
Explore a sprawling, alien world in the sequel to the award winning Axiom Verge.
60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Platformer, 2D, Metroidvania, Action.

Explore a sprawling, alien world in the sequel to the award winning Axiom Verge.

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.

Iconoclasts
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.
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 60.1%, Platformer 11.2%, Pixel Graphics 6.4%, Sci-fi 5.7%, Action 5.1%
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 41.3%, Platformer 9.8%, Female Protagonist 9.2%, Pixel Graphics 8%, Action 7.3%
On the desolate moon of Lorian, a long-dormant Deadsuit awakens from slumber. Journey beneath the surface on an atmospheric 2D adventure of self-discovery, ancient mysteries, and cosmic terror. Explore winding caverns and acquire new abilities to unearth this alien world’s long-buried secrets.
Why similar: Metroidvania 35.9%, Platformer 11%, Side Scroller 9.7%, 2D Platformer 8.8%, Sci-fi 7.9%
The Penitent One awakens as Blasphemous 2 joins him once again in an endless struggle against The Miracle. Dive into a perilous new world filled with mysteries and secrets to discover, and tear your way through monstrous foes that stand between you and your quest to end the cycle once and for all.
Why similar: Metroidvania 34.3%, 2D Platformer 11.2%, Side Scroller 10.2%, Platformer 9.2%, Nonlinear 6.8%
Foregone is a fast and fluid 2D action-platformer packed with legendary loot and stunning pixel art. Collect an arsenal of powerful weapons and unravel a compelling story of regret and conspiracy as you slice your way through hordes of enemies to save Calagan.
Why similar: Metroidvania 34.6%, Platformer 13.5%, Side Scroller 13.2%, Action 8%, Pixel Graphics 6.1%
Join Jason, Eve, and Fred on an intergalactic journey! The side-scrolling/top-down hybrid action adventure title "Blaster Master Zero" returns with its long-awaited sequel! Experience the yet-untold story of Jason and Eve after defeating Earth's mutant scourge in "Blaster Master Zero".
Why similar: Metroidvania 47.9%, Platformer 19.1%, Action 18.1%, Pixel Graphics 10.9%, 2D 4%
Vernal Edge is a 2D action-packed Metroidvania featuring an intense combat system, tight platforming sequences and a powerful story of rivalry, revenge and growth.
Why similar: Metroidvania 43.4%, Platformer 14.4%, Action-Adventure 9.9%, Female Protagonist 9.6%, Action 7.5%
Push the limits of your combat skills, and master new abilities to progress through an unforgiving nonlinear 2D world. Face off against the relentless darkness that seeks to destroy you. In Moonscars, every death is a lesson learnt—and as you overcome each challenge, new truths will be revealed.
Why similar: Metroidvania 40%, 2D Platformer 9.7%, Action 8.7%, Platformer 8.4%, Side Scroller 7.5%
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 38.4%, 2D Platformer 13.1%, Platformer 11.5%, Action-Adventure 10.2%, Female Protagonist 7.2%
Explore the mysteries of an unknown land! ”Transiruby '' is a metroidvania game where you explore the world as a cyborg protagonist named Siruby. Slash and shoot your way to reveal its hidden secrets!
Why similar: Metroidvania 39.9%, 2D Platformer 11.9%, Pixel Graphics 8.2%, Action-Adventure 8.2%, Platformer 8%
Afterimage is a hand-drawn 2D action adventure that emphasizes fast-paced combat with diversified character builds, non-linear levels, and a gripping story set in the ruins of a fantasy world.
Why similar: Metroidvania 38.8%, 2D Platformer 13%, Side Scroller 12.1%, Platformer 9.9%, Female Protagonist 7.9%
Discover a vast, haunted kingdom in Hollow Knight: Silksong! Explore, fight and survive as you ascend to the peak of a land ruled by silk and song.
Why similar: Metroidvania 57.6%, Platformer 14.5%, Female Protagonist 7.8%, Adventure 5.7%, Action 4.7%
Discover the world of Nahucan in this 2D action platformer. You are Itorah, the only human in this strange place. Explore, fight and survive to uncover your past and save Nahucan from its biggest threat, a mysterious plague!
Why similar: Metroidvania 34.4%, 2D Platformer 13.2%, Platformer 11.8%, Side Scroller 8.5%, Female Protagonist 8%
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 50.6%, Platformer 10.6%, Action 8%, Pixel Graphics 7.8%, Adventure 6.4%
SteamWorld Dig is back! Dig deep, gain riches and unearth the terrors of the underworld in this platform mining adventure influenced by classic Metroidvania style games.
Why similar: Metroidvania 51.5%, Platformer 15.9%, Adventure 9.3%, Action 8.4%, Female Protagonist 6.5%
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 57.6%, Action 11.5%, Platformer 10.7%, Adventure 9.7%, Pixel Graphics 5.9%
Explore the depths below a remote mountain town in this procedurally-generated Adventure Platformer. Taking inspiration from hack 'n slash dungeon crawlers and Metroidvania-style platformers, Chasm will immerse you in a fantasy world full of exciting treasure, deadly enemies, and abundant secrets.
Why similar: Metroidvania 55.5%, Platformer 10.7%, Pixel Graphics 8.3%, Side Scroller 7.3%, Action 6.9%
The fast paced platforming of Freedom Planet returns! Become a full-time cartoon heroine and use abilities and items suited to your play style to explore the world of Avalice and defend its animal citizens!
Why similar: Platformer 18.8%, Side Scroller 18.1%, Action-Adventure 12%, Female Protagonist 11.1%, Sci-fi 9.6%
Fight for your freedom in a sprawling fantasy world caught between the living and the fallen. Hone your skills in a retro epic featuring puzzle platforming, metroidvania exploration and crunchy soulslike combat.
Why similar: Metroidvania 59.4%, Action-Adventure 10.2%, Pixel Graphics 10%, Action 7.8%, Adventure 4.4%
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 52.5%, Platformer 13.9%, Pixel Graphics 8.3%, Adventure 7.6%, Female Protagonist 6.9%
Delve into the depths of a mechanical world in this cute, adventure-exploration game. Explore and fight in a land full of corrupt robots and machinery. All while seeking answers to the mysteries around you.
Why similar: Metroidvania 38.1%, 2D Platformer 11.4%, Platformer 11%, Side Scroller 10.1%, Pixel Graphics 6.6%
In a bizarre universe where the oppressed are on the brink of oblivion, Dandara has awoken to reshape the world.
Why similar: Metroidvania 50.3%, Action 13.9%, Platformer 13%, Female Protagonist 7.4%, Pixel Graphics 6.3%
Jump, shoot, and slash your way through 30XX, the roguelike action platformer you can play with a friend! Explore lush, ever-changing worlds that mix precise platforming with fevered combat. Destroy fearsome Guardians. Master unique Powers. Rediscover the thousand years we've lost.
Why similar: 2D Platformer 19.2%, Side Scroller 18.7%, Platformer 17.3%, Female Protagonist 10.2%, Sci-fi 9%
Travel back in time to change fate itself, in this beautifully crafted story-driven adventure, inspired by classic 90s action-platformers. Join timekeeper Lunais on her quest for revenge against the empire that killed her family, using time-bending powers to explore a vast, connected world.
Why similar: Metroidvania 33.8%, 2D Platformer 11.8%, Side Scroller 11.6%, Platformer 10.5%, Female Protagonist 7.3%
Inspired by 16 and 32-bit classics, Gestalt: Steam & Cinder fuses tight 2D platforming and exhilarating combat with an engrossing, twist-laden narrative in a stunningly handcrafted steampunk world.
Why similar: Metroidvania 37.5%, 2D Platformer 13.6%, Platformer 12.8%, Female Protagonist 8.5%, Action 7.2%
MindSeize is a 2D Metroidvania game set in a Sci-Fi-universe. Transfer your mind to a robot and rescue your beloved one!
Why similar: Metroidvania 28.7%, Action 15.3%, Adventure 13.2%, Side Scroller 7.7%, Platformer 7.6%
Lumina, a young Teslamancer, finds herself stranded after her airship crash lands in Wyrmheim, a remote and treacherous land to the North. Embark on a dangerous adventure, exploring a gigantic, abandoned tower looming over a fjordside valley, on a quest to get Lumina home and back to her family.
Why similar: Metroidvania 31.8%, Platformer 12.3%, 2D Platformer 10.9%, Side Scroller 10.1%, Action-Adventure 8.7%
Explore an abandoned space station in this retro-themed explorative action platformer.
Why similar: Metroidvania 59.5%, Platformer 12.5%, Pixel Graphics 9.3%, Adventure 6.4%, Action 6%
EXPLORE YOUR WAY. Awoken to a world ruined by war, Alma must traverse the vast city of Arcadia before the life force of her friends and herself withers away. Time is ticking, and every moment matters. Who will you save, and who will you leave to turn UNSIGHTED?
Why similar: Metroidvania 45.2%, Female Protagonist 10.2%, Action 9%, Pixel Graphics 8.1%, Adventure 7.9%
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 39.2%, 2D Platformer 13.9%, Platformer 12.3%, Action-Adventure 8.8%, Female Protagonist 7.4%
A hand-drawn 2D metroidvania in a post-apocalyptic world. Forge your destiny in a non-linear story with multiple endings. Explore diverse biomes, conquer 20+ unique bosses, and master a magical Gauntlet with ever-evolving powers.
Why similar: Metroidvania 37.5%, 2D Platformer 14.2%, Platformer 13.9%, Side Scroller 13%, Action 8.1%
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 41.6%, 2D Platformer 14.3%, Platformer 12.2%, Side Scroller 9.4%, Pixel Graphics 7.3%
Koji Igarashi and Inti Creates are back with more retro sword-and-whip action! Curse of the Moon 2 brings classic 2D action and a dark, 8-bit aesthetic together with modern playability.
Why similar: Metroidvania 34.8%, Platformer 14.6%, Side Scroller 9.3%, Action 9%, 2D Platformer 8.9%
Rebel Transmute is a challenging 2D action-platformer epic with heart! Explore the twisting caverns of an alien planet, augment your play-style to fit your strengths, battle deadly bosses, and uncover a dark truth as Moon Mikono searches for her long lost mother.
Why similar: Metroidvania 35.7%, Platformer 9.1%, Sci-fi 8.2%, 2D Platformer 7.9%, Nonlinear 7.4%
Embark on a grand adventure in Phoenotopia! An action-adventure puzzle platformer inspired by the great classics. Meet charming townsfolk, brave the dungeons, and thwart evil in your quest to save your family.
Why similar: Metroidvania 38.9%, Platformer 15.1%, Action 8.7%, Adventure 8.6%, Action-Adventure 8.1%
Explore a beautiful, vast and ruined world riddled with dangers and lost technologies.
Why similar: Metroidvania 30%, Pixel Graphics 20%, Adventure 12.8%, Hack and Slash 11.7%, Action 11.5%
Possessor(s) is a fast-paced action side scroller with combat inspired by platform fighters, a story told through dangerous characters, set in a deep interconnected world ready for exploration.
Why similar: Metroidvania 36%, Platformer 14.1%, Side Scroller 12.4%, Action 12.3%, Adventure 9.5%
BERSERK BOY is a high speed action packed Platformer, with Metroidvania elements. Packed with vibrant and stylish pixel art. Go Berserk! as you change into different forms and use the power of Lightning, Fire, Ice, Air, and Earth to save the planet!
Why similar: Metroidvania 23.2%, 2D Platformer 10.7%, Platformer 10.2%, Side Scroller 9.7%, Action-Adventure 7.6%
Fight to bring beautiful colors back to a hand-crafted world of darkness and discover the story of Europa, a young warrior, and her ghostly childhood companion, Apino.
Why similar: Metroidvania 40.1%, Platformer 13.8%, Side Scroller 13.7%, Action-Adventure 8.1%, Pixel Graphics 6%
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: Metroidvania 48.3%, Platformer 12.7%, Side Scroller 8%, Action 7.8%, Adventure 6.9%
Perceive the future in this time-loop metroidvania.
Why similar: Metroidvania 34.8%, 2D Platformer 11.7%, Platformer 10.9%, Nonlinear 7.7%, Action-Adventure 7.3%
Embark on an epic action-adventure as you slash, dash, and combo your way through a vast, vibrant world. Explore and uncover hidden secrets. Customize your build to triumph in spectacular boss battles. Experience a tale of mystery, magic, and mayhem in TEVI, a bullet hell metroidvania!
Why similar: Metroidvania 41.1%, Side Scroller 11.7%, Action-Adventure 9.4%, Platformer 9.3%, Female Protagonist 7.6%
Head back to the Mexiverse in this long-awaited sequel to the smash hit Guacamelee! Uppercut your way to victory across stunning new hand-crafted levels. Featuring a dense and colorful world, new luchador moves, sassy new bosses, twice the enemies, and 300% more chickens!
Why similar: Metroidvania 39.3%, Platformer 13.8%, Side Scroller 11.3%, 2D Platformer 10.8%, Action-Adventure 7.7%
"Momodora: Moonlit Farewell" is the latest installment in the Momodora series. Join Momo, High Priestess of the village of Koho, as she embarks on a divine mission to save her people from imminent destruction at the hands of the demon hordes summoned by a malevolent bellringer.
Why similar: Metroidvania 35.2%, Side Scroller 11.7%, Platformer 10.7%, Action-Adventure 8.6%, Female Protagonist 7.3%
ScourgeBringer is a fast-paced free-moving roguelite platformer. Help Kyhra to explore the unknown and slash her way through ancient machines guarding the seal of her past, and maybe the redemption of humanity.
Why similar: Metroidvania 27.1%, Action 20.3%, Adventure 16.6%, Platformer 11.9%, Pixel Graphics 11.8%
A retro-inspired 2D Action RPG set in the distant future. CrossCode combines 16-bit SNES-style graphics with butter-smooth physics, a fast-paced combat system, and engaging puzzle mechanics, served with a gripping sci-fi story.
Why similar: Pixel Graphics 23.1%, Female Protagonist 21.3%, Sci-fi 10.8%, Action-Adventure 10.7%, Adventure 8.9%
Janosik 2 is a retro action-platformer with metroidvania elements. Get ready to jump, slash, dodge roll, dive, smash and bash your way through deadly traps, mischievous villains and bosses, and more in this sequel to Janosik.
Why similar: Metroidvania 38.8%, 2D Platformer 15.9%, Platformer 15.5%, Action 9.4%, Adventure 7.6%
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 48.6%, Platformer 15.5%, 2D Platformer 10.2%, Action-Adventure 10%, Sci-fi 6%
Metroidvania style action/platformer with tons of abilities, enemies and exploration.
Why similar: Metroidvania 41.5%, Platformer 15.5%, Action 8.8%, Action-Adventure 8.1%, Adventure 5.7%
ANNO: Mutationem is an action-adventure game with RPG elements set in a cyberpunk world, featuring a unique mix of pixelated 2D & 3D graphic style with a rich, dark and bizarre plot.
Why similar: 2D Platformer 18.8%, Female Protagonist 16.4%, Action-Adventure 14.2%, Pixel Graphics 13.4%, Sci-fi 10.2%
Rusted Moss is a twin-stick shooter metroidvania where you sling around the map with your grapple, blasting your way through witches and rusted machine monstrosities alike. This wasteland once harboring mankind has since fallen, and Fae long forgotten now knock on humanity's door...
Why similar: Metroidvania 31.3%, Platformer 18%, 2D Platformer 11.7%, Action-Adventure 8%, Female Protagonist 6.8%
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 39.7%, Platformer 13.4%, 2D Platformer 8.2%, Sci-fi 8%, Side Scroller 7.5%
Explore a massive interconnected labyrinth of grottos, castles, and groves in this 2D retro-inspired Action RPG.
Why similar: Metroidvania 37.3%, 2D Platformer 12.9%, Side Scroller 12.9%, Action-Adventure 8.4%, Female Protagonist 7.1%
Play as Captain Grisham, and uncover the secrets of Planet 4-514 in this thrilling prequel to Side Scape!
Why similar: Metroidvania 40.8%, 2D Platformer 14.2%, Platformer 11.1%, Pixel Graphics 7%, Sci-fi 6.7%
Sect-Machina is a fluid, atmospheric bug-themed metroidvania rendered in a vibrant 2D pixelated style, crafted with meticulous attention to detail in its combat, characters, environments, sound, and story.
Why similar: Metroidvania 31%, 2D Platformer 12.5%, Platformer 12.4%, Side Scroller 10.6%, Action-Adventure 9.2%
Battle beyond the Underworld using dark sorcery to take on the Titan of Time in this bewitching sequel to the award-winning rogue-like dungeon crawler.
Why similar: Hack and Slash 31.2%, Action 29.5%, Female Protagonist 25.9%, Story Rich 7.3%, Indie 3.9%
Death's Gambit: Afterlife is a challenging 2D action platformer with deep RPG elements. As an agent of Death bound to his service, unravel the mystery of Siradon and discover the true price of immortality.
Why similar: Metroidvania 55.4%, Platformer 9.4%, Pixel Graphics 9.3%, Action 8.1%, Adventure 6.1%
Zapling Bygone is a twisted metroidvania where you murder your foes and steal their abilities by wearing their skulls and absorbing their consciousness into your hive-mind.
Why similar: Metroidvania 34%, Side Scroller 11%, 2D Platformer 10.5%, Nonlinear 8%, Platformer 7.8%
HunterX is an action-adventure game full of spirited battles. Use various styles of weapons and magic to experience your own fighting style and explore a great world.
Why similar: Metroidvania 44.7%, Side Scroller 13.6%, Platformer 10.8%, Female Protagonist 10.3%, Action 8.3%
The next installment in the high-speed 2D action Gunvolt series is finally here with Azure Striker Gunvolt 3. Balancing both an involving story and satisfying gameplay, Gunvolt 3 is the most extravagant entry in the series yet!
Why similar: Platformer 17%, 2D Platformer 16.4%, Action 13.7%, Side Scroller 13.3%, Action-Adventure 10.2%