60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include 2D, Top-Down, Adventure, Exploration.
An action metroidbrainia set in a dying dwarf galaxy. Scavenge wrecks, meet strange characters, and fight your way through a cold universe to piece together an interstellar puzzle.
Gears of Dissent
Explore a world of secrets and opposition at every turn, and smash through it in fast-paced top-down combat! This game is a short 2–3 hour experience that aims for high quality of life, worldbuilding, and gameplay without demanding weeks of your time!
Minishoot' Adventures
Fly into a charming handcrafted world and go on an adventure that mixes up open exploration with crispy twin-stick shooter action. Fight your way from the shiny overworld to the deepest caves, improve your ship and overcome the dungeons' bosses to rescue your friends!
Explore a world of secrets and opposition at every turn, and smash through it in fast-paced top-down combat! This game is a short 2–3 hour experience that aims for high quality of life, worldbuilding, and gameplay without demanding weeks of your time!
Why similar: Metroidvania 27.9%, Top-Down Shooter 20.5%, Lore-Rich 11.9%, Exploration 9%, Action-Adventure 7.5%
Fly into a charming handcrafted world and go on an adventure that mixes up open exploration with crispy twin-stick shooter action. Fight your way from the shiny overworld to the deepest caves, improve your ship and overcome the dungeons' bosses to rescue your friends!
Why similar: Twin Stick Shooter 27.6%, Metroidvania 24.8%, Top-Down Shooter 13.1%, Nonlinear 10.8%, Top-Down 7.5%
Zolg is a minimalist top-down shooter where you explore, fight enemies, collect powerups, and defeat bosses.
Why similar: Metroidvania 25%, Twin Stick Shooter 21.1%, Top-Down Shooter 19.1%, Nonlinear 8.3%, Top-Down 7.4%
In this top-down Metroidvania, descend into the belly of Sarcophagus II, an underground laboratory overrun by mutated creatures. Blast your way through this labyrinth of chaos, facing overwhelming odds in an effort to rescue your friends and recover your humanity.
Why similar: Twin Stick Shooter 29.5%, Metroidvania 28%, Open World 8.1%, Action-Adventure 8%, Multiple Endings 7.8%
A 2D top-down adventure game about Powerful Mages, treasures, amulets and a lot of magical evilish creatures!
Why similar: Twin Stick Shooter 27.6%, Top-Down Shooter 21.3%, Nonlinear 18.4%, Action-Adventure 9.3%, Top-Down 8.9%
An action-adventure set in a weird fantasy world. Face levels where every shot counts: move silently to backstab enemies, use spells to unlock paths, and explore non-linear environments with multiple solutions. Choose your path, manage your ammo, and survive.
Why similar: Twin Stick Shooter 30.1%, Nonlinear 16.6%, Top-Down Shooter 12%, Action-Adventure 9.8%, Multiple Endings 9.1%
"Absence of Light" is an exploration based shoot 'em up that combines intense bullet-dodging combat with a metroidvania-style level design. Solve, shoot, and shine your way through the kingdom of Luminara and reawaken the light!
Why similar: Twin Stick Shooter 25.2%, Metroidvania 22.3%, Nonlinear 13.1%, Top-Down Shooter 10.2%, Exploration 6.3%
Volatile is a space exploration adventure game which, at its core, plays with the importance of actions and consequences.
Why similar: Top-Down Shooter 20.7%, Lore-Rich 15.7%, Multiple Endings 8.4%, Action-Adventure 8%, Open World 7.9%
Explore a vibrant island full of magic and mystery in Nulphia, a top-down story-driven singleplayer adventure.
Why similar: Metroidvania 36.6%, Conversation 16.8%, Top-Down 10.2%, Action-Adventure 9.8%, Exploration 9.8%
An apocalyptic sci-fi game where you slay demons with style. Jump, dodge, dash, and parry to avoid incoming fire. Use Rewires to shape your build, level up to put points into Attributes and Perks, and progress through the world to unlock more Abilities.
Why similar: Metroidvania 33.4%, Transhumanism 26.1% ★, Top-Down Shooter 21.8%, Top-Down 6.9%, 2D 2.9%
Embark on a thrilling 2D top-down adventure! Explore dark dungeons, solve unique puzzles, translate ancient documents, and follow clues given to you by a maggot in your brain! Experience the journey solo or team up in 2-player co-op for a different experience!
Why similar: Nonlinear 16.3%, Lore-Rich 15.9%, Metroidvania 13.4%, Top-Down 10%, Action-Adventure 9%
Star Gunners is a high-energy, action-packed adventure set in a vibrant alien world. Battle through monster-filled environments, unlock abilities, and explore new areas. Can you save your fallen squad? Experience a hand-painted, retro-inspired adventure with modern twists!
Why similar: Metroidvania 34.6%, Twin Stick Shooter 30.2%, Nonlinear 10.8%, Exploration 8.8%, Open World 6.6%
New Haven is a utopia under a red moon, turned into a dystopian nightmare. You are a prisoner with no name, waking up in the middle of an emergency. Fight for survival guided by an enigmatic voice in your head, explore a falling world, solve puzzles, and unravel dark secrets.
Why similar: Metroidvania 27.4%, Top-Down Shooter 19.8%, Conversation 10.4%, Top-Down 8.1%, Exploration 6.7%
Embark on an epic adventure full of perils and secrets. Explore distinct forsaken lands of Devetlam and fight your way by jumping on your enemies or showering them with a plethora of magic spells. An open-world platforming action inspired by the classics.
Why similar: Metroidvania 25.4%, Lore-Rich 15.9%, Nonlinear 14.8%, Action-Adventure 7.6%, Open World 7.4%
Arriving on a curious planet, Vix and her toolbox Tin explore space, fixing machines with unconventional tools and eating cozy meals with kind robot locals. On an epic adventure, the duo repairs an interstellar beacon, constructs giant mechs, and unravels a cosmic mystery that transcends existence.
Why similar: Transhumanism 34.3% ★, Lore-Rich 14.9%, Top-Down 10.2%, Open World 7.8%, Exploration 6.9%
Infiltrate the Mentoes Tower, avenge the death of your father, and bring Mr Mentoe’s dark secrets to light in this top-down, story-driven shooter.
Why similar: Twin Stick Shooter 28.4%, Top-Down Shooter 21.2%, Lore-Rich 14.7%, Top-Down 8.2%, Action-Adventure 7.4%
Explore the ruins of an ancient city. Solve puzzles to unlock new paths, abilities, and forgotten lore. Read the lost stories you uncover to gain insight into a tangled web of mysteries. Using only your wits and your trusty torch to guide you, you must find a way to return light to a starless sky.
Why similar: Metroidvania 27.7%, Lore-Rich 21.1%, Nonlinear 17.4%, Exploration 9.3%, Puzzle 9%
Explore an intricate new world of secrets and adventure. Features solid 2D Zelda-like gameplay, 12 vast non-linear dungeons and a wholesome story about the young golem Linden.
Why similar: Metroidvania 32%, Nonlinear 15.9%, Exploration 9.5%, Top-Down 9.4%, Action-Adventure 8.8%
Dead-End Bounty is an open-world top-down shooter set in the wild west! A frontier with 3 kinds of people: the ones on wanted posters, the ones printing them, and people like Charlie—a bounty hunter with his eyes set on one particular bounty that has slipped through his hands a few too many times.
Why similar: Top-Down Shooter 27.6%, Lore-Rich 11.6%, Exploration 11.3%, Action-Adventure 10%, Conversation 9.5%
Blue Flame is a fast paced top-down action game set in a medieval fantasy world. Take the role of the last pyromancer and restore order to a kingdom in which fires only emit cold.
Why similar: Twin Stick Shooter 30.7%, Top-Down Shooter 21%, Top-Down 9.5%, Open World 8.3%, Lore-Rich 7.9%
Fight giant bugs with your mech! Liberate the alien planet for your cause. In this top-down twin stick shooter, fight bugs as you secure the planet for humankind.
Why similar: Twin Stick Shooter 40.6%, Top-Down Shooter 33%, Top-Down 12.3%, Sci-fi 7.4%, Action 3.4%
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 40.3%, Nonlinear 14.6%, Lore-Rich 14.2%, Action-Adventure 11%, Open World 6%
AkuNet; nameless is a 2.5-dimensional adventure with elements of rpg and visual novel. Get into AkuNet and find out what the world of eternal digital utopia hides behind itself.
Why similar: Metroidvania 20.1%, Nonlinear 17.2%, Transhumanism 15.4% ★, Lore-Rich 14.4%, Action-Adventure 8.4%
In the Void, everyone is alone, and you're no exception. Use your endless health as damage, create your own strategy with abilities and Sigils, and fight through corrupted entities in this top-down action Metroidvania. Don't be fooled - you're nobody's last hope.
Why similar: Twin Stick Shooter 29.8%, Metroidvania 27.7%, Nonlinear 16.4%, Exploration 7.5%, Action-Adventure 7.2%
Mination is an arcade twin-stick shooter/survivor with roguelite and story elements. Take control of Minerva as she mines ores, avoids or fight pirates and aims for a high score! Earn space-dollars to upgrade your ship, progress the story to unlock rewards and head back to get on that leaderboard!
Why similar: Twin Stick Shooter 30.5%, Top-Down Shooter 22%, Conversation 14.9%, Top-Down 8.7%, Space 4.8%
Cryselts is a 2D pixel-art Metroidvania focused on exploration, modular suits, and ranged combat, set in a hostile world corrupted by a mutagenic threat. Join the Cryselts, an elite task force designed to protect the planet.
Why similar: Metroidvania 35.2%, Nonlinear 14.6%, Exploration 11.2%, Action-Adventure 9.7%, Multiple Endings 9%
Launch. Recall. Avoid.
Why similar: Twin Stick Shooter 40.9%, Top-Down Shooter 33%, Puzzle 9.7%, Top-Down 8.9%, 2D 4.3%
You are an inspiration-seeking wandering artist who mysteriously ends up in a faraway Valley. Will you find the inspiration you crave, or will you be lost to the mysteries of the Valley?
Why similar: Metroidvania 32.3%, Nonlinear 15.5%, Conversation 13.8%, Top-Down 9.6%, Exploration 8.9%
Deep Copy is a top down point-and-click literary adventure set in a hand-painted science fiction world. Awakened with no memory, you must solve puzzles and navigate a branching story to piece together the dense, interconnected mystery at the heart of the lab.
Why similar: Transhumanism 26.1% ★, Nonlinear 16.1%, Lore-Rich 13.7%, Conversation 10.7%, Top-Down 6.5%
Lost Call is a top down pixel art 2D Zelda inspired game with a metroidvania style map. Take off on a quest through an abandoned and ruined town to stop your phone from ringing all the time, and learn more about the characters who still remain within it.
Why similar: Metroidvania 35.6%, Nonlinear 20.8%, Exploration 11.2%, Top-Down 9.7%, Action-Adventure 7.2%
In this Action-Puzzle Metroidvania, you will explore the lair of a long-gone mythical creature and unravel its mysteries. Consume enemies to gain their abilities, use your frog-like tongue to grapple and fight, explore the land, solve puzzles, find secrets, and complete challenges.
Why similar: Metroidvania 38.7%, Top-Down 12.9%, Puzzle 10.8%, Exploration 10.6%, Action-Adventure 9.5%
Discover a vast alien world. Fight the ferocious local fauna and killer machines. Reveal its secrets and find a way to escape. The Mobius Machine is a side-scroller action adventure, with an emphasis on free-form exploration and intense combat.
Why similar: Metroidvania 31.6%, Twin Stick Shooter 27.6%, Nonlinear 17.1%, Exploration 9.1%, Action-Adventure 6.7%
Discover what has become of humanity after corporations were allowed to go too far and Artificial Superintelligence has done its damage. Embryogenesis is a multiplayer twin-stick metroidvania. Stay together or split up. Explore the remnants of the world and save humanity. Or, perhaps, not.
Why similar: Transhumanism 29% ★, Metroidvania 27.7%, Nonlinear 11.5%, Twin Stick Shooter 10.5%, Multiple Endings 8%
Explore a broken world. Fight with a silent machine. Solve puzzles that break the rules. The game has already begun, even on this page.
Why similar: Metroidvania 29.5%, Nonlinear 17.3%, Exploration 12%, Action-Adventure 12%, Puzzle 9.5%
GANGSTALK is a psychological horror game from the POV of your stalkers.
Why similar: Transhumanism 25% ★, Lore-Rich 16.5%, Nonlinear 15.6%, Open World 8.5%, Multiple Endings 8.2%
An indie story-driven space shooter with intense battles, escalating enemy waves, and massive boss fights. Choose and upgrade ships, unlock powerful weapons, and protect your allies. Upgrade your base and construct a battleship to take on even stronger enemies. All set to a rock & synth soundtrack.
Why similar: Twin Stick Shooter 34.1%, Top-Down Shooter 22.9%, Action-Adventure 8.9%, Top-Down 7.8%, Exploration 6.4%
Follow the Void Guardian as she inspects a space station after receiving a distress beacon from it and help her vanquish the hidden evil.
Why similar: Metroidvania 38%, Top-Down Shooter 18.1%, Top-Down 11.4%, Sci-fi 6.3%, 2D 6.3%
Irata, a space bounty hunter is caught in a galactic conflict. A rogue federation seeks the fragments of the Eternium Core, an advanced chip that commands all defense systems in the solar system. In this sci-fi Metroidvania, explore, fight, and upgrade your way to stop the enemy and save the galaxy.
Why similar: Metroidvania 29.3%, Nonlinear 17.2%, Open World 9.6%, Action-Adventure 8.7%, Exploration 8.5%
Experience the award-winning space saga. Travel to hyperspace, discover alien worlds, and meet an eclectic cast of characters. Find out what happened after the Ur-Quan invasion. And if the war still rages, fight for Earth and the Alliance of Free Stars!
Why similar: Top-Down Shooter 21.5%, Conversation 16.1%, Top-Down 9.5%, Open World 8.8%, Multiple Endings 8.7%
Reticent Retribution is a top down twin stick shooter. A 3rd person action game. You must blast waves of space enemies. You can use the keyboard and a controller. 720p 60fps. Press 'esc' to quit, 'h' for help.
Why similar: Twin Stick Shooter 39.8%, Top-Down Shooter 29.3%, Top-Down 11.5%, Space 10.9%, 2D 4.9%
Laser Maze is a puzzle game that takes place in an abandoned space station where you solve puzzles by redirecting lasers, moving boxes, and navigating through computer terminals.
Why similar: Metroidvania 26.5%, Nonlinear 12.5%, Open World 11.2%, Top-Down 9.3%, Puzzle 8.7%
Local middle school teacher fights angry orange bald man army with marbles and furry creatures. Baula. Quest. BaulaQuest.
Why similar: Twin Stick Shooter 32.3%, Top-Down Shooter 23.6%, Lore-Rich 16.5%, Top-Down 9%, Action-Adventure 8.5%
Pilot your starfighter through a human-inhabited starsystem in this sci-fi Metroidvania. Battle fierce enemies, solve physics-based puzzles, and explore ancient ruins and intricate dungeons. Liberate Illustris and repel the invaders in a decisive final showdown!
Why similar: Metroidvania 30.2%, Nonlinear 16.4%, Space 9.8%, Action-Adventure 8.7%, Top-Down 8.6%
Explore an overgrown landscape of magic as you create your own platforms and shape your path through the world. Discover the history of a forgotten planet, collect relics to awaken your abilities, and create the very terrain you traverse.
Why similar: Metroidvania 28.7%, Lore-Rich 15.8%, Nonlinear 14.3%, Exploration 8.7%, Multiple Endings 8.5%
On the surface, a 2D platformer right out of the '80s video game playbook. The eponymous Whim walks and jumps his way through static rooms, avoiding the baddies and other hazards, and collecting various items. But this game is so much more than that...
Why similar: Metroidvania 35.6%, Nonlinear 16.6%, Multiple Endings 10.2%, Action-Adventure 9.6%, Exploration 9.5%
The Messier 111 is a twin-stick shooter that will test your skills.
Why similar: Twin Stick Shooter 52%, Top-Down Shooter 31.7%, Top-Down 11.9%, Action 4.4%
Explore, fight, and discover new spells and abilities in the world of Shifted Heart! Acquire an assortment of spells, customize your loadout to your liking, and save the world from certain doom.
Why similar: Metroidvania 31.8%, Nonlinear 14.1%, Lore-Rich 13.5%, Multiple Endings 8.4%, Exploration 8.3%
Get your gears in motion for a captivating monochromatic adventure where you play as Lelu, a small but determined clockwork toy who has gained consciousness and found a taste for freedom!
Why similar: Metroidvania 35.3%, Action-Adventure 12.1%, Top-Down 10.5%, Exploration 10.5%, Puzzle 9.2%
A pinball horror adventure game. You will bounce and ping your way through a nonlinear world in hopes to get back to the life you were living before.
Why similar: Metroidvania 32%, Lore-Rich 16.4%, Nonlinear 14.9%, Exploration 9.7%, Multiple Endings 8.8%
Alpha Force Zero is an intense top-down bullet-hell adventure that requires skill and planning. Utilize multiple weapon systems including an Auto-Turret with adjustable firing modes and unlock upgrades that you can equip in your ship to give you the upper hand. Dodge, fight, survive!
Why similar: Twin Stick Shooter 34.5%, Top-Down Shooter 24.8%, Top-Down 9.3%, Action-Adventure 8.7%, Space 7.3%
From the co-creator of Eufloria and Receiver 2 comes a new indie extravaganza. Part Metroidvania, part future science expedition, Bioframe Outpost gives players the means to master a vast world in which all creatures react to each other in complex ways, with frequently unexpected results!
Why similar: Metroidvania 44.3%, Exploration 14.1%, Action-Adventure 12.7%, Space 10.4%, Sci-fi 6.8%
Tyro: Legend of Whisperwood is a Souls-like Metroidvania where your choices shape reality. Play as Tyro, a vengeful field mouse. Battle the Gladeblight's horrors, manage your Sanity Gauge, and survive a world that warps with your mind. Will you break the cycle or lose yourself to madness?
Why similar: Metroidvania 47.9%, Conversation 17.9%, Action-Adventure 13%, Multiple Endings 9.4%, 2D 5.6%
Embark on a quest to unlock the secrets of the Spirit World. Challenge mysterious ruins and face intimidating bosses to gain new powers that will aid your exploration in this retro top-down action/adventure.
Why similar: Metroidvania 32.7%, Nonlinear 19%, Top-Down 11.6%, Multiple Endings 11.2%, Puzzle 8.3%
When the Stars Threw Down Their Spears is a story-driven, retro space shooter inspired by DOS-era space games like Star Control, Solar Winds, and Lightspeed. Blast your way through fast-paced arcade combat; build out modular, upgradable ships; and explore a galaxy torn by war.
Why similar: Top-Down Shooter 33.3%, Lore-Rich 14.4%, Exploration 10.9%, Action-Adventure 8.4%, Top-Down 8.2%
Fly, Build, and Fight in a modular spaceflight roguelike set in a hostile alien universe. Control the ship’s movement with high precision, build bizarre ships from random parts, and turn cosmic chaos into mastery as you battle to survive.
Why similar: Twin Stick Shooter 45.2%, Top-Down Shooter 19%, Top-Down 12.4%, Space 10.7%, Sci-fi 8.7%
Fight and dodge through hundreds of space bugs in Bug Blast! Go through each space station to protect from the hoards of bugs that come their way.
Why similar: Twin Stick Shooter 41%, Top-Down Shooter 33.6%, Top-Down 8.1%, Space 6.1%, Sci-fi 4.5%
GUNSPECTRE is a twin-stick adventure game featuring a large open world, an equally sized subsurface, and a ton of action!
Why similar: Twin Stick Shooter 29.5%, Top-Down Shooter 23.2%, Action-Adventure 12.8%, Exploration 9.9%, Top-Down 8.2%
Devoid is a twin-stick shooter where energy drains with every move. Fight enemies to regain it in a procedurally generated space dungeon. Survive station to station and escape with skill.
Why similar: Twin Stick Shooter 39.1%, Top-Down Shooter 29.6%, Top-Down 9.2%, Space 6.1%, Sci-fi 4.5%
Switch, adapt, and evolve in Phaze Shift, an action-platformer Metroidvania. Swap between two characters, fuse upgrades to forge new abilities, battle mechanized bosses, and explore a sleeping digital world in a hand-drawn diorama-style 2D adventure.
Why similar: Metroidvania 45.4%, Nonlinear 13%, Lore-Rich 7.7%, Exploration 6.7%, 2D 5.6%
Blast your way through an Isometric Open World Galaxy. Fly seamlessly to space. Lead your chosen faction in ground and space battles. Stop the imminent Collapse of civilization... Or let it all fall into ruin.
Why similar: Twin Stick Shooter 29.2%, Top-Down Shooter 21%, Open World 10.3%, Multiple Endings 9.7%, Space 7.9%
