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Games like State of Decay 2013
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 State of Decay
Games closest to State of Decay
Barotrauma 2023Also contemporary, grave and bleak
Escape the Backrooms 2025Also grave, contemporary and bleak
Fade to Silence 2018Also grave, contemporary and earnest
The Surge 2017Also grave, contemporary and earnest
Sons of the Forest 2024Also grave, contemporary and bleak
Green Hell 2019Also contemporary, grave and earnest
Into the Radius 2 2026Also grave, contemporary and earnest
LifeAfter 2018Also grave, contemporary and classical in form
Dark Light 2022Also grave, contemporary and earnest
7 Days to Die 2024Also grave, contemporary and earnest
The Walking Dead: Saints & Sinners 2020Also grave, contemporary and earnest
Into the Radius 2020Also grave, contemporary and earnest
The same feel, in other forms
Series
WorldEnd: What are you doing at the end of the world? Are you busy? Will you save us? 2017Also grave, contemporary and earnest
NOS4A2 2019Also grave, contemporary and earnest
Hell Girl 2005Also contemporary, grave and bleak
Books
The Archived 2013Also grave, contemporary and earnest
Blood Canticle 1998Also grave, earnest and classical in form
In Enemy Hands 1997Also contemporary, grave and earnest
Films
Fate/stay night: Heaven's Feel II. Lost Butterfly 2019Also grave, contemporary and earnest
Made in Abyss: Dawn of the Deep Soul 2020Also grave, contemporary and earnest
Fate/stay night: Heaven's Feel I. Presage Flower 2017Also grave, earnest and contemporary
Albums
- K.O.D. 2009Also grave, contemporary and bleak
- Thirteenth Step 2003Also grave, contemporary and earnest
- Serenades of the Netherworld 2014Also grave, earnest and classical in form
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