
Ascender is a 2D explorative puzzle metroidvania. The game is set in the open world of GOA's districts, and the player will face many unique puzzles to solve. Warning!! This game will truly challenge your puzzle and platforming skill :D
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Ascender is a 2D explorative puzzle metroidvania. The game is set in the open world of GOA's districts, and the player will face many unique puzzles to solve. Warning!! This game will truly challenge your puzzle and platforming skill :D

Hunter's Legacy
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.

Smelted Kin
Science fiction 2D shooter with platformer and metroidvania elements. Players will have to explore a huge research complex consisting of nonlinear levels, which is crowded with robots
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 53.4%, Platformer 21.9%, Adventure 10.2%, Indie 7.4%, Action 7.1%
Science fiction 2D shooter with platformer and metroidvania elements. Players will have to explore a huge research complex consisting of nonlinear levels, which is crowded with robots
Why similar: Metroidvania 34%, Robots 13.3%, Puzzle Platformer 12.6%, 2D Platformer 11.7%, Sci-fi 7.8%
Outpost Delta is a single player, 2-D side-scrolling sci-fi shooter for PC. Take on the role of Delta, the outpost’s emergency defense, who along with her AI companion must defend the space station against alien intruders.
Why similar: Metroidvania 29.4%, Puzzle Platformer 15.2%, Robots 10.1%, Platformer 9.1%, 2D Platformer 8%
Amalu: Wells Between Worlds is a pixel-art 2D platformer, and Metroidvania blending Atmospheric exploration, Spell-casting puzzle mechanics, Amazigh/North African mythology and an emotional storytelling
Why similar: Metroidvania 32.4%, Puzzle Platformer 20.2%, 2D Platformer 12.6%, Platformer 10.1%, Exploration 6.5%
Light up the world! As Plug, you are charged with restoring the expansive Amp-Tree-System, and thwarting an enigmatic intruder.
Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 36.5%, Metroidvania 28.2%, Platformer 15.2%, Puzzle 8.4%, Indie 4.4%
After escaping the research ship, Samuel finds himself crash landed on a foreign planet overrun by a hostile organization. Now it's up to Samuel and his trusty SOL equipment to rescue the scientists who also escaped the ship, and find a way off of the planet.
Why similar: Metroidvania 30.1%, Puzzle Platformer 20.8%, 2D Platformer 12.3%, Platformer 10.3%, Puzzle 6.8%
A puzzle-bazed metroidvania. Help the robot to repair the station. But there are gremlins who will try to break everything you've just fixed!
Why similar: Metroidvania 24.8%, Puzzle Platformer 17.3%, 2D Platformer 10.1%, Platformer 7.6%, Cartoon 6.7%
Venture beneath the Ghost Kingdom where you will encounter strange creatures, solve puzzles and uncover hidden secrets!
Why similar: Metroidvania 24.5%, Puzzle Platformer 16.3%, Platformer 14.3%, 2D Platformer 13.1%, Puzzle 8.3%
Explore hauntingly beautiful, abandoned environments filled with corrupted machines in a rusted world. Test your platforming skills, and fight to survive. The Rusted is a fully hand-drawn action-adventure where you play as a loyal robot dog.
Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 22.4%, Robots 21.7%, 2D Platformer 14.8%, Platformer 8.2%, Futuristic 6.7%
SHOOT NOT TO KILL? use The Matter Gun to traverse this one of a kind 2d PUZZLE-platformer (metroidvania/brania). Drop into the lab, explore the caves, discover new types of matter, uncover secrets, and try not to cause the end of the world...or something.
Why similar: Metroidvania 35.8%, Puzzle Platformer 23.9%, Platformer 11.1%, Puzzle 7.5%, Exploration 7.2%
Relic Light is a pixel-style puzzle-action dungeon game. You will play as an explorer who arrives at the remaining ruins, explores to acquire various skills, solves the complex and diverse puzzles within, and discovers the ultimate secret of the ruins.
Why similar: Metroidvania 26.7%, Puzzle Platformer 17.8%, Robots 7.2%, Sci-fi 6.8%, 2D Platformer 6.4%
In a future where humanity has vanished, machines maintain vast underground complexes under the command of artificial intelligences. You are a unit activated to deliver a mysterious payload. Face hostile systems, precision challenges, and uncover the forgotten purpose of your existence.
Why similar: Metroidvania 31.8%, Robots 16.5%, Platformer 13.4%, 2D Platformer 12.5%, Adventure 8.3%
Embark on a journey as Fiadh, a young woman with a deep connection to animals, racing against a cataclysmic storm in this mesmerizing 2D puzzle platformer. Traverse decaying landscapes, form unbreakable connections, and harness newfound abilities to preserve the last vestiges of a fading world.
Why similar: Metroidvania 33.7%, Puzzle Platformer 22.6%, 2D Platformer 13.5%, Platformer 11.4%, Puzzle 7.4%
Potata: Foxy Tale is a fairy tale themed platformer adventure game in a beautiful world of dark forests. Your goal is to restore the balance and assemble the fragments of the Woodland Spirit.
Why similar: Metroidvania 31.4%, Puzzle Platformer 20.8%, Platformer 12.9%, Hand-drawn 7.7%, Adventure 5.2%
Dive into the conscious and use your brushes to solve puzzles, reclaim forgotten memories.
Why similar: Metroidvania 30.5%, Puzzle Platformer 24.5%, 2D Platformer 8.6%, Hand-drawn 8.5%, Platformer 8.3%
A nameless skeleton awakens in a graveyard. To recover lost memories and uncover the truth, it embarks on a journey of self-discovery.
Why similar: Metroidvania 35.6%, Puzzle Platformer 22%, 2D Platformer 13.8%, Exploration 7.2%, Puzzle 6.9%
A Bomb Caterpillar's Big Adventure! "Öoo" is a charming yet mysterious exploration puzzle platformer where you discover creative ways to use bombs!
Why similar: Metroidvania 29.4%, Puzzle Platformer 24%, 2D Platformer 12.3%, Platformer 9.9%, Puzzle 7.1%
"Switch Box" is a 2D pixel-art puzzle platformer. In an unfamiliar world, you must interact with the environment and utilize tools to solve challenges, overcome obstacles, and ultimately discover the path back home.
Why similar: Metroidvania 27%, Puzzle Platformer 25.5%, Platformer 12.4%, 2D Platformer 11.5%, Puzzle 7.5%
Tool Land is an adventure exploration platformer puzzle game. Collect tools with unique functions, uncover the secrets behind various mechanisms, and explore every corner of this hand-drawn doodle art world!
Why similar: Metroidvania 27.5%, Puzzle Platformer 24.1%, 2D Platformer 12.9%, Platformer 11.2%, Puzzle 7.3%
Treasure Adventure Game casts you in the role of a young boy who lands on an island that is a fragment of what was once a continent, destroyed in the war between a demon and a wizard.
Why similar: Metroidvania 39%, Puzzle Platformer 21.9%, 2D Platformer 14.1%, Platformer 11%, 2D 4.5%
You have stumbled into a world shrouded in darkness, where your body has transformed into that of a strange creature. Using your ability to dispel the darkness, you must explore and learn within this mysterious realm, uncovering the truth of this world while seeking a way to return to your own.
Why similar: Metroidvania 30.8%, Puzzle Platformer 21.2%, 2D Platformer 12.6%, Platformer 10.6%, Puzzle 7%
An attractive puzzle platformer where you use magnetism to escape a factory. Meet a cast of magnet characters and work together to solve logical conundrums.
Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 26.2%, Robots 21.9%, 2D Platformer 11.8%, Platformer 11.2%, Puzzle 8%
Refactor is a physics-based platformer taking elements from classic Metroidvanias. Placed in a world that is a puzzle itself, you can literally turn the world upside down by rearranging the map and building your own pathways through the game.
Why similar: Metroidvania 43.8%, Puzzle Platformer 30.3%, Platformer 11.5%, Adventure 6%, Indie 4.4%
In this classic platformer from 1986, take on the role Sir Randolph as he quests to free the fair maid Amelia from the evil clutches of Spegbott the Terrible. Acting upon an inter-dimensional distress signal from the galactic cruiser SS Rustbucket, don your Omnibolt Mark IV and venture forth!
Why similar: Metroidvania 30%, 2D Platformer 13.8%, Robots 13%, Platformer 9.7%, Sci-fi 8.3%
A frantic adventure platformer - control twin sisters at the same time as they navigate intense, hand-crafted parallel worlds!
Norman finds himself lost in a cave with nothing but his new bowling ball and a weird feeling that somehow he was meant to be there.
Why similar: Metroidvania 32.1%, Puzzle Platformer 21.6%, Platformer 12.5%, Adventure 8.8%, Hand-drawn 7.1%
Autonomous Odyssey is a story-driven, hand-drawn 2D metroidvania. Use agile platforming on your apocalyptic sci-fi journey to explore the labs once filled with exceptional researchers. Fight through vengeful robots on Pim’s quest to find his missing father and restore everyone's humanity.
Why similar: Metroidvania 31.9%, Robots 19.6%, Platformer 12%, 2D Platformer 10.8%, Hand-drawn 8.6%
Solve intricate puzzles and evade obstacles with precise, skillful platforming. Collect musical instruments that change your environment with ancient magic, and gain skills and items that enhance your ability to move through that environment. Succeed, and you may just save your family.
Why similar: Metroidvania 25.8%, Puzzle Platformer 21.8%, Platformer 11.1%, Cartoon 9.2%, Puzzle 7.1%
You’ve lost your head… and you must get it back. In Guillotine, decapitate enemies, steal their powers, and face creatures from Basque folklore such as Patxi Errementaria, Olentzero, or the Sorgina. Terror and absurd humor in a platformer with the soul of a metroidvania.
Why similar: Metroidvania 33.4%, 2D Platformer 16.6%, Puzzle Platformer 16.5%, Platformer 9.5%, Puzzle 8.6%
FeatherCall is a fast pace, puzzle platformer where you help Luna, a mother blue bird, rescue her lost children. Brave numerous challenges and puzzles by Dashing to new heights, Throwing a guiding feather, and Gliding back to safety!
Why similar: Metroidvania 25%, Puzzle Platformer 16.1%, Platformer 14.9%, 2D Platformer 13.8%, Puzzle 8.7%
Step into the shoes of a lone wanderer in a ruined world, guarding the last ember of hope. Solve creative light-based puzzles, battle predators lurking in the shadows, and uncover the forgotten secrets of a broken land in this emotional platformer adventure.
Why similar: Metroidvania 33.7%, Puzzle Platformer 23.1%, 2D Platformer 12.5%, Platformer 10.8%, Adventure 7.3%
A precision platformer where you control a frog using dash chips to overcome traps, avoid electrified enemies, and conquer challenges in chaotic digital environments.
Why similar: Metroidvania 26.2%, 2D Platformer 11.9%, Platformer 11.5%, Robots 9.7%, 2D 5.9%
Alwa’s Legacy is a modern retro game full of dangerous dungeons, mystic items and ancient secrets. Upgrade your magic and choose your own path in this non-linear adventure game brimming with exploration.
Why similar: Metroidvania 31.5%, Puzzle Platformer 20.6%, 2D Platformer 12.3%, Platformer 10.6%, Retro 5.2%
Akaku Forest is a game that blends puzzles, platforming, and thrilling boss battles in a Metroidvania-style format. You take control of Aki-Maku, a courageous forest spirit. Use your torch to solve puzzles or face off against your enemies. Save the forest!
Why similar: Metroidvania 34.5%, Puzzle Platformer 19.2%, 2D Platformer 13.3%, Puzzle 9%, Adventure 7.8%
Explore, discover secrets, gain awesome abilities and use them to find all your lost chickens!
Why similar: Metroidvania 28.6%, Puzzle Platformer 21.7%, 2D Platformer 11.6%, Platformer 11.5%, Puzzle 5.9%
In a strange and hostile world, Raka, an exploration robot, finds themselves alone and separated from their friends. Help them reunite with their companions and unravel the mysteries hidden within this new world.
Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 29.3%, Robots 22.8%, 2D Platformer 15%, Platformer 8.9%, Puzzle 5.2%
A 2D puzzle-platformer where you light your way through the darkness. Play as the Light, exploring an abandoned civilization where you find a suit of armor that seems to have magical properties. Suit up using the powers of the suit to channel your light magic to see what this strange place hides.
Why similar: Metroidvania 34.1%, Puzzle Platformer 21.2%, 2D Platformer 13.5%, Platformer 8.9%, Exploration 7.1%
Boss Defiance - Heroic Edition is an arcade action competitive and asymmetric game, with semiprocedural level creation. Play as a Boss or fight it as a hero, through retro-inspired, pixel art battle arenas.
A 2D pixel-art platform-puzzle game where you are pure energy and control different robots, combining the unique abilities of each to solve puzzles and restore the energy generators.
Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 29.3%, 2D Platformer 15.1%, Robots 14.5%, Platformer 12.3%, Puzzle 8.2%
The Hot-Pink is 2d Platformer game that has a uniqe system, You will have to find keys to the locked doors and fight your enemy.
Why similar: Metroidvania 24.9%, Puzzle Platformer 23.2%, Platformer 14.5%, 2D Platformer 14.5%, Adventure 8.1%
Leap Year is a clumsy platformer about knowledge and discovery. Explore a compact, hand drawn world filled with hidden paths. Understand the game’s secrets to reach new areas and collect all the pages of your calendar.
Why similar: Metroidvania 27.2%, Puzzle Platformer 20.5%, 2D Platformer 12%, Platformer 9.8%, Puzzle 6.3%
Story driven Metroidvania-ish challenging platformer with cute hand-drawn graphics and a focus on exploration.
Why similar: Metroidvania 36.3%, 2D Platformer 14.4%, Platformer 12.4%, Sci-fi 7.2%, Exploration 6.9%
Retro Machina is a single-player action and exploration game set in a retro-futuristic universe. Experience the journey of a little robot as it solves intricate puzzles and begins unraveling the mysteries of a world long forgotten.
Why similar: Metroidvania 22.2%, Robots 16%, Puzzle Platformer 15.9%, Platformer 8.5%, Hand-drawn 6.4%
A Metroidvania puzzle adventure. You arrive at a sentient building filled with intriguing interactive props. Learning to use these tools is how it communicates with you.
Why similar: Metroidvania 34%, Puzzle Platformer 29.4%, Platformer 17.3%, Adventure 10.3%, Exploration 6.7%
Guide Timmy the little treasure hunter through traps and puzzles to reach the legendary treasure! Experience the classic mini metroidvania remade with new visuals, music, and content!
Why similar: Metroidvania 27.5%, Puzzle Platformer 18.7%, 2D Platformer 12%, Platformer 11.4%, Cartoon 8.9%
Banished from his kingdom, a young frog prince sets out on an adventure to save his people from the reign of King Croaker. There will be many perils along the way for this frog prince, can he swing his way out of trouble?
Why similar: Metroidvania 31.4%, Puzzle Platformer 23.9%, 2D Platformer 12.6%, Platformer 11.4%, Puzzle 6%
Explore a tiny world, find upgrades, discover hidden paths, and battle bosses in this retro-style metroidvania action platformer.
Why similar: Metroidvania 33.8%, Robots 14%, Platformer 10.1%, 2D Platformer 8.3%, Sci-fi 6.8%
The King's pup levels up! Cavalier is a single player hand drawn Metroidvania. Combat enchanted creatures while you explore the expanding map, and restore the magical kingdom in this charming medieval adventure.
Why similar: Metroidvania 33.5%, Puzzle Platformer 16.7%, 2D Platformer 13.6%, Platformer 11.3%, Hand-drawn 9.3%
Make portals and levitate objects to solve puzzles - help Catoise get back home after a shopping trip in space ends in a crash landing. Collect parts of the damaged ship scattered across this strange planet. Meet friendly and unfriendly animal characters along the way.
Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 25.4%, 2D Platformer 13.9%, Platformer 13.3%, Cartoon 10.8%, Puzzle 7.9%
Block is a minimalist platform puzzle game where you explore various bizarre locations and interact with creative scene mechanisms!
Why similar: Metroidvania 38.5%, Puzzle Platformer 24.4%, 2D Platformer 13.3%, Platformer 11.6%, Puzzle 6.7%
Nerdtastic Norman is a 2d scrolling puzzle platformer set in purgatory based on Dante's Inferno. Over 70 unique levels, dangerously hard boss battles, and 1 unique story. Help Norman gather the missing pieces of his shattered soul, and help him return to the land of the living.
Why similar: Metroidvania 34.7%, Puzzle Platformer 23%, 2D Platformer 15.5%, 2D 7%, Platformer 6.6%
Meet a charming cast of little creatures and save the world from a mischievous god in this character-driven metroidvania! Explore a world full of lost secrets, make new friends, and use strange creatures to your advantage to reach new heights!
Why similar: Metroidvania 37.8%, 2D Platformer 13.9%, Platformer 11.6%, Cartoon 9.5%, Hand-drawn 7.4%
A simple yet challenging puzzle game where a soul has lost its body. Jump from machine to machine, bounce and pass through various lasers in search of its real body. Will it reach its goal or be forever lost in a foreign body?
Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 31.3%, Robots 28.1%, Platformer 16.3%, Puzzle 11.4%, 2D 5.9%
An epic bite-size action adventure microidvania through a surreal world of mutated animals and environments. Combat mice engineers and religious birds, traverse a strange world and its life-altering climates, and combine steam and spark to fix the world, all in a classic, hand-drawn 2D style.
Why similar: Metroidvania 32.2%, Puzzle Platformer 13.6%, 2D Platformer 12.7%, Hand-drawn 9%, Platformer 8.7%
Explore the mysterious island of Kindara in this vibrant 2D action-adventure. Fight and platform your way through jungles, icy peaks, castles, and crystal caverns in a non-linear interconnected world. Adventure awaits!
Why similar: Metroidvania 34.6%, 2D Platformer 13.1%, Platformer 8.5%, Sci-fi 7%, Hand-drawn 6.7%
Explore the magical world of Circus with Marsel in this wonderful 2D platform game inspired by classic platformer games of the 90's. When Marsel's spaceship crashes on Earth, he discovers that the parts needed for repairs can only be found on Circuses of yesterday, today, and tomorrow!
Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 27.5%, 2D Platformer 16.3%, Platformer 13.9%, Puzzle 9%, Exploration 7.2%
Harness the power of the elements in a thrilling 2D Metroidvania adventure! Traverse a plague-stricken kingdom, face deadly foes, and uncover the truth behind a devastating storm. With handcrafted environments and challenging combat, shape your destiny in a world teetering on the edge of ruin.
Why similar: Metroidvania 39.2%, Puzzle Platformer 21.5%, 2D Platformer 13.4%, Platformer 9%, Puzzle 5.2%
An atmospheric narrative-platformer about a service robot stranded on a mysterious planet, Planet of the Eyes features a stunning visual mix of puzzle and platforming challenges, an original musical score, and fully voiced audio logs left by another survivor. Explore the mystery of an unknown world.
Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 19.2%, Robots 18.6%, Platformer 15%, Puzzle 9.9%, Sci-fi 9.5%
Play as android MIO in this mesmerizing metroidvania where you explore the Vessel, an enormous technological ark overgrown with machines gone rogue. Uncover its secrets, enhance MIO's abilities, and save the spaceship and its residents from oblivion.
Why similar: Metroidvania 32.8%, Robots 16.3%, Platformer 11.2%, 2D Platformer 7.5%, Hand-drawn 5.9%
A small crisis control team has been summoned to help a civilization in the sky escape impending doom! Explore dungeons, solve puzzles, and find lots of treasure to help prepare yourself for incredible challenges!
Why similar: Metroidvania 25.7%, Puzzle Platformer 22.8%, 2D Platformer 13.6%, Platformer 11.3%, Puzzle 7.5%