Best Adventure Games Like Final Fantasy X

The best adventure games like Final Fantasy X are Final Fantasy XII, Lost Odyssey and Final Fantasy VII. Below are 8, each with the reason it is here — and, at the end, what filtering to adventure costs you.

Why Adventure Is a Good Answer for Final Fantasy X

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 Final Fantasy X 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.

8 Adventure Games Like Final Fantasy X

  1. 1. Final Fantasy XII

    The next mainline entry, and the gambit system is unlike anything else.

  2. 2. Lost Odyssey

    By Final Fantasy's original creator, and the closest thing to a spiritual sequel.

  3. 3. Final Fantasy VII

    The other icon, if you have not played it.

  4. 4. Sea of Stars

    A modern turn-based RPG built on this era's strengths.

  5. 5. Persona 5 Royal

    Turn-based combat with the strongest presentation in the genre.

  6. 6. Chrono Trigger

    Shorter, tighter, and the best-paced JRPG there is.

  7. 7. Xenogears

    PS1 Square at its most ambitious about story.

  8. 8. Octopath Traveler II

    Modern Square-Enix turn-based combat at its sharpest.

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 Final Fantasy X that are not adventure games, so they are not on this page:

The full list is on games like Final Fantasy X — 9 picks, no genre filter.

Frequently Asked Questions

What is the best adventure game like Final Fantasy X?

Final Fantasy XII. The next mainline entry, and the gambit system is unlike anything else.

Are all of these on the PlayStation 2?

No. Final Fantasy X released on the PlayStation 2, 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 Final Fantasy X 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.