9 Days similar games & best alternatives

9 Days

PC (Microsoft Windows) • 2024

Should you play it?

You have 9 days before the final fight. At your current state, you do not stand a chance! Explore this Open World to gain new skills and abilities for the battle. Choose where you go, what you do carefully. You cannot waste time! You have 9 days.

What works
  • Challenging and skillful combat
  • Strong progression system
  • Immersive dark fantasy atmosphere
  • Freedom in character builds
Things to keep in mind
  • Lack of multiplayer or cooperative features
  • Limited exploration compared to other rpgs

What to play next

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Top picks

Games that feel the closest overall

  • Deliver At All Costs

  • Dreamscaper

  • Precipice

  • Warhammer 40,000: Inquisitor - Martyr

  • Warhammer 40,000: Inquisitor - Prophecy

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  • Alaloth: Champions of The Four Kingdoms

  • Dead Effect 2 VR

  • Middle-earth™: Shadow of War™
Hidden Gems

Less popular games with surprisingly high similarity

  • Deliver At All Costs

  • Precipice

  • Novarith
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Similarity map

Each dot is a game. They are arranged from the same motivation profile as in the “Why this game works” section below. Closer dots usually mean more similar reasons to play (exploration, competition, relaxation, etc.)—not that one game is “better” than another.

  • Purple star: this page’s game — everything on the map is relative to it.
  • Coloured chips: click to highlight games that mainly differ on that motivation; click again to reset.
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  • Hover a dot for a screenshot preview, score, and top score gaps; click to compare in the panel on the right.
  • Scroll or double-click the chart to zoom out and see more games.

Why don’t the axes read like a score? This view uses t-SNE: it only keeps who is close to whom. The scales are not “good to bad” or hours played—they separate groups on the map. Read distance between dots, not the axis numbers (hidden on purpose).

9 Days: A very typical example of its motivational profile. Motivations that often define this kind of title include Fellowship, Cooperation, Leadership, Violence. Here, the score leans higher than usual among comparable games on Violence, Relaxation. It leans lower than usual among comparable games on Continuation.

Why this game works

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