
Get ready for the most out-landish gameplay scenarios ever seen as the Third Street Saints take on the Syndicate!
Saints Row
WHY THIS
Shares vehicle customization and a comedic mood with Saints Row 2.
Second-strongest match for Saints Row 2 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Saints Row 2.
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 IV: Re-Elected
WHY THIS
Shares open world sandbox, vehicle customization and a comedic mood with Saints Row 2.
Third-strongest match for Saints Row 2 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Saints Row 2.
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: Gat out of Hell
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Shares a comedic mood with Saints Row 2.
Ranked #4 for Saints Row 2 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Saints Row 2.
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 IV: The Complete Edition
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Saints Row 2 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Saints Row 2.
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.
Grand Theft Auto: Vice City
WHY THIS
Shares vehicle customization and a nostalgic mood with Saints Row 2.
Ranked #6 for Saints Row 2 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Saints Row 2.
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
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Ranked #7 for Saints Row 2 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Saints Row 2.
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: Episodes from Liberty City
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Ranked #8 for Saints Row 2 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Saints Row 2.
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.
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Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas
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Shares vehicle customization, character customization and a nostalgic mood with Saints Row 2.
Reviewers of Saints Row 2 cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with Saints Row 2.
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.
Sleeping Dogs
WHY THIS
Shares vehicle customization with Saints Row 2.
Reviewers of Saints Row 2 cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with Saints Row 2.
As Wei Shen, an undercover cop trying to take down the Triads, you'll have to fight your way up the organization without blowing your cover.
Saints Row
WHY THIS
Shares vehicle customization and a comedic mood with Saints Row 2.
Reviewers of Saints Row 2 cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with Saints Row 2.
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.
Xenia
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Saints Row 2 cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with Saints Row 2.
A Metroidvania in Ancient Greece. Take control of the blacksmith Ardas. Fight epic bosses, find secret rooms and treasures, spend your gold for upgrades, and choose your fate through alternative endings. All this for one purpose. To save queen Xenia.
METAL GEAR SOLID V: THE PHANTOM PAIN
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Saints Row 2 cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with Saints Row 2.
Ushering in a new era for the METAL GEAR franchise with cutting-edge technology powered by the Fox Engine, METAL GEAR SOLID V: The Phantom Pain, will provide players a first-rate gaming experience as they are offered tactical freedom to carry out open-world missions.
Just Cause
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Reviewers of Saints Row 2 cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with Saints Row 2.
Your world...Your rules!
Middle-earth™: Shadow of Mordor™
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Reviewers of Saints Row 2 cross-mention this title as a similar play.
Fight through Mordor and uncover the truth of the spirit that compels you, discover the origins of the Rings of Power, build your legend and ultimately confront the evil of Sauron in this new chronicle of Middle-earth.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Saints Row 2 at current Steam store prices.
Vampire Survivors
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Priced ~50% under Saints Row 2 on Steam right now. Shares Action with Saints Row 2.
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 2 on Steam right now. Shares Action with Saints Row 2.
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 2 on Steam right now. Shares Action with Saints Row 2.
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 2 on Steam right now. Shares Action with Saints Row 2.
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 2 on Steam right now. Shares Action with Saints Row 2.
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
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Priced ~50% under Saints Row 2 on Steam right now. Shares Action with Saints Row 2.
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 2 on Steam right now. Shares Action with Saints Row 2.
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 2 on Steam right now. Shares Action with Saints Row 2.
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 2.
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 2.
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
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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 2.
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 2.
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: The Third
WHY THIS
Shares a comedic mood with Saints Row 2.
Another title from Volition, the studio behind Saints Row 2. Shares Action with Saints Row 2.
Get ready for the most out-landish gameplay scenarios ever seen as the Third Street Saints take on the Syndicate!
Red Faction Guerrilla Steam Edition
WHY THIS
Another title from Volition, the studio behind Saints Row 2. Shares Action with Saints Row 2.
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 vehicle customization and a comedic mood with Saints Row 2.
Another title from Volition, the studio behind Saints Row 2. Shares Action with Saints Row 2.
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
Another title from Volition, the studio behind Saints Row 2.
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 2. Shares Action with Saints Row 2.
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 2. Shares Action with Saints Row 2.
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 2. Shares Action with Saints Row 2.
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 a nostalgic mood with Saints Row 2.
Another title from Volition, the studio behind Saints Row 2. Shares Action with Saints Row 2.
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 2
- Does Saints Row 2 run on Steam Deck?
- Saints Row 2 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 2 cost?
- Saints Row 2 is listed on Steam at 9.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Saints Row 2?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Saints Row 2 are Saints Row: The Third, Saints Row, Saints Row IV: Re-Elected.
- Who developed Saints Row 2?
- Saints Row 2 was developed by Volition and published by Deep Silver.
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