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Games Like A Sister's Journey

60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Action, Adventure, Metroidvania, Precision Platformer.

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Explore a charmingly beautiful, hand-crafted pixel art world and help Violet on her journey searching for her sister. Uncover its mysteries, face its threatening foes, and run 'n gun your way through this challenging action-metroidvania - which will put your true platforming skills to the test.

Reviews: No user reviews — 50%
Released: 2026
Developer: Florian Lackner
Genres: Action, Adventure, Indie
Platforms: Windows

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    97% matchNo user reviews2025
    Dev: RBCMrRhoads
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    A challenging action-platformer where players navigate diverse biomes filled with unique enemies, tough platforming challenges, and intense boss fights. With tight controls and punishing difficulty, the game rewards precision, mastery, and exploration.

    Why similar: Metroidvania 27.1%, Precision Platformer 21.9%, Difficult 10.8%, Side Scroller 7.6%, Exploration 5.9%

  2. #2 Trash Heart
    96% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: Francis Vace
    Windows

    Explore Trash Heart, a planet in the iron grip of the Trash Lord. Find artefacts that grant powerful abilities, fight hordes of deadly foes, and save a planet of outcast robots. Or just scrounge up all the trash your grubby little raccoon hands can hold.

    Why similar: Metroidvania 31.8%, Precision Platformer 23.3%, Difficult 14.2%, Exploration 4.7%, Atmospheric 4.7%

  3. #3 The Pale Piper
    96% matchPositive97% of 30 reviews2026
    Dev: FreeTimeDev
    Windows · Linux

    Uncover the truth behind your death and your sibling’s in a story-driven precision platformer inspired by the Pied Piper myth. Navigate a decaying, interconnected world where movement is your only defense. No combat, only precision, consequence, and secrets hidden in the dark.

    Why similar: Precision Platformer 23.6%, Metroidvania 22.5%, Difficult 12%, Exploration 6.6%, Story Rich 5.8%

  4. #4 Somnium Shore
    95% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: Rodrigo Pelegrini R.
    Windows

    A challenging, 2D Platform Adventure game where all level mechanics can change if you don't stay balanced. Help Ethan to grow up and leave his roots in order to pursue his dreams, find clues about his past and fight against your nightmares in your journey to the Somnium Shore!

    Why similar: Metroidvania 34%, Precision Platformer 15.1%, Exploration 8.6%, Platformer 8.1%, Difficult 6.2%

  5. #5 MOMIBOSU
    94% matchVery Positive92% of 60 reviews2025
    Dev: PenGames
    Windows

    A boy and a girl with a mysterious weapon drone in their hands embark on an adventurous journey from their small underground village to the vast world of new lands. Enjoy a precision 2D platformer that will challenge you no matter how many times you get hit!

    Why similar: Precision Platformer 26.1%, Metroidvania 19.4%, Difficult 15.6%, Pixel Graphics 7.1%, Side Scroller 5.2%

  6. #6 Lone Fungus
    94% matchVery Positive84% of 1,139 reviews2023
    Dev: BASTI GAMES
    Windows
    Median: 1.8 hrsMean: 8.8 hrs≥1hr: 61%

    A handcrafted open-world platformer set in a world built by Mushrooms! Explore different locations filled with secrets, acquire new abilities and use those abilities to reach new places!

    Why similar: Metroidvania 31.4%, Precision Platformer 19.7%, Pixel Graphics 7.5%, Side Scroller 5.8%, Platformer 5.7%

  7. #7 Bones Beneath
    93% match7 user reviews100% of 7 reviews2025
    Dev: Blue Herb Software
    Windows

    Explore the Egyptian underworld in this precision platformer! Jump, whip, and dash your way through a challenging, interconnected world that weaves linear gauntlets with open-ended exploration.

    Why similar: Metroidvania 26.5%, Precision Platformer 24.7%, Difficult 15.6%, Pixel Graphics 7%, Platformer 5.5%

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    92% matchVery Positive84% of 6,153 reviews2024
    Dev: Ubisoft MontpellierPub: Ubisoft
    Windows
    Median: 8.6 hrsMean: 16.3 hrs≥1hr: 78%

    Dash into a stylish and thrilling action-adventure platformer set in a mythological Persian world where the boundaries of time and space are yours to manipulate.

    Why similar: Metroidvania 39.6%, Precision Platformer 20%, Exploration 8.1%, Side Scroller 7.5%, 2D Platformer 5.2%

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    91% matchPositive94% of 18 reviews2023
    Dev: Barış TaranPub: Yoto Games
    Windows

    Soul's Majesty Rise of Gilda! Story based platform game. Sometimes it will drive you crazy with its difficulty! Overcome obstacles, pass levels and collect the story!

    Why similar: Metroidvania 27%, Precision Platformer 23.4%, Difficult 12.8%, Pixel Graphics 6.7%, 2D Platformer 4.4%

  10. #10 How About Spikes
    91% match7 user reviews57% of 7 reviews2018
    Dev: SoulPixel Studio
    Windows

    How About Spikes is a 2D metroid-vania like platformer. Fight your way through enemies and a lot of spikes while exploring the world of Garden Valley.

    Why similar: Metroidvania 26.7%, Precision Platformer 23.5%, Difficult 13.5%, Side Scroller 7.7%, Pixel Graphics 6.2%

  11. #11 Rage Rabbit
    90% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: Trabbos
    Windows

    Rage Rabbit is a fast paced platform game set on an island haunted by mysterious shadows. Shoot down your enemies, explore an interconnected world, defeat powerful bosses and obtain new power ups.

    Why similar: Metroidvania 33.3%, Shoot 'Em Up 19.9%, Difficult 16.8%, Platformer 8.4%, Pixel Graphics 6.8%

  12. #12 Goblin and Coins II
    89% matchPositive91% of 23 reviews2023
    Dev: Nikola Bulj
    Windows · Linux

    Years have passed, decades maybe. Little goblin moved on, all but forgot about the great coin trouble, not even realizing that a new trouble is awaiting behind the doors!

    Why similar: Metroidvania 24.1%, Precision Platformer 20%, Difficult 11.9%, Side Scroller 7.2%, Platformer 6.3%

  13. #13 Xolotl
    89% matchPositive80% of 10 reviews2022
    Dev: Anchor Games
    Windows · Mac

    Jump, dash, and swim in this epic adventure! Explore the vast Aztec lands in an axolotl action-platformer! Xolotl is a cute, 2D action-platformer, in which your goal is to regain your godly form and powers.

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  14. #14 Aleya's Ascent
    88% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: Ursa Minor Games
    Windows

    Aleya's Ascent is a metroidvania inspired by Celeste and Hollow Knight. Explore a cosmic mountain range and find strange temples, hidden labyrinths, and ancient artifacts while overcoming platforming challenges, punishing fights and chase sequences to return star fragments to the night sky.

    Why similar: Metroidvania 27%, Precision Platformer 21.3%, Difficult 12.3%, Side Scroller 7.5%, Platformer 5%

  15. #15 Timothy and the Tower of Mu
    87% matchMixed65% of 34 reviews2022
    Dev: Kibou EntertainmentPub: PLAYISM
    Windows

    Ascend the tower to save your grandfather in this classic, hardcore action-platformer. The Tower of Mu is waiting for you... Push past each check point to the next awaiting challenge; dashing, jumping, and slinging your way up to the towers peak. Die. learn. Overcome.

    Why similar: Precision Platformer 21.2%, Metroidvania 16.4%, Difficult 15.9%, Platformer 6.8%, Pixel Graphics 6.7%

  16. #16 Ceplion
    86% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: Mert Ali Barlas
    Windows

    Embark on an epic journey in Ceplion, a metroidvania-inspired action-platformer. Explore the Ceplion Island, uncovering mysteries and ancient secrets. Engage in precise combat against believers and monstrous creatures. Harness the power of inheritors to bring an end to the relentless war.

    Why similar: Metroidvania 26.2%, Precision Platformer 19.8%, Difficult 13.7%, Exploration 5.8%, Platformer 5.7%

  17. #17 Ayna: Shattered Truth
    86% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: designmatic
    Windows

    Become water. Be shapeless, be formless, be fluid. All living things are from water and you can transform water into what it needs to be. Dive into this newly crafted fairytale and take on the journey of finding your place in this 2.8D Metroidvania fantasy world.

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    85% matchMixed64% of 11 reviews2023
    Dev: Afil Games
    Windows

    Ziggy is a challenging platformer about a small lightning bolt trying to get back home. Your main objective is to go through all the traps and reach the end. Can you do it?

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    84% matchPositive85% of 13 reviews2025
    Dev: Ogre Pixel
    Windows · Mac · Linux

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    84% match9 user reviews100% of 9 reviews2023
    Dev: High Clarity Games
    Windows

    House of Shadow is an action-adventure metroidvania wherein you wield the powers of darkness! Explore, traverse obstacles, battle monsters born of light, slay fearsome bosses, and claim the Shadow Throne!

    Why similar: Metroidvania 35.1%, Precision Platformer 19.8%, Exploration 8.2%, Pixel Graphics 7.9%, Action-Adventure 5.4%

  21. #21 Into The Underdusk
    83% matchMixed68% of 28 reviews2022
    Dev: Stone Crow Games
    Windows

    Get lost in the Underdusk: a broken world full of danger and mystery. Experience brutal precision platforming, search for collectibles to expand your powerset and regain your lost memories in an atmospheric 2D pixel art adventure.

    Why similar: Metroidvania 35.7%, Precision Platformer 25.7%, Difficult 16%, Platformer 6.2%, Pixel Graphics 3.8%

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    82% matchVery Positive95% of 77 reviews2024
    Dev: Ahmed KhalifaPub: Cheesy Holes
    Windows

    Hollow Floor is an exploration-based single-sitting Metroidvania inspired by VVVVVV and REDDER. Hollow Floor is a relaxed game that is full of secrets and hard challenges that can be tackled at any moment in the game or completely ignored.

    Why similar: Metroidvania 34%, Precision Platformer 26.2%, Pixel Graphics 7.1%, Exploration 5.2%, 2D Platformer 4.7%

  23. #23 Redneck Rift
    82% match4 user reviews75% of 4 reviews2022
    Dev: Floor Chicken
    Windows

    Every problem can be solved with a shotgun and every solution can be celebrated with an ice cold beer. Help Cletus quench his thirst after a long hard days work as he platforms his way through the bayou, time and back again in this retro styled, difficult action precision platformer game.

    Why similar: Metroidvania 22.7%, Precision Platformer 22.1%, Difficult 14.2%, Shoot 'Em Up 11.3%, Pixel Graphics 6.7%

  24. #24 Star Hearts: Launch Point
    81% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: Arcap LLC
    Windows · Mac

    Star Hearts: Launch Point is a tight 2D action adventure featuring an 8-bit retro aesthetic in classic NES-fashion. Journey to the galaxy’s edge and discover the origins of Prin - an interstellar revolutionary in the making - as she embarks upon her first space-faring adventure!

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  25. #25 Blade's Legacy
    80% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: 2Design Games
    Windows

    Use your skills to double jump, crouch, climb wall, jump across platforms, defeat your enemies and save the world! You are the last hope to this land, go through challenging levels and defeat Rorudark!

    Why similar: Precision Platformer 27.5%, Difficult 15.2%, Pixel Graphics 7.9%, Side Scroller 6.7%, Exploration 6%

  26. #26 Xeodrifter
    81% matchMostly Positive76% of 855 reviews2014
    Dev: Atooi
    Windows
    Median: 30 minMean: 2.3 hrs≥1hr: 40%

    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.

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  27. #27 Raji: Prologue
    79% matchVery Positive89% of 621 reviews2020
    Dev: Nodding Heads Games
    Windows
    Median: 36 minMean: 4.3 hrs≥1hr: 21%

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    Why similar: Metroidvania 32.6%, Difficult 14.1%, Platformer 8.3%, Story Rich 7.9%, Atmospheric 7.8%

  28. #28 LUCID
    78% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: The Matte Black StudioPub: Apogee Entertainment
    Windows

    Discover your own legend in LUCID. Platform through a crystalline world torn apart by calamity, absorb powerful abilities that expand movement and enhance combat against a diverse cast of enemies and bosses, all in gorgeous pixel art inspired by the golden age of 2D sidescrollers.

    Why similar: Metroidvania 25.4%, Precision Platformer 20.6%, Side Scroller 7.3%, Exploration 6.2%, Platformer 5.4%

  29. #29 Necrosphere
    79% matchVery Positive90% of 143 reviews2017
    Dev: Cat Nigiri
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 2.2 hrsMean: 2.6 hrs≥1hr: 82%

    A full-blown adventure played with only two buttons. Become the recently deceased agent Terry Cooper and escape the underworld while facing the toughest, meanest and most difficult obstacles ever devised.

    Why similar: Precision Platformer 44%, Metroidvania 24.3%, Difficult 12.3%, Action 6.6%, Pixel Graphics 5.4%

  30. #30 Super Mombo Quest
    78% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 854 reviews2021
    Dev: Orube Game Studio
    Windows
    Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 4.9 hrs≥1hr: 69%

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  31. #31 PizzaBoy
    77% matchNo user reviews2026
    Dev: Breadless
    Windows

    Take control of PizzaBoy as he delivers pizza to monsters in this precision platformer. Use all of PizzaBoy's smooth and snappy moves to navigate through dangerous levels or break away from the path to discover who PizzaBoy really is...

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  32. #32 Chegra: The Lost Recipe
    77% matchNo user reviews
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    Windows · Mac · Linux

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  33. #33 Colors Assemble
    76% matchNo user reviews2029
    Dev: Dibakar Jana
    Windows

    Help Brad reunite with his family and complete all hand-crafted 2D platform challenges in a colorful twisted world.

    Why similar: Precision Platformer 32.9%, Metroidvania 32.5%, Difficult 18.8%, Platformer 4.7%, Pixel Graphics 4.2%

  34. #34 Vulpis
    76% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: max.marauder
    Windows · Mac

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  35. #35 Axolotl is Dry
    75% matchVery Positive90% of 51 reviews2022
    Dev: Manodeix
    Windows

    Axolotl is Dry is a precision platforming game where you play as a little axolotl taken from his home. You'll need to jump, dash and slide your way through the harsh desert before you sweat yourself dry. Help the axolotl get to his home!

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  36. #36 Unbound: Worlds Apart
    75% matchVery Positive84% of 1,299 reviews2021
    Dev: Alien Pixel Studios
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 5.3 hrsMean: 6.4 hrs≥1hr: 69%

    Summon portals to overcome vicious beasts, devious puzzles and fiendish platforming challenges. Master the unique powers of each portal to stop the collapse of reality, while exploring lush, hand-drawn worlds and unraveling a deep narrative full of mysteries.

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  37. #37 Genopanic
    73% matchMostly Positive77% of 364 reviews2024
    Dev: Mobirate
    Windows
    Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 3.7 hrs≥1hr: 88%

    Genopanic is a pixel-art, Metroidvania-inspired adventure-platformer. Explore corridors of the space station, teeming with secrets and dangers, and engage in boss fights. Solve puzzles and uncover hidden mysteries in the dark atmosphere of a sci-fi research complex. Discover the truth with each step

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  38. #38 Badass Brigade
    73% matchNo user reviews2026
    Dev: Marauder Squad
    Windows

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  39. #39 Linked Mask
    74% matchMixed63% of 40 reviews2022
    Dev: Spoonman Games
    Windows

    Kill the deities that have been abandoned in the towers created by people, a KAIZO LIKE EXTREME CHALLENGING PLATFORMER video game that aims to make you become a god in Linked Mask.

    Why similar: Precision Platformer 28.7%, Difficult 17.7%, Pixel Graphics 8.2%, Side Scroller 7.7%, Platformer 6.1%

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    74% matchVery Positive89% of 652 reviews2014
    Dev: Minor Key Games
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 4.5 hrs≥1hr: 90%

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    Why similar: Metroidvania 27.8%, Precision Platformer 21.7%, Difficult 12.9%, Side Scroller 7.9%, Exploration 6.3%

  41. #41 Lost Tribe
    72% matchNo user reviews
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    Windows

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    73% match5 user reviews80% of 5 reviews2022
    Dev: Sumo Studio
    Windows

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    72% matchNo user reviews2028
    Dev: Thunderpunch Studio
    Windows

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    70% matchVery Positive99% of 75 reviews2025
    Dev: SinksAdventure
    Windows

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    71% matchNo user reviews2026
    Dev: Dreaming Rabbit
    Windows

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  46. #46 YesterSol
    71% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: Neat Games
    Windows

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    71% matchNo user reviews2026
    Dev: J's Labratory
    Windows

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    70% matchVery Positive97% of 102 reviews2021
    Dev: finalbossblues
    Windows

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  49. #49 Balloon to the Moon 2
    69% match2 user reviews100% of 2 reviews2025
    Dev: Prospective Games
    Windows

    Explore the Moon in this open world 2D platformer with 30 areas. Find all the sacred treasures to please the Moon Princess! Explore the deep caverns of the moon and soar above the clouds. But there is more than what all might seem!

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  50. #50 Battery Samurai
    70% matchPositive90% of 10 reviews2023
    Dev: Matthewstone
    Windows

    Get batteries to get stronger! Enjoy your adventure now! Recover lost parts and get various skills.

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    69% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: VP Games
    Windows

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    68% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: Boiling Lava Hot LLC
    Windows

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    68% matchMixed60% of 80 reviews2024
    Dev: Space Fox GamesPub: Salient Games
    Windows

    Join RIN, the last child of the Creator, on a journey to restore order in a mystical world. Collect aspects and runes, craft spells, and confront powerful bosses - your transformed siblings. The fate of the world rests in your hands. Can you restore harmony to this enchanted realm?

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  54. #54 Souldiers
    68% matchMixed69% of 2,964 reviews2022
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    Windows
    Median: 2.4 hrsMean: 15.0 hrs≥1hr: 63%

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    69% matchVery Positive93% of 5,714 reviews2014
    Dev: Minor Key Games
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 42 minMean: 3.6 hrs≥1hr: 43%

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    67% matchPositive100% of 43 reviews2024
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    67% matchNo user reviews2026
    Dev: Contrast Games
    Windows

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  58. #58 Nocturnal 2
    67% matchNo user reviews2026
    Dev: Sunnyside Games
    Windows

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  59. #59 MIO: Memories in Orbit
    63% matchVery Positive83% of 2,890 reviews2026
    Dev: Douze DixièmesPub: Focus Entertainment
    Windows
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    66% matchNo user reviews2026
    Dev: WONDERBOY BOBIPub: PQube
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    With the Gods of light about to lose the great battle against the Army of Darkness, the Aggelos must learn to embrace his darker side. Explore two opposing realms full of secrets, puzzles and intense 2D combat in this challenging action-platformer.

    Why similar: Metroidvania 26.3%, Precision Platformer 16.5%, Difficult 13.3%, Platformer 8.7%, Action 7.9%

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