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Games like Shadow of the Colossus 2005
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 Shadow of the Colossus
Games closest to Shadow of the Colossus
The Blood of Dawnwalker 2026Also grave, earnest and plot-driven
The Banner Saga 2014Also grave, earnest and epic
Suzerain 2020Also grave, earnest and plot-driven
Tactics Ogre: Let Us Cling Together 1995Also grave, earnest and plot-driven
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 2025Also grave, earnest and plot-driven
The Banner Saga 2 2016Also grave, earnest and plot-driven
Black Friday 2018Also grave, plot-driven and earnest
Arco 2024Also earnest and bleak
The Banner Saga 3 2018Also grave, earnest and plot-driven
Ico 2001Also grave, earnest and plot-driven
System Shock 1994Also grave, earnest and plot-driven
As Dusk Falls 2022Also grave, earnest and overwhelming
The same feel, in other forms
Albums
- Preacher’s Daughter 2022Also grave, plot-driven and earnest
- Totentag 1994Also grave, earnest and plot-driven
- Missa Atropos 2010Also grave, earnest and plot-driven
Films
Quest for Fire 1981Also grave, earnest and plot-driven
Metropolis 1927Also grave, earnest and epic
JFK 1991Also grave, earnest and contemplative
Series
Dark 2017Also grave, earnest and plot-driven
Carnivàle 2003Also grave, contemplative and earnest
Mario Puzo's The Godfather: The Complete Novel for Television 1977Also grave, earnest and epic
Books
A Canticle for Leibowitz 1959Also grave, epic and contemplative
The Silmarillion 1977Also grave, earnest and epic
The 1619 Project 2021Also grave, earnest and epic
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