60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Exploration, Puzzle, Singleplayer, Indie.
Escape your subconscious in this psychological puzzle adventure. Explore a surreal, non-linear dreamworld filled with deadly traps and mind-bending puzzles. Navigate your way back to consciousness to reclaim your life... before it slips away forever.
Our Metal Bowl
Explore a broken world. Fight with a silent machine. Solve puzzles that break the rules. The game has already begun, even on this page.
Nonolith
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.
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 29.2%, Nonlinear 13.2%, Exploration 12.1%, Action-Adventure 11.9%, Puzzle 10.3%
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 31.5%, Logic 13%, Nonlinear 13%, Surreal 11.1%, Exploration 9.8%
Constance is a 2D hand-drawn action adventure featuring a paintbrush-wielding artist, striving to escape from a colorful but decaying inner-world, created by her declining mental health.
Why similar: Metroidvania 29.6%, Psychological 19%, Emotional 13.2%, Nonlinear 12.7%, Action-Adventure 8.8%
Explore a vibrant island full of magic and mystery in Nulphia, a top-down story-driven singleplayer adventure.
Why similar: Metroidvania 42.9%, Top-Down 11.8%, Exploration 11.6%, Action-Adventure 11.5%, Puzzle 11.3%
Sliding Hero is a top-down puzzle Metroidvania where movement is key—think carefully, as once you start sliding you won’t stop until you hit something! Imprisoned in a sinister 1700s Venetian villa, explore a world of Carnival mystery, solve devious puzzles, uncover secrets, and unmask your fate.
Why similar: Metroidvania 29%, Nonlinear 14.6%, Logic 10.5%, Puzzle 9%, Top-Down 8.4%
A 2D action-adventure through a surreal, subconscious world. Explore moody dungeons, buildings, and atmospheric lands, evoked by dreamy music and visuals. Help the human Young awaken from their dream!
Why similar: Psychological 25.1%, Nonlinear 16.7%, Surreal 15.1%, Top-Down 11%, Action-Adventure 10.7%
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 42.6%, Top-Down 14%, Puzzle 13%, Exploration 11.9%, Action-Adventure 10.4%
Solve the titan’s riddle, uncovering more hidden rules and connections each time you try
Why similar: Logic 31.8%, Psychological 19.4%, Surreal 14.7%, Puzzle 14.2%, Exploration 13%
2D metroidvania action with a unique control scheme. Forever chase and protect your cursor--but don't ever touch it. Explore the mysterious Forsaken World, navigate through its decay, and learn to fight in a completely new way. Persevere and destroy the Wall that's always been holding you back.
Why similar: Metroidvania 35.8%, Psychological 32.2%, Emotional 13.2%, Exploration 11.2%, Nonlinear 7%
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 28.6%, Logic 19.9%, Nonlinear 10.3%, Puzzle 10.3%, Top-Down 9.9%
As a small flea, explore a mysterious puzzle box filled with shapes and secrets. Gather strange items with hidden abilities, and unravel a trail of clues as you attempt to escape.
Why similar: Metroidvania 40.9%, Exploration 11%, Puzzle 10.8%, Nonlinear 7.6%, Surreal 7.5%
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 43.1%, Exploration 11.9%, Puzzle 10.9%, Nonlinear 10.2%, Surreal 9.8%
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 37.7%, Nonlinear 14.4%, Exploration 11.4%, Top-Down 11%, Puzzle 10.7%
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 33.9%, Nonlinear 16.4%, Puzzle 12.1%, Exploration 11.5%, Mystery 8.5%
A non-linear pure puzzle game where you solve various puzzles using logical reasoning. Explore unknown puzzles in the game world.
Why similar: Metroidvania 49.6%, Logic 26.3%, Puzzle 13.6%, Exploration 10%, Singleplayer 0.5%
Welcome to the desert of Naména, a world sinking into nothingness. Equipped with flask, compass, spyglass, you brave the relentless sun and track the myth of the Distant Meadows—the last refuge of humanity. Explore, solve puzzles, and connect the dots until everything clicks in this Metroidbrainia.
Why similar: Metroidvania 31.7%, Psychological 20.5%, Emotional 12.6%, Puzzle 9.4%, Exploration 9.1%
Locked in the white room and you are slowly losing your mind. Not sure what is real anymore and you must escape.
Why similar: Psychological 30.2%, Nonlinear 22.7%, Puzzle 16.5%, Exploration 14.3%, Mystery 6.4%
Satelital is a puzzle game where you explore forgotten planets, each with a different kind of challenge. Travel through an atmospheric open world from a top-down perspective.
Why similar: Logic 32.4%, Puzzle 17.4%, Exploration 15.2%, Nonlinear 11.5%, Atmospheric 5.7%
Step into the subconscious mind of a brilliant professor, where memories twist, logic bends, and hidden truths await discovery through intricate puzzles
Why similar: Psychological 27.5%, Logic 21.5%, Emotional 15.2%, Surreal 15.1%, Puzzle 11.1%
There Will Be Light is a top-down puzzle adventure in a gloomy but cozy environment. To progress, you have to solve tricky logic puzzles, while defending yourself against enemies. Dive into this cozy but challenging puzzle adventure as you solve riddles and fight your way back to the light.
Why similar: Emotional 16.3%, Psychological 15.6%, Logic 14.9%, Puzzle 10.4%, Top-Down 9.8%
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 52.7%, Exploration 13.5%, Puzzle 11%, Action-Adventure 9.8%, Adventure 5.2%
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 37.3%, Nonlinear 13%, Surreal 12.8%, Exploration 10.3%, Puzzle 10.2%
The Perfect Pencil is a surreal action platformer where exploration and choice shape everything. Discover hidden paths, meet bizarre characters, and unravel a psychological story filled with bizzare humor.
Why similar: Metroidvania 32.9%, Psychological 23.7%, Emotional 10.8%, Action-Adventure 8.8%, Exploration 8.6%
A puzzle game about drawing lines that cross, merge, and interact in unique ways. Uncover secrets, decipher symbols, and trace paths that satisfy every rule.
Why similar: Logic 22.3%, Surreal 15.1%, Nonlinear 14.9%, Top-Down 11.9%, Puzzle 11.9%
Orms follows Sam, a boy lost in a surreal world shaped by his fears. Guided by Kira, he must restore a lighthouse to reconnect with his parents. The game is inspired by Machinarium, but crafted in 3D with expanded locations. It blends emotional storytelling with atmospheric exploration.
Why similar: Psychological 23.6%, Emotional 20.8%, Surreal 12.2%, Puzzle 11.7%, Exploration 10.8%
In this "Arcade Metroidbrainia", the only thing that stops you from progressing are holes in your understanding. Use mechanics in clever unique ways to uncover secrets, or dodge randomly generated hazards to get highscores.
Why similar: Metroidvania 35.4%, Nonlinear 14.2%, Exploration 12.4%, Puzzle 11.5%, Surreal 10.9%
Scale into ever-smaller nested worlds. Shrink into your spaceship's mechanisms. Uncover the fractal worlds within and meet the zany goobers who call them home. Track down the root of the system errors, whether by replacing old gears or getting Grandma Beetle's bakery back in business.
Why similar: Metroidvania 38.2%, Surreal 16.7%, Exploration 14.2%, Logic 8.1%, Puzzle 7.7%
After an experiment gone wrong, the world finds itself split in two! Swap between similar but slightly different versions of the world to explore the remnants of the mysterious company that caused it all. Unlock various abilities, weapons, and upgrades to navigate your way through this broken world!
Why similar: Metroidvania 31.4%, Level Editor 23.5%, Logic 12.2%, Nonlinear 12.1%, Exploration 8.5%
You are trapped in a strange dream from which there is no waking. It is stitched from Chinese nostalgia, childhood echoes, and liminal spaces—where sense and nonsense blend freely. All you can do is keep exploring, until you must choose: return to restless reality, or stay in the dream forever?
Why similar: Psychological 24.4%, Surreal 15.8%, Level Editor 14.8%, Emotional 11.5%, Exploration 10.1%
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 41.3%, Action-Adventure 14%, Exploration 12.3%, Top-Down 12%, Puzzle 11.6%
Wandersky is a skybound top-down adventure with a single arrow and a flying house. Kuu and her companion Tama are on a mission to restore the land of Hyndara. Explore a huge world filled with puzzles, enemies and quests: the sky always carries those who dare to wander…
Why similar: Metroidvania 40%, Emotional 16.4%, Action-Adventure 14.6%, Puzzle 13%, Exploration 12.4%
A small island in the Pacific. The greatest female pilot has vanished. Suffering from severe headaches, our protagonist depends on medication as they search for her, but... What is real and what is hallucination? A Zelda-like mystery adventure to uncover the island's truth.
Why similar: Metroidvania 40.1%, Action-Adventure 13.7%, Puzzle 11%, Top-Down 10.8%, Exploration 10.6%
Discover what it means when you draw the attention of Mr.Moon in this small and bite-sized Metroidvania full of moon cheese. But dont get caught, because death is permanent.
Why similar: Metroidvania 47.8%, Psychological 19.2%, Exploration 11.6%, Mystery 6.5%, Emotional 6.2%
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 48.2%, Exploration 15.8%, Logic 14%, Puzzle 12.3%, Adventure 3.8%
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 64.4%, Action-Adventure 17.7%, Atmospheric 8.9%, Adventure 6.8%, 3D 1.4%
Zapling Bygone is a twisted metroidvania where you murder your foes and steal their abilities by wearing their skulls and absorbing their consciousness into your hive-mind.
Why similar: Metroidvania 35%, Psychological 25.2%, Nonlinear 13.6%, Exploration 9.3%, Action-Adventure 8.1%
Top-down 3D action-adventure with the spirit of 90s classics. Tight combat, handcrafted dungeons, clever puzzles, and modern pacing. Collect enchanted masks to channel primal powers, brave ancient alien trials, and awaken the island’s lost protectors.
Why similar: Metroidvania 30.6%, Top-Down 17.4%, Action-Adventure 16.5%, Exploration 13.2%, Puzzle 12.3%
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 60.1%, Action-Adventure 16.6%, Top-Down 16.3%, Adventure 6.3%, Singleplayer 0.7%
Experience the emotional life of a zombie with his butt stuck in a microwave. It's a 2D platformer with critical thinking based combat where each different enemy feels like a puzzle to solve instead of relying on brute hack & slash tactics.
Why similar: Metroidvania 38.6%, Nonlinear 16%, Emotional 12.6%, Action-Adventure 11.5%, Exploration 10.9%
Protect a psychedelic world from bizarre beasts and punishing bosses in this poetic mystery filled with secrets, puzzles and music.
Why similar: Metroidvania 36.5%, Nonlinear 11.9%, Surreal 11.6%, Top-Down 11.3%, Action-Adventure 9.4%
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 38.9%, Nonlinear 15.1%, Exploration 10.8%, Puzzle 10.7%, Surreal 10%
Identifier = ZERO. Localization = unknown system. Objectives = survive, decrypt, escape. Codes are key. Death is protocol. The sequence begins now.
Why similar: Metroidvania 41.9%, Logic 19.1%, Exploration 13.4%, Puzzle 12%, Mystery 7.2%
Enter a psychological horror experience where a young psychologist must navigate a surreal world shaped by forgotten memories and fears – both her own and those she once tried to heal. Face what was buried. Reclaim what was lost. Escape – before it’s too late.
Why similar: Metroidvania 25.1%, Surreal 18.5%, Action-Adventure 13%, Exploration 11.9%, Atmospheric 8%
Land of Infinite Dreams is a single-player, story-driven action-adventure about Princess Luna, a young girl who escapes into Lunaria — a dreamworld shaped by loss, loneliness, and imagination. She harnesses the power of moonlight to overcome challenges and defeat enemies.
Why similar: Psychological 21.6%, Emotional 14.7%, Surreal 13.7%, Action-Adventure 12.9%, Exploration 8.3%
Symbols have never had such an impact on a person’s fate. Meet a new part of a fascinating mystical doors puzzle. This time you will have to face the ruins of the past, hiding the secret of a vanished civilization.
Why similar: Metroidvania 32.5%, Logic 22.1%, Puzzle 12.8%, Exploration 10%, Atmospheric 8.6%
Enter Rattle Spring Resort, immerse yourself in a surreal world, and uncover the truth behind the mystery of a missing girl. Solve interconnected puzzles, explore unsettling spaces, and piece together a story that refuses to stay buried. A surreal atmospheric escape game inspired by Rusty Lake.
Why similar: Psychological 34.9%, Puzzle 16%, Surreal 14.9%, Emotional 10.6%, Atmospheric 9.9%
Weapon Devourer is a psychological horror game with souls-like and 1930's cartoon vibes, blending subtle puzzles. Battle sentient weapons, dodge their attacks, metamorphose into a fearsome entity to overcome powerful challenges, and synthesize mighty combinations by diving into the Shield's belly.
Why similar: Metroidvania 34%, Nonlinear 13.7%, Exploration 11%, Puzzle 10.7%, Top-Down 10.3%
Live the adventure of Torkin, prisoner of STRONGLOWEEN. Discover powerful items and fight bosses that will prevent you and other prisoners from escaping. Strongloween holds many secrets, will you discover them all?
Why similar: Metroidvania 44.3%, Action-Adventure 14.5%, Puzzle 12.9%, Exploration 12.4%, Logic 9.4%
A narrative game about grief, memory, and perception. Explore a shifting home that reshapes itself around emotion. What you’re willing to face will determine what you find, or what stays hidden.
Why similar: Psychological 26.9%, Exploration 14.3%, Surreal 12.4%, Emotional 12.1%, Logic 9.2%
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 38.8%, Psychological 14.7%, Nonlinear 13.5%, Exploration 10.7%, Puzzle 10.2%
A hand-drawn, pacifist, folkloric, bullet-hell. Grapple and dance around monsters to collect their shattered stars, weave your way through twisting paths, encounter strange folk, uncover ancient magic, and evade forgotten gods in this frenetic 2D action-adventure.
Why similar: Metroidvania 31%, Surreal 14.1%, Nonlinear 13.7%, Action-Adventure 10.5%, Exploration 10.1%
Kaori is a first-person puzzle and adventure game. Explore ancient ruins on a sun-drenched archipelago and uncover the many mysteries of a lost civilization.
Why similar: Metroidvania 43.2%, Puzzle 14.7%, Exploration 13.5%, Adventure 8.3%, Nonlinear 7.7%
말할 수 없는 아이 ‘노아’가 되어 멸망해가는 세상을 여행해보세요. 모종의 이유로 인류는 큰 재앙 속에 빠졌으며, 우리가 살던 시대의 인류는 거의 사라지기 직전입니다. 여러분은 작은 해파리 로봇과 함께 과거를 여행하며 그 이유를 알아보게 됩니다.
Why similar: Surreal 18.8%, Psychological 16.1%, Emotional 12.9%, Exploration 12.9%, Top-Down 12.8%
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 36.4%, Nonlinear 15.1%, Action-Adventure 10.5%, Top-Down 10.2%, Exploration 10.2%
A creature-scanning metroidvania. Explore an ancient paradise before it's lost forever. Study the EMUUROM creatures, document your findings in the EMUUDEX, and use what you learn to unlock new paths.
Why similar: Metroidvania 35.2%, Nonlinear 14.4%, Surreal 13.7%, Exploration 9.9%, Puzzle 9.5%
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Why similar: Metroidvania 37.7%, Logic 17.6%, Exploration 11.6%, Action-Adventure 11.3%, Emotional 10.7%
A 3D Survival-Horror Metroidvania in a vast, interconnected tower ruled by cryptic systems, strange residents and esoteric mysteries...
Why similar: Metroidvania 37.1%, Nonlinear 16.1%, Surreal 14.8%, Action-Adventure 10.6%, Exploration 10.3%
Memory’s Reach is a first person puzzle-adventure metroidvania. Explore labyrinthian megastructures, solve mind-bending puzzles, and wield fantastic alien technology in a quest to reveal the legacy of a doomed civilization.
Why similar: Metroidvania 31.2%, Logic 17.8%, Nonlinear 10.8%, Puzzle 10.7%, Exploration 10%
A young girl, suffering from sensory abnormalities, finds herself in a thrilling adventure fighting with her imagination.
Why similar: Psychological 18.6%, Emotional 17.5%, Surreal 15.8%, Puzzle 13.3%, Exploration 12.8%
Wander in the Threshold, where your memories are the key. Can you face what still lingers ? An emotional story-driven exploration game in eerie liminal spaces.
Why similar: Psychological 20.2%, Emotional 18.2%, Surreal 13.8%, Exploration 11.7%, Mystery 9%
