
Birds of Ascent is a hand-drawn pixel-art 2D flight action adventure starring a flock of birds. Soar through the skies, explore the cavern, and fight your way back to the surface!
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Birds of Ascent is a hand-drawn pixel-art 2D flight action adventure starring a flock of birds. Soar through the skies, explore the cavern, and fight your way back to the surface!

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Beneath their goofy long-faced looks lies a surprisingly serious action-adventure. Awaken as Akim and Very Long Leelee after 10,000 years of slumber, recover your lost memories, rouse your fallen comrades, and rise to defeat a great evil!

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Explore a mysterious castle in this pixel perfect metroidvania and take on the Shadow King! Upgrades, secrets, combat, and more!
Beneath their goofy long-faced looks lies a surprisingly serious action-adventure. Awaken as Akim and Very Long Leelee after 10,000 years of slumber, recover your lost memories, rouse your fallen comrades, and rise to defeat a great evil!
Why similar: Metroidvania 33.5%, Animals 26.2% ★, 2D Platformer 10.1%, Action-Adventure 9.3%, Retro 6.5%
Explore a mysterious castle in this pixel perfect metroidvania and take on the Shadow King! Upgrades, secrets, combat, and more!
Why similar: Metroidvania 39.1%, Action-Adventure 14.3%, 2D Platformer 13.8%, Retro 10%, Pixel Graphics 7.4%
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: Metroidvania 42.1%, 2D Platformer 10.5%, Retro 9.4%, Pixel Graphics 7.8%, Action-Adventure 6.4%
A hand-crafted action-adventure that pays tribute to the 8-bit golden era. Explore, fight, experience different genres of classic gameplay and grow stronger in a world built one screen at a time by a solo first-time developer.
Why similar: Metroidvania 46%, 2D Platformer 13.6%, Retro 11%, Pixel Graphics 8%, Action-Adventure 7.7%
Pathfinder 08 is a fun and challenging adventure. It is a platform game with a focus on exploration and retro inspiration with some RPG elements.
Why similar: Metroidvania 41.7%, Action-Adventure 15%, 2D Platformer 14.9%, Pixel Graphics 7.1%, Retro 5.9%
CHROMATIC CRISIS is a colorful metroidvania with unique mechanics! Try to get out of these artificial biomes and save the colors of the real world!
Why similar: Metroidvania 37.4%, Action-Adventure 13.1%, 2D Platformer 11.8%, Dark 6.5%, Retro 6.3%
In this metroidvania platformer originally made for NES, play as mole digging your way with great agility through deep caverns, in search of a lost dwarven treasure to repay your debts.
Why similar: Metroidvania 45.2%, 2D Platformer 13.5%, Animals 12.3% ★, Action-Adventure 8.5%, Pixel Graphics 7.5%
You are Hemwick, ex-witch hunter, chasing an ancient artifact: the Grim Heart. Ready your arsenal and survive brutal encounters in a handcrafted 2D pixel-art world. Your expertise is your greatest weapon and, ultimately, the difference between life and death.
Why similar: Metroidvania 38.5%, Dark 13.9%, Pixel Graphics 9.7%, Action-Adventure 8%, Atmospheric 7.7%
《BeforeDisaster》 is a 2D action-adventure game. In the borderland, the plan of a certain cult organization gradually surfaces. The protagonist is ordered to defeat the cult leader to stop the plan. All this must be done before the disaster...
Why similar: Metroidvania 52.9%, Action-Adventure 13.8%, 2D Platformer 8%, Fantasy 7.5%, Adventure 4.7%
Maelstrom is a platformer adventure set on a mysterious island. Explore an island designed in pixel art style, acquire ancient magic to upgrade yourself, defeat enemies and pass obstacles. Use the unique ability 'Rewind' to reach places that seemed impossible!
Why similar: Metroidvania 49%, 2D Platformer 13.6%, Action-Adventure 8%, Pixel Graphics 7.9%, Fantasy 6.6%
Take to the sky and reunite a fragmented world in this surprisingly wholesome metroidvania! Help Iko adventure across beautiful hand-painted islands, receive letters from a quirky cast of characters, and face powerful monstrous adversaries.
Why similar: Metroidvania 36.9%, Animals 29.4% ★, Atmospheric 6.8%, 2D Platformer 6.8%, Action-Adventure 6.5%
Shards of Memories is a hand-drawn Metroidvania where defeated enemies leave behind memories that carry their abilities. Equip these memories strategically, shape your own combat style, and explore a fractured world marked by its past.
Why similar: Metroidvania 43.7%, Hand-drawn 12.4%, Action-Adventure 12%, 2D Platformer 11.7%, Atmospheric 3.9%
Owlboy is a story-driven platform adventure game, where you can fly and explore a brand new world in the clouds! Pick up your friends, and bring them with you as you explore the open skies, in one of the most detailed adventures of this era.
Why similar: Animals 27.9% ★, Metroidvania 27.7%, 2D Platformer 8.5%, Action-Adventure 8.3%, Pixel Graphics 7.6%
Become the Messenger of God and descend into the endless abyss to defeat powerful enemies and bosses while fulfilling the divine command in this 2D Metroidvania action adventure.
Why similar: Metroidvania 50.1%, Action-Adventure 9.6%, Pixel Graphics 8.8%, 2D Platformer 8%, Adventure 5.3%
DurDanto is a metroidvania game where you play as Zubok in a fallen city with beautiful pixel art environments while facing different enemies. Use elemental abilities to uncover secrets of the fallen city, overcome the enemies & roguelike dungeons by skills & spells!
Why similar: Metroidvania 45.9%, 2D Platformer 10.6%, Action-Adventure 9.9%, Pixel Graphics 7%, Atmospheric 4.5%
『Mono』 is a 2D action game set in a monochrome world. Explore the land to enhance your abilities, defeat the formidable foes standing in your way, and resolve the crisis befalling this black-and-white realm.
Why similar: Metroidvania 48%, 2D Platformer 17.4%, Action-Adventure 9.4%, Action 7.1%, Atmospheric 7.1%
Dispersio 2 is a retro-style metroidvania. As you progress through the game, you will gain new abilities, such as dashing, wall-jumping and more. There's even a hard mode for hardcore players. Can you beat the game with only 1 HP?
Why similar: Metroidvania 52.4%, Action-Adventure 13.4%, Pixel Graphics 9%, Retro 8.2%, Adventure 6.4%
A compact, painterly metroidvania: a 2–3 hour descent into the Rootdeep. Explore 26 painted caverns, earn five abilities, face two guardians — then chase your own best time with the built-in speedrun timer.
Why similar: Metroidvania 30.4%, Action-Adventure 14.2%, 2D Platformer 12.9%, Dark 8.6%, Hand-drawn 8.4%
In this new hand-drawn, story-rich metroidvania, explore the last haven of a dying world, and discover the purpose you play in saving it. Shape your own path, fight the all-consuming blight, and help bring hope back to the survivors. Take up the flames of dead gods, and stand firm in Dewborne Dawn!
Why similar: Metroidvania 49.6%, Hand-drawn 13.8%, Action-Adventure 8.7%, Atmospheric 8.7%, Adventure 4.1%
Experience a adventure in a seamless world of food, where you play as a brave bread. Freely explore interconnected regions, uncover hidden secrets, collect items to enhance your abilities, tackle challenging stages, and defeat formidable foes.
Why similar: Metroidvania 47.9%, 2D Platformer 15.1%, Action-Adventure 13.2%, Pixel Graphics 7.1%, Fantasy 6.1%
Jump, dash, and climb through a vibrant wilderness as three playable characters in this action-adventure metroidvania. Explore a sprawling interconnected map, master unique abilities, and face powerful foes, all while uncovering the mysteries of this war-stricken world and one special cub.
Why similar: Metroidvania 46.3%, Action-Adventure 13.3%, 2D Platformer 13%, Pixel Graphics 7.8%, Atmospheric 7%
RE∀IVE is a 2D action metroidvania set on the war-torn artificial island of Atrificia. Switch between a former soldier and his damaged AI companion, Lily, unlock new abilities, and uncover the city’s hidden truth.
Why similar: Metroidvania 51.5%, Action-Adventure 8.6%, Pixel Graphics 8.4%, 2D Platformer 8.2%, Retro 7.1%
Fight, dash, swim and bite your way through 3 different dungeons. Let the inner shark out! Face many different opponents and defeat powerful bosses. Makis Adventure is an Action-Platformer with a bite!
Why similar: Metroidvania 41.2%, Action-Adventure 12.9%, 2D Platformer 9.4%, Pixel Graphics 8.2%, Hand-drawn 7.1%
Play as Lowe, a vengeful swordsman in a world shrouded in loneliness and despair. Wield your greatsword, slay monsters as a mortal.
Why similar: Metroidvania 47.4%, 2D Platformer 13.9%, Action-Adventure 11.5%, Hand-drawn 6.8%, Pixel Graphics 5%
A cursed clan.A female hero who making everyone tremble with fear, and a journey. Join Dipod’s adventure. Is this a punishment from Gods or is it just a rebel against Gods? If you were in Dipod’s shoes, what would you do?
Why similar: Metroidvania 33.9%, Action-Adventure 14.7%, 2D Platformer 13.2%, Action 6.8%, Adventure 6.7%
Goldfish Brain is a 2D scrolling platform action game . It adopts a Metroidvania-like design. You need to explore maps and find various ability items to strengthen yourself and break through more challenges.
Why similar: Metroidvania 57.5%, Action-Adventure 16%, 2D Platformer 14%, Adventure 3.7%, Action 3.3%
Amo is a top-down metroidvania, where a lost dog, Amo, gets stranded on an island. Explore the vast environments, fight through the enemies of the past, and solve the many mysteries that the island holds.
Why similar: Metroidvania 56.2%, Action-Adventure 16.3%, Retro 9.2%, Adventure 5.4%, Pixel Graphics 4.5%
A metropolis crumbles into ruin as powerful Barons satisfy their greed upon souls lost in time. You are but one spirit, with a wooden body left to rot in the wild…
Why similar: Metroidvania 39.3%, Action-Adventure 15.8%, 2D Platformer 15.2%, Pixel Graphics 7.3%, Atmospheric 6.9%
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 48.4%, 2D Platformer 13%, Action-Adventure 12.3%, Pixel Graphics 11.2%, Fantasy 5.3%
Dive into a fortress labyrinth crawling with monsters, defending yourself with your... tongue? As a frog, it's your best bet to traverse this retro-inspired 2D metroidvania title. Collect treasures to gain permanent upgrades, discovering new areas of the massive interconnected map with them!
Why similar: Metroidvania 50%, 2D Platformer 15%, Action-Adventure 13.5%, Pixel Graphics 7.6%, Adventure 4.5%
A Mystical Anime-Inspired Metroidvania. Embark on an adventure through a mystical world full of magical creatures.
Why similar: Metroidvania 48.3%, 2D Platformer 14.5%, Action-Adventure 12.1%, Hand-drawn 7.4%, Action 5.3%
Venture out on a machine-packed rescue mission in a 2D platform game, action, shooting and lots of Neon!
Why similar: Metroidvania 41.6%, 2D Platformer 15.6%, Action-Adventure 15.4%, Retro 9.4%, Pixel Graphics 7%
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 46.2%, Action-Adventure 12.2%, 2D Platformer 10.7%, Hand-drawn 8.7%, Adventure 6.8%
The Smoke is a 2D Metroidvania where players wield a gun to disperse the smoke that threatens to engulf the world. Explore a world filled with hidden pathways and treacherous chambers. Blast away enemies, clear toxic clouds, and unlock new abilities. Stop the darkness before it swallows everything.
Why similar: Metroidvania 35%, Action-Adventure 11.8%, 2D Platformer 11.6%, Dark 8.9%, Hand-drawn 8.2%
Embark on an epic adventure in the pixelated 2D world of "Nihilsearch" on a lifeless mechanical planet. Explore dark underground complexes, battle hostile machines and life forms, and meet diverse humans, life forms, and machines. Discover the meaning of life and create your own adventure!
Why similar: Metroidvania 51.4%, Action-Adventure 15.6%, 2D Platformer 14.6%, Pixel Graphics 7.4%, Adventure 4.4%
Slumbering Feline is a single-player, one-shot game featuring a feline-themed story. Step into the shoes of Momo, who finds herself lost in a strange dream and trying to escape from her slumber. Can Momo find her way out of this dreamscape?
Why similar: Metroidvania 42.8%, Action-Adventure 13.1%, Retro 9.3%, Pixel Graphics 8.9%, Fantasy 6.3%
Embark on a journey into a dark, fantasy world, wielding a host of weapons, sub-weapons, skills, and spells, to battle demonic entities in this immersive, true-to-form, Metroidvania.
Why similar: Metroidvania 49.5%, Action-Adventure 13.2%, 2D Platformer 13.1%, Dark 6.9%, Pixel Graphics 4.9%
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 61.5%, Action-Adventure 17.7%, Atmospheric 8.9%, Adventure 5.9%, Action 2.7%
Help Beefit brave perilous lands and cavernous depths to rescue his bovine love in this tight, precision platformer with responsive controls, and skill-based gameplay.
Why similar: Metroidvania 42.1%, 2D Platformer 15.3%, Action-Adventure 12.7%, Retro 11.6%, Action 6.3%
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 51.6%, Action-Adventure 12.3%, 2D Platformer 12.2%, Dark 11.1%, Action 6.1%
Code:Elyse is a haunting atmospheric metroidvania, set in a dark sci-fi world. After crashing down from space, Elyse finds herself alone on a planet.
Why similar: Metroidvania 50.4%, Action-Adventure 14.5%, Hand-drawn 8.3%, Pixel Graphics 5.2%, Retro 4.7%
Garden of the Atom is a combat-focused Metroidvania where you hold nothing back. Start with every movement ability unlocked and play as 'Prodigy,' an exiled genius infiltrating a futuristic dictatorship to stop a tyrant from harnessing a cataclysmic meteor shower.
Why similar: Metroidvania 47.2%, 2D Platformer 14.4%, Action-Adventure 11.5%, Retro 6.1%, Pixel Graphics 5.8%
Your tail is your sword, your shield, and a few other things in this cute and creepy Beavervania. Explore a dark world and acquire new abilities as you battle enemies, make friends, and rescue members of your beaver colony in this soulslike metroidvania that doesn't take itself too seriously.
Why similar: Metroidvania 32.7%, Animals 28.4% ★, Dark 10.3%, Action-Adventure 9.2%, Hand-drawn 7.7%
Battle powerful monsters, discover ancient artifacts, and forge your own path in Eystrandi, a 2D, Norse - inspired Metroidvania in which health is constantly draining, with the only thing between life and death being one's ability to reap health from their enemies.
Why similar: Metroidvania 52.7%, 2D Platformer 13.7%, Action-Adventure 10.1%, Pixel Graphics 9.9%, Adventure 4.3%
Explore a strange and hostile world in this search-action platformer starring a tiny mouse named Tofu.
Why similar: Metroidvania 44.8%, 2D Platformer 13.7%, Action-Adventure 12.5%, Pixel Graphics 9%, Retro 8%
Take control of a sword-wielding fox and a dragon/owl duo to fight your way through the fantasy kingdom of Vanalia and stop its tyrant monarch! Havoc Fox is a combat-based action platformer featuring an unlikely partnership tasked with saving their home from its own corrupted protectors.
Why similar: Metroidvania 37.9%, Action-Adventure 13.7%, 2D Platformer 13.5%, Retro 6.9%, Pixel Graphics 6.4%
The Weird Dream is a 2D Metroidvania game set in the ruins of Alpha City. Control a mysterious rabbit, confront mutated inhabitants, level up your skills, and unravel the truth behind Alpha City's destruction.
Why similar: Metroidvania 49.6%, Action-Adventure 14.2%, 2D Platformer 13.8%, Hand-drawn 7.9%, Adventure 5.6%
A retro style mini metroidvania game during Old West about "El Gatito", a lovely little "Pistolero" cat who needs to defend his hometown from evelish mutant vegetables!
Why similar: Metroidvania 32.4%, Animals 29.5% ★, 2D Platformer 10.5%, Action-Adventure 8.5%, Retro 5.8%
“ Elmer is a Metroidvania-style adventure game. ” AltroQuando is a place for those with a forgotten past, an illusionary present, and a future held only as a promise. Your presence here is the proof that you are seeking your own original sin, your own mask.
Why similar: Metroidvania 51.6%, Action-Adventure 16.1%, Dark 9.2%, Hand-drawn 6.1%, Adventure 5.7%
Esdraz: The Throne of Darkness is a Metroidvania game focused on a dynamic combat system with a wide-ranging arsenal that players can tailor to fit their individual combat style. Fight a variety of enemies and evolving bosses while you come up with the best strategy to beat every encounter.
Why similar: Metroidvania 47.3%, Action-Adventure 16.7%, Hand-drawn 10%, Action 7.9%, Adventure 7.6%
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%, Action-Adventure 16.2%, Hand-drawn 8.4%, Adventure 6%, Action 6%
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 50.6%, Action-Adventure 13%, Pixel Graphics 10.4%, Atmospheric 8.4%, Adventure 4.8%
NECROTOPIA is an exploratory action game, in which a monster, who woke up on a stormy night by lightning, picks up junks as weapons and searches for who he/she is. Use various types of weapons to defeat enemies and explore the fascinating world.
Why similar: Metroidvania 53.8%, 2D Platformer 15.7%, Hand-drawn 8.7%, Dark 8.6%, Action 4.6%
Get batteries to get stronger! Enjoy your adventure now! Recover lost parts and get various skills.
Why similar: Metroidvania 50.5%, 2D Platformer 15%, Action-Adventure 11.4%, Pixel Graphics 8.1%, Adventure 4.7%
A dark metroidvania where you play as a silent, white-hooded specter drifting through forgotten realms. Master precise hand-drawn platforming and uncover the mystery of the veil.
Why similar: Metroidvania 32.8%, Action-Adventure 14.7%, 2D Platformer 13.2%, Dark 9.3%, Hand-drawn 8.4%
This is a galactic castlevania-type game, based on the design of four elephants and twenty-eight stars as the boss, four scenes, five attribute skills, and a variety of gem abilities waiting for you to unlock.
Why similar: Metroidvania 52.3%, 2D Platformer 15.5%, Action-Adventure 12.8%, Hand-drawn 7.3%, Action 4.4%
Tac-Tums: DreamQuest is a cozy but challenging pixel art action-platformer. A young boy enters his dreams to rescue his Yaya. Explore magical worlds inspired by Venezuela, overcome enemies, puzzles, and platforming challenges, discover new powers as you advance through this retro adventure.
Why similar: Metroidvania 45.4%, 2D Platformer 18.7%, Action-Adventure 15.8%, Pixel Graphics 6%, Retro 5.5%
Momentum-based platforming built around expressive movement and tight gunplay. Master your elastic grappling hook to explore a vast, cyber-gothic megastructure, where robots piloted by the souls of the dead do penance for their sins.
Why similar: Metroidvania 43.7%, Action-Adventure 12.9%, 2D Platformer 11.4%, Pixel Graphics 9.2%, Dark 5.3%
Play as an assassin hired to complete a job in a dark city filled with corrupted beasts. A 2D Action-platformer where each level will test your will, ingenuity, and resourcefulness as you wade through beasts on your journey to complete your job.
Why similar: Metroidvania 34.2%, Action-Adventure 17.6%, 2D Platformer 15.9%, Dark 10.5%, Action 7.9%
A challenging action game where you explore a dark kingdom, face brutal creatures, and uncover hidden secrets. Fight with strategy, discover powerful relics, and navigate treacherous dungeons as you unravel the mysteries of the Citadel.
Why similar: Metroidvania 40.9%, 2D Platformer 13.5%, Action-Adventure 12.7%, Dark 8.7%, Pixel Graphics 8.1%