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Games like Final Fantasy VIII 1999
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 Final Fantasy VIII
Games closest to Final Fantasy VIII
Panzer Dragoon Saga 1998Also plot-driven, epic and grave
El Shaddai: Ascension of the Metatron 2011Also epic, plot-driven and grave
Fire Emblem: Three Houses 2019Also epic and richly built
The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings - Collector's Edition 2011Also plot-driven, epic and grave
Doom: The Dark Ages 2025Also epic, plot-driven and richly built
SaGa Frontier 2 1999Also epic, plot-driven and grave
Radiant Historia 2010Also epic, plot-driven and grave
Persona 2: Eternal Punishment 2000Also plot-driven, grave and richly built
Exist Archive: The Other Side of the Sky 2015Also epic, plot-driven and grave
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 – Deluxe Edition 2025Also epic, grave and plot-driven
Nier Replicant 2010Also plot-driven and grave
Dishonored 2 2016Also richly built and grave
The same feel, in other forms
Albums
- SYRE 2017Also plot-driven, richly built and grave
- Act III: Life and Death 2009Also plot-driven, richly built and grave
- Vaxis – Act I: The Unheavenly Creatures 2018Also plot-driven, richly built and grave
Films
Dune 1984Also epic, grave and plot-driven
Casshern 2004Also epic and grave
Things to Come 1936Also epic, grave and plot-driven
Books
Wolves of the Calla 1997Also epic, plot-driven and grave
The Drawing of the Three 1987Also epic and grave
Brasyl 2007Also epic and grave
Series
The Witcher 2019Also epic and grave
Alien: Earth 2025Also epic and grave
Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles 2008Also epic and grave
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