- #1 Jrago The Demon Hunter
92% matchPositive85% of 27 reviews2023
Dev: Jrago Studios
Windows
Jrago The Demon Hunter is an indie METROIDVANIA style 2D Platforming Action-Adventure Role Playing Game. The world is overcome in darkness, and you are a hunter named Jrago on a quest to slay the demons and bring back the light!
Why similar: Roguevania 28.2% ★, Metroidvania 15.7%, Soundtrack 8.2% ★, Demons 7.6%, Dark Fantasy 7.2%
- #2 Magnavale: Eternal Soul
77% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Barrier Studio
Windows · Linux
Eternal Soul is a gothic Metroidvania where you steal the souls of your enemies. Explore the castle, find powerful items & abilities, fight against demonic creatures, and learn the truth of your power.
Why similar: Metroidvania 27.1%, Gothic 16.2% ★, Dark Fantasy 11.6%, Action RPG 10.5%, 2D Platformer 10%
- #3 Jrago III Requiem of the Night
75% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Jrago Studios
Windows
JRAGO III Requiem of the Night is a gothic METROIDVANIA action RPG. Play as JRAGO, a demon hunter in an epic battle of spiritual warfare. Slay your way through hordes of demons and monsters to a heavy metal soundtrack! Overcome the forces of darkness to save the world and restore the light!
Why similar: Metroidvania 28.2%, FMV 10.4% ★, Hack and Slash 10%, 2D Platformer 9.9%, Gothic 9.9% ★
- #4 Nongunz: Doppelganger Edition
74% matchMixed68% of 155 reviews2021
Dev: Brainwash GangPub: Digerati
Windows
Median: 12 minMean: 3.8 hrs≥1hr: 24%
Nongunz is a roguelite action-platformer. Battle grotesque creatures, kill quickly to maintain your combo meter, and rescue worshipers to become part of your idle army to buy upgrades.
Why similar: Roguevania 42.2% ★, Metroidvania 18.9%, Local Co-Op 16.4%, Gothic 16.4% ★, 2D Platformer 4.1%
- #5 The Light Of Vertical
72% matchNo user reviews
Dev: WangxoGame
Windows
A Metroidvania-style action adventure set in the collapsing "Sky City." Play as a life form awakening in darkness, explore decaying areas, interact with NPCs, battle bosses, collect cards, and uncover the truth through stylized art and deep storytelling.
Why similar: Roguevania 49% ★, Metroidvania 24.5%, Action RPG 11.4%, 2D Platformer 9.5%, RPG 3.8%
- #6 Hatone
70% matchPositive100% of 27 reviews2025
Dev: Devil's Delirium
Windows
Dive into a NES-inspired Action-Platformer with Metroidvania elements. Play as an Illuminati henchman battling fearsome bosses and unearthing secrets in an ancient castle. Fulfill your duty… but are you the architect of your fate—or just a pawn in a game someone else is playing?
Why similar: Roguevania 38.8% ★, Metroidvania 22.7%, Dark Fantasy 10.9%, Action RPG 9.1%, Retro 8.3%
- #7 Little Knight
69% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2026
Dev: 黑猫游戏
Windows
This is a medieval horizontal pixel-style game that can achieve unlimited gold coins. Players can control the little knight and experience the endless fun of monster swiping and exploration.
Why similar: Roguevania 43% ★, Metroidvania 21.9%, Action RPG 9.7%, 2D Platformer 8.5%, Medieval 6.9%
- #8 DurDanto
70% matchPositive87% of 15 reviews2024
Dev: Shihan KhanPub: DevsLair Studio
Windows · Mac · Linux
DurDanto is a metroidvania game where you play as Zubok in a fallen city with beautiful pixel art environments while facing different enemies. Use elemental abilities to uncover secrets of the fallen city, overcome the enemies & roguelike dungeons by skills & spells!
Why similar: Roguevania 52.1% ★, Metroidvania 30.1%, 2D Platformer 8.1%, Magic 3.8%, Retro 3.6%
- #9 An Amazing Wizard
68% matchVery Positive85% of 145 reviews2025
Dev: Tiny Goblins
Windows · Mac · Linux
An Amazing Wizard is a 2D fast-paced metroidvania-inspired spell-slinging roguelike where you'll create spells. Master 7 elements and merge 120 unique spells in any order to create endless possibilities. Choose from 250+ perks and 200 artifacts. Collect your lost memories and reclaim true name!
Why similar: Roguevania 40.4% ★, Metroidvania 20.9%, Dark Fantasy 10.3%, Magic 7.9%, 2D Platformer 7.7%
- #10 Moonlight Traveler
67% matchMixed55% of 55 reviews2025
Dev: Blueprint Core
Windows
This is an action game focused on combat, where a girl returns from the abyss to explore her own secrets and redemption, until the end of an eternal battle to see if she can break free from the shackles of fate.
Why similar: Roguevania 42.9% ★, Metroidvania 23.8%, Action RPG 10.9%, Medieval 7.5%, Magic 5.1%
- #11 A Robot Named Fight!
70% matchVery Positive88% of 882 reviews2017
Dev: Morningstar Game Studio
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 5.0 hrs≥1hr: 90%
A Robot Named Fight is a Metroidvania roguelike focused on exploration and item collection. Explore a different, procedurally-generated labyrinth each time you play and discover randomized power-ups to traverse obstacles, find secrets and explode meat beasts.
Why similar: Roguevania 46.9% ★, Metroidvania 26%, 4 Player Local 10.5%, Local Co-Op 8.7%, Retro 5.8%
- #12 Manor Mania
68% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Retriod SoftwarePub: Deadzors
Windows
Manor Mania is a Metrovania Randomizer game nut scaled down in size with more focus on replayability. It has a handcrafted map, equippable gear/weapons, and random Powerups that help you navigate the manor. Many randomized elements ensure variety for each run.
Why similar: Roguevania 40.1% ★, Metroidvania 25.8%, Hack and Slash 10.6%, RPG 9.5%, Loot 7.3%
- #13 出击吧!勇者 Let's go! Brave
68% matchNo user reviews
Dev: YQ Game
Windows
《Let's go! Brave》is a 2D action adventure game in the dark fantasy style of Galaxy Warrior Demon City, featuring sexy characters and lively battles. Its unique purification gameplay is also exhilarating, and of course, it also has a gripping storyline
Why similar: Roguevania 35.2% ★, Metroidvania 24.3%, Gothic 11.9% ★, Action RPG 11.2%, Medieval 6.7%
- #14 Otherlights
66% matchPositive100% of 18 reviews2024
Dev: Soleil Artificiel
Windows
Otherlights is an action-RPG game with roguelike tendencies designed for 1 to 4 players. In this sunless world, unlock many heroes and develop their destinies to try to access the solar fragment guarded by the powerful Exharques.
Why similar: 4 Player Local 30.7%, Local Co-Op 21%, Action RPG 15.9%, Dark Fantasy 12.7%, RPG 4.8%
- #15 Shadow Dungeon
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: OO Cat
Windows
Sinister dungeons. Collapsing rifts of a corrupted otherworld.Nightmarish creatures crawl from the dark, Demon Lords lurk beneath the abyss.Enter the Shadow Dungeon. Carve your way through this dark gothic world and write your own legendary saga.
Why similar: Gothic 19.9% ★, Action RPG 16.7%, Loot 14.8%, Retro 11.1%, Demons 9.3%
- #16 O.R.B. Offensive Rolling Bot
66% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Riimu Games Oy
Windows
Lead O.R.B. to save our world from total annihilation in this thrilling 2D-platformer. O.R.B. is a robot sent from the future to destroy an evil A.I. DiOS before it can fulfill its evil plan. O.R.B. has some special skills, and transforming into a ball is just one of the tricks up in its sleeves!
Why similar: Roguevania 50.4% ★, Metroidvania 28.3%, Retro 9.7%, 2D Platformer 6.3%, Action 3%
- #17 Archetype and the Four Winds of Hell
66% match4 user reviews100% of 4 reviews2024
Dev: Serf of Cinder
Windows
Master the four elements, and kill demons. In this short Metroidvania, you play as the Archetype, a legendary elemental master, on a mission to close a portal to hell and end a demon invasion. Learn new abilities, fight demons, and if you fail, be reincarnated with mastery of a different element.
Why similar: Roguevania 41.8% ★, Metroidvania 24.4%, 2D Platformer 11.5%, Demons 9.6%, Magic 7.3%
- #18 Betrayer: Curse of the Spine
67% matchPositive92% of 12 reviews2021
Dev: Triple Ch3rry StudiosPub: Proponent Games
Windows
Betrayer: Curse of the Spine is an Action-Adventure Metroidvania. The game features decision making, crafting, fast-paced combat, multiple endings, intricate storytelling, an open world to explore, and more!
Why similar: Roguevania 45.6% ★, Metroidvania 25.1%, 2D Platformer 9.3%, Dark Fantasy 6.7%, Magic 4.3%
- #19 梁山传奇
64% matchMixed53% of 19 reviews2026
Dev: 梁山传奇
Windows
亲爱的玩家们,欢迎踏入《梁山传奇》的奇幻世界!🎉这里是一场耗时两年精心雕琢的诚意盛宴,是原创剧情与超级大陆碰撞出的热血火花,更是不肝不氪的公平游戏天堂!💖
Why similar: Roguevania 36.3% ★, Action RPG 12.1%, Loot 11.3%, Demons 11%, Hack and Slash 8.9%
- #20 Isekai Mage
66% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: TongLee
Windows
Protagonist dies in a truck accident, reborn as a Mage Adventurer in an isekai. Explore chests, battle monsters, complete quests, and customize skills via roguelike mechanics. Defeat the Demon King in this blend of RPG, adventure, and light roguelike.
Why similar: Roguevania 64.3% ★, Metroidvania 29.8%, Magic 6%
- #21 Warped Point
66% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Marc "selempo" Mengual
Windows
Explore the unknown, master your weapons, and face the corruption and dangers that lurk while you embrace the chaos. Welcome to Warped Point, a mysterious world on the brink of collapse.
Why similar: Roguevania 58.7% ★, Hack and Slash 13%, Action RPG 12.1%, Dark Fantasy 7.1%, Medieval 6.1%
- #22 Tearscape
63% matchVery Positive93% of 244 reviews2026
Dev: NERDS TAKE OVER
Windows · Mac · Linux
As a hunter, you explore a dark, interconnected world filled with dungeons, relying on precise combat to survive. Battle grotesque monsters, expand your arsenal, and uncover hidden paths in a non-linear, pixel art journey.
Why similar: Metroidvania 27.8%, Gothic 25.1% ★, Local Co-Op 14.1%, Action RPG 12.2%, Dark Fantasy 10.4%
- #23 Castlevania Dominus Collection
63% matchVery Positive95% of 2,563 reviews2024
Dev: KONAMI
Windows
Median: 6.3 hrsMean: 18.0 hrs≥1hr: 70%
Three incredible action adventure games from the Castlevania series have finally returned, for the first time! But wait, there's more! Haunted Castle Revisited, a redesigned version of the very first Castlevania arcade game, makes its debut!
Why similar: Metroidvania 37.1%, Action RPG 14.9%, Dark Fantasy 12.5%, 2D Platformer 11.7%, Retro 8.5%
- #24 Pandash
65% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Laaab Games
Windows
Pandash is a rogue-lite platformer with different perks to discover and balance their powers. On your search for peace for your world, you wander through different areas, which will change every run. You need to get strong enough and unlock everything to survive and reach your destination.
Why similar: Roguevania 39.1% ★, Metroidvania 24.7%, Loot 9.8%, 2D Platformer 8.8%, Hack and Slash 8.2%
- #25 A Bard's Last Song
65% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Adam DunnPub: Nebulific Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Embark on a thrilling journey with three unlikely heroes in this epic action RPG. Traverse treacherous landscapes, confront formidable foes, and uncover dark secrets as you strive to reunite a fractured kingdom. Band together to save the land from chaos, all in a stylized vector style.
Why similar: Roguevania 42.9% ★, Metroidvania 23.4%, Action RPG 12.1%, Dark Fantasy 9.5%, Magic 7.4%
- #26 Geranium:Tale of Dawn's Desire
65% matchNo user reviews
Dev: bekotaizi
Windows
The story follows the journey of Geranium, a female swordswoman with amnesia.
Why similar: Roguevania 33.1% ★, Metroidvania 23.5%, Action RPG 12.1%, 2D Platformer 9.6%, Hack and Slash 8.9%
- #27 Never Grave: The Witch and The Curse
62% matchMixed69% of 503 reviews2026
Dev: Frontside 180Pub: Pocketpair Publishing
Windows
A Metroidvania x Roguelite where you journey with the aid of a cursed hat. Use a variety of magic or possess your enemies to reach the lowest levels! Bring back loot, build new facilities in your village, make a living and strengthen yourself for the next battle! Supports up to 4-player multiplayer.
Why similar: Roguevania 47% ★, Metroidvania 25.4%, Dark Fantasy 11.5%, Hack and Slash 8.6%, Magic 5.6%
- #28 Hollowroot
64% match2 user reviews100% of 2 reviews2025
Dev: Cmrak
Windows
Hollowroot, a fast-paced 2D action roguelike. Master tight platforming and combat in ever-changing, procedurally generated levels. Every run is a new challenge. Can you survive?
Why similar: Roguevania 56.4% ★, Metroidvania 20%, 2D Platformer 12.6%, RPG 7.1%, Action 3.9%
- #29 Eat Or Keep
65% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Volp Interactive
Windows
In a dying city ruled by uncontrollable magic, every resource is a choice: consume it to grow stronger, or preserve it to survive. Eat Or Keep is a challenging 2D Metroidvania with strong rogue-lite elements. Explore, fight, fall… and rise again.
Why similar: Roguevania 48.5% ★, Metroidvania 33.5%, 2D Platformer 12.2%, Action 5.8%
- #30 Vagneria
64% matchMixed63% of 16 reviews2024
Dev: Vagner da Rocha Santos
Windows
In Vagneria, dive into an immersive gaming experience with randomly generated stages, exciting exploration, building mechanics, and thrilling battles. Get ready to become the hero the world needs!
Why similar: Roguevania 46.3% ★, Metroidvania 25.4%, Medieval 10.9%, 2D Platformer 9.9%, RPG 5.6%
- #31 Castlevania Advance Collection
64% matchVery Positive91% of 2,384 reviews2021
Dev: KONAMI
Windows
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 15.7 hrs≥1hr: 63%
Count Dracula is once more back from the dead... Join the fight against Evil in the Castlevania Advance Collection, a compilation of timeless action-exploration masterpieces!
Why similar: Metroidvania 43.2%, 2D Platformer 12.4%, Dark Fantasy 11.1%, Gothic 11% ★, Retro 10%
- #32 风铃Windbell
64% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Team Brink
Windows
Windbell is a platform action game that contains roguelike random elements, hundreds of freely matched skills, and a hard-core hitting feel to bring you a super refreshing combat experience.
Why similar: Roguevania 51.9% ★, Metroidvania 26.4%, Hack and Slash 7.1%, Action RPG 6.6%, RPG 3.4%
- #33 DEAD DAYLIGHT
63% matchVery Positive88% of 73 reviews2025
Dev: KARMIU
Windows
"DEADDAYLIGHT" is a side-scrolling platform action-adventure game.Developed independently by a single person. It tells the dark story of a protagonist who wakes up from a nightmare about the plague during a plague after the gods abandoned the earth, and then return to the Cathedral of Holy Light.
Why similar: Metroidvania 23.1%, Gothic 16.3% ★, Action RPG 13%, 2D Platformer 9.7%, Hack and Slash 9%
- #34 迷途梦境 Lost Dream Chronicle
64% matchNo user reviews
Dev: AURION GAMES
Windows
"Lost Dream Chronicle" is a 3D ARPG that combines campus simulation with a 3D sandbox Metroidvania. The story follows a young adult, "Xiao Nan," who after graduating from university, enters society as a high school chemistry teacher, only to find herself trapped in dreams.
Why similar: Roguevania 42.8% ★, Metroidvania 26.7%, Gothic 20.1% ★, RPG 5.4%, Medieval 5%
- #35 My Beautiful Winter
64% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Havanna Directive
Windows
A sci-fi survival action RPG focused on tactical real-time combat, elemental weaknesses, weapon upgrades, and constant resource pressure.
Why similar: Roguevania 40.5% ★, Metroidvania 22%, Action RPG 13.1%, Dark Fantasy 7.4%, Demons 7.2%
- #36 Double Damnation
64% matchMostly Positive76% of 25 reviews2022
Dev: The Yellow Architect
Windows
Kill fast. Die faster. Abuse Immortality! Together...
Why similar: Roguevania 48.9% ★, Metroidvania 27.7%, Local Co-Op 12.2%, 2D Platformer 10.6%, Action 0.5%
- #37 SHIRO
63% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Tier 21
Windows
Humanity wants her dead, and a godlike alien AI wants to use her as a puppet. Take control of SH1-R0 and fight through challenging enemies on two fronts to prevent catastrophe. Explore high security facilities to upgrade your abilities and challenge the most advanced forces of two civilizations.
Why similar: Roguevania 47.4% ★, Metroidvania 32.1%, Action RPG 7.7%, 2D Platformer 7.3%, Action 3.2%
- #38 沙城争霸
60% matchVery Positive93% of 74 reviews2026
Dev: 沙城争霸
Windows
沙城争霸,原创剧情📖鏖战超级大陆🌍!上线即享自动回收等四重豪礼🎁,装备全爆💥,不氪不肝🛡️!20个超级分身助力👥,刀速飙升+999%💨!免费会员👥,零充畅玩通关🎉!
Why similar: Roguevania 29.5% ★, Action RPG 14.1%, Loot 13.1%, Hack and Slash 10.3%, Medieval 9.6%
- #39 Tower of Kalemonvo
61% matchVery Positive84% of 437 reviews2025
Dev: osurPub: 2 Left Thumbs
Windows
Median: 2.0 hrsMean: 7.1 hrs≥1hr: 62%
Crawl to the top of the TOWER OF KALEMONVO, a hardcore isometric ARPG with randomly generated levels meant for fans of slower paced action games. Fight cultists and monsters, scavenge for magical loot, learn powerful spells and fully customize your stats and skills!
Why similar: Gothic 23.1% ★, Action RPG 12.6%, Loot 12.1%, Demons 11.8%, Dark Fantasy 10.5%
- #40 METROMAGE
63% matchNo user reviews
Dev: MAYA GAME STUDIO
Windows
MetroMage is an intense action roguelike where you combine elemental magic, stack damage multipliers, and create devastating builds. Explore procedurally generated maps, face escalating enemy waves, and grow overwhelmingly powerful with every new run.
Why similar: Roguevania 42.4% ★, Metroidvania 20.7%, Action RPG 14.2%, RPG 9.5%, Medieval 7.7%
- #41 Asbak
63% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Team FossilPub: Vifth Floor
Windows
Asbak is a fast-paced hack-and-slash platformer where you chase down and slay demons born from humanity’s darkest fears. Move fast, hit hard, and keep the nightmares at bay!
Why similar: Roguevania 38.7% ★, Dark Fantasy 12.4%, Action RPG 10.8%, Hack and Slash 10.6%, Loot 10.5%
- #42 Fallen Prince
63% matchPositive92% of 13 reviews2023
Dev: Eridanus Games
Windows
Fallen Prince is an atmospheric combat-focused metroidvania with retro elements. Explore a bleak undead zone, hone your skills and rid the kingdom from your brother's vile sorcery.
Why similar: Metroidvania 40.6%, 2D Platformer 14.3%, Action RPG 14.3%, Hack and Slash 12.7%, Medieval 9.8%
- #43 SuperEpic: The Entertainment War
64% matchMostly Positive70% of 111 reviews2019
Dev: Undercoders
Windows
Median: 1.0 hrsMean: 9.7 hrs≥1hr: 53%
SuperEpic is a satirical and humorous Metroidvania style action-adventure game, starring a raccoon and a llama in their quest to save an Orwellian society from the rule of an evil corporation. RegnantCorp is an enterprise which is controlling minds through abusive micro transactions.
Why similar: Roguevania 71.8% ★, Metroidvania 18%, Hack and Slash 5.3%, Action 3%, Retro 1.9%
- #44 Goblin Escape
62% matchNo user reviews
Dev: PsychoSeel
Windows
Goblin Escape is an action-platformer with unique stance-based combat mechanics that will test your skills. Explore, level up, find new allies, choose your side. Find your own way in your own style. Sneak in shadows or paint your path with the blood of your foes.
Why similar: Roguevania 29.3% ★, Action RPG 16.7%, Dark Fantasy 15.7%, Hack and Slash 12.1%, Medieval 12%
- #45 Etheral
62% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Mythic Forge Studios
Windows
Choose your heroes. Fight enemies. Shape the fate of the region. Play with friends, or forge ahead alone in Etheral, a tactics RPG.
Why similar: Gothic 31.1% ★, Action RPG 16.9%, Dark Fantasy 14.5%, Hack and Slash 12.3%, Medieval 12.1%
- #46 Castlevania: Belmont's Curse
62% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: KONAMI
Windows
Crimson Curse —Will Your Fate Bloom in Despair or Salvation Set 23 years after Castlevania Dracula's Curse - follow a young Belmont's journey in an all new 2D Action-Exploration title from KONAMI, Evil Empire and Motion Twin.
Why similar: Metroidvania 41.1%, Action RPG 17.9%, 2D Platformer 9.3%, Dark Fantasy 9.1%, RPG 6.7%
- #47 Red Bit Ninja
66% matchMostly Negative30% of 33 reviews2015
Dev: Seven Sails Games
Windows
Median: 5.8 hrsMean: 6.0 hrs≥1hr: 97%
Red Bit Ninja is an old school platformer with a rope climbing physic and difficulty of the good old times. It features classic pixel art, hair pulling levels and five mean bosses.
Why similar: Roguevania 49.4% ★, Metroidvania 27.5%, 2D Platformer 10%, Arcade 5.7%, Retro 5.5%
- #48 Axel Quest
60% match8 user reviews100% of 8 reviews2026
Dev: PowerSlash Studios
Windows · Linux
A 2D action-adventure game with Metroidvania elements. Explore, fight monsters, collect equipment, unlock new paths, and challenge bosses in a handcrafted pixel-art world inspired by retro classics.
Why similar: Metroidvania 35.2%, Action RPG 14.9%, 2D Platformer 13.7%, Hack and Slash 12.7%, Medieval 7.4%
- #49 Death Machine
61% matchMixed58% of 18 reviews2026
Dev: Philip Froelich
Windows
Conquer the mechanical citadel in Death Machine - a metroidvania, with a roguelite item system. Gather items to gain strength, navigate the perilous machine world, leverage the aid of ancient demons, and seek out dangerous denizens to defeat before the forces of the machine close in on you.
Why similar: Roguevania 35.7% ★, Metroidvania 30.6%, Gothic 24.4% ★, 2D Platformer 7.4%, Action 1.8%
- #50 Slayer Of Sin
63% match3 user reviews50% of 4 reviews2022
Dev: TwixTrix
Windows
Slayer Of Sin is a 2D action platformer with simple hack-and-slash mechanics, incorporating arcade-like combat and art. Slayer Of Sin follows an unnamed hero's quest to save the human realm from the seven distinct demons, The Seven Deadly Sins.
Why similar: Metroidvania 31.9%, Demons 19.4%, 2D Platformer 15.5%, Action RPG 12.6%, Dark Fantasy 10.6%
- #51 Legends of Dionysos
61% matchPositive83% of 23 reviews2024
Dev: TheGamingVan
Windows
Legends of Dionysos is a 2,5D Action RPG that combines RPG elements with fast paced gameplay and hordes of enemies! Minmax your character, level up and find precious loot. Venture through a beautiful open world and slay loads of orcs, demons and giant dragons!
Why similar: Roguevania 39.4% ★, Metroidvania 17.8%, Action RPG 12.9%, Dark Fantasy 11.2%, Loot 9%
- #52 Koboo: The Tree Spirit - Prologue
61% matchPositive90% of 31 reviews2024
Dev: Jerome LabellePub: Honest Rogue Games
Windows
Explore the free prologue of Koboo: The Tree Spirit! An action rogue-lite platformer where you battle against towering hunters as a tiny spirit. Forge powerful synergies, battle seemingly gigantic bosses and rebuild your home.
Why similar: Roguevania 47.2% ★, Metroidvania 20.4%, 2D Platformer 9.7%, Hack and Slash 9.6%, Action RPG 7.9%
- #53 AKU: BRAVE REBORN
61% matchNo user reviews
Dev: InGame
Windows
A side-scrolling action game that combines Metroidvania-style exploration with roguelike cycles. In the early stages, non-linear Metroidvania exploration helps unlock core abilities; in the later stages, switching to the roguelike cycle mode allows for highly free challenges and build construction
Why similar: Roguevania 63.6% ★, Action RPG 18.9%, 2D Platformer 11.3%, Action 3.2%, RPG 3%
- #54 Duil
59% matchPositive90% of 21 reviews2025
Dev: JL studio
Windows
Duil is a dark action-platformer with RPG elements. Fight through a cursed world, master deadly magic, collect relics, and shape your destiny in a story-rich adventure with multiple endings.
Why similar: Roguevania 45.9% ★, Metroidvania 26.5%, Action RPG 10%, Dark Fantasy 9.9%, Magic 7.8%
- #55 Blessing Part I
59% matchPositive93% of 40 reviews2025
Dev: 故障幽灵
Windows
Blessing Part I is a 2D pixel style horizontal board action adventure game. Players will take on the role of a swordsman 'Luo' who lost everything in the past and embarks on revenge alone. With only a large sword and flesh and blood, they will fight against the twisted creatures in the darkness.
Why similar: Metroidvania 44.5%, Action RPG 17.9%, 2D Platformer 15.6%, Dark Fantasy 9.3%, RPG 8.8%
- #56 Brigands
59% matchMostly Positive94% of 66 reviews2025
Dev: Simon RinfretPub: Azooloom
Windows
Brigands is a “top-down hack and slash / beat 'em up adventure” game set in a medieval fantasy world. A local co-op game for casual gamers who like high intensity challenges for short periods of time. You can play from 1 to 4 players on a single computer.
Why similar: 4 Player Local 26.8%, Action RPG 17.6%, Medieval 15.5%, Local Co-Op 15.3%, Hack and Slash 10.5%
- #57 Tile Rogue
60% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: coeda
Windows
Super Pop. Super Casual. The Ultimate Roguelike Adventure! Smash your way to the goal and experience insane power-ups as you level up to godhood! Adventure awaits! Team up with up to 4 players online for a high-energy, colorful blast with friends.
Why similar: Roguevania 48.1% ★, Metroidvania 26.8%, 4 Player Local 15.7%, 2D Platformer 7.3%, Action 2.1%
- #58 The Dark Heart of Balor
59% matchMostly Positive77% of 22 reviews2026
Dev: Game Artists, LLC
Windows
Archdemon Balor has opened the Gate of Hell into the human realm and hordes of demons and monsters have flooded into your world destroying everything in their path. You must protect those who are still alive and ultimately destroy Balor to close the Gate.
Why similar: Metroidvania 28.8%, Gothic 15.3% ★, Action RPG 12.8%, Hack and Slash 10.4%, Dark Fantasy 10.1%
- #59 SOULGRAVE
60% matchNo user reviews
Dev: bromanguy
Windows
SOULGRAVE is a character-driven action roguelike where you create wild builds, explore ever-changing dungeons, and battle brutal bosses with puzzle-like, telegraphed mechanics. Restore a shattered world... or doom it forever.
Why similar: Roguevania 53.4% ★, Metroidvania 26.4%, Hack and Slash 8.3%, Dark Fantasy 7.9%, RPG 2.1%
- #60 Ghost 1.0
62% matchVery Positive91% of 2,103 reviews2016
Dev: @unepic_franPub: Unepic Games
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 11.7 hrs≥1hr: 80%
A mysterious agent, capable of becoming a digital ghost, sneaks aboard the Nakamura Space Station. This is where the fun begins: the station is well-protected with its heavy defences, never-ending arsenal of weapons, and mysterious artifacts. It will all have to be destroyed.
Why similar: Roguevania 58% ★, Metroidvania 38.8%, Action 3.3%