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Games like Dead Island 2 2023
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 Dead Island 2
Games closest to Dead Island 2
Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel 2014Also unpretentious, contemporary and classical in form
Saints Row 2006Also unpretentious, contemporary and classical in form
Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars 2009Also unpretentious, contemporary and classical in form
Jak X: Combat Racing 2005Also unpretentious, contemporary and resolved
Dead Rising 3 2013Also unpretentious, contemporary and comic
Dead Rising 2 2010Also unpretentious, contemporary and classical in form
Dead Rising 4 2016Also unpretentious, classical in form and comic
True Crime: Streets of LA 2003Also unpretentious, contemporary and classical in form
Akiba's Trip 2011Also unpretentious, contemporary and comic
NeverDead 2012Also unpretentious, contemporary and classical in form
Rocketbirds: Hardboiled Chicken 2011Also unpretentious, contemporary and comic
Battlefield: Bad Company 2008Also contemporary, unpretentious and plot-driven
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Books
The Gate of the Feral Gods 2021Also unpretentious, contemporary and classical in form
Johannes Cabal, the necromancer 2009Also unpretentious, classical in form and contemporary
The Faceless Ones 2007Also contemporary, unpretentious and classical in form
Films
Ready or Not: Here I Come 2026Also unpretentious, contemporary and classical in form
Sexmission 1984Also unpretentious, contemporary and classical in form
Cold Storage 2026Also unpretentious, contemporary and classical in form
Series
Twisted Metal 2023Also unpretentious, classical in form and plot-driven
Blood Blockade Battlefront 2015Also unpretentious, contemporary and classical in form
President Curtis 2026Also contemporary, unpretentious and classical in form
Albums
- Be a Man 2003Also unpretentious, contemporary and resolved
- Der Tag an dem die Welt unterging 2010Also unpretentious, contemporary and comic
- I Am Not a Human Being II 2013Also unpretentious, contemporary and classical in form
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