What Game Should I Play?

What game should I play next? Get game recommendations and find games like the ones you love in one tap — games like Skyrim, Stardew Valley, Hollow Knight and Elden Ring — then keep them in a game backlog tracker. Every list works offline, on a fresh install, with no account.

Type any game and JustLikeGames shows you what to play next: games like Skyrim, games like Stardew Valley, games like Hollow Knight, games like inFAMOUS, Shadow of the Colossus, EarthBound, Banjo-Kazooie, LittleBigPlanet, Elden Ring, It Takes Two and thousands more. Every list works offline, on a fresh install, with no account.

HAND-PICKED LISTS, WRITTEN BY PEOPLE
186 "games like" lists from justlikegames.com — LittleBigPlanet, inFamous, Jak and Daxter, Shadow of the Colossus, Banjo-Kazooie, Parasite Eve, Conker's Bad Fur Day, F-Zero, Advance Wars and more — with the reason a fan of the original will want each pick. Plus 57 head-to-heads (Elden Ring vs Dark Souls III, Palworld vs Pokémon Legends: Arceus, Stardew Valley vs Animal Crossing…) that answer "which should I play?" first, and 15 genre guides: where to start and what to skip.

WHAT SHOULD I PLAY TONIGHT?
Answer three quick questions — how much time you have, your energy, who you're playing with — and get one game with a reason why. Not it? Pick again.

FIND ME A GAME
Pick a genre (metroidvania, JRPG, soulslike, kart racer, survival horror, cozy life sim…), an era and a style, and get a shortlist of crowd-pleasers or hidden gems.

10,700+ GAMES, OFFLINE
The whole catalogue ships inside the app: covers, release years, ratings, Metacritic scores, descriptions and a games-like graph built from hand-curated lists. Search resolves what people actually type — "bg3", "botw", "gta 5", "smash bros" — straight to the right game.

GAMES LIKE THE ONES EVERYONE ASKS ABOUT
Search any of these and get a ranked list of similar games, each with a reason: games like Minecraft, Stardew Valley, It Takes Two, The Sims 4, Skyrim, Elden Ring, Hollow Knight, Terraria, Red Dead Redemption 2, Fallout 4, Hades, Animal Crossing, Dark Souls, Breath of the Wild, Cyberpunk 2077, Subnautica, Genshin Impact, The Last of Us, Slay the Spire, Palworld, Valheim, Undertale, Portal 2, Resident Evil 4, Life is Strange, Until Dawn, Detroit: Become Human, God of War and Diablo IV.

WHICH ONE SHOULD I PLAY?
Head-to-heads that give a straight answer: Elden Ring vs Dark Souls III, Minecraft vs Terraria, Hades vs Dead Cells, Hollow Knight vs Ori, Red Dead Redemption 2 vs GTA V, Cyberpunk 2077 vs The Witcher 3, Baldur's Gate 3 vs Divinity: Original Sin 2, Stardew Valley vs Coral Island, Valheim vs Minecraft, Persona 5 vs Persona 4 Golden and more.

BEST GAMES BY CONSOLE
The PS2 games worth replaying, N64 legends, GameCube gems, PS1 games still worth playing, SNES and Genesis classics, Dreamcast cult hits, plus PS5, Xbox Series X|S, Switch and PC. Every console page opens with hand-picked essentials.

TRACK YOUR BACKLOG
• Save games as Backlog, Playing, Completed, Dropped or Wishlist
• Rate, tag, add notes and custom lists
• Log play sessions and see hours played, weekly activity, genre breakdowns and favourites
• Set a monthly completion goal
• Daily streak, achievements, and a Today's Pick home-screen widget
• Export and restore your library as a backup — no sign-in, ever

CURATED SHELVES
Cozy night in, quick fix before bed, one more run, couch co-op tonight, big brain hours, spooky season, JRPG hall of fame, best of the 16-bit era and more.

NEW IN THIS VERSION
• An optional tonight's-pick reminder: one quiet evening nudge with a game to play, off any time in Settings
• Updates download inside the app; one tap restarts it
• More free apps & games, in Settings

Bright, fast and readable, with an optional dark theme. Ads are light and never sit between you and a result; a one-time purchase removes them entirely.

Game data from RAWG and IGDB. JustLikeGames is made by DixonAppStudio LLC and is the app companion to justlikegames.com.

Recent changes:
Smoother returns: no ad when the app starts, fewer interruptions when you come back, and lighter ad loading. The game finder is also inside Mind Skills Arcade (free).