Best Adventure Games Like Dragon Age Inquisition

The best adventure games like Dragon Age Inquisition are Mass Effect 2, Baldur's Gate 3 and The Witcher 3. Below are 7, each with the reason it is here — and, at the end, what filtering to adventure costs you.

Why Adventure Is a Good Answer for Dragon Age Inquisition

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 Dragon Age Inquisition 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.

7 Adventure Games Like Dragon Age Inquisition

  1. 1. Mass Effect 2

    BioWare's best-structured game, and the companions are the point.

  2. 2. Baldur's Gate 3

    The modern high-water mark for this whole genre.

  3. 3. The Witcher 3

    Same scale, vastly better side quests.

  4. 4. Greedfall

    A mid-budget RPG with real faction reputation, in a setting nobody else uses.

  5. 5. Jade Empire

    BioWare's shortest and strangest, and it has aged well.

  6. 6. Avowed

    First-person fantasy RPG built around factions and choice.

  7. 7. Dragon Age: The Veilguard

    The follow-up, if the companions are what you are here for.

What This Filter Leaves Out

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 Dragon Age Inquisition that are not adventure games, so they are not on this page:

The full list is on games like Dragon Age Inquisition — 9 picks, no genre filter.

Frequently Asked Questions

What is the best adventure game like Dragon Age Inquisition?

Mass Effect 2. BioWare's best-structured game, and the companions are the point.

Are all of these on the PC & Modern Multi-Platform?

No. Dragon Age Inquisition 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.

What counts as an adventure game?

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.

Are adventure games long?

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.

How are these chosen?

By hand. Each pick was written for the full Dragon Age Inquisition 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.

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Or read the adventure guide for where to start in the genre generally.