Games Like Anima: Gate of Memories (2026)

Shared: tier:indie, Multiple Endings

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: Non-Linear Exploration

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: Multiple Endings

Fifteen years on, Obsidian's Mojave masterwork still sets the bar for faction politics, skill-gated dialogue, and choices that feel like they cost you something real.

Shared: Multiple Endings

A cinematic branching thriller where every dialogue pick and split-second QTE reshapes the story of three androids fighting for survival in near-future Detroit.

Shared: Skill Tree Progression

Parkour across a quarantined city by day, then pray you make it to a safe house before the Volatiles clock in. Ten years on, Dying Light still does the day-night survival loop better than almost anything else in the genre.