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Games like Prototype

2009USK 18PC, PlayStation, Xbox80 % positive

As shapeshifting mutant Alex Mercer, you rampage through a virus-ravaged Manhattan, running up skyscrapers and tearing apart soldiers and monsters with grotesque bio-weapons. Consuming victims lets you steal their forms and memories, slowly piecing together the conspiracy behind your own existence.

  • Post-apocalyptic setting
  • Open world
  • Melee combat with weapons or fists
  • Dense, handcrafted world

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Hell is Us

83 %Match

2025USK 16PC, PlayStation, Xbox, Nintendo Switch83 % positive49.99 €

Brings what grabs you about Prototype: a post-apocalyptic setting, melee combat with weapons or fists and a dark atmosphere.

A bleak action-adventure set in a war-torn country that drops quest markers and hand-holding, so you navigate by clues, notes and conversations. Puzzles and tense melee fights against eerie creatures born of a mysterious calamity round it out.

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Spider-Man: Web of Shadows

Open world

A fast-paced Spider-Man action game set in an open New York overrun by a symbiote invasion. You swap between red and black suit styles, swing through the streets, and make choices that shape allies and the story's outcome.

Immortal Planet

Dark, serious atmosphere

A punishing sci-fi soulslike with an isometric view where patience, dodging and precise timing decide every fight. You explore a decaying world of immortals and uncover the mystery behind its curse.

The Amazing Spider-Man 2

Open world

Play as Spider-Man swinging through an open Manhattan, fighting criminals with counters and gadgets and rescuing civilians. Web-swinging is the main draw, backed by a Hero and Menace reputation system.

Resolutiion

Sci-fi setting

You escort a weary old killer and a curious AI through chaotic fights and a fractured future. Collect strange weapons and stories to piece together what came before.

Vessels of Decay

Post-apocalyptic setting

As Mud, you explore a decaying, overgrown Scandinavia where ancient creatures are reclaiming the ruins of a vanished civilization. It blends action, puzzles and adventure in a bleak, atmospheric setting.

The Last Faith

Dense, handcrafted world

A dark, gothic pixel-art Metroidvania that blends Soulslike combat with sprawling interconnected exploration and plenty of weapon and build options. You fight through a decaying world ravaged by plague and a corrupt religion as Eric.

Kong: Survivor Instinct

Action-packed real-time combat

You fight to survive in a city turned into a battleground for Titans, turning the brute strength of Kong and other monsters to your advantage. It is a Monsterverse adventure set shortly after the events of Godzilla vs. Kong.

Crackdown

Open world

As a genetically enhanced Agent you take down three crime lords across the open city of Pacific City. Fighting, racing and collecting agility orbs make you stronger until you leap across skyscrapers like a superhero.

True Crime: Streets of LA

Open world

A GTA-style open-world action game where you play a rogue cop in a recreated Los Angeles, mixing gunplay, martial arts and driving chases. Failed missions lead to branching story paths.

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