Games like Hogwarts Legacy
If you like Hogwarts Legacy (open world, action rpg and magic), these 10 games are similar in what you do and how you play. They go from most to least similar.
The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Special Edition
- In common: long sessions and exploring
- Difference: more creative
When you want to lose yourself for hours with no particular goal: there's always something to discover over the next hill.
The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Game of the Year Edition
- In common: long sessions and exploring
When you want to lose yourself in a classic open world, unhurried, following whatever path you like.
Middle-earth™: Shadow of Mordor™
- In common: progression and long sessions
When you're out for revenge: hunting down the orc captains who have beaten you and crashing their duels and feasts.
Ghost of Tsushima DIRECTOR'S CUT
- In common: long sessions and exploring
- Difference: more co-op
When you have hours to spare and fancy roaming spectacular landscapes with satisfying combat.
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt
- In common: long sessions and exploring
When you want to lose yourself in a long story and feel that every quest has something to tell. Ideal for whole afternoons.
Fable - The Lost Chapters
- In common: progression and long sessions
When you fancy a classic RPG you can finish in a few evenings: one PC review completed it in just over 16 hours.
God of War
- In common: long sessions and progression
When you have a free afternoon and energy: the mix of story and combat works best in long sessions.
The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind Game of the Year Edition
- In common: long sessions and exploring
When you want to get properly lost in a strange, fascinating world, with no rush and no arrows to follow.
Gothic 1 Classic
- In common: long sessions and exploring
- Difference: harder
When you fancy a classic RPG where you earn the respect of a camp in which every prisoner follows a daily routine.
Mad Max
- In common: progression and long sessions
- Difference: less story
When you fancy clearing the map without much thought: PCWorld's reviewer put around 30 hours into it.
How we pick them
We compare the tags the Steam community gives each game with our own classification: what you do (action, story, building…), the difficulty, how long sessions last and whether you play alone or with others. Nobody pays to appear.
About Hogwarts Legacy
You're a fifth-year student at Hogwarts in the late 19th century: you attend classes to learn spells, chain them into combos in combat and explore the castle, Hogsmeade and the Highlands by broom or hippogriff.
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