Games Like Lone Fungus (2026)

Shared: Metroidvania, Atmospheric Soundtrack

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: 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: 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: Atmospheric Soundtrack

Few action games move this well and fewer still make dying feel this instructive. Dead Cells is the roguelite that converts roguelite skeptics, and it has years of post-launch polish behind it to prove it.

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.