Nine Parchments similar games & best alternatives

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Nine Parchments

PlayStation 4, PC (Microsoft Windows), Xbox One, Nintendo Switch • 2017

Should you play it?

Nine Parchments is a co-operative blast'em up game of magic mayhem from Frozenbyte, creators of the Trine series!

What works

  • Beautiful graphics and music
  • Engaging cooperative multiplayer
  • Challenging and skillful combat
  • Variety of characters and spells
  • Good replay value and progression

Things to keep in mind

  • Minimal story and narrative depth
  • Linear level design with limited exploration
  • Some technical issues with multiplayer
  • No ability to switch characters mid-run
  • Friendly fire can frustrate some players

What to play next

Top picks

Games that feels the closest overall

  • Ember Knights

  • ELDEN RING NIGHTREIGN

  • Deathtrap

  • Fellowship

  • WARSHIFT

  • Nevergrind Online

More story-driven

Games that feels like Nine Parchments but with deeper narrative immersion

  • Frosthaven

  • Children of Morta

  • The Incredible Adventures of Van Helsing: Final Cut

  • Dungeon Siege II

  • Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Splintered Fate

  • CODE VEIN

More exploratory

Games that feels like Nine Parchments but with more exploration of areas and secrets

  • No Rest for the Wicked

  • Grim Dawn

  • Dungeons of Sundaria

  • Monster Hunter: World

  • Age of Wonders 4

  • Victor Vran ARPG

Less intimate

Games that feels like Nine Parchments but with less focus on close relationships

  • Dungeon Siege

  • Atlas Fallen: Reign Of Sand

  • LOST EPIC

  • Last Epoch

  • DAIMON BLADES

  • Solo Leveling: ARISE OVERDRIVE

Choose your own criteria ->

From the same developer

From the same developer, ranked by motivational fit.

  • Trine 2: Complete Story

  • Trine 4: The Nightmare Prince

  • Shadwen

  • Trine 5: A Clockwork Conspiracy

  • Trine Enchanted Edition

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).

Nine Parchments: A very typical example of its motivational profile. Motivations that often define this kind of title include Competition, Status, Fellowship, Domination. Here, the score leans higher than usual among comparable games on Intimacy, Cooperation, Fantasy.

Last update: 03/08/2026