Games like New Tales from the Borderlands
If New Tales from the Borderlands is your kind of game, the closest matches are My Bloody Weekend 2, The Wolf Among Us 2 and Single Player: Horror — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its bleak, comedic and dark. Each pick is ranked by what players of this game also play, shared genres and tags, and review-mined similarity — not a generic popularity list.
Get personalized picks →New Tales from the Borderlands is a story-driven adventure game released in 2022. Players navigate a branching narrative across five chapters, making achievement-gated choices that shape relationships and outcomes while responding to QTEs throughout key moments. The game features a relationship system and an optional vaultlander minigame that reviewers highlight as a fun distraction from the main story. Players describe the tone as bleak, dark, comedic, and unsettling, with narrative hooks that attempt meta-commentary on the Borderlands universe. The experience is designed for solo play with a chill difficulty curve and medium-length campaign, priced at $39.99 USD and marked as playable on Steam Deck. The title currently holds a 28% positive rating based on over 1200 Steam reviews.
About New Tales from the Borderlands: Decide the fates of altruistic scientist Anu, her ambitious, "streetwise" brother Octavio, and the fierce, frogurt-slinging Fran. Claw and con your way through five thrilling chapters!
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My Bloody Weekend 2
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Top pick for New Tales from the Borderlands fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with New Tales from the Borderlands.
"My Bloody Weekend 2" is a new survival horror experience for the MBW franchise. Try to survive at some new and improoved Quick Time Events, set in a new mansion ready to be explored. Play as a new character for this live action game. A new week is going to pass, a new terror is about to rise.
The Wolf Among Us 2
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Second-strongest match for New Tales from the Borderlands fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with New Tales from the Borderlands.
A neon-noir thriller where Bigby Wolf must confront the monster within that threatens the future of Fabletown.
Single Player: Horror
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Third-strongest match for New Tales from the Borderlands fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries.
Single Player: Horror is a unique POV interactive experience. You don’t just play the role of Sophie, you see through her eyes. You wake up to find a Psycho Axe Killer in your living room who is desperate to chop you into pieces. Will you survive the night?
Heavy Rain
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Shares a dark mood with New Tales from the Borderlands.
Ranked #4 for New Tales from the Borderlands fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with New Tales from the Borderlands.
Experience a gripping psychological thriller filled with innumerable twists and turns. The hunt is on for a murderer known only as the Origami Killer. Four characters, each following their own leads, must take part in a desperate attempt to prevent the killer from claiming a new victim.
The Run
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Ranked #5 for New Tales from the Borderlands fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with New Tales from the Borderlands.
An FMV horror-thriller. A famous fitness influencer must fight for survival when she's hunted by killers. Your decisions determine whether she lives or dies.
Superscout
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Shares a comedic mood with New Tales from the Borderlands.
Ranked #6 for New Tales from the Borderlands fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with New Tales from the Borderlands.
"Superscout" is a live-action interactive movie game where you will unravel the secrets of the girls you meet. The love beyond lifetimes, never let it go; the kindness in this life, engraved in your soul. Your choices will change your loved ones’ fate; those who love you will change yours...
The Quarry
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Ranked #7 for New Tales from the Borderlands fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with New Tales from the Borderlands.
When the sun goes down on the last night of summer camp, nine teenage counselors are plunged into an unpredictable night of horror. The only thing worse than the blood-drenched locals and creatures hunting them are the unimaginable choices you must make to help them survive.
Cut to the Core
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Shares a bleak mood with New Tales from the Borderlands.
Ranked #8 for New Tales from the Borderlands fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries.
How much of someone can you cut away before there's nothing left? Find out in this chilling kinetic visual novel - IF YOU DARE!
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Tales from the Borderlands
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Reviewers of New Tales from the Borderlands cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with New Tales from the Borderlands.
Tales from the Borderlands is a five-part episodic game set on the unforgiving world of Pandora between the events of Borderlands 2 and Borderlands 3. This is a story full of Borderlands' trademark humor, following two adventurers on their quest for greatness.
Minecraft: Story Mode - A Telltale Games Series
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Reviewers of New Tales from the Borderlands cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with New Tales from the Borderlands.
Episode 1 is now FREE - for a limited time! In Minecraft: Story Mode, playing as either a male or female hero named 'Jesse,' you’ll embark on a perilous adventure across the Overworld, through the Nether, to the End, and beyond.
Tiny Tina's Assault on Dragon Keep: A Wonderlands One-shot Adventure
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Shares a comedic mood with New Tales from the Borderlands.
Reviewers of New Tales from the Borderlands cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with New Tales from the Borderlands.
Smash skeletons, defeat dragons, and battle giant golems in Tiny Tina's Assault on Dragon Keep: A Wonderlands One-Shot Adventure. Experience the acclaimed 2013 quest that started it all in this standalone campaign jam-packed with fantasy, fun, and mountains of magical loot!
METAL GEAR & METAL GEAR 2: Solid Snake
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Reviewers of New Tales from the Borderlands cross-mention this title as a similar play.
The first and second title in the METAL GEAR series that established the stealth action genre, as well as the basic mechanics of the series.
Pandora's Box
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Reviewers of New Tales from the Borderlands cross-mention this title as a similar play.
A space themed arcade adventure in psychedelic pixel arts, collect coins to customize your ship color and background as you get through far away galaxies.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below New Tales from the Borderlands at current Steam store prices.
Terraria
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Priced ~75% under New Tales from the Borderlands on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with New Tales from the Borderlands.
Dig, fight, explore, build! Nothing is impossible in this action-packed adventure game. Four Pack also available!
Lethal Company
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Priced ~75% under New Tales from the Borderlands on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with New Tales from the Borderlands.
A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.
Hollow Knight
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Priced ~63% under New Tales from the Borderlands on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with New Tales from the Borderlands.
Forge your own path in Hollow Knight! An epic action adventure through a vast ruined kingdom of insects and heroes. Explore twisting caverns, battle tainted creatures and befriend bizarre bugs, all in a classic, hand-drawn 2D style.
The Forest
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Priced ~50% under New Tales from the Borderlands on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with New Tales from the Borderlands.
As the lone survivor of a passenger jet crash, you find yourself in a mysterious forest battling to stay alive against a society of cannibalistic mutants. Build, explore, survive in this terrifying first person survival horror simulator.
Portal 2
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Priced ~75% under New Tales from the Borderlands on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with New Tales from the Borderlands.
The "Perpetual Testing Initiative" has been expanded to allow you to design co-op puzzles for you and your friends!
PEAK
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Priced ~80% under New Tales from the Borderlands on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with New Tales from the Borderlands.
PEAK is a co-op climbing game where the slightest mistake can spell your doom. Either solo or as a group of lost nature scouts, your only hope of rescue from a mysterious island is to scale the mountain at its center. Do you have what it takes to reach the PEAK?
Don't Starve Together
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Priced ~63% under New Tales from the Borderlands on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with New Tales from the Borderlands.
Fight, Farm, Build and Explore Together in the standalone multiplayer expansion to the uncompromising wilderness survival game, Don't Starve.
Inscryption
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Priced ~80% under New Tales from the Borderlands on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with New Tales from the Borderlands.
Inscryption is an inky black card-based odyssey that blends the deckbuilding roguelike, escape-room style puzzles, and psychological horror into a blood-laced smoothie. Darker still are the secrets inscrybed upon the cards...
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Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Doki Doki Literature Club!
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
The Literature Club is full of cute girls! Will you write the way into their heart? This game is not suitable for children or those who are easily disturbed.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with New Tales from the Borderlands.
Episode 1 now FREE! Life is Strange is an award-winning and critically acclaimed episodic adventure game that allows the player to rewind time and affect the past, present and future.
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with New Tales from the Borderlands.
Explore the abandoned childhood wonder of Indigo Park! Guided by Rambley the Raccoon, help restore power to the destroyed amusement park while you run from the reason it shut down.
Our Life: Beginnings & Always
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
A twenty-dollar bill, four summers, fifteen years, and a one of a kind life. Create an experience that’s all your own in this near-fully customizable visual novel where you grow from childhood to adulthood with the lonely boy next door.
A Date with Death
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Fight against & romance the one hunting for your soul in A Date with Death, a romance chat simulator where you date(?) the Grim Reaper himself. Create your own character, decorate your apartment, and chat away with the charming yet dangerous Grim Reaper through text and video calls.
Iron Snout
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Iron Snout is a fast, colorful and brutal fighting game in which you will be helping a piglet fight for its life against hordes of wolves.
UNBEATABLE [white label]
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with New Tales from the Borderlands.
A young girl learns a song. An exclusive side-story set in the world of D-CELL GAMES' upcoming rhythm-adventure.
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Other recommendable Steam games by Gearbox Software, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
Borderlands 2
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Another title from Gearbox Software, the studio behind New Tales from the Borderlands.
The Ultimate Vault Hunter’s Upgrade lets you get the most out of the Borderlands 2 experience.
Borderlands 3
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Shares a comedic mood with New Tales from the Borderlands.
Another title from Gearbox Software, the studio behind New Tales from the Borderlands.
The original shooter-looter returns, packing bazillions of guns and a mayhem-fueled adventure! Blast through new worlds and enemies as one of four new Vault Hunters.
Borderlands 4
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Shares a bleak mood with New Tales from the Borderlands.
Another title from Gearbox Software, the studio behind New Tales from the Borderlands. Shares Adventure with New Tales from the Borderlands.
Borderlands 4 is a mayhem-fueled looter shooter, jam-packed with billions of weapons, deadly enemies, and intense co-op action. Break free from a dangerous hidden planet as one of four new badass Vault Hunters.
Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel
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Another title from Gearbox Software, the studio behind New Tales from the Borderlands.
Launch into the Borderlands universe and shoot ‘n’ loot your way through a brand new adventure that rockets you onto Pandora’s moon in Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel!
Half-Life: Opposing Force
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Another title from Gearbox Software, the studio behind New Tales from the Borderlands.
Return to the Black Mesa Research Facility as one of the military specialists assigned to eliminate Gordon Freeman. Experience an entirely new episode of single player action. Meet fierce alien opponents, and experiment with new weaponry. Named 'Game of the Year' by the Academy of Interactive Arts and Sciences.
Borderlands Game of the Year
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Shares a dark mood with New Tales from the Borderlands.
Another title from Gearbox Software, the studio behind New Tales from the Borderlands.
Get ready for the mind blowing insanity! Play as one of four trigger-happy mercenaries and take out everything that stands in your way! With its addictive action, frantic first-person shooter combat, massive arsenal of weaponry, RPG elements and four-player co-op, Borderlands is a breakthrough experience that challenges all the...
Half-Life: Blue Shift
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Another title from Gearbox Software, the studio behind New Tales from the Borderlands.
Made by Gearbox Software and originally released in 2001 as an add-on to Half-Life, Blue Shift is a return to the Black Mesa Research Facility in which you play as Barney Calhoun, the security guard sidekick who helped Gordon out of so many sticky situations.
Borderlands Game of the Year Enhanced
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Shares a comedic mood with New Tales from the Borderlands.
Another title from Gearbox Software, the studio behind New Tales from the Borderlands.
Discover the original co-op shooter-looter, crammed with new enhancements! As one of 4 trigger-happy mercenaries with RPG progression, equip bazillions of guns to take on the desert planet Pandora.
Frequently asked about New Tales from the Borderlands
- Does New Tales from the Borderlands run on Steam Deck?
- New Tales from the Borderlands is rated Playable on Steam Deck — it runs, but expect some manual adjustments (control remapping, text size, or graphics settings) for the best experience.
- How much does New Tales from the Borderlands cost?
- New Tales from the Borderlands is listed on Steam at 39.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to New Tales from the Borderlands?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside New Tales from the Borderlands are My Bloody Weekend 2, The Wolf Among Us 2, Single Player: Horror.
- Who developed New Tales from the Borderlands?
- New Tales from the Borderlands was developed by Gearbox Software and published by 2K.
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