Games Like A Hole New World

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: Retro 24.9%, Platformer 23.4%, Pixel Graphics 20.9%, Difficult 12.8%, Indie 7%

Why You'll Like It: This is the definitive modern homage to 8-bit action-platformers, featuring tight controls and a perfect balance of challenge and charm.

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: Pixel Graphics 26.2%, Retro 25.5%, Platformer 21.2%, Indie 12%, Difficult 9.9%

Why You'll Like It: This game perfectly replicates the look and feel of an NES adventure, focusing on clever platforming and exploration.

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: Retro 26.6%, Pixel Graphics 20%, Platformer 18.6%, Difficult 13.1%, Action 8.1%

Why You'll Like It: It captures the humor and retro-action feel of the 8-bit era while introducing innovative mechanics that evolve as you play.

Bounce, vault, and fight your way through a whimsical world with the help of your loyal companion. Eat snacks, collect artifacts, and travel the world to stop Bonnie and her boney band of troublemakers!

Why similar: Difficult 25.4%, Retro 20.4%, Platformer 16.7%, Pixel Graphics 16.3%, Action 9.2%

Why You'll Like It: A fast-paced, cartoony platformer that captures the vibrant energy and tight movement of classic 2D action games.

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: Retro 23.7%, Pixel Graphics 19.9%, Difficult 19.4%, Platformer 16.6%, Action 11.4%

Why You'll Like It: Developed as a direct tribute to classic Castlevania, it features the same brutal difficulty and pixel-perfect platforming found in A Hole New World.

The world has been taken over by synthetic lifeforms. A desperate plea for help sets Shadow, the sole survivor of his clan, on one last mission to uncover what started the path to perpetual ruin.

Why similar: Retro 26.9%, Pixel Graphics 19.4%, Difficult 19.1%, Platformer 17.4%, Action 8.3%

Why You'll Like It: This game delivers high-octane, NES-hard action that feels like a lost classic from the late 80s.

Infernax is the adventures of a great knight who returns to his homeland only to find it plagued with unholy magic. Uncover the mysteries of the curse and face the consequences of your actions.

Why similar: Retro 34.6%, Pixel Graphics 29.8%, Action 16.9%, Indie 11.4%, Adventure 4.3%

Why You'll Like It: A brutal, retro-inspired adventure that blends challenging combat with the dark, gothic atmosphere of classic side-scrollers.

A 8-bit retro action platformer that goes beyond just pixels and chiptunes

Why similar: Retro 25.1%, Action 22.7%, Pixel Graphics 19.5%, Platformer 18%, Indie 14.8%

Why You'll Like It: It is a clear homage to the Mega Man series, featuring distinct pixel-art bosses and challenging platforming segments.

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: Retro 32.4%, Pixel Graphics 24.3%, Platformer 17%, Action 14.9%, Indie 10.5%

Why You'll Like It: It provides a deep, exploration-heavy experience with a dark aesthetic that mirrors the intensity of 8-bit action games.

Classic platformer in the style of Pixel-art. The main character goes to the world of 8-bit games to save his girlfriend. Help him to find new abilities and find out who is behind the abduction of the girl.

Why similar: Action 48.6%, Indie 38.6%, Adventure 12.9%

Why You'll Like It: This game leans heavily into the retro aesthetic, providing a straightforward and challenging platforming experience.

In this pixel-perfect homage to the classic action platformers, you play as Sydney Hunter - an explorer who gets trapped inside a Mayan pyramid while he's out exploring!

Why similar: Action 20.1%, Retro 17.4%, Platformer 13.9%, Indie 13.6%, Pixel Graphics 12.7%

Why You'll Like It: A classic-style platformer that emphasizes exploration and retro-inspired level design.

Help Brave Lord survive the Killer Chambers and defeat the bosses summoned by Lord Grave! Quick reflexes and good memory are the keys to success in this unforgiving action-platformer. Can you clear all 5 floors and get the King's Crown?

Why similar: Difficult 28.8%, Action 18.8%, Pixel Graphics 18.6%, Indie 13.7%, Platformer 10%

Why You'll Like It: This game focuses on the difficult, precision-based combat and platforming that fans of A Hole New World will appreciate.

Return to the Golden Age of arcades with a hardcore action platformer that pulls no punches! Possesses all the hallmarks of true classics like Super Ghouls 'N Ghosts (SNES), Rastan Saga (Arcade), Castlevania (NES) and more with precise controls, high challenge, and meticulous design.

Why similar: Difficult 33.5%, Platformer 21.7%, Retro 18.1%, Action 10.3%, Indie 6.9%

Why You'll Like It: Known for its extreme difficulty, this game demands precision and patience, much like the most challenging retro titles.

League of Evil is an action game where you, as a bionic super agent take on the mission to defeat the League of Evil. Use your acrobatic skills to punch your way through levels filled with deadly traps and defeat your enemies. The world is counting on you!

Why similar: Action 32%, Indie 24%, Platformer 23.4%, Pixel Graphics 20.6%

Why You'll Like It: A fast-paced, difficult platformer that tests your reflexes with its tight, single-screen level design.

Battle Princess Madelyn is a game that follows the journey of a young knight in training, Madelyn, and her ghostly pet dog, Fritzy. Join them as they set out on a journey to save her kingdom and her family from the clutches of an evil wizard!

Why similar: Retro 18.8%, Difficult 17.3%, Pixel Graphics 16.7%, Platformer 14.7%, Action 14.5%

Why You'll Like It: A retro platformer that captures the spirit of arcade classics with its challenging combat and nostalgic visual style.

You're outnumbered, low on ammunition and the paranoia sets in. This is an action horror-world where enemies get power-ups and you don’t.

Why similar: Platformer 24.5%, Action 18.9%, Difficult 16.5%, Pixel Graphics 14.8%, Indie 14.2%

Why You'll Like It: This game offers a unique, difficult take on the action-platformer genre with a distinct, minimalist pixel-art style.

Join Pixel as he quests through gaming history, teleporting across the most iconic video game systems of generations past. He’ll have to jump, dodge and play smart if he wants to survive all the traps, puzzles and enemies waiting to take him down at every turn.

Why similar: Retro 33.3%, Platformer 27.4%, Pixel Graphics 23.6%, Indie 12.1%, Adventure 2.5%

Why You'll Like It: A journey through the history of gaming that features various retro-inspired platforming challenges.

Stuck in the Underworld without the slightest clue why, a young fiend has a bit of a mystery to solve in this action/adventure platformer. With a world to explore, a past to uncover, and quite the task to complete, players must embark on a quest filled with monsters, towns, dungeons, bosses, and various platforming challenges.

Why similar: Retro 23.7%, Action 21.6%, Pixel Graphics 16.7%, Indie 16.4%, Platformer 15.5%

Why You'll Like It: A retro-inspired platformer that maintains the simple, challenging design philosophy of the 8-bit era.

Critically-acclaimed action-RPG that takes the template laid down by classics like Wonder Boy, nails the 16-Bit aesthetics for nostalgia fans, but updates the mechanics to feel fresh and modern. Explore a beautiful open world and plunder dungeons, caves and forests to help take down epic bosses!

Why similar: Retro 21.4%, Pixel Graphics 20.5%, Indie 18.7%, Action 16.9%, Platformer 15.3%

Why You'll Like It: Inspired by the Wonder Boy series, this game offers a classic retro feel with a focus on exploration and combat.

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: Action 37.6%, Indie 27.3%, Platformer 24.7%, Adventure 10.4%

Why You'll Like It: A charming, retro-styled platformer that emphasizes exploration and classic 2D mechanics.

Hunt down monsters to cook and eat them! You’ve been revived in a massive underground complex and you must leave this bizarre facility. Aided by the undead Necro-Chef Simmer, you must stay safe, get fed, find a way to get out

Why similar: Difficult 25.2%, Pixel Graphics 21.5%, Platformer 16.6%, Action 12.1%, Funny 9.6%

Why You'll Like It: While more modern in its systems, it shares the funny, pixel-art charm and action-adventure focus of the seed game.

In Savage Halloween the world is taken over by monsters from the afterlife who were trapped in the Earth after a Halloween party, and now they have decided to make their new home here.

Why similar: Retro 26.5%, Action 21.3%, Platformer 18.4%, Pixel Graphics 18%, Indie 14.5%

Why You'll Like It: This game features a quirky, retro-inspired aesthetic and fast-paced platforming action.

A Meat-Like/Hedge-Like Mashup! Dr. Proventriculus is snatching up the Chickabirbs! Help Panic blast through over 50 stages of topsy-turvy, spike-laced, slime-drenched, buzzsaw-filled deathtraps to rescue them! And remember, there are no rings...

Why similar: Difficult 28.4%, Retro 20%, Pixel Graphics 15.4%, Platformer 15.2%, Action 9.9%

Why You'll Like It: A precision-platformer that demands high skill and fast reflexes, fitting for fans of difficult retro games.

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: Retro 31.1%, Pixel Graphics 24.6%, 1980s 17.5%, Action 10.3%, Difficult 9.7%

Why You'll Like It: This game offers a minimalist, retro-inspired adventure that prioritizes exploration and environmental puzzles.

Make your way on foot, on a hoverbike, up skyscrapers, and down bottomless pits, as you exterminate a threat of unknown origin!

Why similar: Retro 29.6%, Platformer 24.8%, Action 18.3%, Pixel Graphics 13.4%, Indie 12.5%

Why You'll Like It: A short but intense retro platformer that captures the spirit of 8-bit arcade action.

Donuts 'N' Justice is a fast-paced 2d horizontal shoot-'em-up wherein you take the role of one of two Super Cops in the 1980s to defend their city against gangs, violence and corruption.

Why similar: Retro 20.4%, Pixel Graphics 19.8%, 1980s 18.9%, Difficult 13.9%, Action 12.1%

Why You'll Like It: A 1980s-themed action game that captures the arcade-style intensity and pixelated aesthetic of the era.

One Gun Guy is a straight forward no nonsense action platformer, one giant level littered with player upgrades, hazards to tackle, enemies to destroy, a boss to kill, and multiple difficulty settings.

Why similar: Retro 21.3%, Difficult 18.9%, Pixel Graphics 17.3%, Platformer 15.4%, Action 10.2%

Why You'll Like It: A minimalist, retro-inspired action game that focuses on tight, challenging platforming loops.

A new side-scrolling platformer where you go flying out of control at the slightest touch! In this virus-infected world, it is your job to collect the scattered pieces of vaccine code and exterminate the virus!

Why similar: Platformer 25.1%, Action 24.4%, Pixel Graphics 18.5%, Difficult 11.6%, Funny 7%

Why You'll Like It: A fast-paced, difficult platformer that focuses on movement and precision in a retro-inspired world.

A punishing yet friendly get-to-the-top adventure across a haunted, retro-inspired world.

Why similar: Difficult 36.8%, Pixel Graphics 22.7%, Action 15.1%, Retro 14.8%, Platformer 9%

Plant seeds to grow guns in a challenging retro platformer.

Why similar: Action 57.9%, Indie 42.1%

Why You'll Like It: A retro-styled action game that focuses on classic platforming mechanics and challenging enemy encounters.

When a mysterious beam from space transforms the world into a game, the Angry Video Game Nerd must return to put the "ASS" in ASSimilation. Utilize new mechanics, power-ups, abilities, and collectible armor pieces to defeat your most powerful foe yet, and save the world!

Why similar: Action 21.4%, Difficult 19.6%, Platformer 16%, Indie 14.5%, Pixel Graphics 12%

Made by one person, an open world adventure game filled with silly characters and terrible secrets. Explore the woods, find hidden paths, hack and slash through strange monsters, and try very, very hard not to break reality. Or don't. You do you.

Why similar: Pixel Graphics 48.7%, Action 27.1%, Indie 16.9%, Adventure 7.4%

Kautic is an action platform game where villagers from a little Town have been petrified and now Kautic, the Bald Wizard, has the hard mission of saving them, but he will need to venture into a world controlled by evil creatures.

Why similar: Action 25.3%, Indie 18.8%, Difficult 18.6%, Pixel Graphics 15.4%, Platformer 15.2%

Rush to Adventure is a retro fantasy speedrunning adventure. Inspired by classic NES titles like Zelda, Mario and Castlevania. You awaken on the shore of a cursed island. Your only way off the island is to fight the monsters and lift the curse.

Why similar: Difficult 17.7%, Action 17.7%, Retro 17.2%, Pixel Graphics 16.3%, Indie 12.9%

Explore a kingdom overrun by evil magic as you fight foes with your own magical bow in this retro inspired action-adventure platformer.

Why similar: Retro 25.5%, Pixel Graphics 25.1%, Platformer 18.9%, Action 15.1%, Indie 8.9%

Arcade Mayhem Juanito is a retro experience about arcade-hopping. Teleport into different video games, play with unique mechanics inspired by well-known arcade games, face stunningly animated bosses and join the fight against the clonocell invasion.

Why similar: Difficult 25.8%, Retro 25.6%, Action 23.2%, Indie 16.6%, Adventure 6.4%

Run, gun and explore an open undercity in this otherworldly non-linear Metroidvania adventure about the Old Gods, strange creatures and the remnants of a lost world!

Why similar: Difficult 27.3%, Pixel Graphics 19%, Platformer 17.5%, Action 12.5%, Indie 10.6%

You a hero, so have to explore a world full of dangers. overcome various difficulties, traps and demons.

Why similar: Action 40.9%, Pixel Graphics 27.5%, Indie 20.4%, Adventure 8.8%, Singleplayer 2.5%

Abort, Retry, Fail is a top-down roguelike action adventure in which you play as a lazy programmer that has to generate his own weapon and shoot his way through hordes of enemies. Are you brave enough to help him escape from computer hell of Windows 98?

Why similar: Action 42%, Pixel Graphics 37.4%, Indie 12.3%, Adventure 4.7%, Singleplayer 3.6%

Ghoulboy is a retro-inspired action platformer. Explore a magical realm of dungeons, towns, treasures and devious monsters.

Why similar: Retro 27.1%, Pixel Graphics 21.4%, Platformer 21.1%, Action 14.4%, Indie 9.7%

Attempt to jump to the top of the world in this short, yet difficult platforming adventure. Meet strange friends along the way and make sure not to fall!

Why similar: Platformer 64.2%, Difficult 13.4%, Pixel Graphics 9.4%, Indie 6.5%, Action 4.1%

Bust some bugs and save the world with the most average of heroes in this retro style platformer! Overcome obstacles such as killer cars, lava floors and one seriously @!&#^% off sun, tackle the horrors of the daily commute but with more fire and randomness.

Why similar: Difficult 28.4%, Retro 21.8%, Platformer 16.7%, Pixel Graphics 14.1%, Action 8.1%

Usurper is a Metroidvania Action-RPG. With Eldritch horrors having been unleashed by the outer-worldly Citadel, your job is to rid London of its terrors. Use the new "Guard" system that rewards skillful play and accuracy, to uncover the massive structure and defeat the nightmares lurking within.

Why similar: Action 39.8%, Indie 26.9%, Pixel Graphics 17.3%, Platformer 16%

A powerful ancient evil has arisen, and the war to save humanity has begun! As an elite agent in the monster-hunting Prodigium organization, you must use a variety of weapons, upgrades, and mysterious artifacts to defend mankind against the supernatural hordes of Princess Ahmanet.

Why similar: Pixel Graphics 29.6%, Action 25.2%, Retro 23.3%, Platformer 14.1%, Adventure 5.8%

Ants Took My Eyeball is a 2D action platformer roguelite. Descend into an ever-changing ant hill, fight your way through hordes of insects with a variety of weapons, face formidable bosses and ultimately find your stolen eyeball.

Why similar: Difficult 41.7%, Pixel Graphics 27.4%, Platformer 21%, Funny 9.9%

C&F Inc. teleporters are going offline all over the place, and it's up to an intrepid frog employee to fix the situation.

Why similar: Difficult 29.4%, Retro 18.4%, Platformer 17.7%, Pixel Graphics 16%, Action 8.9%

They're coming. There's no hope. Still, you're a HYNPYTOL.

Why similar: Retro 47.4%, Pixel Graphics 35.7%, Indie 7.2%, Adventure 7%, Singleplayer 2.8%

Pixelart Roguelike Action Game! Trapped on a strange island, Kevin and Cheese struggle to return home. Encounter other lost people and terrifying monsters lurking on the island. Help our unfortunate duo find THE WAY HOME!

Why similar: Pixel Graphics 40.8%, Retro 25.5%, Action 21%, Adventure 5.6%, Singleplayer 4.9%

A puzzle-platformer set in a dystopian world where the invention of a cloning device has messed things up, big time. Armed with a clone gun and a mighty fine mustache, the chore of saving THE WHOLE OF CIVILIZATION rests on your shoulders. Don’t blow it.

Why similar: Pixel Graphics 33.6%, Platformer 27.9%, Action 20.5%, Indie 8.6%, Adventure 5.5%

Explore cryptic puzzle dungeons in this short, retro, action-adventure!

Why similar: Action 29.1%, Pixel Graphics 22.4%, 1980s 20.4%, Retro 13.5%, Adventure 7.4%

Uncover the dark secrets of a gritty, tangled metropolis and battle diabolic villains with your trusty Gunbrella, a bulletproof brolly that doubles as a firearm.

Why similar: Difficult 35.9%, Platformer 22.9%, Pixel Graphics 18.1%, Action 9.8%, Funny 8.5%

You, who was born in a world full of darkness, should wander this hollowed land to find the Relics for a person who created you. However, fallen and lost souls with trap-filled trials await in your course of doing so. Can you survive in this crumbling world and start a new era?

Why similar: Difficult 31.7%, Action 26%, Indie 18.1%, Platformer 15.2%, Adventure 7%

Begin your otherworldly life from scratch—with nothing but a single magic staff in hand. Shape the world with your own hands, build the home you love, or unleash the powers of alchemy and magic to battle relentless monsters from beyond.Set forth, Warlock!

Why similar: Action 48.6%, Indie 36.8%, Adventure 14.6%

Earn the respect of a guild full of monsters and demons as a lone human by taking part in dangerous dungeon adventures and uncover secrets behind the mysterious demon kingdom of Tarborea.

Why similar: Pixel Graphics 67.8%, Adventure 16%, Action 8.3%, Indie 6.1%, Singleplayer 1.8%

Help Oliver in this retro-pixel and challenging platformer. Explore a cursed cave, full of traps, secrets and diamonds. Complete all levels, get the biggest diamond for your girlfriend and break the curse that is dooming you.

Why similar: Difficult 25.3%, Platformer 19.1%, Pixel Graphics 15.4%, Retro 13%, Action 10.8%

A trip to hell. Hordes of demons. Big guns. Insane combat encounters. Pixel art mustaches. It's going to be a long day for Officer John Mustache.

Why similar: Difficult 24.6%, Action 20.5%, Retro 19.1%, Pixel Graphics 15.9%, Indie 10.7%

Plasma Puncher is an action-brawler taking place at a cellular level! As the last standing white blood cell, you must destroy the virulent army of microbes that invaded the bloodstream, using your bare fists and an assortment of power-ups and special attacks! It's all about punching amoebas into oblivion, baby!

Why similar: Difficult 35.3%, Action 30.3%, Indie 20.8%, Adventure 7.2%, Singleplayer 6.3%

A rogue-lite game where you must face hundreds of monsters with increasingly difficult bosses that strong enough to take you down. Choose your abilities, build your favorite combat style, become stronger and survive as long as you can!

Why similar: Pixel Graphics 55.8%, Action 31.7%, Singleplayer 7.2%, Adventure 5.3%

A spy-chicken tries to save the world from doom in this runner/shooter game that has a little bit of everything with a touch of chicken and anime girls on top. Run for your life in 6 different worlds and shoot your way through tons of enemies until you become a legend.

Why similar: Difficult 34.1%, Pixel Graphics 19.7%, Platformer 14.3%, Action 10.4%, Funny 8.9%

Evilmorph – this is a platform game the main feature of which is a transformation into your enemies after killing them. After slaying the foes you obtain their abilities which gives you one kind of power instead of another. Will you be able to overcome all the obstacles of the grim labyrinth? Will you face against the numerous enemies?

Why similar: Action 46.9%, Difficult 24.8%, Platformer 15.8%, Indie 9%, Adventure 3.4%