Time always feels like it’s passing by too fast. That is, until you find yourself waiting for something you’re extremely excited for. Such is the case for the Destroy All Humans! 2020 remake. The remake is a full year away, which isn’t a bad thing as Black Forest Games announced the remake this early to allow fans like you and me to offer feedback for the game’s development. That said, a year is a long time to wait and if you’re like me it’s burning a hole straight through your soul.

So I invite you, dear reader and (presumably) fellow Destroy All Humans! fan as I count down games you might enjoy playing during the long wait for Destroy All Humans! This list shall take into consideration other games that share certain similarities with the Destroy All Humans! games. That could mean they feature untold amounts of explosions and destruction, little gray aliens like the Furons, perhaps they satirize a socioeconomic time period in human history, or maybe they’re just stupid amounts of mindlessly destructive fun. Either way, if you love Destroy All Humans! as much as I do, these games likely have something for you too!


Saints Row IV Re-elected & Gat Out of Hell




Remember how in Destroy All Humans! 2, Crypto was the violent playboy president of the USA? The main character of Saints Row IV just happens to be the exact same thing, and as an added bonus SR4's character creation is so mind-bogglingly in-depth you can actually recreate Crypto as the main character!

If that’s not enough for you, you also get super powers in the game, one of which includes Telekinesis to throw people around with, there are UFOs you can fly, and there are even a black hole gun, a disintegrator ray and an anal probe in the game. Saints Row IV is practically Destroy All Humans! in everything but name. It’s also got a bangin’ sountrack with classics like What Is Love and Safety Dance.


And to top it all off, if you just can’t get enough Saints Row IV once you’ve completed it, boot up Gat out of Hell where your recreation of Crypto will be kidnapped by Satan himself to force him to marry his daughter Jezebel. Here you’ll take control of Johnny Gat with the power of free flight to pursue the ultimate goal of shooting the Devil in the face.

Crackdown 3




I had zero games for my Xbox 360 when I first got it as a birthday gift back in ‘08. At least, until I got Crackdown to tide me over until Path of the Furon released in december. Much to my surprise, Crackdown was an immensely good game that was also fun and made the wait just a bit more bearable.

Crackdown 3 is a third person hero action shooter where you play a supercop. Starting off at the lowest level, you level up your abilities by using them as well as collecting orbs hidden all over the city. Eventually you’ll be leaping fifty feet in the air, wallrunning and throwing large trucks at peoples’ faces. You can also play as Terry Crews! What’s not to love?


Just Cause 4




What do you get if you take The Day After Tomorrow, combine it with a John Woo action film and fill it full of ridiculous toys to play with and tons of destrucable objects? You get Just Cause 4.

In Just Cause 4, the name of the game is chaos. You play as Rico Rodriguez, a suave action hero dancing the line between Spanish and Italian who was once an agent for a government cell tasked with deposing dastardly dictators. Now he’s gone AWOL and is on the lookout for his missing dad.


Fighting giant tornadoes, killing people with wind cannons, zipping around with a wingsuit and using a grappling hook to defy the laws of physics, it’s all in a day’s work for Rico. Just Cause 4 is a sandbox that gives you all the tools you need to make your own fun, so you should definitely get a lot of mileage out of it until Destroy All Humans! releases!

Red Faction Guerilla Re-Mars-terd




Red Faction Guerilla has a simple permise; the Earth Defense Force is a totalitarian police state oppressing the people of Mars, they have a lot of very destructable property all over Mars, you’re a newly arrived demolitions expert. I think you can do the math on this one, friends.

Yes, Red Faction Guerilla is a game all about mild vandalism blowing stuff up. Or knocking it down brick-by-brick with the universe’s best sledgehammer, which is extremely satisfying it its own right, believe it or not. Throughout the game you’ll unlock countless toys to blow stuff up with, from demolition charges to a nanite gun, to mech suits and even nuclear missiles!


Thanks to Volition’s Geometry Modification Technology (or Geo-mod) engine, every building you damage and destroy comes apart differently each and every time. It’s the video game equivalent to knocking down your annoying younger sibling’s Legos, except these magically rebuild themselves when you load the game and won’t get you in trouble with your parents.

XCOM: Enemy Within




Ever wanted a DAH! spinoff where you could play as the Majestic? ...Yeah, me either. But the closest we’ll probably ever get to that is XCOM. XCOM Enemy Within is an isometric turn based strategy game where you play as the commander of the XCOM project, humanity’s first and last line of defense in the event of alien invasion.

You get a base underground that you get to choose where and what to build, and an entire taskforce of soldiers you can customize to your heart’s content. You can event create psi agents and power suit soldiers. So in the event you ever did for some reason want to roleplay as Majestic, XCOM Enemy Within is your game!




Stubbs the Zombie




First it was aliens, then it was robots, now? It’s zombies. Stubbs the Zombie is a third person action game set in retrofuturistic 50s satire a lot like Destroy All Humans! The only difference? You play as a zombie!

A zombie who can detach his hand and send it off to solve puzzles, like Thing from the Addams Family. He can also use his head as a bomb... Don’t look at me, it’s not my zombie lore.


Psychonauts




The same year the original Destroy All Humans! came out, we got another cult classic masterpiece featuring mind powers starring Richard Horvitz.

Psychonauts is a puzzle platformer from the mind of Tim Schafer with a really cool premise; a summer came for psychic children with mind powers. Here they train to become Psychonauts, special agents who enter the minds of other people to learn their deepest darkest secrets, and maybe fix a few of their... problems.


Main character Raz (Horvitz) has a bunch of psychic powers to play with like the Furons, except here they’re more for solving problems rather than causing them, unfortunately. But the hilarious campy humor is there! It also coincidentally has a new game coming next year.



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And there you have it fellow Furons, a few games that are similar in some ways to Destroy All Humans! to tide you over until next year. Any games I missed, forgot about or never got to play? Comment them down below! If you’ve never tried any of these games before but decide to now, be sure to comment below and let me know if I was on the money, or totally full of it.


Happy probing!

