Games Like Chrono Gear: Warden of Time

Touhou Luna Nights is a Metroidvania title with a heavy emphasis on exploration and action. Developed by Team Ladybug, creators of multiple fantastic action games thus far.

Why similar: Time Manipulation 35.4% ★, Female Protagonist 13%, Side Scroller 10.7%, Anime 9.1%, Platformer 8.4%

Why You'll Like It: An exceptional metroidvania that centers entirely around time-stopping and manipulation within a beautiful pixel-art anime world.

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: Time Manipulation 27.2% ★, Time Travel 16.9% ★, 2D Platformer 12.6%, Female Protagonist 10.8%, Side Scroller 8.4%

Why You'll Like It: Combines a compelling female-led narrative with time-travel mechanics and classic 2D platforming exploration.

Katana ZERO is a stylish neo-noir, action-platformer featuring breakneck action and instant-death combat. Slash, dash, and manipulate time to unravel your past in a beautifully brutal acrobatic display.

Why similar: Time Manipulation 33.7% ★, 2D Platformer 21.8%, Pixel Graphics 16.9%, Platformer 13.2%, Action 7.9%

Why You'll Like It: Offers intense, one-hit-kill action where time manipulation is essential for survival and cinematic execution.

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: Female Protagonist 21.5%, Side Scroller 17%, Platformer 14.8%, Anime 14.1%, Pixel Graphics 11.9%

Why You'll Like It: A fast-paced, momentum-based action platformer that emphasizes speed and combat with multiple female protagonists.

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: 2D Platformer 22.2%, Platformer 13.3%, Anime 12.6%, Side Scroller 12.5%, Female Protagonist 10.6%

Why You'll Like It: Provides the same high-energy, anime-inspired action platforming with a focus on unique character abilities.

A 2D Metroidvania-style game developed under the supervision of Ryo Mizuno, depicting the story of Deedlit and the events leading up to Record of Lodoss War: Diadem of the Covenant. Use a variety of weapons and spirit powers to unravel the mystery of the labyrinth.

Why similar: Female Protagonist 24.3%, Anime 17.2%, Platformer 14.8%, Pixel Graphics 12.7%, Metroidvania 8.8%

Why You'll Like It: Features fluid, high-quality pixel art and a female protagonist with elemental powers that feel similar to cinematic action games.

Perceive the future in this time-loop metroidvania.

Why similar: Time Manipulation 27.5% ★, Time Travel 25.5% ★, 2D Platformer 13%, Female Protagonist 9.7%, Platformer 6.8%

Why You'll Like It: A unique metroidvania that forces players to navigate time-loops to solve puzzles and overcome platforming challenges.

As a demon army besieges his village, a young ninja ventures through a cursed world, to deliver a scroll paramount to his clan’s survival. What begins as a classic action platformer soon unravels into an expansive time-traveling adventure full of thrills, surprises, and humor.

Why similar: Time Travel 20% ★, 2D Platformer 17.5%, Platformer 16.5%, Pixel Graphics 14.2%, Metroidvania 8.5%

Why You'll Like It: A high-octane action platformer that utilizes time-travel mechanics to shift between two distinct visual and gameplay eras.

Dodge bullets, missiles and lasers in battle as you wrap your head around that bunny girl costume! Combo away with your mighty Piko Hammer or spam various spells from afar with your fiery fairy friend. Explore and explode through Rabi-Rabi Island as you collect power-ups and uncover secrets...

Why similar: Female Protagonist 19.4%, Anime 16.5%, Side Scroller 13.5%, Platformer 10.6%, Pixel Graphics 10.5%

Why You'll Like It: An anime-styled metroidvania that offers deep combat systems and exploration with a female lead.

"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: Female Protagonist 16.5%, Anime 14.3%, Side Scroller 13%, Pixel Graphics 10.1%, Platformer 10%

Why You'll Like It: A polished action platformer with a strong female lead and a dark, atmospheric pixel-art style.

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: Female Protagonist 30%, Platformer 18.3%, Pixel Graphics 12.9%, Metroidvania 10.3%, Action 9%

Why You'll Like It: A fast-paced action platformer with a female protagonist and a heavy emphasis on fluid, aerial combat.

In order to save their school after it turns into a massive demonic castle, two "Demon Hunter" sisters slash and shoot their way through this 2D action adventure. Players can swap between control of both characters on the fly, each with entirely different skillsets.

Why similar: 2D Platformer 24.6%, Female Protagonist 15.6%, Side Scroller 13.4%, Anime 13.4%, Platformer 12.2%

Why You'll Like It: A 2D action platformer featuring two distinct female protagonists with unique abilities that can be swapped on the fly.

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: Female Protagonist 18.5%, Anime 17.1%, Side Scroller 13.6%, Pixel Graphics 11.7%, Platformer 9.1%

Why You'll Like It: Combines intricate bullet-hell combat with metroidvania exploration and a distinct anime aesthetic.

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: 2D Platformer 22.1%, Female Protagonist 19.4%, Platformer 11.8%, Anime 11.6%, Pixel Graphics 10.3%

Why You'll Like It: A story-rich action platformer with a strong female protagonist and a steampunk-inspired world.

Ageless is a story driven puzzle platformer where you must alter the age of animals and plant life around you to progress. Play as Kiara, a young girl who braves through heartache and loss as she journeys across a mysterious world to discovers its secrets and herself.

Why similar: Time Manipulation 27.7% ★, Female Protagonist 17.4%, 2D Platformer 15.6%, Platformer 10.4%, Pixel Graphics 9.4%

Why You'll Like It: A puzzle-platformer where the core mechanic involves manipulating the age of objects to navigate the environment.

Super Alloy Ranger is a 2D side-scrolling action game. Play as Marksman Kelly or Combat Robot No.2 to challenge different levels within the dangerous Machine Empire and unlock new weapons. Use Kelly’s shooting and No.2’s deathblows to defeat abnormal Machine Bosses!

Why similar: 2D Platformer 39.3%, Pixel Graphics 18.6%, Action 15.7%, Action-Adventure 9.6%, Female Protagonist 6.3%

Why You'll Like It: A fast-paced sci-fi action platformer that captures the same responsive combat feel found in modern indie titles.

Ingression is an unforgiving & mind-bending precision platformer where you'll think and platform with seamless portals. Travel to the future to save the past from a tremendous time paradox.

Why similar: Time Travel 26.6% ★, 2D Platformer 20.1%, Female Protagonist 15.9%, Platformer 11.2%, Pixel Graphics 9.1%

Why You'll Like It: A precision platformer that integrates time-based mechanics into its challenging level design.

AeternoBlade II: Infinity, new patch in 4K is a hardcore action-puzzle game of Time-Manipulation Combat. Control the flow of time, amend the past, foresee the future, convolute with alternate timelines to fight otherwise undefeatable foes and circumvent the impossible.

Why similar: Time Manipulation 52.1% ★, Female Protagonist 14.4%, Time Travel 9.9% ★, Action 9.6%, Action-Adventure 3.7%

Why You'll Like It: An action-focused title that heavily features time manipulation as a core combat and puzzle-solving tool.

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: Female Protagonist 25%, 2D Platformer 20.8%, Pixel Graphics 16%, Platformer 13.7%, Metroidvania 10.1%

Why You'll Like It: A sci-fi metroidvania that emphasizes fluid movement and challenging combat in a sprawling, interconnected world.

CRYMACHINA is an action RPG where mechanical girls strive to survive in a post-apocalyptic world to become “Real Humans''. But what does it mean to be a “Real Human”?

Why similar: Anime 34.9%, Female Protagonist 28.4%, Action 17.6%, Action-Adventure 11.9%, Colorful 6.5%

Why You'll Like It: An anime-style action RPG that focuses on female protagonists and high-speed combat encounters.

Help the young cyborg-girl Meta , in her battle against the evil "General Creeper" who kidnap her creator and her sisters! Collect new powers in order to face the advanced levels, in this fun and furious , platformer-shooter

Why similar: Female Protagonist 30.2%, Platformer 17%, Action 14.8%, Pixel Graphics 12.8%, Anime 11.6%

Why You'll Like It: A classic-style action platformer that focuses on tight controls and a female protagonist fighting through robotic enemies.

ENDER LILIES is a dark fantasy 2D action RPG about unraveling the mysteries of a destroyed kingdom. On this sorrowful journey, encounter horrific enemies against whom a moment of inattention could be fatal. Overcome these hardships and seek the truth with the help of fallen knights.

Why similar: Female Protagonist 49.4%, Metroidvania 20.2%, Anime 12.6%, 2D 6.4%, Action 5.2%

Why You'll Like It: An atmospheric action platformer with a female lead and a focus on cinematic, melancholic storytelling.

Nine Sols is a lore rich, hand-drawn 2D action-platformer featuring Sekiro-inspired deflection focused combat. Embark on a journey of eastern fantasy, explore the land once home to an ancient alien race, and follow a vengeful hero’s quest to slay the 9 Sols, formidable rulers of this forsaken realm.

Why similar: Platformer 33.9%, Metroidvania 21.4%, Action 16.6%, 2D 11.2%, Action-Adventure 8.2%

Why You'll Like It: A fast-paced, parry-focused action game with a distinct anime-inspired art style and challenging combat.

Cris Tales is a gorgeous, indie love letter to classic JRPGs with a new perspective. Peer into the past, act in the present, and watch as your choices dynamically change the future -- all on one screen as you play!

Why similar: Time Manipulation 31.9% ★, Time Travel 24.3% ★, Female Protagonist 16.9%, Anime 11.2%, Action 5.1%

Why You'll Like It: A JRPG that uses time-travel mechanics as a central pillar for both its narrative and turn-based combat system.

XEL is an epic 3D sci-fi fantasy action-adventure. Explore the mysterious world of XEL and help protagonist Reid to uncover her enigmatic past. Make new friends and foes along the way and collect exciting gadgets to master challenging dungeons and solve time bending puzzles.

Why similar: Time Manipulation 40.6% ★, Time Travel 28.7% ★, Female Protagonist 14.8%, Action-Adventure 4.5%, Action 4.1%

Why You'll Like It: An action-adventure game that incorporates time-manipulation mechanics and a female lead in a sci-fi setting.

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: Female Protagonist 29.1%, Pixel Graphics 17.5%, Platformer 12.7%, Metroidvania 9.9%, Action 9%

Why You'll Like It: Features a strong female protagonist and a blend of action, platforming, and environmental puzzles.

Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night is an exploration-focused, side-scroller action RPG by Koji Igarashi. Play as Miriam, an orphan scarred by an alchemist's curse that slowly crystallizes her body. Battle through a demon-infested castle and defeat its master to save yourself, and all of humanity!

Why similar: Female Protagonist 30.6%, Metroidvania 16.2%, Anime 16%, Side Scroller 15.1%, Platformer 10.2%

Why You'll Like It: A deep action-RPG metroidvania featuring a female protagonist and extensive combat customization.

The world has been taken over by synthetic lifeforms. A desperate plea for help sets Shadow, the sole survivor of his clan, on one last mission to uncover what started the path to perpetual ruin.

Why similar: 2D Platformer 17.9%, Anime 17.2%, Platformer 16.1%, Pixel Graphics 14.5%, Side Scroller 12%

Why You'll Like It: A classic-feeling action platformer that prioritizes fast, responsive movement and challenging boss encounters.

Dragon Loop is a metroidvania combining time travel and branching map design. Explore the large open world in a five day loop, opening up new worldlines. Explore a 2D, hand-drawn world, engage in fast-paced battles, and retrieve memories to shape the future.

Why similar: Time Manipulation 33.5% ★, Time Travel 27.7% ★, Female Protagonist 12.4%, Side Scroller 6.4%, Metroidvania 4.2%

Ink and blood stain the streets of Ramezia. Witches must burn and sins must be judged. Venture forth as Sister Semilla to burn down the pillars of heresy in Minoria, an action-platformer by Bombservice, creators of Momodora.

Why similar: Female Protagonist 35.6%, Anime 21.6%, Metroidvania 12.1%, Action 11.8%, Platformer 6.4%

Why You'll Like It: A cinematic action platformer with a female protagonist and a dark, hand-drawn art style.

Run, jump, rewind, and avoid a time paradox? A time-traveling gal changes the past where she drank tapioca to prevent the extinction of humanity in this time-loop action puzzle game!

Why similar: Time Manipulation 48.5% ★, Time Travel 40.9% ★, Action 7.6%, Indie 1.9%, Singleplayer 1.1%

Ariana must restore the Codices and unravel the Library's hidden truths...

Why similar: 2D Platformer 23.4%, Platformer 16%, Anime 15.6%, Female Protagonist 13.2%, Action 9.6%

Rewind, rethink, redo. COGEN is a brand-new kind of 2D action game where there's no time for death.

Why similar: Time Manipulation 41% ★, 2D Platformer 15%, Female Protagonist 13.4%, Side Scroller 10.7%, Pixel Graphics 7.8%

Help Puzzled Cat use jetpacks, portals, bombs, gum, and more to conquer treacherous platforming stages. Play your own way using save states to explore a world full of challenges and secrets - but can you find the way through? Travel through time and space and reach enlightenment.

Why similar: Time Manipulation 47.9% ★, 2D Platformer 18.1%, Platformer 8.4%, Side Scroller 8.1%, Pixel Graphics 5.6%

Retro-style platform game in keeping with the best traditions of games of our childhood! Take control of the Himari, the young female wizard travelling across various ages to settle the balance in time across the whole world!

Why similar: Time Manipulation 34.3% ★, Female Protagonist 12.6%, 2D Platformer 10.6%, Anime 9.4%, Platformer 7.1%

Play as Shiranui Flare in this retro action platformer, wielding her dual pistols, as you explore the world on a quest to save your friends!

Why similar: 2D Platformer 23.4%, Platformer 13.5%, Pixel Graphics 11.6%, Anime 11.5%, Female Protagonist 9.8%

A deadly factory surrounds you. The manipulation of time is necessary to escape this underground facility. Use your wit, your laser blaster, and your time-warping abilities to face your demise head-on and triumph!

Why similar: Time Manipulation 43.7% ★, Time Travel 22.7% ★, Platformer 11.3%, Action 8.9%, Pixel Graphics 7.9%

Travel through time and help Mai and her Grandfather uncover the mysteries of the world after the Last Great War. Explore the connections between ancient eras and dystopian futures in an adventure that blends thrilling combat with precision platforming.

Why similar: Time Manipulation 39.8% ★, Time Travel 33.6% ★, Female Protagonist 13.4%, Action 5.6%, Metroidvania 5%

Rosenkreuzstilette is a mega-action-platformer game in which you step into the shoes of Spiritia Rosenberg, a virtuous young woman caught on the wrong side of a revolution instigated by her closest friends.

Why similar: Female Protagonist 18.8%, Anime 15.9%, 2D Platformer 13.5%, Side Scroller 13.2%, Platformer 12.2%

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: 2D Platformer 24.2%, Pixel Graphics 15.7%, Female Protagonist 11.1%, Platformer 9.2%, Side Scroller 9.2%

Shiro is an adventure platformer in which you have to find your missing sister

Why similar: 2D Platformer 22.7%, Platformer 14.7%, Side Scroller 12.1%, Anime 11.3%, Action 10.1%

The heroine who lost her memory was trapped in a five-day loop. Connect with your partners to travel through a world with strange time changes, continue to become stronger, retrieve memories, and understand the truth. The game is a time loop Metroidvania.

Why similar: Time Manipulation 42% ★, Time Travel 26.7% ★, Female Protagonist 9.9%, 2D Platformer 9.3%, Metroidvania 4.1%

"A Timely Intervention" is an innovative RPG featuring animated battle visuals, polished gameplay mechanisms, an intricate storyline and a cast of colourful characters. Developed by the team behind "The Tale of a Common Man", it's a must-have for fans of the genre!

Why similar: Time Travel 35.1% ★, Time Manipulation 24.9% ★, Female Protagonist 16.8%, Anime 10.5%, Pixel Graphics 5.7%

Virtua Unlimited Project is a 2D pixel-art style ACT game featuring VTuber characters. With classical platformer gameplay, challenging combat, and retro game feelings, VUP presents you a surreal, virtual world in which you will play as Aizawa Kana to venture and seek the truth beneath.

Why similar: 2D Platformer 34.7%, Anime 19.6%, Pixel Graphics 13.9%, Female Protagonist 9.7%, Action 8.8%

Fight your way across the celestial world of Avalice where cats are green, motorcycles drive up walls and monster girls do most of the buttkicking! Freedom Planet is a cartoony, combat-based platform adventure that pits a spunky dragonoid and her friends against an alien attack force.

Why similar: Female Protagonist 27.4%, Platformer 24.5%, Pixel Graphics 13%, Action 8.7%, Anime 6.7%

Feel-good, high-impact 2D action with two hearts as one. Time for a powerful, vivid “Action Date”!

Why similar: 2D Platformer 37.4%, Anime 12%, Action 9.5%, Platformer 9.4%, Side Scroller 8.2%

Evergate is a haunting 2D puzzle-platformer set in a stunning hand-drawn vision of the Afterlife with an original score recorded by a live orchestra. Navigate 85 challenging stages and unleash the extraordinary powers of the genre-defining 'Soulflame' to help a lost soul reincarnate on earth!

Why similar: Time Manipulation 42% ★, 2D Platformer 19.8%, Female Protagonist 16.1%, Platformer 10.9%, Action 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: 2D Platformer 20.1%, Female Protagonist 14.9%, Anime 13%, Side Scroller 12.3%, Platformer 10.8%

Take control of one of three playable characters (Gunvolt, Ekoro, and Beck) as you blast your way past the baddies in stage after stage of side-scrolling action! Each stage ends with a boss encounter. Defeat the boss to complete the stage.

Why similar: Platformer 29.3%, Side Scroller 21.7%, Pixel Graphics 21.1%, Action 20.7%, Indie 7%

YesterMorrow is a single-player time travelling 2D platformer, mixing action sequences with puzzle elements. Follow the engaging story of Yui, who travels back into the past to save her family and the remnants of a world now trapped in Never-ending Night.

Why similar: Time Travel 22.3% ★, Platformer 16.3%, Pixel Graphics 15.3%, Action 15%, Female Protagonist 12.4%

Momodora III is a classic action platform game with a variety of items and secrets. It's the third installment of the Momodora series, although playing the previous titles is not necessary to enjoy the game!

Why similar: Female Protagonist 25.1%, Platformer 18.5%, Anime 16.6%, Pixel Graphics 15.1%, Action 9.1%

A colorful action platformer with metroidvania elements and a staff that unlocks unique combat techniques and new ways to overcome obstacles. Explore beautiful worlds, fight monsters, and help Mako stop the amber storms that poison all living things.

Why similar: 2D Platformer 24.6%, Female Protagonist 18.5%, Side Scroller 12.5%, Platformer 12%, Pixel Graphics 8.4%

Hop in the Paladin power armor, seize melee weapons from the demonic invaders and give them a taste of their own medicine!

Why similar: 2D Platformer 32.4%, Anime 16.3%, Platformer 14.5%, Pixel Graphics 13.8%, Action 7.8%

Battle your way through a biopunk and Japanese mythology-inspired landscape filled with over-the-top, hip hop-infused 2D action. A single hit means death, but use your time-bending skills to take down your oppressors and you might yet save your dying nation.

Why similar: Female Protagonist 32.7%, Pixel Graphics 28.1%, Action 17.1%, Action-Adventure 11.4%, 2D 10.7%

Amaterasu and her yokai army rule over feudal Japan. Switch in real time between Kensei and Ayame to defeat the goddess in this intense, 16-bit action platformer with Metroidvania elements and gorgeous pixel art.

Why similar: 2D Platformer 21.2%, Side Scroller 14.7%, Female Protagonist 14.4%, Platformer 13.1%, Pixel Graphics 11.5%

Swing, climb, grab, and throw in this action platformer where you can grapple anywhere! Using Rena's magic bracelets, hook onto any surface to swing wherever you like, or grab your foes to send them hurtling into each other!

Why similar: Female Protagonist 29.3%, Action 25%, Platformer 20%, Pixel Graphics 11.7%, Indie 9.8%

A fast-paced platformer where you can slash, dash, and control time. Slow down the frenzy of combat and find the right moment to strike! Then, aim the 360-degree dash and zoom away at lightning speed! Master your abilities to maneuver around obstacles and vaporize foes before they can touch you.

Why similar: 2D Platformer 29.8%, Side Scroller 17.2%, Platformer 15.8%, Pixel Graphics 12.1%, Action 7.2%

Your Kingdom’s fate relies on you… you… and you. Rewind time to create clones of your past-selves, and fight with an army of your own. Become legion and triumph over hordes of monsters to rescue Antala in this tactical action game.

Why similar: Female Protagonist 53.6%, Action 33.7%, Indie 8.3%, Singleplayer 4.4%

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: Side Scroller 17.2%, Anime 16.1%, Platformer 14.6%, Female Protagonist 12.2%, Pixel Graphics 10.6%

Hardcore action platformer with multiple endings that depend on your choices.

Why similar: Female Protagonist 20.1%, 2D Platformer 16%, Side Scroller 15.9%, Platformer 14.2%, Anime 12%