Games like The Forgotten City
Closest overall match: UnderMine (★ 3.8). Highest rated: Hades at ★ 4.4. Newest: Hades II (2025). Quickest to finish: Darkwood at about 2 hours.
Looking for something like The Forgotten City? Our model ranked 12 games by how much they share with it. What ties them together most: Singleplayer, Partial Controller Support and Exploration. Updated Oct 16, 2026.
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59%
1. UnderMine
Shares Partial Controller Support and Singleplayer; rated 0.4 lower; released within 1 year.
- Year
- 2020
- Rating
- ★ 3.8
- Metacritic
- 80
- Playtime
- 5h
- Finish rate
- 44%
- Shared genres
- 3, 4, RPG, Indie
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59%
2. Hades
Shares Singleplayer; released within 1 year.
- Year
- 2020
- Rating
- ★ 4.4
- Metacritic
- 93
- Playtime
- 10h
- Finish rate
- 68%
- Shared genres
- 3, 4, RPG, Indie
-
58%
3. Nobody Saves the World
Shares Singleplayer; rated 0.4 lower; released within 1 year.
- Year
- 2022
- Rating
- ★ 3.8
- Playtime
- 5h
- Finish rate
- 46%
- Shared genres
- 3, 4, RPG, Indie
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58%
4. Children of Morta
Shares Singleplayer; rated 0.3 lower; released within 2 years.
- Year
- 2019
- Rating
- ★ 3.9
- Metacritic
- 80
- Playtime
- 4h
- Finish rate
- 59%
- Shared genres
- 3, 4, RPG, Indie
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58%
5. Minoria
Shares Partial Controller Support and Singleplayer; rated 0.8 lower; released within 2 years.
- Year
- 2019
- Rating
- ★ 3.5
- Metacritic
- 73
- Playtime
- 3h
- Finish rate
- 73%
- Shared genres
- 3, 4, RPG, Indie
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57%
6. Darkwood
Shares Exploration, Open World, Partial Controller Support and Singleplayer; rated 0.4 lower; about 5h shorter.
- Year
- 2017
- Rating
- ★ 3.8
- Metacritic
- 78
- Playtime
- 2h
- Finish rate
- 42%
- Shared genres
- 3, 4, RPG, Indie
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57%
7. Hades II New
Shares Mythology, Captions available and Singleplayer.
- Year
- 2025
- Rating
- ★ 4.4
- Playtime
- 8h
- Finish rate
- 71%
- Shared genres
- 3, 4, RPG, Indie
-
57%
8. Moon Hunters
Shares Mythology, Captions available and Singleplayer; rated 0.8 lower.
- Year
- 2016
- Rating
- ★ 3.4
- Metacritic
- 62
- Playtime
- 3h
- Finish rate
- 50%
- Shared genres
- 3, 4, RPG, Indie
-
57%
9. Maneater
Shares Singleplayer; rated 0.8 lower; released within 1 year.
- Year
- 2020
- Rating
- ★ 3.4
- Metacritic
- 68
- Playtime
- 4h
- Finish rate
- 52%
- Shared genres
- 3, 4, RPG, Indie
-
57%
10. Road 96
Shares Multiple Endings, Choices Matter, Exploration and Singleplayer; same release year.
- Year
- 2021
- Rating
- ★ 4.0
- Metacritic
- 78
- Playtime
- 6h
- Finish rate
- 81%
- Shared genres
- 3, 4, Indie
-
56%
11. Rogue Legacy 2
Shares Singleplayer; released within 1 year.
- Year
- 2022
- Rating
- ★ 4.0
- Metacritic
- 88
- Playtime
- 6h
- Finish rate
- 52%
- Shared genres
- 3, 4, RPG, Indie
-
56%
12. Ghost of a Tale
Shares Singleplayer; rated 0.4 lower; about 5h shorter.
- Year
- 2018
- Rating
- ★ 3.9
- Metacritic
- 77
- Playtime
- 2h
- Finish rate
- 58%
- Shared genres
- 3, 4, RPG, Indie
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Questions people ask
What is the best game like The Forgotten City?
On our similarity model, UnderMine is the closest match to The Forgotten City — shares Partial Controller Support and Singleplayer; rated 0.4 lower; released within 1 year.
Which game like The Forgotten City is rated highest?
Hades holds the highest player rating in this list at 4.4/5 from 2,124 players.
Is there a new game like The Forgotten City in 2026?
Hades II is the most recent match, released September 2025.
Are there games like The Forgotten City on Nintendo Switch?
Yes — we found 12 games like The Forgotten City on Nintendo Switch. See the dedicated list.
How this list is built
Every game in our catalog is scored against The Forgotten City 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.