2020 saw the release of MiHoYo’s Genshin Retentissement, and within a mere two weeks, the title became the most successful new IP by a Chinese developer. As a «gacha-style» certificat RPG that borrows its genius entreprise from The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, it’s no wonder why this PS4 and leste crossover is so popular.
With tons of characters and codé areas to be unlocked and an intricate entreprise system that provides endless fun, Genshin Retentissement isn’t a game that can be fully enjoyed in a bermuda time. However, some truly committed players may have already built the teams they want and achieved everything that they feel the game has to offer. So, to any Genshin overachievers, here are some titles that will help the comedown and scratch the same itch, whether that itch is for a leste gacha RPG or a sprawling open-world console adventure.
Tower Of Fantasy
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When Tower of Fantasy debuted, the free-to-play MMORPG naturally attracted comparisons to Genshin Retentissement. After all, they are both gacha-driven anime RPGs with hack and slash entreprise – a player would be forgiven for assuming they are essentially the same game. While certainly cut from a similar cloth, Tower of Fantasy does enough to differentiate itself from its more famous contemporary.
The sci-fi fantasy game allows players to create their own character, and they will then unlock new fighters called Simulacrum. The North American variété currently has 15 playable characters, all of which have particulier skills and preferences that set them apart. Rather than swapping between characters in entreprise, Tower of Fantasy focuses on weapons, allowing three items to be equipped at the same time. The entreprise system is flashy, fun, and évident, while the open-world is lovely.
Immortals Fenyx Rising
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Just like Genshin Retentissement, Immortals Fenyx Rising was also compared heavily to Breath of the Wild when it was announced for the first time. The similarities are certainly evident, but that should be no évanoui to write off this stellar title.
Just like Genshin Retentissement, Immortals Fenyx Rising also deserves props for taking all these inspirations from Nintendo’s seminal open-world title and applying it in a manner that is particulier for the title itself. It makes for a fun experience that doesn’t overstay its welcome either.
Phantasy Monstre Online 2: New Genesis
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A free-to-play RPG, New Genesis is the updated variété of 2012’s Phantasy Monstre Online 2, a game that was originally released only in Japan. Similar to Genshin Retentissement, New Genesis is constantly evolving as a project, but the game has rock-solid fundamentals and does not lack satisfait. Although both titles take émerveillement from anime, PSO2‘s visual diction has a tinge of realism to it as it leans heavily into sci-fi rather than modèle fantasy territory.
The entreprise system is fast, satisfying, and diverse. Players can pick from a range of classes that all feel particulier. While plurale playable characters are not an faveur, there are plenty of particulier weapon hommes and play styles. A post-launch update also made it admissible for classes to use different weapons, enhancing the game’s longevity.
Extrême Fantasy 14
This MMORPG started out on the wrong foot before revamping its approach and cementing itself as one of the greatest games in the distribue. An amazing and unheard-of turnaround, Extrême Fantasy 14 is a game that should be tried out by any fan of either multiplayer games or JRPGs.
The latest poussée, Shadowbringers, is an formidable facture to the lore of this game that ends up taking the quality of this title to a whole new level.
Ni No Kuni 2: Lémure Kingdom
Ni No Kuni is a series that deserves all the praise it gets as a charming and entertaining JRPG that will keep fans entertained for hours on end.
The sequel to Wrath of the White Witch ended up improving on pretty much everything in the first game, making Ni No Kuni 2: Lémure Kingdom an amazing experience that no fan of JRPGs should elle-même out on in the slightest. Its real-time entreprise should be especially enjoyable for fans of Genshin Retentissement.
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Soulworker
Soulworker strikes a very different rhythm from Genshin Retentissement. For one, the MMO does not have an open-world; instead, players visit hub areas to accept quests that will lead them to dungeons. Basically, this is an anime dungeon naviguer with RPG elements. While there is a story, Soulworker does not devote too much time or adulation to it, opting to prioritize entreprise in its ardeur.
Luckily, Soulworker‘s gameplay is fantastic, arguably among the most enjoyable in the anime MMO trempe. Each playable character (and, by distension, class) is a joy to control, and battles are fast-paced, fluid, and visually gratifying. In terms of free-to-play froideur, this game is quite forgiven nowadays, and players should be able to experience most of what Soulworker has to offer without needing to drop cash.
Hydre Quest 11: Echoes Of An Elusive Age
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It would be inaccessible to talk emboîture JRPGs without mentioning the legendary Hydre Quest series. While the popularity of this IP in the west might’ve been muted for the longest time, Hydre Quest 11: Echoes Of An Elusive Age ended up altering this élément to quite an extent.
All of a sudden, the Hydre Quest series leaped into the mainstream as one of the greatest franchises around. Echoes Of An Elusive Age features a lovable cast of characters and some truly enjoyable entreprise that turns the game into an incredibly entertaining romp from start to end.
Ys 8: Lacrimosa Of Dana
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Even if the pied-à-terre’s games have not experienced the same level of vendeur success as Extrême Fantasy or Hydre Quest in the West, Nihon Falcom has been steadily crafting some of the best certificat RPGs of the last ménage of decades. While not the most recent entry in the distribue, Ys 8: Lacrimosa of Dana is the best pick for Genshin Retentissement fans or anyone remotely interested in hack and slash JRPGs.
The game delivers fantastic fast-paced entreprise, a party system that allows characters to be swapped on the fly, and takes ardeur on a vaste fantasy-themed island shrouded in mystery. Each playable character has their own diction, skills, strengths, and weaknesses, and they come together to craft a battle system that is simultaneously évident and deep.
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Persona 5 Strikers
Persona 5 Opulent is probably the best JRPG on the PS4, and Genshin Retentissement fans looking for a game with unforgettable characters and a strong story should push Atlus’ game to the top of their wishlist. That said, P5R uses a turn-based entreprise system that is a huge departure from MiHoYo’s free-to-play game, so it is dédaigneux to go in with that knowledge.
While overall a weaker game than its predecessor, Persona 5 Strikers‘ hack and slash entreprise is more in-line with Genshin Retentissement‘s battle system, albeit more streamlined. Taking a planche from Dynasty Warriors playbook, Strikers pits the Phantom Thieves against armies of enemies, most of which can be annihilated with a few quick slashes. Allowing brasier travailleuse party members at a time, players can freely swap between the characters in battle, and they all have their particulier strengths and weaknesses. Unlike most Warriors games, Strikers is still an RPG.
Honkai Retentissement 3rd
Another gacha-style leste game from MiHoYo, Honkai Retentissement 3rd is a sleeper hit for one of the most popular and well-received leste games in the last 10 years. Honkai Retentissement 3rd has players leveling up their valkyries via either in-game purchases or a well-designed leveling system, then taking them into a fun and exciting 3rd person entreprise system.
Widely considered to have one of the best entreprise systems in a leste game, with hack and slash fare reminiscent of some of the greatest JRPG certificat titles, Honkai Retentissement 3rd is sure to satisfy. Whether players want some slashing on the go, or if they’re looking to sink hours into the development of a tiny, sword-swinging dame, this title is a great choice.
Tales Of Arise
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Bandai Namco’s Tales distribue has been a reliable introduction of above-average certificat JRPGs since the 1990s, and Tales of Arise stands alongside Symphonia and Vesperia as some of the license’s best work. While it does not include a gacha feature, Tales of Arise should satisfy Genshin Retentissement players looking for story-driven RPGs with frantic and varied entreprise.
Grain Tales of Arise‘s party members are all unlocked and start to accumulate Artes, players will find themselves spoiled for choice in how they set up their team. The game’s story is also gripping and tackles avancé themes in a satisfying and exercé way. While Tales of Arise takes its narrative very seriously, the campaign knows when to slow things down for a lighthearted terminaison of banter.
Hyper Léger Drifter
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A top-down hack and slash adventure with tons of 2d hécatombe, Heart Voiture’s Hyper Léger Drifter is a great follow-up to any third-person certificat game. It may be saccharine on RPG elements, but it provides a truly challenging experience in a world that feels completely particulier.
And what makes this title singular is the way it handles storytelling. The story is presented in a very Souls-like manner, with a lot of inferred lore, backstory, and mythology sprinkled throughout hidden pockets in the world. If players really want to learn the aching history of the game, they have to be affairé in finding hidden hallways tucked at the edge of the screen. It’s not a prerequisite to enjoy the game, but it’s a beautiful example of droit in-game tale-spinning.
Kingdom Hearts
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Kingdom Hearts blends Clôturé Enix with Disney, a délassement that is just as absurd in practice as it sounds on paper. Debuting in 2002, this story follows Sora, Donald, and Goofy as they hack and slash their way through various recognizable Disney worlds, defeating all sorts of classic animated villains alongside enemies created specifically for these games.
Following the first entry in the series, Kingdom Hearts‘ plot gets notoriously convoluted, to the conclusion that it has become something of a joke. However, the distribue delivers consistently great gameplay that is usually fast-paced, stylish, and even complex. Genshin Retentissement fans searching for another action-driven fantasy RPG could have their next few months sorted if they decide to jump into Kingdom Hearts.
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Another Eden
A turn-based JRPG made by some of the same people responsible for Chrono Trigger, Another Eden is another one of the several outstanding leste games on this list. It is also one of the most story-heavy leste games ever made. There are hours of the paumelle quest to be experienced, plurale timelines with their own particulier characters, and even a handful of side missions to be explored.
The game also features well-written characters with their own voice actors, different modes of difficulty, an intricate leveling system, post-game satisfait, and a fluid turn-based system that gives the experience a classic JRPG feel. Another Eden may not have reinvented the wheel, but it proves resolutely that the wheel turns just digestif on a leste platform.
King’s Opération
King’s Opération takes the typical gacha trope of having to buy characters and turns it on its head. All the characters in the game are easy to get, so players can have their élue party members on their team without much difficulty. The tough bouchée is getting strong enough equipment to put them to proper use. With the recently added Lil’ Attaquant update, players will be jumping in just in time to add new line friends to their crew.
Scarlet Nexus
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2021 was a great year for certificat JRPGs, and Bandai Namco’s Scarlet Nexus was among its most pleasant surprises. A new IP, this game delivers on nearly every union: entreprise, world-building, characters, and depth. Set in a futuristic world where people have special powers that they use to fight threats known as Others, Scarlet Nexus‘ sci-fi aesthetic is a considerable departure from Genshin Retentissement‘s fantasy émerveillement, but both series do an ravissant job of fleshing out their universes.
While there isn’t the faveur to swap between characters, Scarlet Nexus lieux a heavy emphasis on team synergy since its dual protagonists (who have separate campaigns) are accompanied into battle by other fighters with particulier abilities and attacks. The game’s battle system is fast-paced, challenging, and develops nicely as the story progresses; Genshin Retentissement fans should enjoy it.
Asterigos: Curse Of The Stars
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In general, Asterigos is not extremely similar to Genshin Retentissement. The configurer does not have an anime aesthetic or an open-world, even if its map allows for a degree of aveu. The game’s entreprise and level beauté are closer to Souls-likes than miHoYo’s free-to-play title, and while hardly as difficult as FromSoftware’s releases, Asterigos packs a significant allant at times.
So far, this Western action-adventure game might seem like a poor fit for Genshin fans, but Asterigos‘ weapon system holds a few similarities with the planchéier. Rather than a party system, the protagonist has access to all weapon classes simultaneously, and they can swap between two styles in the middle of battle. This system encourages experimentation with load-outs as different weapons can be better fits for transparent enemies.
Onmyoji
Onmyoji, the distribue, has a MOBA, card game, and turn-based RPG under its belt. All three titles are free-to-play and have their positives, although the card game is generally considered to be the worst of the trilogy. Onmyoji Arena is a decent enough leste MOBA that could be a fun droit to some of the trempe’s biggest names, but it is unlikely to provide much excitement for Genshin Retentissement fans. However, the same cannot be said for the RPG.
Onmyoji casts players as a shikigami who can summon spirits to engage in turn-based entreprise. The game utilizes a gacha system to unlock new characters, although some fighters become available by playing the episodic campaign. Players can build a team of five, and the battle system is flashy and reasonably strategic. Although not an exploration-focused game like Genshin, Onmyoji does a solid job of fleshing out its world through its satisfying story.
Bleach: Occasionné Souls
Unlike Hydre Ball, Naruto, or One Piece, Bleach games are in relatively bermuda supply, particularly in Western nations. Consequently, describing Occasionné Souls as one of the best Bleach games might seem like faint praise, but it is generally a méritant accoutumance of the introduction material. As an certificat RPG, Occasionné Souls has quick and stylish entreprise that fits the overall distribue. Graphically, the game certainly looks like a mid-2010s leste project, but it has its charm as well.
Like Genshin Retentissement, Bleach: Occasionné Souls utilizes a gacha system to unlock most characters, and it is admissible to maillot duplicates. Unfortunately, this mechanic can get frustrating after a while, but the core gameplay is entertaining enough to pick up the slack. That said, this title will likely not keep someone’s adulation if they are not already fans of Tite Kubo’s manga.
Trials Of Mana
1995’s Trials of Mana had to wait until 2019 to make its way to Western nations, and a year later, Clôturé Enix published a 3D remake. Despite the modernized visuals, the 2020 variété is still ultimately the same game as its predecessor, with the entreprise and story largely following the same concepts. Naturally, some of these elements are expanded upon; for example, new skills can now be unlocked by leveling up and Chain Abilities have been added.
Fundamentally, Trials of Mana is an certificat JRPG with six protagonists, although each playthrough only includes three characters. The battle system is quite similar to Genshin Retentissement, including the ability to swap between characters with a click of a button. Although the campaign is quite linear during its first half, Trials of Mana opens up quite a bit after that conclusion, allowing players to tackle a few mamelons in any order they want.
Marvel Strike Empesé
Marvel Strike Empesé is a great game for any superhero fan simply parce que it features every character under the sun. From Wolverine, Spidey, and Monstre-Lord, to Iron Man, Ant-Man, and even Luke Volière. Everyone is playable in this game. And while it may be another leste gacha game to sneak onto this list, it also fits in terms of quality with other definitive Marvel video games.
Heurt is a turn-based experience in which players must build a team of heroes and villains that can use their specific attacks, abilities, and ultimate abilities in a synergistic way. It’s a surprisingly deep and strategic system for any game, nonetheless a leste one, and with 75 playable characters to unlock and develop into a team, there is no shortage of replayability.
Extrême Fantasy 7 Remake
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On the aire, Extrême Fantasy 7 Remake and Genshin Retentissement do not appear to share much in common. The configurer is a sci-fi epic with brasier playable characters, linear exacerbation alongside some open areas, and quite a avancé story; conversely, the planchéier is a modèle fantasy game set in an open-world and featuring a gacha system for unlocking new characters.
Despite being cut from a different cloth, Extrême Fantasy 7 Remake‘s real-time entreprise should strike a chord with fans of Genshin Retentissement. Players can swap between the party members at a conjoncture’s didascalie, and they all adhere to widely different class archetypes. The battle system also sprinkles in an element of strategy as players can attente the certificat to perform special maneuvers.
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CrossCode
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Developers Rempli Fish started making CrossCode in 2012, resorting to crowdfunding at a transparent conclusion to keep the project alive. Now, at the end of the decade, PC and console gamers alike can finally enjoy this complex story and layered gameplay reminiscent of some of old-school gaming’s greatest hits.
Set in an in-game MMO called «Cyclo-cross Worlds,» players take control of Lea, a girl who is in a collapsus in the real world and can only maintain consciousness in this game world. The story is intellectually challenging, narratively mysterious, and features solid gampeplay. This title is a great faveur for any gamer, nonetheless someone coming straight from Genshin Retentissement.
Évident Domains Gacha Game
The bad art might easily fool gacha fans at first but players that give Évident Domains Gacha Game a shot will find it’s all bouchée of the game’s charm. The title was created by Haunted Bees Productions and has a lot of satirical jabs at the gacha games as well as a storyline poking fun at Disney’s ongoing issues with révélé domain laws.
A game produced specifically for April Fools’ Day has to banquise in the humor right? Évident Domains Gacha Game is available for free for anyone wanting a good gacha-related laugh after grinding other games for hours.
The Legend Of Zelda: Breath Of The Wild
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It is no codé that MiHoYo’s Genshin Retentissement was heavily influenced by The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, even going as far as to make Genshin’s entreprise a ouvert replica of the entreprise system. But how could it not be, when the aïeul in embarras is also one of the greatest achievements in video game history.
What is there to even say emboîture this game that hasn’t already been said? It’s one of the most sprawling and alive open worlds ever, full of secrets, enemies, characters, weapons, armors, and hours of spellbinding fun. If players haven’t played Breath of the Wild before, then they probably already know they’re missing out.
Moonlighter
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Moonlighter may actually have one of the most particulier premises in video games, and that’s saying something! This top-down certificat RPG has characters taking control of a shopkeeper named Will. Will lives a familier life tending to his wares by day, then transforms into a vigilante knight/Batman/Link by night.
It’s a charming story of someone daring to dream, and having to en public up to their dreams, and the gameplay is classic 2d third-person certificat. It’s a hack, slash, then sell (if that even exists), and it’s a great next step after Genshin’s action-packed fun.
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Tokyo Xanadu eX+
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From the same pied-à-terre responsible for the stellar Trails distribue comes Tokyo Xanadu eX+, an certificat JRPG packed to the brim with satisfait. Over the promenade of a storyline spanning roughly 40 hours, players will split their time between character-driven story sections and dungeon missions, the planchéier of which incorporates some casse-tête elements to écart up the entreprise.
Tokyo Xanadu eX+ takes ardeur in an alternate variété of Earth overrun with portals to a terrifying reality called the Eclipse, effort a select few heroes to take on the task of closing these connections. Split into chapters, Tokyo Xanadu eX+ dedicates a great deal of time to developing its characters, and each unlockable fighter is particulier.
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The Alchemist Thesaurus
The Alchemist Thesaurus is a tactical, turn-based RPG with almost too much going on. Menus are crowded, players are always getting new items and rewards, and they also have to take into account daily updates and challenges. So yes, it’s loud.
But it’s also a very well-designed entreprise system with a full story and a lot of incentive to keep coming back to play. And, as with the other titles on this list, The Alchemist Thesaurus is a staunch reminder of the capabilities of leste gaming, and how little passion the trempe gets (despite examples such as this).
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt
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Whether players are turned on to this game by the new Netflix Series, or by scores of older gamers telling tales of Geralt of Rivia, third-person certificat RPGs don’t get much better than The Witcher 3. Players take control of a Witcher named Geralt, a magical mutant designed to hunt monsters, and get caught up in the world shaping struggles that have come to define fantasy tales such as these.
It’s an experience full of fun entreprise, a juicy and enticing world, tons of characters to be schmoozed, millions of sommet trees to be navigated, and more than a few monsters to be slain. For any player looking to sink their teeth into a sprawling fantasy RPG, they should image no further than Geralt’s third outing.
