Games like NIER on Nintendo Switch
Closest overall match: The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim (★ 4.4). Quickest to finish: Torchlight II at about 10 hours.
We compared NIER against every game in our catalog on shared tags, genre, rating, playtime and release era, and these 5 came closest. What ties them together most: Great Soundtrack, Hack and Slash and Magic.
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55%
1. The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
Shares Magic and Great Soundtrack; about 28h longer; released within 1 year.
- Year
- 2011
- Rating
- ★ 4.4
- Metacritic
- 94
- Playtime
- 46h
- Finish rate
- 74%
- Shared genres
- 4, RPG
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54%
2. Mass Effect 3
Shares Story; about 12h longer; released within 2 years.
- Year
- 2012
- Rating
- ★ 4.4
- Metacritic
- 90
- Playtime
- 30h
- Finish rate
- 92%
- Shared genres
- 4, RPG
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54%
3. NieR:Automata
Shares JRPG, Hack and Slash, Violent and Great Soundtrack; about 5h shorter.
- Year
- 2017
- Rating
- ★ 4.4
- Metacritic
- 86
- Playtime
- 13h
- Finish rate
- 76%
- Shared genres
- 4, RPG
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53%
4. Torchlight II
Shares Hack and Slash; rated 0.4 lower; about 8h shorter; released within 2 years.
- Year
- 2012
- Rating
- ★ 3.8
- Metacritic
- 88
- Playtime
- 10h
- Finish rate
- 51%
- Shared genres
- 4, RPG
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52%
5. Diablo III
About 40h longer; released within 2 years.
- Year
- 2012
- Rating
- ★ 4.1
- Metacritic
- 88
- Playtime
- 58h
- Finish rate
- 84%
- Shared genres
- 4, RPG
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What is the best game like NIER on Nintendo Switch?
On our similarity model, The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim is the closest match to NIER on Nintendo Switch — shares Magic and Great Soundtrack; about 28h longer; released within 1 year.
How this list is built
Every game in our catalog is scored against NIER 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.
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