Avowed similar games & best alternatives

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Avowed

Xbox Series X|S, PC (Microsoft Windows), PlayStation 5 • 2025

Should you play it?

Avowed is a first-person fantasy RPG set in the world of Eora, where your choices carve a path through war, intrigue, and ancient mysteries. Navigate a land in turmoil, forge powerful alliances or deadly rivalries, and wield magic and steel to shape the fate of the Living Lands—and your own destiny.

What works

  • Engaging and varied combat
  • Rich exploration with rewarding secrets
  • Meaningful player choices impacting story
  • High-quality graphics and sound design
  • Well-written characters and dialogue

Things to keep in mind

  • Some performance issues and occasional bugs
  • Limited companion customization
  • Lack of npc routines and world interactivity
  • Story pacing and depth uneven in places
  • Price considered high by some players

What to play next

Top picks

Games that feels the closest overall

  • Risen 2: Dark Waters

  • Sword Art Online: Hollow Realization Deluxe Edition

  • STAR WARS™ Knights of the Old Republic™

  • Dragon's Dogma: Dark Arisen

  • Enshrouded

  • Monster Hunter Stories 3: Twisted Reflection

Less social

Games that feels like Avowed but with less teamwork and cooperation

  • The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

  • The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered

  • Assassin's Creed® Odyssey

  • Flintlock: The Siege of Dawn

  • The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings Enhanced Edition

  • Divinity II: Developer's Cut

Less intimate

Games that feels like Avowed but with less focus on close relationships

  • Risen 3 - Titan Lords

  • Atlas Fallen: Reign Of Sand

  • Summoner

  • RuneScape: Dragonwilds

  • The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim VR

  • ELEX II

Choose your own criteria ->

From the same developer

From the same developer, ranked by motivational fit.

  • Grounded

  • Pillars of Eternity II: Deadfire

  • STAR WARS™ Knights of the Old Republic™ II - The Sith Lords™

  • Grounded 2

  • The Outer Worlds

Similarity map

How to compare these games

Compare nearby games

Each card is a nearby game on the similarity map, compared with Avowed. Swipe sideways to move between games. Titles already listed in What to play next are left out.

  • Cover and title: open that game’s page.
  • What works / keep in mind: the same highlights as the desktop comparison panel.
  • Bars: the main motivational differences versus this game.
How to use the graph

Similarity map

Each dot is a game placed from its motivation profile relative to this page’s game. Direction shows which motivation differs most; distance along that axis shows how large the gap is.

  • Purple star: this page’s game at the centre — everything is relative to it.
  • Direction: each axis is a main motivational difference vs this game (e.g. more / less competitive).
  • Distance on an axis: how large that difference is (ring scales show +/− points).
  • Coloured chips: click to highlight games that mainly differ on that motivation; click again to reset.
  • Dotted line: link between this page’s game and the one selected for comparison.
  • Hover a dot to preview that game in the panel on the right; click to keep that comparison.
  • Scroll or double-click the chart to zoom.

How to read the map This is a polar difference map: direction = which motivation differs, and distance = how much (same units as the sidebar deltas).

Swipe to compare nearby games with Avowed. These titles are not in What to play next.

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

Last update: 21/08/2026