Games like ELEX on Nintendo Switch
Closest overall match: Darksiders III (★ 3.4). Highest rated: Remnant: From the Ashes at ★ 3.6. Quickest to finish: Kingdoms of Amalur: Re-Reckoning at about 4 hours.
These 5 games score highest on our similarity model for ELEX — weighted by shared tags, genre overlap, rating proximity and release era. The strongest common threads are Full controller support, Violent and Third Person. Updated Oct 16, 2026.
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72%
1. Darksiders III
Shares Post-apocalyptic, Violent, Third Person, Open World and Full controller support and 4 more tags; same developer; released within 1 year.
- Year
- 2018
- Rating
- ★ 3.4
- Metacritic
- 65
- Playtime
- 5h
- Finish rate
- 58%
- Shared genres
- 3, 4, RPG
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64%
2. Vampyr
Shares role-playing, Violent, Third Person, Open World and Full controller support and 1 more tags; released within 1 year.
- Year
- 2018
- Rating
- ★ 3.5
- Metacritic
- 70
- Playtime
- 6h
- Finish rate
- 53%
- Shared genres
- 3, 4, RPG
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61%
3. Kingdoms of Amalur: Re-Reckoning
Shares role-playing, Third Person, Fantasy, Open World and Full controller support and 3 more tags.
- Year
- 2020
- Rating
- ★ 3.4
- Metacritic
- 72
- Playtime
- 4h
- Finish rate
- 43%
- Shared genres
- 3, 4, RPG
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61%
4. Call of Cthulhu
Shares role-playing, Full controller support, Steam Cloud, Steam Achievements and Singleplayer; released within 1 year.
- Year
- 2018
- Rating
- ★ 3.5
- Metacritic
- 66
- Playtime
- 5h
- Finish rate
- 75%
- Shared genres
- 3, 4, RPG
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61%
5. Remnant: From the Ashes
Shares Post-apocalyptic, Violent, Full controller support and Singleplayer; released within 2 years.
- Year
- 2019
- Rating
- ★ 3.6
- Metacritic
- 76
- Playtime
- 7h
- Finish rate
- 55%
- Shared genres
- 3, 4, RPG
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Questions people ask
What is the best game like ELEX on Nintendo Switch?
On our similarity model, Darksiders III is the closest match to ELEX on Nintendo Switch — shares Post-apocalyptic, Violent, Third Person, Open World and Full controller support and 4 more tags; same developer; released within 1 year.
Which game like ELEX is rated highest?
Remnant: From the Ashes holds the highest player rating in this list at 3.6/5 from 655 players.
How this list is built
Every game in our catalog is scored against ELEX on five signals: weighted tag overlap (rare tags count more), genre overlap, platform family overlap, rating and playtime proximity, and release era. The list is recomputed nightly as ratings and new releases change.
Base game data via RAWG.