Games Like 9th Dawn III (2026)

Shared: Skill-Based Progression

A brutally grounded medieval RPG where you play a blacksmith's son, not a chosen hero. History bites back every time you skip training.

Shared: tier:indie

Four friends, one camera, and a procedurally generated underground full of things that want to kill you on film. Content Warning is the co-op horror bit that somehow became the social satire nobody asked for but everyone needed.

Shared: tier:indie

The dating-sim wrapper is bait, and MiSide knows it. What starts as idle chores with an anime girl becomes a genre-hopping psychological horror that two developers built better than most studios manage with a full team.

Shared: Couch Co-op

Find one friend, because that is literally the only requirement to have one of the best co-op nights of the year. Hazelight's mechanical variety machine is relentless, inventive, and built to share.

Shared: Couch Co-op

Wobbly physics puzzles that feel broken by design until you realize the chaos IS the puzzle. Solo it's a patience test; with friends, it's the funniest co-op session of the year.