- #1 DragonLoop
97% matchVery Positive93% of 592 reviews2025
Dev: 沙因
Windows
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 Travel 30.4% ★, Time Manipulation 28.5% ★, Metroidvania 19.9%, Female Protagonist 6.9%, Action-Adventure 3.8%
- #2 RewindGirl
96% matchVery Positive92% of 88 reviews2025
Dev: べすとまん
Windows
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 Travel 47.9% ★, Time Manipulation 44% ★, Action 5.6%, Indie 1.3%, Singleplayer 0.8%
- #3 Vision Soft Reset
96% matchVery Positive89% of 157 reviews2019
Dev: Seafloor Games LLC
Windows
Perceive the future in this time-loop metroidvania.
Why similar: Time Travel 31.4% ★, Time Manipulation 26.3% ★, Metroidvania 21.8%, Female Protagonist 6.1%, 2D Platformer 6%
- #4 Dragon Maiden: Blossoms of the Past
95% matchMostly Positive78% of 65 reviews2025
Dev: 不兼容性工作室Pub: 2P Games
Windows
Dragon Maiden is a 2D pixel-art mystery adventure. As Wang Xie, you’re trapped in a time loop on the day of the Mountain God Ceremony. Relive the 22 hours before midnight, uncover the truth behind the village’s destruction, and break free from the cycle.
Why similar: Female Protagonist 55.8%, Adventure 28.4%, 2D 10.3%, Indie 5.5%
- #5 Timespinner
94% matchVery Positive86% of 3,145 reviews2018
Dev: Lunar Ray GamesPub: Chucklefish
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 5.7 hrsMean: 8.0 hrs≥1hr: 90%
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 30% ★, Time Travel 23.9% ★, Metroidvania 23.6%, Female Protagonist 7.9%, 2D Platformer 6.7%
- #6 Hexed Time
94% matchVery Positive97% of 109 reviews2025
Dev: Petra Emmer
Windows
Play as a witch living in secret among villagers in this hand-drawn narrative puzzle adventure. An attempt to change fate traps her in a time loop. Help the witch and her cat escape without getting caught by the inquisition. Your choices shape the outcome.
Why similar: Time Manipulation 54.6% ★, Time Travel 29.3% ★, Female Protagonist 11.5%, Adventure 2.2%, 2D 1.6%
- #7 Pages of Time: Prologue
93% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 2,937 reviews2022
Dev: Starbeings Studio
Windows
Pages of Time: Prologue is a 2D platformer puzzle game. Play as the witch who controls the magic of time, in a beautiful and magnificent magic academy, utilize the skills of recording and rewinding time, solve all kinds of puzzles, and look forward to the adventure of the future.
Why similar: Metroidvania 38.5%, 2D Platformer 17.9%, Hand-drawn 12.6%, Cute 10.8%, RPG 7.4%
- #8 The Holy Gosh Darn
92% matchVery Positive96% of 335 reviews2024
Dev: Perfectly ParanormalPub: Yogscast Games
Windows
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 16.4 hrs≥1hr: 93%
Play as Cassiel, a foul-mouthed angel trapped in a time loop with a mission to save Heaven. Use the magical clock bestowed upon you from Death (yes, that Death, from Manual Samuel, stop asking) to jump between timelines across Heaven, Hell, Earth and Helheim to stop Heaven from going boom. Again.
Why similar: Time Travel 43.4% ★, Metroidvania 33.6%, Action-Adventure 9.9%, Adventure 5.2%, Female Protagonist 3.2%
- #9 Chrono Gear: Warden of Time
91% matchOverwhelmingly Positive99% of 960 reviews2025
Dev: Team Chrono GearPub: holo Indie
Windows · Linux
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 8.7 hrs≥1hr: 69%
Turn back the clock and fight to repair Time itself in this cinematic action platformer with fast sword combat and time-based powers. You are the Warden of Time, Ouro Kronii - be proud and fight hard!
Why similar: Time Manipulation 42.1% ★, Time Travel 26.7% ★, Female Protagonist 9.9%, 2D Platformer 9.2%, Metroidvania 4.1%
- #10 Taimumari: Definitive Edition
91% matchMostly Positive78% of 308 reviews2015
Dev: TERNOX
Windows · Linux
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 4.1 hrs≥1hr: 91%
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 55.1% ★, Female Protagonist 13.4%, 2D Platformer 8.2%, Cute 5.9%, Action 5.5%
- #11 YesterMorrow
90% matchMixed67% of 66 reviews2020
Dev: Bitmap GalaxyPub: Blowfish Studios
Windows
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 39.9% ★, Action 16.9%, Cute 11.5%, Female Protagonist 11.4%, Adventure 10.3%
- #12 Future Proof
89% matchVery Positive88% of 75 reviews2018
Dev: Silhouette Valley Games
Windows
Quirky, top-down puzzle adventure game. You’re trapped in a 12-minute time loop. Try to save yourself and a small town from destruction from a meteorite. Solve intuitive puzzles, interact with the people of the town, and discover the secrets of the town. Discover the 15 different endings!
Why similar: Time Travel 64.8% ★, Time Manipulation 21.9% ★, RPG 4.5%, Adventure 3.4%, 2D 2.6%
- #13 Super Puzzled Cat
86% matchVery Positive99% of 200 reviews2025
Dev: Penguin Mug Games
Windows
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 68.6% ★, 2D Platformer 12.6%, Cute 6.8%, Action 4%, 2D 3%
- #14 Nyaruru Fishy Fight
86% matchVery Positive90% of 1,781 reviews2023
Dev: 赤瞳大白猫
Windows · Linux
Median: 6.1 hrsMean: 27.4 hrs≥1hr: 83%
This game is a Metroidvania game with intense battle. Explore the world and collection power-ups with your cute cat girl! When magic curse suddenly occurred in a small town and all the residents grew cat ears, the real cat girl Nyaruru started her way to uncover the truth...
Why similar: Metroidvania 49.2%, Female Protagonist 13.5%, 2D Platformer 12.4%, Cute 8.6%, Action-Adventure 7%
- #15 Star Leaping Story:prologue
85% matchVery Positive95% of 123 reviews2024
Dev: ZerovHao
Windows
Players will use a unique dash system to navigate through various obstacles! The main challenges lie in maneuvering skills and reaction speed, utilizing it to complete different levels in the game, gradually piecing together the truth of the story. This is a free-to-play prologue version.
Why similar: Female Protagonist 30.3%, 2D Platformer 26.9%, Cute 15%, Action 14.5%, Adventure 7.2%
- #16 Mai: Child of Ages
84% matchVery Positive93% of 284 reviews2025
Dev: Chubby Pixel
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 18.8 hrs≥1hr: 88%
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 Travel 33.5% ★, Time Manipulation 30.7% ★, Metroidvania 21.3%, Female Protagonist 6.8%, Action 3.5%
- #17 Ageless
87% matchMixed56% of 406 reviews2020
Dev: One More Dream StudiosPub: Team17 Digital Ltd
Windows
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 5.0 hrs≥1hr: 91%
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 36% ★, Metroidvania 24.8%, Female Protagonist 14.8%, 2D Platformer 9.6%, Adventure 4.5%
- #18 Ariana and the Elder Codex
81% matchMostly Positive78% of 126 reviews2026
Dev: Idea FactoryPub: Idea Factory International, Inc.
Windows
Ariana must restore the Codices and unravel the Library's hidden truths...
Why similar: Metroidvania 55.2%, 2D Platformer 11.4%, Action-Adventure 9.6%, Action 9.1%, Female Protagonist 6.8%
- #19 Super Drift Blade
79% matchVery Positive96% of 385 reviews2025
Dev: Liujiajun
Windows
Most of your actions have been taken away. In each time loop, slide the mouse to kill monsters, crack the puzzles locked by knowledge, and explore the hidden paths! Go deeper in a limited time and discover the truth of the world.
Why similar: Time Manipulation 78.3% ★, Hand-drawn 8.6%, Action 5.1%, Adventure 3.6%, 2D 2.9%
- #20 Elementcore Revelations: Journey Prologue
82% matchMixed68% of 158 reviews2023
Dev: Dongguan Liuli Game Technology Co.,LtdPub: Dongguan Liuli Game Technology Co.,Ltd
Windows
The balance of the elements has been disrupted and long-disappeared monsters have reappeared. The youths have embarked on a dangerous journey. Join them and unravel the mystery of the royal family that has lasted for thousands of years and restore this broken world!
Why similar: Dragons 48.6% ★, RPG 15.4%, Cute 15%, Adventure 9.1%, 2D 7.1%
- #21 Vigorus
81% matchVery Positive84% of 93 reviews2022
Dev: HagiciansPub: MAGIC Spell Studios
Windows · Mac
Vigorus is a visually stunning rhythm platformer, a musical adventure into a bizarre world, with a talking frog puppet as your guide. While playing, become our girl Vigorus, retrieve the memory once was lost, and help your little companion to save the world from monsters.
Why similar: Female Protagonist 35%, 2D Platformer 32.5%, Cute 17.2%, 2D 5.7%, Indie 3.3%
- #22 Time Lock VR 1
82% matchMostly Positive73% of 808 reviews2017
Dev: WR-VRGPub: Whale Rock Games
Windows
Median: 18 minMean: 19.9 hrs≥1hr: 36%
A VR puzzle game with sci-fi and escape room elements: control time, solve challenges, fight enemies, and explore worlds across different timelines.
Why similar: Time Manipulation 44.4% ★, Time Travel 37.5% ★, Action-Adventure 7.4%, Action 4.9%, Adventure 2.2%
- #23 Dragon Spirits 2 : Prologue
79% matchVery Positive97% of 77 reviews2024
Dev: FHNBHJ
Windows
In this modern urban-themed RPG, you can collect 80+ different dragon spirits, experiment with skill setups, assemble teams, and devise strategies to build your dragon spirit squad. Adventure through the virtual spaces in Metapolis, and uncover the conspiracy behind it all.
Why similar: Dragons 65.3% ★, Female Protagonist 16.5%, RPG 7.4%, Adventure 4.1%, 2D 2.9%
- #24 START AGAIN: a prologue
78% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 656 reviews2021
Dev: insertdisc5
Windows
Median: 2.1 hrsMean: 6.0 hrs≥1hr: 66%
timeloop depression station ✦ In Stars and Time's prototype-thingy-thing
Why similar: Time Travel 89.2% ★, RPG 7.5%, 2D 3.2%
- #25 Clocker
80% matchVery Positive83% of 284 reviews2019
Dev: Wild Kid Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 5.5 hrs≥1hr: 89%
The world has been swallowed into the grey void of time and space. The only key to the winding puzzle - a time-controling pocket-watch - lies in the hands of a clockmaker Father. The watch creates a mysterious barrier between the Father and his estranged Daughter.
Why similar: Time Manipulation 51.5% ★, Time Travel 22.6% ★, Hand-drawn 8%, 2D Platformer 5.7%, RPG 3.4%
- #26 Treasures of the Aegean
78% matchVery Positive88% of 112 reviews2021
Dev: Undercoders
Windows
What happened to the Minoan civilization? Join parkour master Marie Taylor and treasure hunter James Andrew in a historical action thriller, as they unveil the secrets of a forgotten kingdom which has been tragically trapped in and endless time loop.
Why similar: Metroidvania 49.8%, 2D Platformer 15%, Female Protagonist 14%, Action-Adventure 7.9%, Hand-drawn 7.2%
- #27 Complex Loop
76% matchVery Positive93% of 71 reviews2023
Dev: あみそ組
Windows
Complex Loop is a sci-fi themed visual novel. This is a story of time loops between past and future. Within a time limit of 20 minutes, your mission is to save a mysterious girl died from an explosion accident one year ago. Solve puzzles and reveal the truth behind the tragedy. An adventure awaits!
Why similar: Time Travel 75.4% ★, 2D Platformer 13%, RPG 4.8%, Adventure 3.7%, 2D 3%
- #28 Lord Ambermaze: Prologue
74% matchVery Positive96% of 112 reviews2024
Dev: Potata CompanyPub: HeroCraft PC
Windows
Lord Amber maze: Prologue is a free entry to a turn-based dungeon-crawler set in a labyrinth of frozen time. Plan each move carefully, battle quirky monsters, and solve intricate puzzles, one dungeon at a time.
Why similar: Female Protagonist 52.3%, RPG 31.8%, 2D 10.4%, Singleplayer 5.5%
- #29 Moonlight Traveler
76% matchMixed54% of 57 reviews2025
Dev: Blueprint Core
Windows
This is an action game focused on combat, where a girl returns from the abyss to explore her own secrets and redemption, until the end of an eternal battle to see if she can break free from the shackles of fate.
Why similar: Metroidvania 57.3%, Female Protagonist 16.4%, Action-Adventure 8.7%, RPG 6.8%, Action 5.6%
- #30 XEL
77% matchMixed48% of 295 reviews2022
Dev: Tiny RoarPub: Assemble Entertainment
Windows
Median: 1.0 hrsMean: 7.4 hrs≥1hr: 52%
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 40.4% ★, Time Travel 36.8% ★, Female Protagonist 9.7%, Action-Adventure 5.7%, Action 3.3%
- #31 ITORAH
75% matchMostly Positive73% of 921 reviews2022
Dev: Grimbart TalesPub: Assemble Entertainment
Windows
Median: 1.5 hrsMean: 6.1 hrs≥1hr: 56%
Discover the world of Nahucan in this 2D action platformer. You are Itorah, the only human in this strange place. Explore, fight and survive to uncover your past and save Nahucan from its biggest threat, a mysterious plague!
Why similar: Metroidvania 40.5%, Female Protagonist 14.5%, 2D Platformer 12.6%, Hand-drawn 9.6%, Action-Adventure 7%
- #32 Nomori: Prologue
74% matchVery Positive94% of 156 reviews2022
Dev: Enchanted Works
Windows
Nomori is a mind-bending adventure game where you control time and space to journey through a shattered spirit world. Take shortcuts through portals, rotate your perspective, and control the flow of time to move forward, whichever way that is.
Why similar: Time Manipulation 86.9% ★, Cute 11%, Adventure 2.1%
- #33 Loophole
71% matchVery Positive99% of 159 reviews2025
Dev: Levi Pinkert
Windows · Mac
A time-bending puzzle game about working with - and against - your past selves. Subvert the rules of time travel, dodge paradoxes, and find a way to escape the loop.
Why similar: Time Travel 50.8% ★, Time Manipulation 44% ★, Cute 2.5%, Indie 1.7%, Singleplayer 1.1%
- #34 DRAPLINE
69% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 1,729 reviews2025
Dev: Vaka Game Magazine
Windows
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 7.5 hrs≥1hr: 75%
"DRAPLINE" is a roguelite training game where you raise a dragon girl who eats anything and train her to become the strongest in one year. Feed her a variety of things to increase her abilities, combine various skills to build your own strategy, and defeat the impending catastrophe!
Why similar: RPG 38.1%, Cute 30.5%, Adventure 12.8%, Indie 10.9%, 2D 7.7%
- #35 Viola: The Heroine's Melody
73% matchVery Positive96% of 85 reviews2021
Dev: Jelle van Doorne
Windows
Viola: The Heroine's Melody is the musical Platformer/RPG! After failing at violin practice for the hundredth time, Viola becomes trapped inside her instrument's fantastical world. Join her adventure to find her way back home, aided by the diverse ensemble of friends she meets along the way.
Why similar: Female Protagonist 28.8%, 2D Platformer 27.2%, Cute 16.9%, Action 10.9%, RPG 6.2%
- #36 The Day Before You Gone
73% matchMostly Positive78% of 59 reviews2024
Dev: Aequalis Studio
Windows
An adventure shattering stereotypes, a psychological experiment forcing a struggle within oneself. The tale of a girl with magical abilities who loses her beloved. Will she have a chance to turn back time? It's up to you!
Why similar: Time Travel 71.6% ★, Female Protagonist 11.4%, Hand-drawn 11.4%, Adventure 4.5%, 2D 0.5%
- #37 Ley Lines
75% matchVery Positive83% of 154 reviews2016
Dev: Miria Studios
Windows
Median: 54 minMean: 12.4 hrs≥1hr: 44%
You are the last hope of a ruined world, capable of restoring the severed Ley Lines. Throughout the ruined temple of Miria's Heart, attune to and master five unique powers, allowing you to alter gravity, slow time, shift space, and much more.
Why similar: Female Protagonist 49%, Action 25.8%, Adventure 15.8%, Indie 9.3%
- #38 Struggle F.O
72% matchMixed69% of 244 reviews2024
Dev: Espada Inc.
Windows
What the newly awakened girl saw was an unfamiliar world and unfamiliar creatures. And on her arm, there was a mysterious gadget that could speak. Somehow, the girl who could now communicate with all living creatures, starts to struggle with her allies to survive in this world!
Why similar: Dragons 57.5% ★, Female Protagonist 13.8%, Action 10%, RPG 7.3%, Cute 3.2%
- #39 Night Loops
71% matchVery Positive89% of 166 reviews2023
Dev: JiaquariumPub: indie.io
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 3.9 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Journey through the psyche… Welcome to the Seaside Hotel, where the final hour of your night shift awaits. Tend to guests, explore their dreams, and lose your sense of Self – time and again. In this dark, labyrinthine adventure, unravel the path to the truth below.
Why similar: Female Protagonist 37.9%, Hand-drawn 27.7%, RPG 14.3%, 2D 6.4%, Indie 5.8%
- #40 Shirone: the Dragon Girl
72% matchVery Positive98% of 132 reviews2022
Dev: OimolandPub: Flyhigh Works
Windows
”Shirone: the Dragon Girl" is a 3D adventure game where you help Shirone solve puzzles and riddles to find a way out of a haunted castle. Escaping the castle is the main objective, and to do that you'll need to make full use of her wings and tail!
Why similar: Female Protagonist 35.2%, Action 22.6%, Cute 22.5%, Action-Adventure 13.4%, Adventure 5.1%
- #41 COGEN: Sword of Rewind / COGEN: 大鳥こはくと刻の剣
73% matchMixed67% of 116 reviews2022
Dev: Gemdrops, Inc.
Windows
Rewind, rethink, redo. COGEN is a brand-new kind of 2D action game where there's no time for death.
Why similar: Time Manipulation 55.8% ★, Female Protagonist 12.1%, 2D Platformer 9.8%, Action-Adventure 7.2%, Cute 5.6%
- #42 Timeloop: Sink Again Beach
70% matchVery Positive91% of 366 reviews2022
Dev: Fang's Lab
Windows
A non-linear first-person action adventure in a pirate setting. A single player time travel simulation game. Unusual gaming experience.Moving in space and time, the player must understand what is happening on the island and how the main character can move away from there.
Why similar: Time Manipulation 75.7% ★, Hand-drawn 10.7%, Action-Adventure 9.8%, Adventure 3.8%
- #43 Rogue Loops
69% matchMostly Positive73% of 303 reviews2025
Dev: Fubu Games
Windows
Median: 1.3 hrsMean: 2.5 hrs≥1hr: 65%
Rogue Loops is a roguelite action game where a trapped family battles to escape an endless loop. Combine unique skills and relics to create powerful synergies against the loop’s guardians. As you grow stronger, so does the loop—can you break free from this relentless cycle?
Why similar: Action 36.5%, Action-Adventure 28.3%, RPG 22.5%, Adventure 8.7%, Singleplayer 4%
- #44 Evergate
71% matchVery Positive93% of 196 reviews2020
Dev: Stone Lantern GamesPub: PQube
Windows
Median: 36 minMean: 4.6 hrs≥1hr: 40%
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 50.9% ★, Female Protagonist 12.9%, 2D Platformer 11.6%, Hand-drawn 8.6%, Cute 6.3%
- #45 TEST TEST TEST
67% matchVery Positive92% of 1,006 reviews2024
Dev: MojikenPub: Toge Productions
Windows
Median: 54 minMean: 1.8 hrs≥1hr: 47%
Escape a time loop as an overworked office employee by solving cryptic puzzles with alternate reality game elements.
Why similar: Time Travel 79% ★, Cute 15.8%, 2D 5.1%
- #46 ReSetna
68% matchVery Positive83% of 174 reviews2025
Dev: Today's GamesPub: Module16
Windows
Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 4.5 hrs≥1hr: 79%
What’s left of humanity are minds trapped in circuits. You are awaken as ReSetna, a warrior on a mission to rescue last human remnants. Explore seven hostile zones, face seven brutal bosses and evolve through a unique upgrade system. Uncover horrifying truth and decide if the future is worth saving.
Why similar: Metroidvania 81%, Action 10.3%, Adventure 4.8%, Indie 3.9%
- #47 Mount Serenity: Guardian of the Spirits
70% matchVery Positive84% of 58 reviews2021
Dev: CEON ArtsPub: Ahlman Games
Windows
Enter an ancient spirit world as a lost spirit and meet a dragon who needs your help. Explore three different, peaceful areas and collect runestones while moving forward with your rope. Look for the way towards the top of the mountain. Only you can save the forest and the soul of the dragon’s owner.
Why similar: Dragons 70.9% ★, Cute 14.3%, Female Protagonist 7.4%, Adventure 7.1%, Singleplayer 0.4%
- #48 Ultros
67% matchMostly Positive78% of 1,200 reviews2024
Dev: HadoquePub: Kepler Interactive
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 6.2 hrs≥1hr: 84%
ULTROS is a psychedelic metroidvania where you wake up stranded on The Sarcophagus — a cosmic uterus holding an ancient, demonic being. Trapped in the loop of a black hole, you will have to explore The Sarcophagus and meet its inhabitants to understand the part you play...
Why similar: Metroidvania 47.6%, Female Protagonist 15.7%, 2D Platformer 13.5%, Hand-drawn 9.8%, Action 6%
- #49 Shattered Divinities
64% matchVery Positive94% of 733 reviews2026
Dev: 星魂游戏Pub: TrueColor Games
Windows
Begin your adventure in Shattered Divinities to reveal the truth! Traverse the land where deities have perished, explore abandoned divine realms, battle mutated monsters, gather divine power to awaken your strength, and unveil the truth behind the deities’ fall.
Why similar: Metroidvania 62.1%, Female Protagonist 8.6%, 2D Platformer 6.2%, Action 6%, RPG 5.1%
- #50 Causal Loop
66% matchVery Positive92% of 66 reviews2026
Dev: Mirebound InteractivePub: Headup
Windows
Causal Loop is a narrative puzzler that blends mind-bending mechanics with a rich sci-fi story about time, consequence, and survival. Solve intricate puzzles by using the signature “echo” mechanic to record, replay, and interact with up to three versions of your past self. Can you break the loop?
Why similar: Time Manipulation 72.8% ★, Action-Adventure 12.4%, Action 8.6%, Adventure 4.6%, Singleplayer 1.7%
- #51 Aztlan Uncovered: Prologue
68% matchVery Positive90% of 226 reviews2022
Dev: Slappy Inc.
Windows
Explore an archeological site long lost to the ages. Use your time-reversing equipment to reveal the past and discover the secrets amidst the frozen wasteland.
Why similar: Time Manipulation 62.3% ★, Female Protagonist 21.3%, Action-Adventure 9.5%, Adventure 4.9%, Singleplayer 2.1%
- #52 WarriOrb: Prologue
69% matchVery Positive88% of 400 reviews2019
Dev: Not Yet
Windows · Linux
WarriOrb: Prologue is a free standalone demo for the action platformer WarriOrb, where you play as a mighty demon trapped in an unlikely body. The path ahead is not an easy one... Are you ready to do whatever it takes to regain your freedom?
Why similar: Metroidvania 64.2%, Cute 10.4%, RPG 7.4%, Action 6.9%, 2D 3.8%
- #53 Once Again
66% matchVery Positive91% of 1,025 reviews2022
Dev: RB Wolf DesignPub: RB Wolf Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.3 hrsMean: 73.0 hrs≥1hr: 71%
Make up for lost time with Once Again, If you could travel through time, who’s the first person you’d meet? An interactive story about a boy who spends his summers wandering between past and present... After meeting her, summer will never be the same again...Who is she, and what journey awaits you?
Why similar: Time Travel 53.3% ★, Female Protagonist 20.9%, Hand-drawn 10%, 2D Platformer 5.2%, Adventure 4.5%
- #54 Afterimage
66% matchMostly Positive77% of 10,136 reviews2023
Dev: Aurogon ShanghaiPub: Maximum Entertainment
Windows
Median: 4.3 hrsMean: 11.4 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Afterimage is a hand-drawn 2D action adventure that emphasizes fast-paced combat with diversified character builds, non-linear levels, and a gripping story set in the ruins of a fantasy world.
Why similar: Metroidvania 50.9%, Female Protagonist 16.2%, 2D Platformer 13.8%, Action-Adventure 7.2%, Cute 5.7%
- #55 Ary and the Secret of Seasons
70% matchMixed64% of 219 reviews2020
Dev: eXiinPub: Fishing Cactus
Windows
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 6.6 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Take control of the seasons and use them to solve puzzles, defeat enemies, and discover the beautiful world of Valdi in this award-winning indie adventure.
Why similar: Time Manipulation 41.4% ★, Metroidvania 28%, Female Protagonist 9.4%, Action-Adventure 5.8%, Cute 5.6%