6 Similar Games Short List
Here are our hand-picked short list of similar games; the perfect thing to play next if you enjoyed Portal Knights. We don't use automatic matching, instead, we hand-pick games that are good to play if you have enjoyed Portal Knights.
Release Date: 20/03/2018, updated in 2023
Platforms: PC, Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S
Skill Rating: 11+ year-olds
Components: 3D First-Person, Day and Night, Open World and Weather
Sea of Thieves is an online game where you are a pirate searching for treasure and adventure. Cast into a large open sea you work with other online players to crew your ship and find treasure. The game has a main story but really focuses on creating...
Release Date: 11/11/2011, updated in 2017
Platforms: PC, PS3, PS4, Xbox 360 and Xbox One
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person, Day and Night and Open World
The Elder Scrolls is a series of action role-playing games that take you to detailed open worlds with free-form gameplay. The series has sold more than 58 million copies.
Release Date: 14/11/2018, updated in 2021
Platforms: PC, PS4 and Xbox One
Skill Rating: 14+ year-olds
Components: 3D First-Person and Open World
Fallout 76 is an open world adventure. You are a survivor of a nuclear war from Vault 76, which was designed to contain the best and brightest people, trained to restart society once the radiation levels were safe to do so. Unlike other [link...
Release Date: 06/02/2020
Platforms: PC
Components: 2D Side-On, Open World and Pixels
Stoneshard is a role-playing game set in a medieval world. You play a mercenary travelling through the war-torn kingdom, taking contracts, fighting, mending your wounds and developing your character.
Release Date: 14/09/2017, updated in 2019
Platforms: Mac, PC, PS4, Switch, Xbox One and iOS
Components: 3D Third-Person and Open World
Divinity: Original Sin II is a role-play adventure series. You head out with up to three other characters, each with backstories and personalities.
Release Date: 15/06/2016, updated in 2022
Platforms: Amazon Fire, Android, Mac, PC, Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S and iOS
Skill Rating: 7+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person
In this game, amateur game-makers create simple online games that often mimic real-world grown-up scenarios, like working in a pizza restaurant, surviving natural disasters, escaping prison, scuba diving or playing hide-and-seek. The library of games is...
20 Similar Games Long List
Here are our hand-picked long list of similar games; the perfect thing to play next if you enjoyed Portal Knights. We don't use automatic matching, instead, we hand-pick games that are good to play if you have enjoyed Portal Knights.
Release Date: 19/05/2015
Platforms: PC, PS4, Switch and Xbox One
Components: 3D Third-Person, Day and Night, Open World and Weather
In this game you play monster-hunter Geralt in a vast open world as he searches for his missing adopted daughter. The game responds to your actions and has dynamic environments, weather and day–night cycles that affect the creatures you hunt. It’s a...
Release Date: 21/11/2019, updated in 2020
Platforms: PC, Switch, Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person, Blocks and Open World
The Touryst is a puzzle based adventure, where you seek to unlock the mysteries of an archipelago of sun-drenched islands. That's if you want to of course, because the adventure can wait if you'd rather soak up the sun and make the most of your time...
Release Date: 23/11/2017, updated in 2019
Platforms: 3DS and 2DS, Amazon Fire, Android, Mac, PC, PS Vita, PS3, PS4, Wii U, Xbox 360, Xbox One and iOS
Skill Rating: 6+ year-olds
Components: 3D First-Person, Blocks, Day and Night and Open World
Although Minecraft – where players place blocks to build structures, sculpt the landscape and create adventures – is the best-selling game of all time, some of the best aspects of it are little known. Along with the exploration, building and...
Release Date: 08/02/2018
Platforms: Mac, PC, PS4 and Xbox One
Skill Rating: 14+ year-olds
Components: 3D First-Person, Day and Night and Open World
Rust (also, Rust: Console Edition) is an online survival game set in the wilderness. You explore, gather and craft materials to manage hunger, thirst, health and protection. The preparation is to ward off the threat of bears, wolves and (more commonly)...
Release Date: 18/07/2017, updated in 2018
Platforms: PC, PS4, Switch and Xbox One
Skill Rating: 7+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person, Cartoon, Day and Night and Open World
Yonder: The Cloud Catcher Chronicles is an adventure where you explore a world seeking out and collecting magical creatures, known as sprites, to banish an ominous shroud known as the Murk. As you do this, you make your way in the world, farming,...
Release Date: 31/05/2019
Platforms: PC, PS4, Switch and Xbox One
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: 3D First-Person, Blocks, Day and Night, Open World and Pixels
PixArk is an adventure game similar to the more complex (and violent) game Ark: Survival Evolved. With a simpler interface and Minecraft=style block building, it's a survival game that never gets too scary while also inviting ambitious play and...
Release Date: 15/06/2020, updated in 2021
Platforms: Mac, PC, PS4, Switch and Xbox One
Skill Rating: 7+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person, Cartoon, Day and Night and Open World
Summer in Mara is a farming game with a strong narrative about an adventurous girl called Koa. With a full day-night and season cycle, you can take the challenge on at your own pace as you build your farm and explore the world around you Take care of...
Release Date: 21/11/1991
Platforms: GBA, Switch, Wii and Wii U
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead, Open World and Pixels
The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past is an adventure game in a long "Zelda" series. Like the other games, you play Link, who must defeat an evil force in the land of Hyrule. You do this by exploring the world, killing spawning enemies and finding a...
Release Date: 14/11/2013
Platforms: Android, Apple TV, Mac, PC, PS Vita, PS4, Switch, Xbox One and iOS
Skill Rating: 7+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead
Oceanhorn is an adventure game series that brings Zelda-style exploration, battling and dungeon-solving to non-Nintendo platforms. You play as a boy on a quest to find his lost father and defeat the living fortress, Oceanhorn. You explore dungeons,...
Release Date: 18/02/2022
Platforms: Apple TV, Mac, PC, Switch and iOS
Skill Rating: 7+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead, Day and Night, Grid and Weather
Wylde Flowers is a cozy life and farming strategy game with a witchy twist. It's a charming world of diverse characters, magical spells and player choices. You play Tara, who has moved in to help her grandma and the family farm. By day you work the farm...
Release Date: 28/03/2017
Platforms: PC and Switch
Components: 2D Overhead, Open World and Pixels
Blossom Tales is an adventure game series where, like the Zelda series you explore an enchanted world, battle enemies and solve dungeons. It's a reimagining of the classic Zelda game, Link+to+the+Past.
Release Date: 09/07/2015, updated in 2017
Platforms: Mac, PC, PS4 and Xbox One
Components: 3D Third-Person, Blocks and Open World
Trove is an online adventure game that looks like Minecraft but with more role-play elements. This means you choose a class of character with specific attacks and abilities. You work through different worlds to progress different aspects of your...
Release Date: 24/04/2020, updated in 2021
Platforms: PC and Switch
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On, Day and Night and Pixels
Nira is a survival game where pixelated characters explore the primitive world to find resources to survive. It's unusual not only because of its basic art style but because its simplicity gives rise to emergent and open play. Something like a cross...
Release Date: 20/01/2016, updated in 2018
Platforms: Android, Mac, PC, Switch, Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S, iOS and iPhone, iPad
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead, Day and Night, Open World and Pixels
Crashlands is a world-building game where you fight monsters, craft resources, and build a base on an alien planet. As you explore, either on your own or with a friend, you encounter locals, complete quests and missions, and meet strange new enemies. It...
Release Date: 10/12/2022
Platforms: PC, PS4, PS5 and Switch
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person and Open World
Innocence Island is an adventure game where find yourself in a strange land without even the memory of how to walk. You explore the world by observing and learning skills from the creatures around you. It stands out as a journey through a world where...
Release Date: 10/12/2020
Platforms: iOS
Components: 2D Overhead and Grid
Swordy Quest is a role-play game where you craft, gather and hunt your way through a fantasy world that gradually unlocks over time. What's unusual is the simple interface that creates an accessible way for anyone to experience the surprisingly deep...
Release Date: 08/12/2016, updated in 2021
Platforms: 3DS and 2DS and Switch
Skill Rating: 7+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead and Cartoon
Miitopia is a role-playing adventure game where you embark on a quest to save your friends and thwart a Dark Lord's evil plans. You do this by recruiting various cartoon-looking characters to join your party in turn-based battles with the Dark Lord's...
Release Date: 29/05/2018, updated in 2022
Platforms: Android, Mac, PC, PS4, Stadia, Switch, Xbox One and iOS
Skill Rating: 9+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead and Pixels
Moonlighter is an action role-play game where you play an adventurous shopkeeper who secretly dreams of becoming a hero. It's a game of two halves: shopkeeping and adventuring. It's novel because of how the two aspects play into each other. The better...
Release Date: 13/01/2023
Platforms: PC, PS4, Switch and Xbox One
Components: 2D Overhead and Pixels
UnderDungeon is an action adventure where you play Kimuto, a cat on his first day of a new job at a logistics company. You take on different missions to deliver packages to various characters in the dungeons. It's the tongue-in-cheek take on these...
Release Date: 30/10/2012, updated in 2020
Platforms: Android, Mac, PC, PS4, Switch, Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S and iOS
Components: 2D Overhead, Dice and Hand-Made
Galaxy of Pen & Paper is a role-playing game about commanding a spaceship crew on missions. You get to design and upgrade your team in a similar fashion to tabletop roleplay games, like Dungeons and Dragons. Here though, it's a sci-fi world. It's the...