Games like Tales of Zestiria
Closest overall match: LIGHTNING RETURNS: FINAL FANTASY XIII (★ 3.6). Highest rated: DRAGON QUEST XI: Echoes of an Elusive Age at ★ 4.3. Quickest to finish: LIGHTNING RETURNS: FINAL FANTASY XIII at about 4 hours.
Looking for something like Tales of Zestiria? Our model ranked 12 games by how much they share with it. The strongest common threads are JRPG, Anime and Fantasy.
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82%
1. LIGHTNING RETURNS: FINAL FANTASY XIII
Shares JRPG, Hack and Slash, Action RPG, Cute and Anime and 9 more tags; same release year.
- Year
- 2015
- Rating
- ★ 3.6
- Playtime
- 4h
- Finish rate
- 67%
- Shared genres
- RPG
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71%
2. Fairy Fencer F
Shares JRPG, Cute, Anime, Fantasy and Great Soundtrack and 5 more tags; released within 2 years.
- Year
- 2013
- Rating
- ★ 3.4
- Metacritic
- 66
- Playtime
- 6h
- Finish rate
- 46%
- Shared genres
- RPG
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70%
3. .hack//G.U. Last Recode
Shares JRPG, Anime, Great Soundtrack, Full controller support and Steam Achievements and 1 more tags; same developer; released within 2 years.
- Year
- 2017
- Rating
- ★ 3.5
- Metacritic
- 74
- Playtime
- 4h
- Finish rate
- 39%
- Shared genres
- RPG
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70%
4. FINAL FANTASY XV WINDOWS EDITION
Shares JRPG, Hack and Slash, Action RPG, Anime and Third Person and 7 more tags; rated 0.3 higher.
- Year
- 2018
- Rating
- ★ 3.9
- Metacritic
- 81
- Playtime
- 9h
- Finish rate
- 73%
- Shared genres
- RPG
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68%
5. The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel
Shares JRPG, Cute, Anime, Fantasy and Great Soundtrack and 5 more tags; rated 0.4 higher; about 5h longer; released within 2 years.
- Year
- 2013
- Rating
- ★ 4.0
- Metacritic
- 79
- Playtime
- 10h
- Finish rate
- 86%
- Shared genres
- RPG
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66%
6. FINAL FANTASY XIII-2
Shares JRPG, Action RPG, Anime, Female Protagonist and Third Person and 7 more tags.
- Year
- 2011
- Rating
- ★ 3.5
- Playtime
- 4h
- Finish rate
- 74%
- Shared genres
- RPG
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65%
7. WORLD OF FINAL FANTASY
Shares JRPG, Full controller support, Steam Achievements and Singleplayer; released within 1 year.
- Year
- 2016
- Rating
- ★ 3.5
- Metacritic
- 77
- Playtime
- 6h
- Finish rate
- 47%
- Shared genres
- RPG
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64%
8. Final Fantasy XII: The Zodiac Age
Shares JRPG, Anime, Fantasy, Great Soundtrack and Full controller support and 4 more tags; rated 0.7 higher; released within 2 years.
- Year
- 2017
- Rating
- ★ 4.2
- Metacritic
- 87
- Playtime
- 8h
- Finish rate
- 67%
- Shared genres
- RPG
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64%
9. FINAL FANTASY XIII
Shares JRPG, Action RPG, Female Protagonist, Third Person and Fantasy and 5 more tags.
- Year
- 2009
- Rating
- ★ 3.5
- Metacritic
- 77
- Playtime
- 7h
- Finish rate
- 64%
- Shared genres
- RPG
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63%
10. DRAGON QUEST XI: Echoes of an Elusive Age
Shares JRPG, Anime, Fantasy, Great Soundtrack and Full controller support and 4 more tags; rated 0.8 higher; about 10h longer; released within 2 years.
- Year
- 2017
- Rating
- ★ 4.3
- Metacritic
- 91
- Playtime
- 15h
- Finish rate
- 70%
- Shared genres
- RPG
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62%
11. SWORD ART ONLINE: Hollow Realization
Same developer; about 5h shorter; released within 1 year.
- Year
- 2016
- Rating
- ★ 3.6
- Metacritic
- 62
- Finish rate
- 46%
- Shared genres
- RPG
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62%
12. Hyperdimension Neptunia Re ; Birth3 V Generation
Shares JRPG, Hack and Slash, Cute, Anime and Female Protagonist and 7 more tags; released within 1 year.
- Year
- 2014
- Rating
- ★ 3.5
- Metacritic
- 70
- Playtime
- 8h
- Shared genres
- RPG
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Questions people ask
What is the best game like Tales of Zestiria?
On our similarity model, LIGHTNING RETURNS: FINAL FANTASY XIII is the closest match to Tales of Zestiria — shares JRPG, Hack and Slash, Action RPG, Cute and Anime and 9 more tags; same release year.
Which game like Tales of Zestiria is rated highest?
DRAGON QUEST XI: Echoes of an Elusive Age holds the highest player rating in this list at 4.3/5 from 377 players.
How this list is built
Every game in our catalog is scored against Tales of Zestiria 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.