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Games like L.A. Noire 2011
Matched on how they feel, not on genre or who made them: the same pull on fourteen measures of character (tone, pace, scale, ambiguity and the rest), read from each title on Taste Buds. About L.A. Noire
Games closest to L.A. Noire
Gemini Rue 2011Also grave, plot-driven and earnest
Lifeless Planet 2014Also grave, plot-driven and nostalgic
Thief II: The Metal Age 2000Also grave, plot-driven and earnest
Skald: Against the Black Priory 2024Also grave, nostalgic and plot-driven
The Order: 1886 2015Also grave, plot-driven and earnest
Cave Story 2004Also plot-driven, grave and nostalgic
Gabriel Knight: Sins of the Fathers 1993Also plot-driven, grave and nostalgic
Resident Evil Requiem 2026Also grave, plot-driven and nostalgic
Timespinner 2018Also nostalgic, grave and plot-driven
Mafia III 2016Also grave, plot-driven and richly built
Sherlock Holmes: Crimes & Punishments 2014Also grave, plot-driven and earnest
Prisoner of Ice 1995Also plot-driven, grave and earnest
The same feel, in other forms
Albums
- Nostradamus: The Fate of Man 2005Also plot-driven, grave and nostalgic
- White Faced Lady 1990Also plot-driven, grave and nostalgic
- Magica 2000Also grave, plot-driven and richly built
Books
The Gunslinger 1976Also grave, earnest and bleak
The secret history of Twin Peaks 2016Also nostalgic, grave and plot-driven
Beren and Lúthien 2017Also grave, earnest and nostalgic
Films
Metropolis 2001Also grave and plot-driven
From Hell 2001Also grave and bleak
Return to Oz 1985Also grave and earnest
Series
The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance 2019Also nostalgic, grave and earnest
Carnival Row 2019Also grave and earnest
1983 2018Also grave and plot-driven
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