Games like The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel on Nintendo Switch
Closest overall match: DRAGON QUEST XI: Echoes of an Elusive Age (★ 4.3). Quickest to finish: Hyperdimension Neptunia Re ; Birth1 at about 5 hours.
These 5 games score highest on our similarity model for The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel — weighted by shared tags, genre overlap, rating proximity and release era. What ties them together most: JRPG, role-playing and Anime.
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72%
1. DRAGON QUEST XI: Echoes of an Elusive Age
Shares Turn-Based Combat, JRPG, Turn-Based, Anime and Fantasy and 6 more tags; rated 0.3 higher; about 5h longer.
- Year
- 2017
- Rating
- ★ 4.3
- Metacritic
- 91
- Playtime
- 15h
- Finish rate
- 70%
- Shared genres
- RPG
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68%
2. Final Fantasy XII: The Zodiac Age
Shares JRPG, role-playing, Anime, Fantasy and Great Soundtrack and 5 more tags.
- Year
- 2017
- Rating
- ★ 4.2
- Metacritic
- 87
- Playtime
- 8h
- Finish rate
- 67%
- Shared genres
- RPG
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64%
3. Hyperdimension Neptunia Re ; Birth1
Shares Visual Novel, Turn-Based Combat, JRPG, Cute and role-playing and 8 more tags; rated 0.7 lower; about 5h shorter; same release year.
- Year
- 2013
- Rating
- ★ 3.3
- Metacritic
- 70
- Playtime
- 5h
- Finish rate
- 61%
- Shared genres
- RPG
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64%
4. Citizens of Earth
Shares JRPG, role-playing, Turn-Based, Partial Controller Support and steam-trading-cards and 3 more tags; rated 1.1 lower; released within 2 years.
- Year
- 2015
- Rating
- ★ 2.9
- Metacritic
- 66
- Playtime
- 6h
- Finish rate
- 12%
- Shared genres
- RPG
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63%
5. Ys VIII: Lacrimosa of DANA
Shares JRPG, Cute, role-playing, Anime and Great Soundtrack and 5 more tags; same developer; about 5h shorter.
- Year
- 2017
- Rating
- ★ 4.3
- Metacritic
- 80
- Playtime
- 5h
- Finish rate
- 77%
- Shared genres
- RPG
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What is the best game like The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel on Nintendo Switch?
On our similarity model, DRAGON QUEST XI: Echoes of an Elusive Age is the closest match to The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel on Nintendo Switch — shares Turn-Based Combat, JRPG, Turn-Based, Anime and Fantasy and 6 more tags; rated 0.3 higher; about 5h longer.
How this list is built
Every game in our catalog is scored against The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel 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.