
"HiddenLight" is a game about the adventures of two teenagers - a boy named Saul and a girl named Celine - in a world plunged into darkness and teeming with demons
60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Metroidvania, Adventure, 2D, Singleplayer.

"HiddenLight" is a game about the adventures of two teenagers - a boy named Saul and a girl named Celine - in a world plunged into darkness and teeming with demons

Mira The Dreamers
Awaken in a silent nightmare where memories turn into monsters. Mira is an atmospheric 2D Metroidvania set in a fractured subconscious. Master fluid combat, piece together lost dreams, and uncover the mystery of the Somnus in a world reacting to your every move.

Xplorite
Xplorite is a hand-drawn 2d action-exploration metroidvania full of enemies and secrets. Get in Sy's shoes and explore the depths of planet Nargal in look for the missing research team. Travel through different biomes full of enemies and hazards and try to uncover what is happening on the planet.
Awaken in a silent nightmare where memories turn into monsters. Mira is an atmospheric 2D Metroidvania set in a fractured subconscious. Master fluid combat, piece together lost dreams, and uncover the mystery of the Somnus in a world reacting to your every move.
Why similar: Metroidvania 35.9%, Precision Platformer 25.4%, Adventure 9.2%, Action 9.1%, Dark 6%
Xplorite is a hand-drawn 2d action-exploration metroidvania full of enemies and secrets. Get in Sy's shoes and explore the depths of planet Nargal in look for the missing research team. Travel through different biomes full of enemies and hazards and try to uncover what is happening on the planet.
Why similar: Metroidvania 37%, Precision Platformer 24.8%, Hand-drawn 13.2%, Exploration 6.9%, Adventure 6%
“ Elmer is a Metroidvania-style adventure game. ” AltroQuando is a place for those with a forgotten past, an illusionary present, and a future held only as a promise. Your presence here is the proof that you are seeking your own original sin, your own mask.
Why similar: Metroidvania 49.1%, Adventure 9.3%, Exploration 9.2%, 2D 8.2%, Action 7.8%
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 46.2%, Precision Platformer 19.3%, Exploration 9.7%, Adventure 9.2%, Action 7.8%
The legendary Knytt series continues with Nifflas’ latest creation; Knytt Underground. In this Knytteration; humans have long since abandoned the planet after practically destroying it in a war, five hundred years ago.
Why similar: Precision Platformer 44.2%, Metroidvania 33.9%, Exploration 8.8%, Adventure 7.3%, Indie 3.2%
In this Insanely Twisted, 2-D action-adventure game, explore unique environments and battle bizarre creatures.
Why similar: Metroidvania 64.4%, Adventure 9%, 2D 8%, Action 7.5%, Exploration 7.4%
An adventure that will test your skills using only 2 buttons!
Why similar: Metroidvania 48.8%, Precision Platformer 32.9%, Action 5.9%, Adventure 5.9%, 2D 5.9%
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 33.2%, Precision Platformer 27.8%, Hand-drawn 9.8%, Exploration 7.9%, 2D 6.4%
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 46.2%, Precision Platformer 16.6%, Hand-drawn 10.9%, Action 8%, Adventure 6.5%
Dash into a stylish and thrilling action-adventure platformer set in a mythological Persian world where the boundaries of time and space are yours to manipulate.
Why similar: Metroidvania 54.1%, Precision Platformer 25.2%, Exploration 9.2%, Adventure 5.4%, Action 5.3%
A challenging action-platformer where players navigate diverse biomes filled with unique enemies, tough platforming challenges, and intense boss fights. With tight controls and punishing difficulty, the game rewards precision, mastery, and exploration.
Why similar: Metroidvania 41.3%, Precision Platformer 31.3%, Exploration 7.5%, Adventure 7%, Action 6.6%
Explore every corner of the realms of death in this Metroidvania! Face enemies, platforming challenges, and gain more power as you try to bring balance to this world, as a reaper!
Why similar: Metroidvania 47.6%, Precision Platformer 30.8%, Adventure 6.2%, Action 5.4%, Exploration 5.3%
Lured by a vengeful spirit of a defeated witch, our 16-bit hero, and his friends, find themselves trapped on a mysterious island full of deadly sorceresses! What heinous plans does this gruesome Witch have for him? And what is the true origin of the island?
Why similar: Metroidvania 47.9%, Adventure 17.3%, Action 15.7%, 2D 13.1%, Indie 5.9%
This 2D side-scrolling action game delivers fluid fast-paced combat, rich map exploration and philosophically profound themes. Play as Enna, a Tago dancer adept at melee weapons and firearms, on her prologue quest to rediscover her clan’s lost history.
Why similar: Metroidvania 50.1%, Faith 23.5% ★, Hand-drawn 10.4%, 2D 7.1%, Action 7%
Bounce and stomp through an enormous interconnected world, doing some intense acrobatics and getting huge combos! A superfast precision platformer that mixes up a Metroidvania world with classic Arcade mechanics.
Why similar: Metroidvania 43.7%, Precision Platformer 32.4%, Adventure 7.7%, Action 6.8%, 2D 6.5%
Hollow Floor is an exploration-based single-sitting Metroidvania inspired by VVVVVV and REDDER. Hollow Floor is a relaxed game that is full of secrets and hard challenges that can be tackled at any moment in the game or completely ignored.
Why similar: Metroidvania 44.3%, Precision Platformer 32%, Adventure 6.5%, Exploration 5.6%, 2D 4.6%
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 46.4%, Precision Platformer 24.5%, Exploration 9%, Adventure 7.4%, Action 6.5%
Explore a dreamscape, rich with magic, hidden secrets and mysterious creatures.
Why similar: Metroidvania 45.3%, Hand-drawn 13.5%, Adventure 12.3%, Action 12.2%, Exploration 10.1%
Esdraz: The Throne of Darkness is a Metroidvania game focused on a dynamic combat system with a wide-ranging arsenal that players can tailor to fit their individual combat style. Fight a variety of enemies and evolving bosses while you come up with the best strategy to beat every encounter.
Why similar: Metroidvania 48.8%, Adventure 13.6%, Action 13.6%, Hand-drawn 12.5%, 2D 9.1%
Wake up on Hart Island, dazed and amnesiac, holding a mysterious magic pencil... that you're accused of stealing ? In this hand-drawn 2D Metroidvania, your creativity is your weapon: sketch your tools to survive the dangers and piece together your memories.
Why similar: Metroidvania 53.6%, Hand-drawn 12.8%, 2D 9.4%, Adventure 7.9%, Action 7.4%
8Doors is a story-driven Metroidvania-style action platformer heavily influenced by Korean folktales. Play as ‘Arum’, a brave girl that has entered the realm of the afterlife in search of her father’s soul and guide her through the '8 Doors of Purgatory' to solve the mysteries that lie deep within.
Why similar: Metroidvania 58.7%, Adventure 10.7%, Action 9.9%, Hand-drawn 8.5%, 2D 4.2%
Explore the ruins of a forgotten kingdom in this atmospheric pixel-art platformer. Light ancient torches, solve environmental puzzles, uncover hidden secrets, and master challenging platforming as you restore the fading flame.
Why similar: Precision Platformer 46.2%, Exploration 10.9%, Action 9.8%, 2D 9.6%, Adventure 9.2%
Challenging precision platformer based on tight, fluid movement. Open map layout with multiple routes. Collect gems and save animals.
Why similar: Metroidvania 39.8%, Precision Platformer 30%, Action 12.3%, Exploration 8.7%, 2D 6.8%
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 39.6%, Precision Platformer 36.1%, Exploration 8.6%, 2D 6.8%, Action 4.4%
Explore Trash Heart, a planet in the iron grip of the Trash Lord. Find artefacts that grant powerful abilities, fight hordes of deadly foes, and save a planet of outcast robots. Or just scrounge up all the trash your grubby little raccoon hands can hold.
Why similar: Metroidvania 48.1%, Precision Platformer 33%, Action 6.2%, Exploration 5.9%, Adventure 5.3%
Help Beefit brave perilous lands and cavernous depths to rescue his bovine love in this tight, precision platformer with responsive controls, and skill-based gameplay.
Why similar: Metroidvania 44.9%, Precision Platformer 21.9%, Action 11.2%, Adventure 8.7%, Exploration 6.3%
Solve intricate puzzles and evade obstacles with precise, skillful platforming. Collect musical instruments that change your environment with ancient magic, and gain skills and items that enhance your ability to move through that environment. Succeed, and you may just save your family.
Why similar: Metroidvania 33.7%, Precision Platformer 30.1%, Hand-drawn 10.7%, 2D 6.8%, Dark 6.6%
In this metroidvania platformer originally made for NES, play as mole digging your way with great agility through deep caverns, in search of a lost dwarven treasure to repay your debts.
Why similar: Metroidvania 53.5%, Precision Platformer 16%, Exploration 8.2%, Adventure 7.6%, Action 7.2%
Can you find all of the geodes and escape a cosmic horror in this unique, stylized platformer world? Procedurally create a near infinite number of unique levels that you can share with the world.
Why similar: Metroidvania 38.5%, Precision Platformer 32.2%, Hand-drawn 11.1%, Exploration 7.3%, Action 5.5%
A dying planet in energy chaos, dangerous districts and challenging combats. Your only chance to escape the planet is through inconsistent portal! Gain energy crystals by slaying enemies. Improve your abilities and acquire drones. Complete your escape quest in this challenging rouge-lite gameplay.
Why similar: Metroidvania 39.3%, Precision Platformer 27.4%, Hand-drawn 10.4%, Adventure 8%, Action 7.9%
Honey's Sweet Revenge is a metroidvania with mechanics inspired by platform fighters. Customize your item loadout and defeat enemies and bosses.
Why similar: Metroidvania 59.8%, Adventure 10.9%, Hand-drawn 10.7%, Action 10.5%, 2D 6.4%
Dust and Shadow lets you shift between multiple time dimensions, altering the map in real time. Face enemies, traps, and the environment to uncover the mystery. Unlock powerful abilities as you progress through the adventure.
Why similar: Metroidvania 42.2%, Precision Platformer 23.7%, Adventure 12.5%, Exploration 9.4%, 2D 6%
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 44.2%, Precision Platformer 32%, Exploration 8.4%, 2D 7.3%, Action 5%
Two mysterious, challenging platformers where you launch yourself with an infinite supply of bombs.
Why similar: Metroidvania 39.2%, Precision Platformer 36.8%, Exploration 7.3%, 2D 5.3%, Action 5.2%
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 43.3%, Precision Platformer 32.3%, Exploration 8.4%, 2D 7.3%, Action 4.7%
A full-blown adventure played with only two buttons. Become the recently deceased agent Terry Cooper and escape the underworld while facing the toughest, meanest and most difficult obstacles ever devised.
Why similar: Precision Platformer 54.3%, Metroidvania 32%, Action 10.1%, Indie 3.6%
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 39.4%, Precision Platformer 33.6%, Exploration 8.4%, Dark 4.8%, 2D 4%
The Waste Land, a "metroidvania" style side-scroller inspired by T.S. Eliot’s poem of the same name, puts players in the role of a fallen king who must find his way to right the wrongs caused by his own failings.
Why similar: Metroidvania 63%, Adventure 16.4%, Action 14.9%, Indie 5.6%
Ignite your sword and explore the dark depths and towering heights of a forgotten island that consumed itself long ago.
Why similar: Metroidvania 40.5%, Precision Platformer 22%, Hand-drawn 12.8%, Exploration 8%, 2D 7.1%
You Have to Win the Game is a free exploration platformer with a retro 1980s PC aesthetic.
Why similar: Metroidvania 67.4%, Precision Platformer 16.3%, 2D 6%, Exploration 2.7%, Adventure 2.3%
Phantom Rend is an intense Action-Adventure! Where you Find Your Ways through a Vast phantom Infested Island nation, wage Epic battles against formidable foes, Upgrade your skills and items, Uncover ancient secrets, Meet and befriend creatures of all walks of life.
Why similar: Metroidvania 51.6%, Hand-drawn 10.3%, 2D 9.8%, Exploration 9.2%, Adventure 5.8%
Narcalid is a puzzle platformer with peaceful exploration and mighty challenges in a strange, unknown world. Use real-life meditation skills in compelling spiritual narratives to open the gateway to Earth before Mother Narcalid becomes unstoppable!
Why similar: Metroidvania 32.6%, Precision Platformer 25.1%, Hand-drawn 11.1%, Exploration 6.8%, Mystery 6.5%
This is a Metroidvania in which you control the beautiful wizard Hijiri, who is trapped in a succubus's castle, and aims to escape! Get various items to enhance your actions and stats, and explore every inch of the vast castle!
Why similar: Metroidvania 47.7%, Faith 43.8% ★, Action 7.7%, Singleplayer 0.8%
Jumper Jon is a 30-second metroidvania-style platforming adventure!
Why similar: Metroidvania 46.4%, Precision Platformer 24.5%, Exploration 9.1%, Action 6.4%, Adventure 6.3%
Get lost in the Underdusk: a broken world full of danger and mystery. Experience brutal precision platforming, search for collectibles to expand your powerset and regain your lost memories in an atmospheric 2D pixel art adventure.
Why similar: Metroidvania 49.1%, Precision Platformer 33%, 2D 6.2%, Action 5.9%, Adventure 5.3%
A puppet themed platformer metroidvania with a focus on platforming rather than combat. Throw your crystal scissors into walls to create your own platforms, explore a twisting and mysterious land, and solve puzzles on a worldwide scale.
Why similar: Metroidvania 39.4%, Precision Platformer 27.8%, Exploration 7.7%, Mystery 7.3%, Adventure 5.6%
Help Brad reunite with his family and complete all hand-crafted 2D platform challenges in a colorful twisted world.
Why similar: Metroidvania 43.4%, Precision Platformer 41.2%, 2D 8.4%, Adventure 6.4%, Singleplayer 0.5%
In Demon Peak, you play as the nameless warrior, trapped inside the depths of an unholy Mountain. Explore the mysterious and perilous enviroments, fight against a multitude of different enemies and gather magical abilities to overcome the Mountain's evil inhabitants.
Why similar: Metroidvania 57.4%, Adventure 15%, Action 14.1%, 2D 8.5%, Indie 4.9%
Explore this foreign world and manipulate time to navigate through the challenges that lie along your path! Meet the inhabitants of this strange realm as they push you towards finding the Timeless Rain...
Why similar: Metroidvania 44.6%, Precision Platformer 23.2%, Hand-drawn 16.6%, Adventure 6.9%, 2D 5.7%
Spright is an epic 2D metroidvania about descending into a vast abyss that twists against you the deeper you go. Equipped with only your diving helm and a longswordm, you will dive head-on into a world that refuses to give way.
Why similar: Metroidvania 57.2%, Exploration 9.6%, 2D 9.1%, Adventure 8.4%, Action 8%
Song of Yosef is a Metroidvania platformer with wacky enemies and fun physics.
Why similar: Metroidvania 38.2%, Precision Platformer 28.7%, Faith 19.2% ★, Exploration 8.1%, Action 4.3%
In this new hand-drawn, story-rich metroidvania, explore the last haven of a dying world, and discover the purpose you play in saving it. Shape your own path, fight the all-consuming blight, and help bring hope back to the survivors. Take up the flames of dead gods, and stand firm in Dewborne Dawn!
Why similar: Metroidvania 57.9%, Hand-drawn 19.5%, Adventure 8.2%, Action 7.8%, 2D 4.1%
Florarium is a Metroidvania game focused on exploration and battle. Explore the mysterious world full of unexpected secrets. Battle fierce enemies with your bow. Choose your own path to your goddess in the vast, interconnected world.
Why similar: Metroidvania 57.1%, Hand-drawn 15.4%, Exploration 10.4%, Adventure 6.6%, 2D 5.2%
Yeomna is a Metrovania 2D action platform game. Take on the role of the Half-Demon exorcist Dongbaek, and complete the cases requested by Yeomna though combat and adventure in this dream-like, mysterious Underworld.
Why similar: Metroidvania 72.2%, Action 12.1%, 2D 11.8%, Singleplayer 2.1%, Indie 1.8%
2D action adventure game set in the far future on a mysterious abandoned planet with yourself as the only survivor.
Why similar: Metroidvania 74.1%, Action 11.5%, Adventure 10.6%, Indie 3.8%
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 44.3%, Precision Platformer 42.1%, Adventure 7.3%, 2D 4.2%, Indie 1.2%
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 41.5%, Precision Platformer 34.1%, 2D 7.8%, Action 5.9%, Exploration 5.9%
Scratch in a 2.5D world that blends hip hop aesthetics with action/platforming, where urban art has come to life. Explore dynamic environments, face cleaning robots, and uncover secrets of this vibrant world as you reclaim your identity in this intense and colorful adventure.
Why similar: Metroidvania 59.1%, Hand-drawn 10.6%, Adventure 9.2%, Action 7.5%, Indie 3.6%
Get batteries to get stronger! Enjoy your adventure now! Recover lost parts and get various skills.
Why similar: Metroidvania 55.5%, Precision Platformer 21.1%, Adventure 8.9%, Action 7.8%, 2D 4.8%
A powerful ancient evil has arisen, and the war to save humanity has begun! As an elite agent in the monster-hunting Prodigium organization, you must use a variety of weapons, upgrades, and mysterious artifacts to defend mankind against the supernatural hordes of Princess Ahmanet.
Why similar: Metroidvania 68.2%, Action 11.3%, Adventure 10.2%, 2D 6.2%, Exploration 3.2%