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Games like Elderborn

2020USK 18PC, PlayStation, Xbox, Steam Deck verified87 % positive12.49 €

A brutal first-person fantasy slasher with heavy melee combat and light souls-like progression. You play a merciless warrior delving into a grim city full of ancient secrets.

  • Melee combat with weapons or fists
  • Boss fights as highlights
  • Fantasy setting
  • Dark, serious atmosphere

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In short: Games like Elderborn

Each of these 10 games shares something of what makes Elderborn special. The reasons are listed right on each game.

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Blade of Darkness

95 %Match

2021USK 18PC, PlayStation, Xbox, Nintendo Switch, Steam Deck verified90 % positive14.99 €

Brings what grabs you about Elderborn: melee combat with weapons or fists, a fantasy setting and a dark atmosphere.

A punishing fantasy action game with weighty, combo-based melee combat and four playable heroes, often seen as an early forerunner of Soulslike games. You carve a gory path through grim levels to stop the forces of Chaos.

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Thymesia

Melee combat with weapons or fists

A fast, punishing soulslike where you play plague doctor Corvus, relying on precise parries and dodges and on the disease powers of plundered weapons. Combat rewards aggression over turtling, set in a grim, decaying kingdom.

Severance: Blade of Darkness

Fantasy setting

A brutal third-person swordfighting game where you play a Knight, Barbarian, Dwarf or Amazon and carve through enemies with heavy combos and gory, weighty combat on the hunt for a Necromancer. Its demanding, physical combat and grim dark-fantasy mood made it a cult classic.

Revenant

Fantasy setting

A 1999 action RPG in which you play Locke, a resurrected warrior who fights monsters, collects magic and explores dark catacombs to rescue a warlord's kidnapped daughter. Combat is real-time from an isometric view with manually executed attack combos.

Dark Souls: Remastered

Boss fights as highlights

The genre-defining Soulslike: a bleak, intricately interconnected world of punishing combat, hidden paths and bosses that demand patience and precise timing. The remaster adds sharper visuals and includes the Artorias of the Abyss expansion.

Voin

Fantasy setting

Voin is an indie first-person hack-and-slash set in a dark fantasy world. You cut through hordes of enemies while wielding primordial elemental powers.

Demon's Souls

Boss fights as highlights

The original Soulslike: you fight through the fog-cursed kingdom of Boletaria across brutal, interconnected stages full of traps and demons, where every death costs your souls and every victory feels earned. Asynchronous online touches like messages, bloodstains and invasions give the lonely journey a unique edge.

Eastern Exorcist

Boss fights as highlights

A hand-painted 2D side-scrolling soulslike action RPG where you play an exorcist battling demons in an East Asian-inspired world, relying on tight dodging, parrying and talisman-based abilities.

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