60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Metroidvania, Platformer, Adventure, Singleplayer.
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.
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.
The Matter Gun
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.
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 32.8%, Puzzle Platformer 16.8%, Nonlinear 9.5%, Platformer 8.7%, Exploration 8.2%
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 35.3%, Puzzle Platformer 20.2%, Platformer 10.6%, Exploration 10.5%, Puzzle 7.9%
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 27.2%, Puzzle Platformer 16.5%, Nonlinear 13.8%, Platformer 8.4%, Exploration 7.6%
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 33.7%, Puzzle Platformer 17.1%, Platformer 9.7%, Exploration 8.2%, Puzzle 7.8%
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 34.3%, Puzzle Platformer 18.2%, Nonlinear 13.2%, Platformer 10.4%, Exploration 10.1%
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 30.2%, Puzzle Platformer 16.2%, Nonlinear 14.4%, Platformer 7.8%, Exploration 7.6%
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 29.9%, Puzzle Platformer 14.9%, Nonlinear 12.8%, Platformer 9.4%, Exploration 7.4%
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.
Why similar: Metroidvania 28.7%, Puzzle Platformer 14.8%, Nonlinear 14.2%, Platformer 10.3%, Exploration 9%
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 25.1%, Puzzle Platformer 19%, Nonlinear 11.8%, Platformer 10.7%, Female Protagonist 9.3%
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 38.7%, Puzzle Platformer 14.3%, Female Protagonist 13.4%, Platformer 9.6%, Pixel Graphics 7.3%
Embark on an epic adventure in the vast kingdom of Lordhem. Unleash the power of the dark sword to defeat enemies and save the kingdom. Explore a pixel art medieval fantasy world full of creatures and dangers. Are you ready to save the kingdom?
Why similar: Metroidvania 44.1%, Nonlinear 18.1%, Platformer 14.5%, Female Protagonist 13%, Pixel Graphics 4.4%
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 33.2%, Puzzle Platformer 19.5%, Nonlinear 14.7%, Platformer 10%, Exploration 9.2%
Relic Light is a pixel-style puzzle-action dungeon game. You will play as an explorer who arrives at the remaining ruins, explores to acquire various skills, solves the complex and diverse puzzles within, and discovers the ultimate secret of the ruins.
Why similar: Metroidvania 28.3%, Puzzle Platformer 16.1%, Nonlinear 15.4%, Drama 11.8%, Exploration 7.1%
Experience the mysterious journey of a cat searching for the memories of her friend, an old lady who has lost them.
Why similar: Metroidvania 27.4%, Puzzle Platformer 17.2%, Cats 16.9%, Nonlinear 10.1%, Platformer 9.2%
A Retro Metroidvania focused heavily on Exploration, Puzzle Solving Combat and Platforming.
Why similar: Metroidvania 33.6%, Puzzle Platformer 21.1%, Nonlinear 14.6%, Platformer 11.7%, Exploration 9.4%
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 35.2%, Puzzle Platformer 26%, Platformer 17.4%, Exploration 10.1%, Pixel Graphics 5.1%
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 34.9%, Metroidvania 31.6%, Platformer 16.5%, Puzzle 10%, 2D 2.5%
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 39.6%, Puzzle Platformer 20.8%, Exploration 11.8%, Platformer 9.6%, Puzzle 8%
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 32.1%, Puzzle Platformer 16.1%, Nonlinear 14.2%, Female Protagonist 10.1%, Platformer 9.4%
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 45.1%, Platformer 13.2%, Exploration 10.5%, Multiple Endings 8.4%, Atmospheric 5.2%
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 29.5%, Puzzle Platformer 17.1%, Nonlinear 13.1%, Platformer 9.2%, Exploration 7.5%
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 28.4%, Puzzle Platformer 18.3%, Nonlinear 15%, Platformer 9.9%, Exploration 8.6%
Art House is a 2D puzzle platformer in which you play as a woman who gets trapped with her children inside the paintings of her recently deceased mother. Navigate through painting rips and use a magical paintbrush to escape and come to terms with your grief.
Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 28.2%, Platformer 14.1%, Female Protagonist 12.7%, Puzzle 10.3%, Drama 9.5%
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 28.5%, Puzzle Platformer 15.5%, Nonlinear 14.3%, Platformer 9.3%, Exploration 7.3%
It is a simple game. Help Chibisi make a pie. Simply collect five apples and the victory is yours. But you must not think if there is something hidden there...
Why similar: Metroidvania 19.6%, Nonlinear 14.9%, Puzzle Platformer 13.1%, Puzzle 7.9%, Platformer 7.8%
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 30.2%, Puzzle Platformer 22.5%, Nonlinear 15.7%, Platformer 11.9%, Puzzle 8.4%
Hunt down massive beasts and, upon destroying them, shapeshift into their forms in order to use their powers to save or destroy the world. Players with less violent intent can find secret paths to complete Mable without killing anything, including bosses.
Why similar: Metroidvania 31.1%, Nonlinear 14.9%, Platformer 10.6%, Female Protagonist 9.6%, Exploration 7.8%
Under the tyranny of the four-throated, magic collapsed and darkness fell. Irang embarks on a journey to find her missing family and uncover her birth's secret. In a Metroidvania-style adventure, she explores a decayed world, enhances envoy powers, and aims to restore the lost light.
Why similar: Metroidvania 35.1%, Puzzle Platformer 14.5%, Female Protagonist 10.1%, Platformer 9.5%, Exploration 7%
Chiaroscuro is a 2D adventure platformer with metroidvania elements. Explore a world that has fallen into darkness and discover the Lights to illuminate your forgotten past.
Why similar: Metroidvania 32.1%, Nonlinear 14.8%, Platformer 11.5%, Female Protagonist 8.5%, Multiple Endings 7.8%
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 31.8%, Puzzle Platformer 18.9%, Platformer 10.6%, Female Protagonist 9.4%, Exploration 8.2%
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 27%, Puzzle Platformer 18%, Nonlinear 12.3%, Platformer 9.4%, Female Protagonist 8.8%
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 40.8%, Puzzle Platformer 21.6%, Exploration 12.1%, Puzzle 8.3%, Multiple Endings 7.3%
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 43.6%, Puzzle Platformer 20.9%, Nonlinear 14%, Platformer 12%, 2D 3.8%
Venture into a frenetic metroidvania and take part in a fight between divinities where you will have to choose between Corrupting Gold and Purifying Light to achieve your ends.
Why similar: Metroidvania 29.7%, Puzzle Platformer 17.6%, Platformer 10.1%, Female Protagonist 9.5%, Multiple Endings 8.1%
Dive into the conscious and use your brushes to solve puzzles, reclaim forgotten memories.
Why similar: Metroidvania 34.9%, Puzzle Platformer 24%, Female Protagonist 10.4%, Platformer 9.3%, Nonlinear 8.1%
Set out on a mystical adventure of self-discovery against the backdrop of fantastical landscapes of The Tower. Meet its dwellers and unravel their stories. Manipulate spirits to solve puzzles, and lead Ina on her path to freedom.
Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 21.5%, Narration 14.3%, Female Protagonist 12.6%, Platformer 11.6%, Drama 9.2%
In this short, compact 2D Metroidvania, join Kami on their quest to save their homeland from a calamity wrought from the stars. Use the abilities you discover to explore deeper into the source of this corruption and restore nature.
Why similar: Metroidvania 50%, Platformer 15.8%, Exploration 11.7%, Nonlinear 7.5%, Pixel Graphics 6.5%
Explore unearthly ruins, solve arcane riddles and pick up your sword against the indescribable horrors that lurk amidst the forgotten depths of our world. Beware the creeping grip of madness as you uncover secrets not meant for the eyes of men!
Why similar: Metroidvania 32.5%, Puzzle Platformer 18.1%, Platformer 11.6%, Psychological 8.2%, Exploration 7.9%
Oh hello dearie.. Babushka needs to clean up her big magical cellar. Use hag magic, or just hit stuff with your broom.
Why similar: Metroidvania 22.2%, Puzzle Platformer 18.3%, Nonlinear 17.8%, Female Protagonist 10.9%, Platformer 10.6%
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 39.2%, Puzzle Platformer 22.5%, Platformer 12.8%, Female Protagonist 11.3%, Puzzle 9.1%
A non-linear Metroidvania platformer that's cute but also a bit creepy. Find upgrades, learn spells and banish the spirits who have become twisted by The Duchess's curse!
Why similar: Metroidvania 35.1%, Nonlinear 14.5%, Cats 11.8%, Platformer 11.3%, Female Protagonist 9.9%
Light is your friend, and sadly it is in short supply. Help Billy and his Inverse Yllib as they struggle to work together in getting through the dark world that is Billy's mirror. Using only the light of a candle traverse difficult puzzles and platforming challenges in order to get Billy home.
Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 32%, Narration 21.5%, Platformer 18.2%, Puzzle 11.3%, 2D 7.9%
Play as a cat in this 2D world where you discover new abilities and paths to finally reach the summit. What's there? Even I don't know. Yet. Oh, it now has local co-op.
Why similar: Metroidvania 40.7%, Nonlinear 18.4%, Platformer 13.8%, Exploration 11.3%, Cats 10.6%
A 2.5D Puzzle Platformer. Use tools to modify the level and how you move to explore forests and the ruins of a post-post apocalyptic world. Find keys and extra batteries to delve ever further, in search of who you are and what happened to the world.
Why similar: Metroidvania 34%, Puzzle Platformer 17%, Platformer 16.3%, Nonlinear 12%, Puzzle 10.3%
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 39.8%, Nonlinear 21.7%, Platformer 10.7%, Exploration 9.6%, Pixel Graphics 5.5%
Crypt Custodian is a charming metroidvania about cleaning up the afterlife. Play as Pluto - a mischievous cat who has died, and is sentenced to be the afterworld's janitor... FOREVER! Hang out with other doomed ghosts, battle beasts, and explore a vastly expansive landscape.
Why similar: Metroidvania 36.5%, Cats 15.3%, Nonlinear 12.7%, Platformer 8.8%, Exploration 8.6%
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 26.9%, Puzzle Platformer 18.9%, Nonlinear 14%, Platformer 8.4%, Exploration 7.7%
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 33.7%, Puzzle Platformer 23.9%, Platformer 11.3%, Exploration 9%, Puzzle 8.7%
Welcome to the Great Library of Dreams, where chaos has just been unleashed! Play as The Agent in this fantasy 3D Metroidvania filled to the brim with surprising secrets, daring traversal, confounding puzzles and menacing monkeys. Rid the library of the creatures wreaking havoc and bring back order!
Why similar: Metroidvania 32.3%, Puzzle Platformer 19.2%, Nonlinear 12.9%, Platformer 10.1%, Female Protagonist 8.8%
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 37%, Puzzle Platformer 21.9%, Platformer 12.8%, Puzzle 9%, Story Rich 6.3%
Saira is a puzzle platformer with non-linear gameplay and a whole universe for you to explore. The game is heavily influenced by classic puzzle adventure games and uses a new unique graphical style combining high resolution photography into a lush and mysterious world.
Why similar: Metroidvania 32%, Platformer 21.8%, Female Protagonist 15.2%, Puzzle 12.1%, Exploration 8.4%
Venture beneath the Ghost Kingdom where you will encounter strange creatures, solve puzzles and uncover hidden secrets!
Why similar: Metroidvania 29.1%, Puzzle Platformer 16.5%, Platformer 16.5%, Puzzle 10.4%, Exploration 8.2%
Constance is a 2D hand-drawn action adventure featuring a paintbrush-wielding artist, striving to escape from a colorful but decaying inner-world, created by her declining mental health.
Why similar: Metroidvania 30.2%, Nonlinear 15.9%, Platformer 11.2%, Psychological 9.7%, Female Protagonist 9.1%
Rift Walker is an open world 2D puzzle platformer where... there aren't any platforms?
Why similar: Metroidvania 33.1%, Puzzle Platformer 22.9%, Platformer 9.9%, Puzzle 9.3%, Exploration 9%
"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 31.5%, Puzzle Platformer 25.5%, Platformer 14.1%, Puzzle 9.3%, Pixel Graphics 6.3%
Explore an overgrown landscape of magic as you create your own platforms and shape your path through the world. Discover the history of a forgotten planet, collect relics to awaken your abilities, and create the very terrain you traverse.
Why similar: Metroidvania 29.8%, Puzzle Platformer 17.7%, Nonlinear 14%, Platformer 9.5%, Exploration 8.3%
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 31.4%, Nonlinear 17.4%, Exploration 11.7%, Puzzle 9.7%, Mystery 8.9%
PhilGood is not ON a wire ... but stucked IN the line ! - It’s a game of adventure with puzzles and a strong script. Original and mysterious messages, decoding and a unreleased soundtrack.
Why similar: Metroidvania 21.1%, Narration 17.3%, Platformer 16.7%, Puzzle Platformer 15.5%, Puzzle 11.9%
Two games in one! GingerSnap: an action platformer with a unique ability combination system. YMIR: a non-linear puzzle platformer with collectable upgrades.
Why similar: Metroidvania 28.1%, Nonlinear 16.7%, Puzzle Platformer 16%, Platformer 9.3%, Female Protagonist 8.5%
A wordless metroidvania through fog-covered ruins and the remnants of a lost world. Explore, gain new abilities and uncover meaning without guidance or dialogue.
Why similar: Metroidvania 32.6%, Puzzle Platformer 14.5%, Platformer 11.1%, Nonlinear 10.9%, Exploration 8.2%
