Games Like Shovel Knight: Shovel of Hope (2026)

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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.

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FromSoftware stripped out the build variety and handed you one katana. If you can handle that trade, what remains might be the sharpest action combat ever put in a video game.

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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.

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Lordran at 60fps and 4K with the Artorias DLC bundled in - the cleanest entry point into the Souls lineage, though veterans will notice the remaster stopped short of fixing the game's actual rough edges.

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Brutally rewarding and genuinely hard to put down, DS3 is the Souls series at its most refined - and probably the best entry point if you actually want to finish one.