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Games like Desktop Explorer and ELDEN RING

30 games that play like them. Add another you loved and the list leans toward it.

Desktop Explorer
Desktop Explorer
ELDEN RING
ELDEN RING

More like Desktop Explorer

22 games closest to Desktop Explorer of your picks

  1. 1

    The Roottrees are Dead

    Desktop Explorer, but story-rich

    Loved · 96%Detective · Investigation

  2. 2

    No Case Should Remain Unsolved

    Desktop Explorer, but story-rich, and a third of the hours

    Loved · 96%Investigation · Interactive Fiction

  3. 3

    The Darkside Detective: A Fumble in the Dark

    Desktop Explorer, but funny, and story-rich

    Loved · 96%Detective · Point & Click

  4. 4

    Unheard - Voices of Crime

    Desktop Explorer, but top-down, and half the hours

    Loved · 96%Detective · Mystery

  5. 5

    Kathy Rain: Director's Cut

    Desktop Explorer, but story-rich

    Loved · 92%Detective · Investigation

  6. 6

    Shift At Midnight

    Desktop Explorer, but a job sim, and co-op

    Liked · 88%Investigation · Detective

  7. 7

    The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog

    Desktop Explorer, but free to play, and a third of the hours

    Loved · 97%Detective · Point & Click

  8. 8

    The Case of the Golden Idol

    Desktop Explorer, but story-rich

    Loved · 98%Investigation · Detective

  9. 9

    Roadwarden

    Desktop Explorer, but your choices matter, and with several endings

    Loved · 94%Text-Based · Interactive Fiction

  10. 10

    The Incident at Galley House

    Desktop Explorer, but nonlinear

    Loved · 94%Detective · Mystery

  11. 11

    The Painscreek Killings

    Desktop Explorer, but open world

    Loved · 91%Investigation · Detective

  12. 12

    Hypnospace Outlaw

    Desktop Explorer, but surreal, and retro

    Loved · 97%1990's · Detective

  13. 13

    The Operator

    Desktop Explorer, but half the hours

    Loved · 92%Investigation · Detective

  14. 14

    Ace Attorney Investigations Collection

    Desktop Explorer, but four times the hours

    Loved · 97%Investigation · Detective

  15. 15

    Tangle Tower

    Desktop Explorer, but talkier, and funny

    Loved · 95%Detective · Point & Click

  16. 16

    Sherlock Holmes: Crimes and Punishments

    Desktop Explorer, but your choices matter

    Liked · 89%Detective · Investigation

  17. 17

    Strange Horticulture

    Desktop Explorer, but a shopkeeping game, and cozy

    Loved · 94%Detective · Investigation

  18. 18

    Phasmophobia

    Desktop Explorer, but in VR, and twice the hours

    Loved · 94%Investigation · Detective

  19. 19

    Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney Trilogy

    Desktop Explorer, but anime, and five times the hours

    Liked · 88%Investigation · Detective

  20. 20

    Cyber Manhunt

    Desktop Explorer, but with hacking, and cyberpunk

    Loved · 92%Detective · Investigation

  21. 21

    Lost Wiki: Kozlovka

    Desktop Explorer, but a fifth of the hours

    Loved · 96%Investigation · Detective

  22. 22

    The White Door

    Desktop Explorer, but a third of the hours

    Loved · 94%Detective · Point & Click

More like ELDEN RING

8 games closest to ELDEN RING of your picks

  1. 23

    DARK SOULS III

    ELDEN RING, but story-rich

    Loved · 94%Souls-like · Dark Fantasy

  2. 24

    DARK SOULS II

    Much the same as ELDEN RING

    Liked · 88%Souls-like · Dark Fantasy

  3. 25

    No Rest for the Wicked

    ELDEN RING, but single-player, and a quarter of the hours

    Mixed · 79%Souls-like · Action RPG

  4. 26

    Drova - Forsaken Kin

    ELDEN RING, but 2D, and half the hours

    Loved · 94%Souls-like · Action RPG

  5. 27

    Lies of P

    ELDEN RING, but single-player, and half the hours

    Loved · 92%Souls-like · Dark Fantasy

  6. 28

    Nioh 3

    ELDEN RING, but half the hours, and more divisive

    Mixed · 78%Souls-like · Action RPG

  7. 29

    Mortal Shell II

    ELDEN RING, but darker, and a third of the hours

    Mixed · 79%Souls-like · Dark Fantasy

  8. 30

    Black Myth: Wukong

    ELDEN RING, but steeped in myth, and a third of the hours

    Loved · 96%Souls-like · Action RPG

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How this list is made

Each game is measured against each of your picks the way a games-like list measures it: the Steam community tags, Steam genres and IGDB themes they share, each counting for more the fewer games carry it. A game's place is how alike it is to your picks together, as a share of each pick's best match, so one alike to two of them comes before one alike to just one. It must be close to at least one of them, as close as it would have to be on that game's own list.

None of your picks is on the list, nor a second release of one, nor a game of their own series. Up to 30 games are shown. Under each name, the kinds it shares with the pick it is closest to, and how it differs from that pick.