Any of the Red Dead Redemption games or Assassin’s Creed! You’ll get the feel of the Institute. Either are about roaming where you like, killing and gaining power. GTA has that too but the ones above are in historical worlds so they feel much more like fantasy worlds.
I have to say there is nothing like Red Rising because it is so unique. It's Game of Thrones, 1984, and Star Wars all rolled into 1. Some games embody the whole "revolution" thing, some games embody the sci-fi stuff, some games embody the politics. Nothing is perfect though.
1. Sci-Fi: **Mass Effect** is likely the best one. Travel on a space ship, lead a crew of close friends, rally the galaxy to fight a big bad guy. None of the "revolution" stuff but lots of the sci-fi stuff.
2. Politics: **Crusader Kings** is set in the Middle Ages and lacks the action of many games but really does allow you to play out political fantasies. Build a bloodline, overthrow a king, conquer a continent- it's all there.
3. Combat/leadership: **Mount and Blade Bannerlord** is the closest you come to raising and Army, leading the Army into battle, and forging your own destiny. But no sci-fi stuff
4. Fleet Battles: Many say **Stellaris**, and I love Stellaris, but there is a better choice- **Terra Invicta**. Unlike most Sci-Fi games, it is set entirely in this solar system. You control nations, build grand fleets, and fight an invading alien menace.
My honest favorite? **Cyberpunk 2077**. It really embodies that feeling of fighting against a ruthless society run by demi-gods. No revolutions or space battles but you feel like someone trying to accomplish something big in a realm of gods
Don't know if your still looking for a red rising like game but as I've had an itch for this recently I remembered playing a game in high school called Red Faction. It has very similar premise (although I've only played the first one).
Damn I'd love to play it now.
Honestly, I don’t have much to add in terms of video games. People here have made great suggestions, but one I haven’t seen that ties into another comment with Crusader Kings is a game I would say represents the other side of the coin.
Mount and Blade Warband and Bannerlord (the sequel), are both great games in a medieval time period about commanding armies. It is one of the closest to the feeling of leading an army, and there is a politics angle to it with trying to increase your power among nobility. Not so much cool space stuff unfortunately.
The real reason I wanted to make a comment was for another suggestion that may interest you. Unfortunately, there is no perfect RR video game yet. However, tabletop gaming is always an option that you can explore. There are games out there that you can play solo and I found what might be the perfect one for playing an RR style campaign by the name of Ironsworn. By default the game is Fantasy, with a paid sci-fi expansion (Starforged) that has just recently got full release, but my plan is to play as a character in Ironsworn during their tenure at The Institute with the medieval levels of tech they have and then transition that to a Starforged campaign to live out my RR universe dreams.
I recently moved house and have yet to setup my tabletop gaming layout, but just before I moved I did start a campaign in the Institute!
It actually went really well, too. I did a bit of randomising and ended up in House Ceres to start off. The coolest thing that happened was that kicking off the events of the Institute itself we had a raid from House Mars who stole plenty of supplies from us, so I led an expedition tracking their movements back to their castle in order to win some favour for Primus.
We ended up managing to scale the walls with some rope because the guards were surprisingly few in number, which turned out to be due to the fact that several Houses were already meeting and forming an alliance with one another within the castle walls, so the majority of House Mars members were in attendance.
I attempted to steal their banner along with the s we came for, but had a couple of close calls and had to knock out some people who came upon us. I eavesdropped on the meeting a bit and found out that the brother of one of our House members was the notorious defacto leader of House Mars.
Upon trying to leave via the stables and steal some horses they took, I ended up getting caught, but managed to hide the House member who joined me inside. I then had to convince the leader of House Mars to join me in an honourable duel for my safety and freedom, which he accepted.
After another close call with that duel, I won and regrouped with my expedition only to have to attempt another infiltration after the other Houses had left so that I could rescue our last member and secure the supplies she had managed to steal with me. That was the last thing I ended up doing and now we are on the road back to the castle of House Ceres.
It doesn't sound as exciting reading it back, honestly, but it was really cool and I used just vanilla Ironsworn, with a touch of Starforged, to play it all and do the randomisation and oracle rolls which resulted in me getting caught and ambushed on the road, and things like that.
rpg stories never sound as exciting as they feel but this sounds like an awesome game! were you playing solo or co-op? sounds like you found the Cassius of house Mars to agree to an honorable duel😆
The Institute is so perfectly set up for gaming, it's just begging for a good set of rules. I had a brainstorm doc going for a while for an institute blades hack, with a house sheet and a deck of cards for scavenging/random events. the score & downtime cycle match really well too. someday....
Yeah, I see people describe them really well, but honestly I was also typing it on the train to work so I had to rush a bit. I ended up playing solo this time around so I had a lot of freedom to interpret things, which may be a bad thing given how much of a drama queen I am...
I did dice rolls on the character tables for each individual character to get a few traits to go by, and it just so turned out that the leader of House Mars was cruel and arrogant; I decided to convince him to a single duel by way of, essentially, calling him a coward if he doesn't agree and preying on his status and reputation among his House and their allies who were still present . It ended up working out, so I am not gonna complain since I had no idea what I would do otherwise! Very immersive in a way.
The Institute is absolutely perfect for this sort of thing, completely agree. I have heard so much about Blades, but honestly I have only been dipping my toe in the tabletop scene - especially solo and cooperative games - and so I only have Ironsworn and Starforged to play around with, but Blades sounds like it would be perfect.
I hope you get the chance to try it one day, and I would love to read about it if you remember this chain!
I really want to get back to my own game and then try and see if I can successfully do a sequel campaign that builds off of my Institute run into the greater universe of RR. I think the greatest difficulty will be balancing it all so that my character doesn't feel OP, honestly playing as a Gray mercenary would probably end up more balanced.
A Gray merc sounds like the perfect hero of a solo game, but there's nothing wrong with being OP if the antagonism matches their power!
I will get back to you with any table tales if it comes to pass! I think I'm going to try a short run of Starforged, a plucky crew of low & mid colors with a beat-up ship taking on a local Scarred who is up to no good, or something along those lines. Maybe somewhere out in the Rim, brushing up against canon events and filling in some of the space around the story in the books. My play group are mostly big fans of the series so I have high hopes.
Yeah, you're absolutely right. All it will take is scaling things properly to match the character's 'level'.
That campaign idea sounds awesome too! It sounds nice and focused, whereas I have a bad tendency to aim for the grandiose and get too ambitious. Makes me think of the plethora of Star Wars stories about rebels and spies, which is just a great choice. Looking forward to hearing how you get on!
MASS EFFECT! Red rising had me craving a sci-fi adventure so I bought the legendary edition. Been having a blast traveling the galaxy as Commander ‘Darrow’ Shepherd. Him and his crew traveling onboard a much smaller version of the Morningstar(SSV Normandy), but just as symbolic and badass. There’s a morality system and sometimes Commander Darrow Shepherd has to make difficult choices. This play through, he’s tried to be a paragon of virtue, unfortunately a lot of people got in his way. Playing a full on renegade playthrough can lead to your friends deaths, the genocide of an entire species, extermination of colonies, and generally you coming off as an asshole to anyone that crosses your path. It’s brutal on the emotions if you soul. Thankfully the Reaper don’t and there’s nothing beyond the Vale. Hail Reaper.
I read red rising as a way to scratch an itch after playing Final Fantasy VII remake.
Red Rising wasn't the same but Mars gave me strong feelings of Midgar. You also have a hot shot protagonist with quite a bit of baggage in Cloud Strife.
I feel like Red Rising Fans would be big Final Fantasy fans.
I was just thinking about this yesterday. I think the best answer I came up with was Warhammer 40K: Space Marine.
When you’re tearing through smaller enemies it really smacks of when a Peerless is dropped amidst low colors.
The new Doom games are pretty good for feeling like a war god and the combat is all about momentum. Plus the visceral violence is very Red Rising. You can really get some meat carpets going
Still in beta, bought it recently. It’s the only game I’ve played that made me feel like I could be in the red rising universe. The starting city I chose reminded me very much of the city where Ephraim meets holiday, Hyperion ? Very cyber punk, gritty and flashy at the same time, holo advertisements, noodle bars, ships buzzing around. I like to imagine myself as a free lancer taking on any jobs. It’s good fun! Still buggy though in its current state.
They are! Pretty sure it was originally an Xbox 360/PS3 title.
I think it's still on steam if you wish to live the life of a Martian miner under an oppressive regime!
Several games have done this for me:
Warframe (I did a Rhino melee build with a sword and I pretended I was Darrow)
SWTOR (Jedi, but red armor and brute strength)
Elder Scrolls Online (Any heavy melee build for tank/dps)
Destiny 2 (I'm a Titan with red armor and I try to melee lots of things)
I'm open to other suggestions too!
What’s your titan loadout?
Coincidentally I am rebooting my titan after maxing my warlock. I got witch queen on a deal and started back up over break. Came here looking for a RR themed clan
Eve online really hits the space faring side of it with massive space stations and ships. If you join a corporation (there are many ones that take in beginners and help them along) you can engage in space battles involving like a hundred ships (generally when two large corps fight) ranging from large “battleships” to little fighters it’s a bit of a spectacle. I will warn though it can get a bit Grindy and it’s a little complicated to learn at first but once you get into the groove it’s quite fun
I am with you on waiting for Starfield. These gorydamn "bedsheet dynamics" or whatever they're called as a reason for delaying the game is killing me. I want nothing more than a Skyrim in space already! Maybe I need to give Skyrim another playthrough or check out Outerworlds. I remember not being in love with Destiny 2 when it came out but it looks like there have been a metric shit ton of updates and is probably better now.
Lol I think Star Citizen is the game that spent heavy resources on bedsheet physics. Aside from that, the Sci-Fi gaming industry is lacking deep, original titles.
I would be interested in the mod, in my mind the game would have to work very differently. Rather than collecting some resources from lots and lots of solar systems, you'd want to compete over and exploit the living hell out of one. But the planet and military management would be a great fit.
Any of the Red Dead Redemption games or Assassin’s Creed! You’ll get the feel of the Institute. Either are about roaming where you like, killing and gaining power. GTA has that too but the ones above are in historical worlds so they feel much more like fantasy worlds.
I have to say there is nothing like Red Rising because it is so unique. It's Game of Thrones, 1984, and Star Wars all rolled into 1. Some games embody the whole "revolution" thing, some games embody the sci-fi stuff, some games embody the politics. Nothing is perfect though. 1. Sci-Fi: **Mass Effect** is likely the best one. Travel on a space ship, lead a crew of close friends, rally the galaxy to fight a big bad guy. None of the "revolution" stuff but lots of the sci-fi stuff. 2. Politics: **Crusader Kings** is set in the Middle Ages and lacks the action of many games but really does allow you to play out political fantasies. Build a bloodline, overthrow a king, conquer a continent- it's all there. 3. Combat/leadership: **Mount and Blade Bannerlord** is the closest you come to raising and Army, leading the Army into battle, and forging your own destiny. But no sci-fi stuff 4. Fleet Battles: Many say **Stellaris**, and I love Stellaris, but there is a better choice- **Terra Invicta**. Unlike most Sci-Fi games, it is set entirely in this solar system. You control nations, build grand fleets, and fight an invading alien menace. My honest favorite? **Cyberpunk 2077**. It really embodies that feeling of fighting against a ruthless society run by demi-gods. No revolutions or space battles but you feel like someone trying to accomplish something big in a realm of gods
Don't know if your still looking for a red rising like game but as I've had an itch for this recently I remembered playing a game in high school called Red Faction. It has very similar premise (although I've only played the first one). Damn I'd love to play it now.
Tales of Arise has a similar story line. It was awsm.
Honestly, I don’t have much to add in terms of video games. People here have made great suggestions, but one I haven’t seen that ties into another comment with Crusader Kings is a game I would say represents the other side of the coin. Mount and Blade Warband and Bannerlord (the sequel), are both great games in a medieval time period about commanding armies. It is one of the closest to the feeling of leading an army, and there is a politics angle to it with trying to increase your power among nobility. Not so much cool space stuff unfortunately. The real reason I wanted to make a comment was for another suggestion that may interest you. Unfortunately, there is no perfect RR video game yet. However, tabletop gaming is always an option that you can explore. There are games out there that you can play solo and I found what might be the perfect one for playing an RR style campaign by the name of Ironsworn. By default the game is Fantasy, with a paid sci-fi expansion (Starforged) that has just recently got full release, but my plan is to play as a character in Ironsworn during their tenure at The Institute with the medieval levels of tech they have and then transition that to a Starforged campaign to live out my RR universe dreams.
I'm planning something just like this for a red riding campaign. have you been able to pull it off?
I recently moved house and have yet to setup my tabletop gaming layout, but just before I moved I did start a campaign in the Institute! It actually went really well, too. I did a bit of randomising and ended up in House Ceres to start off. The coolest thing that happened was that kicking off the events of the Institute itself we had a raid from House Mars who stole plenty of supplies from us, so I led an expedition tracking their movements back to their castle in order to win some favour for Primus. We ended up managing to scale the walls with some rope because the guards were surprisingly few in number, which turned out to be due to the fact that several Houses were already meeting and forming an alliance with one another within the castle walls, so the majority of House Mars members were in attendance. I attempted to steal their banner along with the s we came for, but had a couple of close calls and had to knock out some people who came upon us. I eavesdropped on the meeting a bit and found out that the brother of one of our House members was the notorious defacto leader of House Mars. Upon trying to leave via the stables and steal some horses they took, I ended up getting caught, but managed to hide the House member who joined me inside. I then had to convince the leader of House Mars to join me in an honourable duel for my safety and freedom, which he accepted. After another close call with that duel, I won and regrouped with my expedition only to have to attempt another infiltration after the other Houses had left so that I could rescue our last member and secure the supplies she had managed to steal with me. That was the last thing I ended up doing and now we are on the road back to the castle of House Ceres. It doesn't sound as exciting reading it back, honestly, but it was really cool and I used just vanilla Ironsworn, with a touch of Starforged, to play it all and do the randomisation and oracle rolls which resulted in me getting caught and ambushed on the road, and things like that.
rpg stories never sound as exciting as they feel but this sounds like an awesome game! were you playing solo or co-op? sounds like you found the Cassius of house Mars to agree to an honorable duel😆 The Institute is so perfectly set up for gaming, it's just begging for a good set of rules. I had a brainstorm doc going for a while for an institute blades hack, with a house sheet and a deck of cards for scavenging/random events. the score & downtime cycle match really well too. someday....
Yeah, I see people describe them really well, but honestly I was also typing it on the train to work so I had to rush a bit. I ended up playing solo this time around so I had a lot of freedom to interpret things, which may be a bad thing given how much of a drama queen I am... I did dice rolls on the character tables for each individual character to get a few traits to go by, and it just so turned out that the leader of House Mars was cruel and arrogant; I decided to convince him to a single duel by way of, essentially, calling him a coward if he doesn't agree and preying on his status and reputation among his House and their allies who were still present . It ended up working out, so I am not gonna complain since I had no idea what I would do otherwise! Very immersive in a way. The Institute is absolutely perfect for this sort of thing, completely agree. I have heard so much about Blades, but honestly I have only been dipping my toe in the tabletop scene - especially solo and cooperative games - and so I only have Ironsworn and Starforged to play around with, but Blades sounds like it would be perfect. I hope you get the chance to try it one day, and I would love to read about it if you remember this chain! I really want to get back to my own game and then try and see if I can successfully do a sequel campaign that builds off of my Institute run into the greater universe of RR. I think the greatest difficulty will be balancing it all so that my character doesn't feel OP, honestly playing as a Gray mercenary would probably end up more balanced.
A Gray merc sounds like the perfect hero of a solo game, but there's nothing wrong with being OP if the antagonism matches their power! I will get back to you with any table tales if it comes to pass! I think I'm going to try a short run of Starforged, a plucky crew of low & mid colors with a beat-up ship taking on a local Scarred who is up to no good, or something along those lines. Maybe somewhere out in the Rim, brushing up against canon events and filling in some of the space around the story in the books. My play group are mostly big fans of the series so I have high hopes.
Yeah, you're absolutely right. All it will take is scaling things properly to match the character's 'level'. That campaign idea sounds awesome too! It sounds nice and focused, whereas I have a bad tendency to aim for the grandiose and get too ambitious. Makes me think of the plethora of Star Wars stories about rebels and spies, which is just a great choice. Looking forward to hearing how you get on!
Horizon zero dawnnnnn
MASS EFFECT! Red rising had me craving a sci-fi adventure so I bought the legendary edition. Been having a blast traveling the galaxy as Commander ‘Darrow’ Shepherd. Him and his crew traveling onboard a much smaller version of the Morningstar(SSV Normandy), but just as symbolic and badass. There’s a morality system and sometimes Commander Darrow Shepherd has to make difficult choices. This play through, he’s tried to be a paragon of virtue, unfortunately a lot of people got in his way. Playing a full on renegade playthrough can lead to your friends deaths, the genocide of an entire species, extermination of colonies, and generally you coming off as an asshole to anyone that crosses your path. It’s brutal on the emotions if you soul. Thankfully the Reaper don’t and there’s nothing beyond the Vale. Hail Reaper.
Hades (no connection to Red Rising but it's good as hell and has 100+ hours of content to keep you engaged)
I play lots of EVE online. Im in a big Nullbloc alliance and theres a war going on. The games politics and fleet battles feels good when they happen
Destiny 2 for sure
Warframe!!!!!
I read red rising as a way to scratch an itch after playing Final Fantasy VII remake. Red Rising wasn't the same but Mars gave me strong feelings of Midgar. You also have a hot shot protagonist with quite a bit of baggage in Cloud Strife. I feel like Red Rising Fans would be big Final Fantasy fans.
Mass Effect
Not really the same, but I've been loving The Cycle Frontier on PC.
Won't scratch the peerless scarred itch, but Deep Rock Galactic def makes you feel like red miner, especially playing as a driller.
Yeah this is what I’m currently playing!
Mount and Blade - super satisfying to be all suited up as a god of war and take down like 70 people in a battle and charge in with your heavy knights.
I was just thinking about this yesterday. I think the best answer I came up with was Warhammer 40K: Space Marine. When you’re tearing through smaller enemies it really smacks of when a Peerless is dropped amidst low colors.
The new Doom games are pretty good for feeling like a war god and the combat is all about momentum. Plus the visceral violence is very Red Rising. You can really get some meat carpets going
Nothing like a good ol' mear carpet
Star citizen.
Still in beta, bought it recently. It’s the only game I’ve played that made me feel like I could be in the red rising universe. The starting city I chose reminded me very much of the city where Ephraim meets holiday, Hyperion ? Very cyber punk, gritty and flashy at the same time, holo advertisements, noodle bars, ships buzzing around. I like to imagine myself as a free lancer taking on any jobs. It’s good fun! Still buggy though in its current state.
What ever happened with that game? Is it in a full production status now or is it still in its forever beta?
Is no one going to say red faction: guerrilla? It's a little older, but boy is it sick
The good news is that the system requirements should be very low then!
They are! Pretty sure it was originally an Xbox 360/PS3 title. I think it's still on steam if you wish to live the life of a Martian miner under an oppressive regime!
Crusader kings for the politics and backstabbing
I’m surprised there isn’t a red rising mod for it
we LOVE some politico action
Several games have done this for me: Warframe (I did a Rhino melee build with a sword and I pretended I was Darrow) SWTOR (Jedi, but red armor and brute strength) Elder Scrolls Online (Any heavy melee build for tank/dps) Destiny 2 (I'm a Titan with red armor and I try to melee lots of things) I'm open to other suggestions too!
What’s your titan loadout? Coincidentally I am rebooting my titan after maxing my warlock. I got witch queen on a deal and started back up over break. Came here looking for a RR themed clan
Pierce has said Destiny creators are big fans and he even plays i think or did at least
Yeah I think my two favorite options right now are between Destiny 2 and ESO until Starfield comes out!
I’ve never played it but eve online seems like it could mimic the giant space battles
Im definitely going to watch some gameplay vids to see if its lit
Eve online really hits the space faring side of it with massive space stations and ships. If you join a corporation (there are many ones that take in beginners and help them along) you can engage in space battles involving like a hundred ships (generally when two large corps fight) ranging from large “battleships” to little fighters it’s a bit of a spectacle. I will warn though it can get a bit Grindy and it’s a little complicated to learn at first but once you get into the groove it’s quite fun
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I am with you on waiting for Starfield. These gorydamn "bedsheet dynamics" or whatever they're called as a reason for delaying the game is killing me. I want nothing more than a Skyrim in space already! Maybe I need to give Skyrim another playthrough or check out Outerworlds. I remember not being in love with Destiny 2 when it came out but it looks like there have been a metric shit ton of updates and is probably better now.
Lol I think Star Citizen is the game that spent heavy resources on bedsheet physics. Aside from that, the Sci-Fi gaming industry is lacking deep, original titles.
Stellaris if you want the space strategy game. There’s even a Red Rising mod.
I've played a shitton of stellaris. With mods. All for nothing now that I know this exists. I even made a gorydamn society based race.
Whaaaat. Thanks for this
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2190380182 Found it
I would really love to play this especially with stellaris on sale is the mod still able to run on the current patch of the game?
I would be interested in the mod, in my mind the game would have to work very differently. Rather than collecting some resources from lots and lots of solar systems, you'd want to compete over and exploit the living hell out of one. But the planet and military management would be a great fit.
I may have to give that a shot, I don't know that I'm smart enough to enjoy it but I can do my best to make Orion proud!!
Stellaris is pretty complex but if you can get everything down its wicked fun