
Explore a colossal creature by blending in with the environment and enemies. Evolve and gain new powers in this hand-drawn metroidvania where you can experience a unique adventure or create your own with a special level editor.
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Explore a colossal creature by blending in with the environment and enemies. Evolve and gain new powers in this hand-drawn metroidvania where you can experience a unique adventure or create your own with a special level editor.

Steel Flood
Explore a fallen utopia in this action-packed adventure platformer. Harness the weather to find new paths. Fight the untamed machines and seek ways to get their fragile parts for crafting. Become the savior of humanity or its doom.

Umbra Sepulcri
You are a necromancer. The souls of the dead are your weapon. Push the limits of your combat skills in this story-driven, action packed Metroidvania. Enter in a dark world, where the sun's rays no longer heat up and evil creatures roam free in the night.
Explore a fallen utopia in this action-packed adventure platformer. Harness the weather to find new paths. Fight the untamed machines and seek ways to get their fragile parts for crafting. Become the savior of humanity or its doom.
Why similar: Metroidvania 23.6%, Souls-like 22.5%, Difficult 11.8%, Hand-drawn 9.1%, Platformer 9%
You are a necromancer. The souls of the dead are your weapon. Push the limits of your combat skills in this story-driven, action packed Metroidvania. Enter in a dark world, where the sun's rays no longer heat up and evil creatures roam free in the night.
Why similar: Metroidvania 20.1%, Souls-like 18.9%, Difficult 10.6%, Side Scroller 8%, Hand-drawn 8%
Shieldbound is a metroidvania action-platformer. Explore a realm that revolves around a mysterious tower with many platforming challenges. Fight powerful enemies in 2D souls-like combat... all of that, using the unique abilities of a spirit-powered shield!
Why similar: Metroidvania 22.3%, Souls-like 21.4%, Difficult 12.3%, Hand-drawn 9.7%, Side Scroller 8.9%
Explore a dark world inhabited by men and monsters in this action packed platformer. Lay waste to the monsters that stand in your way with a wide array of stylish combat maneuvers, as you attempt to unravel the truth behind the curse of Fearanndal.
Why similar: Metroidvania 23.9%, Souls-like 21%, Side Scroller 8.8%, Platformer 8.7%, Hand-drawn 8%
Foregone is a fast and fluid 2D action-platformer packed with legendary loot and stunning pixel art. Collect an arsenal of powerful weapons and unravel a compelling story of regret and conspiracy as you slice your way through hordes of enemies to save Calagan.
Why similar: Metroidvania 24.2%, Souls-like 20%, Side Scroller 12.7%, Difficult 11.6%, Platformer 10.4%
Explore an interconnected world, encounter bizarre enemies and mysterious puzzles in this hand-drawn metroidvania, action adventure. Forge your own path, uncover secrets and master unique powers.
Why similar: Metroidvania 25.6%, Souls-like 24.1%, Difficult 14%, Platformer 10%, Hand-drawn 8.6%
Anokye is a 2D action–adventure platformer where you play as a destined hero fighting to unite the Ashanti people. Battle through villages, forests, and mystical peaks inspired by Ghanaian art and folklore in a journey to restore light to a kingdom in darkness.
Why similar: Metroidvania 31.2%, Souls-like 23.9%, Difficult 16.2%, Platformer 7.4%, Hand-drawn 6%
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 30.3%, Souls-like 24%, Gore 9.9%, Blood 9.1% ★, Difficult 7.7%
Akatori is an epic metroidvania where you wield your staff to fight, jump, and explore diverse realms across different eras. Explore worlds spanning different eras, battle formidable enemies, and help Mako stop the Amber Storms that poison all living things.
Why similar: Metroidvania 23.8%, Souls-like 21.6%, Difficult 12.5%, Side Scroller 8.9%, Platformer 8.2%
This game is a challenging 2D action platformer with RPG elements inspired by games like Castlevania and Dark Souls. Skelethrone: The Prey is a free prequel to the main game, setting the stage for the events that will unfold throughout Skelethrone: The Chronicles of Ericona campaign.
Why similar: Metroidvania 22.6%, Souls-like 21.1%, Difficult 10.7%, Blood 10.6% ★, Side Scroller 10.2%
Omen Fall is an action-packed, story-driven fantasy adventure game that draws players into a past woven with forgotten agreements. Fight against the darkness in this 2D metroidvania experience presented with pixel art graphics.
Why similar: Metroidvania 19.4%, Souls-like 19%, Difficult 11.2%, Gore 9.4%, Hand-drawn 8.6%
Deviator is a Metroidvania game centered around deflect, featuring exquisite 2D hand-drawn visuals. Exploring unknown wilderness and mysterious cities, delving into enigmatic realms of consciousness and encountering peculiar creatures. Try to find the truth behind this chaotic world.
Why similar: Metroidvania 27.8%, Souls-like 24.9%, Hand-drawn 9.7%, Platformer 9.3%, Side Scroller 6.4%
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 24.1%, Souls-like 22.4%, Difficult 12.7%, Platformer 8.9%, Hack and Slash 8.1%
Traverse a massive, ruined and beautiful world in this intense, atmospheric action platformer. Steal enemy abilities and fight them back with their own runic magic and deadly swordplay, as you attempt to find your lost twin sister in the sunken kingdom of Ithos.
Why similar: Metroidvania 21.6%, Souls-like 19.1%, Side Scroller 9.8%, Difficult 9.2%, Platformer 8.3%
Solateria is a hand-drawn action Metroidvania with parry-focused combat. A small fire warrior journeys to find the Primordial Flame, the world’s last hope against the Shadow Plague. Defeat foes with stylish parries and explore mysterious realms to uncover the world’s secrets.
Why similar: Metroidvania 27.1%, Souls-like 24.9%, Difficult 14.6%, Hand-drawn 11.6%, Platformer 7.3%
Last souls is a 2D side-scrolling Metroidvania soulslike game.The player controls a mysterious caped character and explores a labyrinthine, dark and cold world.
Why similar: Metroidvania 25%, Souls-like 23%, Difficult 12.4%, Platformer 9.1%, Hand-drawn 8%
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 30.5%, Souls-like 26.5%, Difficult 14.2%, Platformer 10.3%, Atmospheric 4%
Nine Sols is a lore rich, hand-drawn 2D action-platformer featuring Sekiro-inspired deflection focused combat. Embark on a journey of eastern fantasy, explore the land once home to an ancient alien race, and follow a vengeful hero’s quest to slay the 9 Sols, formidable rulers of this forsaken realm.
Why similar: Metroidvania 24.4%, Souls-like 21.9%, Difficult 12.7%, Hand-drawn 9.6%, Platformer 8.1%
Dive into the latest evolution of The Last Faith: a dark and gothic fusion of metroidvania and soulslike. Engage in merciless and precise combat with a huge range of weapons, firearms, and custom executions. Let nothing stand in the way of your journey to salvation.
Why similar: Metroidvania 24.7%, Souls-like 22.7%, Blood 11.7% ★, Gore 9.4%, Difficult 7.8%
You, who was born in a world full of darkness, should wander this hollowed land to find the Relics for a person who created you. However, fallen and lost souls with trap-filled trials await in your course of doing so. Can you survive in this crumbling world and start a new era?
Why similar: Metroidvania 24.3%, Souls-like 24%, Difficult 11.4%, Side Scroller 6.9%, Platformer 6.2%
Lost in darkness, a boy drawn into a twisted dream, no way out. Vapor World is a narrative-driven souls-like platformer focused on deflection combat set in atmospheric world of dream. Descend within shattered mind seeking lost memories. Face dark, beautiful world born of anguish and regret.
Why similar: Souls-like 20.9%, Metroidvania 20%, Difficult 12.3%, Hand-drawn 9.6%, Platformer 7.1%
You are the last hope, be ready to resist the enemy and eliminate injustice and tyranny.
Why similar: Metroidvania 23.3%, Souls-like 21.1%, Side Scroller 11.3%, Platformer 10.2%, Hand-drawn 9.2%
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 43.1%, Metroidvania 22.1%, Difficult 10.6%, Platformer 5.1%, Gore 3.5%
Phosfi is an atmospheric, metroidvania style action-platformer. Explore and fight your way through a dark and dangerous coastal world full of mysteries and ancient treasures. Discover long buried temples and fend off Eldritch monstrosities in this beautiful 2D hand drawn and animated adventure.
Why similar: Metroidvania 26.5%, Souls-like 24.5%, Difficult 12.8%, Hand-drawn 11.6%, Dark 7.2%
Dumbriel is a 2D metroidvania action-adventure set in Hell. Play as a clumsy fallen angel in a twisted underworld. Slash, craft, and dodge through deadly arenas, weird monsters, and hellish traps. Die, upgrade, and dive back in.
Why similar: Metroidvania 27.1%, Souls-like 25%, Difficult 13.2%, Platformer 9.7%, Hand-drawn 8.5%
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 31.5%, Souls-like 23.3%, Difficult 13.5%, Platformer 9.4%, Hand-drawn 6%
Skelethrone is a challenging 2D action platformer with RPG elements inspired by games like Castlevania and Dark Souls.
Why similar: Metroidvania 22.3%, Souls-like 20.8%, Blood 13.9% ★, Difficult 10.6%, Side Scroller 9.8%
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 28.7%, Souls-like 26.1%, Difficult 14.1%, Platformer 10.4%, Side Scroller 5.5%
Explore a stunning hand-crafted world ravaged by war and ruled by a evil tyrant. Face a wide variety of enemies as you customize your strategy, switch weapons, and unlock powerful abilities
Why similar: Metroidvania 26.6%, Souls-like 22%, Side Scroller 12.5%, Difficult 12.3%, Hand-drawn 8.5%
Carry your life as a fragile crown in Crownless! An epic action adventure built for exploration and punchy combat. Explore a vast hand-crafted 2D world, uncover forgotten realms, and dash, swim, and forge your way through the unknown.
Why similar: Metroidvania 36.3%, Souls-like 24.9%, Platformer 12.7%, Dark 5.5%, Action 4.4%
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 27.3%, Souls-like 25.6%, Difficult 14.9%, Platformer 10.4%, Side Scroller 6.2%
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 27.9%, Side Scroller 10.4%, Hand-drawn 9.7%, Difficult 9.5%, Platformer 9.4%
Dark Light is a post-apocalyptic cyberpunk action-platformer with intense hack'n slash combat. Explore the unknown, enhance your abilities with cyberwares, and face off against supernatural entities to seal the Dark Void and end the eternal darkness.
Why similar: Metroidvania 25.5%, Souls-like 24.6%, Gore 10.9%, Platformer 7.8%, Dark 5.9%
Lamp Chronicle is a 2D platformer game that tells the story of a little hero who travels to save a kingdom in crisis. Defeat enemies against beautiful backgrounds and enjoy exciting battles with bosses.
Why similar: Souls-like 24.2%, Metroidvania 23.1%, Hand-drawn 13.1%, Side Scroller 12.1%, Platformer 9.9%
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 25.3%, Souls-like 13.2%, Platformer 12.2%, Difficult 11.1%, Side Scroller 11%
Runic Curse Remastered is a thrilling action RPG Metroidvania that transports you to a cursed island. Explore dark and diverse locations, battle hordes of enemies and mighty bosses. Forge your own playstyle by combining various weapons with magical runes to overcome all challenges.
Why similar: Metroidvania 30.9%, Souls-like 27.3%, Platformer 7.4%, Side Scroller 7.3%, Hand-drawn 5.5%
Elysian Echoes is a traditional, hand crafted souls-like metroidvania with a twist. Take possession of your fallen enemies bodies and unveil your cosmic destiny as you untangle Gaia's turmoil. Adapt to the varied and difficult encounters; learn and use your enemies' moves against them or die trying.
Why similar: Metroidvania 25.6%, Souls-like 23.3%, Hand-drawn 11.3%, Side Scroller 10.2%, Platformer 9.8%
In a world of eternal darkness, navigate the unknown with only the glow of your companion, Spark. Craft arrows from the environment to survive, uncover lost secrets of an ancient world, and push forward through the shadows into hope. Will you find your way, or will the dark consume you?
Why similar: Metroidvania 33.8%, Souls-like 18%, Platformer 12.6%, Difficult 11.8%, Atmospheric 4.8%
Battle corrupted enemies, liberate afflicted allies, and explore a modernly medieval world on the verge of self-destruction in this action-packed 2D side scrolling adventure.
Why similar: Metroidvania 27.7%, Souls-like 23.3%, Side Scroller 13.3%, Difficult 12.2%, Platformer 7.9%
Where shadow falls, it begins. Dive into Eden's Guardian, a challenging metroidvania experience with handmade pixel art set in a world with medieval and fantasy aesthetics devastated by conflict where the history of Gods and humans intertwine.
Why similar: Metroidvania 23.6%, Souls-like 22.6%, Difficult 12.2%, Side Scroller 11.5%, Platformer 9.2%
In this dank pit of rot and undeath, take control of The Mortali, the newest member of ragtag-group THE DARK DWELLERS. Fight and crawl your way through this subterranean land, collect unique weapons, learn devastating Blood Magic spells and attempt to end The Maddening Curse.
Why similar: Souls-like 24.9%, Metroidvania 23.4%, Difficult 14.4%, Side Scroller 9.7%, Platformer 6.4%
Gedda Cake is a metroidvania about Dragons and Cakes. Play as 6 characters with unique skills and playstyles, swap between them on the fly, battle dangerous foes and explore the vast sugar-coated lands of Sugria. Help them reclaim their invaded world and get The Cake!
Why similar: Metroidvania 26.3%, Souls-like 24.9%, Difficult 14.3%, Platformer 10%, Side Scroller 9.6%
Embark on a quest to restore light to a kingdom swallowed by darkness. Dive into a cute and dark pixel-art interconnected world with tight controls, seamless exploration, and challenging combat.
Why similar: Metroidvania 35.6%, Souls-like 30.2%, Platformer 11.6%, Action-Adventure 6.4%, Action 4.4%
Parry, Slash and Survive! Soul Devourer is a metroidvania action-platformer with a striking anime horror art style. Explore the cursed Sakuradoki High School, master powerful abilities, battle twisted monsters, and uncover the long-buried dark secrets hidden beneath the school.
Why similar: Metroidvania 27.9%, Souls-like 19.1%, Dark 9.3%, Hand-drawn 8.8%, Platformer 8.1%
Misspell is a 2D atmospheric Metroidvania about magic and mysteries of the past. Uncover the secrets of an island risen from the ashes of a catastrophe and master a magical living vine that changes the way you fight and explore. Every step tells a story — every enemy echoes the mistakes of the past.
Why similar: Metroidvania 30.5%, Souls-like 15.5%, Hand-drawn 12.3%, Platformer 11.6%, Difficult 7.4%
Choose between Seren and Umbra, two warriors who despise each other. Armed with a spear that can strike in any direction, explore a fractured world, uncover the truth behind your bond, and hunt down the one person you must destroy. Desperate for Separation~Forever Intertwined
Why similar: Metroidvania 29.6%, Souls-like 26.2%, Difficult 16.4%, Platformer 9.3%, Atmospheric 4.3%
Custodian: Beginning of the End is a brutal and difficult platformer designed for caution and reaction. Explore, seek secrets and collect mechanisms to become even stronger and meet the impending End!
Why similar: Metroidvania 24.8%, Souls-like 22.6%, Difficult 12.1%, Side Scroller 12%, Hack and Slash 8.6%
Venture into an unusual, alien world full of danger and mysteries in this sci-fi Metroidvania. Grab your gear and face the challenge of sustaining a once-thriving space colony. Can you bring this place back to life? Are you ready to uncover all the secrets lurking in the darkness?
Why similar: Metroidvania 31.9%, Difficult 14.6%, Side Scroller 13.3%, Platformer 9.4%, Atmospheric 7%
Volkolak: The Will of Gods is an epic 2D soulsvania in a dark Slavic fantasy setting, with hand-drawn animation. Explore an enchanted world full of secrets and enemies. Your choices will lead to several endings: become a bogatyr, a werewolf, or join the darkness.
Why similar: Metroidvania 24.7%, Souls-like 23.3%, Side Scroller 12.7%, Hack and Slash 9.4%, Platformer 8.7%
Explore the Yomi world with a sacred weapon that can change sword types. Fight different "Yokai" and challenge the "Kami" of this world.
Why similar: Metroidvania 24.1%, Souls-like 19.7%, Hand-drawn 12.2%, Difficult 10.3%, Hack and Slash 8.1%
Discover the power of healing through the pursuit of mastery in the art of waterbending. Learn new skills, explore a living world full of riddles and mysteries that plague the peace between the material and spiritual world. A hand-drawn 2d platformer inspired by digital oil painting.
Why similar: Metroidvania 30.8%, Souls-like 22.4%, Difficult 12.6%, Platformer 11.9%, Hand-drawn 5.7%
SpellTome is a story driven fantasy adventure 2D platformer. Hurl balls of magic, dash across levels, and jump over obstacles while trying to get the fabled SpellTome.
Why similar: Metroidvania 29.5%, Souls-like 28.1%, Platformer 11.2%, Hand-drawn 9%, Action-Adventure 5%
3000th Duel is action-adventure game that has speedy, exciting battles as its charm. Fight against monsters with your own style of battle to travel an unidentified world and discover a secret hidden.
Why similar: Metroidvania 23%, Souls-like 22.5%, Difficult 12.3%, Side Scroller 10.3%, Platformer 8.4%
Mask of Soul is a 2D metroidvania action-adventure where you play as Cheong-oh Chasa, gatekeeper of the Underworld, tracking spirits beneath the Red Moon. Use parry combat and mask abilities to explore an oriental dark fantasy world inspired by Korean mythology.
Why similar: Metroidvania 29.6%, Souls-like 27.6%, Side Scroller 10.9%, Platformer 10.8%, Hand-drawn 7%
Shards of Memories is a hand-drawn Metroidvania where defeated enemies leave behind memories that carry their abilities. Equip these memories strategically, shape your own combat style, and explore a fractured world marked by its past.
Why similar: Metroidvania 34.8%, Souls-like 21.7%, Hand-drawn 15.4%, Platformer 7.3%, Action-Adventure 6.9%
Death is not the end! Slash, dash, parkour and manipulate time in this 2d action plaformer.
Why similar: Souls-like 26.2%, Metroidvania 25.5%, Hack and Slash 10.3%, Dark 9.6%, Platformer 8.4%
Destroy... Absorb... Grow... GRIME is a fast and unforgiving Action-Adventure RPG in which you crush your foes with living weapons that mutate form and function, and then consume their remains with a black hole to strengthen your vessel as you break apart a world of anatomical horror and intrigue.
Why similar: Metroidvania 24.9%, Souls-like 23.9%, Difficult 12.7%, Platformer 9%, Side Scroller 8.8%
Make your way through a 2D ruined world with metroidvania elements, unleash fast and powerful attacks in Hack & Slash combat and face fearsome enemies in difficult fights. Breathe and be brave.
Why similar: Souls-like 34.2%, Metroidvania 31%, Platformer 7%, Hack and Slash 6.7%, Action 5.3%
A stylized action-platformer set in a world consumed by eternal thorns. Explore handcrafted zones, unlock new flame-forged upgrades, and face brutal bosses as the Young Emberhost in a desperate attempt to reach the Heart of the Briar.
Why similar: Metroidvania 31.8%, Souls-like 28.2%, Hand-drawn 11.7%, Platformer 7.2%, Atmospheric 6.1%