Games Like Environmental Station Alpha

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 60.5%, Pixel Graphics 8.4%, Platformer 8%, Great Soundtrack 7.6%, Retro 2.7%

Why You'll Like It: It captures the classic sci-fi exploration and retro-aesthetic feel of a lonely space station perfectly.

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 57.9%, Pixel Graphics 11.9%, Platformer 10.2%, Exploration 4%, Retro 3%

Why You'll Like It: It mirrors the cryptic, non-linear exploration and sense of mystery that makes Environmental Station Alpha so compelling.

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 57.1%, Platformer 10.7%, Difficult 8.5%, Great Soundtrack 7.2%, Pixel Graphics 3.4%

Why You'll Like It: Like the seed game, it features deep, cryptic puzzles and a high level of difficulty that rewards thorough exploration.

Forge your own path in Hollow Knight! An epic action adventure through a vast ruined kingdom of insects and heroes. Explore twisting caverns, battle tainted creatures and befriend bizarre bugs, all in a classic, hand-drawn 2D style.

Why similar: Metroidvania 56.5%, Great Soundtrack 11.5%, Platformer 10.8%, Difficult 8.2%, Indie 2.6%

Why You'll Like It: This is the gold standard for difficult, atmospheric exploration and challenging boss encounters in a sprawling interconnected world.

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 51.5%, Platformer 10.8%, Difficult 9.6%, Pixel Graphics 9%, Retro 4%

Why You'll Like It: It continues the tradition of punishing, rewarding exploration and complex secrets found in the first title.

On the desolate moon of Lorian, a long-dormant Deadsuit awakens from slumber. Journey beneath the surface on an atmospheric 2D adventure of self-discovery, ancient mysteries, and cosmic terror. Explore winding caverns and acquire new abilities to unearth this alien world’s long-buried secrets.

Why similar: Metroidvania 59.3%, Platformer 12.8%, Difficult 6.8%, Sci-fi 4.5%, Adventure 3.9%

Why You'll Like It: A space-themed metroidvania that emphasizes atmospheric storytelling and challenging combat on a desolate alien moon.

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 58%, Pixel Graphics 11.7%, Platformer 8.5%, Retro 4%, Indie 3.7%

Why You'll Like It: A short, punchy, and space-themed metroidvania that captures the retro feel with a unique feline twist.

Run, jump, shoot, fly and explore your way through a massive action-adventure reminiscent of classic 8- and 16-bit games.

Why similar: Metroidvania 45.8%, Platformer 11.5%, Pixel Graphics 10.1%, Difficult 9%, Retro 5.2%

Why You'll Like It: As a foundational indie metroidvania, it shares the retro charm and exploration-heavy gameplay of the seed.

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 57%, Pixel Graphics 12.9%, Platformer 11.6%, Retro 4.7%, Adventure 4.7%

Why You'll Like It: It perfectly captures the GameBoy-style retro aesthetic while providing a polished and satisfying metroidvania experience.

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 54.8%, Pixel Graphics 13.9%, Platformer 9.1%, Great Soundtrack 6.7%, Adventure 4.4%

Why You'll Like It: A story-driven metroidvania with polished pixel art and challenging boss encounters that feel very similar in scope.

Uphold your pact with the Titan of Death, Epimetheus! Fight, climb and solve your way through a twisted tower as three unique adventurers, on a mission to save their village from impending doom!

Why similar: Metroidvania 55.8%, Platformer 11.4%, Pixel Graphics 11.3%, Retro 5.7%, Exploration 3.9%

Why You'll Like It: It features a fantastic retro aesthetic and tight, deliberate mechanics that feel like a love letter to classic exploration games.

Explore a beautiful, vast and ruined world riddled with dangers and lost technologies.

Why similar: Metroidvania 25.4%, Pixel Graphics 21.6%, Great Soundtrack 18.1%, Difficult 11.7%, Adventure 5.3%

Why You'll Like It: It excels at atmospheric storytelling and high-stakes, difficult combat within a beautiful, mysterious pixel-art world.

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 63.8%, Pixel Graphics 12.6%, Platformer 6.4%, Difficult 5.4%, Great Soundtrack 4.3%

Why You'll Like It: A dark, difficult, and atmospheric metroidvania that rewards players for mastering its challenging combat and exploration.

Xeodrifter is the story of an interstellar drifter traveling the stars on a simple mission of exploration. We join our nomad as he embarks on the investigation of a small cluster of four planets in the omega sector, after a collision with a rogue asteroid damaged his warp core.

Why similar: Metroidvania 48.1%, Platformer 11.3%, Pixel Graphics 10.5%, Difficult 5.8%, Retro 5.7%

Why You'll Like It: A focused, space-themed exploration game that emphasizes retro-style platforming and boss-heavy progression.

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 60.6%, Pixel Graphics 8.1%, Platformer 7.9%, Adventure 5.1%, Difficult 4.7%

Why You'll Like It: It offers a classic NES-style exploration experience with a high difficulty curve and rewarding secrets.

Momodora: Reverie Under The Moonlight is the fourth installment in the beloved Momodora series of 2D platformers. Unleash ravaging combos against a variety of formidable monsters and deftly dodge your way through a cursed land to seek audience with the Queen and dispel the evil that threatens all life.

Why similar: Metroidvania 55.3%, Pixel Graphics 12.2%, Platformer 12%, Difficult 9.4%, Exploration 3.7%

Why You'll Like It: This game offers tight, difficult combat and beautiful pixel art that matches the intensity of the seed game's boss fights.

Castle In The Darkness is a fun and challenging shout out to the early days of video games! It's an action exploration platformer with some RPG elements, much like games from the Castlevania or Metroid series. It's super fast-paced, challenging, and full of secrets!

Why similar: Metroidvania 56.6%, Platformer 10.9%, Pixel Graphics 8.4%, Difficult 7.2%, Great Soundtrack 4%

Why You'll Like It: A fast-paced, difficult, and retro-styled platformer that demands precision and persistence.

Use your magic staff and progress through a large interconnected world where you'll solve puzzles, fight enemies and defeat bosses in order to help free the land of Alwa. Explore and uncover the secrets by using your platforming skills in this challenging and charming 8-bit adventure game.

Why similar: Metroidvania 57%, Pixel Graphics 11.7%, Platformer 10.6%, Retro 4.7%, Great Soundtrack 4.5%

Why You'll Like It: A retro-inspired metroidvania that leans heavily into puzzle-platforming and exploration mechanics.

A journey begins... A treacherous tower... Unravel its mysteries!Discover the secrets kept in the long abandoned Tesla Tower!Magnetism and other electromagnetic powers will help you explore a non-linear world of beautiful hand-drawn environments, in a steampunk-inspired vision of old Europe.

Why similar: Metroidvania 51.1%, Platformer 20.9%, Difficult 5.6%, Great Soundtrack 4.2%, Indie 3.6%

Why You'll Like It: It provides a unique take on the genre by focusing on physics-based puzzle-platforming within a metroidvania structure.

Play as Captain Grisham, and uncover the secrets of Planet 4-514 in this thrilling prequel to Side Scape!

Why similar: Metroidvania 51%, Pixel Graphics 11.4%, Platformer 9.7%, Retro 5.5%, Exploration 3.6%

Why You'll Like It: A modern, tight, and space-themed metroidvania that focuses on exploration and combat efficiency.

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 50.6%, Platformer 9.4%, Pixel Graphics 9%, Great Soundtrack 7.2%, Difficult 6.8%

Why You'll Like It: A space-themed exploration game that features unique companion mechanics and a classic metroidvania structure.

MO: Astray is a pixel art, side-scrolling, action-platformer. Lead MO through mind-bending puzzles using special abilities. Bizarre enemies, threatening traps and ingenious level designs await.

Why similar: Pixel Graphics 24.6%, Platformer 18.1%, Great Soundtrack 13.7%, Adventure 9.2%, Action 7.6%

Why You'll Like It: An atmospheric, puzzle-heavy action game that shares the dark, mysterious tone of the seed game.

Explore the ruins of the human race and discover the thriving wildlife that blossomed after our extinction in this underwater action/adventure. Encounter monstrous creatures and let curiosity guide you through an inevitable voyage of extinction.

Why similar: Metroidvania 64.2%, Pixel Graphics 12.2%, Adventure 6.7%, Action 5.1%, Indie 4.8%

Why You'll Like It: It features a lonely, atmospheric underwater setting that prioritizes exploration and boss-focused progression.

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 55.2%, Pixel Graphics 13.4%, Platformer 12.8%, Exploration 3.7%, Atmospheric 3.4%

Why You'll Like It: An atmospheric, space-station-set metroidvania that emphasizes exploration and side-scrolling action.

Space Expedition is a 2D sci-fi platformer where you play as an astronaut who is sent to a space station to collect samples of mysterious dark matter. Space Expedition combines puzzle platforming, pixel art, and atmospheric adventures set in the style of 1980s sci-fi horror films.

Why similar: Pixel Graphics 30.9%, Platformer 22.8%, Exploration 9.1%, Indie 9.1%, Adventure 8.6%

Why You'll Like It: A retro-styled, atmospheric platformer that focuses on exploring a mysterious space environment.

A fast-paced 2D handcrafted metroidvania with strange sci-fi environments. Something is roaming the halls, watching your every move.

Why similar: Metroidvania 58.6%, Pixel Graphics 11.8%, Platformer 9.2%, Sci-fi 4.2%, Exploration 3.9%

Why You'll Like It: A sci-fi exploration game that uses pixel art to create a sense of isolation and discovery.

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: Pixel Graphics 25.5%, Platformer 23.4%, Metroidvania 14.5%, Adventure 9%, Retro 8%

Why You'll Like It: It offers deep, complex platforming mechanics within a large, interconnected world that rewards exploration.

You're trapped, alone and cold on a distant planet. Pursued by a droid with only one purpose: killing everything. You must find an escape. Explore the hostile environment, find secret upgrades and new weapons, and finally make your escape from this dark, hostile planet...

Why similar: Metroidvania 66.9%, Platformer 16.4%, Action 7%, Pixel Graphics 6.1%, Exploration 3.7%

Why You'll Like It: It captures the retro, space-themed exploration vibe with a focus on uncovering secrets on a hostile planet.

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 53.2%, Great Soundtrack 13.2%, Platformer 7.2%, Pixel Graphics 7%, Adventure 5.3%

Why You'll Like It: A difficult and atmospheric metroidvania that encourages players to explore a vast, interconnected world.

You Have to Win the Game is a free exploration platformer with a retro 1980s PC aesthetic.

Why similar: Metroidvania 64.6%, Platformer 10.5%, Pixel Graphics 6.1%, Retro 5.9%, Difficult 4.8%

You play an explorer stranded on a dangerous alien planet. Low on fuel, your only hope for escape is to find the planet’s core in this incredibly clever action-puzzle-platformer.

Why similar: Platformer 21.4%, Metroidvania 19.2%, Pixel Graphics 15.7%, Great Soundtrack 12.9%, Retro 5.7%

Fight for your freedom in a sprawling fantasy world caught between the living and the fallen. Hone your skills in a retro epic featuring puzzle platforming, metroidvania exploration and crunchy soulslike combat.

Why similar: Metroidvania 68%, Pixel Graphics 14.9%, Difficult 7.4%, Action 3.3%, Adventure 2.4%

Inspired by the retro glory days of 8-bit games, Rex Rocket is a traditional 2D platformer brought into the 21st century. Paying tribute to classic NES games like Mario, Mega Man, and Metroid, old-school platformer fans will find Rex Rocket a breath of fresh air.

Why similar: Metroidvania 50.6%, Platformer 11.8%, Pixel Graphics 8.4%, Great Soundtrack 5.6%, Difficult 5.6%

Astronite Landing on Neplea is the prologue to this fantastic 1bit metroidvania that combines action, exploration, puzzles and platforms. Take on Astronite's first major challenge and defeat the deadly Kronch.

Why similar: Metroidvania 55.4%, Pixel Graphics 13.1%, Platformer 11.5%, Adventure 4.7%, Action 3.7%

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 61%, Platformer 13.4%, Difficult 8.3%, Exploration 4.2%, Atmospheric 3.1%

A powerful ancient evil has arisen, and the war to save humanity has begun! As an elite agent in the monster-hunting Prodigium organization, you must use a variety of weapons, upgrades, and mysterious artifacts to defend mankind against the supernatural hordes of Princess Ahmanet.

Why similar: Metroidvania 60.7%, Pixel Graphics 10.8%, Great Soundtrack 7.3%, Platformer 5.6%, Adventure 4.8%

The End Is Nigh is a sprawling adventure platformer where you die a lot, but thats ok because you are probably already dead anyway.

Why similar: Platformer 29.9%, Great Soundtrack 20.7%, Difficult 20%, Pixel Graphics 8.1%, Indie 6.6%

A precise momentum-based platformer that emphasizes exploration and navigation puzzles. Run and jump your way through a wide variety of obstacles and challenges as you explore an abandoned derelict freighter. Be careful: getting in is often easier than getting out!

Why similar: Metroidvania 57.9%, Platformer 13.1%, Pixel Graphics 10%, Exploration 4.5%, Sci-fi 3.2%

Fight your way through the dungeons of the Alchemist's Castle, collect power ups and take back what is rightfully yours from the Alchemist himself in this old-school metroidvania!

Why similar: Metroidvania 54.5%, Pixel Graphics 11.4%, Great Soundtrack 10.3%, Retro 6.3%, Indie 5.3%

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.

Why similar: Metroidvania 52.1%, Pixel Graphics 13.4%, Platformer 11.5%, Retro 6.3%, Adventure 4%

VVVVVV is a platform game all about exploring one simple mechanical idea - what if you reversed gravity instead of jumping?

Why similar: Pixel Graphics 22.9%, Platformer 19%, Great Soundtrack 15.9%, Metroidvania 11%, Difficult 10.8%

Escape Goat 2 is a puzzle platformer game where you use machinery, the environment, and a friendly mouse to progress through a dungeon.

Why similar: Platformer 47.5%, Great Soundtrack 20.7%, Indie 13.5%, Action 7.7%, Puzzle 7%

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: Metroidvania 41.7%, Adventure 9.5%, Action 8.3%, Pixel Graphics 7.9%, Platformer 7.7%

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 58.1%, Pixel Graphics 10.9%, Platformer 10.5%, Retro 5.9%, Adventure 4.7%

Play as a special ops combat unit sent to investigate why the stars around Solar System are going dark in MegaSphere — a story-based post-cyberpunk action platformer adventure game of supermassive scale set in early 22nd century: smart guns, robots, self-reconstructing environments, and vast AIs.

Why similar: Metroidvania 57.3%, Pixel Graphics 12.2%, Adventure 8%, Platformer 7.6%, Action 7%

Unravel the mystery uncovered by a remote interplanetary mining operation. What did they find? What threat does it pose? And ultimately, what does it truly mean to be a hero?

Why similar: Metroidvania 64%, Platformer 10.8%, Adventure 10.4%, Indie 7.6%, Action 7.2%

In a bizarre universe where the oppressed are on the brink of oblivion, Dandara has awoken to reshape the world.

Why similar: Metroidvania 57.6%, Platformer 10.4%, Pixel Graphics 9.3%, Indie 6.1%, Action 5.9%

Rusted Moss is a twin-stick shooter metroidvania where you sling around the map with your grapple, blasting your way through witches and rusted machine monstrosities alike. This wasteland once harboring mankind has since fallen, and Fae long forgotten now knock on humanity's door...

Why similar: Metroidvania 44.1%, Platformer 17.7%, Pixel Graphics 11.2%, Difficult 8.3%, Retro 5%

In this Insanely Twisted, 2-D action-adventure game, explore unique environments and battle bizarre creatures.

Why similar: Metroidvania 76.7%, Adventure 5.7%, Action 4.2%, Indie 4%, Exploration 3.2%

A huge hand-crafted world packed with 13 unique bosses, a gripping story, and tons of enemies, Spaceport Hope is the ultimate test of gaming prowess.

Why similar: Metroidvania 44.3%, Platformer 16.6%, Pixel Graphics 12.3%, Indie 7.5%, Adventure 5.7%

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 56.5%, Platformer 12.5%, Pixel Graphics 11.8%, Retro 5.6%, Exploration 3.7%

Downwell is a curious game about a young person venturing down a well in search of untold treasures with only his Gunboots to protect him.

Why similar: Pixel Graphics 26%, Platformer 25.1%, Difficult 16.5%, Retro 6.6%, Indie 6.6%

A short horror about exploring abandoned space stations and collecting junk in order to pay off your S.R.P.O debt.

Why similar: Retro 17.8%, Space 14.1%, Adventure 13.2%, Sci-fi 13.1%, Exploration 11.9%

Rebel Transmute is a challenging 2D action-platformer epic with heart! Explore the twisting caverns of an alien planet, augment your play-style to fit your strengths, battle deadly bosses, and uncover a dark truth as Moon Mikono searches for her long lost mother.

Why similar: Metroidvania 48.1%, Pixel Graphics 11.2%, Platformer 8.6%, Difficult 8.2%, Retro 5.2%

Mutant scum never learn! Blaster Master Zero makes its Steam debut! Blaster Master Zero is a 8-bit style top-down & sideview 2D action-adventure game that hearkens back to the golden age of the NES. The game features new gameplay elements such as improved gameplay, and a more robust scenario.

Why similar: Metroidvania 59.6%, Pixel Graphics 13.5%, Platformer 11.9%, Action 7.1%, Retro 6.6%

Metroidvania style action/platformer with tons of abilities, enemies and exploration.

Why similar: Metroidvania 55.4%, Platformer 14.5%, Pixel Graphics 8.8%, Action 4.4%, Adventure 3.8%

Seek out new weapons and equipment to delve deeper into the dangerous world of Cypher-X72! Be warned, you aren't the only one seeking the forbidden technology known as Zexion! It will take cunning and valor to succeed in this action-packed sci-fi adventure!

Why similar: Metroidvania 54.9%, Pixel Graphics 12.4%, Difficult 10.1%, Sci-fi 4.3%, Adventure 4.2%

Paradox Soul is a chilling fight for exploration and survival; a Metroidvania pixel action-shooter hybrid!

Why similar: Metroidvania 46.2%, Pixel Graphics 11.9%, Platformer 11.1%, Difficult 7.9%, Adventure 4.8%

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 59.7%, Pixel Graphics 11.8%, Platformer 11.1%, Exploration 4.2%, Adventure 4%