Games Like Resonance: A Plague Tale Legacy to Play While You Wait

There are months between now and August 27, 2026, and only so many times you can rewatch the gameplay trailer. If Resonance has its hooks in you, here are eight games that scratch the same itches — the cinematic dread, the parry-heavy combat, the myth-soaked journey, the bond between desperate people. Some are obvious; a couple might surprise you.

1. A Plague Tale: Innocence & Requiem

Let’s get the obvious ones out of the way, because they’re also the best preparation. Innocence (2019) introduced Amicia and Hugo, the Prima Macula, and the rat tides; Requiem (2022) expanded all of it into a bigger, more brutal, more beautiful sequel. Resonance is a prequel to Requiem, so playing these gives you the full weight of the mythology Sophia is stepping into. They’re stealth-forward where Resonance is combat-forward, but the DNA — the light, the dark, the dread — is identical. Start here if you’ve somehow not.

2. Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice

If the part of Resonance that excites you is the parry, Sekiro is the genre’s high priest. FromSoftware’s deflection-based combat turns fighting into a lethal rhythm game where reading your opponent and answering their steel with your own is everything. Resonance’s parry system won’t be as punishing — it’s a narrative adventure, not a Souls-like — but the feeling of converting an enemy’s aggression into your opening is exactly what Sekiro perfected.

3. God of War (2018) & Ragnarök

Cinematic, mythology-soaked, third-person action with weighty melee, finishing moves and a heavy emotional core carried by a parent-child-ish relationship. Sound familiar? God of War’s Norse saga is a great companion to Resonance’s blend of grounded combat and ancient myth. The combat is more elaborate, but the tone — a hardened protagonist navigating a world thick with old gods and older curses — overlaps nicely.

4. Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice

For mood, few games sit closer to Resonance than Ninja Theory’s Hellblade. A lone, tormented woman pushes through a brutal, myth-haunted landscape, plagued by visions, chasing something she can’t quite explain. Swap Celtic and Norse myth for Greek and Minoan, and you’ve got a strikingly similar emotional register. It’s short, intense and unforgettable — perfect for a weekend before launch.

5. Tomb Raider (2013 reboot trilogy)

The comparison that jumps out from the trailers: a capable young woman, ancient ruins, light puzzles, survival against human hunters, and a Mediterranean-meets-mythology setting. The Tomb Raider reboot trilogy — especially the island survival of the first game and the tomb-puzzle craft of Rise and Shadow — is arguably the closest mechanical cousin to what Resonance looks like it’s doing with Sophia.

6. Banishers: Ghosts of New Eden

Another Focus-published, story-driven action game with parry-based combat and a heavy supernatural narrative. Banishers (from Don’t Nod) shares Resonance’s publisher and a lot of its sensibilities — melee combat with timing windows, a grim folkloric world, and a story about the dead refusing to stay buried. If you want something tonally adjacent that you might have missed, this is a strong pick.

7. Assassin’s Creed Odyssey

If it’s specifically the Greek setting calling to you — sun-bleached temples, the Aegean, ancient myth made real — Odyssey is the big sandbox version of that fantasy. It’s a sprawling open-world RPG rather than a tight narrative adventure, so the structure is very different, but no game lets you live inside ancient Greece quite like it. Good for soaking in the vibe Resonance is going for, at a much larger scale.

8. Little Nightmares II

A wildcard, but hear me out. If what you love about Plague Tale is the vulnerability and dread — being small and hunted in a world that wants to eat you — Little Nightmares II delivers that in concentrated form. It’s a puzzle-platformer rather than an action game, but the atmosphere of creeping horror, the chase sequences, and the sense of a child-sized protagonist in an enormous, threatening world all echo the parts of this series that get under your skin.

Which should you play first?

Honestly? If you haven’t played Innocence and Requiem, play those — they’re the most direct preparation and they’re excellent. If you’ve already finished them and want to sharpen the specific skill Resonance will demand, spend time with Sekiro to get your parry instincts humming. And if you just want to bask in the same mood, Hellblade is the shortest, most concentrated dose of myth-and-dread you can get in an afternoon.

Then come back, watch the trailer one more time (we all do), and count down with our release countdown. August will be here before you know it.