
Restore harmony as shapeshifting demigod Maui on an adventure to save his island home from all-consuming darkness in this epic 2D open-world Metroidvania.
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Restore harmony as shapeshifting demigod Maui on an adventure to save his island home from all-consuming darkness in this epic 2D open-world Metroidvania.

Vivid Spirit
Red, Yellow, Blue. It's Vivid Spirit! Their abilities are dictated by what color they are and it's up to you to figure out how to use them and when to swap. Guide Vivid and her dog, Spirit, on their many adventures through the world of Paper Craft!

Pharaoh Rebirth+
An ancient evil has been set loose, and Jonathan cursed in the process. Jonathan must now collect seven holy grails from around all of Egypt to cleanse himself of the curse of Sehur the First. Be delighted by the quirky humor, charming characters, and the beautifully designed world, in Pharaoh Rebirth+!
Red, Yellow, Blue. It's Vivid Spirit! Their abilities are dictated by what color they are and it's up to you to figure out how to use them and when to swap. Guide Vivid and her dog, Spirit, on their many adventures through the world of Paper Craft!
Why similar: Metroidvania 27.2%, Indie 21.6%, Action 19.3%, Adventure 18%, Platformer 14%
An ancient evil has been set loose, and Jonathan cursed in the process. Jonathan must now collect seven holy grails from around all of Egypt to cleanse himself of the curse of Sehur the First. Be delighted by the quirky humor, charming characters, and the beautifully designed world, in Pharaoh Rebirth+!
Why similar: Metroidvania 27.4%, Action 23.6%, Adventure 23%, Indie 16.2%, Platformer 9.8%
Metamorfose S is a 2D action-adventure game with RPG elements.
Why similar: Metroidvania 30.3%, Action 25.3%, Adventure 24.4%, Indie 20%
Unravel the mystery uncovered by a remote interplanetary mining operation. What did they find? What threat does it pose? And ultimately, what does it truly mean to be a hero?
Why similar: Metroidvania 33.2%, Adventure 22.6%, Action 18.9%, Indie 16.4%, Platformer 8.9%
Hunter’s Legacy is an old-school 2D single-player Metroidvania platformer where you control Ikki, a fierce kitty skilled with twin swords and a bow, better known as the Great Huntress of Un'Amak.
Why similar: Metroidvania 35.6%, Action 18.2%, Adventure 18%, Platformer 15.1%, Indie 13.1%
Wander a whimsical world full of danger and surprise. Outsmart your environment as you punch, grab, and throw enemies and objects in this action-puzzle adventure.
Why similar: Metroidvania 26%, Adventure 23.3%, Action 22%, Indie 17.5%, Platformer 11.3%
Inspired by classic shooters like Gunstar Heroes, Metal Slug, and Contra, Greedy Guns brings the run-and-gun formula into the 21st Century! Help these greedy mercenaries survive their most epic contract yet. Explore, explode, survive!
Why similar: Metroidvania 27.3%, Adventure 22.6%, Action 22%, Indie 16.4%, Platformer 11.8%
Guide three sociopathic apprentices through an open world filled with caves, castles and underground cities as you search for your kidnapped teacher. Discover countless secrets, loot hidden treasure troves, and decapitate your enemies. Or immolate them. Or smack them in the face with fruit.
Why similar: Metroidvania 33.1%, Indie 27.6%, Action 16.4%, Adventure 15.6%, Platformer 7.3%
You are lost in the catacombs and finding your way out won’t be easy, but upon reaching the surface you will find you are not the only one who is lost. The mysterious spirit hound Echo is far from home, but with her by your side, exploration is as simple as a game of fetch.
Why similar: Adventure 31.2%, Action 30.4%, Indie 22.7%, Metroidvania 15.6%
The Waste Land, a "metroidvania" style side-scroller inspired by T.S. Eliot’s poem of the same name, puts players in the role of a fallen king who must find his way to right the wrongs caused by his own failings.
Why similar: Metroidvania 39%, Adventure 22.6%, Action 22%, Indie 16.4%
In Demon Peak, you play as the nameless warrior, trapped inside the depths of an unholy Mountain. Explore the mysterious and perilous enviroments, fight against a multitude of different enemies and gather magical abilities to overcome the Mountain's evil inhabitants.
Why similar: Metroidvania 35%, Action 21%, Adventure 20.7%, Indie 14.5%, Platformer 8.8%
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 45.5%, Action 14.8%, Platformer 14.7%, Adventure 13.9%, Indie 11.1%
Mo the frog is a classic 2D platform in which you will have to committ fully to ho through many levels that are present in the game. Dress the part of Mò the frog in the epic adventure to free Avalaar's kingdom from the oppression which the terrible Peter's the troll and his henchmen, the black captains, try to bring by conquering it.
Why similar: Metroidvania 28.1%, Action 21.9%, Adventure 20.4%, Indie 14.9%, Platformer 14.7%
Unnamed Adventure, an indie action platformer where every single level, puzzle is crafted by hands. Wander around in a mysterious kingdom where surprise and finding may hide in every corner you visit.
Why similar: Metroidvania 25.5%, Action 23.4%, Adventure 22.5%, Indie 17.5%, Platformer 11.2%
Lured by a vengeful spirit of a defeated witch, our 16-bit hero, and his friends, find themselves trapped on a mysterious island full of deadly sorceresses! What heinous plans does this gruesome Witch have for him? And what is the true origin of the island?
Why similar: Metroidvania 31.6%, Adventure 25.3%, Action 24.7%, Indie 18.4%
Ghostly Matter is a metroidvania with elements borrowed from graphic adventures. The year is 1986. A professor obsessed with the paranormal, an old friend who disappeared mysteriously. Time to arm yourself with the best anti-ghost technology and set off in search of the truth.
Why similar: Metroidvania 34%, Action 25.2%, Adventure 23.6%, Indie 17.2%
A wacky metroidvania. ⚡ Meet weird characters, unlock new abilities and complete a mysterious mission . . .
Why similar: Adventure 32.2%, Action 31.6%, Indie 23.8%, Metroidvania 12.4%
Play as a special ops combat unit sent to investigate why the stars around Solar System are going dark in MegaSphere — a story-based post-cyberpunk action platformer adventure game of supermassive scale set in early 22nd century: smart guns, robots, self-reconstructing environments, and vast AIs.
Why similar: Metroidvania 34.7%, Action 21.4%, Adventure 20.3%, Indie 16.4%, Platformer 7.3%
Game indie of adventure, action and exploration style "Metroidvania".
Why similar: Adventure 27.9%, Action 27.2%, Metroidvania 24.7%, Indie 20.3%
Molly: fear of clowns - Platformer in a classic style and with modern graphics. The adventures of a little girl named Molly, inside her fictional world of fears and fantasies.
Why similar: Action 31.8%, Adventure 31.6%, Indie 23%, Platformer 13.6%
A "Metroid-vania"-style platform adventure, voted GAME OF THE YEAR by Gamezebo.
Why similar: Metroidvania 37.6%, Adventure 18.8%, Action 17.5%, Indie 13.7%, Platformer 12.3%
Blink the Bulb is a 16-bit platformer composed of massive, holiday-themed realms. Explore six unique worlds, mix and match varied power ups, and stave off the nefarious Holidaemon in this throwback to games of yore.
Why similar: Adventure 34.9%, Action 30.2%, Indie 20.6%, Platformer 14.3%
A curse has befallen the Crescent Isle and it's up to you to save it. Luckily the curse has transformed your people into helpful monsters such as drills, blobs, icicles, and gravity flipping...things. With your monster subjects in hand you'll have to drill through rocks, maneuver through spiky terrain, freeze water to pass over the sea,...
Why similar: Adventure 31.8%, Action 31%, Indie 23.1%, Platformer 14.1%
Toy Odyssey is fundamentally an action-adventure platformer. The player spends the night exploring a randomly-generated house, defeating bosses in each of the unique rooms, and then going up against the final boss.
Why similar: Adventure 32.4%, Action 30.4%, Indie 21.8%, Platformer 15.4%
Discover a vast world full of mysteries and action in this Metroidvania-style game inspired by the classics of the 16-bit era.
Why similar: Metroidvania 31.9%, Action 31.4%, Adventure 17.4%, Indie 12.3%, Platformer 6.9%
In Super Panda Adventures, you play as the brave panda-knight Fu, who is about to finish his training to become the new guardian of the Princess. At the same day of the big celebration party, some uninvited Robots show up to conquer the planet and take the Princess away in their Space Ships!
Why similar: Metroidvania 40.3%, Platformer 19.5%, Adventure 14.3%, Action 13.9%, Indie 12%
A rollicking action-platformer, inspired by the greats of the DOS and NES era. Explore 20 huge levels in 4 varied locations, full of cunning secrets and unique dangers, including 4 epic boss battles.
Why similar: Action 32.1%, Adventure 30.1%, Indie 21.9%, Platformer 15.9%
Best Indie PC Game, Digital Dragons 2014. Top Hat is a 2D action adventure platformer, just like old NES games. If you are tired of “games” in which you get hit by heavy machine gun and grenades, and all you need to do is cover behind the wall to replenish HP, then Top Hat is a perfect game for you!
Why similar: Adventure 31%, Action 30.2%, Indie 24.3%, Platformer 14.5%
Designed to resemble a game for a classic portable game system with simple game play, pixelated graphics, and a 4-color color pallet. This callback to our childhood will test your skills, capture your imagination, and leave you satisfied when your quest is complete.
Why similar: Adventure 29.9%, Action 29.1%, Indie 25.2%, Platformer 15.9%
On a hostile planet, an alien race with big eyes and thirsty for energy, will chase you with the only purpose of silencing yours being robotic circuits to drain all your energy. Try to survive this attack!
Why similar: Action 30.1%, Adventure 29.5%, Indie 22.5%, Platformer 17.9%
The Flat Kingdom is a beautiful and peaceful 2D land, but now it’s threatened by an evil thief and becoming 3D! The only who can stop the chaos is Flat, a little hero able to change into a circle, triangle or square in order to solve puzzles, overcome obstacles and defeat giant bosses!
Why similar: Metroidvania 31.1%, Indie 18.7%, Action 17.1%, Platformer 16.7%, Adventure 16.3%
A long-term crunch time programmer entered the world of code, and became a green cursor. Knowing that the condition for getting off work is to find 4 bugs in the code world, the adventure begins...
Why similar: Action 29.6%, Adventure 29%, Indie 22.1%, Platformer 19.3%
Zip and zap your way to victory!
Why similar: Action 30.7%, Adventure 30.1%, Indie 21.8%, Platformer 17.4%
A caffeine fueled, pun infested, hamster launching retro platform romp through pop culture. Semi Visible Chickens. Hamster launchers. triple strength espresso, Armoured sentient mucus. Just a day in the office for Toxic Bunny.
Why similar: Action 31.8%, Adventure 31.5%, Indie 21.2%, Platformer 15.5%
A world cast into darkness… but there is hope. After a mysterious entity extinguishes all the candles in the land, a lone surviving candle sets out on a most important adventure to bring light back to the land.
Why similar: Action 30.1%, Adventure 30%, Indie 21.8%, Platformer 18.1%
The Chrono project is a 2.5D side scroller game, set in a fantasy world, with the magical Chrono and the technological Robo. The game features a powerful time rewinding mechanic. Use it to explore different timelines and eventually save or damn the world.
Why similar: Adventure 34.5%, Action 34%, Indie 25.7%, Platformer 5.7%
KUNAI is a quirky, fast-paced action platformer. You play as Tabby, a tablet who joins the fight against a robot uprising. Use your kunai and ninja parkour skills to stop Lemonkus, the A.I.-gone-evil that almost wiped out all human life.
Why similar: Action 25.8%, Adventure 24.2%, Metroidvania 22.7%, Indie 19.6%, Platformer 7.7%
The Curse Of Zigoris is an action adventure pixel art platformer game with a story about a girl who tries to lift the curse from her village.
Why similar: Adventure 33.7%, Action 33.4%, Indie 24.9%, Platformer 8%
Exodus is a 2D Platform/Exploration (metroidvania) game for Windows, with oldschool gameplay mechanics, and HD native resolution (1920*1200). Musics are made by Yann Van Der Cruyssen (Saira, Block That Matter).
Why similar: Metroidvania 38.2%, Adventure 24.6%, Indie 19%, Platformer 18.1%
What is A-Men?Classic puzzle-platformer, inspired by some oldschool titles like Lemmings and Lost Vikings. What is A-Men like?Hard. No holding your hand, no easy levels, we want to challenge you. If you are a casual, A-Men is not for you.
Why similar: Action 30.7%, Adventure 27.8%, Indie 24.8%, Platformer 16.8%
Help KUMO get out of the tower Go through more than 100 levels in this game requiring reflexes and skill
Why similar: Action 31.5%, Adventure 31.3%, Indie 22.7%, Platformer 14.5%
Troubles Land is in trouble Again. When Qais and his friends decided to revolt against the evil invaders, the secret services discovered their plot and imprisoned all his party. Help Qais free his friends and join them as they run, jump and slash their way through five distinct worlds of the Troubles Land.
Why similar: Action 30.2%, Adventure 29.6%, Indie 21.5%, Platformer 18.7%
Star Rover is a Third-Person Action platformer game in Metroidvania style that you as the player can play in various locations on a planet. Upgrade yourself and collect a lot of weapons to prepare for the battle.
Why similar: Metroidvania 35.8%, Action 23.6%, Adventure 19%, Platformer 15.7%, Indie 6%
Pankapu is a narrative action-platformer that takes place in the dreams of Djaha’rell, a child troubled by a tragic incident. Upgrade your skills, find new competencies, switch your Aegis in real time in order to get rid of Nightmare's invasion.
Why similar: Action 23.5%, Adventure 21.7%, Metroidvania 19.9%, Platformer 17.8%, Indie 17%
Ninja dash! Ninja jump! Ninja slash! 8-bit style Ninja platform action game!
Why similar: Metroidvania 42.2%, Action 22%, Adventure 20.8%, Indie 15.1%
Viktor is an action-packed sidescrolling adventure with gameplay inspired by classics such as Castlevania and Megaman. As Viktor, you will fight your way through hordes of relentless enemies, lurking traps, and fearsome bosses who will try to keep you from your mission.
Why similar: Action 31%, Adventure 27%, Indie 21.7%, Platformer 20.3%
Bringing back the 90's-era PC platformer with a game inspired by classics like Commander Keen, Conker, Ruff'n'Tumble & Jazz Jackrabbit.
Why similar: Adventure 30.1%, Action 28.2%, Platformer 21.4%, Indie 20.3%
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 45.4%, Action 17.1%, Adventure 16%, Indie 12%, Platformer 9.4%
A challenging action-adventure game about bugs with blades. Play as a beetle in a miniature world, find a weapon, and beat other insects in melee combat!
Why similar: Adventure 31.8%, Action 31.5%, Indie 23.5%, Metroidvania 13.2%
Caught off guard, Johann Weiss had his sister kidnapped by the LaVey Order, a satanic cult led by Behemoth LaVey who's going to sacrifice her to Satan to summon Hell on Earth. In this take on Metroidvania and early Duke Nukem games, you must help Johann save his sister Joanna from LaVey.
Why similar: Adventure 34.5%, Action 34.1%, Indie 25.3%, Metroidvania 6.1%
Join the Asguardian mercenaries to save the Niddhog Sector from a corporate take over! Run, jump, and shoot in this action adventure game. Find sweet guns and armor and put your skills to the test in Identity Sector!
Why similar: Metroidvania 25.4%, Action 25.4%, Adventure 25.2%, Indie 12.8%, Platformer 11.2%
Join in an adventure with hidden traps, escape from a fireball rains, drive a scooter, face a giant fox robot, explore caves, fly in a rocket and defeat the evil boss to bring the bunnies home!
Why similar: Adventure 34.6%, Action 34.1%, Indie 25.5%, Platformer 5.8%
8Doors is a story-driven Metroidvania-style action platformer heavily influenced by Korean folktales. Play as ‘Arum’, a brave girl that has entered the realm of the afterlife in search of her father’s soul and guide her through the '8 Doors of Purgatory' to solve the mysteries that lie deep within.
Why similar: Metroidvania 42.1%, Adventure 17.1%, Action 16.9%, Indie 12.2%, Platformer 11.7%
Run through each level as Pep-Pel! a goofy red goblin thing. In this beautifully hand drawn game. play through tons of fast-paced and difficult levels, each with there own challenge to master!
After losing contact with his explorer friend Virgi, our fearless alien hero Spidy heads to Earth in his spacecraft to find her. While entering the Earth’s atmosphere, his spacecraft suddenly fails and starts to break up, causing Spidy to crash-land on the strange planet, with his craft scattered across forests, throughout ponds and in...
Why similar: Action 29.1%, Adventure 27.7%, Indie 22.7%, Platformer 20.5%
Set sail for adventure with a paper hat on your head and a magical shrinking boat in your pocket, in search of legendary treasures! Solve tricky puzzles, battle formidable foes, piece together clues and dig up secrets to uncover your own shrouded history as you explore this sprawling open world.
Why similar: Metroidvania 32.4%, Adventure 31%, Indie 22%, Platformer 14.7%
Welcome to Arlo's first adventure, in an old-school platformer fashion! Complete with amazing chiptune tracks!
Why similar: Adventure 32.2%, Action 31.4%, Indie 22.6%, Platformer 13.8%