Games Like Avernum 2: Crystal Souls (2026)

Shared: tier:aaa, Multiple Endings

Gorgeous Ming Dynasty soulslike with some of the genre's most flexible build systems - but PC players should know the optimization is rough and late-game balance spikes hard.

Shared: Turn-Based Tactical

Larian's landmark RPG pits four heroes against each other and a crumbling world, tactical combat, brutal choices, and a story that keeps rewriting its own rules.

Shared: 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: tier:aaa

A five-person studio built a Tarkov parody that somehow outgrew the joke. If you've ever wanted extraction-shooter tension without a lobby full of strangers hunting you, this is the most accessible version of that feeling you'll find.

Shared: tier:aaa

Survival crafting that actually respects your time: no hunger death spirals, Souls-lite combat with a parry that feels earned, and a voxel world worth losing a weekend inside.