- #1 The Specter Chronicles: Episode 1 - The False Prophet
97% matchPositive92% of 13 reviews2023
Dev: Forge 215
Windows
The Specter Chronicles is a cyberpunk visual novel that combines text-based adventure with turn-based tactical combat.
Why similar: Text-Based 17.3%, Turn-Based Combat 13.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.3%, Class-Based 10.9% ★, Strategy RPG 10.2%
- #2 Pix Souls
96% matchNo user reviews
Dev: KurockPub: Lylek Games
Windows
Pix Souls is a 2.5D Turn Based RPG Adventure. Set out on an epic adventure to purge the lands of over 100 unique monsters and bosses. Find new weapons, allies, items, upgrades and more to defeat the Dark Necromancer and rid the world of the Dark Evil!
Why similar: Souls-like 25.9%, Turn-Based Combat 20.1%, Strategy RPG 12.7%, Turn-Based Tactics 11.6%, Turn-Based Strategy 10.1%
- #3 Death's Gambit: Afterlife
96% matchVery Positive81% of 5,476 reviews2018
Dev: White RabbitPub: Serenity Forge
Windows
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 8.8 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Death's Gambit: Afterlife is a challenging 2D action platformer with deep RPG elements. As an agent of Death bound to his service, unravel the mystery of Siradon and discover the true price of immortality.
Why similar: Souls-like 46.9%, Metroidvania 31.4%, Dark Fantasy 9%, RPG 5.2%, Pixel Graphics 5%
- #4 Unworthy
95% matchVery Positive81% of 842 reviews2018
Dev: Aleksandar Kuzmanovic Games Inc.
Windows
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 5.7 hrs≥1hr: 81%
UNWORTHY is a hardcore combat-focused metroidvania without jumping. Explore a grim universe, discover new weapons and abilities, and defeat the vile creatures that plague the land.
Why similar: Metroidvania 39.7%, Souls-like 39.1%, Dark Fantasy 10.2%, RPG 6.1%, Pixel Graphics 4.9%
- #5 Wirelight
94% matchNo user reviews
Dev: elsif
Windows · Linux
A tiny turn-based tactical... soulslike! Explore a twisty, interconnected world, battle enemies using a unique spin on a 'posture' system, and employ different combinations of upgrades to your advantage.
Why similar: Souls-like 29.1%, Metroidvania 28.3%, Turn-Based Tactics 14.9%, Turn-Based Combat 9.9%, Turn-Based Strategy 8.4%
- #6 Undying Fortress
94% matchPositive88% of 16 reviews2025
Dev: Choice of Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Wield your magic sword against the monsters that fill a mysterious tower, and uncover the secrets of the past!
Why similar: Text-Based 32.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 24.1%, Character Customization 17.4%, RPG 9.5%, Multiple Endings 8.4%
- #7 Radiant Sword
93% matchNo user reviews
Dev: ImajinSoft
Windows · Mac · Linux
The golden age of tactics RPGs returns. An emotional, intricate tale rendered with rich 3D environments and hand-drawn sprites. Customize your soldiers by mastering the Cross Paradigm class system and guide your army to victory.
Why similar: Strategy RPG 22.9%, Class-Based 16.8% ★, Character Customization 15.4%, Turn-Based Combat 13.9%, Turn-Based Tactics 10.2%
- #8 The Tarnishing of Juxtia
92% matchMixed68% of 654 reviews2022
Dev: Actual NerdsPub: Mastiff
Windows
Median: 1.8 hrsMean: 7.2 hrs≥1hr: 57%
As the final creation of the Goddess, Juxtia, journey through the ruins of two divine kingdoms, overrun by the Tarnishing. Challenging combat, a hauntingly beautiful score, and a sinister narrative work in unison to make The Tarnishing of Juxtia an unforgettable 2D dark fantasy action RPG.
Why similar: Souls-like 29.8%, Metroidvania 23.1%, Dark Fantasy 11.1%, Character Customization 10.7%, RPG 5.8%
- #9 Distant Flux: System Initializing
91% match3 user reviews100% of 3 reviews2025
Dev: Distant Flux Games, LLC
Windows
A magitech, post-apocalyptic, turn-based RPG. Assist your faction with exploration, resource gathering, construction, research, item fabrication, and monster extermination, while absorbing ambient mana and leveling up your System drone.
Why similar: Text-Based 29.6%, Character Customization 17.3%, Turn-Based Combat 14.8%, Post-apocalyptic 14.1%, RPG 10.7%
- #10 REIGN OVER
91% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Pentakodas
Windows
Build a fortress, raise an army, conquer your rivals! Hire heroes, equip them with rare artifacts and master their special abilities. Capture buildings and resources to train units and hire mercenaries. Lead them to victory in turn based combat!
Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 19.5%, Turn-Based Strategy 15.4%, Turn-Based Combat 14.5%, Dystopian 13.9%, Strategy RPG 11%
- #11 Nick's Text Adventure
90% match2 user reviews50% of 2 reviews2026
Dev: GXPlay
Windows
Nick’s Text Adventure is a cruel text-based RPG where everything unfolds one line at a time. Spells lie, gear gets worse, fishing can hurt you, and enemies mock your choices. Nothing is fair, nothing is explained, and the game remembers.
Why similar: Souls-like 24.4%, Text-Based 24.3%, Turn-Based Strategy 13.3%, Turn-Based Tactics 12.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.7%
- #12 CINCILLA
89% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2025
Dev: Jesus G. PaternaPub: JPGames
Windows · Mac
CINCILLA es una aventura metroidvania 2D de fantasía oscura con temática pixel art. Explora un misterioso pueblo con más de 50 niveles interconectados y descubre los misterios que se ocultan entre los Hilos y la Superficie.
Why similar: Metroidvania 36.6%, Souls-like 32%, Dystopian 14%, Dark Fantasy 9.5%, Pixel Graphics 5.3%
- #13 Salt and Sanctuary
89% matchVery Positive89% of 21,497 reviews2016
Dev: Ska Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 13.8 hrs≥1hr: 83%
Explore a haunting, punishing island in this stylized 2D action RPG. Salt and Sanctuary combines fast and brutal 2D combat with richly developed RPG mechanics in a cursed realm of forgotten cities, blood-soaked dungeons, and desecrated monuments.
Why similar: Souls-like 53.5%, Metroidvania 28.6%, Dark Fantasy 9%, RPG 4%, Atmospheric 2.3%
- #14 After the Storm
88% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Hosted Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Rebuild society after the climate apocalypse! Can you keep your settlement alive? Will you hold onto your humanity or lose it in the directionless expanse?
Why similar: Text-Based 30.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 21.3%, Post-apocalyptic 19.2%, Character Customization 15.4%, RPG 7.1%
- #15 ENDER LILIES: Quietus of the Knights
87% matchVery Positive94% of 43,849 reviews2021
Dev: Live WirePub: Binary Haze Interactive
Windows
Median: 5.3 hrsMean: 18.2 hrs≥1hr: 86%
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: Metroidvania 42.7%, Souls-like 28.6%, Dark Fantasy 10.9%, Post-apocalyptic 8.1%, Multiple Endings 4.9%
- #16 Disciples: Domination
86% matchMostly Positive71% of 237 reviews2026
Dev: Artefacts StudioPub: Kalypso Media
Windows · Mac
Rule through the chaos! Fifteen years after Avyanna freed Nevendaar, Disciples: Domination returns you to a realm hanging in the balance. In this dark fantasy strategy RPG with turn-based combat, take your place on Queen Avyanna’s throne – holding together a crumbling kingdom.
Why similar: Strategy RPG 23%, Turn-Based Combat 21.2%, Turn-Based Strategy 14.1%, Turn-Based Tactics 10.9%, Dark Fantasy 7.9%
- #17 无极修仙传·序章
86% matchPositive86% of 14 reviews2022
Dev: 金龙八部工作室
Windows
This is a xiuxian theme RPG independent game. This game tells about the protagonist ye Lan first entered the Fairyland in a series of things experienced when practicing atmosphere. It is currently a prologue and will be open in other forms.
Why similar: Strategy RPG 23.6%, Turn-Based Tactics 23.2%, Turn-Based Combat 20.1%, Turn-Based Strategy 18.7%, RPG 10%
- #18 Bright Red Skies
85% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Mark Viola
Windows
After The Bright Red Skies, the world of Claraeth was left in ruin. Explore this destroyed world and discover its many unique locales, in this tactical turn-based post apocalyptic JRPG.
Why similar: Turn-Based Combat 16.1%, Post-apocalyptic 14.3%, Turn-Based Tactics 12.5%, Strategy RPG 11.6%, RPG 10.4%
- #19 Boralaa
84% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Kat Devs
Windows
A turn-based Boss Rush with Souls-like elements: Zero help, just your attention and strategy! Play alone, with and against your friends or community.
Why similar: Souls-like 33.6%, Turn-Based Combat 27.4%, Turn-Based Tactics 13.2%, Turn-Based Strategy 13.1%, Story Rich 5.9%
- #20 Fell Seal: Arbiter's Mark
84% matchVery Positive88% of 6,240 reviews2019
Dev: 6 Eyes StudioPub: Fulqrum Publishing
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 7.7 hrsMean: 14.7 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Fell Seal: Arbiter's Mark is a turn-based tactical RPG with a focus on storytelling and strategic battles. Unfold a mature story as you progress through hand-crafted scenarios, controlling your own group of Arbiters, with each character customizable from a wide selection of classes and abilities!
Why similar: Turn-Based Tactics 20.9%, Turn-Based Combat 17.9%, Strategy RPG 13.8%, Turn-Based Strategy 11.2%, RPG 10.5%
- #21 Tale of Two Cranes
83% matchMixed60% of 20 reviews2024
Dev: Hosted Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Fulfill your epic destiny in mythic ancient China! Lead armies, wield magic, and put an emperor on the throne - or become the emperor yourself!
Why similar: Text-Based 44.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 21%, Character Customization 17.3%, RPG 8.7%, Multiple Endings 8.3%
- #22 HALLOW BLADE
82% matchNo user reviews
Dev: XekveraPub: TBA
Windows
HALLOW BLADE is a dark fantasy action adventure set in a vast interconnected subterranean kingdom where you form an unbreakable bond with an ancient possessed sword hungry for souls and vengeance.
Why similar: Metroidvania 35.5%, Souls-like 32.4%, Dark Fantasy 13.9%, Character Customization 11.4%, Atmospheric 6.8%
- #23 Alchemonium
81% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Nox Solis Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
What really is alchemy?
Why similar: Metroidvania 33.7%, Souls-like 30.2%, Multiple Endings 8.7%, Horror 7.8%, Dark Fantasy 7%
- #24 Biomass
82% matchVery Positive85% of 104 reviews2020
Dev: Final Scene dev
Windows
Uncover the secrets of the sinking metropolis in this action RPG. Clash beam sabers, or be a gunslinger. Make alliances or go it alone. Your actions have consequences - those whom learn the nature of this world will be able to shape it as they see fit.
Why similar: Metroidvania 44.4%, Souls-like 36.9%, RPG 12.7%, Pixel Graphics 6%
- #25 Pale Cinder
80% matchNo user reviews
Dev: OcO
Windows
Death is not the end! Slash, dash, parkour and manipulate time in this 2d action plaformer.
Why similar: Metroidvania 33%, Souls-like 32.5%, Character Customization 12.7%, Dark Fantasy 9.4%, Atmospheric 6.7%
- #26 Lost Wish: In the desperate world
81% matchMostly Positive79% of 29 reviews2022
Dev: Innocent Soul
Windows
Lost Wish: In the desperate world is a 2D side-scrolling platformer. Play as a young girl, explore different locations, defeat monsters, and find out what secrets this cruel world is hiding from you. Wonderful pixel art, a sad story, epic bosses and much more is waiting for you in the Lost Wish...
Why similar: Metroidvania 36.3%, Souls-like 32.8%, Dark Fantasy 8.5%, Multiple Endings 6.7%, Atmospheric 6.4%
- #27 The Chronicles of Overlord
79% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Blind Archer Games
Windows · Mac
The Overlord returns to save the world from impending doom. Command a team of heroes, develop their abilities, combine powerful skills, and use the terrain to your advantage in engaging tactical battles.
Why similar: Turn-Based Combat 17.8%, Strategy RPG 16.6%, Turn-Based Strategy 13.4%, Turn-Based Tactics 12.8%, Tactical 11.1%
- #28 Celestial Lumina
79% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Juan Centeno
Windows
Ascend from the depths as Evan, heir of a fallen underworld, to uncover the truth behind a world stripped of dawn. Celestial Lumina is a 2D Pixel-Art Metroidvania where Light clashes with the Darkness that stole the sky.
Why similar: Metroidvania 34.3%, Souls-like 30.8%, Dark Fantasy 11.1%, Dystopian 7.6%, Atmospheric 7%
- #29 DREIFRAME
77% matchPositive100% of 11 reviews2026
Dev: MrDrone
Windows
Dive into the decaying machine world of DREIFRAME, a pixel-art metroidvania packed with challenge. As a Frame, a sword-wielding robot, fight brutal enemies, exploit their weaknesses, unlock powerful but risky abilities, and uncover the land’s story through exploration and combat.
Why similar: Metroidvania 42.6%, Souls-like 35.7%, Multiple Endings 5.4%, Atmospheric 5.2%, Dark Fantasy 4.2%
- #30 ENDER MAGNOLIA: Bloom in the Mist
76% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 17,444 reviews2025
Dev: AdglobePub: Binary Haze Interactive
Windows
Median: 18.2 hrsMean: 18.3 hrs≥1hr: 93%
Decades after the events of ENDER LILIES, Homunculi — sorrowful, artificial life forms — roam the land. In this dark fantasy Metroidvania, face formidable enemies and explore a bewitching post-apocalyptic world. Humans and Homunculi — what awaits at the end of the quest for their salvation?
Why similar: Metroidvania 53.1%, Souls-like 25.7%, Dark Fantasy 11.7%, RPG 4.6%, Atmospheric 2.6%
- #31 Fire in the Beastlands
78% matchPositive95% of 22 reviews2021
Dev: Chimney Castle
Windows
Explore the danger and mystery of a fallen land, whose hidden wonders are shrouded and marred by the stranglehold of wickedness. In "Fire in the Beastlands," you are thrust into a world beyond the brink, blamed for its waywardness, and confronted with the choice between revenge and redemption.
Why similar: Metroidvania 27.6%, Souls-like 27.1%, Character Customization 12.5%, Post-apocalyptic 12.3%, Dark Fantasy 6.6%
- #32 Tenebra
77% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Broke CoCo
Windows
Unmask the secrets of a fractured utopia in "Tenebra,"a hand-drawn 2D Metroidvania where baroque excess meets technology. Collect ornate masks to unlock mysterious powers, solve intricate puzzles, and battle through a world that's equal parts Versailles and Dark Souls.
Why similar: Metroidvania 36.8%, Souls-like 24.9%, Dystopian 12%, Dark Fantasy 8.2%, Atmospheric 7.2%
- #33 Final Hope: The Plot
78% match4 user reviews75% of 4 reviews2020
Dev: Djamp Games
Windows
Final Hope: The Plot is a turn-based Tactical RPG with a medieval theme. Create your hero and embark on the odyssey of Uthread, a young adventurer who was born predestined to change the history of his world.
Why similar: Strategy RPG 20.5%, Turn-Based Tactics 17.7%, Turn-Based Combat 16.8%, Turn-Based Strategy 15.6%, Class-Based 12.8% ★
- #34 The Nameless: Slay Dragon
74% matchVery Positive92% of 1,960 reviews2024
Dev: The Nameless EpicPub: WhisperGames
Windows
Median: 5.3 hrsMean: 13.0 hrs≥1hr: 84%
The Nameless: Slay Dragon is like a mix of CRPG and JRPG. In short - how to slay the immensely powerful and cunning evil dragon? You will play as a young man having a bloody feud with a dragon, and face powerful, sinister and tricky enemies with friends....
Why similar: Turn-Based Combat 20.7%, Strategy RPG 14.2%, Class-Based 14.1% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.2%, Dark Fantasy 10.3%
- #35 Cryselts
75% matchNo user reviews
Dev: B3N Games Studio
Windows · Mac
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 40.5%, Post-apocalyptic 16.8%, Souls-like 15.9%, Multiple Endings 8.5%, Character Customization 7%
- #36 Mottia - The gem hunters
76% match2 user reviews50% of 2 reviews2022
Dev: 4 hats
Windows
Classic Roguelike (turn based, tile based) RPG with a rich character building system.
Why similar: Text-Based 18.4%, Strategy RPG 17.9%, Turn-Based Tactics 14.5%, Turn-Based Combat 14.1%, Character Customization 13.6%
- #37 Reaper's Odyssey
75% match1 user reviews0% of 1 reviews2024
Dev: Michael Richard Lannon
Windows
In this immersive and tactical Medieval SRPG, you play as a child born as a Reaper as they are being hunted by the Empire. Every choice impacts the story, and who you are, and how others view you. 12 different unique job classes to choose from with many different outcomes. Find your destiny.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 17.1%, Turn-Based Strategy 16.2%, Strategy RPG 14%, Turn-Based Tactics 13.4%, Character Customization 12%
- #38 F-Team
74% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Hubel
Windows
F-Team is a fantasy turn-based strategy game. Recruit and fully customize heroes. Explore a huge world as you discover locations and uncover quests. Decide which quests to fulfill as you manage your heroes. Engage in tactical turn-based battles against a wide array of enemies.
Why similar: Strategy RPG 18.1%, Turn-Based Combat 17.8%, Character Customization 14.5%, Turn-Based Strategy 13.6%, Turn-Based Tactics 13.4%
- #39 Undivine
73% matchPositive93% of 27 reviews2025
Dev: WendeooPub: Deadpix Studios
Windows
A dark metroidvania with RPG elements, "Undivine" challenges you to explore, battle, and uncover secrets in a desolate, interconnected world. Customize your abilities, wield unique weapons, and delve into deep lore filled with mystery.
Why similar: Metroidvania 34.8%, Souls-like 29.5%, Dark Fantasy 7.7%, Multiple Endings 7.5%, Horror 6.7%
- #40 SHADE Protocol
73% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Little Legendary
Windows · Linux
SHADE Protocol is a 2D cyber-fantasy Metroidvania where music, code, and combat collide. Swap between DAWN and SHADE forms to unleash devastating abilities, wield Instruments as weapons, and rewrite reality itself in a world on the brink of annihilation by the SHADE Protocol.
Why similar: Metroidvania 40%, Souls-like 34.8%, Multiple Endings 7.2%, Atmospheric 6.4%, Story Rich 4.6%
- #41 Weak Soul
73% matchPositive80% of 15 reviews2023
Dev: 2ev1l
Windows
Get up. There is no place in this world for those who are weak. I must free the continent from the demons before they get rid of me. Any choice can change someone's fate. But I will fight as long as the flame of my soul burns.
Why similar: Turn-Based Combat 20.2%, Strategy RPG 19.4%, Post-apocalyptic 17.1%, Souls-like 13.6%, Dark Fantasy 11.4%
- #42 Live by the Sword: Tactics
72% matchMostly Positive71% of 73 reviews2022
Dev: Labrador Studios
Windows · Mac
Live By The Sword: Tactics is a streamlined tactical RPG that blends classic and contemporary gameplay elements. The game is set in a world recovering from the ravages of war, you must navigate the treacherous landscape to prevent further turmoil. Single Player and Multiplayer modes available.
Why similar: Turn-Based Combat 18.7%, Strategy RPG 18.6%, Class-Based 15.9% ★, Turn-Based Tactics 15.8%, Turn-Based Strategy 14%
- #43 Mutant Year Zero: Road to Eden
72% matchVery Positive90% of 20,374 reviews2018
Dev: The Bearded LadiesPub: Funcom
Windows
Median: 5.6 hrsMean: 14.4 hrs≥1hr: 88%
A tactical game combining the turn-based combat of XCOM with story, exploration, stealth, and strategy. Take control of a team of Mutants navigating a post-human Earth. Created by a team including former HITMAN leads and the designer of PAYDAY.
Why similar: Turn-Based Combat 26.1%, Post-apocalyptic 23.1%, Turn-Based Tactics 17.6%, Tactical 10.2%, RPG 8.5%
- #44 Azmar Quest - Text Based RPG
70% matchPositive100% of 17 reviews2025
Dev: Sevan Soukiassian
Windows
Azmar Quest is a text-based RPG with turn-based battles and old-school vibes. Choose your class from Warrior, Cleric, Warlock or Archer, and play the story! Decide your path through dialogues with multiple choices and fight lots of enemies! You can also fight in PvP and play Dungeons (online only)
Why similar: Text-Based 27%, Turn-Based Combat 19%, Class-Based 16.6% ★, Strategy RPG 14.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.8%
- #45 The Nascent Necromancer
71% matchMixed57% of 14 reviews2023
Dev: Hosted Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
When you're falsely accused of sorcery, corrupt inquisitors make you the object of a witch hunt. Now, sorcery might be the only way for you to survive.
Why similar: Text-Based 33.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 21%, Character Customization 16.9%, Multiple Endings 9.9%, RPG 8.7%
- #46 Eternal Knight™
71% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Profane Games Inc
Windows
A Souls-like, player vs. environment medieval, survival horror game with a high level of difficulty, a world and creatures set in dark fantasy, and a story told through environmental storytelling. Players use medieval weapons and magic to stop a powerful monarch fallen into madness.
Why similar: Metroidvania 33.9%, Souls-like 31.5%, Post-apocalyptic 14.9%, Horror 7.1%, Dark Fantasy 6.7%
- #47 GeneWars
71% matchPositive100% of 31 reviews2023
Dev: Maker製造機Pub: RMAsia
Windows · Mac · Linux
Gene Wars is a WarSong(Langrisser) like turn-based game . You will lead the army of cells to fight for the jihad of creating life. Train soldiers and characters, master the combat between arms and defeat the enemy on the battlefield!
Why similar: Strategy RPG 20.8%, Turn-Based Combat 20.4%, Turn-Based Tactics 17.3%, Turn-Based Strategy 16.4%, Tactical 9.6%
- #48 Blood Sword
70% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Prime Games
Windows
An ancient evil returns. A sword lost to legend. A party bound by fate. Forge your legacy in a story-rich RPG of turn-based combat and branching choices, inspired by the classic Blood Sword saga.
Why similar: Turn-Based Combat 20.1%, Text-Based 15.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.8%, Turn-Based Tactics 14.3%, Dark Fantasy 10.8%
- #49 Blasphemous
70% matchVery Positive90% of 62,190 reviews2019
Dev: The Game KitchenPub: Team17
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 11.0 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Blasphemous is a brutal action-platformer with skilled hack’n slash combat set in the nightmare world of Cvstodia. Explore, upgrade your abilities, and perform savage executions on the hordes of enemies that stand between you and your quest to break eternal damnation.
Why similar: Metroidvania 45.1%, Souls-like 34.3%, Dark Fantasy 10.7%, Pixel Graphics 6.5%, Horror 3.3%
- #50 Buriedbornes - Dungeon RPG
69% matchVery Positive88% of 1,402 reviews2022
Dev: Nussygame
Windows
The oldest and most abhorrent Prophecy has become reality. This is endless and merciless warfare for Buriedbornes, army can revive forever.
Why similar: Text-Based 21.8%, Post-apocalyptic 14.5%, Turn-Based Strategy 14%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.7%, Turn-Based Tactics 12.6%
- #51 Soulbound Odyssey
69% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Could Care Less
Windows
retro JRPG with a soulslike twist. Journey through a broken world, vanquish demonlords, and grow stronger by consuming the souls of your enemies while party members fight and think for themselves.
Why similar: Souls-like 39.7%, Turn-Based Strategy 16.3%, Turn-Based Combat 13.4%, RPG 8.5%, Class-Based 8.5% ★
- #52 Go Alone
69% matchNo user reviews
Dev: orobi
Windows · Mac · Linux
Go Alone is a pixel art soulslike metroidvania adventure with magical ranged spells and fast-paced combat.
Why similar: Metroidvania 48.5%, Souls-like 39.7%, Pixel Graphics 6.1%, Atmospheric 5.7%
- #53 Alter
68% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Team Azarys
Windows
Humanity is almost extinct and only one fortress remain : Bastion. Defended for centuries by mutated humans called Alter, it may not withstand the upcoming internal and external threats. Help Mavenna change this corrupted society for something better... or worse, it's up to you.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 17.9%, Strategy RPG 16%, Turn-Based Tactics 14.3%, Turn-Based Strategy 14.1%, Turn-Based Combat 13.8%
- #54 Instance Destroy
68% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Abysmal Attrition LLC
Windows
Bite sized metroidvania with several unique mechanics Make weapons from the elements, juggle enemies, find furniture? fight bosses, unlock abilities, find secrets, unlock transformations!
Why similar: Metroidvania 35.2%, Souls-like 31.5%, Post-apocalyptic 13.6%, Multiple Endings 6%, Horror 5.6%
- #55 Tairo: Lost In Time
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Philuma
Windows
Tairo: Lost In Time is a 3D stylized metroidvania following Tairo, a young time weaver lost in a forgotten realm. Explore a big lively world, full with mysteries to solve, wide range of bosses, creatures and forgotten knights. Shape your journey downwards, manipulating time to reveal your past.
Why similar: Metroidvania 53%, Souls-like 47%
- #56 Anatine
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Pixel TrashPub: Astrolabe Games
Windows · Mac
Anatine is a pixelated metroidvania game that contains organic musical elements. Play the flute to interact with the environment or unleash powerful magic! In the dangerous world of Avenis, battle against the Eidolons and confront powerful enemies to uncover the many secrets of this lost world.
Why similar: Metroidvania 41.3%, Souls-like 36.8%, Atmospheric 7.8%, Pixel Graphics 7.2%, Dark Fantasy 6.9%
- #57 THORN DEMON HUNTER
68% match6 user reviews50% of 6 reviews2022
Dev: LIN YUANHUI
Windows
This is an AVG game similar to Metroidvania. The player will perform a demon hunter exploring and decrypting the castle in the Gothic period and hunting the corrupt soul
Why similar: Metroidvania 45.7%, Souls-like 36.4%, RPG 9.2%, Story Rich 4.7%, Pixel Graphics 4.1%
- #58 Being and Becoming
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: IchthysPub: CRITICAL REFLEX
Windows
Being & Becoming is an atmospheric metroidvania, set in a dying kingdom held together only by the collective dream of thousands of would-be martyrs. Fate itself is against you as The Word’s prophecy unfolds. Rewrite your place within The Word or become a scripted part of this horrible revelation.
Why similar: Metroidvania 41.2%, Souls-like 32.7%, Dark Fantasy 8.3%, RPG 6.3%, Pixel Graphics 6.2%
- #59 Roadwarden
66% matchVery Positive94% of 4,905 reviews2022
Dev: Moral Anxiety StudioPub: Assemble Entertainment
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.2 hrsMean: 7.5 hrs≥1hr: 53%
Roadwarden is an illustrated text-based RPG that uses isometric pixel art and combines mechanics borrowed from RPGs, Visual Novels, adventure games and interactive fiction.
Why similar: Text-Based 44.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16%, RPG 11.2%, Pixel Graphics 7%, Dark Fantasy 6.1%
- #60 Din of Sen
66% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Espy Games
Windows
Fight through a hostile, dreamlike world as Sen, a wielder of crystalline weaponry. Slay monsters by pulling off powerful combos, swapping weapons on the fly, and using special weapon abilities. Can Sen survive in this strange world, or will he fall into the void?
Why similar: Metroidvania 38.5%, Souls-like 33.9%, RPG 8.2%, Dark Fantasy 7.2%, Horror 4.8%