60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Platformer, Metroidvania, Exploration, Adventure.
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.
ANIMAL WELL
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.
Öoo
A Bomb Caterpillar's Big Adventure! "Öoo" is a charming yet mysterious exploration puzzle platformer where you discover creative ways to use bombs!
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 25.4%, Puzzle Platformer 12.4%, Nonlinear 8.6%, Surreal 7.4%, Platformer 6.8%
A Bomb Caterpillar's Big Adventure! "Öoo" is a charming yet mysterious exploration puzzle platformer where you discover creative ways to use bombs!
Why similar: Metroidvania 24.6%, Puzzle Platformer 16.4%, 2D Platformer 9.8%, Platformer 8.3%, Exploration 6.5%
Delve into the depths of a mechanical world in this cute, adventure-exploration game. Explore and fight in a land full of corrupt robots and machinery. All while seeking answers to the mysteries around you.
Why similar: Metroidvania 29.7%, Nonlinear 12.4%, 2D Platformer 9.3%, Platformer 9.2%, Pixel Graphics 8.5%
Explore an abandoned space station in this retro-themed explorative action platformer.
Why similar: Metroidvania 52.1%, Pixel Graphics 13.4%, Platformer 11.5%, Retro 6.3%, Adventure 4%
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 21.9%, Puzzle Platformer 13.7%, Nonlinear 13.6%, 2D Platformer 9.3%, Platformer 7.9%
Explore a strange planet, collect the creatures you find, and then shape-shift into them to expand your world. Build your own path, chat with the locals, and discover the planets sprawling secrets in this quirky metroidvania platformer.
Why similar: Metroidvania 38.5%, Platformer 14.2%, 2D Platformer 14%, Exploration 8.8%, Cute 5.6%
A short 2D pixel-style metroidvania where you explore, fight bosses, aquire items and abilities and find secrets. Inspired by games such as You Have to Win the Game and VVVVVV.
Why similar: Metroidvania 30.6%, Nonlinear 19.6%, Retro 9.8%, Platformer 8.4%, Exploration 7.5%
A handcrafted open-world platformer set in a world built by Mushrooms! Explore different locations filled with secrets, acquire new abilities and use those abilities to reach new places!
Why similar: 2D Platformer 17.1%, Platformer 14.8%, Pixel Graphics 13.6%, Retro 10.4%, Exploration 8.3%
Use and upgrade magic items, collect hidden treasures, and uncover the secrets between two worlds in this cute isometric puzzler! When a certain vacationing Elephant stumbles upon a way into the land of the dead, will she unwittingly let something far more sinister slip through?
Why similar: Metroidvania 24.3%, Nonlinear 15.4%, Puzzle Platformer 14.3%, Platformer 9.1%, Puzzle 6.3%
Explore an interconnected world full of platforming challenges in this short metroidvania. Reach new areas by swinging from ceilings, throwing bombs, bouncing off spikes, and more. Examine dozens of artifacts, commune with forgotten gods, and piece together what happened to Auridia.
Why similar: Metroidvania 38%, Platformer 10.7%, Exploration 9.7%, Pixel Graphics 9.6%, Puzzle Platformer 8.1%
Five animal friends with unique abillities unite in this metroidvania adventure! You'll need to master each animal's skill to complete your quest! Play as the dog, duck, cat, frog and raccoon at the same time!
Why similar: Metroidvania 28.6%, Nonlinear 17%, 2D Platformer 11%, Pixel Graphics 8%, Platformer 7.3%
Crypt Custodian is a charming metroidvania about cleaning up the afterlife. Play as Pluto - a mischievous cat who has died, and is sentenced to be the afterworld's janitor... FOREVER! Hang out with other doomed ghosts, battle beasts, and explore a vastly expansive landscape.
Why similar: Metroidvania 37.2%, Nonlinear 15.1%, Platformer 9.1%, Exploration 8.9%, Atmospheric 7%
Exographer is an exploration game based on science. Become an explorer, stranded in an alien planet, and discover the secrets of an extinct civilization. Gain new powers to avoid dangers and obstacles in your journey, and use your camera to reveal particles and hidden clues.
Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 18.4%, 2D Platformer 14.4%, Metroidvania 12.2%, Platformer 11.2%, Exploration 9.3%
Explore and uncover the mystery of a surreal alien world by blasting aliens and glitching your environment in this intense retro side-scrolling action/adventure.
Why similar: Metroidvania 56.5%, Platformer 11.4%, Pixel Graphics 10%, Retro 7.8%, Exploration 3.9%
Take to the sky and reunite a fragmented world in this surprisingly wholesome metroidvania! Help Iko adventure across beautiful hand-painted islands, receive letters from a quirky cast of characters, and face powerful monstrous adversaries.
Why similar: Metroidvania 37.2%, Platformer 12.9%, 2D Platformer 8.1%, Nature 7.7%, Exploration 6.9%
Embark on a heartfelt Mushroomvania adventure through a vast and dense interconnected world! It's like a mix of retro and modern classics!
Why similar: Metroidvania 40.7%, Platformer 10.5%, 2D Platformer 9.6%, Exploration 9.4%, Nonlinear 9%
Explore a vast, interconnected dream world full of secrets and collectibles in this metroidvania adventure inspired by classic 2D platformers. Reclaim your lost memories to save Slumberland from the mysterious Oblivion.
Why similar: Metroidvania 38.3%, 2D Platformer 14.3%, Retro 11.6%, Platformer 9.3%, Exploration 9.2%
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 41.5%, Platformer 13.8%, Exploration 10.4%, 2D Platformer 8.9%, Atmospheric 7.2%
Explore the mysterious island of Kindara in this vibrant 2D action-adventure. Fight and platform your way through jungles, icy peaks, castles, and crystal caverns in a non-linear interconnected world. Adventure awaits!
Why similar: Metroidvania 32.2%, Nonlinear 18%, 2D Platformer 11.7%, Exploration 8%, Platformer 7.8%
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Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 28.7%, Platformer 15.3%, Retro 12.6%, Pixel Graphics 11.6%, Puzzle 11.3%
Go on an adventure in a world packed with secrets helped by your friend, a poulp with many abilities. Explore, solve puzzles, wander across dungeons, blast through races and much more in this cute game inspired by the best 3D platformers
Why similar: Metroidvania 21.5%, Puzzle Platformer 15.3%, Platformer 11.9%, Retro 8.8%, 2D Platformer 8.4%
Owlboy is a story-driven platform adventure game, where you can fly and explore a brand new world in the clouds! Pick up your friends, and bring them with you as you explore the open skies, in one of the most detailed adventures of this era.
Why similar: Metroidvania 24.9%, Puzzle Platformer 13.7%, Pixel Graphics 9.9%, Platformer 9.7%, 2D Platformer 9%
Alwa’s Legacy is a modern retro game full of dangerous dungeons, mystic items and ancient secrets. Upgrade your magic and choose your own path in this non-linear adventure game brimming with exploration.
Why similar: Metroidvania 28.9%, Puzzle Platformer 15.4%, 2D Platformer 10.8%, Platformer 9.7%, Retro 9%
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: Metroidvania 41.6%, Puzzle Platformer 14.8%, Pixel Graphics 13.5%, Platformer 10.5%, Adventure 4.8%
Pounce inside of your cozy armored mech and set off on a dangerous trek through an alien underworld full of irritable creatures and treacherous obstacles in a valiant effort to save your stranded captain and his crashed spaceship.
Why similar: Metroidvania 47.2%, Pixel Graphics 12.1%, Platformer 10.5%, Retro 10.1%, Adventure 4.3%
Hollow Floor is an exploration-based single-sitting Metroidvania inspired by VVVVVV and REDDER. Hollow Floor is a relaxed game that is full of secrets and hard challenges that can be tackled at any moment in the game or completely ignored.
Why similar: Metroidvania 33.5%, Retro 10.1%, 2D Platformer 9.7%, Pixel Graphics 8.6%, Platformer 7.5%
A world of Beauty and Mystery, Emotive Animations, Atmospheric Environments, Visually Driven Story, Metroidvania Exploration and Memorable Sword Duels.
Why similar: Metroidvania 28.2%, Nonlinear 15%, 2D Platformer 10.2%, Retro 7.3%, Exploration 6.7%
Embark on an enchanting adventure in this breathtaking 2D Metroidvania game inspired by the rich folklore of Indonesia. Control Kimo and Wispy as they seek to recover the Shards of Light. Manipulate terrain to solve puzzles, befriend the natives of Lumina, and take abilities from powerful titans.✨
Why similar: Metroidvania 23.4%, Puzzle Platformer 12.9%, Surreal 12.8%, 2D Platformer 9%, Platformer 8.4%
Hats up and whips out; the wilderness' mysteries await! Explore lush biomes, use your trusty whip to extract wild flowers' mystic powers, and collect rare gems in this dynamic precision-platformer. Unearth archaeological marvels and become a legend!
Why similar: Platformer 15.3%, Nature 12.9%, Pixel Graphics 12.9%, 2D Platformer 12.1%, Exploration 10.3%
Explore, solve puzzles, and fight your way through over 100 screens and return your pumpkin pals!
Why similar: Metroidvania 30.7%, Nonlinear 21.2%, 2D Platformer 11.9%, Platformer 10.1%, Pixel Graphics 5%
Master Key is a top-down adventure game with a strong focus on item-based exploration and secrets. Embark on a journey to discover what that key could be used for and meet colorful characters!
Why similar: Metroidvania 32.2%, Nonlinear 16%, Retro 14.3%, Pixel Graphics 11.3%, Exploration 8.4%
Explore branching levels, fight quirky bosses, and save the day in this retro platformer inspired by the classics!
Why similar: Nonlinear 19.9%, 2D Platformer 12.2%, Retro 11.4%, Platformer 9.7%, Pixel Graphics 8.5%
Travel to a forgotten world and study alien creatures in this authentic retro metroidvania!
Why similar: Metroidvania 36.2%, 2D Platformer 14%, Retro 13.4%, Platformer 13.2%, Pixel Graphics 10.3%
A wacky metroidvania. ⚡ Meet weird characters, unlock new abilities and complete a mysterious mission . . .
Why similar: Metroidvania 32.7%, Adventure 29.1%, Action 20.1%, Exploration 8.1%, Cute 5.5%
Embark on a grand adventure in Phoenotopia! An action-adventure puzzle platformer inspired by the great classics. Meet charming townsfolk, brave the dungeons, and thwart evil in your quest to save your family.
Why similar: Metroidvania 37.1%, Puzzle Platformer 19.2%, Platformer 15.4%, Pixel Graphics 9.1%, Adventure 5.9%
Paper Animal Adventure is a cute roguelike game where you can explore a colorful world, fight scary enemies, and relax with your friends at the campfire! Will you be the one to seal the timelines and find the missing king?
Why similar: Metroidvania 48.6%, Pixel Graphics 15%, Exploration 10%, Cute 8.7%, Adventure 5.7%
Kingdom Shell is an atmospheric 2D platformer with a captivating storyline. Explore the local lands to stop the invasion of nightmarish creatures and unravel the mysteries of the Kingdom.
Why similar: Metroidvania 31.6%, 2D Platformer 11.7%, Retro 11%, Mystery 10.5%, Pixel Graphics 9.4%
Run, jump, shoot, fly and explore your way through a massive action-adventure reminiscent of classic 8- and 16-bit games.
Why similar: Metroidvania 35.5%, Platformer 13.5%, Retro 12.6%, Pixel Graphics 10%, Exploration 9.6%
Hiiro is a 2D platform game focused on ambient exploration and puzzle solving. Discover a grand world filled with mysterious artifacts and forgotten ruins. Become immersed in relaxing gameplay and meditative music. Remain observant as you unravel an explanation for your solitude.
Why similar: Adventure 25.9%, Puzzle Platformer 16.5%, Platformer 15.5%, Pixel Graphics 9.3%, Exploration 8.9%
Monster taming meets metroidvania. Collect, train and battle monsters in a lovely side-scroller pixel world.
Why similar: Creature Collector 36.9%, Metroidvania 31.2%, Pixel Graphics 9.9%, Exploration 7.3%, Platformer 7%
A Planet Full of Cats is a hidden object adventure with metroidvania-style exploration in true Devcats fashion. Explore diverse biomes, unlock new powers and uncover ancient secrets!
Why similar: Metroidvania 49.2%, Creature Collector 20.7%, Exploration 11.6%, Puzzle 10.4%, Adventure 4.3%
The Ramsey is a 2D platformer that allows you to play as cute squirrel characters solving puzzles using various weapons. Explore maze-like islands and overcome difficult obstacles with the strongest squirrels in the universe.
Why similar: Metroidvania 27.2%, Platformer 12.8%, 2D Platformer 11.9%, Puzzle 8.4%, Exploration 7.6%
You are a nomadic slugcat, both predator and prey in a broken ecosystem. Grab your spear and brave the industrial wastes, hunting enough food to survive, but be wary— other, bigger creatures have the same plan... and slugcats look delicious.
Why similar: Metroidvania 25.4%, Platformer 14.4%, Pixel Graphics 12.1%, 2D Platformer 11.3%, Exploration 11.2%
Make your way through more than 600 rooms, and unravel the secrets of your past by finding the five elemental orbs. Cathedral features a vast world, meant for exploring!
Why similar: Metroidvania 54.5%, Retro 12%, Platformer 10.8%, Pixel Graphics 9.3%, Adventure 6.6%
A Pixel art adventure inspired by the fascinating legends and myths of Venezuela. Enter a mysterious world where you will be the one to help this little Espanto solve the mystery of why all these creatures and lost souls are wandering the earth.
Why similar: Metroidvania 42.4%, Platformer 13.9%, 2D Platformer 13.8%, Pixel Graphics 8.6%, Exploration 6.6%
A story-rich 2D platformer where you'll delve into dangerous power plants and massive creatures, while uncovering the truth of your world. Explore towns and cities, and help a world thrown out of balance!
Why similar: 2D Platformer 21%, Nature 16.6%, Platformer 12.1%, Pixel Graphics 11.3%, Atmospheric 10%
A fantastic, oceanic, open world puzzle adventure. Solve innovative block puzzles while unearthing a mystifying story, gaining new friends that change the puzzle landscape, and unlocking powers that provide more options for how you choose to progress through the enigmatic Isles of Sea and Sky.
Why similar: Metroidvania 30.1%, Nonlinear 20.5%, Retro 11.9%, Pixel Graphics 9.3%, Puzzle 8.1%
Help a small body save a head-like organism full of air, from a leak that threatens its life. Explore their Metroidvania-style world and overcome challenging environmental puzzles to find the key to the head's survival.
Why similar: Metroidvania 27.5%, Puzzle Platformer 15.8%, Surreal 14.4%, Adventure 8.1%, Platformer 6.9%
Unveil a heartfelt story of family, dinosaurs, and UFOs! Craft, upgrade, and survive in a realm of primeval predators, savage tribes and... ancient aliens. Rise from a humble cave dweller to the planet’s last hope — alone or in local co-op. Welcome to the dinovania!
Why similar: Metroidvania 31.4%, 2D Platformer 11.9%, Platformer 11.3%, Nature 10.4%, Pixel Graphics 9.6%
Gomez is a 2D creature living in a 2D world. Or is he? When the existence of a mysterious 3rd dimension is revealed to him, Gomez is sent out on a journey that will take him to the very end of time and space. Use your ability to navigate 3D structures from 4 distinct classic 2D perspectives.
Why similar: Platformer 26.6%, Puzzle 17.5%, Pixel Graphics 13.7%, Exploration 11.3%, Puzzle Platformer 9.6%
An epic open-world puzzle Metroidbrainia that respects your intelligence! Knowledge is your superpower. Use creatures as tools to determine your own path.
Why similar: Metroidvania 27.6%, Nonlinear 18.9%, Puzzle Platformer 16%, Platformer 9.5%, Exploration 6.7%
Play as an exiled 'wum' looking for a new home in this bizarre but charming world, filled with strange creatures, puzzles, monsters and political chaos.
Why similar: Metroidvania 31%, Puzzle Platformer 12.8%, Platformer 11.7%, 2D Platformer 11.7%, Exploration 8.2%
Explore in a black-and-white world. You'll encounter interesting enemies, feel smooth physics effects, freely combine props to solve fun puzzles, use powerful weapons, and defeat cool bosses.
Why similar: Metroidvania 28.9%, Puzzle Platformer 15.8%, 2D Platformer 9.7%, Platformer 9.2%, Exploration 7.5%
Metroidvania with challenging puzzles and free exploration as long as you have oxygen.
Why similar: Metroidvania 66.1%, Platformer 33.9%
Explore a forgotten land in Gecko Gods, a puzzle-adventure as a tiny gecko. Climb walls, solve ancient puzzles and uncover a lost civilisation in a world full of hidden paths, quiet secrets and natural wonder.
Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 21.7%, Platformer 16.1%, Exploration 11.6%, Puzzle 10.8%, Nature 9.9%
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: Metroidvania 45.1%, Pixel Graphics 15.3%, 2D Platformer 14.3%, Platformer 9.7%, Cute 5.3%
Genopanic is a pixel-art, Metroidvania-inspired adventure-platformer. Explore corridors of the space station, teeming with secrets and dangers, and engage in boss fights. Solve puzzles and uncover hidden mysteries in the dark atmosphere of a sci-fi research complex. Discover the truth with each step
Why similar: Metroidvania 36.1%, 2D Platformer 14%, Platformer 12.7%, Pixel Graphics 11.2%, Exploration 8.8%
Musical Metroidvania, with pixel art to die for. Guide orphaned chick 'Birb', on a platform adventure, as he faces off against the denizens of the forest in rhythm-action boss battles. Acclaimed for its gorgeous animation, and heart-warming storytelling, as Birb strives to discover his true origins.
Why similar: Metroidvania 27.2%, Puzzle Platformer 15.3%, Platformer 9.6%, Retro 9.6%, Pixel Graphics 7.6%
Astronite is a 1bit metroidvania that combines action, exploration, puzzles and platforms. Recover the planet where you and yours lived before it was invaded by strange creatures.
Why similar: Metroidvania 29.9%, Nonlinear 18.7%, 2D Platformer 11%, Platformer 10.5%, Exploration 9.5%
A retro story-rich metroidvania filled with unique and diverse abilities, and quirky, charming aliens and demons. Algol is witness to a catastrophe that sends the universe into disarray, uncover a mysterious evil plot and find many hidden rooms that test your skills.
Why similar: Metroidvania 27.4%, Surreal 17.1%, Puzzle Platformer 13.9%, Retro 9.1%, Pixel Graphics 8%
