Mount & Blade

What brings it close to Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy is open world exploration, melee combat and single-player focus, and the two track each other on genre, combat and game mode. The common ground extends to exploration and discovery, and a first-person view. Where the two diverge is setting and world: a sandbox world and a medieval setting.
It predates Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy by 13 years, with what that implies technically.










