Games Like Entelechy

PlayBound tells the story of Kelvin, a boy whose parents have become fatally boring. Strap on your velcro light-up kicks and equip your POG slammers, because it's time to save the world from certain lameness!

Why similar: Adventure 17%, Indie 12.8%, Metroidvania 11.6%, Great Soundtrack 10.9%, Side Scroller 7.5%

Raji: An Ancient Epic is an action-adventure game set in ancient India. A young girl named Raji has been chosen by the gods to stand against the demonic invasion. She must use the powers granted to her by the gods to rescue her brother as she battles to face the demon lord Mahabalasura.

Why similar: Metroidvania 17.7%, Adventure 10.9%, Difficult 8.6%, Platformer 8.1%, Story Rich 7.1%

“Ori and the Blind Forest” tells the tale of a young orphan destined for heroics, through a visually stunning action-platformer crafted by Moon Studios for PC.

Why similar: Great Soundtrack 24.9%, Metroidvania 15.8%, Adventure 8.7%, Platformer 6.9%, Difficult 5.3%

Help Zigloton steal an old relic on his journey to infiltrate a mysterious planet, in this challenging platformer developped and hand-animated by one person.

Why similar: Adventure 30.3%, Indie 23.4%, Great Soundtrack 11%, Side Scroller 6.9%, Difficult 6.5%

“Ori and the Blind Forest” tells the tale of a young orphan destined for heroics, through a visually stunning Action-Platformer crafted by Moon Studios.

Why similar: Great Soundtrack 22.1%, Metroidvania 21.5%, Adventure 8.7%, Platformer 8.4%, Difficult 6.3%

Deep underground lies a reminder of Boarkind’s darkest hours. All it takes is one little boar to dig it back up. A block puzzler with an exploratory twist, Full Bore throws the player into an open world of crumbling mines, arcane ruins, and technological wonders with only curiosity to lead the way.

Why similar: Adventure 20.5%, Great Soundtrack 17.4%, Indie 17%, Metroidvania 13.7%, Puzzle 9.3%

Rize of the Summonds is a metroidvania game, in which player has the power to transform into legendary Summons including the fearless Dragon, stealthy Wraith, heavy Orc and agile Cat; each equipped with unique abilities in order to reach new areas, defeat enemies, and avoid traps.

Why similar: Adventure 19.7%, Indie 15.2%, Metroidvania 14.3%, Great Soundtrack 12.2%, Side Scroller 8.4%

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: Adventure 19.7%, Metroidvania 15.2%, Indie 15%, Great Soundtrack 9.2%, Puzzle Platformer 8.8%

Transform the world of Hob! A new action-adventure from Runic Games, the award-winning studio behind Torchlight I and II. It's your chance. Make it home.

Why similar: Adventure 19.5%, Metroidvania 15.6%, Puzzle Platformer 9.1%, Open World 9.1%, Indie 9.1%

Gear Path is a small platformer Metroidvania-like game with exploring and power-ups. It's perfect for playing while waiting for another game.

Why similar: Adventure 21.3%, Indie 15.9%, Metroidvania 14.9%, Great Soundtrack 12.8%, Side Scroller 8%

Hardcore experimental game. All levels represent different game genres. Side by side with a cute protagonist, complete different trials to save your friends and the whole planet!

Why similar: Adventure 23.4%, Indie 17%, Great Soundtrack 13.2%, Metroidvania 12.9%, Side Scroller 9.9%

KUNAI is a quirky, fast-paced action platformer. You play as Tabby, a tablet who joins the fight against a robot uprising. Use your kunai and ninja parkour skills to stop Lemonkus, the A.I.-gone-evil that almost wiped out all human life.

Why similar: Adventure 24.6%, Indie 20.6%, Metroidvania 15.3%, Great Soundtrack 10.9%, Action 6.7%

Explore a desolate world in the genre defining platformvania. Lootbox Lyfe is a Metroidvania with Movement Option Progression. Save your species through delving into an interconnected world riddled with platforming obstacles. Unlock new areas as you obtain new movement options.

Why similar: Adventure 30.7%, Indie 23.4%, Metroidvania 13.2%, Great Soundtrack 11.5%, Difficult 6.8%

A legendary series returns with a grand new adventure! Enjoy a colorful action-adventure game made alongside Ryuichi Nishizawa, creator of the original Wonder Boy in Monster World series.

Why similar: Metroidvania 23.8%, Adventure 16.2%, Great Soundtrack 11.1%, Indie 10.7%, Platformer 8.6%

Dive into the wondrous world of the Inops! The 2D puzzle based side scrolling adventure of dark and light. Battle the fire breathing demons and rescue the scattered Inops.

Why similar: Adventure 39.2%, Indie 29.7%, Great Soundtrack 10.1%, Puzzle Platformer 6.4%, Side Scroller 6.3%

Hard Platformer Game? No. Very Hard Platformer Game.

Why similar: Adventure 21.6%, Great Soundtrack 21.1%, Indie 16.2%, Puzzle Platformer 12.3%, Difficult 11.3%

The invasion of the demon legion has reached the Anastasia lands. Along with fire and cruelty, they destroyed the whole village. Athanas, a knight of Valentina returned to rescue the people. He witnessed his wife, Harley, being burned down under the fire of the devil and in him now there was only revenge.

Why similar: Great Soundtrack 17.3%, Adventure 14.2%, Metroidvania 14.2%, Indie 11.2%, Side Scroller 10%

Beat your inner demons without attacking them, in this extremely difficult platformer about how grief changes one's perception of the world. It is an expression of the developer's experience with cancer and heartbreak.

Why similar: Adventure 23.5%, Indie 18.2%, Great Soundtrack 16.1%, Side Scroller 10.1%, Difficult 9.5%

Follow the journey of Genevieve Goldenglow as she sets off on an adventure to save her village from destruction by an encroaching corruption.

Why similar: Metroidvania 19.8%, Adventure 11.5%, Open World 9.6%, Puzzle Platformer 7.8%, Platformer 7.3%

Run, gun and explore an open undercity in this otherworldly non-linear Metroidvania adventure about the Old Gods, strange creatures and the remnants of a lost world!

Why similar: Metroidvania 25.2%, Great Soundtrack 13.3%, Adventure 11.4%, Indie 10.4%, Difficult 10.4%

Shadows is a puzzle-based platformer taking place in a mysterious, silhouetted world. Your goal is to construct a beacon of light to call for help and find your way home. Throughout your journey, you will need to balance the powers of light and darkness to keep yourself alive.

Why similar: Adventure 33.2%, Indie 25.7%, Great Soundtrack 20.7%, Puzzle Platformer 13.2%, Atmospheric 5.2%

Play as a shadow that’s on a journey inside your mind. Find answers to the questions bothering you. Navigate the maze that is your memory, and ease your mind in the process.

Why similar: Adventure 38%, Indie 28.5%, Great Soundtrack 10%, Puzzle Platformer 5.8%, Story Rich 3.9%

Super Blasting Boy is a logical platform platformer made in the best traditions of retro games of the late 80's and 90's.

Why similar: Adventure 20.4%, Indie 15.8%, Great Soundtrack 13.5%, Difficult 9.4%, Side Scroller 8.5%

"The best platformer of 2019."Horace is a huge platforming adventure which pushes the boundaries of the genre with a profound story of a small robot learning of life, the universe and Douglas Adams. Made by videogame lovers for videogame lovers!

Why similar: Metroidvania 18.3%, Adventure 11.8%, Great Soundtrack 10.4%, Indie 9.6%, Difficult 9.2%

A complete a mess. Waking up in a very interesting morning, Maru finds himself in a mysterious adventure with his best friend Lei before he even knows what happened. Maru will find the answers to all the questions he cannot make sense with Lei on this journey.

Why similar: Adventure 24%, Indie 18.5%, Puzzle Platformer 9.5%, Side Scroller 9.3%, Difficult 8%

forma.8 is a unique take on the proven Metroidvania action-adventure formula, with a striking visual style and a huge world to explore.

Why similar: Adventure 20.5%, Metroidvania 20.2%, Indie 16.7%, Side Scroller 13%, Open World 10.3%

An ex-minister ventures through the frozen depths of Hell in search of his kidnapped daughter.

Why similar: Adventure 18.4%, Indie 15%, Great Soundtrack 14.1%, Puzzle Platformer 11.8%, Side Scroller 9.6%

A handcrafted adventure about overcoming fear and doubt. Will you defeat your inner demons or be crippled with regret ?

Why similar: Great Soundtrack 23%, Adventure 21.8%, Indie 18.1%, Puzzle Platformer 11.3%, Platformer 10%

Take flight and glide through a breathtaking world in this visually stunning platformer, where you play as a lost owlet searching for its family in a vast and perilous forest.

Why similar: Metroidvania 25.5%, Adventure 18.6%, Indie 11.7%, Platformer 9.3%, Atmospheric 7.5%

Hue is a vibrant, award-winning puzzle-adventure, where you alter the world by changing its background colour.

Why similar: Great Soundtrack 17.7%, Adventure 15.9%, Indie 14.4%, Puzzle Platformer 14.3%, Puzzle 10.3%

Summon portals to overcome vicious beasts, devious puzzles and fiendish platforming challenges. Master the unique powers of each portal to stop the collapse of reality, while exploring lush, hand-drawn worlds and unraveling a deep narrative full of mysteries.

Why similar: Metroidvania 18.1%, Adventure 13.9%, Indie 11%, Side Scroller 10%, Platformer 8.8%

Racoon lives in a forest with his friends. He had a happy and a joyful life, until in the mountains appeared a portal.From the portal came out some strange creatures he never saw before. They are orcs. Your mission is to protect the forest and your friends from invaders.

Why similar: Adventure 36.3%, Indie 27.5%, Great Soundtrack 10%, Side Scroller 6.3%, Difficult 5.9%

Adventure awaits in the kingdom of Leowald--a land of treasure, ruins, and murderous pirate cats.

Why similar: Adventure 21.6%, Indie 16.2%, Great Soundtrack 14.3%, Side Scroller 8.9%, Difficult 8.5%

Explore the mysterious and beautiful planet Gomi on foot or with your spaceship in this action packed platformer and space shooter hybrid. Your mission is simple, retrieve A.N.N.E and escape.

Why similar: Adventure 17.9%, Metroidvania 16.8%, Indie 15.1%, Great Soundtrack 10.2%, RPG 8.7%

8Doors is a story-driven Metroidvania-style action platformer heavily influenced by Korean folktales. Play as ‘Arum’, a brave girl that has entered the realm of the afterlife in search of her father’s soul and guide her through the '8 Doors of Purgatory' to solve the mysteries that lie deep within.

Why similar: Metroidvania 29%, Adventure 17.8%, Indie 13.2%, Platformer 8%, Side Scroller 7.3%

Welcome to the world of Glight, a dark fantasy side-scroller adventure by ATOMIC BREATH. On a daunting journey to recover something long lost, give form to your powers of light and darkness in a fast-flowing, super-tight platformer full of hidden shortcuts and devious secrets.

Why similar: Metroidvania 19.4%, Adventure 14.1%, Difficult 11.5%, Side Scroller 11.1%, Indie 8.9%

A puzzle platformer with funky physics and mind boggling puzzles requiring out-of-the-box thinking and persistence. Only a few players were able to complete the game. Can you handle it?

Why similar: Adventure 19.9%, Indie 15.9%, Great Soundtrack 11.6%, Puzzle Platformer 11.5%, Difficult 10.3%

Follow the story of a young mage into the dangerous and fascinating world of Admantris. Master the elements, join one of three factions, solve puzzles, defeat bosses and discover dark secrets.

Why similar: Adventure 20.8%, Indie 15.6%, Great Soundtrack 13.7%, Puzzle Platformer 10.9%, RPG 9.4%

The story begin when the robot, whose experiment was interrupted, begins working again years later in an abandoned laboratory.

Why similar: Adventure 25.3%, Indie 19.6%, Great Soundtrack 17.3%, Puzzle Platformer 10.1%, Platformer 7.3%

Perpetual Dream is a FPV puzzle game telling the story of a dream hiding a lot of secrets... Discover several environnements to seek your past !

Why similar: Adventure 40.3%, Indie 29.7%, Great Soundtrack 14.5%, Puzzle 5.2%, Story Rich 5.2%

MindSeize is a 2D Metroidvania game set in a Sci-Fi-universe. Transfer your mind to a robot and rescue your beloved one!

Why similar: Adventure 23.8%, Indie 19.1%, Metroidvania 16.4%, Great Soundtrack 10%, Side Scroller 7.7%

Potata: Foxy Tale is a fairy tale themed platformer adventure game in a beautiful world of dark forests. Your goal is to restore the balance and assemble the fragments of the Woodland Spirit.

Why similar: Metroidvania 21.5%, Adventure 14.4%, Puzzle Platformer 11.9%, Indie 10%, Platformer 9.1%

VeLM is an atmospheric adventure in Xibalba, the Mayan underworld, full of enemies and traps set by the Gods of Darkness. Unlock the secrets of the ancient myths, defeat the powerful Hun-Came and save the town of San Lamar from the curse.

Why similar: Metroidvania 19.1%, Adventure 17.2%, Indie 12.9%, Side Scroller 11.9%, Platformer 7.6%

Bookbound Brigade is about beating the hell out of historical and literary characters you studied in school by leading a dream team of real and fictional heroes through a 2D side-scrolling platform-adventure.

Why similar: Adventure 25.1%, Indie 18.8%, Metroidvania 13.3%, Side Scroller 7.5%, Puzzle Platformer 7.3%

In Dungeon is a 2D platformer hardcore made with pixel art. The main character, Allan Callahan, is trying to escape of the dungeon by facing different challenges and looking for other treasure hunters. Can you help him escape the dungeon before his fate is sealed?

Why similar: Adventure 26%, Indie 20.6%, Great Soundtrack 16.2%, Difficult 12.1%, Side Scroller 10.1%

Into the Beyond with The EchoMaker! A fast-paced action adventure metroidvania in a mysterious paradox of a tower. From gothic castles to snowy fields. Interdimensional beings and creatures from above! Crush all opposing your onslaught and make mysterious allies in this epic 2d hand drawn style!

Why similar: Indie 20.4%, Adventure 18.2%, Great Soundtrack 17%, Metroidvania 16.5%, Open World 8.4%

Take control of Billy and Polly as you make your way through a colorful and challenging world full of precision platforming goodness.

Why similar: Adventure 22.7%, Indie 17.5%, Great Soundtrack 15.5%, Puzzle Platformer 9.8%, Side Scroller 9.7%

LA-MULANA is an “Archaeological Ruin Exploration Action Game,” bringing the classic appeal of adventure with the punishing difficulty of retro-inspired gaming. Search inside ancient ruins, seeking out the “Secret Treasure of Life” – which sleeps in the sprawling ruins of “LA-MULANA” and is said to be the beginning of all civilization.

Why similar: Metroidvania 29.5%, Great Soundtrack 13.7%, Difficult 13.5%, Adventure 9.5%, Platformer 8.6%

Set sail for adventure with a paper hat on your head and a magical shrinking boat in your pocket, in search of legendary treasures! Solve tricky puzzles, battle formidable foes, piece together clues and dig up secrets to uncover your own shrouded history as you explore this sprawling open world.

Why similar: Adventure 32.7%, Indie 23.9%, Metroidvania 22.6%, Platformer 10.2%, Cute 5.9%

In a chilling cellar below the apocalyptic snow, Fei Lin the witch wakes up from hibernation, and ventures into the forsaken world. Guide her through the process of escaping the cellar, and seeing the changed world for her first time.

Why similar: Adventure 34.9%, Great Soundtrack 27.4%, Indie 26.2%, Puzzle 9.1%, Singleplayer 2.5%

Little Legend is a 2D open world action-addventure game taking place in a fantasy world. Pimpim, a young girl with magical powers, sets out to discover the world in search of her origins. Craft your own spells to fight and explore a huge open world full of mysteries.

Why similar: Adventure 31.8%, Indie 23.8%, Great Soundtrack 21.7%, Action 8.4%, Exploration 5.3%

After Death is a platform / exploration game in a dark and hostile world. With the help from lost souls, you will have to find a way to open a gate which seems to be the only exit from this mysterious world infected by monsters.

Why similar: Metroidvania 24.9%, Great Soundtrack 22.8%, Adventure 15.7%, Indie 12.1%, Side Scroller 7.4%

Demons, giants, mutants, and a talking Ball with hybrid limbs?! In WarriOrb you play as a mighty demon trapped in an unlikely body. The path ahead is not an easy one. Will you do whatever it takes to regain your freedom?

Why similar: Metroidvania 16.3%, Great Soundtrack 15.8%, Side Scroller 10.2%, Difficult 9.2%, Platformer 6.4%

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 25.9%, Adventure 17.4%, Platformer 11%, Indie 9.4%, Exploration 7.3%

Wenjia is a 2D platform game with puzzle-solving elements. Players can freely travel between two realms (the material world and the energy world), each of them with different challenges and obstacles. Players must utilize both realms’ mechanisms to reach their final goal.

Why similar: Metroidvania 15.8%, Side Scroller 9.8%, Difficult 9.3%, Puzzle Platformer 9.3%, Adventure 8.8%

In this action-platformer, you play as Mop Boy, a kid whose job is to fight off the grease monsters terrorizing his family's restaurant. Gain new abilities by completing tasks for your family and put an end to the evil grease running amuck!

Why similar: Great Soundtrack 18.1%, Adventure 15.9%, Indie 11.9%, Difficult 10.7%, Puzzle Platformer 10.5%

A 2D pixel-art metroidvania where you fight using elemental spirits instead of basic attacks. Explore, collect, and solve puzzles in a magical forest.

Why similar: Metroidvania 19.2%, Side Scroller 13%, Puzzle Platformer 11.9%, Difficult 11%, Adventure 9.8%

A new addictive puzzle game from the creators of Big Journey to Home, inspired both by the eighties and the modern games – we present Spectrubes!

Why similar: Indie 25.5%, Great Soundtrack 24%, Adventure 21.1%, Difficult 17.2%, Puzzle 9.6%

Wander a whimsical world full of danger and surprise. Outsmart your environment as you punch, grab, and throw enemies and objects in this action-puzzle adventure.

Why similar: Adventure 28.9%, Indie 22.3%, Metroidvania 21.3%, Puzzle Platformer 9.8%, Platformer 9.2%

Help Glitch save his planet from intergalactic tyrants in this innovative and vibrant retro-styled action platformer.

Why similar: Adventure 27.7%, Indie 21.3%, Great Soundtrack 12.9%, Platformer 11.6%, Difficult 8.4%