The closest games to Dragon Age Inquisition are Dragon Age: Origins, Mass Effect 2 and Baldur's Gate 3. Below, 9 picks with the reason for each — what carries over from Dragon Age Inquisition, and what does not.
Inquisition is BioWare's biggest game and its most uneven. The companions and the Inquisition-building are the reason to play it, the Hinterlands are the reason people bounce off it, and the correct advice is to leave that first zone before it convinces you the whole game is fetch quests. Trespasser is one of the best expansions they have made.
Dragon Age Inquisition 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 one people mean when they say Dragon Age — tactical, dark, and far tighter.
BioWare's best-structured game, and the companions are the point.
The modern high-water mark for this whole genre.
Same scale, vastly better side quests.
A mid-budget RPG with real faction reputation, in a setting nobody else uses.
If you want the tactical combat taken seriously again.
BioWare's shortest and strangest, and it has aged well.
First-person fantasy RPG built around factions and choice.
The follow-up, if the companions are what you are here for.
Several of these have their own page here: games like Mass Effect 2, games like Greedfall, games like Jade Empire.
The 3 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 |
|---|---|
| Mass Effect 2 | Xbox 360 |
| Greedfall | PC |
| Jade Empire | Xbox |
Dragon Age: Origins. The one people mean when they say Dragon Age — tactical, dark, and far tighter.
Dragon Age: Origins, Mass Effect 2 and Baldur's Gate 3 are the closest. The full list of Dragon Age Inquisition 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 — Greedfall is catalogued on the PC here. The PC list further down has more from that library.
Because the thing you liked about Dragon Age Inquisition 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 Dragon Age Inquisition 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: