6 Similar Games Short List
Here are our hand-picked short list of similar games; the perfect thing to play next if you enjoyed Pendragon. We don't use automatic matching, instead, we hand-pick games that are good to play if you have enjoyed Pendragon.
Release Date: 27/01/2023
Out Now: PC, PS4 and Switch
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Pixels
Atone: Heart of the Elder Tree is a traversal narrative game set in a Norse-inspired world where combat is a rhythm rather than a reaction challenge. You explore the world as Estra a young warrior on a quest through Midgard to discover the truth behind...
Release Date: 10/09/2001, updated in 2023
Out Now: 3DS and 2DS, DS, GBA, Switch, Wii and Wii U
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead and Grid
Advance Wars is a classic turn-based strategy game re-released as Advance Wars 1+2: Re-Boot Camp on Nintendo Switch. You take charge of an army in strategic, turn-based combat. With land, air, and naval units across the battlefield, you work to take...
Release Date: 15/06/2021
Out Now: PC
Skill Rating: 9+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead, Grid and Hand-Made
Wildermyth is a medieval role-playing game about diverse heroes and themes. You take on evil in a number of stories, each with different heroes and settings. The focus is on the characters as much as their adventures, who are believable, diverse and...
Release Date: 20/04/1990, updated in 2023
Out Now: 3DS and 2DS, Android, DS, GBA, GameCube, Switch, Wii, Wii U and iOS
Skill Rating: 11+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead, Cartoon, Day and Night and Grid
Fire Emblem Engage is a series of strategy games where you help an ensemble cast of characters fight off evil. You gather heroes, unlock weapons and special abilities to aid your fight in tactical turn-based combat. It's not just a tactics game though,...
Release Date: 02/03/2018
Out Now: PC and Xbox One
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead, Cartoon and Grid
Pit People is a tactical strategy game where you herd a menagerie of medieval soldiers to take on all manner of strange foes. Play is about moving your characters tactically so they can maximise their attacks while staying out of range of counters.
Release Date: 01/02/2019
Out Now: PC, PS4, Switch and Xbox One
Skill Rating: 7+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead, Cartoon and Grid
Wargroove is a fantasy war game, similar to Advanced Wars from the Gameboy era, where players take turns in a variety of battles. Computer-controlled and human opponents compete to achieve objectives and be the last player remaining.
16 Similar Games Long List
Here are our hand-picked long list of similar games; the perfect thing to play next if you enjoyed Pendragon. We don't use automatic matching, instead, we hand-pick games that are good to play if you have enjoyed Pendragon.
Release Date: 23/03/2023
Out Now: Mac, PC and Switch
Skill Rating: 9+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Hand-Made
Storyteller is a puzzle game about building stories. You use a set of icons to match what is happening in each frame of the story. It's a simple challenge that gets the mind-stretching as you construct some of history’s greatest stories using building...
Release Date: 02/06/2021
Out Now: Android, PC, Switch and iOS
Skill Rating: 13+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On, Hand-Made and Text
Overboard is a murder mystery narrative game played in reverse. You murder your husband at the start of the game and then try and get away with it. It's played on a ship where the characters are affected by your choices and changes their actions...
Release Date: 31/07/2014, updated in 2019
Out Now: Amazon Fire, Android, Mac, PC, Switch and iOS
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead and Day and Night
80 Days is a travel and culture discovery game set in 1872, where decisions about your journey around the world impact the course of the story and characters. You play be deciding where to go next and talking to the people you meet to find the right...
Release Date: 21/03/2018, updated in 2020
Out Now: Android, PC, PS Vita, PS4, PSP, Stadia, Switch, Xbox One and iOS
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: 3D First-Person, 3D Third-Person, Grid, Hand-Made and Weather
Valkyria Chronicles 4 is a turn-based strategy game where you take command of a squad of soldiers and use your wits and tactics to plan and lead them to battle. You play as Commander Claude Wallace and the soldiers of Squad E and experience a gripping...
Release Date: 15/09/2022
Out Now: PC, PS4, PS5, Switch and Xbox One
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On, Cartoon and Hand-Made
Wayward Strand is a narrative game about Casey Beaumaris, an intrepid teenage journalist. You visit an airborne hospital, uncover the airship's mysteries, and explore the lives of its inhabitants. It's a Tintin-style point-and-click adventure with a...
Release Date: 16/04/2019
Out Now: PC, PS4 and Switch
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person
Heaven's Vault is a communication adventure game you play an archaeologist translating an ancient alien language whose decrypting weaves through an unfolding drama. While doing real linguistic work you interact with companions and locals. Your choices...
Release Date: 22/07/2021
Out Now: PC, PS4, PS5, Xbox One and Xbox X|S
Components: 3D First-Person and Cartoon
Last Stop is an adventure set in London. You play three interconnected characters, making choices that shape their conversations, and determine where their stories lead.
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: 14/01/2014, updated in 2016
Out Now: Amazon Fire, Android, PC, PS4, Switch, Xbox One and iOS
Components: 2D Overhead and Grid
The Banner Saga is a beautiful fantasy adventure where your strategic choices directly affect your personal story and the world around you. You play as two characters, each with their own related story.
Release Date: 30/08/2016
Out Now: PC, Switch and iOS
Components: 2D Overhead, Dice and Grid
The Warlock of Firetop Mountain is a game based on the choose-your-own-adventure books from the 90's.
Release Date: 19/11/2015, updated in 2017
Out Now: Android, PC, PS4, Switch, Wii U, Xbox One and iOS
Components: 2D Side-On and Hand-Made
Typoman is a running, jumping puzzle game where you use letters and words to solve puzzles and progress. You play as a character made of letters in a hostile land with evil creatures. As this unusual character, you make your way through the world...
Release Date: 11/02/2021
Out Now: PC, PS4, Switch and Xbox One
Components: 2D Overhead and Grid
Knight's Retreat is a chess-themed puzzle game. It's not played on a chess board, but the pieces do move as they usually do. Rather than check-mate, your aim is to get your Knights back to their home squares in each level.
Release Date: 15/11/2022
Out Now: PC, Xbox One and Xbox X|S
Components: 2D Side-On and Text
Pentiment is a historical role-playing game where you explore 16th century Germany world to solve a murder. Play takes place in the pages of an old book and involves exploring the world, talking to people and discovering new ways the narrative evolves...
Release Date: 30/10/2019
Out Now: Apple TV, Mac, PC, Switch and iOS
Components: 2D Overhead and Grid
Spaceland is a quick turn-based strategy game where you command sci-fi troopers to shoot, kick, blow up and destroy the enemy. It's a little like a game of chess as you equip and plan your missions, before carefully moving and attacking on your turn.
Release Date: 21/06/2020, updated in 2020
Out Now: Mac, PC, PS4 and Switch
Skill Rating: 9+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead, Grid and Pixels
DungeonTop Spell Sword Cards is a dungeon-exploring adventure where you play cards to fight your way through the monster-infested levels to collect loot. As you play you collect Spells, Weapons and Unit cards to help your fight. Where it really comes to...
Release Date: 18/03/2023
Out Now: PC
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Cartoon
Shiner is a turn-based battle game like Pokemon, but here you are a single rabbit who must learn attacks by being beaten by enemies. Play involves challenging the characters you meet to a fight, then taking turns to pick attacks to be the last animal...