Games Like Celestian Tales: Old North (2026)

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: tier:indie

Closer to Dwarf Fortress in a wuxia robe than anything you'd find on a typical RPG shelf - deep, opaque, and rewarding only if you commit to learning its dense systems.

Shared: Weapon Crafting

The first hour feels clumsy on purpose. Survive to the grappling hook and Harran becomes the best first-person parkour playground on PC, filler quests and all.

Shared: Weapon Crafting

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.

Shared: Stamina Combat

A Souls-like set across two overlapping worlds, Lords of the Fallen nails its dual-realm gimmick but stumbles on pacing and performance. Worth your time if you can handle the friction.