Games Like The Rise of the Golden Idol (2026)

Shared: Hand-Drawn Art, 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: Atmospheric Soundtrack, Mystery

Four to seven hours alone in the Wyoming wilderness with a walkie-talkie and a mystery that burns brighter than it lands - if that sounds like your kind of evening, keep reading.

Shared: Atmospheric Soundtrack

A low-stakes space exploration sandbox where terraforming alien planets feels genuinely tactile. Build, dig, and breathe in the silence between stars.

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: 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.