60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Action, Metroidvania, Platformer, Adventure.
A nation is on the brink of collapse and you have been given a special order: rescue the trapped president. Run, jump, and gun your way across its interconnected districts full of enemies and secrets. Uncover the truth behind your mission.
Bitup
BitUp is a side scrolling, exploration metroidvania game set in a Cubist-Impressionist universe. A game kept hidden by its legendary creator, while its protagonist looks for answers. Players must aid Bit in its quest to find out what lies beyond.
Escape From Tethys
You're trapped, alone and cold on a distant planet. Pursued by a droid with only one purpose: killing everything. You must find an escape. Explore the hostile environment, find secret upgrades and new weapons, and finally make your escape from this dark, hostile planet...
BitUp is a side scrolling, exploration metroidvania game set in a Cubist-Impressionist universe. A game kept hidden by its legendary creator, while its protagonist looks for answers. Players must aid Bit in its quest to find out what lies beyond.
Why similar: Metroidvania 44.5%, Platformer 16.2%, 3D Platformer 10.5%, Action 6.9%, Adventure 5.8%
You're trapped, alone and cold on a distant planet. Pursued by a droid with only one purpose: killing everything. You must find an escape. Explore the hostile environment, find secret upgrades and new weapons, and finally make your escape from this dark, hostile planet...
Why similar: Metroidvania 54.6%, Platformer 20.5%, Action 12.2%, Exploration 6.5%, Action-Adventure 6.1%
This is a platform action game in which you control light in a world shrouded in complete darkness and rely on it to progress. Use the light to travel from place to place and illuminate the buried truth.
Why similar: Metroidvania 52.7%, Platformer 17.9%, Action 9.9%, Side Scroller 6.7%, Adventure 6.2%
An atmospheric 3D metroidvania with heavy emphasis on platforming and exploration. Use projectiles, grappling, and dash to discover hidden ruins and secrets beneath the surface.
Why similar: Metroidvania 30%, Platformer 17.1%, Action 11.8%, Shooter 11.7%, Adventure 9.5%
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 54.4%, Platformer 14.6%, Action 9.3%, Adventure 8%, Side Scroller 5.4%
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 64%, Platformer 20%, Action 8.9%, Adventure 7.1%
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 40%, Platformer 15.6%, Action 9.8%, Side Scroller 8.8%, Adventure 7.4%
ChAIR’s fresh twist on classic side-scrolling design with modern gameplay is amplified in Shadow Complex Remastered. 10+ hrs of exploration and fast-paced combat from award-winning original game, updated with graphical enhancements, dynamic melee take-downs, and new Master Challenges.
Why similar: Metroidvania 55.4%, Platformer 17.8%, Side Scroller 9.1%, Action 8.2%, Shooter 6.3%
Venture into an unusual, alien world full of danger and mysteries in this sci-fi Metroidvania. Grab your gear and face the challenge of sustaining a once-thriving space colony. Can you bring this place back to life? Are you ready to uncover all the secrets lurking in the darkness?
Why similar: Metroidvania 43%, Platformer 12.4%, Shooter 10.2%, Side Scroller 9%, Action 6.9%
Jump and dash through unknown, labyrinthine worlds in this VR adventure. Fight back against maddened creatures, or cure them of the blight that fuels their rage. Collect treasures, tools, and powers as you search for the source of this ancient ill, and decide whether to quell or unleash it.
Why similar: Metroidvania 52.4%, Platformer 16.9%, Adventure 8.8%, Exploration 6.5%, Action-Adventure 4.1%
Dig through an odd world full of dangerous creatures. Uncover hidden paths and long-buried secrets. Dirtlight is a metroidvania where the journey runs deep, and offers unexpected ways to explore.
Why similar: Metroidvania 52.2%, Platformer 16.8%, Action 9.1%, Exploration 7.5%, Adventure 6.5%
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 55.1%, Platformer 22.7%, Action 12%, Adventure 10.2%
Ariana must restore the Codices and unravel the Library's hidden truths...
Why similar: Metroidvania 49.4%, Platformer 17.5%, Action 8.6%, Action-Adventure 7.4%, Adventure 6.7%
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 56.7%, Platformer 26.5%, Action 8.4%, Adventure 7.3%, Singleplayer 1.1%
Spright is a hand-crafted 2D action-adventure about a lone warrior in a diving helm, drawn into the ruins of a fallen world. Forge, swim, and fight through luminous caverns, cursed foundries, and drowned ruins.
Why similar: Metroidvania 52.1%, Platformer 17.8%, Action 7.4%, Exploration 6.9%, Adventure 6.2%
Honey's Sweet Revenge is a metroidvania with mechanics inspired by platform fighters. Customize your item loadout and defeat enemies and bosses.
Why similar: Metroidvania 57.3%, Platformer 12.4%, Action 10.1%, Action-Adventure 8.9%, Adventure 8.4%
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 42.4%, Platformer 17.7%, Action 14.6%, Adventure 12.8%, Shooter 12.6%
Discover a strange world inhabited by living lights. Liturnian is a 3D-Metroidvania with fluid movement, fights against strange creatures and exciting puzzles.
Why similar: Metroidvania 50.8%, Platformer 14.9%, 3D Platformer 12.6%, Adventure 5.7%, Exploration 4.2%
A legendary series returns with a grand new adventure! Enjoy a colorful action-adventure game made alongside Ryuichi Nishizawa, creator of the original Wonder Boy in Monster World series.
Why similar: Metroidvania 49.1%, Platformer 17.4%, Action 8.7%, Adventure 8.1%, Side Scroller 6.8%
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 49%, Platformer 20.3%, Action 8.4%, Exploration 8%, Adventure 7.9%
Guide a lonely fox through a vast interconnected world of a mysterious planet Vulpis in this Metroidvania-style game. Explore non-linear paths, unlock new abilities, fight enemies, overcome obstacles, and unravel the planet's mysteries to find a way back home.
Why similar: Metroidvania 57%, Platformer 19.3%, Action 7.3%, Adventure 6.7%, Exploration 6%
Stoatman is an exciting Metroidvania adventure where you control a brave hero with a magical sword. Explore mysterious lands, discover powerful spells, and battle fantastic creatures in an enchanting fairy-tale world.
Why similar: Metroidvania 51.5%, Platformer 17.6%, Adventure 6.3%, Exploration 5.3%, Side Scroller 5.3%
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: Metroidvania 63.3%, Action 10.4%, Platformer 9%, Adventure 7.6%, Shooter 5.9%
Beyond Sentinel will have you play as both Justin and Erica in horizontal shooter and metroidvania stages as you battle in space and explore the many levels of the Sentinel station.
Why similar: Metroidvania 30.7%, Platformer 17.7%, Shooter 14.4%, Action 12.4%, Adventure 10%
Assume the role of Wyatt in this Action/Exploration Platformer as you explore the ruins of a holy city that was lost many years ago. Battle various types of demons, angels, and a new threat known only as the “Ferals”, using swordsmanship, martial arts, and sorcery.
Why similar: Metroidvania 71.5%, Platformer 15.5%, Action 6.4%, Exploration 2.4%, Side Scroller 2.2%
Velvet Veil is a 2D Metroidvania-style Action Adventure with elements of Bullet Hell and unique platforming Mechanics. Ages after a forgotten apocalypse only the dolls of a humanoid species remain. These dolls come to life through the power of memories.
Why similar: Metroidvania 53.3%, Platformer 11%, Side Scroller 7.7%, Action-Adventure 7.2%, Action 6.9%
Platform across strange, magical terrain while meeting even stranger friends and enemies! Discover the history behind the Bitlands, and unlock new allies and powers to traverse the dangerous worlds of the Bitlands, and restore peace to a broken kingdom.
Why similar: Metroidvania 40%, Platformer 17.5%, Side Scroller 9.6%, Action 8.4%, Action-Adventure 8.3%
Without kidney is a shooter metroidvania game with a hero who can hook like spiderman and jump with cannon explosions. Using a grappling hook, a cannon and other bonuses, that can be found on the way, you go forward to the main Capitalist BOSS
Why similar: Metroidvania 41%, Platformer 14.8%, Shooter 12.3%, Side Scroller 10.2%, Exploration 6.8%
3D adventure metroidvania inspired by the early 2000s level design explore an abandoned convent filled with ghosts and magical chambers and try to solve the mystery behind everything
Why similar: Metroidvania 41.4%, Platformer 20.5%, 3D Platformer 12.3%, Adventure 11.3%, Action-Adventure 8.7%
End's Reach is a 3D Exploration Action Adventure Game that focuses on a character lost in the depths of space. Players will solve puzzles, collect upgrades, items, weapons and even magical abilities as they uncover the mysteries of this strange new world. A classic tale of technology taken too far.
Why similar: Metroidvania 66.4%, Action-Adventure 10.5%, Adventure 8.8%, Action 4.9%, 3D 3.8%
Scratch in a 2.5D world that blends hip hop aesthetics with action/platforming, where urban art has come to life. Explore dynamic environments, face cleaning robots, and uncover secrets of this vibrant world as you reclaim your identity in this intense and colorful adventure.
Why similar: Metroidvania 56.2%, Platformer 19.6%, Action 7.3%, Adventure 7.1%, Action-Adventure 4.2%
Japan's take on classic Commodore 64/Amiga action-adventure games. NOT a Metroidvania. Use your wits and your weapons to discover an ancient secret and gain your redemption. Art and music by Japanese legends of console gaming.
Why similar: Metroidvania 58.3%, Action 22.8%, Platformer 18.9%
《Kingless Dungeon》 is a 2D hack and slash platformer where you control the Shadow Prince, a warrior with no memory. Fight undead enemies, discover your skills, and explore this deep dungeons filled with traps and secrets. Can you reclaim your memories and escape?
Why similar: Metroidvania 33.3%, Platformer 17.9%, Action 12.5%, Side Scroller 10.8%, Adventure 10%
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 51.7%, Platformer 21.9%, Action 14.5%, Adventure 10%, Singleplayer 1.9%
Hell Being is a metroidvania where the player explores hell as a hell-born creature, face its challenges and monsters to unlock new powers and find a way out from the injustice of being born in this place.
Why similar: Metroidvania 54.5%, Platformer 16.2%, Action 7.1%, Action-Adventure 6.8%, Adventure 5.6%
JOHN FURY'S FIRST FURY is a 2d adventure game. Your adventure will bring you across the landscapes of Russia to make it to a secret communist lab where they're conducting dangerous experiments. You'll have use what you find to help you along your journey against many different enemies and bosses.
Why similar: Metroidvania 33.2%, Platformer 19.4%, Shooter 15.8%, Action 12.7%, Adventure 10.2%
Run, gun, and platform your way through the 4 seasons, shotgunning, freezing, and burning your foes along the way. Light animals on fire, get eaten by flowers, crush baby spiders underfoot, featuring an interactive world, competent physics, and custom death animations for all you freaks out there.
Why similar: Metroidvania 37.8%, Shoot 'Em Up 13.1%, Platformer 10.2%, Exploration 8.5%, Shooter 8.3%
Wield the dance of the shaman. Reclaim your father’s spirit. Brave the beautiful and treacherous land of Kenzera with the God of Death in Tales of Kenzera™: ZAU, a metroidvania-style adventure crafted by Surgent Studios.
Why similar: Metroidvania 53.6%, Platformer 12.9%, Action-Adventure 7.5%, Adventure 6.7%, Side Scroller 6.6%
The Abandoned Presence is a gritty and challenging Metroidvania set in a world heavily inspired by India's urban heritage and industrial core. Search for answers as Zoe; wield industrial weapons, traverse city skylines, and take on elite enemies to uncover the secrets of The Abandoned Presence.
Why similar: Metroidvania 47.4%, Platformer 16.3%, Side Scroller 8.5%, Action 7%, Adventure 5.7%
Explore a sprawling, alien world in the sequel to the award winning Axiom Verge.
Why similar: Metroidvania 50.3%, Platformer 16.1%, Action 10.5%, Adventure 8.2%, Side Scroller 7.3%
Dive into a short story about stranded rebel fighting for his survival on a foreign mysterious planet which is a spaceship graveyard. Encounter scavengers fighting for valuable ship parts. Meet other survivors -help others to help yourself. An action platformer with metroidvania elements.
Why similar: Metroidvania 56.5%, Platformer 22.6%, Action 14.8%, Adventure 4.1%, Singleplayer 2%
He is coming, stalking criminals in the spirit world and the real world. A possessed man is coming, a voodoo mask in his chest and lines of power in his back. Shadow Man is coming, trailing evil from Liveside to Deadside. To stop an apocalypse. To save your soul.
Why similar: Metroidvania 33%, Platformer 15.2%, Shooter 13.2%, 3D Platformer 8.6%, Action-Adventure 7.4%
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 57.2%, Platformer 14.9%, Adventure 14.1%, Action 13.8%
Throw a dude at another dude! Badass Brigade is a light-hearted 2D action game where you shoot, punch, grab, and throw your foes. Take on missions where you can explore the world and uncover a wide variety of weapons and gear for new ways to fight.
Why similar: Metroidvania 47.3%, Platformer 16.5%, Shoot 'Em Up 14.2%, Action-Adventure 7.3%, Action 5.4%
Transform the world of Hob! A new action-adventure from Runic Games, the award-winning studio behind Torchlight I and II. It's your chance. Make it home.
Why similar: Metroidvania 35.1%, Platformer 17.4%, Adventure 10.6%, 3D Platformer 8.8%, Action 8.2%
Red Star Raider is a fast paced, action packed platform shooter presented in a retro style and not just in the visual sense. Players will have to master Parry, dodge, reflect, wall slide and many more skills.
Why similar: Metroidvania 35.4%, Platformer 16.6%, Shooter 13.3%, Shoot 'Em Up 12.6%, Action 11.8%
The definitive version of the smash-hit Metroidvania-style action-platformer, Guacamelee! STCE adds new levels, powers, challenges, and refinements to the sprawling, ridiculous, Mexican-inspired adventure of the original Guacamelee! Gold Edition.
Why similar: Metroidvania 70.5%, Platformer 27.5%, Action 0.7%, Side Scroller 0.5%, Action-Adventure 0.4%
Crashed on a desolate but mysterious planet you find yourself eye to eye with an ancient civilisation. Explore the planet, find powerful upgrades, and fulfill your destiny.
Why similar: Metroidvania 57.4%, Platformer 17.4%, Adventure 8.3%, Exploration 8.2%, Atmospheric 3.8%
Astronite Landing on Neplea is the prologue to this fantastic 1bit metroidvania that combines action, exploration, puzzles and platforms. Take on Astronite's first major challenge and defeat the deadly Kronch.
Why similar: Metroidvania 54.1%, Platformer 17.2%, Action 7.8%, Action-Adventure 7.6%, Adventure 7.1%
Thousands of spaceships entered the galaxy to mine what does not belong to them! Him is a third person casual game where the player runs and jump between home planets to destroy the invading space pirates and their spaceships under a limited time before they mine the lands.
Why similar: Metroidvania 66.3%, Action 9%, Platformer 8.4%, Adventure 8.1%, Action-Adventure 6.8%
Explore three distant planets in this retro-inspired 2D metroidvania, developed for the Game Boy Color. Face mysterious creatures, discover powerful upgrades and uncover lost secrets. The fate of humanity is in your hands!
Why similar: Metroidvania 53.6%, Platformer 19.1%, Adventure 7.4%, Action 6.7%, Side Scroller 5.5%
Spirit Fusion is a metroidvania about flexible elemental combos. You are Sir Arthur, master of flame, retired to your village—until someone starts hunting your brothers-in-arms—the elemental knights. The murders continue. Who’s behind it?
Why similar: Metroidvania 51.3%, Platformer 17.5%, Action 10.6%, Adventure 10.6%, Action-Adventure 7.4%
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 69%, Platformer 14.1%, Action 4.7%, Adventure 3.5%, Exploration 2.9%
Escape the incubator and begin your quest for the only human who ever cared about you. You play as an experimental slime created by Dr. Maisel a brilliant scientist now kidnapped by The Dastardly Five a gang of rogue slimes determined to reshape the world in their own twisted image.
Why similar: Metroidvania 40.8%, Platformer 14.1%, Shooter 11.4%, 3D Platformer 10.9%, Exploration 6.9%
Shadow Labyrinth is a 2D action platformer and a genre-twisting alternate take on the iconic PAC-MAN. As The Swordsman, you wake on a mysterious planet amidst relics of wars past. To survive you will discover secrets, consume your enemies, and grow from prey to apex predator.
Why similar: Metroidvania 57.4%, Platformer 15.9%, Action 11.3%, Action-Adventure 7.5%, Adventure 6.1%
Explore a world of music and magic in the metroidvania Bardella and the Curse of Silence! Fight monsters, solve puzzles, and play music as you fight against the mysterious curse of silence and strive to free the land from its grip.
Why similar: Metroidvania 45.2%, Platformer 19.2%, Action 13.9%, Adventure 11.1%, Action-Adventure 9.5%
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 67.1%, Platformer 13.5%, Action 10.8%, Adventure 8.6%
Explore an abandoned space station in this retro-themed explorative action platformer.
Why similar: Metroidvania 68.6%, Platformer 15.5%, Adventure 5.6%, Action 5.3%, Exploration 2.9%
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 66.7%, Platformer 13.8%, Action 6.5%, Adventure 6.1%, Side Scroller 6%
