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Square Enix · 2015 · 79 % positive of 4,427

24 games that play like LIGHTNING RETURNS™: FINAL FANTASY® XIII and 24 that look like it. Closest by gameplay: FINAL FANTASY® XIII, FINAL FANTASY® XIII-2 and FINAL FANTASY XVI.

Player tags

  • RPG
  • JRPG
  • Female Protagonist
  • Fantasy
  • Open World
  • Great Soundtrack
  • Singleplayer
  • Story Rich

At a glance

What games like LIGHTNING RETURNS™: FINAL FANTASY® XIII have in common

  • The tags they share most often with LIGHTNING RETURNS™: FINAL FANTASY® XIII: RPG (24 of 24), JRPG (24) and Fantasy (13).
  • They came out between 2014 and 2025, 16 of them after LIGHTNING RETURNS™: FINAL FANTASY® XIII (2015).
  • Best rated by Steam players: FINAL FANTASY IX (94 % positive of 11,892).
  • 7 games both play and look like LIGHTNING RETURNS™: FINAL FANTASY® XIII, among them FINAL FANTASY® XIII, FINAL FANTASY® XIII-2 and FINAL FANTASY XVI.

By gameplay

Plays like LIGHTNING RETURNS™: FINAL FANTASY® XIII

Matched from Steam descriptions and player tags. The tags under each game are the ones both games share.

More matches

  1. FINAL FANTASY IX94 % positive of 11,892Shared: RPG · JRPG · Fantasy
  2. FINAL FANTASY XII THE ZODIAC AGE90 % positive of 8,608Shared: RPG · JRPG · Female Protagonist
  3. FINAL FANTASY VII92 % positive of 28,011Shared: RPG · JRPG · Fantasy
  4. FINAL FANTASY III93 % positive of 2,219Shared: RPG · JRPG · Fantasy
  5. Trials of Mana91 % positive of 5,450Shared: RPG · JRPG · Female Protagonist
  6. FINAL FANTASY XIV Online87 % positive of 80,036Shared: RPG · JRPG · Female Protagonist
  7. FINAL FANTASY VI (Old ver.)82 % positive of 2,565Shared: RPG · JRPG · Female Protagonist
  8. FINAL FANTASY VI91 % positive of 3,811Shared: RPG · JRPG · Female Protagonist
  9. Tales of Symphonia85 % positive of 4,918Shared: RPG · JRPG · Fantasy
  10. WORLD OF FINAL FANTASY®77 % positive of 3,174Shared: RPG · JRPG · Female Protagonist
  11. FINAL FANTASY V (Old ver.)76 % positive of 1,424Shared: RPG · JRPG · Fantasy
  12. Sudeki88 % positive of 991Shared: RPG · JRPG · Female Protagonist

By look

Looks like LIGHTNING RETURNS™: FINAL FANTASY® XIII

Matched from screenshots. Each card shows the screenshot closest to the look of this game.

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  1. SAMURAI WARRIORS 4 DX86 % positive of 401
  2. Tales of ARISE87 % positive of 34,782
  3. FINAL FANTASY VII REBIRTH77 % positive of 20,175
  4. ELYON54 % positive of 4,389
  5. MOBIUS FINAL FANTASY™73 % positive of 4,384
  6. SAMURAI WARRIORS 4-II74 % positive of 1,398
  7. CODE VEIN84 % positive of 57,318
  8. CODE VEIN II67 % positive of 7,881
  9. WARRIORS ALL-STARS72 % positive of 775
  10. FINAL FANTASY XVI79 % positive of 23,043
  11. STRANGER OF PARADISE FINAL FANTASY ORIGIN84 % positive of 3,639
  12. NieR Replicant™ ver.1.22474487139...88 % positive of 25,542

How these matches work

Matches come from embeddings of Steam descriptions, player tags and screenshots, computed offline. “Plays like” compares what the games are about and how players tag them; “Looks like” compares their screenshots. The share of positive reviews is based on Steam user reviews.

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