60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Singleplayer, Gothic, Female Protagonist, 2D.
A fast-paced gothic action platformer dripping with dark atmosphere, campy charm, and an original soundtrack. One goth girl. An endless horde of goo. Built with love by a solo developer who has been dreaming of this world for years.
MINN ~Caprasomnia~
An otome game that isn't quite otome — or simply, a visual novel. A modern gothic story of dreams, writing, and death. Multi-POV. You are the protagonist—a sleepwalker, a writer, and one bound by a promise to the dead. Please be sure to read the content guide and notes.
Midnight Renegade: Recollections
A Victorian 2D action platformer where you shoot and slash through grunts until you reach their boss, the Chief Constable.
An otome game that isn't quite otome — or simply, a visual novel. A modern gothic story of dreams, writing, and death. Multi-POV. You are the protagonist—a sleepwalker, a writer, and one bound by a promise to the dead. Please be sure to read the content guide and notes.
Why similar: Gothic 59.2% ★, Female Protagonist 19.1%, Dark 19%, Indie 2.2%, Singleplayer 0.5%
A Victorian 2D action platformer where you shoot and slash through grunts until you reach their boss, the Chief Constable.
Why similar: Gothic 44.8% ★, Dark 14.2%, Female Protagonist 10.8%, Action 9.5%, Platformer 8%
A minimalistic gothic clicker: click, collect Souls, upgrade your abilities, and unlock new stages by reaching the goals.
Why similar: Gothic 74.6% ★, Female Protagonist 16.7%, 2D 6.3%, Indie 1.7%, Singleplayer 0.8%
"Blue Artifact" is a side-scrolling action game where Fran, a girl awakened deep underground in a research facility, uses magic to escape. Collect “treasures” within the facility to uncover the secrets of the research lab.
Why similar: Gothic 46.1% ★, Cute 13%, Female Protagonist 10.7%, Action 10.6%, 2D Platformer 8.5%
Rei, a protagonist who has become a ghost, and Chris, a mysterious girl who cannot speak. Switch between their forms and unique abilities as you journey through a secret world inhabited by extinct creatures in this cute yet slightly unsettling gothic exploration adventure.
Why similar: Gothic 56.7% ★, Female Protagonist 16.4%, Cute 12.9%, Dark 9%, 2D 2.4%
敵の猛攻を掻い潜り、撃破していく高難易度アクション。大鎌使いとなりホムンクルスに支配された街を取り戻しましょう。
Why similar: Gothic 71.2% ★, Female Protagonist 14.5%, Action 10.7%, Indie 2%, Singleplayer 1.7%
Specters of the Sun is a challenging 2D action platformer with action-packed levels. Take on the role of an elusive specter to reclaim your old corpse, now possessed at the heights of your former kingdom.
Why similar: Gothic 37.3% ★, Fast-Paced 24.5%, Dark 11.7%, Platformer 6.3%, 2D Platformer 5.1%
Control Yumemi-chan, an amnesiac "jirai-kei" girl, in this 2D side-scrolling wire-action game through stages inspired by the human psyche. Traverse a dark world created by the corrupting "Yami-kin" virus using her choker's wire, defeat end-stage bosses to collect the bacteria, and escape!
Why similar: Gothic 42.1% ★, Dark 11.6%, Cute 9.9%, Action 9%, Platformer 7.7%
One day, the unlucky girl "Runa Ichiya" wakes up in a haunted house.
Why similar: Gothic 54.4% ★, Female Protagonist 21%, Cute 15.7%, 2D 6.6%, Singleplayer 1.2%
In order to save their school after it turns into a massive demonic castle, two "Demon Hunter" sisters slash and shoot their way through this 2D action adventure. Players can swap between control of both characters on the fly, each with entirely different skillsets.
Why similar: Gothic 42.2% ★, Female Protagonist 16.1%, Cute 10.2%, 2D Platformer 8%, Platformer 7.4%
Oubliette requires you to descend through a mysterious world beneath Paris while fighting off monsters, levelling up weapons, and finding clues to solve your latest case as private detective, Madeleine, in an old-school inspired FPS roguelike that marries the noir genre with Eldritch horror.
Why similar: Gothic 34% ★, Fast-Paced 29.9%, Female Protagonist 17.2%, Dark 14.4%, Action 3.8%
Welcome to a dreamlike world where gothic elegance meets sweet delights. This macaron tower balance game is made for lovers of all things gothic. When you're feeling down or need a little sweetness, build your own fragile and beautiful macaron tower—just for you.
Why similar: Gothic 68.4% ★, Cute 15.9%, Dark 12.4%, Indie 2.1%, Singleplayer 1.2%
A witch soars into the night to save her beloved cat… but dark magic always comes with a price.
Why similar: Gothic 60.2% ★, Female Protagonist 17.2%, Dark 12.8%, 2D 5.1%, Pixel Graphics 3.8%
Take control of Mina, a renowned Hollower hurtled into a desperate mission to rescue a cursed island. Whip foes, burrow through the ground, and explore a pixel-perfect world in Mina the Hollower, a brand new game from the developers who brought you Shovel Knight!
Why similar: Gothic 52.4% ★, Female Protagonist 19.5%, 2D Platformer 7.1%, Platformer 6.6%, 2D 5.9%
Hollow Moon is a gothic retro styled side scrolling 2D platformer where you play as Nightshade, a princess with death after her heart, and her world too, in this 8-bit Game Boy inspired adventure.
Why similar: Gothic 61.5% ★, Female Protagonist 10.1%, 2D Platformer 6.9%, Platformer 6.8%, 2D 4.5%
Challenge yourself and master 4 Distinct worlds with 66 finely tuned level screens and climb to the top of the Steam Leaderboards in this retro pixel art speedrunning platformer!
Why similar: Fast-Paced 38.9%, Female Protagonist 20.4%, Cute 10.9%, 2D Platformer 8.4%, Platformer 8.1%
An action platformer set in a world stitched shut. Ride the cracks your attacks leave for high-speed movement, carve terrain that falls the way you cut it, and journey to recover the memories of a girl who woke from her coffin.
Why similar: Gothic 60.5% ★, Female Protagonist 13.6%, 2D Platformer 6.3%, Platformer 5.8%, 2D 3.6%
You are Arenda Finch—fifteen years old, wealthy beyond measure, and newly exiled from your former school. Dunkenwood House takes you in, but its halls hide the darker side of privilege. Humanity or demonic nature. Love or desire. Every choice shapes the person you become.
Why similar: Gothic 59% ★, Dark 23.5%, Female Protagonist 15.4%, Indie 1.6%, Singleplayer 0.6%
Darkest Abyss is a platform/action game inspired by the Classic-Vania genre.
Why similar: Gothic 55.1% ★, Female Protagonist 15.9%, Platformer 7%, Action 6.1%, 2D Platformer 5.7%
The Deadlands, is a haunting journey of vengeance. Conquer undead horrors, face formidable bosses, and harness their souls to save your son from an evil necromancer. Pixel art meets gothic aesthetic in this intense, captivating platformer/2D side scroller.
Why similar: Gothic 63.8% ★, Platformer 8.6%, Action 7.2%, 2D Platformer 7.1%, 2D 6.3%
A first-person Gothic fiction set in interwar Cornwall, where players rewrite the story as they go. The patriarch of a once-respected house is dead, survived only by his late sister's children. Left to them are his worldly and unworldly belongings, and the fate of their family.
An evolution of the Classicvania genre and a return to the glory days of precision platforming, retro challenge and gothic atmosphere. Transform yourself into a wraith, a spider and a bat to fly, climb and blast your way across Transylvania to do battle with Lady Dracula at her castle keep.
Why similar: Gothic 54.3% ★, Female Protagonist 16.1%, Dark 7.6%, Platformer 5.6%, 2D 5.6%
Cursed the womb that bears emptiness beneath its heart. For the child enters the world with the veil upon its face, yet its soul wanders lone in the heavens where God is not. Why then does she not hasten to the place that was prepared for her? Seek the truth in our visual novel.
Why similar: Gothic 64.1% ★, Dark 17.8%, Female Protagonist 9.5%, 2D 7.2%, Indie 1.3%
Explore a sealed crypt to reveal its sacred secrets as an archivist priest. Use your faith against the looming horrors. Banish them and make your path before your lantern goes out, or you will lose your way... and your mind.
Why similar: Gothic 80.9% ★, Dark 16.9%, Indie 1.5%, Singleplayer 0.6%
Vampiric Crown is a side-scrolling action RPG set in a strange gothic world. A young vampire girl decides to rebel against her race, upon discovering that her sister will be the victim of a macabre plan to unearth the prince of darkness ...
Why similar: Gothic 57.8% ★, Female Protagonist 17.3%, Dark 15.3%, Platformer 4.8%, Action 4.7%
Wryn is a girl with a big arsenal and big dreams -- she wants to be the ultimate videogame hero! Help her take down the Greatest Heroes of All Time in an action-packed bid to claim the title for herself and show the world what a true hero looks like!
Why similar: Fast-Paced 38.7%, Female Protagonist 22%, Platformer 11.2%, Action 9.8%, 2D 6.3%
Starry Night Tea Party is an asymmetric pursuit game. Play as a Guest, search for clues, brew useful items, and escape the Dream; or take the role of the Demon, draw from a deck of unique cards, hunt the Guests, and harvest their Fear. Multiplayer is in development.
Why similar: Gothic 85% ★, 2D 9.9%, Indie 3.3%, Singleplayer 1.8%
Anachronic is a single-player 2D puzzle platformer where physics is exploited through time manipulation.
Why similar: Gothic 59.7% ★, Female Protagonist 17.8%, Platformer 6.1%, 2D 5.9%, 2D Platformer 5.2%
人，你想立刻签下契约—让塞布尔在你桌面绽放的黑色玫瑰嘛？即刻开始你的“猫系”桌面生活！让她成为你桌面上最优雅（也最可能炸毛）的熬夜伴侣吧。
Why similar: Gothic 53.9% ★, Female Protagonist 22.9%, Cute 20.7%, Indie 1.9%, Singleplayer 0.6%
Solve riddles, puzzles and platforming challenges as you descend the cryptic pathways of a distorted microcosm reality fueled by a symbolic landscape of faith and erotic nightmares.
Why similar: Gothic 55.1% ★, Female Protagonist 16.1%, Dark 15.3%, Platformer 4.7%, Action 3.7%
A dark themed pixel-art game of exploration, where you will have to find clues and solve puzzles to move forward in the story.
Why similar: Gothic 61.7% ★, Dark 21.9%, Female Protagonist 7%, Pixel Graphics 5.4%, Indie 2.7%
这是一部暗黑童话百合视觉小说。世界陷入永恒黑夜，白发少女辛芙拉目睹潮水淹没故乡，无家可归的她踏上了寻找庇护所的旅途。途中，辛芙拉从树上救下了金发女仆玛丽。两人一同前往高塔避难，并逐渐揭开世界陷入永恒黑夜的真相。
Why similar: Gothic 63.3% ★, Female Protagonist 25.4%, Cute 7.8%, 2D 1.6%, Indie 1.5%
Belladonna is a gothic adventure game, twisted and dark. Take the role of a corpse girl rising from the dead in an abandoned laboratory, and unravel the mysteries concerning your own death and reanimation.
Why similar: Gothic 60.7% ★, Female Protagonist 33.4%, Indie 5.3%, Singleplayer 0.6%
It's the night shift, and Batbo needs help filling in some graves in the graveyard! Help him by dropping rocks, dirt, bugs, and mushrooms into the grave and watch them merge into bigger and bigger graveyard treasures! Shoveling dirt can be hard when you don't have any fingers!
Why similar: Gothic 91.6% ★, Pixel Graphics 6.6%, Singleplayer 1.8%
”Shirone: the Dragon Girl" is a 3D adventure game where you help Shirone solve puzzles and riddles to find a way out of a haunted castle. Escaping the castle is the main objective, and to do that you'll need to make full use of her wings and tail!
Why similar: Gothic 40.5% ★, Female Protagonist 26.3%, Cute 20.9%, Action 11.6%, Singleplayer 0.7%
Demons already know about your presence, arm yourself with magic and embark on a dangerous journey!
Why similar: Gothic 73.9% ★, Dark 13.3%, Action 6.1%, 2D 3.8%, Indie 1.8%
A Gothic fantasy tale of loneliness, dark secrets, and the search for a cure.
Why similar: Gothic 72.1% ★, Dark 18.2%, Cute 6.5%, 2D 2.8%, Singleplayer 0.5%
Rocket-lance your way through a high-speed action platformer where every second counts. You have 60 minutes to save a magicpunk kingdom—no pause, no mercy. Explore, fight, and choose your path to one of many endings before time runs out.
Why similar: Fast-Paced 37.3%, Gothic 36% ★, Platformer 7.3%, 2D Platformer 5.6%, Action 5.4%
Blightspire is a fast-paced, wave-based survival shooter. Battle through a cursed graveyard as undead abominations rise in endless waves. With only your reflexes and firepower, survive the darkness in a world where death is never the end.
Why similar: Gothic 67.8% ★, Dark 18.3%, Fast-Paced 7.1%, Action 5.5%, Singleplayer 1.4%
This is the story of Xandria, an iron alchemist. She seeks revenge regardless of the consequences. To achieve it, Xandria fights with a powerful whip and the power of chemical elements. Find out more about her in this modern metroidvania adventure.
Why similar: Gothic 50% ★, Female Protagonist 19%, Platformer 7.7%, 2D 6.9%, 2D Platformer 6.5%
A short 70–90 minute hand-drawn cozy-gothic puzzle adventure with easy, relaxing puzzles, where color slowly returns to a cursed town as you uncover its secrets.
Why similar: Gothic 63.4% ★, Dark 19.4%, Cute 7.3%, 2D 6.4%, Indie 2.7%
Catch, throw, parry, and parkour your way through a twisting Underworld. Slay the Grim Reaper and reclaim your inheritance!
Why similar: Gothic 61% ★, Cute 13.3%, 2D Platformer 7.7%, Dark 5.5%, Action 3.7%
A lesbian / yuri romance story with mild horror elements set in the rainy English seaside town of Scarborough. Our heroine, Aspen, meets the mysterious, beautiful Althea in the dead of night, but who is Althea really...?
Why similar: Gothic 47.7% ★, Female Protagonist 19.1%, Cute 11.4%, Dark 10.7%, 2D 6.2%
Magnetta is a side-scrolling action game in the vein of classic NES titles. Jump, shoot, slide and blast your way through unique and challenging levels as you collect new weapons and upgrades, hunt down secret areas, and defeat your enemies to ensure peace in the galaxy.
Why similar: Fast-Paced 26.2%, Female Protagonist 24%, Platformer 13.3%, Cute 9.7%, Action 8.6%
Varmint is an atmospheric anthology set in a world of mechanical terrors. Precision platforming gameplay and larger than life bossfights combine for a thrilling test of skill, wit and memory. Play as one of three pests, useless in a world of machines, and outmaneuver the metallic gods of this world.
Why similar: Gothic 53.1% ★, Dark 14.8%, Platformer 10.2%, Action 7.8%, 2D Platformer 5.4%
BloodRush: Undying Wish is an extremely fast-paced hack n' slash roguelike set in a gothic, undying world. Dash, shoot and strike with ability combos, weaving between enemies like an improvised dance. Death is gone; bring her back.
Why similar: Gothic 50.4% ★, Fast-Paced 31.5%, Dark 10.2%, 2D 2.9%, Action 2.5%
Cat's Cradle is a 2D action game. You fly with a wire and cut the enemy.
Why similar: Gothic 58.2% ★, 2D 11.6%, Action 11.1%, Platformer 9.4%, 2D Platformer 8.7%
Silver Bullet is a gothic arcade shooter: blast your way through spooky stages and macabre mini games as Van Helsing, to rescue your pet puppies who were dognapped by Reggie the Vampire!
Why similar: Gothic 72.6% ★, Action 11.3%, 2D 8.3%, Pixel Graphics 4.1%, Indie 2.9%
The StoryTale - is a fairy tale platformer where everything goes bing-bang-boom, but everybody remains alive and healthy. It's a game where you constantly forget the spells and the weapons are cursed. But even in the midst of the swirling action you can stop and think over the next step.
Why similar: Fast-Paced 26.7%, Female Protagonist 19.3%, Cute 13.7%, Platformer 8.6%, Action 8.5%
Lady Ligeia, the legendary and magnificent witch, welcome to the House of Usher. Roderick Usher is scheming to resurrect the wicked witch Lenore. We are in dire need of your great Machina magic. Please save us.
Why similar: Gothic 53.6% ★, Female Protagonist 18.3%, Dark 15.2%, 2D 5.7%, Action 3.1%
"Reach to Tsukuyomi" is an exhilarating short action game on a 2D platform. Fight a variety of enemies and powerful bosses to free your hometown from Yokai in this simple action game. What awaits you at the end of the story, which unfolds in cute pixels...?
Why similar: Female Protagonist 26.9%, Cute 22.7%, 2D Platformer 14.1%, Action 11.7%, Platformer 8.1%
Help Selene escape from a mysterious dark forest and defeat her fears in an exciting and powerful point and click adventure that will test your wits with difficult but logical puzzles seamlessly integrated into the story.
Why similar: Gothic 56.3% ★, Female Protagonist 19.6%, Dark 14.6%, 2D 5.6%, Indie 2.7%
Solve riddles from ancient tomes — Two friends gather at a summoning circle, embracing the supernatural in an attempt to achieve the impossible. Unravel mystic poems to discover the correct combination of symbols to draw, and summon demons that can aid these friends in their dark quest.
Why similar: Gothic 60.3% ★, Female Protagonist 18.1%, Dark 14.6%, 2D 3.7%, Pixel Graphics 2.4%
Tyrfing cycle is a fast paced, twitch based Action-Rogue-like Hack and Slash your way through various Dungeons and realms in this Norse themed RogueLike.
Why similar: Fast-Paced 42.9%, Female Protagonist 34.6%, Action 14.6%, Indie 7.9%
A story-driven horror game.
Why similar: Gothic 53.8% ★, Dark 16.4%, Female Protagonist 14.7%, 2D 6.8%, Platformer 2.9%
A bittersweet adventure platformer where you coordinate two playable characters who share a physics based swinging mechanic in real time. Nyah can walk and pick up items, while her spirit light can fly and explore dark areas.
Why similar: Female Protagonist 43.5%, Cute 29.7%, Dark 11%, Platformer 9.7%, Indie 6.1%
Save Monster High and join the Boo Crew by creating your authentic monster self in this spooktacular mystery adventure!
Why similar: Gothic 53.7% ★, Female Protagonist 21.2%, Cute 13.3%, Action 6%, Platformer 5%
Eris the Chaos goddess has lost her powers source The chaos emeralds by an unknow being at the chaos dimension, now she's got a goal to archive Get back her powers and become the chaos goddess once again but it won't be easy for her, emeralds have taken the form of her most deep dears, dont give up!
Why similar: Gothic 43.1% ★, Female Protagonist 16.3%, Dark 15.1%, 2D Platformer 6.7%, Platformer 6.3%
This is a fast-paced, 10-stage short platform action game. The player character, "White Rabbit," is a lone bounty hunter. She has a powerful sword, the "Machine Slasher," and she uses various guns. Clear missions by fighting against a mysterious army and robots, and expose their conspiracy.
Why similar: Female Protagonist 32.1%, Cute 20.6%, 2D Platformer 14.2%, Action 9.9%, Platformer 8.7%
Explore a haunted mansion gallery filled with 3D animated art - and ghosts - to unlock a full-length illustrated audiobook
Why similar: Gothic 66.4% ★, Dark 18.3%, Female Protagonist 14%, Indie 0.7%, Singleplayer 0.6%
