Ys Origin similar games & best alternatives

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Ys Origin

PlayStation 4, PC (Microsoft Windows), PlayStation Vita, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch • 2012

Should you play it?

The perfect mix of action, exploration and story with screen-filling bosses, unique platforming elements, and innovative puzzles.

What works

  • Challenging and rewarding combat
  • Multiple playable characters with distinct styles
  • Engaging boss fights
  • Excellent soundtrack
  • High replay value with additional modes

Things to keep in mind

  • Repetitive gameplay due to multiple playthroughs of same tower
  • Lack of controller remapping in-game
  • No cooperative or multiplayer features
  • Some grinding required at higher difficulties
  • No ability to skip cutscenes

What to play next

Top picks

Games that feels the closest overall

  • Death's Gambit: Afterlife

  • Ys VI: The Ark of Napishtim

  • Prince of Persia The Lost Crown

  • Blasphemous 2

  • Rogue Legacy 2

  • Angeline Era

Less competitive

Games that feels like Ys Origin but with less competition against others

  • Tales of Spark

  • Raji: Prologue

  • Touhou: Scarlet Curiosity

  • Death's Door

  • Xanadu Next

  • BDSM: Big Drunk Satanic Massacre

More leadership-focused

Games that feels like Ys Origin but with more leadership over others

  • Tower of Time

  • GRANDIA II HD Remaster

  • Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous - Enhanced Edition

  • DRAGON QUEST I & II HD-2D Remake

  • EARTHLOCK

  • Warhammer 40,000: Mechanicus

More social

Games that feels like Ys Origin but with more teamwork and cooperation

Choose your own criteria ->

From the same developer

From the same developer, ranked by motivational fit.

  • Ys: The Oath in Felghana

  • Ys VI: The Ark of Napishtim

  • Gurumin: A Monstrous Adventure

  • Zwei: The Ilvard Insurrection

  • Xanadu Next

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).

Ys Origin: A very typical example of its motivational profile. Motivations that often define this kind of title include Violence, Survival, Fellowship, Intimacy. Here, the score leans higher than usual among comparable games on Competition. It leans lower than usual among comparable games on Expression, Leadership.

Last update: 03/08/2026