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Games like Ico 2001
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 Ico
Games closest to Ico
Roadwarden 2022Also grave, earnest and plot-driven
The Vanishing of Ethan Carter 2014Also grave, earnest and contemplative
The Séance of Blake Manor 2025Also grave, earnest and plot-driven
Shenmue 1999Also grave, earnest and plot-driven
Attentat 1942 2017Also grave, earnest and contemplative
The Centennial Case: A Shijima Story 2022Also grave, earnest and plot-driven
Black Friday 2018Also grave, earnest and plot-driven
The Last Express 1997Also grave, earnest and plot-driven
Suzerain 2020Also grave, earnest and plot-driven
The Blood of Dawnwalker 2026Also grave, earnest and plot-driven
As Dusk Falls 2022Also grave and earnest
Black the Fall 2017Also grave and earnest
The same feel, in other forms
Films
Destiny 1921Also grave and earnest
Man of Aran 1934Also grave, earnest and contemplative
Our Time Will Come 2017Also grave and earnest
Albums
- Willoughby Tucker, I’ll Always Love You 2025Also grave, earnest and plot-driven
- Unremembered 2015Also grave, earnest and contemplative
- The Firstborn Is Dead 1985Also grave, earnest and plot-driven
Series
The Luminaries 2020Also grave and earnest
Dark 2017Also grave, earnest and plot-driven
Mononoke 2007Also grave and earnest
Books
Southland 2003Also grave and earnest
A grain of wheat 1967Also grave and earnest
The Devourers 2016Also grave
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