Games Like ELDEN RING Shadow of the Erdtree (2026)

Shared: Open-World Exploration, Environmental Storytelling

Probably the most debated RPG Bethesda ever shipped: a shooter-first, role-player-second sandbox that will either eat 200 hours of your life or leave New Vegas veterans quietly furious at the dialogue wheel.

Shared: Open-World Exploration

Open-world RPG set in the 1800s Wizarding World. Big on exploration and spell combat, lighter on story depth than the setting deserves.

Shared: Open-World Exploration

Hundreds of hours of morally complicated monster contracts, two expansion packs that rival full games, and a world that makes most open-world RPGs look like rough drafts. If you haven't played it yet, the question isn't whether to buy it, it's why you waited.

Shared: Environmental Storytelling

You are Miles Upshur, a journalist with a camcorder and zero combat skills, trapped inside a psychiatric asylum that is very much still occupied.

Shared: Environmental Storytelling

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.