60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Metroidvania, Adventure, Singleplayer, Platformer.
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.
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.
MONOMOON
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.
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 26.4%, Puzzle Platformer 11.9%, Nonlinear 7.7%, Surreal 6.9%, Platformer 6.8%
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 24.1%, Nonlinear 11.5%, Puzzle Platformer 11.3%, Surreal 7.1%, Exploration 6%
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 23.7%, Puzzle Platformer 12.6%, Nonlinear 12%, Surreal 9.6%, Platformer 7.1%
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 22.8%, Nonlinear 11.5%, Puzzle Platformer 10.9%, Surreal 10.2%, Platformer 7.2%
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 30.2%, Puzzle Platformer 13.5%, Platformer 8.4%, Exploration 7.4%, Puzzle 7.2%
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 24.7%, Nonlinear 12.2%, Puzzle Platformer 11.2%, Surreal 8.8%, Platformer 8.6%
Navigate a surreal, dreamlike world in this atmospheric 2D puzzlevania. Manipulate light and shadow to cast solid platforms out of thin air, solve intricate room puzzles, and uncover the mysteries hidden within the high-contrast darkness. Master the eclipse to survive.
Why similar: Metroidvania 33.4%, Puzzle Platformer 20.5%, Surreal 16.5%, Atmospheric 6.5%, Platformer 5.7%
Join forces with ALAN the service bot in this mysterious post-nuclear metroidvania. Explore a deadly mutant wasteland, upgrade ALAN with abilities that unlock new areas, and uncover the secrets of The Worm.
Why similar: Metroidvania 29%, Post-apocalyptic 18.5%, Nonlinear 12.6%, Mystery 8.5%, Open World 7.4%
BlockBot: Shape-shifting puzzle adventure in a vibrant pixel world. Transform, solve, explore. Each level unlocks new potential. Perfect for quick plays or long sessions, offering unique challenges every time you dive in.
Why similar: Metroidvania 28.3%, Puzzle Platformer 14.7%, Post-apocalyptic 13.2%, Nonlinear 12%, Platformer 9.5%
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 27.4%, Post-apocalyptic 13.8%, Puzzle Platformer 10.7%, Nonlinear 9.2%, Platformer 9.1%
Venture beneath the Ghost Kingdom where you will encounter strange creatures, solve puzzles and uncover hidden secrets!
Why similar: Metroidvania 24.9%, Platformer 13.7%, Puzzle Platformer 12.4%, Puzzle 9.2%, Exploration 7%
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 26.8%, Nonlinear 14.9%, Mystery 13.3%, Pixel Graphics 11.1%, Exploration 10%
Rift Walker is an open world 2D puzzle platformer where... there aren't any platforms?
Why similar: Metroidvania 28.7%, Puzzle Platformer 17.5%, Post-apocalyptic 13.1%, Platformer 8.4%, Puzzle 8.3%
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 32.5%, Puzzle Platformer 16.9%, Platformer 10.9%, Surreal 9.7%, Puzzle 8.2%
You are lost in a vast and eerie labyrinth filled with pools and puzzles. Gather items to activate various mechanisms as you explore further. Face various unknown entities that lurk within. Unravel the mysteries of the labyrinth and your own identity to find your way out. Inspired by poolcore.
Why similar: Metroidvania 28.1%, Puzzle Platformer 13.5%, Surreal 9.3%, Platformer 8.8%, Mystery 7.8%
Toki Tori 2+ may look cute, but it’s a challenging puzzle adventure game. Whistle and stomp are the only moves you need to solve increasingly complex puzzles, as you go anywhere, anytime on a lush forest island!
Why similar: Metroidvania 27.1%, Nonlinear 15.8%, Puzzle Platformer 14.2%, Open World 9.8%, Platformer 8.9%
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 33.5%, Post-apocalyptic 14.3%, Nonlinear 13.1%, Platformer 11.6%, Exploration 9.7%
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 32%, Puzzle Platformer 16.6%, Nonlinear 14.2%, Platformer 9.4%, Exploration 8.9%
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 37.5%, Puzzle Platformer 18.8%, Exploration 11.1%, Platformer 11%, Puzzle 8.7%
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 42.4%, Platformer 12.1%, Exploration 9.9%, Open World 8.2%, Atmospheric 7.8%
Scale into ever-smaller nested worlds. Shrink into your spaceship's mechanisms. Uncover the fractal worlds within and meet the zany goobers who call them home. Track down the root of the system errors, whether by replacing old gears or getting Grandma Beetle's bakery back in business.
Why similar: Metroidvania 30.3%, Puzzle Platformer 18.6%, Surreal 15.2%, Exploration 10.2%, Platformer 7.1%
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 39.7%, Puzzle Platformer 16.7%, Nonlinear 12.8%, Platformer 10.6%, Open World 7.3%
Use and upgrade magic items, collect hidden treasures, and uncover the secrets between two worlds in this cute isometric puzzler! When a certain vacationing Elephant stumbles upon a way into the land of the dead, will she unwittingly let something far more sinister slip through?
Why similar: Metroidvania 26%, Nonlinear 14.1%, Puzzle Platformer 13.9%, Platformer 9.2%, Open World 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 34.9%, Puzzle Platformer 16.3%, Nonlinear 13.4%, Exploration 10.3%, Platformer 10.3%
Join Tiny as he starts his first adventure. Unlock abilities, explore ancient civilisations, and descent into dark caverns or climb the mountain peaks. Tumble, run and hide from dangerous foes, or befriend and fight alongside Tiny's greatest idols.
Why similar: Metroidvania 33.4%, Puzzle Platformer 16.7%, Atmospheric 8%, Platformer 7.8%, Pixel Graphics 6.5%
Explore a strange overgrown world as a bee with a golf ball. Master the skills of bee-golf to uncover the mysteries hidden in its furthest reaches and hiding in front of you. Discover uses for abilities you didn't know you had. There are always more secrets for those who seek them beneath the green.
Why similar: Metroidvania 23.1%, Puzzle Platformer 11.1%, Nonlinear 10.2%, Exploration 7.7%, Surreal 7.3%
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 27.9%, Puzzle Platformer 14.2%, Nonlinear 12.4%, Platformer 8.4%, Open World 7.8%
Outsmart your past self in a battle of cause and effect. Explore an interconnected clay world, discover its hidden rules, and uncover the secrets it would rather keep buried.
Why similar: Metroidvania 30.2%, Nonlinear 14.4%, Puzzle Platformer 13.9%, Exploration 7.6%, Puzzle 7.5%
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 30.6%, Puzzle Platformer 19%, Platformer 9.9%, Puzzle 8.2%, Exploration 8.1%
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 30.8%, Platformer 14.4%, Puzzle Platformer 13.5%, Post-apocalyptic 11.7%, Nonlinear 10.8%
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.
Why similar: Metroidvania 29.9%, Puzzle Platformer 14.9%, Nonlinear 12.8%, Platformer 9.4%, Exploration 7.4%
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 27.2%, Puzzle Platformer 15.4%, Nonlinear 14.3%, Platformer 9.2%, Exploration 8.2%
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 43.3%, Post-apocalyptic 13.4%, Platformer 11.8%, Exploration 9.1%, Cute 4.9%
A necromantic named Cyris leaves his homeworld for a strange odyssey through unknown realms, each one more horrible and bizarre than the next. Use your necromancer abilities to save the earth realm in this retro FPS filled to the brim with fantasy & mystery.
Why similar: Metroidvania 30%, Post-apocalyptic 14%, Nonlinear 12.6%, Platformer 10.4%, Exploration 8.2%
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 34.4%, Puzzle Platformer 22.3%, Platformer 16.5%, Exploration 9.9%, Adventure 7.7%
A Retro Metroidvania focused heavily on Exploration, Puzzle Solving Combat and Platforming.
Why similar: Metroidvania 32.9%, Puzzle Platformer 18.2%, Nonlinear 14.3%, Platformer 11.2%, Exploration 9.2%
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 32.5%, Puzzle Platformer 16.7%, Platformer 10.6%, Exploration 8.7%, Open World 8.5%
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 21.1%, Nonlinear 16.9%, Puzzle Platformer 15.2%, Surreal 9.7%, Platformer 9.7%
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 38.8%, Puzzle Platformer 17.9%, Exploration 11.6%, Platformer 9.1%, Puzzle 8.1%
Explore, solve enigmas and fight mutated creatures in a 2D narrative-driven metroidvania with pets, set on the rooftops and the undergrounds of a flooded countryside, enriched by cinematic cutscenes, diverse scenography and memorable characters.
Why similar: Metroidvania 31.1%, Puzzle Platformer 13%, Platformer 11%, Open World 9.9%, Pixel Graphics 8.6%
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 48%, Platformer 14.8%, Exploration 11.3%, Pixel Graphics 9.3%, Nonlinear 7.2%
Transform the world of Hob! A new action-adventure from Runic Games, the award-winning studio behind Torchlight I and II. It's your chance. Make it home.
Why similar: Metroidvania 27.3%, Puzzle Platformer 14.3%, Platformer 12.7%, Open World 11.7%, Puzzle 9.9%
2D-Action-Platformer with terrain transformation. Place tiles to reach new heights, block incoming projectiles, or hide yourself from the enemy. All abilities/weapons acquired are equipped at all times. Stand still and hold fire for a laser beam, move and fire for a bubble, move and hold to roll…
Why similar: Metroidvania 28.1%, Nonlinear 15.4%, Surreal 10.8%, Platformer 10%, Open World 9.6%
Seedless Light is a 2d action-adventure game focused on combat and exploration with a unique and contemplative world of fantastic and vibrant creatures driven by a touching and atmospheric soundtrack.
Why similar: Metroidvania 42.9%, Surreal 13%, Platformer 11.9%, Exploration 9.8%, Open World 8.5%
Two mysterious, challenging platformers where you launch yourself with an infinite supply of bombs.
Why similar: Metroidvania 31.7%, Puzzle Platformer 16%, Nonlinear 10.5%, Platformer 8.5%, Exploration 7.4%
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 26.4%, Puzzle Platformer 17.6%, Nonlinear 12.4%, Platformer 11%, Exploration 9.4%
"Pod's Itty Bitty Adventure" is a short retro-themed open-world Metroidvania platformer that prioritizes movement and exploration.
Why similar: Metroidvania 41.7%, Nonlinear 17.8%, Platformer 12.5%, Open World 11.8%, Pixel Graphics 6.1%
Unearth the past as you delve into the underground ruins of an ancient spacecraft. Battle mechanized foes, encounter curious characters, and discover lost relics during your subterranean sci-fi journey through this RPG adventure.
Why similar: Metroidvania 30.7%, Post-apocalyptic 12.5%, Platformer 10.8%, Open World 8.7%, Puzzle Platformer 8.6%
A Norse mythology Metroidvania where an orphan sets out on a journey through interconnected realms. Master tactical combat, discover ancient powers, and unveil the secrets of a dying world in this hand-crafted pixel art adventure.
Why similar: Metroidvania 33.4%, Puzzle Platformer 14%, Surreal 13.1%, Platformer 11.6%, Pixel Graphics 7.9%
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 34.4%, Puzzle Platformer 17.8%, Platformer 11.1%, Exploration 9.3%, Open World 8.6%
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 20%, Nonlinear 15.2%, Puzzle Platformer 11.7%, Mystery 9.5%, Puzzle 8.4%
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 30.7%, Puzzle Platformer 20.1%, Nonlinear 16%, Platformer 11.8%, Puzzle 8.9%
Raji: An Ancient Epic is an action-adventure game set in ancient India. A young girl named Raji has been chosen by the gods to stand against the demonic invasion. She must use the powers granted to her by the gods to rescue her brother as she battles to face the demon lord Mahabalasura.
Why similar: Metroidvania 35.1%, Platformer 14.7%, Atmospheric 9.9%, Puzzle Platformer 9.4%, Cute 6.2%
The game has about 320 rooms, 10 areas, and 328 upgrade hidden items! Can you find them all?
Why similar: Metroidvania 28.3%, Nonlinear 13.6%, Surreal 11.8%, Platformer 8.9%, Mystery 8%
Junklands is a 3D action-platformer that thrusts Rahr, a brave paper fledgling, into a polluted world ruled by its toxic overlords. Forced from home, Rahr must navigate smog-filled lands and sludge-choked rivers on a perilous quest to cleanse the Junklands and restore life.
Why similar: Metroidvania 30.3%, Puzzle Platformer 15.4%, Post-apocalyptic 15.2%, Nonlinear 14.8%, Platformer 9.8%
Stranded in a strange tropical paradise, you must find a way to escape, but things may be deeper than they seem. Havenlocked is a 1bit top-down adventure focusing on item-based exploration of two intertwined worlds! Explore and uncover the many secrets of the haven and its abyss.
Why similar: Metroidvania 30.5%, Puzzle Platformer 18%, Puzzle 9.2%, Exploration 8.3%, Mystery 7.8%
Potata: Foxy Tale is a fairy tale themed platformer adventure game in a beautiful world of dark forests. Your goal is to restore the balance and assemble the fragments of the Woodland Spirit.
Why similar: Metroidvania 36.1%, Puzzle Platformer 17.9%, Platformer 14%, Atmospheric 8.8%, Cute 6.7%
Light up the world! As Plug, you are charged with restoring the expansive Amp-Tree-System, and thwarting an enigmatic intruder.
Why similar: Metroidvania 32.3%, Puzzle Platformer 31.4%, Platformer 16.4%, Puzzle 10.6%, Adventure 3.6%
A puzzle platformer where you collect Elements and use their powers to move around in various ways. Each Element you collect becomes the next one you use, so pay attention to the order!
Why similar: Metroidvania 20.4%, Puzzle Platformer 18.3%, Open World 11.7%, Mystery 8.8%, Exploration 8.6%
Jump and dash through unknown, labyrinthine worlds in this VR adventure. Fight back against maddened creatures, or cure them of the blight that fuels their rage. Collect treasures, tools, and powers as you search for the source of this ancient ill, and decide whether to quell or unleash it.
Why similar: Metroidvania 47.2%, Platformer 14.3%, Exploration 9.5%, Open World 8.5%, Atmospheric 7.6%
