60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Platformer, Adventure, Metroidvania, 2D.
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.
Looppip
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.
SOULBOUND
In a place of reality, a soul longs for an escape and is not alone; dark things are lurking but energy is your friend. Soulbound is an atmospheric metroidvania platformer packed with action where the past is your future.
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: Time Travel 25.2% ★, Metroidvania 17.7%, Time Manipulation 17.1% ★, Precision Platformer 10.4%, Puzzle Platformer 9.6%
In a place of reality, a soul longs for an escape and is not alone; dark things are lurking but energy is your friend. Soulbound is an atmospheric metroidvania platformer packed with action where the past is your future.
Why similar: Time Manipulation 18.9% ★, Metroidvania 18.2%, Time Travel 15.3% ★, Souls-like 12.2%, Precision Platformer 9.1%
Perceive the future in this time-loop metroidvania.
Why similar: Time Travel 26.5% ★, Metroidvania 20.1%, Time Manipulation 19.8% ★, Platformer 7%, 2D Platformer 5.6%
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: Time Manipulation 31.8% ★, Metroidvania 27.8%, Time Travel 13.4% ★, 2D Platformer 6.5%, Platformer 4.9%
The long-awaited sequel to La-Mulana, La-Mulana 2 follows Lumisa Kosugi as she explores the ancient ruins of La-Mulana. Desperate to find the cause of the recent slew of monsters appearing from the ruins, Lumisa discovers the "other" La-Mulana: the ruins known as Eg-Lana.
Why similar: Metroidvania 21.2%, Souls-like 18%, Puzzle Platformer 11.5%, Precision Platformer 11%, Platformer 7.1%
Run, glide, and grapple across an open world filled with floating islands. Armed with an Eye that gives you the power to rewind and accelerate time, use it to solve puzzles, fight enemies, and rescue your dragon friends.
Why similar: Time Manipulation 29.2% ★, Time Travel 26.3% ★, Puzzle Platformer 9.1%, Puzzle 6.7%, Exploration 5.7%
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 31.9% ★, Time Travel 29.3% ★, Metroidvania 21%, 2D Platformer 4.2%, Hand-drawn 3.2%
Shards of Memories is a hand-drawn Metroidvania where defeated enemies leave behind memories that carry their abilities. Equip these memories strategically, shape your own combat style, and explore a fractured world marked by its past.
Why similar: Metroidvania 30.9%, Souls-like 17.4%, Hand-drawn 8.9%, 2D Platformer 7.6%, Action-Adventure 6.8%
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 27.4% ★, Time Manipulation 22.5% ★, Metroidvania 19%, Puzzle Platformer 10.3%, Atmospheric 4%
Embark on an epic journey in Ceplion, a metroidvania-inspired action-platformer. Explore the Ceplion Island, uncovering mysteries and ancient secrets. Engage in precise combat against believers and monstrous creatures. Harness the power of inheritors to bring an end to the relentless war.
Why similar: Metroidvania 22%, Souls-like 16.5%, Precision Platformer 12.1%, Puzzle Platformer 8.8%, Platformer 8.7%
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 25.5% ★, Metroidvania 21.7%, Action-Adventure 5.4%, Hand-drawn 4.2%
A unique take on 2D platformers. Use your momentum and warping abilities to escape the Rift!
Why similar: Time Travel 21.3% ★, Time Manipulation 16.5% ★, Platformer 12.3%, Puzzle Platformer 12.2%, Puzzle 8.9%
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 22.5%, Time Manipulation 22.5% ★, Platformer 17.6%, Puzzle 14.1%, Puzzle Platformer 8.2%
Explore an interconnected world, encounter bizarre enemies and mysterious puzzles in this hand-drawn metroidvania, action adventure. Forge your own path, uncover secrets and master unique powers.
Why similar: Metroidvania 25.9%, Souls-like 22.1%, Platformer 10.2%, Atmospheric 6.5%, Exploration 6.3%
A stylized action-platformer set in a world consumed by eternal thorns. Explore handcrafted zones, unlock new flame-forged upgrades, and face brutal bosses as the Young Emberhost in a desperate attempt to reach the Heart of the Briar.
Why similar: Metroidvania 28.5%, Souls-like 22.8%, Hand-drawn 6.8%, Atmospheric 6.6%, Platformer 6.5%
A challenging, 2D Platform Adventure game where all level mechanics can change if you don't stay balanced. Help Ethan to grow up and leave his roots in order to pursue his dreams, find clues about his past and fight against your nightmares in your journey to the Somnium Shore!
Why similar: Metroidvania 31.9%, Platformer 13.6%, Precision Platformer 10.3%, Exploration 9.1%, Adventure 6.7%
Press one button to switch between timelines. Use this time-flip device to find and liberate missing people. Lead them out by switching the world state. You carry no weapons, so you must time-flip your way around the enemies and violence.
Why similar: Time Manipulation 25.5% ★, Metroidvania 20.6%, Time Travel 18.7% ★, Puzzle Platformer 9.3%, Platformer 6.3%
Play as a robot with time-manipulating abilities. You can go to places you've never been before by going back in time in the X and Y axes independently. Just beware pockets of time corruption, and tracking your positions in time consumes a lot of memory. At max capacity, you can no longer function.
Why similar: Time Manipulation 30.3% ★, Time Travel 27.2% ★, Puzzle Platformer 15.8%, 2D Platformer 7.7%, Platformer 5.9%
Embark yourself on an adventure through the Marble Palace and uncover the plentiful secrets it hides! Explore magnificent views and fight through the hostile halls of the palace, all while making use of the innovative plane change mechanics!
Why similar: Metroidvania 26.1%, Souls-like 19.2%, Precision Platformer 14.7%, Exploration 8.2%, Platformer 7.4%
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 22.1% ★, Metroidvania 21.4%, Time Travel 19.8% ★, Platformer 7.4%, 2D Platformer 6.2%
PARADOX is a puzzle-platformer about time traveling and avoiding paradoxes.
Why similar: Time Manipulation 31.6% ★, Time Travel 30.3% ★, Puzzle Platformer 13.7%, Indie 7.3%, Puzzle 7%
Aeterna Lucis is the highly anticipated sequel to Aeterna Noctis. Following the gameplay steps of the first entry in the series, Aeterna Lucis is a Metroidvania that combines fast-paced combat, a large interconnected map, secret hunting, optional challenges, and a rich and deep story.
Why similar: Metroidvania 23.4%, Souls-like 17.5%, Precision Platformer 11.3%, Platformer 9%, Puzzle Platformer 7.6%
Play as android MIO in this mesmerizing metroidvania where you explore the Vessel, an enormous technological ark overgrown with machines gone rogue. Uncover its secrets, enhance MIO's abilities, and save the spaceship and its residents from oblivion.
Why similar: Metroidvania 26.6%, Souls-like 15.6%, Platformer 9.4%, Precision Platformer 8.3%, Exploration 7.1%
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 45% ★, Time Manipulation 37.1% ★, Puzzle 7.7%, Action 5.9%, Indie 3%
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 25.8%, Precision Platformer 12%, Puzzle Platformer 10.7%, Platformer 10.1%, 2D Platformer 7%
A platform-adventure game about time travelling, puzzle solving and a friendship between an Old Inventor and a Snail.
Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 25.6%, Time Manipulation 21.2% ★, Time Travel 16.3% ★, Platformer 12.7%, Puzzle 9.4%
Carry your life as a fragile crown in Crownless! An epic action adventure built for exploration and punchy combat. Explore a vast hand-crafted 2D world, uncover forgotten realms, and dash, swim, and forge your way through the unknown.
Why similar: Metroidvania 35.3%, Souls-like 21.9%, Platformer 12.5%, Exploration 8.1%, Adventure 5.5%
Control the flow of time to solve puzzles in this new version of the indie classic, featuring fully repainted artwork, a new world of puzzles, and seriously in-depth commentary.
Why similar: Time Manipulation 26.4% ★, Time Travel 15.9% ★, Puzzle Platformer 14%, Platformer 9.1%, 2D Platformer 7.3%
Move between reality and memories, changing the shape of fragments of the past.
Why similar: Time Travel 18.9% ★, Time Manipulation 14.1% ★, Platformer 14%, Puzzle 10.1%, Adventure 9.5%
Discover the power of healing through the pursuit of mastery in the art of waterbending. Learn new skills, explore a living world full of riddles and mysteries that plague the peace between the material and spiritual world. A hand-drawn 2d platformer inspired by digital oil painting.
Why similar: Metroidvania 29%, Souls-like 19.1%, Platformer 11.3%, Story Rich 6.5%, Exploration 6.4%
Aeterna Noctis is a challenging metroidvania that majestically combines action, exploration and adventure. With 2 game modes and difficulty based on action or the exclusive Noctis mode where a level of difficulty is added in precision platforming never seen in the metroidvania genre.
Why similar: Metroidvania 23.3%, Souls-like 18.9%, Precision Platformer 12.1%, Puzzle Platformer 8.7%, Platformer 8.5%
SpellTome is a story driven fantasy adventure 2D platformer. Hurl balls of magic, dash across levels, and jump over obstacles while trying to get the fabled SpellTome.
Why similar: Metroidvania 28.1%, Souls-like 24.3%, Platformer 10.7%, 2D Platformer 7.8%, Hand-drawn 5.6%
Venture beneath the Ghost Kingdom where you will encounter strange creatures, solve puzzles and uncover hidden secrets!
Why similar: Metroidvania 22.5%, Platformer 13.6%, Puzzle Platformer 11.8%, Puzzle 9.8%, Adventure 9%
Uncover the truth behind your death and your sibling’s in a story-driven precision platformer inspired by the Pied Piper myth. Navigate a decaying, interconnected world where movement is your only defense. No combat, only precision, consequence, and secrets hidden in the dark.
Why similar: Metroidvania 22.7%, Precision Platformer 17.3%, Platformer 9.8%, Puzzle Platformer 8.8%, Exploration 7.5%
In a world ruled by »them«, Dorc's grandpa has a plan: a time machine. But when a jump goes wrong, Dorc is stranded across time. Change the past to shape the future in this story-driven adventure platformer with cute characters and clever time mechanics.
Why similar: Time Travel 30.2% ★, Metroidvania 24.9%, 2D Platformer 8.6%, Hand-drawn 7.6%, Puzzle Platformer 7.6%
Akatori is an epic metroidvania where you wield your staff to fight, jump, and explore diverse realms across different eras. Explore worlds spanning different eras, battle formidable enemies, and help Mako stop the Amber Storms that poison all living things.
Why similar: Metroidvania 25%, Souls-like 20.5%, Platformer 8.7%, 2D Platformer 7.4%, Exploration 7.1%
Your skill, patience, and ingenuity will be tested in this homage to precision platformers! Traverse various biomes, from caves to volcanic wastelands and mysterious towers. Each environment with it's own deadly traps, puzzles, and challenges designed to push you to your limits.
Why similar: Metroidvania 28.1%, Precision Platformer 20.6%, Puzzle Platformer 17.1%, Platformer 9.6%, 2D Platformer 8.1%
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 31.8% ★, Time Travel 15.5% ★, Puzzle Platformer 14.2%, Hand-drawn 7.4%, Puzzle 6.7%
KNIGHTS OF THE FALL is a sci-fi 2D/3D hybrid platformer that tells the story of Haru, a combat veteran, and Yoshida, his scientist sidekick, who join forces to uncover how interdimensional travel and the afterlife could be connected, using time and gravity-bending technology.
Why similar: Time Manipulation 25.7% ★, Time Travel 24.6% ★, Puzzle Platformer 11.3%, Sci-fi 6.5%, Puzzle 5.9%
Dive into the fairytale kingdom of Valora, a cute yet enigmatic Metroidvania, brimming with vibrant towns, enchanting critters, and hidden secrets.
Why similar: Metroidvania 29.1%, Souls-like 23.4%, Puzzle Platformer 15.5%, Platformer 9.2%, Atmospheric 5.5%
Explore a dark world inhabited by men and monsters in this action packed platformer. Lay waste to the monsters that stand in your way with a wide array of stylish combat maneuvers, as you attempt to unravel the truth behind the curse of Fearanndal.
Why similar: Metroidvania 25.9%, Souls-like 20.6%, Puzzle Platformer 10.7%, Platformer 9.5%, Exploration 6.1%
“Aeternum Vale” is a weird atmospheric Metroidvania set in a cryptic open-world full of dangers, mysteries, and odd characters. Make friends & slice your way through this out of time realm in a infinite quest to save your soul… or give it away?
Why similar: Metroidvania 27.9%, Souls-like 23.3%, Puzzle Platformer 11.5%, 2D Platformer 8.4%, Platformer 7.8%
Misspell is a 2D atmospheric Metroidvania about magic and mysteries of the past. Uncover the secrets of an island risen from the ashes of a catastrophe and master a magical living vine that changes the way you fight and explore. Every step tells a story — every enemy echoes the mistakes of the past.
Why similar: Metroidvania 29.6%, Souls-like 13.7%, Platformer 11.4%, Hand-drawn 7.7%, Atmospheric 6.8%
Leap Year is a clumsy platformer about knowledge and discovery. Explore a compact, hand drawn world filled with hidden paths. Understand the game’s secrets to reach new areas and collect all the pages of your calendar.
Why similar: Metroidvania 23.7%, Precision Platformer 15.2%, Puzzle Platformer 14.1%, Platformer 8.8%, 2D Platformer 7.8%
Embark on a quest to restore light to a kingdom swallowed by darkness. Dive into a cute and dark pixel-art interconnected world with tight controls, seamless exploration, and challenging combat.
Why similar: Metroidvania 34.9%, Souls-like 26.8%, Platformer 11.5%, Action-Adventure 6.9%, Adventure 4.7%
TimeK is an action puzzle game specialized in time manipulation. Players can move even while rewinding time, allowing for interesting phenomena to occur. Other time manipulation abilities: Stop, Slow, Accelerate, Fast Rewind
Why similar: Time Manipulation 27.2% ★, Time Travel 24% ★, Puzzle Platformer 10.5%, Platformer 7.4%, Puzzle 6.1%
Anokye is a 2D action–adventure platformer where you play as a destined hero fighting to unite the Ashanti people. Battle through villages, forests, and mystical peaks inspired by Ghanaian art and folklore in a journey to restore light to a kingdom in darkness.
Why similar: Metroidvania 33.7%, Souls-like 23.5%, Platformer 8%, Adventure 5.1%, Exploration 5.1%
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 26.8%, Time Manipulation 26.6% ★, Platformer 11%, Puzzle 9.8%, 2D Platformer 9%
FeatherCall is a fast pace, puzzle platformer where you help Luna, a mother blue bird, rescue her lost children. Brave numerous challenges and puzzles by Dashing to new heights, Throwing a guiding feather, and Gliding back to safety!
Why similar: Metroidvania 22%, Platformer 13.6%, Precision Platformer 12.7%, Puzzle Platformer 11.2%, Puzzle 9.9%
Narcalid is a puzzle platformer with peaceful exploration and mighty challenges in a strange, unknown world. Use real-life meditation skills in compelling spiritual narratives to open the gateway to Earth before Mother Narcalid becomes unstoppable!
Why similar: Metroidvania 21.5%, Precision Platformer 12.7%, Puzzle Platformer 11.9%, Platformer 8.2%, 2D Platformer 6.6%
Manipulate space and time in this planetary puzzle-platformer. Learn the rules to unravel more of the world and the secrets within. Do you remember? 183 15.
Why similar: Time Manipulation 36.6% ★, Puzzle Platformer 19%, Platformer 10.5%, Puzzle 9.4%, 2D Platformer 6%
Use four-dimensional thinking to manipulate time and navigate through this mind bending retro inspired realm. Solve puzzles to help Max find his way home in this atmospheric first-person puzzle platformer.
Why similar: Time Manipulation 28.7% ★, Time Travel 21.8% ★, Puzzle Platformer 13.6%, Puzzle 8%, Platformer 7.9%
Travel through time like never before! Use time-portals leading both to future and past to solve puzzles in this mind-bending platformer and finally find a way to escape the laboratory using time-rewind powers that let you switch between different timelines caused by your choices.
Why similar: Time Travel 28.5% ★, Time Manipulation 27.9% ★, Puzzle Platformer 11.6%, Platformer 6.9%, Sci-fi 6%
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 31%, Puzzle Platformer 15.2%, Platformer 10%, Exploration 9.8%, 2D Platformer 9%
2d hand drawn female protagonist action-adventure/soulslike.
Why similar: Metroidvania 26.4%, Souls-like 22.6%, Platformer 9.4%, 2D Platformer 8.4%, Exploration 6.9%
FearOfTheFallen blends classic Metroidvania gameplay with the mechanics of an action RPG. Explore diverse biomes, fight your way through a multitude of creatures, solve puzzles, collect items, craft equipment, uncover secrets, and face your fiercest foes in epic boss battles.
Why similar: Metroidvania 24.9%, Time Manipulation 22.9% ★, Souls-like 19%, Puzzle Platformer 10.6%, 2D Platformer 7%
Solateria is a hand-drawn action Metroidvania with parry-focused combat. A small fire warrior journeys to find the Primordial Flame, the world’s last hope against the Shadow Plague. Defeat foes with stylish parries and explore mysterious realms to uncover the world’s secrets.
Why similar: Metroidvania 28.9%, Souls-like 24.1%, Hand-drawn 8%, Platformer 7.8%, Exploration 6%
A time-bending journey to the end of the world and back. Run, jump, and manipulate time to solve puzzles as the apocalypse unfolds. Can you stop the clock on disaster?
Why similar: Time Manipulation 27.5% ★, Time Travel 24.3% ★, Puzzle Platformer 11.3%, Platformer 7.2%, Sci-fi 5.7%
Explore this foreign world and manipulate time to navigate through the challenges that lie along your path! Meet the inhabitants of this strange realm as they push you towards finding the Timeless Rain...
Why similar: Metroidvania 29.3%, Time Manipulation 19.9% ★, Precision Platformer 11.8%, Platformer 10.3%, Hand-drawn 9.1%
