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Games like Tales from the Borderlands
10 games similar to Tales from the Borderlands, a Point-and-click, Adventure, Puzzle game, drawn from IGDB's similarity data. Each pick below notes the genres it shares with Tales from the Borderlands.
01Shares AdventurePuzzleBoth games blend action and science fiction through single-player adventures marked by extreme violence and dark humor via fake in-game advertising. Tales from the Borderlands uses episodic storytelling and player choice to navigate a criminal underworld, while Prey employs environmental puzzles and exploration to uncover conspiracy aboard a doomed space station. Each game uses corpses and breaking through windows to reinforce a sense of danger and chaos in hostile worlds.
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02Shares AdventurePuzzleBoth games use exploration and environmental storytelling to uncover character mysteries, though Gone Home trades Borderlands' comedy for atmospheric drama. Each centers on a protagonist piecing together family secrets through investigation, with descendants of other characters shaping the narrative. While Tales from the Borderlands emphasizes dialogue choices across episodes, Gone Home's first-person puzzle-solving creates a quieter but equally character-driven mystery.
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03Shares AdventurePuzzleBoth games structure their stories around investigating dark mysteries in isolated, dangerous locations where violence and death are constant threats. Each unfolds through exploration and puzzle-solving as you piece together what happened to missing people. While Tales from the Borderlands uses comedy and sci-fi adventure to frame its narrative, Ethan Carter employs horror and paranormal investigation, but both rely on environmental clues and grim discoveries to drive their plots forward.
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04Shares AdventurePuzzleBoth games combine science fiction settings with dark humor and moral complexity through their storytelling. Tales from the Borderlands uses episodic narrative and character-driven choices, while Soma explores identity and consciousness through environmental puzzles and audio logs. Each game grounds its sci-fi premise in atmospheric world-building and features protagonists confronting impossible decisions that shape their journey's outcome.
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05Shares AdventurePuzzleBoth games weave science fiction settings with action-driven stories where protagonists navigate conspiracies and betrayal. Tales from the Borderlands uses humor and choice-driven narrative across episodes, while Deus Ex: Mankind Divided emphasizes decision-making through stealth and combat approaches. Each game rewards player agency in how you progress, whether through dialogue or tactical options, making your choices feel consequential to the unfolding plot.
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06Shares AdventurePuzzleBoth games use puzzle-solving and exploration to drive their single-player stories forward, unfolding through auto-saving checkpoints. Tales from the Borderlands pairs its action-comedy with a mystery of recovering stolen cash, while Murdered: Soul Suspect centers on solving a murder case. Each game emphasizes uncovering truth through investigation and dialogue, with plot twists that reshape what you thought you knew about the central conflict.
07Shares AdventurePuzzleBoth games break the fourth wall and feature unreliable narrators who question reality itself. The Talos Principle shares Tales from the Borderlands' science fiction setting and puzzle-solving focus, but trades comedy for philosophical inquiry. Each game uses voice acting and betrayal as narrative anchors, creating stories where characters confront uncomfortable truths about their worlds and identities.
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08Shares AdventurePuzzleBoth games center on an anti-hero driven by betrayal into a revenge narrative, navigating hostile worlds through puzzle-solving and action. Tales from the Borderlands uses humor and episodic storytelling to explore its con artists' schemes, while Dishonored delivers a darker take on a framed assassin's quest for truth. Each game rewards player choice and features bloody, destructive combat as core to how you progress.
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09Shares AdventurePoint-and-clickBoth games are five-episode adventure series where your choices reshape the story through dialogue trees and branching outcomes. They share a noir tone wrapped in dark humor, bloody violence, and morally gray protagonists navigating criminal underworlds. The Wolf Among Us trades Borderlands' sci-fi comedy for hard-boiled mystery, but maintains the same structure of episodic storytelling where decisions carry real consequences for your character and allies.
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10Shares PuzzleBoth games blend science fiction action with dark humor in corporate-dominated worlds where protagonists operate outside the law. Tales from the Borderlands follows con artists navigating Pandora's criminal underworld, while Syndicate places you as an agent for one of three warring mega-corporations in a dystopian 2069. Each game emphasizes explosive, bloody confrontations and features protagonists caught between rival factions vying for control.
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10 games similar to Tales from the Borderlands: Prey, Gone Home, The Vanishing of Ethan Carter, Soma, Deus Ex: Mankind Divided, Murdered: Soul Suspect, The Talos Principle, Dishonored.
Most of these games share Action, Adventure, Puzzle, Science fiction and Point-and-click with Tales from the Borderlands, based on IGDB's similarity data. Each pick has a short note explaining what it has in common with Tales from the Borderlands.