Games Like Haiku, the Robot (2026)

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: Boss Fights

If you have one friend and a free evening, this is the co-op game that makes every other co-op game feel lazy by comparison. Roughly 15 hours of relentless mechanical invention, zero filler.

Shared: Metroidvania

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: 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.