Games Like The Quest (2026)

Shared: Open World Exploration, First-Person RPG

Fourteen years old and still the benchmark open-world RPG newcomers get handed first. Either you have 300 hours in this already, or you owe it to yourself to find out why.

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: Day-Night Cycle

A five-person studio built a Tarkov parody that somehow outgrew the joke. If you've ever wanted extraction-shooter tension without a lobby full of strangers hunting you, this is the most accessible version of that feeling you'll find.

Shared: Open World Exploration

Crash-land on an ocean planet, then spend dozens of hours too scared to go deeper, but going anyway. Subnautica is survival-crafting with genuine dread and beauty.

Shared: First-Person RPG

Sixty-plus hours in 15th-century Bohemia, and I still felt underdressed for the jousting. If you want an RPG that treats you like an adult and makes every sword swing mean something, Henry's back, and he brought half of medieval Europe with him.