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Sekiro™: Shadows Die Twice - GOTY Edition

2019

Should you play it?

Game of the Year - The Game Awards 2019 Best Action Game of 2019 - IGN Carve your own clever path to vengeance in the award winning adventure from developer FromSoftware, creators of Bloodborne and the Dark Souls series. Take Revenge. Restore Your Honor. Kill Ingeniously.

What works

  • Challenging and rewarding combat system
  • Engaging boss fights
  • Immersive japanese setting and story
  • High replayability with multiple endings
  • Excellent sound design and visuals

Things to keep in mind

  • Steep learning curve and difficulty
  • No multiplayer or co-op
  • Some frustrating boss mechanics
  • Linear level design with limited exploration
  • Lack of character customization

What to play next

Top picks

Games that feels the closest overall

  • Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus

  • NINJA GAIDEN 2 Black

  • Resident Evil 4

  • Thymesia

  • Bright Memory

  • Prince of Persia: Warrior Within™

More expressive

Games that feels like Sekiro™: Shadows Die Twice - GOTY Edition but with more self-expression and customization

  • Fable - The Lost Chapters

  • The Surge 2

  • The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered

  • God of War Ragnarök

  • Blades of Fire

  • Lies of P

More intimate

Games that feels like Sekiro™: Shadows Die Twice - GOTY Edition but with more focus on close relationships

  • God of War

  • Eternal Strands

  • Clash: Artifacts of Chaos

  • Tales of ARISE

  • Clair Obscur: Expedition 33

  • Assassin's Creed® Odyssey

Choose your own criteria ->

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Similarity map

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  • 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.
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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).

Sekiro™: Shadows Die Twice - GOTY Edition: Broadly representative of its motivational profile, with a few distinct shifts. Motivations that often define this kind of title include Violence, Survival, Fellowship, Intimacy. It leans lower than usual among comparable games on Expression, Relaxation, Leadership.

Last update: 06/08/2026