Games Like Aaru's Awakening (2026)

Shared: Hand-Drawn Art

Few two-person studios have conjured a world this dense and this lonely. Hollow Knight is 40-plus hours of hand-drawn melancholy that will humble you, haunt you, and refuse to let go.

Shared: Precision Platformer

Co-op climbing survival on a deadly mystery island. One wrong move sends your whole scout squad back to square one.

Shared: Hardcore Mode

Free-to-play ARPG that has spent over a decade proving the genre ceiling is higher than Diablo ever imagined. Bring patience, a spreadsheet tolerance, and nowhere to be this weekend.

Shared: Hardcore Mode

Sixty-plus hours in 15th-century Bohemia, and I still felt underdressed for the jousting. If you want an RPG that treats you like an adult and makes every sword swing mean something, Henry's back, and he brought half of medieval Europe with him.

Shared: Precision Platformer

If you can survive the humbling that comes with your first hundred deaths on a single level, Geometry Dash will hand you one of the most satisfying feedback loops in the rhythm-platformer genre.