Etrian Odyssey HD similar games & best alternatives

Etrian Odyssey HD

PC (Microsoft Windows), Nintendo Switch • 2023

Should you play it?

Beyond the village of Etria lies a mysterious forest with a colossal crack opening to a puzzling labyrinth. Lead a team of explorers into the dungeon with the promise of riches, fame, and adventure!

What works

  • Faithful and polished port with quality of life improvements
  • Engaging and strategic combat system
  • Unique map drawing mechanic
  • Challenging and rewarding dungeon exploration
  • Excellent music and art style

Things to keep in mind

  • Steep difficulty spikes and grinding
  • Minimal story and character development
  • Some balance issues with classes and skills
  • Pricey for a remaster of an older game
  • Postgame content can be tedious and frustrating

What to play next

Top picks

Games that feels the closest overall

  • Epic Battle Fantasy 3

  • FINAL FANTASY III

  • Remyadry

  • FINAL FANTASY

  • Labyrinth of Galleria: The Moon Society

  • Girls of The Tower

Less leadership-focused

Games that feels like Etrian Odyssey HD but with less leadership over others

  • Fabled Lands

  • Erannorth Reborn

  • Deep Dungeons of Doom

  • Knock on the Coffin Lid

  • Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night

  • The Quest

Choose your own criteria ->

From the same developer

From the same developer, ranked by motivational fit.

  • Etrian Odyssey II HD

  • Shin Megami Tensei V: Vengeance

  • Shin Megami Tensei III Nocturne HD Remaster

  • RAIDOU Remastered: The Mystery of the Soulless Army

  • Etrian Odyssey III HD

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Similarity map

Each dot is a game placed from its motivation profile relative to this page’s game. Direction shows which motivation differs most; distance along that axis shows how large the gap is.

  • Purple star: this page’s game at the centre — everything is relative to it.
  • Direction: each axis is a main motivational difference vs this game (e.g. more / less competitive).
  • Distance on an axis: how large that difference is (ring scales show +/− points).
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  • Scroll or double-click the chart to zoom.

How to read the map This is a polar difference map: direction = which motivation differs, and distance = how much (same units as the sidebar deltas).

Etrian Odyssey HD: 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 Leadership, Exploration. It leans lower than usual among comparable games on Value.

Last update: 03/08/2026