10 games similar to The Elder Scrolls Online, a Adventure, Role-playing (RPG) game, drawn from IGDB's similarity data. Each pick below notes the genres it shares with The Elder Scrolls Online.
01Shares AdventureRole-playing (RPG)Both games let you craft a character from scratch and explore fantasy worlds where gods and mortals clash. Pillars of Eternity shares the good versus evil moral stakes and real-time combat of Elder Scrolls Online, though it trades the MMO's first-person perspective for an isometric view. You'll still lead companions through dungeons, complete side quests, and level up your character across a richly detailed realm.
02Shares AdventureRole-playing (RPG)Both games let you build a custom character from multiple races and classes, then shape their story through choices that ripple across a fantasy world in crisis. Dragon Age: Inquisition shares the open-world exploration and real-time combat of Elder Scrolls Online, while adding tactical party management. Like ESO, it emphasizes character progression through quests and offers multiplayer options alongside single-player depth.
Games like Dragon Age: Inquisition →
03Shares AdventureRole-playing (RPG)Both games cast you as an adventurer building a character through leveling and skill progression in fantasy worlds filled with goblins, undead, and wizards. Where Elder Scrolls Online emphasizes open-world exploration with bow and arrow combat, Aarklash: Legacy condenses that action into tactical squad-based battles. Each game rewards you for engaging enemies and discovering loot across hostile fantasy lands.
04Shares AdventureRole-playing (RPG)Both games let you create a character and explore a vast fantasy world from first or third person, using bows, magic, and stealth to tackle quests. Skyrim strips away the multiplayer focus to deliver a single-player epic where you level up through combat and crafting, pursuing everything from guild membership to assassination contracts. The core Elder Scrolls formula of freedom and role-playing remains intact.
Games like The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim →
05Shares AdventureRole-playing (RPG)Both games cast you as a resurrected hero navigating expansive fantasy worlds filled with assassins, bows, and moral conflict. Shadow of Mordor strips away MMO systems to focus on open-world action and real-time combat across Mordor, while Elder Scrolls Online spreads similar mechanics across Tamriel's multiplayer landscape. If you want the core adventure without the online component, Mordor delivers comparable sword-and-sorcery exploration.
Games like Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor →
06Shares AdventureRole-playing (RPG)Both games pair character creation with leveling systems in action-driven fantasy worlds where real-time combat defines exploration. Bloodborne strips away The Elder Scrolls Online's multiplayer scope to focus on solo adventure through a gothic realm, but retains the core loop of fighting enemies, gaining experience, and uncovering lore through environmental storytelling and side quests.
Games like Bloodborne →
07Shares AdventureRole-playing (RPG)Both games are action-focused fantasy MMOs where you create a character and progress through quests alongside other players. Elsword shares The Elder Scrolls Online's real-time combat and bow-and-arrow gameplay, though it presents the action from a sidescroller perspective rather than first or third person. Both support cooperative play and player-versus-player modes within their online worlds.
08Shares AdventureRole-playing (RPG)Both games place you in expansive fantasy worlds where real-time combat and character progression drive the action. The Elder Scrolls Online and Final Fantasy XV share a focus on good versus evil conflict across open landscapes, with side quests and optional challenges beyond the main story. Each game emphasizes mastering weapons and magic while traveling through richly detailed environments filled with enemies to overcome.
Games like Final Fantasy XV →
09Shares Role-playing (RPG)Both games are fantasy MMORPGs where you create a character, join guilds, and level up through combat and crafting in open worlds populated by elves and other races. Perfect World mirrors Elder Scrolls Online's blend of bow-based combat, magic, and PvE exploration, though it roots itself in Chinese mythology rather than Elder Scrolls lore. Grinding and loot gathering drive progression in both.
10Shares Role-playing (RPG)Both games blend action combat with character leveling in shared online worlds where you tackle quests across multiple zones. Each has you resurrect repeatedly after death, granting narrative justification for respawning. Destiny strips away Elder Scrolls Online's fantasy setting for sci-fi warfare, but maintains the core loop of cooperative multiplayer exploration, gear progression, and real-time combat against waves of enemies threatening civilization.
Games like Destiny →
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10 games similar to The Elder Scrolls Online: Pillars of Eternity, Dragon Age: Inquisition, Aarklash: Legacy, The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor, Bloodborne, Elsword, Final Fantasy XV.
Most of these games share Role-playing (RPG), Action, Fantasy, Adventure and Open world with The Elder Scrolls Online, based on IGDB's similarity data. Each pick has a short note explaining what it has in common with The Elder Scrolls Online.
