
Embark on a quest to restore light to a kingdom swallowed by darkness. Dive into a cute and dark pixel-art interconnected world with tight controls, seamless exploration, and challenging combat.
60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Metroidvania, Souls-like, Platformer, 2D.

Embark on a quest to restore light to a kingdom swallowed by darkness. Dive into a cute and dark pixel-art interconnected world with tight controls, seamless exploration, and challenging combat.

Lotus Knight
Lotus Knight is a 2D platform action game. A girl born from a lotus, following the call of her "mother", adventuring inside the world covered with flowers, exploring various interesting places, engaging in intense battles and experiencing a wonderful story.

Crownless
Carry your life as a fragile crown in Crownless! An epic action adventure built for exploration and punchy combat. Explore a vast hand-crafted 2D world, uncover forgotten realms, and dash, swim, and forge your way through the unknown.
Lotus Knight is a 2D platform action game. A girl born from a lotus, following the call of her "mother", adventuring inside the world covered with flowers, exploring various interesting places, engaging in intense battles and experiencing a wonderful story.
Why similar: Metroidvania 41.6%, Souls-like 30.5%, Platformer 14.3%, 2D 4.3%, Action 4.3%
Carry your life as a fragile crown in Crownless! An epic action adventure built for exploration and punchy combat. Explore a vast hand-crafted 2D world, uncover forgotten realms, and dash, swim, and forge your way through the unknown.
Why similar: Metroidvania 41.6%, Souls-like 25.1%, Platformer 13.2%, Action 5%, Action-Adventure 5%
Make your way through a 2D ruined world with metroidvania elements, unleash fast and powerful attacks in Hack & Slash combat and face fearsome enemies in difficult fights. Breathe and be brave.
Why similar: Metroidvania 34%, Souls-like 33%, Platformer 7%, Action-Adventure 6%, Action 5.8%
Go Alone is a pixel art soulslike metroidvania adventure with magical ranged spells and fast-paced combat.
Why similar: Metroidvania 40%, Souls-like 30.1%, Action-Adventure 5.4%, Adventure 5.1%, Action 4.5%
Forge your magical journey through the world of Syntheria in this action, adventure, Metroidvania.
Why similar: Metroidvania 38.4%, Souls-like 25.6%, Magic 8.3%, Platformer 8.1%, Action 4.5%
Tairo: Lost In Time is a 3D stylized metroidvania following Tairo, a young time weaver lost in a forgotten realm. Explore a big lively world, full with mysteries to solve, wide range of bosses, creatures and forgotten knights. Shape your journey downwards, manipulating time to reveal your past.
Why similar: Metroidvania 44.8%, Souls-like 36.4%, Platformer 5.4%, Action-Adventure 4%, Action 3.9%
SpellTome is a story driven fantasy adventure 2D platformer. Hurl balls of magic, dash across levels, and jump over obstacles while trying to get the fabled SpellTome.
Why similar: Metroidvania 34.7%, Souls-like 29.1%, Platformer 11.9%, Action-Adventure 6.7%, Magic 4.2%
Dive into the decaying machine world of DREIFRAME, a pixel-art metroidvania packed with challenge. As a Frame, a sword-wielding robot, fight brutal enemies, exploit their weaknesses, unlock powerful but risky abilities, and uncover the land’s story through exploration and combat.
Why similar: Metroidvania 38.7%, Souls-like 29.7%, Platformer 11.8%, Adventure 3.6%, Action 3.6%
Journey alongside the timid knight through this challenging metroidvania full of unique bosses and dynamic enemies. Build trust, unlock abilities, encourage and explore.
Why similar: Metroidvania 36.3%, Souls-like 28.4%, Platformer 9.6%, Action-Adventure 6.9%, Action 4.4%
Runic Curse Remastered is a thrilling action RPG Metroidvania that transports you to a cursed island. Explore dark and diverse locations, battle hordes of enemies and mighty bosses. Forge your own playstyle by combining various weapons with magical runes to overcome all challenges.
Why similar: Metroidvania 38.5%, Souls-like 30%, Platformer 8.4%, Action 5.9%, Action-Adventure 5.5%
Plunge into Bacuri's journey. Discovering himself, friends, habilities, lands, challenges and enemies. Draft your own path in this 2D platformer crafted in modern pixel art style.
Why similar: Metroidvania 32%, Souls-like 25%, Platformer 12.8%, Action-Adventure 9.1%, Action 5.4%
Anatine is a pixelated metroidvania game that contains organic musical elements. Play the flute to interact with the environment or unleash powerful magic! In the dangerous world of Avenis, battle against the Eidolons and confront powerful enemies to uncover the many secrets of this lost world.
Why similar: Metroidvania 37.1%, Souls-like 30.4%, Platformer 9.6%, Pixel Graphics 5.6%, Action 4.5%
Explore an ancient world in The Malice Kingdom. Travel the rich and diverse landscape filled with ancient ruins, foreboding forests, and haunting mansions. Discover powerful weapons, befriend Whimsical characters, and uncover the dormant secret within the kingdom.
Why similar: Metroidvania 30.7%, Souls-like 25%, Platformer 12.8%, Action-Adventure 9.8%, Action 5.6%
Death's Gambit: Afterlife is a challenging 2D action platformer with deep RPG elements. As an agent of Death bound to his service, unravel the mystery of Siradon and discover the true price of immortality.
Why similar: Souls-like 45.5%, Metroidvania 33.2%, Platformer 5.6%, Pixel Graphics 4.6%, Action 3.3%
Explore a silent, crumbling world in Silent Santicado! A retro journey through a fallen kingdom tainted by lost magic. Explore overgrown ruins, encounter a cast of peculiar characters, and defeat a menagerie of twisted enemies as you search for the source of Santicado's curse.
Why similar: Metroidvania 37.8%, Souls-like 29.2%, Action-Adventure 6%, Pixel Graphics 5.1%, Platformer 4.6%
Slumbering Feline is a single-player, one-shot game featuring a feline-themed story. Step into the shoes of Momo, who finds herself lost in a strange dream and trying to escape from her slumber. Can Momo find her way out of this dreamscape?
Why similar: Metroidvania 39.3%, Platformer 11.5%, Souls-like 9.9%, Action-Adventure 9.8%, Pixel Graphics 6%
Push the limits of your combat skills, and master new abilities to progress through an unforgiving nonlinear 2D world. Face off against the relentless darkness that seeks to destroy you. In Moonscars, every death is a lesson learnt—and as you overcome each challenge, new truths will be revealed.
Why similar: Metroidvania 38.5%, Souls-like 30.7%, Platformer 8.1%, Action-Adventure 7%, Action 5.7%
Embark on a dark journey in this 2D Adventure Game. Explore the treacherous isle of Am Balla and collect the tools necessary to overcome the many dangers set before you. Find out why turmoil has so suddenly stricken this land and put an end to it.
Why similar: Metroidvania 36.6%, Souls-like 31.2%, Action-Adventure 10.8%, Platformer 6.9%, Action 5.1%
Anokye is a 2D action–adventure platformer where you play as a destined hero fighting to unite the Ashanti people. Battle through villages, forests, and mystical peaks inspired by Ghanaian art and folklore in a journey to restore light to a kingdom in darkness.
Why similar: Metroidvania 43.2%, Souls-like 29.3%, Platformer 9.2%, Adventure 4.1%, Action 4.1%
Shards of Memories is a hand-drawn Metroidvania where defeated enemies leave behind memories that carry their abilities. Equip these memories strategically, shape your own combat style, and explore a fractured world marked by its past.
Why similar: Metroidvania 43%, Souls-like 23.7%, Action-Adventure 9.7%, Platformer 8.2%, Action 5.3%
Embark on a delirious journey in this metroidvania set on a pirate island where all the characters are sea animals.
Why similar: Metroidvania 36%, Souls-like 29.9%, Platformer 8.3%, Action-Adventure 7.5%, Pixel Graphics 5.3%
"Momodora: Moonlit Farewell" is the latest installment in the Momodora series. Join Momo, High Priestess of the village of Koho, as she embarks on a divine mission to save her people from imminent destruction at the hands of the demon hordes summoned by a malevolent bellringer.
Why similar: Metroidvania 32.9%, Souls-like 22.3%, Platformer 10%, Action-Adventure 8.1%, Magic 6.9%
SHADE Protocol is a 2D cyber-fantasy Metroidvania where music, code, and combat collide. Swap between DAWN and SHADE forms to unleash devastating abilities, wield Instruments as weapons, and rewrite reality itself in a world on the brink of annihilation by the SHADE Protocol.
Why similar: Metroidvania 38%, Souls-like 30.4%, Platformer 12.5%, 2D 3.9%, Pixel Graphics 3.8%
"Children of the Birch" is a dark fantasy metroidvania inspired by the mythology of various Slavic peoples and combining a sophisticated platformer with a depressing narrative.
Why similar: Metroidvania 38.6%, Souls-like 30.3%, Platformer 12.2%, 2D 3.8%, Adventure 3.7%
Foregone is a fast and fluid 2D action-platformer packed with legendary loot and stunning pixel art. Collect an arsenal of powerful weapons and unravel a compelling story of regret and conspiracy as you slice your way through hordes of enemies to save Calagan.
Why similar: Metroidvania 34.8%, Souls-like 25.3%, Platformer 13.5%, Action 5.5%, Pixel Graphics 5.1%
UNWORTHY is a hardcore combat-focused metroidvania without jumping. Explore a grim universe, discover new weapons and abilities, and defeat the vile creatures that plague the land.
Why similar: Metroidvania 43%, Souls-like 38.9%, Action 4.8%, Pixel Graphics 4.7%, Adventure 3.5%
Astronite Landing on Neplea is the prologue to this fantastic 1bit metroidvania that combines action, exploration, puzzles and platforms. Take on Astronite's first major challenge and defeat the deadly Kronch.
Why similar: Metroidvania 46.7%, Platformer 13.8%, Action-Adventure 9.9%, Pixel Graphics 7.1%, Action 5.8%
A stylized action-platformer set in a world consumed by eternal thorns. Explore handcrafted zones, unlock new flame-forged upgrades, and face brutal bosses as the Young Emberhost in a desperate attempt to reach the Heart of the Briar.
Why similar: Metroidvania 40.3%, Souls-like 31.5%, Platformer 8.3%, Action-Adventure 5.8%, Action 4.4%
A vertically-structured Metroidvania where genetic mutations redefine progression. Navigate a divine-biomechanical labyrinth with dynamically evolving combat forms, where every choice alters companion fates and the world's collapse.
Why similar: Metroidvania 43.5%, Souls-like 32.8%, Action-Adventure 8.3%, Pixel Graphics 5.6%, Action 4.6%
Dive into the fairytale kingdom of Valora, a cute yet enigmatic Metroidvania, brimming with vibrant towns, enchanting critters, and hidden secrets.
Why similar: Metroidvania 39%, Souls-like 30.5%, Platformer 11.1%, Pixel Graphics 5.4%, Adventure 3.7%
Mask of Soul is a 2D metroidvania action-adventure where you play as Cheong-oh Chasa, gatekeeper of the Underworld, tracking spirits beneath the Red Moon. Use parry combat and mask abilities to explore an oriental dark fantasy world inspired by Korean mythology.
Why similar: Metroidvania 37.8%, Souls-like 31.2%, Platformer 12.5%, Action-Adventure 8.1%, 2D 3.9%
2d hand drawn female protagonist action-adventure/soulslike.
Why similar: Metroidvania 34.6%, Souls-like 28.9%, Platformer 11.1%, Action-Adventure 7.5%, Action 5.2%
Explore an interconnected world, encounter bizarre enemies and mysterious puzzles in this hand-drawn metroidvania, action adventure. Forge your own path, uncover secrets and master unique powers.
Why similar: Metroidvania 36.9%, Souls-like 30.6%, Platformer 13%, Action-Adventure 4.2%, Action 3.9%
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 47%, Platformer 12%, Pixel Graphics 6.4%, Magic 6.2%, Action-Adventure 5.8%
Choose between Seren and Umbra, two warriors who despise each other. Armed with a spear that can strike in any direction, explore a fractured world, uncover the truth behind your bond, and hunt down the one person you must destroy. Desperate for Separation~Forever Intertwined
Why similar: Metroidvania 38.6%, Souls-like 30.1%, Platformer 11%, 2D 3.9%, Action 3.8%
Deviator is a Metroidvania game centered around deflect, featuring exquisite 2D hand-drawn visuals. Exploring unknown wilderness and mysterious cities, delving into enigmatic realms of consciousness and encountering peculiar creatures. Try to find the truth behind this chaotic world.
Why similar: Metroidvania 39%, Souls-like 30.8%, Platformer 11.9%, Action 5%, Magic 3.8%
Make your way through more than 600 rooms, and unravel the secrets of your past by finding the five elemental orbs. Cathedral features a vast world, meant for exploring!
Why similar: Metroidvania 58.7%, Platformer 10.9%, Action 8%, Adventure 6.3%, Pixel Graphics 5%
In a world of eternal darkness, navigate the unknown with only the glow of your companion, Spark. Craft arrows from the environment to survive, uncover lost secrets of an ancient world, and push forward through the shadows into hope. Will you find your way, or will the dark consume you?
Why similar: Metroidvania 44.9%, Souls-like 21.1%, Platformer 15.1%, Action 5.2%, Adventure 4.3%
Dumbriel is a 2D metroidvania action-adventure set in Hell. Play as a clumsy fallen angel in a twisted underworld. Slash, craft, and dodge through deadly arenas, weird monsters, and hellish traps. Die, upgrade, and dive back in.
Why similar: Metroidvania 37.2%, Souls-like 30.2%, Platformer 12.1%, Action-Adventure 6.9%, 2D 3.3%
Lost Wish: In the desperate world is a 2D side-scrolling platformer. Play as a young girl, explore different locations, defeat monsters, and find out what secrets this cruel world is hiding from you. Wonderful pixel art, a sad story, epic bosses and much more is waiting for you in the Lost Wish...
Why similar: Metroidvania 36.8%, Souls-like 30.4%, Platformer 12.6%, Pixel Graphics 4%, 2D 3.9%
"Ends" is a classic 2D horizontal board action game. In the game, you will play a dead soldier. In the chaotic order, you will pick up the broken weapons again, explore the broken world, challenge the changing creatures, and find your final destination.
Why similar: Souls-like 36%, Metroidvania 28.4%, Action 10.9%, Action-Adventure 10.4%, Adventure 8.4%
What’s left of humanity are minds trapped in circuits. You are awaken as ReSetna, a warrior on a mission to rescue last human remnants. Explore seven hostile zones, face seven brutal bosses and evolve through a unique upgrade system. Uncover horrifying truth and decide if the future is worth saving.
Why similar: Metroidvania 64.1%, Platformer 18.5%, Action 7.6%, Adventure 5.9%, Indie 3.9%
Lightwood is an immersive semi-open world Metroidvania. Master your skills and fight magnificent Lords as you unravel the ancient mysteries behind the kingdom's decay.
Why similar: Metroidvania 44.5%, Souls-like 32.8%, Action-Adventure 9.8%, Action 5.1%, Adventure 3.5%
A hardcore 2D action platformer developed by one person. Play as a memoryless rabbit TOOK to explore the vast Moon Cave world and defeat dozens of powerful enemies, collect the treasures scattered in this world and regain the glory of the Moon Up Group!
Why similar: Metroidvania 34%, Souls-like 33.1%, Platformer 9.1%, Action-Adventure 6.6%, Action 4.5%
“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 38.3%, Souls-like 31.1%, Platformer 9.6%, Pixel Graphics 5.9%, Retro 4.8%
A colorful metroidvania in which you must help catgirl save a world on the brink of destruction, honing your exploration and combat skills in epic battles to challenge the gods themselves!
Why similar: Metroidvania 43.9%, Souls-like 15.5%, Platformer 11.7%, Action-Adventure 8.9%, Pixel Graphics 4.8%
Noad: The Priest is a 2D action adventure game. It tells the story of a priest who begins an expedition where an unknown black substance 'Adven' flows out of the gate and cannot return beyond it. Face the truth with newcomers beyond the gate!
Why similar: Metroidvania 36.5%, Souls-like 26.5%, Action-Adventure 11.4%, Action 9.3%, Adventure 7.2%
Fight for your freedom in a sprawling fantasy world caught between the living and the fallen. Hone your skills in a retro epic featuring puzzle platforming, metroidvania exploration and crunchy soulslike combat.
Why similar: Metroidvania 57%, Souls-like 12.6%, Action-Adventure 9.9%, Pixel Graphics 8%, Action 5.1%
Assume the role of Onchu, a druid boy stranded on an island corrupted by dark magic. Learn new magic and abilities in this 2D Metroidvania and explore a stunning sidescrolling world to save the island from destruction.
Why similar: Metroidvania 32.6%, Souls-like 26.8%, Platformer 11.6%, Action-Adventure 7.5%, Magic 6.4%
Ascend from the depths as Evan, heir of a fallen underworld, to uncover the truth behind a world stripped of dawn. Celestial Lumina is a 2D Pixel-Art Metroidvania where Light clashes with the Darkness that stole the sky.
Why similar: Metroidvania 34.9%, Souls-like 28.8%, Platformer 9.7%, Action-Adventure 4.8%, Pixel Graphics 4.6%
Akatori is an epic metroidvania where you wield your staff to fight, jump, and explore diverse realms across different eras. Explore worlds spanning different eras, battle formidable enemies, and help Mako stop the Amber Storms that poison all living things.
Why similar: Metroidvania 34.7%, Souls-like 27.8%, Platformer 10.9%, Action-Adventure 7.7%, Action 4.4%
You're trapped, alone and cold on a distant planet. Pursued by a droid with only one purpose: killing everything. You must find an escape. Explore the hostile environment, find secret upgrades and new weapons, and finally make your escape from this dark, hostile planet...
Why similar: Metroidvania 56.7%, Platformer 19.7%, Action 10.8%, Action-Adventure 9.5%, Pixel Graphics 3.3%
Forge your destiny in Castleward! Play as Frida, a young witch and her living hat, facing cursed creatures in a dark castle. Explore striking areas in search of a way out and fight your own way in this challenging retro 2D action game!
Why similar: Metroidvania 48.1%, Souls-like 21.4%, Platformer 15.2%, Action 7.6%, Atmospheric 2.4%
Uncover the secrets of the sinking metropolis in this action RPG. Clash beam sabers, or be a gunslinger. Make alliances or go it alone. Your actions have consequences - those whom learn the nature of this world will be able to shape it as they see fit.
Why similar: Metroidvania 45.9%, Souls-like 35%, Action 9.1%, Pixel Graphics 5.4%, Indie 4.5%
Embark on a pixelated journey of exploration, platforming, and intense battles in Dark Watcher. Unveil the secrets of a dark realm, unlock abilities, and confront formidable adversaries.
Why similar: Metroidvania 38.4%, Souls-like 23.2%, Platformer 10.8%, Action-Adventure 8.4%, Pixel Graphics 5.9%
Death is not the end! Slash, dash, parkour and manipulate time in this 2d action plaformer.
Why similar: Metroidvania 33.9%, Souls-like 30.6%, Platformer 10.1%, Action-Adventure 8.3%, Action 4.2%
Stellar Poetry is a 2D action adventure game similar to the galaxy Castlevania. The sorceress, who awakens after sensing the call of a mysterious voice, goes on a series of adventures in order to find memories lost due to the curse.
Why similar: Metroidvania 37.2%, Souls-like 30.6%, Platformer 12%, Action-Adventure 8.3%, Magic 4.6%
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 51.5%, Platformer 11.6%, Action 11.2%, Adventure 9.2%, Pixel Graphics 7.1%
Explore an abandoned space station in this retro-themed explorative action platformer.
Why similar: Metroidvania 61.4%, Platformer 12.9%, Pixel Graphics 8%, Action 4.3%, Adventure 4.2%