The closest games to Assassin's Creed Valhalla are Assassin's Creed Odyssey, God of War and Ghost of Tsushima. Below, 9 picks with the reason for each — what carries over from Assassin's Creed Valhalla, and what does not.
Valhalla is the longest Assassin's Creed and it works best if you treat each English region as its own short story rather than as a checklist. The raiding, the settlement and the political arcs are the substance; the assassin fiction is mostly decoration by this point.
Also written as AC Valhalla, Assassins Creed Valhalla — this is the same game, and the same list applies however you spell it.
Assassin's Creed Valhalla released on the PC & Modern Multi-Platform. The list below is not restricted to that console — a recommendation is only useful if you can actually play it, so it spans generations and platforms.
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.
Medieval Europe with real historical weight and no fantasy.
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.
Several of these have their own page here: games like Assassin's Creed Odyssey, games like God of War, games like Elden Ring, games like Horizon Forbidden West.
The 4 of these picks that have a page here, and the console each is catalogued under. Most are on more platforms than one — remasters and back catalogues move constantly — so treat this as where to start looking rather than a complete availability list.
| Game | Catalogued under |
|---|---|
| Assassin's Creed Odyssey | PC |
| God of War | PS2 |
| Elden Ring | PS5 |
| Horizon Forbidden West | PS5 |
Assassin's Creed Odyssey. The previous entry, and the better world to simply move through.
Assassin's Creed Odyssey, God of War and Ghost of Tsushima are the closest. The full list of Assassin's Creed Valhalla similar games is on this page — 9 of them, each with the reason it is here rather than a genre tag that happens to match.
Yes — Assassin's Creed Odyssey is catalogued on the PC here. The PC list further down has more from that library.
Because the thing you liked about Assassin's Creed Valhalla is not a property of the hardware. Restricting the list to one console would drop most of the good answers, so the picks above span platforms and eras. If you specifically want more from that library, the PC list further down is the place to start.
By hand, one game at a time, on what the source game actually does — its pacing, its movement, its difficulty, its tone. Genre tags alone put Assassin's Creed Valhalla next to games that feel nothing like it, so they are not the basis for this list. Each pick carries the reason it is here so you can judge it yourself.
No. The whole list is on this page, free, with no sign-in and no email. We earn a small affiliate commission if you buy through a retailer link, which is what pays for the site.
If you already know what kind of answer you want, these are the same list cut by genre — and each one says what it leaves out as well as what it includes:
More from the PC & Modern Multi-Platform library, each with its own recommendations page: