Games Like Haiku, the Robot

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 48.1%, Pixel Graphics 10.7%, Platformer 9.9%, Side Scroller 7.3%, Retro 7.1%

Why You'll Like It: Features a similar cute, pixelated aesthetic and a mechanical protagonist exploring a hostile alien facility.

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 33.8%, Platformer 10.8%, Side Scroller 8.7%, Open World 7.3%, 2D Platformer 6.9%

Why You'll Like It: Delivers a similarly polished, approachable metroidvania experience with vibrant visuals and rewarding exploration.

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 40.9%, Platformer 10.3%, Exploration 9.7%, Nonlinear 9.6%, Pixel Graphics 9.2%

Why You'll Like It: Emphasizes dense, atmospheric puzzle-platforming and hidden secrets within a moody, interconnected world.

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 58.4%, Platformer 10.9%, Pixel Graphics 9%, Retro 5.4%, Exploration 3.8%

Why You'll Like It: Captures the same retro-styled, atmospheric science-fiction exploration and upgrade hunting.

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 35.2%, Robots 14.8%, Side Scroller 12.2%, Platformer 10.7%, 2D Platformer 8.6%

Why You'll Like It: Immerses players in a lonely, atmospheric sci-fi world filled with melancholic robot lore and metroidvania action.

HAAK is a Metroidvania-Platformer. As the mysterious wanderer Haak, you embarked on an epic expedition across the vast cyber-wasteland to find your lost brother. Explore deserted cities and metro, refine your weapons and hack skills, and uncover the secrets behind metal and dust.

Why similar: Metroidvania 34.7%, Side Scroller 13.9%, Platformer 11.9%, 2D Platformer 10%, Pixel Graphics 9.2%

Why You'll Like It: Combines a post-apocalyptic mechanical setting with fluid movement and challenging metroidvania platforming.

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 47.1%, Pixel Graphics 13.4%, Platformer 11.3%, Side Scroller 6.9%, Adventure 6%

Why You'll Like It: Presents a gorgeous pixel-art world with strong storytelling, clever mechanics, and engaging boss fights.

Explore the mysteries of an unknown land! ”Transiruby '' is a metroidvania game where you explore the world as a cyborg protagonist named Siruby. Slash and shoot your way to reveal its hidden secrets!

Why similar: Metroidvania 41.6%, 2D Platformer 12.4%, Pixel Graphics 12.1%, Side Scroller 8.9%, Platformer 8.3%

Why You'll Like It: Blends cute pixel art with platforming and exploration in a sci-fi world reminiscent of Haiku's journey.

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 38.9%, 2D Platformer 13.3%, Platformer 13.3%, Open World 10.7%, Exploration 8.3%

Why You'll Like It: Offers a whimsical, creature-collecting take on the metroidvania genre with smooth and satisfying movement.

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: 2D Platformer 16.5%, Platformer 14%, Side Scroller 13.8%, Pixel Graphics 11.8%, Exploration 7.9%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses heavily on precise platforming and deep ability-based exploration within a charming pixel art environment.

Guide Pronty and its Javelin partner Bront as it defends the once great city of Royla. Explore the deep sea, fight mutant sea creatures, and discover the secrets behind this new Atlantis in this beautiful action-packed adventure.

Why similar: Metroidvania 33.4%, Side Scroller 13.3%, 2D Platformer 10.1%, Platformer 9.5%, Exploration 7.4%

Why You'll Like It: Features a lonely, atmospheric underwater world with intense action and deep secrets to uncover.

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

Why similar: Metroidvania 57.4%, Pixel Graphics 12.5%, Platformer 11.7%, Retro 4.8%, Adventure 4.7%

Why You'll Like It: Shares the same hardcore retro aesthetic, deep secrets, and precision-based metroidvania exploration.

Kingdom Shell is an atmospheric 2D platformer with a captivating storyline. Explore the local lands to stop the invasion of nightmarish creatures and unravel the mysteries of the Kingdom.

Why similar: Metroidvania 29.5%, Side Scroller 10.8%, 2D Platformer 10.3%, Dark Fantasy 9.5%, Pixel Graphics 7.6%

Why You'll Like It: Offers dark fantasy metroidvania exploration with detailed pixel-art environments and challenging combat.

Retro Machina is a single-player action and exploration game set in a retro-futuristic universe. Experience the journey of a little robot as it solves intricate puzzles and begins unraveling the mysteries of a world long forgotten.

Why similar: Metroidvania 33.8%, Robots 24.1%, Platformer 11.9%, Exploration 8.5%, Action-Adventure 6.3%

Why You'll Like It: Explores a decaying mechanical universe through the eyes of a cute, inquisitive robot companion.

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 41.1%, Nonlinear 11.3%, Platformer 9.1%, Exploration 9%, Atmospheric 7.3%

Why You'll Like It: Captures the same charming, responsive top-down or side-scrolling indie feel with satisfying exploration mechanics.

BIOMORPH is a dark metroidvania game where you become the creatures that you kill! Solve ingenious puzzles and navigate a stunning hand-drawn world. Meet quirky characters, rebuild a city, and uncover the secrets of a sprawling, fallen civilization… and of your own mysterious origins.

Why similar: Metroidvania 29.3%, Lore-Rich 10.9%, Nonlinear 10.4%, Platformer 10.2%, 2D Platformer 9.7%

Why You'll Like It: Embraces a dark sci-fi metroidvania premise where mechanical themes and body-horror upgrades take center stage.

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 37.2%, 2D Platformer 13.6%, Exploration 8.9%, Robots 8.2%, Retro 8.1%

Why You'll Like It: Provides a compact, tightly designed pixel-art metroidvania adventure focused on quick traversal and survival.

Feudal Alloy is an epic action adventure with fish-controlled medieval robots! Explore an unusual medieval world with a fish-controlled robot, Attu. Improve your combat techniques and skills by smashing many kinds of mechanical creatures in a beautiful hand-drawn world.

Why similar: Metroidvania 50.1%, Robots 18.4%, Platformer 9.5%, Side Scroller 8%, Adventure 6.1%

Why You'll Like It: Stars robotic medieval characters in an action-RPG metroidvania filled with mechanical customization.

Fly into a charming handcrafted world and go on an adventure that mixes up open exploration with crispy twin-stick shooter action. Fight your way from the shiny overworld to the deepest caves, improve your ship and overcome the dungeons' bosses to rescue your friends!

Why similar: Metroidvania 43.5%, Nonlinear 14.5%, Exploration 10.8%, Open World 10.6%, Cute 6.6%

Why You'll Like It: Combines cute aesthetic styling with open-world metroidvania progression and snappy control mechanics.

Become symphonic in Narita Boy! A radical action-adventure as a legendary pixel hero trapped as a mere echo within the Digital Kingdom. Discover the mysteries behind the Techno-sword, lock swords with the corrupt and tainted Stallions. Save the world!

Why similar: Metroidvania 24.2%, Lore-Rich 11.6%, Platformer 10.2%, 2D Platformer 9.9%, Retro 7.9%

Why You'll Like It: Immerses players in a vivid, retro-futuristic digital kingdom packed with stylized cybernetic action.

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 44.2%, Platformer 11.6%, Side Scroller 9.3%, Pixel Graphics 8.6%, Exploration 6.6%

Why You'll Like It: Features deep underwater metroidvania exploration and puzzle mechanics in a strange alien biosphere.

Make impactful decisions in moral dilemma situations, which will change the course of your journey through this atmospheric, hand-drawn metroidvania. Explore the hazardous paths of the Realm of Aestik and fight its corrupted inhabitants as you unravel its deep-rooted mysteries.

Why similar: Metroidvania 23.6%, 2D Platformer 13.7%, Side Scroller 10.1%, Lore-Rich 10%, Dark Fantasy 9.5%

Why You'll Like It: Presents a cute yet perilous atmospheric world where your exploration choices shape the journey.

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 31.4%, Side Scroller 13.4%, 2D Platformer 11.1%, Platformer 9.5%, Dark Fantasy 8.1%

Why You'll Like It: Delivers tight swordplay and gorgeous pixel art inside a dark, atmospheric fantasy world.

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 50.7%, Platformer 13.3%, Pixel Graphics 11.3%, Retro 8.7%, Side Scroller 6.8%

Why You'll Like It: Emulates classic 8-bit metroidvania design with puzzle-solving elements and spellcasting traversal.

Touhou Luna Nights is a Metroidvania title with a heavy emphasis on exploration and action. Developed by Team Ladybug, creators of multiple fantastic action games thus far.

Why similar: Metroidvania 40.1%, Side Scroller 16.8%, Platformer 12.3%, Exploration 8.8%, Pixel Graphics 7.9%

Why You'll Like It: Features incredible sprite work and time-manipulation mechanics tailored for metroidvania fans.

ENDER LILIES is a dark fantasy 2D action RPG about unraveling the mysteries of a destroyed kingdom. On this sorrowful journey, encounter horrific enemies against whom a moment of inattention could be fatal. Overcome these hardships and seek the truth with the help of fallen knights.

Why similar: Metroidvania 67%, Dark Fantasy 20.3%, Atmospheric 7.3%, 2D 3.7%, Singleplayer 1.6%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on atmospheric storytelling and fluid combat within a ruined, beautiful dark fantasy world.

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 38%, Robots 18.5%, Platformer 11.5%, Exploration 8.8%, 2D Platformer 7.7%

Travel back in time to change fate itself, in this beautifully crafted story-driven adventure, inspired by classic 90s action-platformers. Join timekeeper Lunais on her quest for revenge against the empire that killed her family, using time-bending powers to explore a vast, connected world.

Why similar: Metroidvania 35.4%, Side Scroller 15.4%, 2D Platformer 12.3%, Platformer 10.8%, Pixel Graphics 7.9%

Why You'll Like It: Provides a time-bending pixel-art metroidvania journey reminiscent of classic genre staples.

Robot wants stuff! Go get it for him in this compilation of the metroidvania Robot Wants series, including an all-new Robot adventure!

Why similar: Metroidvania 31.9%, Robots 20.3%, Side Scroller 12.1%, Platformer 10.1%, Pixel Graphics 8.2%

Why You'll Like It: Directly stars a cute little robot collecting upgrades in a fast-paced, compact metroidvania format.

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 29.8%, Nonlinear 12.3%, 2D Platformer 9.4%, Platformer 9.3%, Pixel Graphics 8.4%

A metroidvania that combines the visual style of classic retro games with the fluid gameplay of modern titles. Explore different worlds, face challenging enemies and bosses, and absorb their powers to destroy the Core of Infinitevania.

Why similar: Metroidvania 36.5%, Platformer 12.3%, 2D Platformer 10.1%, Dark Fantasy 10%, Pixel Graphics 7.6%

Well Dweller is a dark fairy-tale metroidvania, full of charming characters living in a wretched kingdom. Play as Glimmer - a tiny bird armed with a matchstick - who must burn the wicked queen to save his family.

Why similar: Metroidvania 32%, Dark Fantasy 12.8%, Side Scroller 8.6%, 2D Platformer 8.3%, Platformer 8.2%

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 55.2%, Platformer 15.5%, Pixel Graphics 13.7%, Retro 12.8%, 2D 2.7%

Why You'll Like It: Combines vehicle-based exploration with on-foot platforming in a classic sci-fi mechanical setting.

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 37%, Nonlinear 16.5%, Platformer 9.4%, Exploration 8.6%, Retro 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 30%, Robots 16.5%, Side Scroller 11.6%, Nonlinear 9.4%, Pixel Graphics 7.5%

Inhabit Krog, a mysterious blue creature in a red loincloth, as he traverses a labyrinth of ladders, levers, traps, and monsters. Explore the nooks and crannies of a bizarre and evocative world as you hack and slash your way to victory, leaving a graveyard of grotesque bosses in your wake.

Why similar: Side Scroller 22.1%, 2D Platformer 22.1%, Pixel Graphics 13.7%, Retro 12.8%, Action-Adventure 9.1%

Why You'll Like It: Delivers brutal platforming challenges and striking pixel-art aesthetics in a surreal prehistoric world.

Are you ready for the first Yoyovania?! In this 2D top-down adventure you'll explore a sprawling urban landscape, reinterpreting your surroundings through your mastery of yoyo tricks. Navigate the city's many districts, fight rival crime bosses, and regain the influence of the Pipistrello family!

Why similar: Metroidvania 29.5%, 2D Platformer 11.4%, Platformer 10.6%, Pixel Graphics 9.3%, Retro 9.3%

A colorful action platformer with metroidvania elements and a staff that unlocks unique combat techniques and new ways to overcome obstacles. Explore beautiful worlds, fight monsters, and help Mako stop the amber storms that poison all living things.

Why similar: Metroidvania 25.8%, 2D Platformer 11.9%, Side Scroller 11.4%, Platformer 10.2%, Exploration 8.8%

Explore the mysterious island of Kindara in this vibrant 2D action-adventure. Fight and platform your way through jungles, icy peaks, castles, and crystal caverns in a non-linear interconnected world. Adventure awaits!

Why similar: Metroidvania 37.7%, Nonlinear 14.6%, 2D Platformer 12.9%, Exploration 8.8%, Platformer 8.5%

Embark on a heartfelt Mushroomvania adventure through a vast and dense interconnected world! It's like a mix of retro and modern classics!

Why similar: Metroidvania 42.1%, Platformer 10.1%, 2D Platformer 9.4%, Exploration 9.2%, Adventure 6.7%

Explore a vast, interconnected dream world full of secrets and collectibles in this metroidvania adventure inspired by classic 2D platformers. Reclaim your lost memories to save Slumberland from the mysterious Oblivion.

Why similar: Metroidvania 40.3%, 2D Platformer 14.4%, Exploration 9.2%, Platformer 9.2%, Retro 8.3%

Afterimage is a hand-drawn 2D action adventure that emphasizes fast-paced combat with diversified character builds, non-linear levels, and a gripping story set in the ruins of a fantasy world.

Why similar: Metroidvania 32.8%, Side Scroller 12.9%, 2D Platformer 10.8%, Lore-Rich 8.3%, Platformer 8.2%

A wacky metroidvania. ⚡ Meet weird characters, unlock new abilities and complete a mysterious mission . . .

Why similar: Metroidvania 42.4%, Adventure 40.6%, Exploration 9.9%, Cute 7.2%

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 32.2%, Side Scroller 14.5%, 2D Platformer 11.8%, Platformer 10.6%, Pixel Graphics 8.6%

Master Key is a top-down adventure game with a strong focus on item-based exploration and secrets. Embark on a journey to discover what that key could be used for and meet colorful characters!

Why similar: Metroidvania 31.5%, Open World 11.5%, Nonlinear 10.9%, Pixel Graphics 9.5%, Retro 9.4%

KUNAI is a quirky, fast-paced action platformer. You play as Tabby, a tablet who joins the fight against a robot uprising. Use your kunai and ninja parkour skills to stop Lemonkus, the A.I.-gone-evil that almost wiped out all human life.

Why similar: Metroidvania 38.8%, Adventure 15.2%, Platformer 11.8%, Side Scroller 8.4%, Pixel Graphics 6.7%

Explore branching levels, fight quirky bosses, and save the day in this retro platformer inspired by the classics!

Why similar: Nonlinear 15.9%, Side Scroller 15.8%, 2D Platformer 13.1%, Platformer 10.3%, Retro 8.8%

Explore a kingdom overrun by evil magic as you fight foes with your own magical bow in this retro inspired action-adventure platformer.

Why similar: Metroidvania 41.5%, 2D Platformer 11.4%, Platformer 10.5%, Pixel Graphics 9.7%, Retro 7.9%

A deep wordless metroidvania with 20+ hours of exploration through fog-covered ruins and the remnants of a lost world. Gain new abilities, uncover hidden paths and discover meaning without dialogue or guidance.

Why similar: Metroidvania 29.3%, Robots 15.2%, Side Scroller 11.5%, Nonlinear 10.3%, Platformer 9.7%

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Why similar: Platformer 23.4%, Robots 18.1%, Pixel Graphics 16.6%, Retro 13.9%, 2D Platformer 11.3%

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 32%, Robots 24.1%, 2D Platformer 10.3%, Exploration 8%, Cute 4.9%

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 29.3%, Platformer 12.7%, Side Scroller 11.7%, Dark Fantasy 9.9%, Atmospheric 6.9%

Delve into the world of Super Roboy, a hand-drawn Metroidvania in a post-apocalyptic setting! Learn enemy skills, explore an interconnected world, battle mutants and robots, and uncover the emotional story of a young robot searching for his father.

Why similar: Metroidvania 32.1%, Robots 19.6%, 2D Platformer 10.9%, Platformer 10.9%, Exploration 7.8%

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 38.9%, 2D Platformer 14.6%, Platformer 12.1%, Exploration 9.7%, Pixel Graphics 8.2%

Explore, solve puzzles, and fight your way through over 100 screens and return your pumpkin pals!

Why similar: Metroidvania 31.1%, Nonlinear 14.9%, 2D Platformer 11.4%, Open World 10.1%, Platformer 9.5%

Explore the wonderful world with baby Ogu! 'Ogu and the Secret Forest' is a 2D adventure game with hand-drawn characters and various types of puzzles. Befriend bouncy characters and defeat strange creatures to unravel the mystery of the charming world.

Why similar: Metroidvania 45%, Open World 14.1%, Exploration 11.6%, Cute 8.9%, Action-Adventure 8.7%

Dive into the strange town of Rainybrook, taken over by the “Vile” in this 2.5D metroidvania! Fight your way through treacherous terrains and defeat formidable bosses to absorb their powers! Will you save the town and find your missing friend Ella — or will you give in to the monster you've become?

Why similar: Metroidvania 24.6%, Side Scroller 11%, Lore-Rich 10.3%, Open World 10.2%, Dark Fantasy 9.3%

A Small Robot Story is an adventure-platformer where you play as Rae, a small robot who activates and has no idea why. So you need to set out and find out what's up! With a heavy emphasis on story, A Small Robot Story will take you through forests, factories, caves, laboratories, and more.

Why similar: Robots 34.6%, Platformer 20.9%, Retro 14%, Pixel Graphics 13.8%, Adventure 11.1%

Gun-jump your way through a buzzing world full of quirky monsters, tricky puzzles, and outlandish bosses in this fast-paced, lighthearted Metroidvania.

Why similar: Metroidvania 30.4%, Lore-Rich 10.3%, Open World 10.3%, Platformer 10.1%, Nonlinear 9.8%