Games Like Vampyr (2026)

Shared: story-rich

Proof that dying can be the best part of a story: Hades turns every failed escape attempt into a character beat, and the combat is sharp enough that you will want to fail a few more times just to try the shield next run.

Shared: Melee Combat

Parkour-driven zombie survival RPG with best-in-class movement, a meaty open world, and all major DLC packed in. Still holds up years after launch.

Shared: Melee Combat

Parkour across a quarantined city by day, then pray you make it to a safe house before the Volatiles clock in. Ten years on, Dying Light still does the day-night survival loop better than almost anything else in the genre.

Shared: Skill Tree

The Nemesis System is one of the best ideas in action-RPG history, and Shadow of War wraps it in 60-plus hours of orc-slaying, fortress-storming chaos that Tolkien fans and genre regulars will struggle to put down.

Shared: Melee Combat

A parkour-heavy open-world survival RPG set in a crumbling city overrun by infected - ambitious in scope, uneven in execution.