Games Like Middle-earth™: Shadow of War™ (2026)

Shared: Third-Person Combat

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

Shared: Army Building

Fifteen-year-old medieval sandbox that somehow still plays better than half the RPGs released this decade, if you can stomach the 2010 visuals and a story told mostly through faction politics and troop wages.

Shared: Skill Tree

An 86-rated origin story reboot that holds up as a tight third-person shooter with genuine survival-horror tension, let down by a multiplayer mode nobody asked for and even fewer people play.

Shared: Skill Tree

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: Open-World RPG

Skyrim Special Edition is the definitive remaster of Bethesda's open-world fantasy classic, with improved visuals and all DLC included. Still the best accidental 200-hour time sink on PC.