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Games like Pokémon Sword 2019
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 Pokémon Sword
Games closest to Pokémon Sword
Pokémon Shield 2019Also classical in form, plot-driven and contemporary
Atelier Ryza 2: Lost Legends & the Secret Fairy 2020Also classical in form, earnest and resolved
Inazuma Eleven 2008Also plot-driven, resolved and contemporary
Tokyo Mirage Sessions #FE 2015Also plot-driven
Pokémon White Version 2 2012Also classical in form, resolved and plot-driven
Atelier Ryza 3: Alchemist of the End & the Secret Key 2023Also classical in form, earnest and resolved
Faerie Afterlight 2023Also earnest, classical in form and contemporary
Billy Hatcher and the Giant Egg 2003Also classical in form, resolved and earnest
DreamWorks Dragons: Dawn of New Riders 2019Also classical in form, earnest and resolved
Pokémon Pearl Version 2006Also classical in form, plot-driven and resolved
Rune Factory: Guardians of Azuma 2025Also classical in form, plot-driven and earnest
PokéPark 2: Wonders Beyond 2011Also classical in form, resolved and plot-driven
The same feel, in other forms
Series
Log Horizon 2013Also classical in form and contemporary
Grimm 2011Also classical in form, contemporary and earnest
Hunter x Hunter 1999Also classical in form, earnest and contemporary
Books
Bone 1997Also classical in form
Conrad's Fate 2005Also classical in form and resolved
Out From Boneville 1993Also classical in form and plot-driven
Films
City of Ember 2008Also classical in form, earnest and plot-driven
Momo 2025Also classical in form, earnest and resolved
Strange World 2022Also classical in form, earnest and resolved
Albums
- SILENT LOVE 1984Also classical in form, plot-driven and contemporary
- Le Soldat Rose 2006Also richly built, plot-driven and classical in form
- Passive Me, Aggressive You 2010Also plot-driven
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