Games Like Elden Ring
12 multiplayer games like Elden Ring, starting with Demon's Souls, the closest. The best free one is Old School RuneScape. Flip a card to see what it has in common, how many can join and whether it has crossplay.
12 games like Elden Ring
Start with: Demon's Souls, Dark Souls III, Dark Souls Remastered, Dark Souls II and Bloodborne.
Demon's Souls
Our pick
2–6 online
In common: Soulslike · Co-op · Fantasy. You travel the kingdom of Boletaria, killing demons for souls you spend on leveling up and buying gear. When you die you drop the souls you carried and restart the area.
PS5
Demon's Souls: View game →Dark Souls III
2–4 online
In common: Soulslike · Co-op · Fantasy. Lothric is a dark fantasy kingdom of interconnected areas that you cross to defeat the Lords of Cinder. Guests join by being summoned, and other players can invade the host's world to kill them.
PC · PS4 · Xbox
Dark Souls III: View game →Dark Souls Remastered
2–4 online
In common: Soulslike · Co-op · Fantasy. Lordran is a ruined kingdom where you fight undead and bosses in melee and every swing costs stamina. Dying sends you back to the last bonfire and drops the souls you level up with.
PC · PS4 · Xbox · Switch
Dark Souls Remastered: View game →Dark Souls II
2–4 online
In common: Soulslike · Co-op · Fantasy. Across the kingdom of Drangleic, you fight undead and bosses in melee to collect souls. Each death lowers your max health until you use a Human Effigy, and this edition includes all three DLCs.
PC · PS4 · Xbox
Dark Souls II: View game →Bloodborne
Our pick
2–3 online
In common: Soulslike · Co-op · Fantasy. Yharnam is a gothic city overrun by beasts, where hunters push through hard areas to beat their bosses. Health you just lost comes back if you strike back quickly, and weapons change form mid-fight.
PS4
Bloodborne: View game →Remnant II
2–3 onlineCrossplay
In common: Soulslike · Co-op · Fantasy. You travel between worlds overrun by the Root, a plague of creatures, mixing guns and melee. Worlds and bosses change every campaign, and each character combines two archetypes.
PC · PS5 · Xbox
Remnant II: View game →Remnant: From the Ashes
2–3 online
In common: Soulslike · Co-op · Fantasy. A ruined Earth and other worlds are overrun by the Root, and you cross them mixing guns and melee against creatures and bosses. Maps and bosses are randomly generated for each campaign.
PC · PS5 · Xbox · Switch
Remnant: From the Ashes: View game →Nioh 2
2–3 online
In common: Soulslike · Co-op · Fantasy. A half-yokai warrior crosses Sengoku-era Japan fighting demons, and up to two friends join their missions.
PC · PS5
Nioh 2: View game →The Elder Scrolls Online
2–12 online
In common: Co-op · Fantasy · Medieval. In Tamriel, centuries before Skyrim, you create a character and take on story quests, dungeons, trials and a three-alliance war. Zones scale to your level, so they can be played in any order.
PC · PS5 · Xbox
The Elder Scrolls Online: View game →Path of Exile 2
2–6 online2 on one screenCrossplay
In common: Co-op · Fantasy. Killing monsters and bosses earns gear through a campaign and an endgame of maps. Combat includes a dodge roll, and skills are gems that you modify with support gems.
PC · PS5 · Xbox
Path of Exile 2: View game →Castle Crashers
2–4 online4 on one screen
In common: Co-op · Fantasy · Medieval. The goal is to rescue four princesses kidnapped by a wizard, fighting as knights with swords and magic through barbarians, thieves and bosses. You level up and unlock weapons and animal pets that give bonuses.
PC · PS4 · Xbox · Switch
Castle Crashers: View game →Old School RuneScape
Free2–8 online
In common: Co-op · Fantasy · Medieval. This is the 2007 version of RuneScape, still updated with content voted on by players. You create a character, level skills like mining, fishing or combat, complete quests and fight bosses and raids.
PC
Old School RuneScape: View game →
How we pick games like Elden Ring
The order depends on how much each game has in common with Elden Ring. Style of play and genre (RPG & MMO) count the most, then whether you play on the same side or against each other, and after that pace, setting and camera, with the most-played game going first when two are tied. Every game here runs on at least one platform that Elden Ring is on, so nobody in the group needs new hardware to switch.