8 Games like Bully: Scholarship Edition on Nintendo Switch that you should try

Of everything here, this is the nearest thing to Bully: Scholarship Edition — the two agree on genre, combat and game mode. To that it adds exploration and discovery, and single-player focus. Its own ground is shooting mechanics and horror setting.

Matches like this one are rare: it meets Bully: Scholarship Edition on genre, combat and game mode. To that it adds exploration and discovery, and single-player focus. They part company on tone: this one brings shooting mechanics and a sci-fi setting.

It shares the essentials of what Bully: Scholarship Edition does: dark, oppressive atmosphere, open world exploration and melee combat. To that it adds exploration and discovery, and single-player focus. They part company on visuals and world: this one brings a first-person view.

The thread back to Bully: Scholarship Edition runs through strong narrative focus, open world exploration and melee combat. To that it adds a third-person camera and single-player focus. They part company on visuals: this one brings 2D presentation.

Genre puts it alongside Bully: Scholarship Edition, and so does strong narrative focus, open world exploration and melee combat. The common ground extends to a third-person camera and single-player focus. Where the two diverge is visuals and world: multiplayer gameplay and a first-person view.

Same family as Bully: Scholarship Edition: dark, oppressive atmosphere, open world exploration and melee combat. To that it adds exploration and discovery, and single-player focus. They part company on visuals and combat: this one brings tactical combat and a first-person view.

If Bully: Scholarship Edition worked for you because of dark, oppressive atmosphere, open world exploration and melee combat, the same is here. Both also lean on exploration and discovery, and single-player focus. The distance is in visuals and world — its own ground is an isometric view.

The genre is the same as Bully: Scholarship Edition’s, and with it strong narrative focus, open world exploration and melee combat. Both also lean on single-player focus. The distance is in progression and visuals — its own ground is procedural generation and stealth mechanics.