Games Like Winds Of Arcana: Ruination (2026)

Shared: Souls-lite, Metroidvania

Respawn took Dark Souls, Metroid, and Uncharted, threw them in a blender with a lightsaber, and somehow the result is the best Jedi game in years - if you have the patience for a slow burn.

Shared: Dark Fantasy

Free-to-play ARPG that has spent over a decade proving the genre ceiling is higher than Diablo ever imagined. Bring patience, a spreadsheet tolerance, and nowhere to be this weekend.

Shared: Metroidvania

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: Metroidvania

Six years of memes and broken promises evaporated the moment I dropped into Pharloom. Hornet is a razor-sharp upgrade in every direction, and Team Cherry somehow delivered on the hype.

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.