
A vibrant sci-fi platform adventure game where you help Maxwell the dog explore unfamiliar worlds, make strange new friends and contend with mysterious forces - by jumping, shooting, slicing, shrinking, warping and drilling.
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A vibrant sci-fi platform adventure game where you help Maxwell the dog explore unfamiliar worlds, make strange new friends and contend with mysterious forces - by jumping, shooting, slicing, shrinking, warping and drilling.

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.

Grapple Dog
Jump, Swing and Zip your way through colourful worlds and exciting challenges in this unique 2D action-platformer! Master the power of the Grapple on your adventure to save the world!
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 37.4%, Puzzle Platformer 19%, Platformer 12.7%, Exploration 9.8%, Pixel Graphics 7.2%
Jump, Swing and Zip your way through colourful worlds and exciting challenges in this unique 2D action-platformer! Master the power of the Grapple on your adventure to save the world!
Why similar: Dogs 46% ★, Platformer 17.4%, Cartoony 10.1%, Pixel Graphics 6.4%, Colorful 5.2%
Swing, jump, and blast through dimensions in the follow-up to the critically-acclaimed 2D action-platformer Grapple Dog. Zip between action-packed worlds as Pablo and Luna team up to save the cosmos in their own unique ways.
Why similar: Dogs 46.5% ★, Platformer 12.9%, Cartoony 9.2%, Comedy 6.9%, Pixel Graphics 6.4%
Shoot, jump, and slide your way through a ruined, mysterious, dog-filled world as you fight to save humanity from the clutches of a rogue AI named Daddy.
Why similar: Dogs 57.3% ★, Platformer 17.9%, Adventure 6%, Action 6%, 2D 4.9%
Travel to a forgotten world and study alien creatures in this authentic retro metroidvania!
Why similar: Dogs 45.5% ★, Metroidvania 26.1%, Platformer 12%, Pixel Graphics 5.4%, 2D 3%
Get injected into the microscopic world of BioGun. Face viral threats and winding corridors on your mission to save man’s best friend from the inside. Will you save dog-kind from extinction?
Why similar: Dogs 38.8% ★, Metroidvania 23.2%, Platformer 10.1%, Cartoony 7.5%, Exploration 5.7%
The world-famous meme becomes a metroidvania of mental mayhem. Play as Question Hound and explore a collapsing theme park shaped by your everyday worries. Jump, fight, and caffeinate your way through surreal worlds. Everything is fine... probably.
Why similar: Dogs 49.5% ★, Metroidvania 23.7%, Platformer 13.7%, Cartoony 8%, Adventure 4%
Visit a wonderfully peculiar dog's dream in a heroic attempt to save your owner in this beautiful pixel art puzzle platformer.
Why similar: Dogs 59.5% ★, Puzzle Platformer 14.8%, Platformer 8.5%, Pixel Graphics 6.1%, Adventure 4.4%
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 32.1%, Dogs 26.2% ★, Platformer 10.4%, Exploration 8.5%, Pixel Graphics 6.5%
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 50.9%, Platformer 14.3%, Pixel Graphics 9.5%, Action 6.2%, Adventure 6%
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 46.8%, Platformer 21.9%, Exploration 11.1%, Adventure 6.6%, Colorful 6.1%
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 25.2%, Puzzle Platformer 18.5%, Platformer 17.6%, Cartoony 10.6%, Exploration 9.8%
A precision platformer that welcomes newcomers and rewards mastery. Master smooth movement, discover hidden secrets, and overcome handcrafted challenges in a charming adventure built for all skills levels.
Why similar: Dogs 52.7% ★, Platformer 13.7%, Cartoony 9.6%, Pixel Graphics 6.3%, Colorful 5.5%
An action roguelike digger. Dig to discover treasure, adventure and bones! Jump, dash, stomp and dig your way through a strange world inhabited by stranger creatures.
Why similar: Dogs 75.7% ★, Platformer 11%, Pixel Graphics 3.5%, Action 2.7%, Adventure 2.6%
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 32.3%, Puzzle Platformer 18.3%, Platformer 15.9%, Pixel Graphics 9.4%, Exploration 7.6%
A spooky trick-or-treat adventure about a mischievous puppy on a mission to score the evening's best candy. Create your costume, explore the neighborhood, and help your friends track down a menacing monster to save Halloween.
Why similar: Dogs 74% ★, Comedy 7.1%, Cartoony 6.5%, Exploration 5%, Adventure 3.3%
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 47%, Platformer 14.6%, Exploration 11.7%, Adventure 7.2%, Action 6.3%
"There is a saying that when you depart from this world, the dog who went ahead will warmly welcome you." While spending time in dog heaven, Bong-gu the Welsh Corgi suddenly catches his dad's scent. Now, he embarks on a journey to meet his dad. Will Bong-gu be able to see his dad again?
Why similar: Dogs 83.9% ★, Exploration 6%, Colorful 4.9%, Adventure 4%, Story Rich 1%
A lost soul and his dog set out on an otherworldly trek through the afterlife in this wholesome, non-linear adventure game. Pass into the world beyond, perform acts of kindness for other souls, and mend mistakes from a forgotten past life - all with a very good boy by your side!
Why similar: Dogs 78% ★, Cartoony 7.8%, Exploration 6.6%, Adventure 6.5%, Story Rich 1%
Diggy Dog 2 is a game about a brave archaeologist dog named Marty, who helps his elderly master find his wife and solve the mysteries of the universe.
Why similar: Dogs 36.9% ★, Puzzle Platformer 27.2%, Platformer 12.8%, Cartoony 8.7%, Colorful 4.7%
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 46.8%, Platformer 20.1%, Exploration 12.2%, Colorful 7%, Sci-fi 5.2%
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 40.1%, Puzzle Platformer 14.7%, Platformer 12.9%, Pixel Graphics 9.4%, Adventure 6%
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%, Platformer 14.3%, Pixel Graphics 7.2%, Sci-fi 4.8%, Exploration 4.1%
Help Mr. Run and Jump defeat the terrifying Void and collect all of the Power Gems from the Realms of Color! Venture through a dazzling and dangerous world, dodging countless enemies and conquering hundreds of fierce platforming challenges to save the day!
Why similar: Dogs 60% ★, Platformer 13.3%, Cartoony 9.9%, Colorful 5.2%, Action 3.9%
It is a 2D adventure game with cute characters.
Why similar: Dogs 66.3% ★, Platformer 13.9%, Cartoony 9.3%, Adventure 5.1%, 2D 3%
Explore an abandoned space station in this retro-themed explorative action platformer.
Why similar: Metroidvania 54.2%, Platformer 15.3%, Pixel Graphics 10.2%, Adventure 5.4%, Action 4.1%
Some pets got lost from their owners in an office and now need to work together, using boxes, mats, buttons, climb on shelves and tables or just make a mess trying to find them in this colorful local co-op game!
Why similar: Dogs 64.4% ★, Puzzle Platformer 11.8%, Platformer 6.2%, Cartoony 4.5%, Pixel Graphics 4.1%
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: Puzzle Platformer 30.7%, Platformer 20.4%, Pixel Graphics 13.5%, Adventure 10.1%, Action 9.2%
Samorost 2 tells a surreal story of a space gnome whose dog just got kidnapped by mischievous aliens. Set out on a short expedition to rescue the pup, deal with curious strangers and relax to the soothing music by Tomáš "Floex" Dvořák.
Why similar: Dogs 67.6% ★, Aliens 11.8%, Exploration 7%, Space 6.1%, 2D 3.8%
Enter 'Genopanic: Prologue,' the beginning of a dynamic story in a Metroidvania-style experience! Wield a plasma cutter, team up with your virtual dog LAIK, outsmart the cunning cat-girl AI VOLGA, uncover the secrets of Dark Matter, and delve into DNA experiments in a galactic adventure.
Why similar: Metroidvania 49.2%, Exploration 13.6%, Colorful 10.3%, Adventure 8.7%, Pixel Graphics 5.9%
Astrodogs is an on-rails arcade action game featuring a cast of space dogs that have to save the galaxy from WOOFER, a corporation that controls everything. Also ran by dogs.
Why similar: Dogs 82.2% ★, Colorful 7.8%, Action 5.6%, Adventure 4.4%
In PHOGS! you play as a duo of dogs on a captivating, puzzle-filled adventure. Linked by a stretchy belly, you’ll need to bark, bite and bounce your way through obstacles set across the themed worlds of Food, Sleep and Play, in co-op or single-player.
Why similar: Dogs 69.9% ★, Puzzle Platformer 17.1%, Adventure 4.6%, Cartoony 3.3%, Comedy 2.3%
One Dog Story is an engaging pixel adventure game with RPG elements, gameplay that’ll get you hooked for hours, and well-developed characters. You wake up in an underground laboratory, free again after a horrific accident. Prepare to explore this expansive game world and its many secrets and mysteries.
Why similar: Metroidvania 36%, Platformer 19.8%, Pixel Graphics 9.2%, Exploration 9.2%, Adventure 9.2%
The Multi-Medium is a visually unique 2D puzzle platform adventure in which you play as an interdimensional explorer lost in the multiverse. Travel to diverse worlds, each drawn or painted by hand in a different medium and style, in search of your place in the cosmos.
Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 29.6%, Platformer 22.3%, Exploration 12%, Colorful 10.1%, Sci-fi 9.1%
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 23.4%, Platformer 17.5%, Metroidvania 15%, Exploration 11.8%, Pixel Graphics 7.4%
Retrieve your weapons, face bosses to save your dog in a retro adventure focused on 3 dungeons. Finish the Story mode to unlock the Survivor mode: a 50-floor "Death Tower". You'll enjoy classic mechanics, charming visual style, and an enchanting soundtrack.
Why similar: Dogs 46.7% ★, Metroidvania 30.6%, Pixel Graphics 6.2%, Sci-fi 5.4%, 2D 3.8%
Jump, dash, and shoot your way through this story-rich action 2D platformer. Together with your magical wizard companion, play as the world's cutest, fastest, most agile slug as you explore a world full of charm, humor, and endearing characters.
Why similar: Dogs 65.5% ★, Platformer 13%, Cartoony 8.7%, Colorful 4.7%, 2D 3.7%
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 35.6%, Platformer 16%, Exploration 7.8%, Pixel Graphics 7.2%, Aliens 6.7%
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 46.4%, Platformer 20.3%, Exploration 8.9%, Adventure 6.9%, Colorful 5.7%
Help Mimpi save his friends by peeing on everything in his path in this sequel! No seriously, you save Mimpi’s progress by peeing on checkpoints in this game. Platform through six different worlds of puzzling dreams in this dog adventure. Chill in this trippy, casual illustration come alive.
Why similar: Dogs 48.8% ★, Puzzle Platformer 22%, Platformer 17.1%, Adventure 6.4%, 2D 4.9%
Revenge of the Savage Planet is an upbeat, satirical action adventure Sci-Fi. Jump, shoot and collect your way across vibrant alien worlds, uncovering new gear and upgrades, while discovering various hidden secrets.
Why similar: Metroidvania 31.2%, Platformer 16.8%, Comedy 9.7%, Exploration 8.9%, Space 8.8%
Explore strange new worlds and enjoy unique adventures in Mimpi! Mimpi is fantastic new adventure, puzzle, and platformer game. The game is like a psychedelic illustration come alive. Mimpi the dog is searching for his master in eight diverse worlds. The environment is seldom repetitive, the puzzles are always new.
Why similar: Platformer 52.3%, Adventure 43.9%, Indie 3.8%
In a world gone wild, there's only one animal man enough to put his foot down!Join Frebb's small clique of reluctant "friends" as they rumble, tumble, and action-platform their way through the craziest journey of the year!
Why similar: Platformer 25%, Cartoony 15.2%, Aliens 10.1%, Comedy 8%, Colorful 7.8%
Get ready to Bark’em Up! Play as Bullet, a C³ class (Cute Cybernetic Corgi) pup on his quest to save his owner, a brilliant scientist kidnapped by an alien race that wants to rule the galaxy. ProtoCorgi is a retro pixel art shoot’em up with a strong arcade feel!
Why similar: Dogs 82.9% ★, Pixel Graphics 5.4%, Space 4.3%, 2D 3.8%, Action 3.2%
Adorable characters? Check! Makeshift weapons? Check! Otter dressed in a foam shark suit. Umm. Check? Join Charlie and his ragtag team of sea mammals as they jump, float, and rocket through Otter Space in this Zero-G Puzzle Platformer!
Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 28%, Platformer 20.1%, Space 12.2%, Exploration 11.7%, Sci-fi 7.6%
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 32.1%, Puzzle Platformer 17.4%, Platformer 13.5%, Exploration 8.7%, Pixel Graphics 7.6%
Super Catboy is an action-packed platformer created in a high-bit pixel art style, combining the best elements of the golden 16-bit platformer era of the 90s with some ‘pawsome’ new mechanics! And let’s not forget; there’s plenty of CAT CONTENT!
Why similar: Dogs 63.4% ★, Platformer 14.1%, Pixel Graphics 8.9%, Adventure 4.9%, Action 4.5%
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 34%, Puzzle Platformer 23.9%, Platformer 14.7%, Exploration 9.6%, Pixel Graphics 6.2%
From Squanch Games comes Trover Saves the Universe. Your pups are missing. The cosmos is at stake. Only you and Trover can save everything in this bizarre comedy adventure!
Why similar: Comedy 20.8%, Platformer 20.6%, Adventure 16.1%, Action 13.3%, Cartoony 12.4%
Blast off in a 2D metroidvania adventure bursting with platforming thrills, deep exploration, and explosive action. Assemble a crack team of heroes to save the world in Blast Brigade!
Why similar: Metroidvania 31%, Platformer 16.6%, Cartoony 12.1%, Comedy 10.1%, Exploration 8.5%
A 90-s inspired lo-fi adventure puzzle platformer about a piglet astronaut and his intelligent ship.
Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 25.4%, Platformer 17.3%, Exploration 11.7%, Space 10.8%, Pixel Graphics 9.3%
Survive the mystery that awaits the JFS Gun-Dog in deep space in this retro visual novel / graphic adventure.
Why similar: Sci-fi 25.2%, Space 23.1%, Pixel Graphics 19.5%, Adventure 15%, 2D 12.2%
Dog Adventure is an incredibly challenging side-scrolling game. If you like challenging platformers, then this game is definitely for you. In this game you play as a funny dog that needs to get into its house. Complete all the hardest levels of this game with funny music!
Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 38.8%, Platformer 31%, Adventure 27.9%, Indie 2.4%
Explore a vast, colorful world in this 2D hand-drawn Metroidvania set during the Age of Discoveries. Grab your halberd and become a hero amid the storm!
Why similar: Dogs 38.2% ★, Metroidvania 27.4%, Platformer 13%, Exploration 7.6%, Nonlinear 5.2%
An Airport for Aliens Currently Run by Dogs is an open-world comedy adventure game. Talk to stock photo dogs. Solve their problems. Catch your flight. And call it Dog Airport Game when you get tired of saying the full title, like I did three months ago.
Why similar: Dogs 81.1% ★, Comedy 6.1%, Exploration 4.9%, Colorful 3.8%, Adventure 3.3%
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 41.4%, Platformer 14.3%, Exploration 10.5%, Nonlinear 7.8%, Pixel Graphics 7.2%
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 37.1%, Platformer 16.1%, Exploration 10.8%, Space 6.4%, Nonlinear 6%
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 47.4%, Platformer 16.9%, Pixel Graphics 7.9%, Exploration 7.7%, Adventure 6.2%
Beyond Galaxyland is a thrilling adventure-RPG combining cosmic exploration, strategic turn-based combat, and epic boss battle events across a vast solar system. Join Doug and his gun-toting guinea pig on an exhilarating quest to save Earth, itself.
Why similar: Exploration 19.1%, Sci-fi 15.5%, Space 15.1%, Pixel Graphics 13.3%, Adventure 12%