60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include 2D, Pixel Graphics, Adventure, Exploration.
Explore a vast, open world - evade or defeat its monsters, arm yourself with knowledge and equipment, unravel layer upon layer of secrets, and ultimately confront the very magic threatening to destroy everything.
Fish Tales and Cozy Trails
Embark on a tranquil journey in this cozy fishing game, you're free to explore a vibrant world brimming with secrets. Discover hidden coves, find unique rods, and venture into the charming world as you seek out new fishing grounds.
You Have to Play This Game
Explore the world of Celestia in this retro-inspired, top-down action adventure!
Embark on a tranquil journey in this cozy fishing game, you're free to explore a vibrant world brimming with secrets. Discover hidden coves, find unique rods, and venture into the charming world as you seek out new fishing grounds.
Why similar: Metroidvania 24.6%, Collectathon 20.8%, Walking Simulator 14.7%, Nonlinear 12%, Exploration 7.7%
Explore the world of Celestia in this retro-inspired, top-down action adventure!
Why similar: Metroidvania 25.8%, Collectathon 23.9%, Female Protagonist 10.2%, Exploration 8.4%, Puzzle 6.8%
An alien lost on a strange planet needs help returning home
Why similar: Metroidvania 21.9%, Collectathon 18.5%, Walking Simulator 13.3%, Nonlinear 11.6%, Female Protagonist 8%
Sliding Hero is a top-down puzzle Metroidvania where movement is key—think carefully, as once you start sliding you won’t stop until you hit something! Imprisoned in a sinister 1700s Venetian villa, explore a world of Carnival mystery, solve devious puzzles, uncover secrets, and unmask your fate.
Why similar: Metroidvania 24.5%, Collectathon 19.2%, Nonlinear 16.1%, Open World 7.3%, Exploration 7.1%
Help Myko complete her mushroom foraging journal and get into the Royal Academy in this cozy, self-paced adventure game. Meet a colorful cast of characters in calm natural spaces as you uncover the gentle puzzle of mycology.
Why similar: Collectathon 23.2%, Walking Simulator 16.8%, Nonlinear 12.6%, Female Protagonist 10.1%, Exploration 7.9%
A fantastic, oceanic, open world puzzle adventure. Solve innovative block puzzles while unearthing a mystifying story, gaining new friends that change the puzzle landscape, and unlocking powers that provide more options for how you choose to progress through the enigmatic Isles of Sea and Sky.
Why similar: Metroidvania 20.4%, Collectathon 18.1%, Nonlinear 13.1%, Open World 7.8%, Retro 7.2%
You are an inspiration-seeking wandering artist who mysteriously ends up in a faraway Valley. Will you find the inspiration you crave, or will you be lost to the mysteries of the Valley?
Why similar: Metroidvania 29.4%, Collectathon 24.4%, Nonlinear 14.7%, Exploration 8.3%, Top-Down 8.3%
Ten Years of Rain is a fantasy adventure with a unique Central Asian inspired setting. Pick up your blade, call your hawk, and prepare to travel the cursed lands of the steppe. Battle the forces of the Great Khan, explore the secret places of the world, and discover the cause of the long rain...
Why similar: Collectathon 23.8%, Nonlinear 19.2%, Open World 11.1%, Exploration 8.1%, Top-Down 7.8%
Spin to win! Help Lance on his quest to find neat collectibles and save his partner in this top-down pixel art game!
Why similar: Metroidvania 27.3%, Collectathon 25.8%, LGBTQ+ 16.3%, Top-Down 8.6%, Fantasy 5%
Explore, solve puzzles, and fight your way through over 100 screens and return your pumpkin pals!
Why similar: Metroidvania 27.6%, Collectathon 20.2%, Nonlinear 18%, Open World 8.4%, Multiple Endings 7.2%
Master Key is a top-down adventure game with a strong focus on item-based exploration and secrets. Embark on a journey to discover what that key could be used for and meet colorful characters!
Why similar: Metroidvania 27.8%, Nonlinear 13%, Retro 11%, Open World 9.5%, Exploration 8%
The Girl from Arkanya is a top-down treasure hunting RPG, mimicking the style and feel of 2D Zelda games. Explore the jungles of Amazonia as Marisa, alongside her capybara companion!
Why similar: Metroidvania 26.6%, Collectathon 23.3%, Female Protagonist 9.6%, Fantasy 8.6%, RPG 7%
Explore an intricate new world of secrets and adventure. Features solid 2D Zelda-like gameplay, 12 vast non-linear dungeons and a wholesome story about the young golem Linden.
Why similar: Metroidvania 33.1%, Nonlinear 17.3%, Exploration 10.1%, Top-Down 9.2%, Puzzle 7.8%
In this Action-Puzzle Metroidvania, you will explore the lair of a long-gone mythical creature and unravel its mysteries. Consume enemies to gain their abilities, use your frog-like tongue to grapple and fight, explore the land, solve puzzles, find secrets, and complete challenges.
Why similar: Metroidvania 38.6%, Top-Down 12.2%, Exploration 10.8%, Puzzle 9.8%, Grid-Based Movement 7.8%
An offbeat adventure game about traveling to the ends of the earth in search of the Best Boots. Solve puzzles, complete quests, collect items, and don weird hats as a hapless young boot enthusiast in a compact open world full of strange friends and foes. You can even jump.
Why similar: Collectathon 25.9%, Walking Simulator 24.3%, Open World 11.8%, Exploration 11.4%, Puzzle 6.8%
SLYME BREAKER is the RPG that hates the genre. SLYME BREAKER has a focus on proactive combat, involved exploration, and meaningful deconstruction of RPG standards. Play as the bandit Gryme after his attack on a lowly Slime monster for some XP goes wrong and he is devoured by the Slime!
Why similar: Metroidvania 20.6%, Collectathon 19%, Nonlinear 16.1%, Open World 8.9%, Retro 8.3%
Explore the ruins of an ancient city. Solve puzzles to unlock new paths, abilities, and forgotten lore. Read the lost stories you uncover to gain insight into a tangled web of mysteries. Using only your wits and your trusty torch to guide you, you must find a way to return light to a starless sky.
Why similar: Metroidvania 29.4%, Nonlinear 19.4%, Exploration 10.1%, Puzzle 8.7%, Retro 7%
A small crisis control team has been summoned to help a civilization in the sky escape impending doom! Explore dungeons, solve puzzles, and find lots of treasure to help prepare yourself for incredible challenges!
Why similar: Metroidvania 26%, LGBTQ+ 15.1%, Nonlinear 13.6%, Female Protagonist 11.3%, Exploration 10.4%
A short 2D pixel-style metroidvania where you explore, fight bosses, aquire items and abilities and find secrets. Inspired by games such as You Have to Win the Game and VVVVVV.
Why similar: Metroidvania 38.2%, Nonlinear 23.1%, Retro 10.8%, Exploration 10.3%, Pixel Graphics 5.7%
Embark on a quest to unlock the secrets of the Spirit World. Challenge mysterious ruins and face intimidating bosses to gain new powers that will aid your exploration in this retro top-down action/adventure.
Why similar: Metroidvania 31.3%, Nonlinear 19%, Top-Down 10.5%, Multiple Endings 9.8%, Puzzle 7.2%
The two girls who had a traffic accident, Libra and her girlfriend Amili, wander the supernatural world as Near-death experience.
Why similar: Collectathon 23.8%, Nonlinear 16.9%, Walking Simulator 13.4%, Multiple Endings 9.4%, Exploration 8.3%
Capybound is a 2D platformer with puzzle elements. You wake up as a capybara in a beautiful pixelated world. Find oranges, meet and talk to many different animals, solve puzzles, unlock skills, explore the world and it's secrets, all in a quest to find your way back home.
Why similar: Metroidvania 32.4%, Collectathon 24.5%, Nonlinear 12.6%, Exploration 9.7%, Puzzle 7.6%
A love letter to classic NES games! Explore an ever-expanding, challenging maze filled with countless secrets.
Why similar: Metroidvania 26.9%, Collectathon 21.6%, Nonlinear 16.2%, Retro 9.4%, Old School 8.1%
Welcome to the Great Library of Dreams, where chaos has just been unleashed! Play as The Agent in this fantasy 3D Metroidvania filled to the brim with surprising secrets, daring traversal, confounding puzzles and menacing monkeys. Rid the library of the creatures wreaking havoc and bring back order!
Why similar: Metroidvania 30.8%, Collectathon 24.3%, Nonlinear 13.7%, Female Protagonist 10%, Exploration 8.3%
Crashed on a desolate but mysterious planet you find yourself eye to eye with an ancient civilisation. Explore the planet, find powerful upgrades, and fulfill your destiny.
Why similar: Metroidvania 46.8%, Exploration 12.2%, Multiple Endings 9.5%, Open World 9.2%, Retro 6.8%
Eat everything. Grow stronger. Save the Gourmet Kingdom. A charming action-adventure where you devour foes, solve clever dungeon puzzles, and battle monstrous bosses in a whimsical, food-filled world. Find the five Divine Spices and save the Gourmet Kingdom from the Demon Chef!
Why similar: Metroidvania 27.2%, Nonlinear 15.7%, Fantasy 10%, Top-Down 8.3%, Exploration 8.2%
Face these daddy issues and watch your world burn. No more running!
Why similar: Metroidvania 32.3%, LGBTQ+ 17.1%, Nonlinear 16.9%, Female Protagonist 11.7%, Old School 7.9%
Ever miss being a child, playing games at your grandma's or in your old bedroom? Look no further! Play The Adventures of Elena Temple, the classic you never knew existed, on old machines that kind of sort of maybe existed. It's not like you can remember for sure, right?
Why similar: Metroidvania 26.3%, Nonlinear 13.3%, Retro 10.4%, Female Protagonist 10.1%, Old School 9.1%
Lost Call is a top down pixel art 2D Zelda inspired game with a metroidvania style map. Take off on a quest through an abandoned and ruined town to stop your phone from ringing all the time, and learn more about the characters who still remain within it.
Why similar: Metroidvania 36.9%, Nonlinear 22.5%, Exploration 11.9%, Top-Down 9.5%, Open World 7%
Embark on a thrilling 2D top-down adventure! Explore dark dungeons, solve unique puzzles, translate ancient documents, and follow clues given to you by a maggot in your brain! Experience the journey solo or team up in 2-player co-op for a different experience!
Why similar: Nonlinear 19%, Metroidvania 14.9%, Top-Down 10.5%, Open World 9.8%, Old School 7.9%
An adventure game focused on exploration where you do NOT save the world and the world does NOT need saving.
Why similar: Collectathon 31.5%, RPG 10.8%, Exploration 10.2%, Top-Down 9.9%, Puzzle 9.4%
Two games in one! GingerSnap: an action platformer with a unique ability combination system. YMIR: a non-linear puzzle platformer with collectable upgrades.
Why similar: Metroidvania 27.3%, Nonlinear 17.9%, Old School 10.1%, Female Protagonist 9.7%, Exploration 8.1%
This is a journey about “the past” and “forgetting.” In Millennium Dream Tour Guide, you plunge into the dreamscape of a major city from the early 2000s.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 19.6%, Nonlinear 17.5%, Collectathon 15.9%, Open World 10.7%, Retro 10.3%
Lukas Adventure 64 is a collectathon horror game ARG inspired by the games of past. Can you discover what this game is truly hiding.
Why similar: Collectathon 40.4%, Metroidvania 18%, Open World 8.9%, Multiple Endings 8.6%, Pixel Graphics 6.3%
Unravel the eerie secrets of Droian, a sci-fi horror metroidvania. Guide a lone I.A.N bot through a desolate moon to save humanity, battling twisted creatures of flesh and machine. Explore dark, labyrinthine environments and uncover cryptic mysteries, where every path holds a chilling surprise.
Why similar: Metroidvania 29.4%, Collectathon 20.1%, Nonlinear 17.3%, Multiple Endings 9.6%, Exploration 8.4%
Spelunk, plunder, and pickaxe in Lost Caves, A 2D collect-a-thon all about exploration and treasure hunting! Venture through 4 expansive labyrinthine levels to find over 80 unique treasures to amass your wealth, and use your trusty pickaxe to defeat anything in your way!
Why similar: Collectathon 27.9%, Nonlinear 20.1%, Open World 10.9%, Exploration 10.3%, Retro 9.4%
Vasilisa a young beautiful girl, abused by her step-mother and step-sisters is forced to face Baba Yaga the human eating evil witch living in the woods. Could she get back home safely? collect items to solve puzzles you face along the journey and find the solution of textual based puzzles.
Why similar: RPG 16.8%, Exploration 12.2%, Puzzle 11%, Top-Down 10.1%, Old School 8.8%
The Pellar is an action-adventure game in which you play the role of a lonely quack doctor. Your task is to prepare medicines, potions and bandages that will be used to help those in need. Struggle with healing various ailments in this magical world inspired by Slavic mythology.
Why similar: Metroidvania 32.1%, Walking Simulator 20.5%, Exploration 10.3%, Top-Down 10.1%, Open World 9.1%
SWOLLEN TO BURSTING is a weirdo RPG in which something is very wrong. A flying saucer has crash landed in town, but it's Thursday so you have to go to work at the post office.
Why similar: Collectathon 30.4%, Walking Simulator 22.1%, Nonlinear 15.8%, Exploration 10.7%, RPG 8.7%
Dream Dazia is a retro inspired 2D RPG where you explore open-world areas in Dazia's own nightmare. As Dazia - you solve puzzles, explore ways to level up, conquer any of the elemental temples in any order. Experience the turn-based combat, hidden secrets, custom bosses, exciting music and more!
Why similar: Collectathon 20%, Metroidvania 16.5%, Retro 12.2%, RPG 9.4%, Open World 9.2%
A cozy 2D exploration game. Venture into abandoned buildings, uncover lost secrets, read people's mail, meet interesting characters, and find something nice for your mom.
Why similar: Collectathon 24.8%, Walking Simulator 16.2%, Open World 11.6%, Multiple Endings 10.2%, Female Protagonist 10%
Join Roll the Valkyrie as she subverts fate in a retro indie platformer taking after PSX classics. Climb, dash, jump, and glide your way up a falling sky island, to stop it from destroying the world below.
Why similar: Metroidvania 25%, Nonlinear 18.2%, Female Protagonist 12.3%, Exploration 9.1%, Multiple Endings 7.9%
Embark on a journey through a new mythological realm as Porasy, an Indigenous warrior. Explore uncharted landscapes, unleash the power of Muiraquitãs, unravel your story, and vanquish the Seven Legendary Beasts to carve your own legend. Are you ready to dive into this epic adventure?
Why similar: Metroidvania 29.3%, Collectathon 24%, Female Protagonist 10%, Exploration 8.7%, Multiple Endings 7.4%
On the surface, a 2D platformer right out of the '80s video game playbook. The eponymous Whim walks and jumps his way through static rooms, avoiding the baddies and other hazards, and collecting various items. But this game is so much more than that...
Why similar: Metroidvania 36.8%, Nonlinear 17.9%, Exploration 10.1%, Multiple Endings 9.6%, Open World 9.4%
Chiaroscuro is a 2D adventure platformer with metroidvania elements. Explore a world that has fallen into darkness and discover the Lights to illuminate your forgotten past.
Why similar: Metroidvania 33.2%, Nonlinear 17%, Female Protagonist 10.4%, Multiple Endings 8.8%, Exploration 8.7%
Embark on an epic adventure in the vast kingdom of Lordhem. Unleash the power of the dark sword to defeat enemies and save the kingdom. Explore a pixel art medieval fantasy world full of creatures and dangers. Are you ready to save the kingdom?
Why similar: Metroidvania 48.7%, Nonlinear 22.2%, Female Protagonist 17%, Pixel Graphics 5.1%, 2D 4.9%
Explore a broken world. Fight with a silent machine. Solve puzzles that break the rules. The game has already begun, even on this page.
Why similar: Metroidvania 31.8%, Nonlinear 19.6%, Exploration 13.3%, Pixel Graphics 9.5%, Puzzle 9.4%
This adventure is about you waking up in this world named Twell. The only thing you can do now is explore what this world has to offer. Explore 8 unique dungeons, discover many secrets and visit many locations.
Why similar: Metroidvania 38.3%, RPG 14%, Exploration 10.4%, Open World 9.4%, Nonlinear 9.3%
Embark on a heartfelt Mushroomvania adventure through a vast and dense interconnected world! It's like a mix of retro and modern classics!
Why similar: Metroidvania 48.1%, Exploration 12.2%, Nonlinear 10%, Old School 7.5%, RPG 6.9%
You are the royal Shepherd ! Your mission is to bring the Black Sheep to the rival kingdom as a gift to stop the wat ! Go on an adventure to complete your quest but think wisely, the Black Sheep must arrive alive !
Why similar: Metroidvania 40.3%, Puzzle 11.2%, Grid-Based Movement 11%, Top-Down 10.9%, Nonlinear 10.2%
Ex Nihilo is a non-linear, narrative driven adventure where time is of the essence. Squint your eyes to squeeze past your captors to safety. When you are caught by your pursuers, you will be pruned without mercy, only to reawaken in your pod further from home and with less time to escape.
Why similar: Metroidvania 36.4%, Walking Simulator 21.9%, Nonlinear 18%, Exploration 9.9%, Multiple Endings 8.8%
Lyden Lys is a knowledge-based metroidvania about an existential journey through a lost homeland. Control the surroundings through music, explore a smoldering world, discover what happened to your people, decide the fate of your successors, and find yourself.
Why similar: Metroidvania 34.7%, Nonlinear 16.5%, Female Protagonist 11.8%, Exploration 9.7%, Multiple Endings 7.8%
A nonlinear exploration-action game set in a fantastical, lush fantasy world with a huge interconnected map, tons of movement upgrades, character customizations, and vibrant pixel art.
Why similar: Metroidvania 38.7%, Nonlinear 25.3%, Fantasy 10%, Open World 8.7%, Pixel Graphics 6.5%
It's a 16 bit styled pixel Metroidvania crafted by someone who loves the genre! Put your fingers on WASD and arrow keys or grab your favorite controller to play, simple and easy as these games should be.
Why similar: Metroidvania 46.8%, Nonlinear 17.9%, Female Protagonist 14.8%, Old School 6.5%, Retro 5.9%
Wilbur's Quest is a puzzle metroidvania about a worm. You've woken up in a strange land and need to discover what lies beyond the surface. Throughout your journey you'll need to push blocks, unlock doors, grow, and discover new abilities in order to escape this subterranean labyrinth!
Why similar: Metroidvania 40.8%, Grid-Based Movement 12.9%, Puzzle 11.4%, Multiple Endings 6.3%, Open World 6.3%
Hunt down massive beasts and, upon destroying them, shapeshift into their forms in order to use their powers to save or destroy the world. Players with less violent intent can find secret paths to complete Mable without killing anything, including bosses.
Why similar: Metroidvania 32.7%, Nonlinear 17.4%, Female Protagonist 11.9%, Exploration 9.2%, Multiple Endings 8.9%
Educe is a 2D pixel art "Metroidbrainia" puzzle game where the world is your blueprint. Physically rearrange the screens of a forgotten laboratory to navigate a sprawling, non-linear maze. With no combat and a focus on logic, you must shift the environment itself to educe the path forward.
Why similar: Metroidvania 59%, Exploration 15%, Puzzle 11.5%, Pixel Graphics 8.4%, Adventure 6.1%
Explore the whimsical world of Pippin in this short, 2D adventure and exploration game. Traverse a wild garden, uncover secrets, discover treasures, and meet adorable NPCs in this enchanting storybook world.
Why similar: Metroidvania 32.8%, Collectathon 26%, Exploration 9.8%, Fantasy 8.4%, Top-Down 6.3%
Explore a dense, interconnected labyrinth, and unravel its many secrets. Collect items to manipulate your environment in surprising and meaningful ways. Encounter beautiful and unsettling creatures, as you attempt to survive what lurks in the dark. There is more than what you see.
Why similar: Metroidvania 42.5%, Nonlinear 13.7%, Exploration 11.9%, Puzzle 8.9%, Pixel Graphics 7%
