Games Like DEAD OR SCHOOL (2026)

Shared: Skill Tree, Weapon Modding

The extraction shooter genre finally got its mainstream moment, and ARC Raiders is why. If you bounced off Tarkov's spreadsheet-first design, this one deserves a second look.

Shared: Metroidvania, Skill Tree

Respawn took Dark Souls, Metroid, and Uncharted, threw them in a blender with a lightsaber, and somehow the result is the best Jedi game in years - if you have the patience for a slow burn.

Shared: Metroidvania

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: Metroidvania

Six years of memes and broken promises evaporated the moment I dropped into Pharloom. Hornet is a razor-sharp upgrade in every direction, and Team Cherry somehow delivered on the hype.

Shared: Skill Tree

The Nemesis System is one of the best ideas in action-RPG history, and Shadow of War wraps it in 60-plus hours of orc-slaying, fortress-storming chaos that Tolkien fans and genre regulars will struggle to put down.