Games like Secret World Legends
If Secret World Legends is your kind of game, the closest matches are The Elder Scrolls Online: Necrom, Chronicles: Immortal Sect and The Yellow King — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, dark and immersive. 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 →Secret World Legends is a 2017 free-to-play action RPG developed by Funcom, set in a modern world where ancient myths, secret societies, and conspiracies collide. Players explore a dark, interconnected storyline spanning locations from contemporary Tokyo to ancient Egypt, facing a supernatural threat tied to myths from every culture. The game distinguishes itself through a classless progression system where players build their own archetype using ability wheel progression, combined with deeply challenging investigation quests that require real-world knowledge and lateral thinking to solve. Reviewers highlight the atmospheric world-building and immersive conspiracy-themed lore. The game features MMO co-op, elite dungeons, and a society faction system that shapes progression and equipment. It holds a 67% positive rating from over 6,600 Steam reviews and does not support Steam Deck play.
About Secret World Legends: Secret World Legends is a story-driven, shared-world action RPG that plunges players into a shadowy war against the supernatural, where ancient myths and legends cross over into the modern day.
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The Elder Scrolls Online: Necrom
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Top pick for Secret World Legends fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Secret World Legends.
Traverse the Telvanni Peninsula in Morrowind and preserve secrets ascribed to the unfathomable realms of Apocrypha. Unlock the runic power of a brand-new class - the Arcanist - and fight to uphold reality itself.
Chronicles: Immortal Sect
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Shares an atmospheric mood with Secret World Legends.
Second-strongest match for Secret World Legends fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure and Massively Multiplayer with Secret World Legends.
Chronicles: Immortal Sect is a captivating Eastern fantasy RPG where humans, immortals, and demons coexist. Begin your journey as a novice cultivator: choose your celestial abode, explore ancient realms, uncover hidden secrets, and partner with Dao Companions to achieve ascension.
The Yellow King
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Shares an atmospheric mood with Secret World Legends.
Third-strongest match for Secret World Legends fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Secret World Legends.
A dark horror MMO inspired by the writings of H. P. Lovecraft. Infinite dungeon exploration, boss raids, guilds, PvP, leaderboards, and the destruction of your soul by an uncaring immortal e̵̺̙̺̥̅͆̾̽̈̇̇̂̑̊͊̽̕͜͝lde̸̮͔̞̮͖͖̙̍̒̽̓r̶̨̹̠̪̫͓̻͍̥͇̄͌͂̋̊̚ g̶̩̮̙̾̎̌̋̎͌͘͠oḓ̸̛̮̦̮͎͖̖͖͕͊͋̉̂́͛ slowly devouring the universe.
《蜀山：初章》正式版
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Ranked #4 for Secret World Legends fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Secret World Legends.
《蜀山：初章》是首款基于UE5引擎打造的大世界修仙多人在线游戏。故事以还珠楼主的《蜀山剑侠传》为大背景，采用了无缝大地图模式。地图上，玩家可以御剑飞行，自由探索各种奇遇。真实还原修仙体验
The Elder Scrolls® Online
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Secret World Legends.
Ranked #5 for Secret World Legends fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Secret World Legends.
Every legend starts somewhere and in The Elder Scrolls Online, it starts with you. Join millions of players in an online, fantasy RPG set in a vast living Elder Scrolls world.
RIFT
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Ranked #6 for Secret World Legends fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Secret World Legends.
Dive into a world of epic adventure! Create your perfect hero thanks to a uniquely customizable class system. Collect, craft, and customize your gear. Go it alone or group up to challenge dungeons, raids, dynamic open-world content, and your fellow players.
FINAL FANTASY XIV Online
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Shares an immersive mood with Secret World Legends.
Ranked #7 for Secret World Legends fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Massively Multiplayer and RPG with Secret World Legends.
Join over 30 million adventurers worldwide and take part in an epic and ever-changing FINAL FANTASY. Experience an unforgettable story, exhilarating battles, and a myriad of captivating environments to explore.
Black Desert
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Ranked #8 for Secret World Legends fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Secret World Legends.
Played by over 20 million Adventurers - Black Desert Online is an open-world, action MMORPG. Experience intense, action-packed combat, battle massive world bosses, fight alongside friends to siege and conquer castles, and train in professions such as fishing, trading, crafting, cooking, and more!
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SILENT HILL 2
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Shares puzzle solving and an atmospheric mood with Secret World Legends.
Reviewers of Secret World Legends cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Adventure with Secret World Legends.
Investigating a letter from his late wife, James returns to where they made so many memories - Silent Hill. What he finds is a ghost town, prowled by disturbing monsters and cloaked in deep fog. Confront the monsters, solve puzzles, and search for traces of your wife in this remake of SILENT HILL 2.
Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines
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Shares an atmospheric mood with Secret World Legends.
Reviewers of Secret World Legends cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with Secret World Legends.
Vampire®: The Masquerade-Bloodlines™ delivers a new type of RPG experience-one that blends all the core elements of a traditional RPG with the graphical richness, immediacy and brutal combat of a first-person action game. The game plunges players into the dark and gritty vampire underworld of modern-day L.A. as a creature of the night.
World of Witchcraft
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Reviewers of Secret World Legends cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Adventure with Secret World Legends.
Immerse yourself in a world where ambition, magic, and lust intertwine.
DayZ
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Shares an atmospheric mood with Secret World Legends.
Reviewers of Secret World Legends cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Adventure with Secret World Legends.
How long can you survive a post-apocalyptic world? A land overrun with an infected "zombie" population, where you compete with other survivors for limited resources. Will you team up with strangers and stay strong together? Or play as a lone wolf to avoid betrayal? This is DayZ – this is your story.
Papers, Please
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Shares an atmospheric mood with Secret World Legends.
Reviewers of Secret World Legends cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with Secret World Legends.
Congratulations. The October labor lottery is complete. Your name was pulled. For immediate placement, report to the Ministry of Admission at Grestin Border Checkpoint. An apartment will be provided for you and your family in East Grestin. Expect a Class-8 dwelling.
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt
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Shares an atmospheric mood with Secret World Legends.
Reviewers of Secret World Legends cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares RPG with Secret World Legends.
You are Geralt of Rivia, mercenary monster slayer. Before you stands a war-torn, monster-infested continent you can explore at will. Your current contract? Tracking down Ciri — the Child of Prophecy, a living weapon that can alter the shape of the world.
Resident Evil
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Shares puzzle solving and an atmospheric mood with Secret World Legends.
Reviewers of Secret World Legends cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Adventure with Secret World Legends.
The game that defined the survival-horror genre is back! Check out the remastered HD version of Resident Evil.
The Black Watchmen
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Shares an atmospheric mood with Secret World Legends.
Reviewers of Secret World Legends cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure and RPG with Secret World Legends.
Become a Secret Agent and investigate paranormal activities in this dark Lovecraftian universe. This Alternate Reality Game will have you explore complex puzzles in-game but also in real-life; interacting with real websites, companies, and NPCs that we created as part of our universe.
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Other recommendable Steam games by Funcom, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
Conan Exiles
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Shares a dark mood with Secret World Legends.
Another title from Funcom, the studio behind Secret World Legends. Shares Action and Adventure with Secret World Legends.
An online multiplayer survival game, now with sorcery, set in the lands of Conan the Barbarian. Survive in a vast open world sandbox, build your home into a kingdom, and dominate your enemies in single or multiplayer.
Dune: Awakening
WHY THIS
Another title from Funcom, the studio behind Secret World Legends. Shares Action and Adventure with Secret World Legends.
Dune: Awakening is an Open World Survival RPG where you can fully immerse yourself in the epic world of Dune. Alone or with friends, explore a vast open world Arrakis, survive the sandworms, build a home, craft an ornithopter, and unravel the mystery of the missing Fremen.
The Park®
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Shares an atmospheric mood with Secret World Legends.
Another title from Funcom, the studio behind Secret World Legends. Shares Adventure with Secret World Legends.
Set in a creepy amusement park hiding a dark and sinister secret, The Park is a first-person psychological horror experience focused on exploration and storytelling.
The Longest Journey
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Shares puzzle solving and an atmospheric mood with Secret World Legends.
Another title from Funcom, the studio behind Secret World Legends. Shares Action and Adventure with Secret World Legends.
The Longest Journey is an amazing graphical adventure, where the player controls the protagonist, April Ryan, on her journey between parallel universes.
Dreamfall: The Longest Journey
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Shares an atmospheric mood with Secret World Legends.
Another title from Funcom, the studio behind Secret World Legends. Shares Adventure and RPG with Secret World Legends.
Dreamfall: The Longest Journey, winner of multiple E3 awards as the best game in its genre, is the continuation of a saga that began in the award-winning The Longest Journey, considered to be one of the finest adventure games ever made.
Hide and Shriek
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Shares a mysterious mood with Secret World Legends.
Another title from Funcom, the studio behind Secret World Legends. Shares Action and Free To Play with Secret World Legends.
Scare or be scared in this FREE adrenaline-pumping multiplayer game full of hijinks and mischief! Set traps, cast spells, and scare the living hell out of your opponent to win!
Age of Conan: Unchained
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Shares a dark mood with Secret World Legends.
Another title from Funcom, the studio behind Secret World Legends. Shares Action and Adventure with Secret World Legends.
Age of Conan: Unchained is an award-winning and critically acclaimed massively multiplayer online game set in the sexy, savage and brutal world of Conan the Barbarian. Tread in the footsteps of the greatest fantasy hero of all time, and explore the vast reaches of Hyboria.
Anarchy Online
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Shares an immersive mood with Secret World Legends.
Another title from Funcom, the studio behind Secret World Legends. Shares Action and Adventure with Secret World Legends.
Anarchy Online – the first ever science fiction MMO – is now on Steam! Compete and cooperate with thousands of players simultaneously on a vast, alien world. Join humanity nearly 30,000 years in the future in a world of perpetual conflict and scientific marvel.
Frequently asked about Secret World Legends
- Does Secret World Legends work on Steam Deck?
- Secret World Legends is currently rated Unsupported on Steam Deck. It may not launch or may have significant issues that block normal play.
- Is Secret World Legends free to play?
- Yes — Secret World Legends is a free-to-play title on Steam. You can install and play it without buying anything, though some games include optional in-app purchases.
- Does Secret World Legends have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Secret World Legends supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Online PvP, Online Co-op).
- What games are most similar to Secret World Legends?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Secret World Legends are The Elder Scrolls Online: Necrom, Chronicles: Immortal Sect, The Yellow King.
- Who developed Secret World Legends?
- Secret World Legends was developed by Funcom.
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