Games like Tales from the Borderlands
If you like Tales from the Borderlands (narrative, choices and comedy), these 10 games are similar in what you do and how you play. They go from most to least similar.
The Walking Dead
- In common: story
When you want an intense story in instalments: each episode lasts a couple of hours and leaves you wanting more.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
- In common: story
When you fancy a moving story in instalments: each episode lasts a few hours.
Detroit: Become Human
- In common: story
When you want a story like a TV series where you choose the direction, chapter by chapter.
Finding Paradise
- In common: story
When you fancy a moving story in calm sessions: it's over in a few afternoons.
Night in the Woods
- In common: story
- Difference: more exploring
When you want a relatable, thoughtful story: each day in town is a short, pleasant session.
OXENFREE
- In common: story
- Difference: more exploring
When you want a mystery story you can play through in one or two afternoons, with no demands.
Undertale
- In common: story
- Difference: harder
When you want a special, short story you can finish in a few sessions.
Firewatch
- In common: story
- Difference: more exploring
When you want a grown-up, lovely story you can finish in one or two afternoons, with no demands.
A Plague Tale: Innocence
- In common: story
When you're in the mood for a linear, moving story over a few evenings: it lasts between 10 and 15 hours, across 17 chapters.
The Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition
- In common: story
- Difference: more thinking
When you want to laugh with a classic adventure that's over in a few afternoons and where you can barely die.
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 Tales from the Borderlands
Rhys, a Hyperion employee, and Fiona, a con artist, each tell their own version of the same adventure across Pandora: five episodes of timed dialogue, decisions and button-prompt action scenes, with plenty of humour.
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