
Explore a tiny world, find upgrades, discover hidden paths, and battle bosses in this retro-style metroidvania action platformer.
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Explore a tiny world, find upgrades, discover hidden paths, and battle bosses in this retro-style metroidvania action platformer.

Zexion
Seek out new weapons and equipment to delve deeper into the dangerous world of Cypher-X72! Be warned, you aren't the only one seeking the forbidden technology known as Zexion! It will take cunning and valor to succeed in this action-packed sci-fi adventure!

PATHFINDER 08
Pathfinder 08 is a fun and challenging adventure. It is a platform game with a focus on exploration and retro inspiration with some RPG elements.
Seek out new weapons and equipment to delve deeper into the dangerous world of Cypher-X72! Be warned, you aren't the only one seeking the forbidden technology known as Zexion! It will take cunning and valor to succeed in this action-packed sci-fi adventure!
Why similar: Metroidvania 26%, Aliens 10.3%, Robots 10.1%, Difficult 8%, Nonlinear 7.2%
Pathfinder 08 is a fun and challenging adventure. It is a platform game with a focus on exploration and retro inspiration with some RPG elements.
Why similar: Metroidvania 35.8%, Action-Adventure 12%, 2D Platformer 10.6%, Exploration 8.6%, Pixel Graphics 7%
Xeodrifter is the story of an interstellar drifter traveling the stars on a simple mission of exploration. We join our nomad as he embarks on the investigation of a small cluster of four planets in the omega sector, after a collision with a rogue asteroid damaged his warp core.
Why similar: Metroidvania 32.6%, Platformer 10.4%, Retro 8.8%, Sci-fi 7.6%, Pixel Graphics 7.2%
Play as Captain Grisham, and uncover the secrets of Planet 4-514 in this thrilling prequel to Side Scape!
Why similar: Metroidvania 31.1%, Aliens 10.1%, 2D Platformer 8.1%, Platformer 7.9%, Retro 7.6%
Garden of the Atom is a combat-focused Metroidvania where you hold nothing back. Start with every movement ability unlocked and play as 'Prodigy,' an exiled genius infiltrating a futuristic dictatorship to stop a tyrant from harnessing a cataclysmic meteor shower.
Why similar: Metroidvania 37.8%, 2D Platformer 9.6%, Robots 9.2%, Action-Adventure 8.5%, Puzzle 5.9%
A metropolis crumbles into ruin as powerful Barons satisfy their greed upon souls lost in time. You are but one spirit, with a wooden body left to rot in the wild…
Why similar: Metroidvania 32.1%, Platformer 13.1%, Action-Adventure 12%, 2D Platformer 10.3%, Exploration 8.8%
Explore a strange and hostile world in this search-action platformer starring a tiny mouse named Tofu.
Why similar: Metroidvania 35.6%, Platformer 11.5%, Action-Adventure 9.2%, 2D Platformer 9%, Pixel Graphics 8.2%
Autonomous Odyssey is a story-driven, hand-drawn 2D metroidvania. Use agile platforming on your apocalyptic sci-fi journey to explore the labs once filled with exceptional researchers. Fight through vengeful robots on Pim’s quest to find his missing father and restore everyone's humanity.
Why similar: Metroidvania 31.8%, Robots 13.8%, Platformer 10.6%, Difficult 8.1%, 2D Platformer 7.3%
Delve into the depths of a mechanical world in this cute, adventure-exploration game. Explore and fight in a land full of corrupt robots and machinery. All while seeking answers to the mysteries around you.
Why similar: Metroidvania 29.7%, Robots 12.3%, Platformer 8.2%, Nonlinear 7.6%, Exploration 7%
Explore an abandoned space station in this retro-themed explorative action platformer.
Why similar: Metroidvania 50.9%, Pixel Graphics 10.3%, Platformer 10%, Difficult 5.6%, Retro 4.6%
A precision platformer where you control a frog using dash chips to overcome traps, avoid electrified enemies, and conquer challenges in chaotic digital environments.
Why similar: Metroidvania 26.3%, Platformer 10.2%, Action-Adventure 9.3%, 2D Platformer 8.1%, Exploration 6.9%
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 40.5%, Platformer 11.3%, Action-Adventure 9.7%, Pixel Graphics 9.7%, Sci-fi 8.5%
Play through the next chapter in the Xanthiom saga, now bigger and better than before!
Why similar: Metroidvania 38.1%, Platformer 10%, 2D Platformer 9.5%, Exploration 9%, Aliens 6.7%
Guide a lonely fox through a vast interconnected world of a mysterious planet Vulpis in this Metroidvania-style game. Explore non-linear paths, unlock new abilities, fight enemies, overcome obstacles, and unravel the planet's mysteries to find a way back home.
Why similar: Metroidvania 45.4%, Platformer 13.5%, Difficult 11.3%, Exploration 7.4%, Pixel Graphics 5.6%
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 34.5%, Platformer 9.4%, Aliens 9%, Sci-fi 8.4%, Robots 8.3%
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 41.7%, 2D Platformer 10.3%, Pixel Graphics 7.9%, Exploration 7.7%, Nonlinear 7.4%
A love letter to classic NES games! Explore an ever-expanding, challenging maze filled with countless secrets.
Why similar: Metroidvania 26.2%, Aliens 10.9%, Nonlinear 10.3%, Difficult 7.9%, Retro 7.5%
In this classic platformer from 1986, take on the role Sir Randolph as he quests to free the fair maid Amelia from the evil clutches of Spegbott the Terrible. Acting upon an inter-dimensional distress signal from the galactic cruiser SS Rustbucket, don your Omnibolt Mark IV and venture forth!
Why similar: Metroidvania 31.4%, Retro 10.7%, 2D Platformer 9.8%, Robots 9.6%, Platformer 9%
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 37.1%, Action-Adventure 12.7%, Nonlinear 10.5%, Exploration 8.7%, Pixel Graphics 8%
Escape Zolstar is a metroidvania where you explore, collect powerups, fight enemies, and defeat bosses.
Why similar: Metroidvania 33.8%, Nonlinear 13.2%, Platformer 10.7%, 2D Platformer 9.1%, Exploration 6.9%
Embark on a heartfelt Mushroomvania adventure through a vast and dense interconnected world! It's like a mix of retro and modern classics!
Why similar: Metroidvania 42.3%, Platformer 9.7%, Action-Adventure 9.3%, Exploration 9.2%, 2D Platformer 7.1%
Far Star is a story-driven action-adventure game with Metroidvania influences. There is something fishy going on in this galaxy, but this won’t stop your intergalactic general services crew from doing their job using a varied set of skills, weapons and outfits.
Why similar: Metroidvania 34.3%, Platformer 11.2%, Action-Adventure 10.9%, Robots 10.9%, Sci-fi 9.4%
Dig through an odd world full of dangerous creatures. Uncover hidden paths and long-buried secrets. Dirtlight is a metroidvania where the journey runs deep, and offers unexpected ways to explore.
Why similar: Metroidvania 43.4%, Platformer 12.3%, Exploration 9.6%, Action-Adventure 7.8%, 2D Platformer 6.4%
Embark on an unforgettable adventure with Uncle Che! Explore a vibrant 2D world, battle whimsical enemies, and uncover secrets to retrieve the stolen ingredients and save the recipe for legendary bread in this charming Metroidvania.
Why similar: Metroidvania 41.4%, Nonlinear 10.6%, Difficult 10.3%, Exploration 9.1%, Pixel Graphics 8.4%
Explore a sprawling, alien world in the sequel to the award winning Axiom Verge.
Why similar: Metroidvania 39.4%, Platformer 11.1%, Action-Adventure 8.9%, 2D Platformer 8.7%, Sci-fi 6.2%
Draw your sword and jump into a dystopian metropolis in this 2D action-exploration game. Hunt down giant robots and use their parts to enhance your abilities as you try to uncover the secrets hidden beneath the neon lights.
Why similar: Metroidvania 30.2%, Nonlinear 10.7%, Platformer 9.9%, Action-Adventure 8.5%, 2D Platformer 8.4%
Beyond Sentinel will have you play as both Justin and Erica in horizontal shooter and metroidvania stages as you battle in space and explore the many levels of the Sentinel station.
Why similar: Metroidvania 24.8%, Platformer 12.6%, Action-Adventure 12%, Aliens 10.3%, 2D Platformer 8%
Battle powerful monsters, discover ancient artifacts, and forge your own path in Eystrandi, a 2D, Norse - inspired Metroidvania in which health is constantly draining, with the only thing between life and death being one's ability to reap health from their enemies.
Why similar: Metroidvania 44%, Pixel Graphics 9.6%, 2D Platformer 9.5%, Action-Adventure 7.8%, Platformer 5.9%
Explore a mysterious castle in this pixel perfect metroidvania and take on the Shadow King! Upgrades, secrets, combat, and more!
Why similar: Metroidvania 39.1%, Action-Adventure 13.2%, 2D Platformer 11.5%, Retro 9.2%, Pixel Graphics 8.5%
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 35.2%, Nonlinear 12%, Robots 9.7%, Action-Adventure 9.3%, Exploration 8.4%
Team up with ALAN the robot in this atmospheric post-nuclear metroidvania. Explore and fight your way through a beautiful but deadly post-nuclear wasteland, upgrade ALAN with abilities that unlock new areas, and uncover the secrets of The Worm.
Why similar: Metroidvania 33.6%, Robots 12%, Nonlinear 9.7%, Exploration 8.1%, Platformer 7.2%
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 30.7%, Nonlinear 10.2%, Platformer 10%, Difficult 9.3%, Action-Adventure 7.6%
The Ramsey is a 2D platformer that allows you to play as cute squirrel characters solving puzzles using various weapons. Explore maze-like islands and overcome difficult obstacles with the strongest squirrels in the universe.
Why similar: Metroidvania 30.6%, Platformer 12.9%, Action-Adventure 11.7%, 2D Platformer 9.5%, Exploration 8.1%
Explore and uncover the mystery of a surreal alien world by blasting aliens and glitching your environment in this intense retro side-scrolling action/adventure.
Why similar: Metroidvania 53.6%, Platformer 9.6%, Pixel Graphics 7.6%, Sci-fi 5.9%, Retro 5.4%
Dive into a fortress labyrinth crawling with monsters, defending yourself with your... tongue? As a frog, it's your best bet to traverse this retro-inspired 2D metroidvania title. Collect treasures to gain permanent upgrades, discovering new areas of the massive interconnected map with them!
Why similar: Metroidvania 43.3%, Action-Adventure 10.8%, 2D Platformer 10.8%, Exploration 8.4%, Platformer 7.7%
Explore and uncover the mystery of this enormous spaceship by shooting alien creatures in this Sci-Fi Action/Adventure Metroidvania.
Why similar: Metroidvania 29.1%, Difficult 8.7%, Platformer 8.6%, Aliens 7.9%, 2D Platformer 7.8%
A retro style platform game with metroidvania undertones in which the light wants to destroy you. Acquire specific skills to be able to explore a subway fortress where there is a hidden mystery.
Why similar: Metroidvania 24.7%, Nonlinear 16.4%, Platformer 14.4%, Retro 10.2%, Exploration 7.4%
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 37%, Action-Adventure 10.5%, Platformer 10.3%, Pixel Graphics 8.8%, Retro 7.4%
A fast-paced 2D handcrafted metroidvania with strange sci-fi environments. Something is roaming the halls, watching your every move.
Why similar: Metroidvania 37.4%, Sci-fi 9.1%, 2D Platformer 9%, Exploration 8.4%, Action-Adventure 8%
Explore the mysterious island of Kindara in this vibrant 2D action-adventure. Fight and platform your way through jungles, icy peaks, castles, and crystal caverns in a non-linear interconnected world. Adventure awaits!
Why similar: Metroidvania 35.3%, Nonlinear 12.1%, 2D Platformer 9.1%, Exploration 8.2%, Platformer 7.7%
Jump, dash, and climb through a vibrant wilderness as three playable characters in this action-adventure metroidvania. Explore a sprawling interconnected map, master unique abilities, and face powerful foes, all while uncovering the mysteries of this war-stricken world and one special cub.
Why similar: Metroidvania 41.4%, Action-Adventure 11.1%, Nonlinear 10.2%, 2D Platformer 9.7%, Pixel Graphics 8.1%
Explore three distant planets in this retro-inspired 2D metroidvania, developed for the Game Boy Color. Face mysterious creatures, discover powerful upgrades and uncover lost secrets. The fate of humanity is in your hands!
Why similar: Metroidvania 42.4%, Platformer 13.1%, Retro 11.8%, Sci-fi 6%, Adventure 5.5%
The game has about 320 rooms, 10 areas, and 328 upgrade hidden items! Can you find them all?
Why similar: Metroidvania 27.9%, Aliens 11.7%, Nonlinear 9.7%, Platformer 8.2%, Adventure 7.9%
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 37.2%, Action-Adventure 10%, Platformer 9.2%, Exploration 8.8%, Adventure 7%
Play as android MIO in this mesmerizing metroidvania where you explore the Vessel, an enormous technological ark overgrown with machines gone rogue. Uncover its secrets, enhance MIO's abilities, and save the spaceship and its residents from oblivion.
Why similar: Metroidvania 33.9%, Robots 11.9%, Platformer 9.9%, Difficult 7.9%, Exploration 7.9%
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 37.8%, Nonlinear 14.9%, Platformer 9.2%, Retro 8.9%, Exploration 8.7%
CHIP is a 2D Metroidvania platformer in retro-style where you are a space rescuer of kittens. Explore The Universe in a shiny new spaceship. Travel from planet to planet, fight against an evil Dr.Meowcraft and robots, save the kidnapped kittens!
Why similar: Metroidvania 39.4%, Platformer 13.5%, Retro 11.6%, Robots 10.5%, Pixel Graphics 9.7%
LA-MULANA is an “Archaeological Ruin Exploration Action Game,” bringing the classic appeal of adventure with the punishing difficulty of retro-inspired gaming. Search inside ancient ruins, seeking out the “Secret Treasure of Life” – which sleeps in the sprawling ruins of “LA-MULANA” and is said to be the beginning of all civilization.
Why similar: Metroidvania 48.4%, Platformer 12.2%, Difficult 12.1%, Exploration 6.7%, Puzzle 4.5%
The old gods have forgotten this land. No one could save our people when darkness started spreading and collecting human souls for its army. Odallus is a classic exploration/action game, inspired by Ghosts’n Goblins, Demon’s Crest and Castlevania.
Why similar: Metroidvania 45.9%, Retro 12.2%, Platformer 10.4%, Pixel Graphics 9.9%, Action-Adventure 6.5%
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 37.9%, Platformer 11.8%, 2D Platformer 10.3%, Exploration 10.3%, Action-Adventure 9.8%
Run, gun and explore an open undercity in this otherworldly non-linear Metroidvania adventure about the Old Gods, strange creatures and the remnants of a lost world!
Why similar: Metroidvania 42.9%, Platformer 10.7%, Difficult 9.6%, Pixel Graphics 7.7%, Exploration 6.4%
A world of Beauty and Mystery, Emotive Animations, Atmospheric Environments, Visually Driven Story, Metroidvania Exploration and Memorable Sword Duels.
Why similar: Metroidvania 29.8%, Nonlinear 9.8%, 2D Platformer 7.7%, Action-Adventure 7.6%, Difficult 7.1%
Rebel Transmute is a challenging 2D action-platformer epic with heart! Explore the twisting caverns of an alien planet, augment your play-style to fit your strengths, battle deadly bosses, and uncover a dark truth as Moon Mikono searches for her long lost mother.
Why similar: Metroidvania 28.5%, Nonlinear 8.7%, Difficult 8.2%, Sci-fi 7.6%, Retro 7%
"The Throne" is a medieval adventure in true Metroidvania style. Get lost in a huge castle with 2.5D pixel art environments and increase your power with new abilities you find along the way. Fight fearsome bosses and navigate dangerous traps to make your way to the throne room!
Why similar: Metroidvania 34.4%, Platformer 12.1%, Action-Adventure 11%, Retro 8.4%, Pixel Graphics 8.2%
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 42.7%, Platformer 10.4%, Pixel Graphics 9.2%, 2D Platformer 8.8%, Retro 8.8%
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 29.9%, Platformer 13.5%, Action-Adventure 10.3%, 2D Platformer 9.3%, Exploration 8%
The crazy plan to revive an ancient spirit has finally succeeded. The Chaos Rider is here to restore an age of magic to this fallen world. With a powerful adaptive robotic body and ancient powers, explore, forge alliances, conquer foes and challenges, and uncover countless secrets and wonders.
Why similar: Metroidvania 39.6%, Difficult 11.7%, Action-Adventure 10.4%, Exploration 9.3%, Platformer 8.5%
Delve into the world of Super Roboy, a hand-drawn Metroidvania in a post-apocalyptic setting! Learn enemy skills, explore an interconnected world, battle mutants and robots, and uncover the emotional story of a young robot searching for his father.
Why similar: Metroidvania 27%, Robots 11.7%, Aliens 10.7%, Platformer 8.8%, Action-Adventure 7.5%
Cryselts is a 2D pixel-art Metroidvania focused on exploration, modular suits, and ranged combat, set in a hostile world corrupted by a mutagenic threat. Join the Cryselts, an elite task force designed to protect the planet.
Why similar: Metroidvania 36.3%, Platformer 11.7%, Nonlinear 10.3%, Exploration 10.1%, Action-Adventure 9.7%
A platform adventure game incorporating elements from immersive sims and cinematic platformers. Run, fight and hack your way through a distant space colony as you attempt to reclaim your humanity.
Why similar: Metroidvania 34.6%, Robots 13%, Platformer 10.8%, Action-Adventure 9.9%, 2D Platformer 9.4%