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Games like Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor 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 Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor
Games closest to Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor
Assassin's Creed 2007Also grave, richly built and plot-driven
Middle-earth: Shadow of War 2017Also richly built, epic and grave
Assassin's Creed II 2009Also richly built, grave and epic
Wing Commander III: Heart of the Tiger 1994Also grave, plot-driven and richly built
Onimusha: Way of the Sword 2026Also grave, earnest and plot-driven
Assassin's Creed Brotherhood 2010Also richly built, grave and plot-driven
Assassin's Creed III 2012Also richly built, grave and epic
Onimusha 2: Samurai's Destiny 2002Also grave, plot-driven and earnest
Assassin's Creed Unity 2014Also grave, richly built and epic
Scarface: The World Is Yours 2006Also grave, richly built and epic
Tails of Iron II: Whiskers of Winter 2025Also grave and epic
Assassin's Creed Shadows 2025Also grave, epic and richly built
The same feel, in other forms
Albums
- Humanity: Hour I 2007Also grave, richly built and earnest
- Silverthorn 2012Also grave, earnest and richly built
- Vale 2018Also grave, richly built and plot-driven
Books
Ghosts of the Shadow Market 2019Also grave, richly built and earnest
The Guns of Avalon 1972Also grave, epic and plot-driven
Coalescent 2003Also grave, epic and earnest
Films
Fatherland 1994Also grave, earnest and plot-driven
Along with the Gods: The Last 49 Days 2018Also grave, earnest and epic
Return to Oz 1985Also earnest and grave
Series
The Acolyte 2024Also grave, earnest and epic
Castlevania 2017Also grave, earnest and epic
Super Dimension Fortress Macross 1982Also epic, grave and earnest
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