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Games like Valiant Hearts: The Great War
10 games similar to Valiant Hearts: The Great War, a Platform, Adventure, Puzzle game, drawn from IGDB's similarity data. Each pick below notes the genres it shares with Valiant Hearts: The Great War.
01Both games are set during major wars and use dynamic soundtracks to underscore their historical settings. Valiant Hearts follows characters through WWI trenches while Enemy Front puts you in WWII Nazi territory, each grounding its action in wartime atmosphere. They share an emphasis on survival amid warfare, though Valiant Hearts uses puzzles and platforming while Enemy Front opts for combat and stealth across open-ended missions.
02Shares AdventurePuzzleBoth games pair puzzle-solving with emotional storytelling centered on companionship through hardship. Valiant Hearts follows four characters bound by a faithful dog; Brothers focuses on two sons relying on each other's complementary strengths to survive. Each uses side-by-side or overhead perspectives to emphasize cooperation, and both convey narrative through action and gesture rather than exposition, creating intimate portraits of people enduring impossible circumstances.
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03Shares AdventureBoth games use historical settings to ground their narratives in real tragedy and moral complexity. Valiant Hearts follows soldiers through World War I's trenches, while L.A. Noire explores post-war Los Angeles corruption. Each features multiple protagonists whose stories intertwine, and both employ ambient soundtracks and auto-saving to support their focus on character and consequence over mechanical difficulty.
Games like L.A. Noire →
04Shares AdventurePuzzleBoth games weave mystery and emotional weight through puzzle-solving and exploration across atmospheric environments. Valiant Hearts uses a side-view adventure format to chart characters through wartime tragedy, while Murdered: Soul Suspect employs a third-person detective narrative set in historical Salem. Each game prioritizes narrative discovery and collectibles over action, asking players to piece together a darker truth through careful investigation and environmental interaction.
05Shares AdventurePuzzleBoth games use exploration and puzzle-solving to uncover dark stories marked by violence and death. Valiant Hearts follows characters through wartime tragedy via side-scrolling adventure, while The Vanishing of Ethan Carter casts you as a detective investigating murders and paranormal events in first person. Each pairs atmospheric soundscapes with grim narratives about loss, and both rely on environmental clues and discovery to drive their plots forward.
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06Shares AdventureBoth games center on warfare and historical conflict, following protagonists caught in brutal combat zones. Valiant Hearts emphasizes humanity amid trench horror through puzzle-driven exploration, while Wolfenstein pursues direct action against a Nazi regime. Each frames its story around soldiers confronting death and moral weight, with collectibles scattered throughout their campaigns. The shared focus on warfare's personal toll distinguishes both from typical genre entries.
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07Shares AdventurePlatformPuzzleBoth Valiant Hearts and Tomb Raider blend adventure with platforming and puzzle-solving across hostile environments. Each follows a protagonist driven by survival and human connection amid danger, with collectibles rewarding exploration. While Valiant Hearts emphasizes emotional storytelling through a side-view lens, Tomb Raider shifts to third-person action, but both games anchor their narratives in characters pushed to their limits by circumstance and sacrifice.
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08Shares AdventurePuzzleBoth games use a side-view perspective to tell dark stories about survival and human connection amid suffering. Valiant Hearts follows soldiers retaining their humanity through war's horrors, while The Cat Lady tracks Susan's struggle against despair and violence. Each game weaves puzzle-solving into a character-driven narrative where dialogue and relationships anchor the emotional weight, and both feature animals as meaningful companions in bleak circumstances.
09Shares AdventurePuzzleBoth games weave historical settings with personal tragedy to explore how characters endure impossible circumstances. Amnesia places you in 1899 as an industrialist desperate to save his children, while Valiant Hearts follows soldiers trying to retain humanity amid war's horrors. Each uses environmental puzzles and collectibles to deepen the narrative, grounding their stories in specific times and the moral weight they carry.
10Shares AdventurePlatformPuzzleBoth Valiant Hearts and Limbo are side-scrolling puzzle-platformers that use ambient music and environmental storytelling to create atmospheric, somber experiences. Each game follows a lone protagonist navigating a hostile world filled with death and danger, relying on climbing and puzzle-solving to progress. Where Valiant Hearts emphasizes humanity amid war's tragedy, Limbo strips away narrative detail to let environmental horror and isolation speak for themselves.
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10 games similar to Valiant Hearts: The Great War: Enemy Front, Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons, L.A. Noire, Murdered: Soul Suspect, The Vanishing of Ethan Carter, Wolfenstein: The New Order, Tomb Raider, The Cat Lady.
Most of these games share Adventure, Puzzle, Historical, Warfare and Platform with Valiant Hearts: The Great War, based on IGDB's similarity data. Each pick has a short note explaining what it has in common with Valiant Hearts: The Great War.