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Games like Mortal Kombat 1992
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 Mortal Kombat
Games closest to Mortal Kombat
Samurai Shodown II 1994Also unpretentious, classical in form and grave
Mortal Kombat: Komplete Edition 2012Also unpretentious, classical in form and resolved
Alien Breed 3D 1995Also unpretentious, classical in form and grave
Space Gun 1990Also unpretentious, resolved and grave
Dead Pixels 2012Also unpretentious, grave and resolved
Skautfold: Into the Fray 2019Also unpretentious, grave and relentless
Castlevania 1986Also classical in form, unpretentious and grave
Battle Arena Toshinden 3 1996Also unpretentious, classical in form and resolved
Bloody Roar 1997Also unpretentious, grave and resolved
Double Dragon II: The Revenge 1988Also unpretentious, classical in form and resolved
Aliens 1990Also unpretentious, grave and classical in form
Sword of Sodan 1989Also unpretentious, grave and resolved
The same feel, in other forms
Albums
- The Empire 2016Also grave, classical in form and unpretentious
- The Art of War 2005Also grave, classical in form and unpretentious
- The Waste Lands 1992Also grave, classical in form and unpretentious
Films
Circus of Horrors 1960Also unpretentious, grave and classical in form
Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart to Hades 1972Also grave, classical in form and unpretentious
Five Nights at Freddy's 2 2025Also unpretentious, classical in form and grave
Series
Cyber City Oedo 808 1990Also grave, classical in form and relentless
Hellsing: The Dawn 2011Also unpretentious, grave and classical in form
Black Lagoon 2006Also unpretentious, classical in form and grave
Books
Karen Memory 2015Also classical in form and grave
You Only Live Twice 1964Also classical in form, unpretentious and grave
The Red Knight 2012Also classical in form, unpretentious and grave
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