6 Similar Games While You Wait For Paper Animal RPG
Here are our hand-picked games to fill the void until Paper Animal RPG is released:
Release Date: 05/10/2021
Out Now: PC, PS4, Switch and Xbox One
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person, Cartoon and Hand-Made
Rainbow Billy: The Curse of the Leviathan is a role-play adventure where you save the world from colourless darkness. Unusually, battles are won through listening and conversation rather than traditional attacks. It combines the excitement and strategy...
Release Date: 11/08/2021
Out Now: Mac, PC, Switch and Xbox One
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead, Open World and Pixels
Garden Story is a role-playing adventure, crafting and farming game similar to Stardew Valley. It also features combat, dungeons and puzzles similar to the Zelda games. You defend your garden home from an invasion of...
Release Date: 13/09/2019, updated in 2019
Out Now: Mac, PC, PS4, Switch, Xbox One, iOS and iPhone, iPad
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead and Cartoon
Cat Quest 2 is an adventure game, the sequel to Cat Quest, about a fantasy realm of cats and dogs. You explore and talk to characters who send you on quests to kill enemies in caves or retrieve hidden items. The addition of two players in the second...
Release Date: 21/09/2019
Out Now: PC, PS4, Switch and Xbox One
Skill Rating: 12+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person and Hand-Made
Bug Fables: The Everlasting Sapling is a role-play game reminiscent of the Paper Mario games. You play three bugs, Vi, Kabbu, and Leif, as they search for The Everlasting Sapling. Explore, level-up and take on fun battles in this lovable adventure.
Release Date: 19/10/2010, updated in 2011
Out Now: Android, Mac, PC, PS3, PS4, Wii U, Xbox 360, Xbox One and iOS
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person, Cartoon and Hand-Made
Costume Quest is an adventure game where you play a trick-or-treating child when they encounter a monster that kidnaps your sibling. You travel the neighbourhood collecting items for your costume, candy and fellow children as companions in order to face...
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: The Origami King 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.
16 Similar Games Long List
Here are our hand-picked long list of similar games; more games to play while you are waiting for Paper Animal RPG.
Release Date: 17/11/2011, updated in 2022
Out Now: DS, PC, PS3, PS4, Switch, Xbox One and Xbox X|S
Skill Rating: 11+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person and Cartoon
Ni no Kuni: Wrath of the White Witch is a role-play game and an expanded version of the DS game Ni no Kuni: Dominion of the Dark Djinn. In it, you play a young boy who travels between worlds and battles enemies in an attempt to save his mother. It...
Release Date: 04/10/2023
Out Now: Mac, PC and Switch
Skill Rating: 5+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead and Cartoon
A Tiny Sticker Tale is an adventure where you change the cosy cartoon world with stickers. Play involves moving around and talking to the locals, then switching to sticker mode to use objects and complete quests. It stands out for the approachable play...
Release Date: 16/03/2022, updated in 2023
Out Now: Mac, PC, PS4, PS5, Switch, Xbox One and Xbox X|S
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person and Hand-Made
Tunic is an action-adventure game where you play a small fox who wakes with no memory of where he is. You push through trees, pick up weapons and learn new moves to discover an expanse of forests, caves and landscapes. You can do anything from the...
Release Date: 17/11/2005, updated in 2020
Out Now: 3DS and 2DS, DS, Switch and Wii
Skill Rating: 7+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead and Pixels
Pokémon Mystery Dungeon is a series of fighting games where you control different cartoon creatures as they make their way through randomly-generated dungeons, defeating enemies and adding them to your team. It's a simple roguelike game where you take...
Release Date: 19/04/2018, updated in 2019
Out Now: Mac, PC, PS4, Switch and Xbox One
Components: 2D Overhead and Grid
For The King is a strategy game where you play an adventurer bringing peace to the kingdom of Fahrul. It's like a tabletop board game, with rewards and hits determined by dice rolls, but combines this with more traditional video game fights. You gather...
Release Date: 10/06/2019
Out Now: Mac, PC, PS4, Switch and Xbox One
Skill Rating: 9+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person and Blocks
Riverbond is a frantic adventure in a blocky world. With four people on one system, you take on an adventure to defeat evil and free the charming citizens. It's a brawling game with an emphasis on fun and over-the-top cartoon combat.
Release Date: 28/09/2011, updated in 2021
Out Now: 3DS and 2DS, Mac, PC, PS Vita, PS4, PS5, Switch, Wii U and Xbox One
Components: 2D Overhead and Pixels
The Binding of Isaac is a series of adventure games where you progress through randomly generated rooms, collecting items and fighting off monsters. It's a twist on the simple Zelda dungeon, with hundreds of enemies, room variations and upgrades. The...
Release Date: 08/10/2020
Out Now: Mac, PC, PS4, Switch and Xbox One
Components: 2D Overhead, Grid, Open World and Pixels
Ikenfell is a turn-based role-play game where you use timing to power spells and block attacks. You explore the twisted halls of a vast magic school, a bit like Harry Potter, fight monsters and uncover hidden treasures and dark secrets.
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 & Luigi adventure games feature Mario and Luigi as the heroes, 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: 06/11/2020, updated in 2022
Out Now: Android, PC, Switch and iOS
Skill Rating: 6+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person and Blocks
Headland is an action adventure game in a vibrant fantasy world. You help Nor and his robot friends find the imagination fragments and save the world.
Release Date: 27/05/2021
Out Now: Mac, PC and Switch
Skill Rating: 7+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead and Hand-Made
Weaving Tides is a puzzle game set in a magical woven world. You ride a carpet dragon that both transports you and weaves fabric into the world to help you advance.
Release Date: 10/03/2022, updated in 2022
Out Now: PC, PS4, Switch and Xbox One
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.
Release Date: 09/06/2021
Out Now: Android and iOS
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead and Cartoon
Botworld is a role-play battling game where you play a small creature in a huge explorable world. It's a bit like Pokemon. You discover new bots, collect scrap to craft items and work through a series of environments. It's an auto-battle game which...
Release Date: 24/05/2022
Out Now: Mac, PC and Xbox One
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead, Cards, Grid and Hand-Made
Floppy Knights is an adventure where you battle enemies using cards and turn-based strategy. With your robot, Carlton, and a group of virtual knights, you must liberate your town from hostile invaders. It looks like Advance Wars but has a unique blend...
Release Date: 30/04/2015, updated in 2019
Out Now: Mac, PC, PS Vita, PS3, PS4, Switch and Xbox One
Components: 2D Overhead and Grid
Chroma Squad is a strategy game themed around the The Power Rangers TV show. Rather than the heroes, you play the stunt actors who quit the show to start their own Power Rangers-inspired series. Rather than kill enemies in the turn based encounters,...
Release Date: 19/01/2016, updated in 2018
Out Now: Mac, PC, PS Vita, Switch, Xbox One and iOS
Skill Rating: 13+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Pixels
Darkest Dungeon is a turn-based battling game where you fight monsters in dungeons to restore your ancestor's hamlet to its former glory. From a side-on perspective, you recruit an adventurer team to take on quests in the dank, dim dungeons that make...
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