Games Like How Long Is This Dog?

Alwa’s Legacy is a modern retro game full of dangerous dungeons, mystic items and ancient secrets. Upgrade your magic and choose your own path in this non-linear adventure game brimming with exploration.

Why similar: Metroidvania 33.3%, Puzzle Platformer 16.3%, 2D Platformer 13%, Female Protagonist 8.4%, Platformer 7%

Travel to a forgotten world and study alien creatures in this authentic retro metroidvania!

Why similar: Metroidvania 39.5%, Dogs 17.1% ★, 2D Platformer 16%, Platformer 9%, Retro 5.2%

Embark on a journey as Fiadh, a young woman with a deep connection to animals, racing against a cataclysmic storm in this mesmerizing 2D puzzle platformer. Traverse decaying landscapes, form unbreakable connections, and harness newfound abilities to preserve the last vestiges of a fading world.

Why similar: Metroidvania 40.4%, Puzzle Platformer 20.5%, 2D Platformer 16.2%, Female Protagonist 10%, Platformer 8.4%

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 40.2%, Puzzle Platformer 18.9%, 2D Platformer 15.7%, Exploration 9.3%, Platformer 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 35%, Puzzle Platformer 21.7%, 2D Platformer 14.6%, Platformer 7.3%, Exploration 7.1%

Outpost Delta is a single player, 2-D side-scrolling sci-fi shooter for PC. Take on the role of Delta, the outpost’s emergency defense, who along with her AI companion must defend the space station against alien intruders.

Why similar: Metroidvania 39.4%, Puzzle Platformer 15.4%, 2D Platformer 10.8%, Female Protagonist 9.3%, Platformer 7.6%

A nameless skeleton awakens in a graveyard. To recover lost memories and uncover the truth, it embarks on a journey of self-discovery.

Why similar: Metroidvania 43.2%, Puzzle Platformer 20.2%, 2D Platformer 16.8%, Exploration 10%, Adventure 4%

That story’s ending isn’t just “Heartbreak.” Even if you shatter, you can be reassembled again and again—drawing others in, connecting people to one another. Its name is Cor Magnetis.

Why similar: Metroidvania 39.3%, 2D Platformer 18.3%, Puzzle Platformer 14.2%, Female Protagonist 7.1%, Platformer 6.7%

Treasure Adventure Game casts you in the role of a young boy who lands on an island that is a fragment of what was once a continent, destroyed in the war between a demon and a wizard.

Why similar: Metroidvania 46.7%, Puzzle Platformer 19.4%, 2D Platformer 17%, Platformer 8%, Adventure 3.2%

A small crisis control team has been summoned to help a civilization in the sky escape impending doom! Explore dungeons, solve puzzles, and find lots of treasure to help prepare yourself for incredible challenges!

Why similar: Metroidvania 28.8%, Puzzle Platformer 19.3%, 2D Platformer 15.3%, Female Protagonist 9.4%, Exploration 8%

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 38.8%, Puzzle Platformer 25.3%, Platformer 12.2%, Adventure 9.5%, Exploration 8.7%

Explore a non-linear underground world in this puzzle-adventure. Solve intricate environmental challenges, uncover hidden secrets, and navigate a pixel-art labyrinth where every path leads to a new mystery. Can you plunge into the depths and find what lies beneath?

Why similar: Metroidvania 35.6%, Puzzle Platformer 15.8%, 2D Platformer 11.7%, Female Protagonist 9.7%, Exploration 6.7%

Move lights. Walk on shadows. Surface Tension: Eclipse is a surreal 2D puzzlevania where cast shadows become solid platforms, every room is a spatial riddle, and the darkness hides more than it reveals.

Why similar: Metroidvania 40.4%, Puzzle Platformer 23.5%, 2D Platformer 15.6%, Platformer 6.5%, Pixel Graphics 3.6%

A sci-fi fantasy Metroidvania where you play as a vampire adrift in space. Awaken in a strange space lab, explore the station, solve puzzles, defeat enemies, find hidden rooms, collect odd items, awaken lost powers, and uncover a secret buried deep within.

Why similar: Metroidvania 46.3%, Puzzle Platformer 18.3%, Exploration 8.7%, Platformer 7.9%, 2D Platformer 6.9%

A 2D puzzle-platformer where you light your way through the darkness. Play as the Light, exploring an abandoned civilization where you find a suit of armor that seems to have magical properties. Suit up using the powers of the suit to channel your light magic to see what this strange place hides.

Why similar: Metroidvania 41.1%, Puzzle Platformer 18.5%, 2D Platformer 16.1%, Exploration 9.4%, Platformer 6.4%

Explore an abandoned planet and uncover the mysteries behind the event that ended the world. Travel through a charred forest, large factory and run down cities as you collect upgrades and battle the relics that were left behind.

Why similar: Metroidvania 50.9%, 2D Platformer 18.3%, Platformer 9.1%, Exploration 8.3%, Adventure 4.1%

Follow Doggo on his quest to find his Human so he can finally go back to sleep.

Why similar: Dogs 30% ★, Metroidvania 21.4%, 2D Platformer 14.8%, Puzzle Platformer 12.9%, Exploration 6.4%

Dive into the conscious and use your brushes to solve puzzles, reclaim forgotten memories.

Why similar: Metroidvania 38.3%, Puzzle Platformer 22.9%, 2D Platformer 10.7%, Female Protagonist 9.8%, Platformer 6.5%

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.

Why similar: Metroidvania 36.2%, Puzzle Platformer 18.1%, Dogs 17.9% ★, Platformer 9.6%, Exploration 7.4%

In this 2D Puzzle Metroidvania, explore the world collecting items to help you solve puzzles on your way to reach the flag! Will you remember where you came from, and will you be able to collect all the hidden gems?

Why similar: Metroidvania 41.8%, Puzzle Platformer 25.8%, 2D Platformer 16.2%, Platformer 6.5%, Adventure 3.3%

Wake up in a world where stories come to life. In this enchanted 8-bit musical adventure, use the power of song to explore whimsical book-inspired realms, solve puzzles, and help Rhapsody find her way home from a library that doesn't want to let her go.

Why similar: Metroidvania 35.1%, Puzzle Platformer 18.4%, 2D Platformer 14%, Female Protagonist 9%, Platformer 7.4%

Become Hatty the wizard's hat. Possess creatures and learn new abilities, delve into the castle's basement, travel to deep forests and lava caves. Become powerful enough to save the wizard. Adventure awaits.

Why similar: Metroidvania 39.6%, Puzzle Platformer 23.1%, 2D Platformer 20.4%, Platformer 5.1%, Adventure 4.8%

Get batteries to get stronger! Enjoy your adventure now! Recover lost parts and get various skills.

Why similar: Metroidvania 48.5%, 2D Platformer 17.8%, Puzzle Platformer 11.8%, Platformer 9.5%, Adventure 5.3%

It's a 16 bit styled pixel Metroidvania crafted by someone who loves the genre! Put your fingers on WASD and arrow keys or grab your favorite controller to play, simple and easy as these games should be.

Why similar: Metroidvania 49.5%, 2D Platformer 18.1%, Female Protagonist 11.5%, Platformer 9.7%, Adventure 4.7%

Shantae is back in an all-new tropical adventure! In her fifth outing, the Half-Genie hero gains new Fusion Magic abilities to explore a vast sunken city, makes new Half-Genie friends, and battles the Seven Sirens in her biggest, most thrilling quest yet!

Why similar: Metroidvania 53.4%, Female Protagonist 16.7%, Platformer 10.5%, 2D Platformer 6.8%, Adventure 4%

You have stumbled into a world shrouded in darkness, where your body has transformed into that of a strange creature. Using your ability to dispel the darkness, you must explore and learn within this mysterious realm, uncovering the truth of this world while seeking a way to return to your own.

Why similar: Metroidvania 38.1%, Puzzle Platformer 19.8%, 2D Platformer 15.6%, Platformer 8.2%, Exploration 8%

Enter the magic world of Elowyn! Evolve with her and discover all the secrets to magic in this metroidvania with incredible characters and scenary. Learn powerful spells, create potions, unravel many riddles and live the entire fantasy!

Why similar: Metroidvania 43.1%, 2D Platformer 16.9%, Female Protagonist 10.7%, Platformer 9.4%, Exploration 8.5%

A fantastical, atmospheric Metroidvania platformer where you jump, fight, and expand your abilities to escape your exile and confront the beastly Queen who banished you. But will this fairy-tale end with you becoming a hero, or a beast?

Why similar: Metroidvania 43.2%, 2D Platformer 17.3%, Female Protagonist 10.3%, Exploration 9.5%, Platformer 9.4%

A 2-D action adventure platformer where you can absorb and manipulate things with your friend Moku. You can use different abilities to explore and interact with the world.

Why similar: Metroidvania 37.8%, 2D Platformer 15.5%, Female Protagonist 9.4%, Platformer 8.8%, Exploration 7.9%

This game is a Metroidvania game with intense battle. Explore the world and collection power-ups with your cute cat girl! When magic curse suddenly occurred in a small town and all the residents grew cat ears, the real cat girl Nyaruru started her way to uncover the truth...

Why similar: Metroidvania 45.4%, 2D Platformer 15.6%, Female Protagonist 10.7%, Platformer 7.6%, Exploration 7.4%

The Hot-Pink is 2d Platformer game that has a uniqe system, You will have to find keys to the locked doors and fight your enemy.

Why similar: Metroidvania 29.9%, Puzzle Platformer 21%, 2D Platformer 17.5%, Platformer 10.8%, Adventure 7.8%

"Switch Box" is a 2D pixel-art puzzle platformer. In an unfamiliar world, you must interact with the environment and utilize tools to solve challenges, overcome obstacles, and ultimately discover the path back home.

Why similar: Metroidvania 33.9%, Puzzle Platformer 24.3%, 2D Platformer 14.5%, Platformer 9.7%, Exploration 5.3%

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 47.1%, Platformer 12%, 2D Platformer 10.3%, Exploration 9.8%, Puzzle Platformer 7.9%

Nerdtastic Norman is a 2d scrolling puzzle platformer set in purgatory based on Dante's Inferno. Over 70 unique levels, dangerously hard boss battles, and 1 unique story. Help Norman gather the missing pieces of his shattered soul, and help him return to the land of the living.

Why similar: Metroidvania 41.5%, Puzzle Platformer 20.8%, 2D Platformer 18.7%, Platformer 4.9%, Exploration 4.8%

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 46.2%, Puzzle Platformer 23.4%, Exploration 10.7%, Platformer 8.9%, Adventure 3.9%

A witch's adventure with nothing but an umbrella. Upbrella is a puzzle platformer where every trick you discover reopens the world in a new way, wrapped in cozy pixel art and a wordless friendship between a girl and a strange little creature.

Why similar: Metroidvania 35.6%, Puzzle Platformer 21.2%, 2D Platformer 15.5%, Exploration 7%, Platformer 6.7%

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 37.1%, Puzzle Platformer 17.9%, 2D Platformer 13%, Exploration 8.4%, Female Protagonist 6.3%

This is the story of an adventurous little witch and her cat in the paper world. The puzzle mainly tests the player's observation of the stage and the application of elements. Use the cat to eat the elements and use them in the right place to open the channel or get new elements.

Why similar: Metroidvania 39.9%, Puzzle Platformer 21%, 2D Platformer 14%, Female Protagonist 8.9%, Platformer 7.8%

You are Névoa, an enigmatic child of Fate returning at long last to Earth, in this explor-action platformer from the creators of Celeste. Earthblade's lush pixel art world offers seamless exploration, challenging combat, and countless mysteries to pick apart.

Why similar: Metroidvania 43%, 2D Platformer 16.9%, Female Protagonist 13.2%, Platformer 8.9%, Exploration 8.6%

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 45.7%, Puzzle Platformer 15.5%, Female Protagonist 13.9%, Platformer 7.4%, Pixel Graphics 5.9%

After escaping the research ship, Samuel finds himself crash landed on a foreign planet overrun by a hostile organization. Now it's up to Samuel and his trusty SOL equipment to rescue the scientists who also escaped the ship, and find a way off of the planet.

Why similar: Metroidvania 39.5%, Puzzle Platformer 20.6%, 2D Platformer 16.2%, Platformer 8.4%, Exploration 8.3%

Refactor is a physics-based platformer taking elements from classic Metroidvanias. Placed in a world that is a puzzle itself, you can literally turn the world upside down by rearranging the map and building your own pathways through the game.

Why similar: Metroidvania 54.4%, Puzzle Platformer 28.5%, Platformer 8.9%, Adventure 6%, Indie 2.2%

Explore, discover secrets, gain awesome abilities and use them to find all your lost chickens!

Why similar: Metroidvania 35%, Puzzle Platformer 20%, 2D Platformer 14.3%, Platformer 8.7%, Exploration 6.7%

Resort adventure of exploration, life-sim and a little action. Your guide is in-game "Brochure" filled with map and activities. Check them off as you go. Learn new skills to unlock new areas. Days at the waterpark, nights at the hotel lounge. No enemies. Just your own pace. A cozy Metroidvania.

Why similar: Metroidvania 46.3%, 2D Platformer 14.1%, Puzzle Platformer 10.9%, Exploration 8.1%, Female Protagonist 5.6%

A 2D platformer set in a world of floating islands where gravity acts with strange properties and can point in any direction. Join one of 4 characters in their own story venturing through these strange and wonderful environments that twist and turn in all directions.

Why similar: Metroidvania 21.7%, Puzzle Platformer 17.9%, 2D Platformer 16.9%, Female Protagonist 11.7%, Platformer 9.5%

Sneak away from your boring family vacation and delve into ANCIENT RUINS! Borrow equipment from dead explorers and uncover the secrets of a lost civilization as you leave your parents worried sick. WARNING: The Ruby Chest may contain traces of an ancient curse (and gluten).

Why similar: Metroidvania 53.8%, 2D Platformer 16.3%, Exploration 8.8%, Platformer 8.6%, Pixel Graphics 5.5%

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 30.8%, Puzzle Platformer 18.1%, 2D Platformer 14.7%, Female Protagonist 8.7%, Platformer 6.8%

Explore the ruins of a decaying mechanical world in this visceral Metroidvania. Fight through clockwork horrors in search of the legendary Copper Heart, aided by a brilliant medic-engineer companion. Forge your path, repair your body, and unravel the truth behind the corrosion.

Why similar: Metroidvania 43.7%, Puzzle Platformer 13.6%, 2D Platformer 11.2%, Exploration 8.4%, Platformer 7.6%

After Hue is a charming puzzle platformer starring an adorable chameleon on a grand adventure! Shift colors, phase through obstacles, and unravel the mysteries hidden within every hue!

Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 26.9%, Metroidvania 21.1%, 2D Platformer 19.3%, Exploration 8.4%, Platformer 8.2%

Begin your adventure in Shattered Divinities to reveal the truth! Traverse the land where deities have perished, explore abandoned divine realms, battle mutated monsters, gather divine power to awaken your strength, and unveil the truth behind the deities’ fall.

Why similar: Metroidvania 55.9%, Platformer 10.2%, 2D Platformer 7.4%, Female Protagonist 6.7%, Adventure 6.2%

Maelstrom is a platformer adventure set on a mysterious island. Explore an island designed in pixel art style, acquire ancient magic to upgrade yourself, defeat enemies and pass obstacles. Use the unique ability 'Rewind' to reach places that seemed impossible!

Why similar: Metroidvania 54.3%, 2D Platformer 18.6%, Platformer 6.3%, Adventure 5.7%, Female Protagonist 5%

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 31.3%, 2D Platformer 17.4%, Puzzle Platformer 15.3%, Platformer 11.5%, Adventure 8.3%

“Aeternum Vale” is a weird atmospheric Metroidvania set in a cryptic open-world full of dangers, mysteries, and odd characters. Make friends & slice your way through this out of time realm in a infinite quest to save your soul… or give it away?

Why similar: Metroidvania 39.8%, 2D Platformer 16.1%, Puzzle Platformer 15.7%, Exploration 7.7%, Platformer 6.6%

Two girls travelling through the desert, fighting monsters and solving puzzles. An action-adventure exploration-based platformer game with lots of sidequests and more secrets than you will ever find.

Why similar: Metroidvania 34.8%, 2D Platformer 16%, Female Protagonist 13.5%, Platformer 11.1%, Exploration 7.5%

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 38.8%, Puzzle Platformer 22.3%, 2D Platformer 15.7%, Platformer 8.7%, Adventure 4.1%

Venture beneath the Ghost Kingdom where you will encounter strange creatures, solve puzzles and uncover hidden secrets!

Why similar: Metroidvania 32.5%, 2D Platformer 17.4%, Puzzle Platformer 16.3%, Platformer 11.7%, Adventure 8.4%

Explore and fight your way trough the castle in this 2D platformer.

Why similar: Metroidvania 54.9%, 2D Platformer 12.9%, Platformer 10.7%, Exploration 8.4%, Adventure 7.9%

Core Descent is a puzzle-platformer set in a vivid world filled with puzzles to solve, items to collect, and secrets to find.

Why similar: Metroidvania 30.2%, Puzzle Platformer 22%, 2D Platformer 17.4%, Exploration 9%, Platformer 8.2%

Hack and slash your way through a space station overrun with aggressive alien creatures. Collect upgrade orbs to extend your abilities and conquer convoluted movement puzzles.

Why similar: Metroidvania 45.3%, 2D Platformer 17.7%, Exploration 10.4%, Female Protagonist 8.8%, Platformer 8.8%