60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Metroidvania, Platformer, Exploration, 2D.
In this "Arcade Metroidbrainia", the only thing that stops you from progressing are holes in your understanding. Use mechanics in clever unique ways to uncover secrets, or dodge randomly generated hazards to get highscores.
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.
Leap Year
Leap Year is a clumsy platformer about knowledge and discovery. Explore a compact, hand drawn world filled with hidden paths. Understand the game’s secrets to reach new areas and collect all the pages of your calendar.
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 27.4%, Puzzle Platformer 12.7%, Nonlinear 9.3%, Exploration 8.7%, Platformer 8%
Leap Year is a clumsy platformer about knowledge and discovery. Explore a compact, hand drawn world filled with hidden paths. Understand the game’s secrets to reach new areas and collect all the pages of your calendar.
Why similar: Metroidvania 21.9%, Precision Platformer 14%, Nonlinear 13.4%, Puzzle Platformer 12.8%, Platformer 8.5%
Evolve your body further to survive this vast, yet dense, system of caves. You must use your wits to outsmart predators lurking in the dark and to solve puzzling challenges in order to further advance in this strange world.
Why similar: Metroidvania 24.7%, Nonlinear 12.2%, Puzzle Platformer 11.2%, Surreal 8.8%, Platformer 8.6%
The NONOLITH consumes you. Copy and paste the world around you to discover the secrets of this ancient, enigmatic structure. You are very powerful, you just don't know it yet.
Why similar: Metroidvania 24.1%, Nonlinear 14.2%, Puzzle Platformer 13.3%, Surreal 8.8%, Exploration 8.5%
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 22.2%, Nonlinear 13%, Puzzle Platformer 11%, Surreal 9%, Platformer 8.1%
As a small flea, explore a mysterious puzzle box filled with shapes and secrets. Gather strange items with hidden abilities, and unravel a trail of clues as you attempt to escape.
Why similar: Metroidvania 29.4%, Puzzle Platformer 13.6%, Platformer 9.4%, Exploration 9.1%, Puzzle 8.4%
In MONOMOON, the way forward is reserved for the knowing and the daring. Guided by moonlight, you’ll uncover hidden truths and wander through a tiny and mysterious open world.
Why similar: Metroidvania 25.8%, Nonlinear 14.3%, Puzzle Platformer 12.6%, Exploration 8.2%, Puzzle 7.7%
Two mysterious, challenging platformers where you launch yourself with an infinite supply of bombs.
Why similar: Metroidvania 25.5%, Precision Platformer 18.4%, Puzzle Platformer 13.3%, Nonlinear 9.8%, Platformer 7.8%
Aleya's Ascent is a metroidvania inspired by Celeste and Hollow Knight. Explore a cosmic mountain range and find strange temples, hidden labyrinths, and ancient artifacts while overcoming platforming challenges, punishing fights and chase sequences to return star fragments to the night sky.
Why similar: Metroidvania 24.4%, Precision Platformer 13.9%, Nonlinear 13.2%, Puzzle Platformer 12%, Platformer 8.4%
Use your soul as a grappling hook in this tight, non-linear, physics-based platformer. Swing through hundreds of hand-crafted challenges, explore a vast world inspired by classic metroidvanias, and find your place within the seasons of the Afterlife.
Why similar: Metroidvania 24.5%, Precision Platformer 15.4%, Puzzle Platformer 12.9%, Nonlinear 12.7%, Platformer 8.4%
You are lost in a vast and eerie labyrinth filled with pools and puzzles. Gather items to activate various mechanisms as you explore further. Face various unknown entities that lurk within. Unravel the mysteries of the labyrinth and your own identity to find your way out. Inspired by poolcore.
Why similar: Metroidvania 25.3%, Puzzle Platformer 12.6%, Precision Platformer 11.5%, Platformer 9%, Exploration 8%
FeatherCall is a fast pace, puzzle platformer where you help Luna, a mother blue bird, rescue her lost children. Brave numerous challenges and puzzles by Dashing to new heights, Throwing a guiding feather, and Gliding back to safety!
Why similar: Metroidvania 22.3%, Platformer 14.3%, Precision Platformer 12.9%, Puzzle Platformer 11.2%, Puzzle 10.1%
Help Brad reunite with his family and complete all hand-crafted 2D platform challenges in a colorful twisted world.
Why similar: Metroidvania 29.1%, Precision Platformer 21.2%, Puzzle Platformer 13.8%, Difficult 10.8%, Platformer 7.9%
Uncover the truth behind your death and your sibling’s in a story-driven precision platformer inspired by the Pied Piper myth. Navigate a decaying, interconnected world where movement is your only defense. No combat, only precision, consequence, and secrets hidden in the dark.
Why similar: Metroidvania 27.3%, Precision Platformer 16.9%, Puzzle Platformer 10.2%, Platformer 9.9%, Exploration 9.9%
A challenging, 2D Platform Adventure game where all level mechanics can change if you don't stay balanced. Help Ethan to grow up and leave his roots in order to pursue his dreams, find clues about his past and fight against your nightmares in your journey to the Somnium Shore!
Why similar: Metroidvania 35.4%, Platformer 15.7%, Exploration 11.9%, Precision Platformer 11.3%, Puzzle Platformer 6.1%
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 32.7%, Nonlinear 20.7%, Exploration 10%, Platformer 9.7%, Arcade 9%
Vampire hunters are after a mischievous vampire girl, and it's up to her pet bat to save the day. Flap through peril in this open-ended precision “batformer” with a unique control scheme that re-contextualizes precision platformer trappings and flips them upside-down!
Why similar: Metroidvania 27.8%, Precision Platformer 17.5%, Nonlinear 15.2%, Platformer 11.4%, Exploration 6.3%
Explore the haunting, dreamlike fantasy world of BEFORE I GO, a punishing Metroidvania where you embody the innocence of an inner child on an allegorical odyssey towards death acceptance. The end is inevitable, but will you brave the journey?
Why similar: Metroidvania 29.5%, Precision Platformer 13.4%, Nonlinear 13.3%, Surreal 10.1%, Difficult 9.5%
Pyramid Quest 2 is an exploration and treasure-hunting game inspired by classic platform games.
Why similar: Metroidvania 21.1%, Platformer 13.5%, Arcade 13.1%, Precision Platformer 11.7%, Puzzle Platformer 10.2%
SHOOT NOT TO KILL? use The Matter Gun to traverse this one of a kind 2d PUZZLE-platformer (metroidvania/brania). Drop into the lab, explore the caves, discover new types of matter, uncover secrets, and try not to cause the end of the world...or something.
Why similar: Metroidvania 35.7%, Puzzle Platformer 18.5%, Exploration 13.4%, Platformer 11.9%, Puzzle 9.8%
A minimalist puzzle platformer where each level is more than they seem. Change your perspective on levels to discover new areas. Explore the world to unearth its hidden secrets.
Why similar: Metroidvania 22.8%, Puzzle Platformer 14.6%, Precision Platformer 14.3%, Nonlinear 13.7%, Mystery 8.5%
As punishment for dirtying Olympus's marble halls, Sisyphus, the dung beetle, must push his ball of dung up and down Mount Olympus every day, for the rest of his life. That is, unless he can complete the seemingly impossible task of reaching Olympus before the sun sets
Why similar: Metroidvania 31%, Puzzle Platformer 16.6%, Nonlinear 15.9%, Exploration 10.9%, Platformer 10.4%
Your skill, patience, and ingenuity will be tested in this homage to precision platformers! Traverse various biomes, from caves to volcanic wastelands and mysterious towers. Each environment with it's own deadly traps, puzzles, and challenges designed to push you to your limits.
Why similar: Metroidvania 30.5%, Precision Platformer 22.3%, Puzzle Platformer 18.3%, Platformer 10.9%, Puzzle 5.3%
Outsmart your past self in a battle of cause and effect. Explore an interconnected clay world, discover its hidden rules, and uncover the secrets it would rather keep buried.
Why similar: Metroidvania 28.8%, Nonlinear 15.9%, Puzzle Platformer 13.7%, Exploration 9.1%, Puzzle 8.5%
A Metroidvania puzzle adventure. You arrive at a sentient building filled with intriguing interactive props. Learning to use these tools is how it communicates with you.
Why similar: Metroidvania 32.4%, Puzzle Platformer 21.8%, Platformer 17.8%, Exploration 11.9%, Adventure 9.5%
Portal Walk is incredible pixel platformer about an adventure between worlds with action events and challenging bosses.
Why similar: Metroidvania 26.5%, Precision Platformer 14.8%, Puzzle Platformer 12.3%, Platformer 12.1%, Arcade 8.8%
Amalu: Wells Between Worlds is a pixel-art 2D platformer, and Metroidvania blending Atmospheric exploration, Spell-casting puzzle mechanics, Amazigh/North African mythology and an emotional storytelling
Why similar: Metroidvania 33.8%, Puzzle Platformer 16.4%, Nonlinear 15.1%, Exploration 12.7%, Platformer 11.4%
You Have to Win the Game is a free exploration platformer with a retro 1980s PC aesthetic.
Why similar: Metroidvania 49.2%, Platformer 13.3%, Precision Platformer 9.1%, Retro 7.4%, Difficult 6.5%
Lyden Lys is a knowledge-based metroidvania about an existential journey through a lost homeland. Control the surroundings through music, explore a smoldering world, discover what happened to your people, decide the fate of your successors, and find yourself.
Why similar: Metroidvania 28.7%, Puzzle Platformer 14.8%, Nonlinear 14.2%, Platformer 10.3%, Exploration 9.1%
Alruna; now in wide-screen! A different kind of Metroidvania, a tour-de-force of game design, with world-class temples and dungeons. Dead men yearn for Heaven, but Elysium remains out of their grasp.
Why similar: Metroidvania 29.9%, Precision Platformer 13.8%, Puzzle Platformer 12.3%, Platformer 12.1%, Exploration 8.1%
Explore a broken world. Fight with a silent machine. Solve puzzles that break the rules. The game has already begun, even on this page.
Why similar: Metroidvania 26.9%, Nonlinear 17.3%, Mystery 12.9%, Exploration 12.7%, Puzzle 10.2%
Ever miss being a child, playing games at your grandma's or in your old bedroom? Look no further! Play The Adventures of Elena Temple, the classic you never knew existed, on old machines that kind of sort of maybe existed. It's not like you can remember for sure, right?
Why similar: Metroidvania 24.2%, Puzzle Platformer 14.6%, Nonlinear 12.8%, Platformer 9.4%, Difficult 7.9%
LA-MULANA is an “Archaeological Ruin Exploration Action Game,” bringing the classic appeal of adventure with the punishing difficulty of retro-inspired gaming. Search inside ancient ruins, seeking out the “Secret Treasure of Life” – which sleeps in the sprawling ruins of “LA-MULANA” and is said to be the beginning of all civilization.
Why similar: Metroidvania 44.8%, Platformer 13.8%, Difficult 11.7%, Exploration 8.1%, Puzzle 7%
Dash and slash through an innovative kinetic metroidvania. The Tower of Time awaits – a rich, handcrafted world fractured by the collapse of time. Slice through foes in tough-as-talons bite-sized battles, and master the way of the bird warrior.
Why similar: Metroidvania 36.2%, Platformer 10.9%, Precision Platformer 10.1%, Difficult 9.6%, Nonlinear 8.4%
The long-awaited sequel to La-Mulana, La-Mulana 2 follows Lumisa Kosugi as she explores the ancient ruins of La-Mulana. Desperate to find the cause of the recent slew of monsters appearing from the ruins, Lumisa discovers the "other" La-Mulana: the ruins known as Eg-Lana.
Why similar: Metroidvania 26.8%, Puzzle Platformer 14.3%, Precision Platformer 13.8%, Platformer 9.3%, Difficult 8.8%
A pinball horror adventure game. You will bounce and ping your way through a nonlinear world in hopes to get back to the life you were living before.
Why similar: Metroidvania 29.1%, Nonlinear 14.7%, Platformer 11.7%, Arcade 10.3%, Exploration 10.2%
"Pod's Itty Bitty Adventure" is a short retro-themed open-world Metroidvania platformer that prioritizes movement and exploration.
Why similar: Metroidvania 38.9%, Nonlinear 19.3%, Platformer 13.3%, Precision Platformer 11.6%, Adventure 4.5%
A journey begins... A treacherous tower... Unravel its mysteries!Discover the secrets kept in the long abandoned Tesla Tower!Magnetism and other electromagnetic powers will help you explore a non-linear world of beautiful hand-drawn environments, in a steampunk-inspired vision of old Europe.
Why similar: Metroidvania 30%, Platformer 20.3%, Puzzle 11.4%, Puzzle Platformer 11.2%, Difficult 5.7%
A Metroidvania set in a mysterious space laboratory. Explore an interconnected station, fight hostile enemies, uncover hidden rooms, and gain new abilities. Each discovery brings you closer to a massive secret buried within.
Why similar: Metroidvania 37.4%, Puzzle Platformer 17.9%, Exploration 14.2%, Platformer 10.1%, Puzzle 9.3%
Venture beneath the Ghost Kingdom where you will encounter strange creatures, solve puzzles and uncover hidden secrets!
Why similar: Metroidvania 25.8%, Platformer 16.2%, Puzzle Platformer 13.3%, Puzzle 11.4%, Exploration 9.2%
A 2D pixel-art metroidvania where you fight using elemental spirits instead of basic attacks. Explore, collect, and solve puzzles in a magical forest.
Why similar: Metroidvania 28.5%, Puzzle Platformer 16.4%, Arcade 9.7%, Difficult 9.3%, Platformer 7.7%
Explore a tiny world, find upgrades, discover hidden paths, and battle bosses in this retro-style metroidvania action platformer.
Why similar: Metroidvania 33%, Nonlinear 11.9%, Platformer 10.6%, Exploration 10.1%, Puzzle 6.8%
A Retro Metroidvania focused heavily on Exploration, Puzzle Solving Combat and Platforming.
Why similar: Metroidvania 31.8%, Puzzle Platformer 18.2%, Nonlinear 16%, Platformer 12.3%, Exploration 11.3%
Jump, dash, and swim in this epic adventure! Explore the vast Aztec lands in an axolotl action-platformer! Xolotl is a cute, 2D action-platformer, in which your goal is to regain your godly form and powers.
Why similar: Metroidvania 33.5%, Precision Platformer 18.6%, Nonlinear 16.4%, Platformer 11.6%, Exploration 10.2%
Three quality games in one package! A short but sweet metroidvania with Pix Eliz 1, a unique mix of card game and platforming in Pix Eliz 2, and an adventurous platformer which constantly renew itself in Pix Eliz 3! Playable in english and in french!
Why similar: Metroidvania 30.1%, Precision Platformer 17%, Puzzle Platformer 14.9%, Exploration 11%, Platformer 8.3%
Tool Land is an adventure exploration platformer puzzle game. Collect tools with unique functions, uncover the secrets behind various mechanisms, and explore every corner of this hand-drawn doodle art world!
Why similar: Metroidvania 28.1%, Puzzle Platformer 19.1%, Nonlinear 17%, Platformer 12.3%, Puzzle 9.7%
Scale into ever-smaller nested worlds. Shrink into your spaceship's mechanisms. Uncover the fractal worlds within and meet the zany goobers who call them home. Track down the root of the system errors, whether by replacing old gears or getting Grandma Beetle's bakery back in business.
Why similar: Metroidvania 30.2%, Puzzle Platformer 19.2%, Surreal 13.7%, Exploration 12.9%, Platformer 8.1%
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 43.1%, Platformer 14%, Exploration 12.7%, Atmospheric 7%, Mystery 6.4%
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 30.9%, Precision Platformer 21.6%, Nonlinear 16.9%, Platformer 11.6%, Exploration 10.8%
Banished from his kingdom, a young frog prince sets out on an adventure to save his people from the reign of King Croaker. There will be many perils along the way for this frog prince, can he swing his way out of trouble?
Why similar: Metroidvania 31.1%, Precision Platformer 19%, Puzzle Platformer 18.4%, Platformer 12.2%, Puzzle 7.7%
Seedless Light is a 2d action-adventure game focused on combat and exploration with a unique and contemplative world of fantastic and vibrant creatures driven by a touching and atmospheric soundtrack.
Why similar: Metroidvania 40.8%, Platformer 12.9%, Exploration 11.9%, Difficult 11.5%, Surreal 11.1%
On the surface, a 2D platformer right out of the '80s video game playbook. The eponymous Whim walks and jumps his way through static rooms, avoiding the baddies and other hazards, and collecting various items. But this game is so much more than that...
Why similar: Metroidvania 33%, Precision Platformer 18.9%, Nonlinear 16.8%, Platformer 12.5%, Exploration 10.2%
Embark on an unforgettable adventure with Uncle Che! Explore a vibrant 2D world, battle whimsical enemies, and uncover secrets to retrieve the stolen ingredients and save the recipe for legendary bread in this charming Metroidvania.
Why similar: Metroidvania 40.5%, Nonlinear 16.7%, Exploration 11.8%, Difficult 10.6%, Platformer 7.8%
Explore the ruins of an ancient city. Solve puzzles to unlock new paths, abilities, and forgotten lore. Read the lost stories you uncover to gain insight into a tangled web of mysteries. Using only your wits and your trusty torch to guide you, you must find a way to return light to a starless sky.
Why similar: Metroidvania 28.3%, Nonlinear 19.5%, Exploration 11%, Puzzle 10.9%, Mystery 10.8%
Light up the world! As Plug, you are charged with restoring the expansive Amp-Tree-System, and thwarting an enigmatic intruder.
Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 30.4%, Metroidvania 30.2%, Platformer 17.5%, Puzzle 11.7%, Adventure 4.4%
A pure platformer. A humming jetpack. A lonely man.
Why similar: Metroidvania 23.4%, Precision Platformer 15.5%, Platformer 14.1%, Puzzle Platformer 13.8%, Exploration 9.9%
Play as Timmy, whisked into a mysterious cat realm invaded by monsters. Journey through enchanting realms, solve puzzles, and harness new abilities to save this world—and maybe your own—in a cozy, dark, and hand-drawn 2D adventure full of secrets and quirky cats.
Why similar: Metroidvania 33.7%, Puzzle Platformer 18.1%, Platformer 12.9%, Puzzle 10.1%, Surreal 9.1%
Guide a lonely fox through a vast interconnected world of a mysterious planet Vulpis in this Metroidvania-style game. Explore non-linear paths, unlock new abilities, fight enemies, overcome obstacles, and unravel the planet's mysteries to find a way back home.
Why similar: Metroidvania 45.6%, Platformer 16.6%, Difficult 12%, Exploration 9.9%, Adventure 5.4%
House of Shadow is an action-adventure metroidvania wherein you wield the powers of darkness! Explore, traverse obstacles, battle monsters born of light, slay fearsome bosses, and claim the Shadow Throne!
Why similar: Metroidvania 36.7%, Nonlinear 16.6%, Precision Platformer 14.9%, Exploration 11.4%, Platformer 7.2%
Welcome to Happy! the Hippo, a previously lost 3D platformer collectathon, now brought to life on modern hardware. Roll, bounce, and dive through a handful of enchanting levels. Tackle quests, rescue frogs, and embrace the vintage charm of janky early 2000s platforming, broken glitches and all.
Why similar: Metroidvania 25.9%, Precision Platformer 15.2%, Puzzle Platformer 13.7%, Nonlinear 11.5%, Platformer 9.4%
