Games Like Regions of Ruin: Runegate (2026)

Shared: Build Variety, Companion System

Fifteen years on, Obsidian's Mojave masterwork still sets the bar for faction politics, skill-gated dialogue, and choices that feel like they cost you something real.

Shared: tier:indie

Four friends, one camera, and a procedurally generated underground full of things that want to kill you on film. Content Warning is the co-op horror bit that somehow became the social satire nobody asked for but everyone needed.

Shared: tier:indie

The dating-sim wrapper is bait, and MiSide knows it. What starts as idle chores with an anime girl becomes a genre-hopping psychological horror that two developers built better than most studios manage with a full team.

Shared: Build Variety

A rebuilt back half, a real level editor, and split-screen that actually works: the extras here are tools, not wallpapers. Best if you have a couch partner or a D&D group.

Shared: Build Variety

Fromsoft's open-world pivot could have been a gimmick. Instead it produced something that holds up past hour 100 and still sparks arguments about build theory in 2025.