60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Metroidvania, Platformer, 2D, Adventure.
You Have to Win the Game is a free exploration platformer with a retro 1980s PC aesthetic.
Axiom Verge
Explore and uncover the mystery of a surreal alien world by blasting aliens and glitching your environment in this intense retro side-scrolling action/adventure.
Castle In The Darkness
Castle In The Darkness is a fun and challenging shout out to the early days of video games! It's an action exploration platformer with some RPG elements, much like games from the Castlevania or Metroid series. It's super fast-paced, challenging, and full of secrets!
Explore and uncover the mystery of a surreal alien world by blasting aliens and glitching your environment in this intense retro side-scrolling action/adventure.
Why similar: Metroidvania 67.1%, Platformer 9.8%, Retro 7%, Pixel Graphics 4.4%, Indie 2.3%
Castle In The Darkness is a fun and challenging shout out to the early days of video games! It's an action exploration platformer with some RPG elements, much like games from the Castlevania or Metroid series. It's super fast-paced, challenging, and full of secrets!
Why similar: Metroidvania 58.5%, Platformer 12.6%, Difficult 8.7%, Retro 8.1%, Pixel Graphics 4.1%
LA-MULANA is an “Archaeological Ruin Exploration Action Game,” bringing the classic appeal of adventure with the punishing difficulty of retro-inspired gaming. Search inside ancient ruins, seeking out the “Secret Treasure of Life” – which sleeps in the sprawling ruins of “LA-MULANA” and is said to be the beginning of all civilization.
Why similar: Metroidvania 60.3%, Platformer 12.5%, Difficult 10.5%, Retro 5%, Indie 2.2%
Run, jump, shoot, fly and explore your way through a massive action-adventure reminiscent of classic 8- and 16-bit games.
Why similar: Metroidvania 53.5%, Platformer 16.5%, Retro 8%, Pixel Graphics 4.4%, Difficult 3.3%
Use your magic staff and progress through a large interconnected world where you'll solve puzzles, fight enemies and defeat bosses in order to help free the land of Alwa. Explore and uncover the secrets by using your platforming skills in this challenging and charming 8-bit adventure game.
Why similar: Metroidvania 58.6%, Platformer 12.2%, Retro 11.2%, Pixel Graphics 5.7%, Indie 3.3%
Explore an abandoned space station in this retro-themed explorative action platformer.
Why similar: Metroidvania 64.1%, Platformer 10.5%, Pixel Graphics 6.2%, Retro 6%, Difficult 4.8%
The old gods have forgotten this land. No one could save our people when darkness started spreading and collecting human souls for its army. Odallus is a classic exploration/action game, inspired by Ghosts’n Goblins, Demon’s Crest and Castlevania.
Why similar: Metroidvania 58%, Retro 15.8%, Platformer 10.9%, Pixel Graphics 5.9%, Indie 3.2%
Pounce inside of your cozy armored mech and set off on a dangerous trek through an alien underworld full of irritable creatures and treacherous obstacles in a valiant effort to save your stranded captain and his crashed spaceship.
Why similar: Metroidvania 59.8%, Platformer 9.8%, Retro 9.7%, Pixel Graphics 5.7%, Indie 3.6%
Assume the role of Wyatt in this Action/Exploration Platformer as you explore the ruins of a holy city that was lost many years ago. Battle various types of demons, angels, and a new threat known only as the “Ferals”, using swordsmanship, martial arts, and sorcery.
Why similar: Metroidvania 75%, Platformer 11.8%, Difficult 4.5%, Indie 2.2%, 2D 1.9%
Xeodrifter is the story of an interstellar drifter traveling the stars on a simple mission of exploration. We join our nomad as he embarks on the investigation of a small cluster of four planets in the omega sector, after a collision with a rogue asteroid damaged his warp core.
Why similar: Metroidvania 46.8%, Retro 12.9%, Platformer 12.4%, Difficult 6.6%, Pixel Graphics 4.8%
The definitive version of the smash-hit Metroidvania-style action-platformer, Guacamelee! STCE adds new levels, powers, challenges, and refinements to the sprawling, ridiculous, Mexican-inspired adventure of the original Guacamelee! Gold Edition.
Why similar: Metroidvania 73%, Platformer 20.7%, 2D 5.2%, Difficult 0.5%, Indie 0.2%
Shantae: Risky’s Revenge – Director’s Cut brings hair-whipping, belly-dancing to your PC! Play one of the most critically acclaimed handheld series of all time, now with brand new features!
Why similar: Metroidvania 58.9%, Platformer 20.8%, Retro 6.1%, Pixel Graphics 4.8%, 2D 2.2%
A legendary series returns with a grand new adventure! Enjoy a colorful action-adventure game made alongside Ryuichi Nishizawa, creator of the original Wonder Boy in Monster World series.
Why similar: Metroidvania 63.2%, Platformer 16.2%, Indie 4.1%, 2D 2.8%, Difficult 2.5%
Throw on your nostalgia goggles and travel back in time with Super Win the Game, a retro-core explosion of exploration and platforming action!!
Why similar: Metroidvania 44.7%, Precision Platformer 11%, Platformer 10.5%, Difficult 8.9%, Retro 7.8%
Guacamelee! is a Metroidvania-style action-platformer set in a magical Mexican-inspired world. The game draws its inspiration from traditional Mexican culture and folklore, and features many interesting and unique characters.
Why similar: Metroidvania 72.6%, Platformer 18.1%, Indie 2.8%, 2D 2.3%, Action 1.5%
Rogue Legacy 2 is what you'd get if you mashed Rogue Legacy and a sequel together. Every time you die, your children will succeed you, and each child is unique. Your daughter might be a Colourblind Archer, and your son could be a Pacifistic Chef. Either way, one of them is getting conscripted.
Why similar: Metroidvania 61.1%, Platformer 15.2%, Difficult 7.8%, Arcade 5.2%, Indie 2.9%
As a demon army besieges his village, a young ninja ventures through a cursed world, to deliver a scroll paramount to his clan’s survival. What begins as a classic action platformer soon unravels into an expansive time-traveling adventure full of thrills, surprises, and humor.
Why similar: Metroidvania 48.9%, Retro 15.3%, Platformer 14%, Pixel Graphics 5.7%, Difficult 4.8%
Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night is an exploration-focused, side-scroller action RPG by Koji Igarashi. Play as Miriam, an orphan scarred by an alchemist's curse that slowly crystallizes her body. Battle through a demon-infested castle and defeat its master to save yourself, and all of humanity!
Why similar: Metroidvania 81.4%, Platformer 7.6%, Difficult 2.1%, Side Scroller 1.9%, Great Soundtrack 1.6%
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 62.9%, Platformer 12.4%, Retro 7.5%, Pixel Graphics 6.2%, Exploration 3.2%
Join renegade mechanic Robin and uncover the secrets of a dying planet. Explore a big world filled with intricate puzzles, interesting characters and menacing bosses in a beautiful platform adventure that tells a personal story about faith, purpose and the challenge of helping people.
Why similar: Metroidvania 65.2%, Platformer 12.2%, Pixel Graphics 7.8%, Indie 4.3%, 2D 3%
Embark on an all-new adventure with Shantae, the hair-whipping belly dancing genie. After losing her magic, Shantae teams up with the nefarious pirate Risky Boots in order to save Sequin Land from a curse.
Why similar: Metroidvania 62.5%, Platformer 19.2%, Pixel Graphics 4.9%, 2D 3.1%, Great Soundtrack 2.9%
The long-awaited sequel to La-Mulana, La-Mulana 2 follows Lumisa Kosugi as she explores the ancient ruins of La-Mulana. Desperate to find the cause of the recent slew of monsters appearing from the ruins, Lumisa discovers the "other" La-Mulana: the ruins known as Eg-Lana.
Why similar: Metroidvania 46.6%, Platformer 10.9%, Precision Platformer 10.5%, Difficult 10.2%, Retro 8.4%
A journey begins... A treacherous tower... Unravel its mysteries!Discover the secrets kept in the long abandoned Tesla Tower!Magnetism and other electromagnetic powers will help you explore a non-linear world of beautiful hand-drawn environments, in a steampunk-inspired vision of old Europe.
Why similar: Metroidvania 51.6%, Platformer 23.6%, Difficult 6.6%, Retro 5.3%, Indie 3.4%
Immerse yourself in a gorgeous hand-painted world on a search for your true identity. As the mysterious warrior, Dust, your action-packed journey will take you from peaceful glades to snowy mountaintops and beyond.
Why similar: Metroidvania 63.9%, Platformer 19.6%, Indie 3.6%, 2D 3.5%, Great Soundtrack 2.2%
Battle with swords and whips in this retro-style action game brought to you by game creator Koji Igarashi and Inti Creates! Play as Zangetsu, a demon slayer bearing a deep grudge, who must travel through perilous lands to defeat a powerful demon lurking in a dark castle.
Why similar: Metroidvania 41%, Retro 15.2%, Platformer 13.9%, Difficult 7.9%, Pixel Graphics 6.3%
Welcome, eager young investor, to AdVenture Capitalist! Arguably the world's greatest Capitalism simulator!
Why similar: 2D 56%, Adventure 22.2%, Singleplayer 21.9%
Click your way through hordes of monsters, earn gold, and recruit quirky heroes with powerful skills. Progress even while you're idle, and watch the numbers climb into the absurd. It’s a never-ending journey of clicks, crits, and colossal damage.
Why similar: 2D 41%, Indie 34.3%, Action 8.4%, Adventure 8.2%, Singleplayer 8%
Make your way through more than 600 rooms, and unravel the secrets of your past by finding the five elemental orbs. Cathedral features a vast world, meant for exploring!
Why similar: Metroidvania 62.3%, Retro 10.3%, Platformer 9.1%, Difficult 5.3%, Pixel Graphics 4%
The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth is a randomly generated action RPG shooter with heavy Rogue-like elements. Following Isaac on his journey players will find bizarre treasures that change Isaac’s form giving him super human abilities and enabling him to fight off droves of mysterious creatures, discover secrets and fight his way to safety.
Why similar: Difficult 45.9%, Pixel Graphics 19.1%, Indie 13.9%, Great Soundtrack 8%, 2D 7.4%
Momodora III is a classic action platform game with a variety of items and secrets. It's the third installment of the Momodora series, although playing the previous titles is not necessary to enjoy the game!
Why similar: Metroidvania 53.6%, Platformer 23.4%, Pixel Graphics 8.9%, Indie 5.2%, 2D 4.6%
Satisfactory is a first-person open-world factory building game with a dash of exploration and combat. Play alone or with friends, explore an alien planet, create multi-story factories, and enter conveyor belt heaven!
Why similar: Exploration 35.4%, Open World 25.1%, Indie 15.9%, Adventure 14%, Singleplayer 9.6%
UFO 50 is a collection of 50 single and multiplayer games that span a variety of genres, from platformers and shoot 'em ups to puzzle games, roguelites, and RPGs. Our goal is to combine a familiar 8-bit aesthetic with new ideas and modern game design.
Why similar: Retro 37.1%, Difficult 15.4%, Pixel Graphics 15%, Indie 8.3%, Platformer 7.4%
Inspired by the retro glory days of 8-bit games, Rex Rocket is a traditional 2D platformer brought into the 21st century. Paying tribute to classic NES games like Mario, Mega Man, and Metroid, old-school platformer fans will find Rex Rocket a breath of fresh air.
Why similar: Metroidvania 53.5%, Platformer 13.9%, Retro 11.7%, Difficult 6.9%, Pixel Graphics 4.2%
Gomez is a 2D creature living in a 2D world. Or is he? When the existence of a mysterious 3rd dimension is revealed to him, Gomez is sent out on a journey that will take him to the very end of time and space. Use your ability to navigate 3D structures from 4 distinct classic 2D perspectives.
Why similar: Platformer 48.6%, Pixel Graphics 12.7%, Indie 9.8%, Metroidvania 7.6%, Exploration 5.7%
Emily is Away is an interactive story. Create a screenname and choose your path through the branching narrative.
Why similar: Retro 55.3%, Indie 15.6%, Pixel Graphics 14.6%, Singleplayer 8.1%, 2D 4.3%
A plinko-style roguelike where you work at a number factory. Launch your spherical friend, Nubby, down a pegboard to make bigger and bigger numbers! But beware, if you fail to meet your number quota, the sun will explode.
Why similar: Retro 48.2%, Arcade 18.4%, 2D 12.9%, Indie 11.6%, Singleplayer 9%
Now 20% More Evil with the Free Halloween update!
Why similar: Difficult 54.8%, Indie 20.9%, Great Soundtrack 8%, 2D 5.3%, Action 4.8%
Baba Is You is a puzzle game where the rules you have to follow are present as blocks you can interact with. By manipulating them, you can change how the game works, repurpose things you find in the levels and cause surprising interactions!
Why similar: Difficult 48%, Pixel Graphics 16.6%, Indie 13.4%, 2D 8.1%, Retro 5.3%
Welcome to Mt. Holly, where every dawn unveils a new mystery. Navigate through shifting corridors and ever-changing chambers in this genre-defying strategy puzzle adventure. But will your unpredictable path lead you to the rumored Room 46?
Why similar: Exploration 38.5%, Indie 30.5%, Singleplayer 17.1%, Adventure 13.9%
What’s left of humanity are minds trapped in circuits. You are awaken as ReSetna, a warrior on a mission to rescue last human remnants. Explore seven hostile zones, face seven brutal bosses and evolve through a unique upgrade system. Uncover horrifying truth and decide if the future is worth saving.
Why similar: Metroidvania 75%, Platformer 17%, Indie 4.1%, Action 2.1%, Adventure 1.8%
Shovel Knight: Treasure Trove is the complete Shovel Knight collection, containing all 5 games in the epic saga! Dig, blast, slash, and bash your way through a fantastical, 8-bit inspired world of pixel-perfect platforming, memorable characters, and world-class action-adventure gameplay.
Why similar: Platformer 31.5%, Retro 25.7%, Pixel Graphics 10.7%, Difficult 8.4%, 2D 5.3%
Mutant scum never learn! Blaster Master Zero makes its Steam debut! Blaster Master Zero is a 8-bit style top-down & sideview 2D action-adventure game that hearkens back to the golden age of the NES. The game features new gameplay elements such as improved gameplay, and a more robust scenario.
Why similar: Metroidvania 59.8%, Retro 15.5%, Platformer 13.3%, Pixel Graphics 6.4%, Action 3%
Downwell is a curious game about a young person venturing down a well in search of untold treasures with only his Gunboots to protect him.
Why similar: Precision Platformer 27.2%, Platformer 21.1%, Difficult 14.5%, Retro 11.5%, Pixel Graphics 9.2%
A 15 minute heist game by Crows Crows Crows & Directed by William Pugh (The Stanley Parable). Slip into the soft-soled shoes of the mastermind responsible for the greatest heist- oh god I can’t do this any more, i’m joining the strike. good luck writing the steam description. -tina
Why similar: Indie 62.5%, Singleplayer 24.6%, Adventure 9.3%, Action 3.7%
Iron Snout is a fast, colorful and brutal fighting game in which you will be helping a piglet fight for its life against hordes of wolves.
Why similar: Difficult 26.3%, 2D 24.1%, Indie 17.4%, Action 14.6%, Arcade 9.3%
Time Clickers is what's called an 'incremental game'. There's always a fun upgrade to look forward to, and the numbers keep getting bigger! Hire a team to fight for you, even when you're offline!
Why similar: Indie 49.6%, Action 24%, Singleplayer 20.8%, Adventure 5.6%
Spelunky 2 builds upon the unique, randomized challenges that made the original a roguelike classic, offering a huge adventure designed to satisfy players old and new. Meet the next generation of explorers as they find themselves on the Moon, searching for treasure and missing family.
Why similar: Platformer 45.6%, Difficult 31.9%, Indie 7.3%, 2D 7.1%, Side Scroller 5.2%
The Talos Principle 2 is a thought-provoking first-person puzzle experience that greatly expands on the first game's philosophical themes and stunning environments with increasingly mind-bending challenges.
Why similar: Exploration 100%
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
Why similar: Exploration 51.1%, Singleplayer 24.9%, Open World 15.4%, Adventure 8.6%
The infamous, tough-as-nails platformer comes to Steam with a playable Head Crab character (Steam-exclusive)!
Why similar: Precision Platformer 31.7%, Platformer 25%, Difficult 17%, Pixel Graphics 7.5%, Retro 6.4%
Traverse punishing environments, looting, crafting and evading the constant threats to your life. The unprecedented levels of character customization and progression are your ultimate tools for survival.
Why similar: Action 34.1%, Open World 33.9%, Singleplayer 32%
Rogue Legacy is a genealogical rogue-"LITE" where anyone can be a hero. Each time you die, your child will succeed you. Every child is unique. One child might be colorblind, another might be a dwarf with vertigo. But that's OK, because no one is perfect, and you don't have to be to succeed.
Why similar: Metroidvania 41.4%, Platformer 41.3%, Indie 5%, Pixel Graphics 3.1%, 2D 3%
Super Hexagon is a minimal action game by Terry Cavanagh, with music by Chipzel.
Why similar: Difficult 62.3%, Great Soundtrack 12%, Indie 11.3%, Arcade 6.9%, 2D 3.5%
A grand adventure in the skies awaits! Form a party of four from a diverse roster of skyfarers and slash—or shoot or hex—your way to victory against treacherous foes in this action RPG. Take on quests solo or with the help of others in up to 4-player co-op play!
Why similar: Action 60.3%, Singleplayer 39.7%
Lost in a weird city in the middle of the desert and surrounded by strange creatures that keep staring at you. This is a game about exploring the unknown and solving puzzles... lots of them! Don't be fooled by the looks, this isn't a point & click adventure.
Why similar: Pixel Graphics 47.7%, Indie 21.2%, Great Soundtrack 10.1%, 2D 9.1%, Adventure 8%
Vampire hunters are after a mischievous vampire girl, and it's up to her pet bat to save the day. Flap through peril in this open-ended precision “batformer” with a unique control scheme that re-contextualizes precision platformer trappings and flips them upside-down!
Why similar: Metroidvania 43.7%, Retro 12.5%, Precision Platformer 12.1%, Platformer 12.1%, Difficult 6.2%
Crypt of the NecroDancer is an award winning hardcore roguelike rhythm game. Move to the music and deliver beatdowns to the beat! Groove to the epic Danny Baranowsky soundtrack, or select songs from your own MP3 collection!
Why similar: Difficult 33.7%, Pixel Graphics 22%, Great Soundtrack 13.9%, Retro 10.9%, Indie 9.4%
Help Madeline survive her inner demons on her journey to the top of Celeste Mountain, in this super-tight platformer from the creators of TowerFall. Brave hundreds of hand-crafted challenges, uncover devious secrets, and piece together the mystery of the mountain.
Why similar: Precision Platformer 22.9%, Platformer 21.5%, Difficult 20.1%, Pixel Graphics 9.9%, Retro 6.1%
Build the most efficient intergalactic factory in space simulation strategy game Dyson Sphere Program! Harness the power of stars, collect resources, plan and design production lines and develop your interstellar factory from a small space workshop to a galaxy-wide industrial empire.
Why similar: Open World 43.7%, Singleplayer 28.5%, Indie 27.8%
Spelunky is a unique platformer with randomized levels that offer a challenging new experience each time you play. Journey deep underground and explore fantastic places filled with all manner of monsters, traps, and treasure.
Why similar: Platformer 52.2%, Difficult 25%, Indie 8.3%, 2D 6.6%, Arcade 2.7%
