6 Similar Games Short List
Here are our hand-picked short list of similar games; the perfect thing to play next if you enjoyed Fantasian. We don't use automatic matching, instead, we hand-pick games that are good to play if you have enjoyed Fantasian.
Release Date: 17/11/2003, updated in 2017
Out Now: 3DS and 2DS, DS and Wii U
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person
Mario and Luigi adventure games feature Mario and Luigi as the heros, accompanied by playable characters from the Nintendo pantheon. Each adventure pits you to defeat Bowser in different ways. Progress is through talking to characters, exploring,...
Release Date: 29/10/2020
Out Now: Android, Switch and iOS
Components: 2D Overhead and Cartoon
Barbearian is a hectic action game where you fight through three-level missions by hacking and slashing hundreds of tiny enemies, collecting cash and rescuing minions to add to your army. It's a role play game you can take on in bite sized portions each...
Release Date: 03/09/2019, updated in 2019
Out Now: PC, PS4, Switch and Xbox One
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead and Pixels
Children of Morta is an adventure game about a family of heroes, each with different abilities and enhancements. You battle enemies and bosses while exploring dungeons within the cavern of Mount Morta and must avoid the corruption as it spreads.
Release Date: 04/03/2022, updated in 2022
Out Now: PC and Switch
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead, Blocks and Grid
Triangle Strategy is an action role-playing game that combines a complex branching plot with grid-based battles like Fire Emblem or Advance Wars. It stands out not only for its unusual diorama visuals, but by creating an intertwining story of many...
Release Date: 09/12/2010, updated in 2018
Out Now: DS, PC, PS3, PS4, Switch and Xbox One
Skill Rating: 11+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person and Cartoon
Ni no Kuni is a series of adventure video games where you play a young character with an important mission. The first games follow Oliver, and his journey to another world to save his mother. The sequel, Revenant Kingdom, follows Evan Pettiwhisker...
Release Date: 11/08/2000, updated in 2020
Out Now: 3DS and 2DS, DS, GameCube, Switch, Wii and Wii U
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person and Hand-Made
Paper Mario is a role-play game featuring Mario and other Nintendo characters. Although cute and cartoon-like in appearance, these games are known for the quality of writing and the well balanced and enjoyable turn-based combat.
13 Similar Games Long List
Here are our hand-picked long list of similar games; the perfect thing to play next if you enjoyed Fantasian. We don't use automatic matching, instead, we hand-pick games that are good to play if you have enjoyed Fantasian.
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...
Release Date: 10/04/2020
Out Now: PS4
Components: 3D Third-Person
Final Fantasy VII Remake is an action role-playing game set in a decaying cyberpunk metropolis. It is the first in a series of games that remake the 1997 PlayStation game Final Fantasy VII. You play the role of a mercenary named Cloud Strife who joins...
Release Date: 27/09/2020
Out Now: Android, PC, PS4 and iOS
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person, Cartoon and Open World
Genshin Impact is a role-playing adventure set in a fantastical open world you explore by walking, climbing, swimming and gliding as necessary. Like the Zelda games, you can collect items, and craft new weapons. However, in this game to create a party...
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...
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
Octopath Traveler and Octopath Traveller II are combat-focused role-playing games where you follow eight characters on their personal quests. Like other role-playing games, you explore the vast open world, interact with citizens and fight enemies as you...
Release Date: 20/09/1996, updated in 2022
Out Now: 3DS and 2DS, DS, PC, PS Vita, PS3, PS4, PS5, Switch, Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S
Skill Rating: 14+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person and Cartoon
Persona 5 (also known as Shin Megami Tensei: Persona) is the latest game in a series of role-playing games that focus on a group of students. You explore the world and take on enemies like other role play games. Here though, you manage relationships...
Release Date: 31/08/2021
Out Now: PC
Components: 3D Third-Person and Open World
New World is an online role-playing game where you colonise fictional land modelled after 1600s colonial America in the Atlantic Ocean. The world is persistent and accommodates 1000s of players to create a living breathing eco-system in MMO (Masively...
Release Date: 01/01/2010
Out Now: 3DS and 2DS, Switch and Wii
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person, Cartoon, Day and Night and Open World
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...
Release Date: Coming soon
Coming Soon: PC, PS4, Switch and Xbox One
Components: 2D Side-On and Hand-Made
Vokabulantis is a puppet-animated running and jumping game about two children, Karla and Kurt, who have fallen in love. Just as they find each other though, the world starts falling apart and they discover they can’t speak to each other because their...
Release Date: 02/11/2014
Out Now: Android, PC and iOS
Skill Rating: 7+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On, Cartoon and Hand-Made
Lumino City is a puzzle adventure game in a handmade world. This is not unusual for a video game, but this world was literally made by hand in a physical studio and then filmed. It creates a unique experience that feels like you are poking around a...
Release Date: 30/09/2021
Out Now: PC, PS4, Switch and Xbox One
Components: 2D Side-On
Rogue Lords is a role-playing adventure where you are able to change the rules to your advantage. You play the devil who, run after run, manages a team of famous evil geniuses to take on a series of roleplaying events and turn-based combat.
Release Date: 18/08/2020
Out Now: Switch and iPhone, iPad
Coming Soon: Mac
Skill Rating: 6+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Hand-Made
Takeshi & Hiroshi is a role-play adventure game about two brothers. Its unusual animation and light touch battles, where you chose your enemies rather than how to fight them, make it an ideal game to introduce the genre and for younger players.
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Release Date: 10/03/2022, updated in 2022
Out Now: PS4, Switch and Xbox One
Coming Soon: PC
Skill Rating: 7+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead and Hand-Made
RPG Time: The Legend of Wright is an adventure game set in a hand drawn notebook brought to life by an inventive schoolboy. Your adventure takes you through the pages of the book with varied challenges that suit younger players.