The best adventure games like Assassin's Creed Valhalla are Assassin's Creed Odyssey, God of War and Ghost of Tsushima. Below are 8, each with the reason it is here — and, at the end, what filtering to adventure costs you.
Filtering to adventure means the place and the story are what you want back, not the challenge. It is the right filter when the thing you remember is where you were rather than what you did.
What you get: A world with a reason to wander it, and writing that survives being read rather than skipped.
What made Assassin's Creed Valhalla worth playing in the first place is covered on the full list. This page is the adventure part of that answer, and only the adventure part.
The previous entry, and the better world to simply move through.
The same Norse mythology, told far more tightly and with better combat.
The open world Valhalla wanted to be — cleaner, prettier, and better to fight in.
Same scale, vastly better side quests.
If you want the map to reward you rather than mark itself.
The one that started this RPG era, and the most focused of the three.
Open-world traversal and combat done at a higher standard.
The Norse setting at its most intense, in five hours instead of a hundred.
Mechanical depth. Several of the best adventure games have combat that is deliberately unsatisfying, because they want your attention somewhere else.
Specifically, these are strong answers for Assassin's Creed Valhalla that are not adventure games, so they are not on this page:
The full list is on games like Assassin's Creed Valhalla — 9 picks, no genre filter.
Assassin's Creed Odyssey. The previous entry, and the better world to simply move through.
No. Assassin's Creed Valhalla released on the PC & Modern Multi-Platform, but a recommendation is only useful if you can play it, so the picks above span platforms and eras. What they share is the genre and the reason.
Anywhere the story and the place matter more than the skill ceiling — point-and-click, walking sims, narrative thrillers and most open worlds. The label alone tells you very little, which is why each pick here says what it actually is.
They split hard. Open-world adventures run to a hundred hours; the narrative ones are often finishable in an evening, and the short ones are usually the better written.
By hand. Each pick was written for the full Assassin's Creed Valhalla list first, on what the game actually does, and this page is the part of that list that is adventure — never a genre tag lookup, which is how "best racing games like Super Mario 64" used to be a page on this site.
Or read the adventure guide for where to start in the genre generally.