Games Like ELDEN RING Shadow of the Erdtree (2026)

Shared: Expansion, New Weapon Classes

Elden Ring's massive story expansion drops you into the Land of Shadow, a haunting new region packed with brutal dungeons, fresh weapons, and lore that recontextualizes the base game.

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: Environmental Storytelling

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: 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: Environmental Storytelling

Gorgeous Ming Dynasty soulslike with some of the genre's most flexible build systems - but PC players should know the optimization is rough and late-game balance spikes hard.