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Games like Dark Souls 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 Dark Souls
Games closest to Dark Souls
Elden Ring 2022Also richly built, epic and demanding
Dark Souls III 2016Also richly built, epic and grave
Welcome to the Dark Place 2025Also open-ended, demanding and grave
Sunless Sea 2015Also richly built, grave and contemplative
Planescape: Torment 1999Also epic, richly built and demanding
Darkwood 2017Also grave, bleak and demanding
Bloodborne 2015Also richly built, grave and demanding
Hell is Us 2025Also grave, open-ended and bleak
Rain World 2017Also demanding, grave and richly built
Hollow Knight 2017Also richly built, demanding and grave
A House of Many Doors 2017Also richly built, epic and earnest
The same feel, in other forms
Books
A Voyage to Arcturus 1920Also grave, epic and richly built
To Paradise 2022Also epic, grave and overwhelming
The darkness that comes before 2003Also epic, grave and richly built
Films
Evangelion: 3.0+1.0 Thrice Upon a Time 2021Also epic, grave and overwhelming
EVANGELION: DEATH (TRUE)² 1998Also epic, grave and open-ended
Evangelion: 3.0 You Can (Not) Redo 2012Also epic, grave and open-ended
Series
Westworld 2016Also epic, richly built and grave
Carnivàle 2003Also epic, grave and contemplative
Neon Genesis Evangelion 1995Also epic, open-ended and overwhelming
Albums
- A World in Their Screams 2007Also grave, epic and richly built
- The Death Defying Unicorn 2012Also epic, richly built and grave
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