
Linkisa is a 2D Metroidvania set in the rainy region of Orana, inspired by Malagasy folklore, where you explore mysterious lands, master fluid combat, face legendary bosses, and uncover hidden secrets in a exploration-based adventure.
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Linkisa is a 2D Metroidvania set in the rainy region of Orana, inspired by Malagasy folklore, where you explore mysterious lands, master fluid combat, face legendary bosses, and uncover hidden secrets in a exploration-based adventure.

Realm Of I
Realm Of I is a side-scrolling Metroidvania where you take the role of a prophet. Explore the ravaged landscapes—from abandoned settlements and caverns to vibrant lands and floating islands—uncovering information and newfound abilities and spells to conquer challenges and defeat foes.

Lightward
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.
Realm Of I is a side-scrolling Metroidvania where you take the role of a prophet. Explore the ravaged landscapes—from abandoned settlements and caverns to vibrant lands and floating islands—uncovering information and newfound abilities and spells to conquer challenges and defeat foes.
Why similar: Metroidvania 30.9%, Souls-like 25.2%, 2D Fighter 19.3%, Magic 7.5%, Multiple Endings 6.9%
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.
Why similar: Metroidvania 45%, Souls-like 34%, Action 5.7%, Magic 5.5%, 2D 4.2%
Go Alone is a pixel art soulslike metroidvania adventure with magical ranged spells and fast-paced combat.
Why similar: Metroidvania 45.2%, Souls-like 34.3%, Adventure 6%, Action 5.3%, Magic 4.7%
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 49.4%, Souls-like 40.5%, Action 4.4%, Adventure 3.8%, Indie 1.5%
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 48.2%, Souls-like 35.7%, 2D 5.7%, Action 5.2%, Adventure 3.4%
Prelude To Freedom is a Metroidvania-style 2D top-down action game.
Why similar: Metroidvania 30.2%, 2D Fighter 27.4%, Souls-like 25.2%, Action 5.4%, Adventure 4.4%
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 46.1%, Souls-like 31.5%, Action 4.6%, Adventure 4.6%, 2D 4.5%
In a world with a strong ancient and wild atmosphere, you will experience many hardships, compose tragic epics in tense and exciting battles, integrate puzzle-solving elements, and face the dual challenges of strategy and operation!
Why similar: Metroidvania 32.5%, Souls-like 29.6%, 2D Fighter 21.1%, Multiple Endings 4.2%, 2D 3.9%
Miracle Corp. is a metagame and a Metroidvania game. In the story, you will play a mysterious retro game developed by Miracle Corp., guided by an AI tour guide. Uncover the hidden truths behind the game.
Why similar: Metroidvania 41.1%, Souls-like 32%, 2D Fighter 18.3%, Action 5.4%, 2D 2.2%
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 45%, Souls-like 41.1%, Action 5.3%, Adventure 3.7%, 2D 3%
Embark on a chilling odyssey in Dreadfall, a horror platformer where you descend into your own nightmare. Fight monsters, solve puzzles, and upgrade your abilities as you journey through a haunting dream world.
Why similar: Metroidvania 31.3%, 2D Fighter 28.9%, Souls-like 25.8%, Action 5.7%, Adventure 4.2%
Spright is a hand-crafted 2D action-adventure about a lone warrior in a diving helm, drawn into the ruins of a fallen world. Forge, swim, and fight through luminous caverns, cursed foundries, and drowned ruins.
Why similar: Metroidvania 51.1%, Souls-like 31.2%, Action 6.5%, Adventure 5.2%, 2D 5.1%
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 44.3%, Souls-like 34.3%, Multiple Endings 5.8%, 2D 4.4%, Adventure 4.3%
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 41.8%, Souls-like 40.9%, Action 7.4%, Adventure 5.9%, 2D 2.4%
The lighthouse has gone dark! You awake as Mothboy, last in a long line of lightkeepers summoned when something goes wrong. In this action packed adventure you climb, fight and explore the depths of Cliff Kingdom searching for the lost light.
Why similar: Metroidvania 46%, Souls-like 33.4%, Multiple Endings 7.7%, Action 5.1%, Adventure 3.9%
Forge your magical journey through the world of Syntheria in this action, adventure, Metroidvania.
Why similar: Metroidvania 45.9%, Souls-like 30.8%, Magic 10%, Action 5.6%, Adventure 4.5%
Clash with tainted beasts as Divynia changes from the mundane to the unknown. As Aylidia, forge your destiny in a tale about courage and holding on to your beliefs. Will you unearth magic's greatest question, or are some mysteries better left untouched? Find out in this epic 2D Adventure.
Why similar: Metroidvania 41%, Souls-like 32.7%, Multiple Endings 8.5%, Action 4.5%, 2D 3.6%
No maps. No markers. Only dialogue, instinct, and a ruthless world. Sunrise of the Time: End of Blue is a dark 2D action-adventure built on rare but meaningful encounters. Survive Gilens’ first Hunt. This is not a power fantasy... it’s fate.
Why similar: 2D Fighter 29.2%, Metroidvania 25.9%, Souls-like 21.4%, Action 8.4%, Adventure 6.6%
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 51.3%, Metroidvania 37.2%, Action 3.9%, 2D 3.5%, Adventure 2.7%
Explore the frozen depths of Vesuvius, a 2D action platformer. Set within the sprawling volcano, journey through fantastical alternate realities, battle corrupted mythical beasts, and survive a world steeped in ash and fable.
Why similar: Metroidvania 47.9%, Souls-like 37.2%, Adventure 4.9%, 2D 4.9%, Action 3.8%
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 47.8%, Souls-like 35.5%, Action 5.7%, Adventure 3.9%, 2D 3.8%
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 45%, Souls-like 35.5%, Action 7.2%, Adventure 5.6%, Magic 3.5%
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 48.9%, Souls-like 37.6%, Action 10.2%, Indie 3.2%
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 43.1%, Souls-like 34.5%, Multiple Endings 8.1%, 2D 5.1%, Adventure 3.5%
『Second Works』 is a 2D platform action-adventure game set in a sci-fi fantasy world based on biotechnology. Enjoy the unique atmosphere created by colorful anime-style graphics and the thrilling experience of high-difficulty action.
Why similar: Metroidvania 46.5%, Souls-like 27.9%, Action 10.7%, Multiple Endings 5.5%, 2D 4.1%
Explore a haunting, punishing island in this stylized 2D action RPG. Salt and Sanctuary combines fast and brutal 2D combat with richly developed RPG mechanics in a cursed realm of forgotten cities, blood-soaked dungeons, and desecrated monuments.
Why similar: Souls-like 58.1%, Metroidvania 33.6%, 2D 3.7%, Action 2.8%, Adventure 0.9%
"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 40.1%, Metroidvania 31.3%, Action 12.5%, Adventure 9.6%, 2D 4.6%
The story of Little Red Riding Hood begins in the forest with her companion Light in an unfamiliar place with no memory. Enjoy a full-scale side-scrolling action RPG with tough boss battles where even a moment of inattention can kill you, and uncover the truth about the lost world.
Why similar: Metroidvania 43.3%, 2D Fighter 39.9%, Adventure 9.7%, 2D 5.2%, Indie 1.2%
Twilight Bastion is a retro-styled soulslike 3D Metroidvania that places you in a torturous labyrinthine castle where skeletons, the undead, and gothic black knights await around every corner.
Why similar: Metroidvania 42.8%, Souls-like 42.7%, Action 8%, Adventure 6.1%, Singleplayer 0.4%
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 40.4%, Souls-like 33.5%, Multiple Endings 9.4%, Magic 5%, 2D 3.6%
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 69.6%, Action 10.5%, Multiple Endings 9.7%, 2D 7.2%, Singleplayer 1.6%
Exploration is King. Swing your sword, jump, slash the Dinos, break the game, shrink and enlarge, jump again, explode and recombine yourself in order to learn more about the Grizzled Planet!
Why similar: Metroidvania 34.3%, Souls-like 25.9%, 2D Fighter 25.4%, Multiple Endings 7.1%, Action 3.6%
Explore a fallen utopia in this action-packed adventure platformer. Harness the weather to find new paths. Fight the untamed machines and seek ways to get their fragile parts for crafting. Become the savior of humanity or its doom.
Why similar: Metroidvania 41.5%, Souls-like 35.3%, Multiple Endings 7.8%, Action 5.7%, 2D 5%
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 43.2%, Souls-like 36.6%, Magic 5.3%, 2D 5.3%, Action 4.9%
A dark metroidvania with RPG elements, "Undivine" challenges you to explore, battle, and uncover secrets in a desolate, interconnected world. Customize your abilities, wield unique weapons, and delve into deep lore filled with mystery.
Why similar: Metroidvania 39.2%, Souls-like 30.8%, Multiple Endings 8.9%, Magic 6.6%, Mystery 4.7%
Explore vast landscapes and get lost in a beautiful yet dangerous world in Roc's Odyssey. Filled with intense combat, strange allies, platforming, enemies, treasures, secrets, upgrades, friendships and lore this hand drawn action adventure will have you hooked!
Why similar: Metroidvania 34.9%, 2D Fighter 22.7%, Souls-like 22.4%, Action 5.2%, Adventure 4.1%
In order to find her runaway cat,a girl ventures into the deep mountains where monsters roam. However, this mountain hides the truth of the world. By collecting the journals of lost wanderers who entered the Black Forest, she gradually approaches that truth. What, indeed, awaits her ahead...
Why similar: Metroidvania 41.6%, Souls-like 33.9%, Multiple Endings 7.7%, Mystery 6.4%, 2D 3.8%
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 50.1%, Souls-like 38.1%, Action 5.6%, 2D 5.1%, Indie 0.9%
Forge your own path in Hollow Knight! An epic action adventure through a vast ruined kingdom of insects and heroes. Explore twisting caverns, battle tainted creatures and befriend bizarre bugs, all in a classic, hand-drawn 2D style.
Why similar: Metroidvania 49.3%, Souls-like 32.2%, Multiple Endings 6%, 2D 4.8%, Adventure 2.9%
Endless Night Sonata is a hand drawn metroidvania with classic style animation. Follow the quest of Nicodemos in the "Worlds-in-middle", an unforgiving and dangerous land controlled by demonic forces on a epic mission to find his purpose...
Why similar: Metroidvania 48.9%, Souls-like 37.4%, Action 5.6%, Adventure 4.5%, 2D 3%
Fight, explore, and uncover the secrets of a world bound by nature and spirit — all to save the one person you have left.
Why similar: 2D Fighter 38.4%, Metroidvania 34.9%, Action 8.5%, Adventure 6.5%, Magic 5.2%
Solateria is a hand-drawn action Metroidvania with parry-focused combat. A small fire warrior journeys to find the Primordial Flame, the world’s last hope against the Shadow Plague. Defeat foes with stylish parries and explore mysterious realms to uncover the world’s secrets.
Why similar: Metroidvania 44.2%, Souls-like 36.2%, Multiple Endings 6.2%, 2D 4.8%, Action 3.8%
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 41.9%, Souls-like 35%, Multiple Endings 8.1%, 2D 5%, Action 3.8%
Cyan Breach is a Metriodivania game set in a biohazard background. The combat style integrates traditional 2D hack and slash with souls-like elements. Explore the game world, gain new skills and weapons, increase character's power, and finally reveal the conspiracy that caused the apocalypse.
Why similar: Metroidvania 50.7%, Souls-like 28.9%, 2D 6.5%, Adventure 6.5%, Action 5%
"Die fast, retry faster. GOMAN is a hardcore side-scrolling action game where memory and reflexes are your only weapons. Beat who you were 3 seconds ago!"
Why similar: Metroidvania 36.2%, Souls-like 32.9%, 2D Fighter 18.8%, Action 5.6%, 2D 4.6%
2d hand drawn female protagonist action-adventure/soulslike.
Why similar: Metroidvania 40.5%, Souls-like 34%, Action 6.3%, Magic 5.7%, Adventure 5.2%
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 52.7%, Souls-like 25.2%, 2D 6.3%, Action 5%, Mystery 4.1%
Craft your ultimate sword by scavenging parts in a post-apocalyptic world. Navigate an expansive open world, relying on the might of your customized blade to overcome dangerous species infected by mysterious technology.
Why similar: Souls-like 32.2%, 2D Fighter 31.7%, Metroidvania 18.2%, Action 5.1%, 2D 4.1%
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 45.4%, Souls-like 36.1%, Action 6.1%, Magic 4.5%, Adventure 3.4%
A 2D metroidvania where your final boss is the character you didn’t choose. Play as Seren or Umbra—Master directional spear combat, explore a broken world, and uncover the truth behind your bond.
Why similar: Metroidvania 45.2%, Souls-like 35.2%, 2D 5.2%, Action 4.6%, Adventure 4.4%
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 46.2%, Souls-like 38.1%, Action 5.8%, Adventure 4.7%, 2D 3.8%
Experience the emotional life of a zombie with his butt stuck in a microwave. It's a 2D platformer with critical thinking based combat where each different enemy feels like a puzzle to solve instead of relying on brute hack & slash tactics.
Why similar: Metroidvania 41.6%, Souls-like 31.5%, Multiple Endings 8.5%, Action 5.8%, Adventure 4.7%
Decades after the events of ENDER LILIES, Homunculi — sorrowful, artificial life forms — roam the land. In this dark fantasy Metroidvania, face formidable enemies and explore a bewitching post-apocalyptic world. Humans and Homunculi — what awaits at the end of the quest for their salvation?
Why similar: Metroidvania 62.2%, Souls-like 28%, 2D 5.4%, Action 3.1%, Singleplayer 1%
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 45.2%, Souls-like 38.8%, Action 6.6%, Adventure 5.3%, 2D 2.9%
"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 47.1%, Souls-like 36.8%, 2D 5.1%, Adventure 4.6%, Action 3.5%
CINCILLA es una aventura metroidvania 2D de fantasía oscura con temática pixel art. Explora un misterioso pueblo con más de 50 niveles interconectados y descubre los misterios que se ocultan entre los Hilos y la Superficie.
Why similar: Metroidvania 45.7%, Souls-like 37%, Action 6.7%, 2D 5.4%, Adventure 3.5%
Fight and survive a desolate half-destroyed planet cracker, teeming with mutated wildlife and robotic enemies. Will you make it out alive?
Why similar: Metroidvania 35.6%, Souls-like 29.5%, 2D Fighter 23.6%, Magic 4.8%, 2D 3.4%
Ink and blood stain the streets of Ramezia. Witches must burn and sins must be judged. Venture forth as Sister Semilla to burn down the pillars of heresy in Minoria, an action-platformer by Bombservice, creators of Momodora.
Why similar: Metroidvania 53.2%, Souls-like 29.9%, Action 7.4%, 2D 4.3%, Adventure 2.7%
Nightmare Materials is a Pixel-Art Metroidvania with Combat, Puzzles and a lot of Exploration and discovering. As a Drone you explore a lost and mysterious World in search of the truth.
Why similar: Metroidvania 30.7%, 2D Fighter 26.9%, Souls-like 25.9%, Action 4.6%, Colorful 4.1%
Astronium is a metroidvania with souls-like aspects, with a focus on combat and on getting weapons. Defeat strong enemies, survive ambushes, explore diferent biomes and meet interesting individuals on this hostile planet
Why similar: Metroidvania 47.7%, Souls-like 30.6%, Action 5.9%, 2D 4.8%, Colorful 4.2%