Games Like Escape From Tethys

Explore an abandoned space station in this retro-themed explorative action platformer.

Why similar: Metroidvania 66.8%, Platformer 16.5%, Action 7%, Pixel Graphics 6.1%, Exploration 3.6%

Why You'll Like It: It shares the same minimalist, challenging pixel-art aesthetic and deep, non-linear exploration found in Tethys.

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 69.9%, Platformer 15.6%, Action 6.5%, Pixel Graphics 4.4%, Exploration 3.7%

Why You'll Like It: This title is a definitive sci-fi metroidvania that mirrors the sense of discovery and weapon-based progression of the seed game.

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 63.8%, Platformer 15.7%, Action 10.8%, Pixel Graphics 5.8%, Exploration 3.9%

Why You'll Like It: It features a similar retro-futuristic vibe where you navigate a hostile environment inside a mechanical suit.

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 54.8%, Platformer 21.6%, Action 9.3%, Exploration 8.8%, Pixel Graphics 5.4%

Why You'll Like It: This game focuses on short-burst, intense exploration and boss fights on alien planets that feel very close to the Tethys experience.

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 53%, Platformer 16%, Exploration 9.9%, Action 8.2%, Action-Adventure 7.3%

Why You'll Like It: It provides a modern take on the classic metroidvania formula with a heavy emphasis on exploration and challenging combat encounters.

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 59.4%, Platformer 21.5%, Action 10.6%, Action-Adventure 8.4%

Why You'll Like It: This atmospheric sci-fi metroidvania excels at capturing the feeling of being stranded on a desolate, dangerous world.

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 57.1%, Platformer 19.5%, Exploration 10.9%, Action-Adventure 6.7%, Pixel Graphics 5.8%

Why You'll Like It: It offers a charming yet lonely atmosphere with interconnected world design and mechanical upgrades that reward exploration.

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 65.8%, Action 15.3%, Platformer 15%, Pixel Graphics 3.9%

Why You'll Like It: This title offers a vast, interconnected world with a focus on cryptic exploration and challenging platforming mechanics.

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

Why similar: Metroidvania 52.7%, Platformer 21.3%, Action 12.7%, Exploration 7.2%, Pixel Graphics 6.1%

Why You'll Like It: It captures the same tense, pixelated survival-horror atmosphere where you are constantly hunted by superior forces.

Discover a vast alien world. Fight the ferocious local fauna and killer machines. Reveal its secrets and find a way to escape. The Mobius Machine is a side-scroller action adventure, with an emphasis on free-form exploration and intense combat.

Why similar: Metroidvania 55.4%, Platformer 18.3%, Exploration 11.4%, Action-Adventure 8.3%, Action 6.7%

Why You'll Like It: The game features a sprawling, hostile alien world where navigation and survival are key to uncovering the mystery of your surroundings.

In Demon Peak, you play as the nameless warrior, trapped inside the depths of an unholy Mountain. Explore the mysterious and perilous enviroments, fight against a multitude of different enemies and gather magical abilities to overcome the Mountain's evil inhabitants.

Why similar: Metroidvania 58.5%, Action 19.7%, Platformer 16.1%, Pixel Graphics 5.7%

Why You'll Like It: It mirrors the retro-inspired action-adventure loop of finding secret upgrades to overcome increasingly difficult terrain.

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 50.8%, Metroidvania 27.2%, Action 11.9%, Pixel Graphics 10.1%

Why You'll Like It: This game emphasizes precision platforming and exploration in a hostile alien setting, much like the core loop of Tethys.

PLANET ALPHA, a beautiful alien world filled with mystery and danger. Pursued by relentless enemies, you must harness the power of night and day as you struggle to survive.

Why similar: Platformer 53.7%, Action 26.3%, Exploration 20%

Why You'll Like It: While more cinematic, it perfectly captures the feeling of navigating a beautiful yet deadly alien planet.

Trapped in a buried, forgotten facility, you must reach the core of an ancient machine to rescue your lost lover. System Purge is a challenging, atmospheric 2D platformer.

Why similar: Metroidvania 39.1%, Platformer 36.8%, Action 15.8%, Pixel Graphics 8.3%

Why You'll Like It: It features a similar focus on a lone protagonist navigating a dangerous, mechanical environment with platforming-heavy gameplay.

Explore and fight your way through a crashed human spaceship infested with relentless hordes of aliens as you become more powerful with exciting weapon upgrades and powerups in this retro inspired first-person shooter.

Why similar: Metroidvania 67.7%, Exploration 13.2%, Action-Adventure 12.9%, Pixel Graphics 6.2%

Why You'll Like It: This game blends retro aesthetics with intense, fast-paced combat against alien threats in a confined facility.

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: Platformer 32.2%, Metroidvania 31.4%, Exploration 18.3%, Action 10.5%, Pixel Graphics 7.5%

Why You'll Like It: It combines exploration with puzzle-solving in a way that rewards players for carefully analyzing their surroundings.

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 54.9%, Platformer 20.6%, Exploration 10.6%, Action-Adventure 9.3%, Action 4.6%

Why You'll Like It: The game emphasizes fluid movement and exploration within a decaying, atmospheric sci-fi setting.

Dark Matter is a 2.5D side-scrolling survival horror game, set in a derelict spaceship besieged by a sinister alien presence, and infested with deadly parasites. As the Ensign, you must explore fetid hallways and abandoned facilities, scavenging for parts and blueprints, expanding your arsenal to up to four deadly weapons and freely...

Why similar: Metroidvania 63.1%, Action 36.9%

Why You'll Like It: It delivers a dark, sci-fi side-scrolling experience that focuses on survival against alien threats in a confined space.

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

Why similar: Metroidvania 55.3%, Platformer 14.6%, Exploration 10.1%, Action-Adventure 8.6%, Action 6.3%

Why You'll Like It: This game provides a focused metroidvania experience with a strong emphasis on exploration and sci-fi atmosphere.

Make your way on foot, on a hoverbike, up skyscrapers, and down bottomless pits, as you exterminate a threat of unknown origin!

Why similar: Platformer 58.4%, Action 34%, Pixel Graphics 7.6%

Why You'll Like It: This title is a direct homage to classic retro action-platformers, focusing on tight controls and challenging level design.

Your ship has crash-landed on a stray rogue planet, and you're out of fuel... It's up to you to delve beneath the frozen surface and find a way to get your ship back into space while fighting strange sea creatures and uncovering the mysteries of the world beneath the ice!

Why similar: Action 67.8%, Pixel Graphics 32.2%

Why You'll Like It: It offers a fast-paced, action-oriented take on the sci-fi exploration genre with a distinct visual style.

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 50.1%, Platformer 17.2%, Action-Adventure 10.1%, Exploration 9.7%, Action 8.3%

Why You'll Like It: This game features intricate level design and character-swapping mechanics that make exploration feel rewarding and deep.

Perceive the future in this time-loop metroidvania.

Why similar: Metroidvania 51.3%, Platformer 18.9%, Exploration 9.7%, Action-Adventure 9%, Action 7.2%

Why You'll Like It: It offers a unique time-loop mechanic that forces you to master the environment and optimize your exploration route.

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 56%, Platformer 21.4%, Action 8%, Exploration 7.9%, Action-Adventure 6.7%

Why You'll Like It: This game focuses on the joy of exploration and traversal, making it a great pick for those who enjoyed the movement in Tethys.

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 59.6%, Platformer 16.7%, Action 11.5%, Pixel Graphics 6.8%, Action-Adventure 4.5%

Why You'll Like It: It features high-quality pixel art and a strong narrative focus paired with challenging platforming and boss encounters.

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: Platformer 39.3%, Action 19.4%, Exploration 15.1%, Metroidvania 14.6%, Pixel Graphics 11.5%

Why You'll Like It: It offers a massive world to explore with a heavy emphasis on platforming challenges and ability-based progression.

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

Why similar: Metroidvania 56.9%, Platformer 26.5%, Action 8%, Pixel Graphics 4.5%, Exploration 4.2%

Why You'll Like It: A classic of the genre, it provides the same sense of being a lone hero navigating a dangerous, mysterious world.

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: Metroidvania 48.6%, Platformer 20.7%, Action 19.8%, Exploration 6.4%, Pixel Graphics 4.4%

Why You'll Like It: It blends space flight and on-foot exploration, providing a varied sci-fi experience that mirrors the scale of Tethys.

Sundered is a chaotic hand­-drawn metroidvania where you resist or embrace ancient eldritch powers, a challenging and unique take on a classic genre from the creators of Jotun, now with local co-op!

Why similar: Metroidvania 64.3%, Platformer 22.5%, Action 8.2%, Exploration 5.1%

Why You'll Like It: It features a highly hostile environment and intense combat that will appeal to players looking for a challenge.

Critically-acclaimed action-RPG that takes the template laid down by classics like Wonder Boy, nails the 16-Bit aesthetics for nostalgia fans, but updates the mechanics to feel fresh and modern. Explore a beautiful open world and plunder dungeons, caves and forests to help take down epic bosses!

Why similar: Metroidvania 65.4%, Platformer 15.8%, Action 13.7%, Pixel Graphics 5.1%

Why You'll Like It: This title captures the spirit of 16-bit action-adventure games with a focus on exploration and combat upgrades.

What’s left of humanity are minds trapped in circuits. You are awaken as ReSetna, a warrior on a mission to rescue last human remnants. Explore seven hostile zones, face seven brutal bosses and evolve through a unique upgrade system. Uncover horrifying truth and decide if the future is worth saving.

Why similar: Metroidvania 65.4%, Platformer 22.3%, Action 12.3%

Crashed on a desolate but mysterious planet you find yourself eye to eye with an ancient civilisation. Explore the planet, find powerful upgrades, and fulfill your destiny.

Why similar: Metroidvania 63.5%, Platformer 21%, Exploration 11.5%, Pixel Graphics 4%

Stray Savior is a 2D action platformer packed full of lethal traps, precise jumps, and powerful bosses. Venture through the dystopian world with weapons and skills, to prove yourself and forge your own path.

Why similar: Platformer 43.1%, Action 24.5%, Action-Adventure 23.3%, Pixel Graphics 9.1%

Fight to survive on a mysterious alien planet, outwit its vicious inhabitants, and do whatever it takes to find a way off that wretched rock.

Why similar: Platformer 47.1%, Action 34.2%, Action-Adventure 18.6%

BE FASTER. Take on the role of a corpo scav drone pilot, tasked with tearing through the decaying corpse of a world to salvage the remains of a powerful energy source. Master flight through hostile environments and deadly security measures in 100 precision platforming levels.

Why similar: Platformer 47.1%, Action 32.3%, Pixel Graphics 10.8%, Action-Adventure 9.8%

In a world oppressed by ruthless machines, a stronghold full of die-hard TV-sets resists the persecution. Your lost friends and the lack of resources drive you to take action against the extinction. Brave the dangers and go find your comrades to rescue your species!

Why similar: Platformer 65.2%, Action 34.8%

EX VITRO is a dark sci-fi 2D platformer where you delve into the ruins of a military research facility and discover the horrors within. Whether machine, creature, or something else entirely, you’ll face the violent legacy of the last survivors of humanity.

Why similar: Metroidvania 57%, Platformer 22.2%, Exploration 11.9%, Action 8.9%

You are the Entangled One, a malformed entity. Traverse the flesh wastes under the eye of an eternal eclipse. Delve deep into the planet's guts. Uncover a fleshy ecosystem. Engage in deliberate, challenging combat, using your whiplike arms and collectible sub attacks to augment your combat style!

Why similar: Platformer 50.9%, Action-Adventure 20.2%, Action 18.2%, Pixel Graphics 10.7%

A scientist uses a unique teleportation instrument to escape an ancient biomechanical world filled with imaginative technology, deadly traps, and hidden secrets.

Why similar: Platformer 52.6%, Action 21.8%, Action-Adventure 18.8%, Pixel Graphics 6.7%

As Sam McRae, last surviving member of the “Titan Hauler” crew, you must hack and blast your way through an onslaught of truly bad 'bots to find a way to prevent a potential planet-destroying catastrophe.

Why similar: Action 100%

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 62.1%, Action 20.3%, Platformer 17.6%

Unusual and NOT Safe Experiments is an action-puzzle game where you control a robot trying to escape from an abandoned complex, overcoming traps and solving puzzles.

Why similar: Action 76%, Pixel Graphics 24%

Life on Earth is unsustainable. Humanity must seek a new home but the only planet found is very hostile. You were sent on a expedition to slay the monsters inhabiting the surface of this planet. In this adventure you end up being the villain. Game contains two basic controls, many puzzles and lots of guns and enemies.

Why similar: Action 61.5%, Platformer 38.5%

In 2097, life is discovered on Mars. When your mission of first contact becomes trapped by a cave-in, you must master the alien ecosystem to survive. Soon you stumble upon more than anyone expected, and with time running out, you will make a decision that determines the fate of a lost planet.

Why similar: Metroidvania 41.3%, Platformer 32.4%, Exploration 17.4%, Action 9%

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 54.8%, Platformer 20.8%, Exploration 11.7%, Action 8.4%, Pixel Graphics 4.3%

Shadow Labyrinth is a 2D action platformer and a genre-twisting alternate take on the iconic PAC-MAN. As The Swordsman, you wake on a mysterious planet amidst relics of wars past. To survive you will discover secrets, consume your enemies, and grow from prey to apex predator.

Why similar: Metroidvania 57.8%, Platformer 17.5%, Action 15.4%, Action-Adventure 9.3%

REDO! is a game about a girl trying to find another human in a dystopian world overrun by biomachines. It's a lonely and evocative game about exploring the unknown and overcoming obstacles to see what is left.

Why similar: Metroidvania 65.5%, Action 20.1%, Exploration 7.9%, Pixel Graphics 6.6%

You've died and landed in purgatory, your options? Unending suffering or finding a way back to your world.

Why similar: Platformer 56.1%, Action 43.9%

You have crash-landed on Notrium. Your food supplies are running low, and a pack of predatory aliens have your scent. You're out of bullets for your pistol, your only weapon a handful of rocks. A freezing night is setting in, and you are desperately looking for firewood. Can you survive?

Why similar: Action 100%

After a psychologist visit goes terribly wrong, you find yourself trapped in the mind of a game developer on the brink of physical and emotional burnout during the final stages of an intense project. Experience a metroidvania-lite drenched in anxiety and based on a very true story.

Why similar: Metroidvania 45.4%, Platformer 21.6%, Action 10.4%, Action-Adventure 10%, Exploration 8%

Sneak away from your boring family vacation and delve into ANCIENT RUINS! Borrow equipment from dead explorers and uncover the secrets of a lost civilization as you leave your parents worried sick. WARNING: The Ruby Chest may contain traces of an ancient curse (and gluten).

Why similar: Metroidvania 57.6%, Platformer 16.3%, Action 11.3%, Exploration 9.4%, Pixel Graphics 5.4%

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 47%, Platformer 18.4%, Exploration 11.4%, Action-Adventure 10%, Action 8.8%

Search for new life forms as you try to survive on a mysterious hostile world in the surreal 2D action-platformer Orange Moon.

Why similar: Metroidvania 44.5%, Action 28.5%, Platformer 27%

Trash Quest is a compact metroidvania with a single spawn point, run and gun action and tight platforming. Navigate an interwoven maze of rooms through this space station, destroying robots, collecting power ups and unlocking shortcuts.

Why similar: Metroidvania 61.6%, Platformer 12.5%, Exploration 11.9%, Action 9.8%, Pixel Graphics 4.2%

Three limbs ripped off, infected with a deadly parasite, you must survive. Drag yourself through the hallways of an infested arcship, fight off twisted eldritch creatures, craft vaccines and ammunition, and escape to civilization.

Why similar: Action 31.7%, Exploration 30.2%, Action-Adventure 26.4%, Pixel Graphics 11.7%

You don't know who you are, where you are and why you are here, you know just thing, you want to survive and get out of HELL!

Why similar: Platformer 58.6%, Action 41.4%

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 59.3%, Platformer 17.7%, Exploration 11.5%, Action 5.9%, Pixel Graphics 5.6%

Your ship is in ruins. your cargo is lost... and you are one ticked-off alien trapped on a planet overrun by bloodthirsty mutants with the help of a handful of enslaved natives and enough firepower to level a city.

Why similar: Action 100%

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

Why similar: Metroidvania 56.7%, Platformer 18.2%, Exploration 10.9%, Action 8.4%, Pixel Graphics 5.7%

Escape from a mysterious underground megastructure in this short atmospheric 3d-platformer.

Why similar: Platformer 80.6%, Action-Adventure 19.4%