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Games like Super Mario Odyssey

Want more joyful 3D platformers full of secrets? Below are the games most like Super Mario Odyssey — the titles that inspired it, the games sharing its DNA, and the ones it went on to influence. The interactive graph above lets you keep exploring from any of them.

Games similar to Super Mario Odyssey

  • Fortnite cover
    Fortnite
    2020

    Fortnite is a free-to-play online game where you and your friends fight to be the last one standing in Battle Royale, join forces to make your own Creative games, or catch a live show at Party Royale.

  • Uncharted 4: A Thief's End cover
    Uncharted 4: A Thief's End
    2016

    Several years after his last adventure, retired fortune hunter, Nathan Drake, is forced back into the world of thieves. With the stakes much more personal, Drake embarks on a globe-trotting journey in pursuit of a historical conspiracy behind a fabled pirate treasure. His greates

  • The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild cover
    The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild
    2017

    The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild is the first 3D open-world game in the Zelda series. Link can travel anywhere and be equipped with weapons and armor found throughout the world to grant him various bonuses. Unlike many games in the series, Breath of the Wild does not impos

  • Horizon Zero Dawn cover
    Horizon Zero Dawn
    2017

    Welcome to a vibrant world rich with the beauty of nature – but inhabited by awe-inspiring, highly advanced machines. As a young machine hunter named Aloy, you must unravel the mysteries of this world and find your own destiny.

  • Savage Lands cover
    Savage Lands
    2015

    A New Land, A New Life: Savage Lands is a gritty, brutal, first-person open-world fantasy survival experience in which players have only one goal: Stay Alive. Explore a world where days and nights are spent slaughtering vicious creatures, gathering scarce resources, building shel

  • Borderlands 3 cover
    Borderlands 3
    2019

    The original shooter-looter returns, packing bazillions of guns and a mayhem-fueled adventure! Blast through new worlds and enemies as one of four new Vault Hunters. Play solo or with friends to take on insane enemies, score loads of loot and save your home from the most ruthless

  • Marvel's Spider-Man cover
    Marvel's Spider-Man
    2018

    Starring the world’s most iconic Super Hero, Spider-Man features the acrobatic abilities, improvisation and web-slinging that the wall-crawler is famous for, while also introducing elements never-before-seen in a Spider-Man game. From traversing with parkour and utilizing the env

  • Splatoon 2 cover
    Splatoon 2
    2017

    Splatoon 2 is a multiplayer third-person shooter in which players control characters known as Inklings and use colored ink to attack opponents and clear goals. Inklings can alternate between humanoid form, during which they can fire ink with their weapons, and squid form, which a

  • Monster Hunter: World cover
    Monster Hunter: World
    2018

    Welcome to a new world! Take on the role of a hunter and slay ferocious monsters in a living, breathing ecosystem where you can use the landscape and its diverse inhabitants to get the upper hand. Hunt alone or in co-op with up to three other players, and use materials collected

The Super Mario Odyssey series & family

  • Super Mario 64 cover
    Super Mario 64
    1996

    Mario is super in a whole new way! Combining the finest 3-D graphics ever developed for a video game and an explosive soundtrack, Super Mario 64 becomes a new standard for video games. It's packed with bruising battles, daunting obstacle courses, and underwater adventures. Retrie

  • Super Mario World cover
    Super Mario World
    1990

    A 2D platformer and first entry on the SNES in the Super Mario franchise, Super Mario World follows Mario as he attempts to defeat Bowser's underlings and rescue Princess Peach from his clutches. The game features a save system, a less linear world map, an expanded movement arsen

  • Super Mario Bros. 3 cover
    Super Mario Bros. 3
    1988

    Super Mario Bros. 3, the third entry in the Super Mario Bros. series and Super Mario franchise, sees Mario or Luigi navigate a nonlinear world map containing platforming levels and optional minigames and challenges. The game features more diverse movement options and new items al

  • Super Mario Bros. cover
    Super Mario Bros.
    1985

    A side scrolling 2D platformer and first entry in the Super Mario franchise, Super Mario Bros. follows Italian plumber Mario as he treks across many levels of platforming challenges featuring hostile enemies to rescue Princess Peach from the evil king Bowser.

  • Super Mario Galaxy cover
    Super Mario Galaxy
    2007

    A 3D platformer and first Wii entry in the Super Mario franchise, Super Mario Galaxy sees Mario jump across planets and galaxies with varying items, enemies, geographies and gravity mechanics in order to reach his enemy Bowser, who has attacked the Mushroom Kingdom and hijacked P

  • Super Smash Bros. Melee cover
    Super Smash Bros. Melee
    2001

    Super Smash Bros. Melee is the second installment in the Super Smash Bros. series and the follow-up to the Nintendo 64 title. It includes all playable characters from the first game, and also adds characters from franchises such as Fire Emblem, of which no games had been released

  • Super Smash Bros. Ultimate cover
    Super Smash Bros. Ultimate
    2018

    Legendary game worlds and fighters collide in the ultimate showdown—a new entry in the Super Smash Bros. series for the Nintendo Switch system! New fighters, like Inkling from the Splatoon series and Ridley from the Metroid series, make their Super Smash Bros. series debut alongs

  • Super Mario Galaxy 2 cover
    Super Mario Galaxy 2
    2010

    Super Mario Galaxy 2 is the sequel to Super Mario Galaxy and the fourth 3D platformer entry in the Mario franchise. The sequel retains many elements from its predecessor, such as the adventure being in outer space, the element of gravity, and recurring objects such as Launch Star

  • Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island cover
    Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island
    1995

    Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island is a platform video game acting as a prequel to 1990's Super Mario World. The game casts players as Yoshi as he escorts Baby Mario through 48 levels in order to reunite him with his brother Luigi, who had been kidnapped by Baby Bowser's minions

  • Mario Kart 8 cover
    Mario Kart 8
    2014

    Turn your racing experience upside down! Nintendo’s Mario Kart franchise comes to the Wii U console in full HD, introducing new racing circuit designs and anti-gravity karts that will have players driving upside down. And for the first time, all of Bowser’s seven Koopalings are p

  • Mario Kart 8 Deluxe cover
    Mario Kart 8 Deluxe
    2017

    Hit the road with the definitive version of Mario Kart 8 and play anytime, anywhere! Race your friends or battle them in a revised battle mode on new and returning battle courses. Play locally in up to 4-player multiplayer in 1080p while playing in TV Mode. Every track from the W

  • Mario Kart 64 cover
    Mario Kart 64
    1996

    Mario Kart 64 is the second main installment of the Mario Kart series. It is the first game in the series to use three-dimensional graphics, however, the characters and items in this game are still two-dimensional, pre-rendered sprites. The game offers two camera angles and three

About Super Mario Odyssey

Explore incredible places far from the Mushroom Kingdom as you join Mario and his new ally Cappy on a massive, globe-trotting 3D adventure. Use amazing new abilities, like the power to capture and control objects, animals, and enemies to collect Power Moons so you can power up the Odyssey airship and save Princess Peach from Bowser’s wedding plans!

FAQ

What games are similar to Super Mario Odyssey?
Some of the closest matches are Fortnite, Uncharted 4: A Thief's End, The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, Horizon Zero Dawn, Savage Lands, Borderlands 3. Scroll back up to keep exploring in the interactive graph.
What inspired Super Mario Odyssey?
Super Mario Odyssey sits inside the Platform / Adventure tradition. Shared themes, mechanics, and studio history all show up in the graph — see how we score the matches.

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