60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Metroidvania, Platformer, Puzzle Platformer, 2D.
BlockBot: Shape-shifting puzzle adventure in a vibrant pixel world. Transform, solve, explore. Each level unlocks new potential. Perfect for quick plays or long sessions, offering unique challenges every time you dive in.
Mold
Evolve your body further to survive this vast, yet dense, system of caves. You must use your wits to outsmart predators lurking in the dark and to solve puzzling challenges in order to further advance in this strange world.
Gateways
From the creative mind behind The Adventures of Shuggy comes an exciting new retro-styled 2D platformer, a winner of Dream Build Play 2012 and a top 50 game of 2012 according to Game Informer. Grab the gateway guns and explore a huge lab filled with mysterious puzzles in this classic platforming adventure.
Evolve your body further to survive this vast, yet dense, system of caves. You must use your wits to outsmart predators lurking in the dark and to solve puzzling challenges in order to further advance in this strange world.
Why similar: Metroidvania 28.2%, Puzzle Platformer 14.6%, Post-apocalyptic 13.2%, Nonlinear 12.1%, Platformer 9.4%
From the creative mind behind The Adventures of Shuggy comes an exciting new retro-styled 2D platformer, a winner of Dream Build Play 2012 and a top 50 game of 2012 according to Game Informer. Grab the gateway guns and explore a huge lab filled with mysterious puzzles in this classic platforming adventure.
Why similar: Metroidvania 26.3%, Platformer 20.6%, Time Manipulation 20.4% ★, Puzzle 14.3%, Puzzle Platformer 10.8%
A 2.5D Puzzle Platformer. Use tools to modify the level and how you move to explore forests and the ruins of a post-post apocalyptic world. Find keys and extra batteries to delve ever further, in search of who you are and what happened to the world.
Why similar: Metroidvania 30.5%, Puzzle Platformer 15.9%, Platformer 15.6%, Post-apocalyptic 11.4%, Nonlinear 10.7%
Explore a dense, interconnected labyrinth, and unravel its many secrets. Collect items to manipulate your environment in surprising and meaningful ways. Encounter beautiful and unsettling creatures, as you attempt to survive what lurks in the dark. There is more than what you see.
Why similar: Metroidvania 36.1%, Puzzle Platformer 19%, Nonlinear 10.5%, Platformer 10.1%, Puzzle 8.4%
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 35.8%, Metroidvania 31.1%, Platformer 17.4%, Puzzle 10.3%, 2D 2%
Explore, puzzle, jump Exploration, Mystery, Puzzles. Become a cat hero and explore an unknown world. Overcome treacherous terrain, discover hidden passages, and solve ancient puzzles to uncover the secrets hidden in the shadows. Will you reach the end of this perilous journey?
Why similar: Metroidvania 35.1%, Puzzle Platformer 18.9%, Post-apocalyptic 11%, Platformer 9%, Cyberpunk 7.4%
As punishment for dirtying Olympus's marble halls, Sisyphus, the dung beetle, must push his ball of dung up and down Mount Olympus every day, for the rest of his life. That is, unless he can complete the seemingly impossible task of reaching Olympus before the sun sets
Why similar: Metroidvania 33.9%, Puzzle Platformer 20.8%, Nonlinear 15%, Platformer 10.9%, Puzzle 8%
Explore and collect upgrades before the timeloop resets! Collapse Relapse is a 2D platformer where you have to think and plan out your route in order to be able to escape in time, with secrets galore!
Why similar: Metroidvania 37.8%, Time Manipulation 33.6% ★, Nonlinear 15.9%, Platformer 6.7%, Atmospheric 1.8%
Take a dive in the world of Plungeez, a puzzle platformer where Bonnie, a fierce woman who, after falling in the underground, must explore the sewers of Salvador in search of a way out. Light torches, boilers, and use plungers to climb and solve puzzles!
Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 28.8%, Metroidvania 25%, Platformer 21.1%, Nonlinear 13.8%, Pixel Graphics 7.1%
DeltaPhysics is 2D nonlinear platformer - featuring clean physics-based platforming in a dynamic, interactive environment. Master movement upgrades to discover new paths through an interconnected map of platforming challenges and puzzles.
Why similar: Metroidvania 32.7%, Nonlinear 24.5%, Puzzle Platformer 17.7%, Minimalist 8.3%, Platformer 7.9%
In this 2D Puzzle Metroidvania, explore the world collecting items to help you solve puzzles on your way to reach the flag! Will you remember where you came from, and will you be able to collect all the hidden gems?
Why similar: Metroidvania 37.7%, Puzzle Platformer 27.4%, Nonlinear 10.7%, Platformer 9.9%, Casual 4.4%
In the future, giant city-states have emerged, separated from each other by indestructible barriers. Most professions have been taken over by machines. People work mainly as mechanics, programmers or operators.
Why similar: Time Manipulation 26.4% ★, Cyberpunk 17.9%, Puzzle Platformer 15%, Platformer 12.7%, Puzzle 6.5%
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 33%, Puzzle Platformer 24%, Platformer 11.5%, Puzzle 8.9%, Cute 7.7%
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 41%, Puzzle Platformer 24.3%, Platformer 13.2%, Puzzle 9.6%, Pixel Graphics 3.7%
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 43.5%, Puzzle Platformer 21.6%, Nonlinear 14%, Platformer 12.7%, 2D 3.1%
COREDUMP: 口口口口 is a Metroidvania inspired puzzle platformer where you recover lost colliders, switch between phasing through walls and charged bouncing, and uncover hidden paths across an interconnected world.
Why similar: Metroidvania 34.1%, Puzzle Platformer 23.8%, Platformer 12.4%, Nonlinear 7.6%, Minimalist 5.7%
In MONOMOON, the way forward is reserved for the knowing and the daring. Guided by moonlight, you’ll uncover hidden truths and wander through a tiny and mysterious open world.
Why similar: Metroidvania 31.8%, Puzzle Platformer 17.9%, Nonlinear 16%, Platformer 9.8%, Puzzle 8%
You’re a bullet... so you won’t need guns to fight evil alien hordes in this non-linear action and puzzle platformer.
Why similar: Metroidvania 29.7%, Puzzle Platformer 20.1%, Nonlinear 18.6%, Platformer 8.9%, Cute 6.5%
The NONOLITH consumes you. Copy and paste the world around you to discover the secrets of this ancient, enigmatic structure. You are very powerful, you just don't know it yet.
Why similar: Metroidvania 32.2%, Puzzle Platformer 20.3%, Nonlinear 16.4%, Platformer 10.6%, Puzzle 7.9%
MotionRec is a recording puzzle action game where you progress through stages by recording and playing back your own movements.
Why similar: Time Manipulation 26.2% ★, Metroidvania 18.4%, Cyberpunk 17.4%, Puzzle Platformer 16.7%, Puzzle 6.9%
Rift Walker is an open world 2D puzzle platformer where... there aren't any platforms?
Why similar: Metroidvania 32.9%, Puzzle Platformer 23.7%, Post-apocalyptic 14.8%, Platformer 10.5%, Puzzle 9.7%
A wordless metroidvania through fog-covered ruins and the remnants of a lost world. Explore, gain new abilities and uncover meaning without guidance or dialogue.
Why similar: Metroidvania 30.7%, Post-apocalyptic 16.6%, Puzzle Platformer 15.9%, Platformer 11.8%, Nonlinear 10.6%
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 36.9%, Puzzle Platformer 21.7%, Platformer 15.8%, Cute 8.9%, Puzzle 3.9%
Due to an experiment gone wrong, dust creatures from a parallel world have appeared in the laboratory. They pose a threat because of their bad temper and their habit of ignoring certain laws of physics
Why similar: Metroidvania 30%, Time Manipulation 23.1% ★, Puzzle Platformer 18.1%, Platformer 8.9%, Puzzle 5.2%
Dreeg is a multi-dimensional Metroidvania adventure. Shift between three parallel dimensions to explore, solve puzzles, and battle fierce enemies. Upgrade your Pulsar Suit and Forge to unlock unique abilities. Unravel the mysteries, avenge your fallen companion, and save the multiverse.
Why similar: Metroidvania 30.1%, Puzzle Platformer 18.5%, Cyberpunk 18.5%, Nonlinear 14.3%, Platformer 11.3%
Dive into the conscious and use your brushes to solve puzzles, reclaim forgotten memories.
Why similar: Metroidvania 35.9%, Puzzle Platformer 25.6%, Platformer 10.1%, Nonlinear 8.3%, Cute 7.4%
This is the story of an adventurous little witch and her cat in the paper world. The puzzle mainly tests the player's observation of the stage and the application of elements. Use the cat to eat the elements and use them in the right place to open the channel or get new elements.
Why similar: Metroidvania 36.8%, Puzzle Platformer 22.8%, Platformer 12%, Puzzle 9.5%, Cute 9%
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 32.1%, Puzzle Platformer 24.9%, Nonlinear 16.7%, Platformer 13.5%, Puzzle 9.5%
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 50.9%, Puzzle Platformer 31.3%, Platformer 13.9%, Adventure 2.5%, Indie 1.4%
Lyden Lys is a knowledge-based metroidvania about an existential journey through a lost homeland. Control the surroundings through music, explore a smoldering world, discover what happened to your people, decide the fate of your successors, and find yourself.
Why similar: Metroidvania 34.8%, Puzzle Platformer 20.5%, Nonlinear 14.9%, Platformer 11.9%, Puzzle 8.4%
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 28.4%, Puzzle Platformer 22.4%, Nonlinear 13.4%, Platformer 13%, Puzzle 9.2%
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 40.3%, Puzzle Platformer 22.3%, Nonlinear 15.5%, Platformer 13%, 2D 2.9%
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 38.9%, Puzzle Platformer 23.7%, Platformer 12.9%, Post-apocalyptic 9.9%, Puzzle 6.9%
Alruna; now in wide-screen! A different kind of Metroidvania, a tour-de-force of game design, with world-class temples and dungeons. Dead men yearn for Heaven, but Elysium remains out of their grasp.
Why similar: Metroidvania 35.4%, Puzzle Platformer 16.7%, Platformer 13.9%, Cyberpunk 12%, Puzzle 8.1%
Block is a minimalist platform puzzle game where you explore various bizarre locations and interact with creative scene mechanisms!
Why similar: Metroidvania 43.4%, Puzzle Platformer 24.5%, Platformer 13.5%, Puzzle 8.4%, Casual 3.7%
Enter a macabre and comical silent world filled with mischief, time travel and delicious pie. Includes Steam Achievements, Cloud, and Leaderboards!
Why similar: Time Manipulation 35.3% ★, Platformer 22%, Puzzle Platformer 19.8%, Puzzle 15.8%, 2D 2.8%
Looppip is a magical seed that carries an ancient hourglass with the power to turn back time. Your mission is to save the bee hives, essential for the survival of life on Earth, and reverse the environmental collapse threatening nature.
Why similar: Metroidvania 29%, Time Manipulation 21.8% ★, Puzzle Platformer 17.6%, Platformer 10%, Puzzle 6.8%
Play as Timmy, whisked into a mysterious cat realm invaded by monsters. Journey through enchanting realms, solve puzzles, and harness new abilities to save this world—and maybe your own—in a cozy, dark, and hand-drawn 2D adventure full of secrets and quirky cats.
Why similar: Metroidvania 38.4%, Puzzle Platformer 23.6%, Platformer 14.1%, Puzzle 9.8%, Cute 7.4%
Explore this unique sci-fi style metroidvania-like adventure world. You can acquire a variety of abilities to explore the world and assemble powerful chip combinations. You'll also have the ability to go back in time to change the map's structure and unlock shortcuts.
Why similar: Metroidvania 37.4%, Time Manipulation 22.9% ★, Post-apocalyptic 16.7%, Platformer 14.1%, Sci-fi 4.6%
"Exp10sion" is a pixel-art puzzle platformer. You'll play as a bomb that explodes within 10 seconds. Each explosion respawns the bomb, starts a new round, and generates a "Time Shadow" of your last round. Use your shadow wisely to solve the puzzles!
Why similar: Time Manipulation 36% ★, Puzzle Platformer 25.4%, Platformer 14.9%, Puzzle 10.5%, Pixel Graphics 5.2%
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 38.9%, Puzzle Platformer 29.9%, Platformer 20.5%, Pixel Graphics 5.3%, Adventure 4.3%
You must record your movements and play them back to progress. Use your recorded echoes to weigh down pressure plates, body-block lasers, and trigger springs to launch you across gaps. Master the timeline and complete all 30 time-bending levels.
Why similar: Time Manipulation 39.9% ★, Puzzle Platformer 26.9%, Platformer 13.4%, Puzzle 9.8%, Pixel Graphics 4%
Document an ancient paradise before it's lost forever. Study the behaviour of the EMUUROM creatures and use the gained knowledge to create new paths forward. Slowly, the machinations of the mythic forest sprites begin to unfold.
Why similar: Metroidvania 32.2%, Puzzle Platformer 18.4%, Nonlinear 13.9%, Platformer 10.6%, Puzzle 8.2%
"ChronoRecorder" is a 3D puzzle game. Players can manipulate time and gravity. And you have to use that ability to solve problems. You might think this game is difficult if you don't use your brain.
Why similar: Time Manipulation 41.2% ★, Puzzle Platformer 34.5%, Puzzle 12.7%, Casual 5.7%, Sci-fi 4.9%
RGB Platform is a Metroidvania focused on pure platforming action — move, jump, dash, and attack. Explore the interior of a massive robot, switch between three characters with unique abilities, collect every hidden alphabet, and escape.
Why similar: Metroidvania 31.3%, Platformer 18.4%, Puzzle Platformer 18.4%, Puzzle 11.4%, Casual 6.9%
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 39.5%, Post-apocalyptic 16.6%, Nonlinear 15.5%, Platformer 15%, Pixel Graphics 3.8%
Relax to a story-driven puzzle platforming experience, solving puzzles using quantum entanglement. Entangle objects to find your way through a cave full of mysteries and friends. Embark on your journey through time in search of meaning in a life with no end.
Why similar: Metroidvania 34.4%, Puzzle Platformer 23.7%, Nonlinear 14.1%, Platformer 10.1%, Sci-fi 6.1%
A challenging puzzle-platformer where each jump is a puzzle!
Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 28.4%, Platformer 18.9%, Cyberpunk 17.2%, Puzzle 14.5%, Minimalist 8.4%
NOSTOI is a narrative 3D puzzle and platformer game with a gameplay mechanics based on the physics and time manipulation. The game is about a boy who tries to escape his psychological trauma.
Why similar: Time Manipulation 43.3% ★, Puzzle Platformer 24.7%, Platformer 17.2%, Puzzle 12.6%, Indie 2.2%
"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 32.8%, Puzzle Platformer 27.6%, Platformer 15.7%, Puzzle 10.2%, Pixel Graphics 6.2%
A Retro Metroidvania focused heavily on Exploration, Puzzle Solving Combat and Platforming.
Why similar: Metroidvania 37.5%, Puzzle Platformer 24.5%, Nonlinear 16.3%, Platformer 14%, Pixel Graphics 4.1%
Use and upgrade magic items, collect hidden treasures, and uncover the secrets between two worlds in this cute isometric puzzler! When a certain vacationing Elephant stumbles upon a way into the land of the dead, will she unwittingly let something far more sinister slip through?
Why similar: Metroidvania 30.6%, Puzzle Platformer 19.4%, Nonlinear 16.6%, Platformer 11.9%, Puzzle 8.1%
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 33.1%, Puzzle Platformer 19.6%, Nonlinear 18%, Puzzle 8.1%, Platformer 7.5%
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 37%, Puzzle Platformer 22.6%, Platformer 13.2%, Puzzle 9.4%, Cute 7.6%
A journey begins... A treacherous tower... Unravel its mysteries!Discover the secrets kept in the long abandoned Tesla Tower!Magnetism and other electromagnetic powers will help you explore a non-linear world of beautiful hand-drawn environments, in a steampunk-inspired vision of old Europe.
Why similar: Metroidvania 35.8%, Platformer 23.2%, Puzzle Platformer 15.3%, Puzzle 11.6%, Nonlinear 5%
Join Tiny as he starts his first adventure. Unlock abilities, explore ancient civilisations, and descent into dark caverns or climb the mountain peaks. Tumble, run and hide from dangerous foes, or befriend and fight alongside Tiny's greatest idols.
Why similar: Metroidvania 39.4%, Puzzle Platformer 23.4%, Platformer 10.1%, Nonlinear 7.7%, Pixel Graphics 4.9%
This is the original version of Braid from 2009, which may not work well on newer systems. For an updated version of the game with nicer graphics, more levels and a large amount of developer commentary, see Braid, Anniversary Edition.
Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 40.9%, Time Manipulation 28% ★, Platformer 14.8%, Puzzle 11.5%, 2D 2.1%
A platform-adventure game about time travelling, puzzle solving and a friendship between an Old Inventor and a Snail.
Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 40.8%, Time Manipulation 23.3% ★, Platformer 18%, Puzzle 11.5%, Adventure 3.4%
A time loop metroidbrainia where time is your best resource and secrets are your only upgrades. You're the last of the Weavers, a remnant of a ruined society trapped in a glitching time loop. Explore what remains. Uncover the mystery. Perfect the loop.
Why similar: Metroidvania 27.8%, Time Manipulation 26.8% ★, Puzzle Platformer 15.2%, Platformer 10.2%, Puzzle 8.2%
Escape from a laboratory house in this unique puzzling platformer with a twist! All important objects are randomly placed in the world before the start of the game. Each playthrough will take a different path through the house, but can always be completed. A perfect introduction to Randomizers.
Why similar: Metroidvania 31.3%, Puzzle Platformer 19.5%, Nonlinear 16.9%, Platformer 11.7%, Puzzle 8.2%
