Dread Delusion similar games & best alternatives

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Dread Delusion

Xbox Series X|S, PlayStation 4, Nintendo Switch 2, PC (Microsoft Windows), PlayStation 5, Xbox One • 2024

Should you play it?

Dread Delusion is an open world RPG brimming with strange places and dark perils. Carve your own path through the flying continents of a shattered land. Discover curious towns, unearth occult secrets, master powerful magic - and change the world through your choices.

What works

  • Unique and immersive worldbuilding
  • Engaging narrative and moral choices
  • Atmospheric retro-inspired art style
  • Rewarding exploration and secrets
  • Meaningful character progression

Things to keep in mind

  • Simplistic and unchallenging combat
  • Early access bugs and missing content
  • Some ui and control clunkiness
  • Limited weapon and magic variety
  • Slow pacing and repetitive music

What to play next

Top picks

Games that feels the closest overall

  • BLACKTAIL

  • Venetica - Gold Edition

  • Lunacid

  • Tainted Grail: The Fall of Avalon

  • The Quest

  • Operencia: The Stolen Sun

More intense

Games that feels like Dread Delusion but with a more intense feel

  • Pathologic Classic HD

  • Gothic II: Gold Edition

  • DUSK

  • Tomb Raider III (1998)

  • Mortal Sin

  • Psychopomp GOLD

More violent

Games that feels like Dread Delusion but with more combat and destruction

  • Arthurian Legends

  • Mohrta

  • Vigil: The Longest Night

  • Arboria

  • Verho - Curse of Faces

  • KINGDOM of the DEAD

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Dread Delusion: Broadly representative of its motivational profile, with a few distinct shifts. Motivations that often define this kind of title include Violence, Survival, Fellowship, Intimacy. Here, the score leans higher than usual among comparable games on Story, Exploration. It leans lower than usual among comparable games on Leadership.

Last update: 21/08/2026