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39 Great Games Like Xenoblade Chronicles

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Xenoblade Chronicles is a series of open-world role-play games. They take place on the frozen bodies of two warring titans, the Bionis and the Mechonis. In the first game, during an attack on his colony, protagonist Shulk discovers his ability to wield a magical sword (the Monado) and sets out on a quest for revenge with his best friend.

Unfortunately, Xenoblade Chronicles is not available on Android, Mac, PC, PS4, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S or iOS. However, we recommend the following games that offer a similar experience or theme:

Xenoblade Chronicles

Game Details

Release Date: 01/01/2010

Out Now: 3DS and 2DS, Switch and Wii

Content Rating: PEGI 12

Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds

Players: 1

Genres: Adventure, Role-Play (Action, Fighting, Narrative, Simulation and Traversal)

Accessibility: 1 feature

Components: 3D Third-Person, Cartoon, Day and Night and Open World

Developer: Monolith Soft (@MonolithSoft)

Costs: Purchase cost

6 Similar Games Short List

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Outward

Release Date: 26/03/2019

Out Now: PC, PS4 and Xbox One

Skill Rating: 12+ year-olds

Components: 3D Third-Person, Day and Night, Open World and Weather

Outward is a fantasy adventure focused on an ordinary character surviving against the odds. There's a focus on realism rather than superpowers or magical abilities. You have to look after your warmth, hunger, fatigue, illness, and thirst as well as the...

Dragon Quest Treasures

Release Date: 09/12/2022

Out Now: Switch

Skill Rating: 7+ year-olds

Components: 3D Third-Person, Cartoon, Day and Night and Open World

Dragon Quest Treasures is a lighthearted and more approachable version of the popular Dragon Quest role-play games. Along with the exploration, light battles and resource collection is a central monster-hunting hide-and-seek challenge where you get...

Dragon Quest Builders 2

Dragon Quest Builders 2 (Series)

Release Date: 12/06/2019, updated in 2021

Out Now: PC, PS4, Switch and Xbox One

Skill Rating: 7+ year-olds

Components: 3D Third-Person, Cartoon and Open World

Dragon Quest Builders 2 is an open-world base-building adventure that takes the popular Minecraft idea in a role-play direction. Play involves exploring the world, crafting equipment and buildings and developing your character as they fight ever more...

Elden Ring

Release Date: 25/02/2022

Out Now: PC, PS4, PS5, Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S

Skill Rating: 14+ year-olds

Components: 3D Third-Person, Day and Night, Open World and Weather

Elden Ring is a role-play game set in a fictional world created by fantasy novelist George R. R. Martin, with a focus on combat similar to Demon's Souls and an open world with real time and weather like Zelda Breath of the Wild.

The Legend of Zelda: Breath Of The Wild

Release Date: 03/03/2017

Out Now: Switch and Wii U

Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds

Components: 3D Third-Person, Cartoon, Day and Night, Open World and Weather

The Legend of Zelda: Breath Of The Wild departs from the previous Zelda formula with the scale and depth of its world. You walk, fly, ride and climb your way through a landscape that varies in climate, terrain, inhabitants and vegetation. Weather and...

Monster Hunter

Release Date: 26/03/2021

Out Now: 3DS and 2DS, PS2, PS4, PSP, Switch, Wii, Wii U and Xbox One

Skill Rating: 12+ year-olds

Components: 3D Third-Person, Day and Night and Open World

Monster Hunter is a series of action role-playing games where you hunt, kill and trap large monsters through wide-ranging landscapes. Each successful hunt rewards you with materials that accrue to slowly upgrade equipment that in turn enables you to...

20 Similar Games Long List

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The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

Release Date: 19/05/2015

Out Now: PC, PS4, Switch and Xbox One

Components: 3D Third-Person, Day and Night, Open World and Weather

The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt is an action-adventure game where 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...

Immortals Fenyx Rising

Release Date: 03/12/2020

Out Now: PC, PS4, PS5, Switch, Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S

Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds

Components: 3D Third-Person and Open World

Immortals Fenyx Rising is a mythical adventure game where you play Fenyx, exploring the huge open world, solving puzzles and fighting evil fantasy creatures. Fenyx is a newly winged demigod, who was prophesied to be the one to save the Greek Gods' home...

Young Souls

Release Date: 16/08/2021, updated in 2022

Out Now: PC, PS4, Stadia, Switch and Xbox One

Skill Rating: 7+ year-olds

Components: 2D Overhead

Young Souls is a side-on fighting game about two drop-out teenagers whose mentor disappears. Gameplay is divided into two distinct worlds: the modern human world and a dark, twisted world of goblins and monsters. You brawl and crunch your way through...

Grand Theft Auto V

Grand Theft Auto V (Series)

Release Date: 01/01/1997, updated in 2019

Out Now: Android, DS, PS2, PS3, PS4, PSP, Xbox, Xbox 360, Xbox One and iOS

Skill Rating: 15+ year-olds

Components: 3D Third-Person, Day and Night, Open World and Weather

Grand Theft Auto is a series of action-adventure game where you travel around one large location taking part in different criminal activities: pulling off heists, with lots of shooting and stealing and driving a variety of cars and other vehicles.

Hogwarts Legacy

Release Date: 08/02/2023

Out Now: PC, PS4, PS5, Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S

Coming Soon: Switch

Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds

Components: 3D Third-Person and Open World

Hogwarts Legacy is an open-world role-play game set in the world of Harry Potter. You control a wizard character who starts as a student at Hogwarts but then ventures out on a dangerous journey with a mystery to solve. You design your character, learn...

The Elder Scrolls

The Elder Scrolls (Series)

Release Date: 11/11/2011, updated in 2017

Out Now: 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.

Dauntless

Release Date: 21/05/2019

Out Now: PC, PS4, Switch and Xbox One

Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds

Components: 3D Third-Person, Cartoon and Open World

Dauntless is an action fighting video game where you play a monster hunter in a fantasy world. Cataclysmic events have released Behemoth creatures that prey on the surviving humans. You play a monster hunter who hunts and kills large fantasy creatures,...

Watch Dogs Legion

Release Date: 29/10/2020

Out Now: PC, PS4, PS5, Stadia and Xbox One

Coming Soon: Xbox Series X|S

Components: 3D Third-Person, Day and Night and Open World

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Kingdoms of Amalur: Re-Reckoning

Kingdoms of Amalur: Re-Reckoning (Series)

Release Date: 10/02/2012, updated in 2020

Out Now: PC, PS3, PS4, Switch, Xbox 360 and Xbox One

Components: 3D First-Person and Open World

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Octopath Traveler II (Series)

Release Date: 13/07/2018, updated in 2023

Out Now: PC, PS4, PS5, Stadia, Switch and Xbox One

Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds

Components: 3D Third-Person, Blocks and Hand-Made

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Middle-Earth: Shadow of Mordor (Series)

Release Date: 30/09/2014, updated in 2017

Out Now: PS3, PS4, Xbox 360 and Xbox One

Coming Soon: PC

Components: 3D Third-Person and Open World

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Out Now: PC, PS4 and Xbox One

Components: 3D Third-Person

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Out Now: Apple TV, Mac and iOS

Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds

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Release Date: 30/09/2021

Out Now: PC, PS4, Switch and Xbox One

Components: 2D Side-On

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Skill Rating: 11+ year-olds

Components: 2D Overhead, Cartoon, Day and Night and Grid

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Release Date: Coming soon

Coming Soon: PC

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Components: 2D Overhead, Grid and Pixels

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Release Date: 18/06/2002, updated in 2019

Out Now: PC, PS4, Switch and Xbox One

Skill Rating: 14+ year-olds

Components: 3D Third-Person and Pixels

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Release Date: 31/03/2022

Out Now: PC, PS4 and Xbox One

Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds

Components: 2D Overhead and Day and Night

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2 Younger Content Rating than Xenoblade Chronicles

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4 Easier Skill Rating than Xenoblade Chronicles

If you like the sound of Xenoblade Chronicles but find it too complex or challenging, the games in this section offer a similar experience but with a lower Skill Rating.

Young Souls

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Dragon Quest Builders 2

Wandering Sword

16 Video Games Like Xenoblade Chronicles Based on Genre

These are games of a similar genre mix to Xenoblade Chronicles. This includes games from the Simulation, Fighting, Action, Adventure, Narrative, Role-Play and Traversal genres. We pick out games of a similar PEGI rating to further hone these generated suggestions.

Horizon Forbidden West

My Time At Portia

Fable

Pokémon Legends: Arceus

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Outward

Horizon Zero Dawn The Frozen Wilds

Horizon Forbidden West: Burning Shores

Dragon Quest Treasures

Star Wars: The Old Republic

Temtem

Dragon Quest Builders 2

15 Video Games With More Documented Accessibility Features than Xenoblade Chronicles

If you like the sound of Xenoblade Chronicles but it doesn’t offer the accessibility you require, the games in this section offer a similar experience but with more Accessibility Features. You can view a full breakdown in our Xenoblade Chronicles Accessibility Report.

Watch Dogs Legion

Immortals Fenyx Rising

Hogwarts Legacy

Rogue Lords

The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

The Legend of Zelda: Breath Of The Wild

Outward

The Elder Scrolls

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2 Younger Content Rating than Xenoblade Chronicles

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16 Video Games Like Xenoblade Chronicles Based on Genre

15 Video Games With More Documented Accessibility Features than Xenoblade Chronicles

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