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Games like Half-Life 2 2004
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 Half-Life 2
Games closest to Half-Life 2
The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings - Premium Edition 2011Also plot-driven, earnest and richly built
The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings - Collector's Edition 2011Also plot-driven, earnest and grave
Black Myth: Wukong 2024Also plot-driven, earnest and epic
The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings 2011Also plot-driven, earnest and richly built
Final Fantasy XVI 2023Also plot-driven, epic and grave
Deus Ex: Human Revolution 2011Also plot-driven, epic and richly built
Batman: Arkham Knight 2015Also richly built, plot-driven and epic
Tales of the Abyss 2005Also plot-driven, epic and earnest
Resonance: A Plague Tale Legacy 2026Also plot-driven, grave and earnest
Ghost of Yotei 2025Also plot-driven, earnest and grave
Onimusha: Way of the Sword 2026Also grave, plot-driven and earnest
Dishonored 2 2016Also richly built and grave
The same feel, in other forms
Albums
- Ghostlights 2016Also plot-driven, richly built and epic
- Secret Garden 2014Also earnest, plot-driven and grave
- Silverthorn 2012Also plot-driven, earnest and grave
Films
Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga 2024Also epic, earnest and grave
Planet of the Apes 1968Also earnest and epic
9 2009Also earnest and grave
Books
Preludes & Nocturnes 1991Also grave and earnest
The Subtle Knife 1997Also earnest, epic and grave
That hideous strength 1945Also epic, grave and meticulous
Series
Alien: Earth 2025Also epic and grave
Battlestar Galactica 2003Also epic, earnest and grave
See 2019Also grave, epic and earnest
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