Games Like Caves of Lore (2026)

Shared: Classless Progression

You are the Dragonborn, cursed to absorb dragon souls and shout mountains into submission. Skyrim is the open-world RPG benchmark everything else still gets measured against.

Shared: New Game Plus

Lies of P is a FromSoftware-adjacent soulslike that retells Pinocchio as a bleak industrial horror story, and it sticks the landing more often than it misses.

Shared: New Game Plus

Bethesda's most ambitious swing in two decades lands somewhere between awe-inspiring and exhausting - faction allegiances and New Game Plus are worth your time; the procedural planets rarely are.

Shared: tier:sub-5

Russian roulette with a 12-gauge and enough item-based mind games to make pure luck feel like a skill issue. Dirt cheap, brutally short, weirdly hard to put down.

Shared: Solo Developer

If you've ever wished Banished had the supply-chain depth of a Paradox title and the battlefield weight of early Total War, this is the closest anyone has come to building that game.