Games Like Dustborn (2026)

Shared: Narrative-Driven

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: tier:indie

Four friends, one camera, and a procedurally generated underground full of things that want to kill you on film. Content Warning is the co-op horror bit that somehow became the social satire nobody asked for but everyone needed.

Shared: Narrative-Driven

Eight hours of handcrafted cyberpunk seen from four inches off the ground - Stray is the rare short game that knows exactly what it wants to be and never flinches.

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: Relationship System

Proof that dying can be the best part of a story: Hades turns every failed escape attempt into a character beat, and the combat is sharp enough that you will want to fail a few more times just to try the shield next run.