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Guild Wars® Reforged

2025

Should you play it?

Step into Guild Wars Reforged, the award-winning online roleplaying game enjoyed by millions, now re-energized with system enhancements and Steam Deck verified. Experience the complete saga— from the fall of Ascalon to the desperate stand against Nightfall. Your adventure is just getting started!

What works

  • Deep and flexible character customization
  • Engaging story and lore
  • No subscription fees
  • Solo-friendly with ai companions
  • Large amount of content and replayability

Things to keep in mind

  • Small current player base
  • Dated graphics and animations
  • Some clunky or slow combat mechanics
  • Lack of jumping and movement options
  • Limited pvp activity

What to play next

Top picks

Games that feels the closest overall

  • Borderlands 2

  • RIFT

  • The Elder Scrolls® Online

  • Mabinogi

  • Where Winds Meet

  • Vellum

Less competitive

Games that feels like Guild Wars® Reforged but with less competition against others

  • Valheim

  • ELEX

  • Voyagers of Nera

  • Split Fiction

  • Gedonia 2

  • Craftopia

Choose your own criteria ->

Similarity map

How to use the graph

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).
  • Coloured chips: click to highlight games that mainly differ on that motivation; click again to reset.
  • Dotted line: link between this page’s game and the one selected for comparison.
  • Hover a dot to preview that game in the panel on the right; click to keep that comparison.
  • 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).

Guild Wars® Reforged: Broadly representative of its motivational profile, with a few distinct shifts. Motivations that often define this kind of title include Cooperation, Fellowship, Intimacy, Leadership. Here, the score leans higher than usual among comparable games on Competition, Status, Story.

Last update: 03/08/2026