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Games like Dark Souls II 2014
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 II
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Project Zomboid 2013Also richly built, demanding and bleak
Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2004Also richly built and bleak
Hollow Knight: Silksong 2025Also richly built, epic and demanding
Mandragora: Whispers of the Witch Tree 2025Also epic, richly built and earnest
Don't Starve 2013Also richly built and demanding
Hollow Knight 2017Also richly built, demanding and epic
Planescape: Torment 1999Also epic, richly built and demanding
S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl 2007Also richly built, epic and earnest
Elden Ring 2022Also epic, richly built and demanding
The same feel, in other forms
Books
Wizard and Glass 1997Also epic, richly built and earnest
A Game of Thrones 1996Also epic, earnest and richly built
Series
The Man in the High Castle 2015Also epic and earnest
Battlestar Galactica 2004Also epic, richly built and earnest
Game of Thrones 2011Also epic, richly built and overwhelming
Films
Noah 2014Also epic and overwhelming
Evangelion: 3.0+1.0 Thrice Upon a Time 2021Also epic, overwhelming and demanding
Watchmen 2009Also epic and bleak
Albums
- Take Me Back to Eden 2023Also richly built
- Aspiral 2025Also epic and earnest
- SYRE 2017Also richly built
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