Games Like Nightmare Boy

Robot wants stuff! Go get it for him in this compilation of the metroidvania Robot Wants series, including an all-new Robot adventure!

Why similar: Metroidvania 29.3%, Side Scroller 14.8%, Difficult 12.4%, Platformer 10.6%, Exploration 6.4%

Face merciless gameplay to explore a cursed castle, discover the dark tales of its inhabitants, and kill the gods of a decaying world.

Why similar: Metroidvania 33.3%, Difficult 11.8%, Platformer 11.4%, Dark Fantasy 9.8%, Pixel Graphics 6.5%

Use your magic staff and progress through a large interconnected world where you'll solve puzzles, fight enemies and defeat bosses in order to help free the land of Alwa. Explore and uncover the secrets by using your platforming skills in this challenging and charming 8-bit adventure game.

Why similar: Metroidvania 47.5%, Platformer 14.3%, Side Scroller 8.5%, Pixel Graphics 8.2%, Retro 6.4%

Summon portals to overcome vicious beasts, devious puzzles and fiendish platforming challenges. Master the unique powers of each portal to stop the collapse of reality, while exploring lush, hand-drawn worlds and unraveling a deep narrative full of mysteries.

Why similar: Metroidvania 24.3%, Side Scroller 13%, Platformer 12.1%, Difficult 10.5%, Dark Fantasy 7.9%

Welcome to the world of Glight, a dark fantasy side-scroller adventure by ATOMIC BREATH. On a daunting journey to recover something long lost, give form to your powers of light and darkness in a fast-flowing, super-tight platformer full of hidden shortcuts and devious secrets.

Why similar: Metroidvania 26.5%, Difficult 15%, Side Scroller 14.8%, Platformer 10.4%, Dark Fantasy 10.3%

Boasting beautiful, hand-drawn animations and a re-orchestrated soundtrack, the cult classic returns with a unique blend of exploration, action, and adventure!

Why similar: Metroidvania 28.2%, Platformer 17%, Side Scroller 11.9%, Hand-drawn 9.3%, Difficult 7.9%

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 28.1%, Difficult 13.9%, Platformer 11%, Side Scroller 9.1%, Hand-drawn 8.7%

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 28.1%, Difficult 15.1%, Platformer 11%, Side Scroller 7.8%, Dark Fantasy 7.4%

Battle corrupted enemies, liberate afflicted allies, and explore a modernly medieval world on the verge of self-destruction in this action-packed 2D side scrolling adventure.

Why similar: Metroidvania 28.3%, Side Scroller 16.8%, Difficult 12.3%, Exploration 8.9%, Platformer 8.3%

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 26.8%, Difficult 14.3%, Side Scroller 11.1%, Platformer 10.5%, Multiple Endings 8.4%

Blast off in a 2D metroidvania adventure bursting with platforming thrills, deep exploration, and explosive action. Assemble a crack team of heroes to save the world in Blast Brigade!

Why similar: Metroidvania 23.1%, Difficult 14.9%, Side Scroller 11.6%, Platformer 10.5%, Cartoony 8.5%

WarriOrb: Prologue is a free standalone demo for the action platformer WarriOrb, where you play as a mighty demon trapped in an unlikely body. The path ahead is not an easy one... Are you ready to do whatever it takes to regain your freedom?

Why similar: Metroidvania 25%, Side Scroller 14%, Difficult 13.9%, Platformer 10%, Dark Fantasy 8.6%

8Doors is a story-driven Metroidvania-style action platformer heavily influenced by Korean folktales. Play as ‘Arum’, a brave girl that has entered the realm of the afterlife in search of her father’s soul and guide her through the '8 Doors of Purgatory' to solve the mysteries that lie deep within.

Why similar: Metroidvania 41.8%, Platformer 11.8%, Side Scroller 10.3%, Difficult 6.7%, Hand-drawn 6.2%

Guide Pronty and its Javelin partner Bront as it defends the once great city of Royla. Explore the deep sea, fight mutant sea creatures, and discover the secrets behind this new Atlantis in this beautiful action-packed adventure.

Why similar: Metroidvania 26.5%, Side Scroller 14.1%, Difficult 13.8%, Platformer 8.7%, Cartoony 7.7%

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 31.7%, Platformer 12.2%, Difficult 11.2%, Side Scroller 10.1%, Exploration 7.2%

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 41.8%, Difficult 18.4%, Platformer 14.9%, Exploration 7.8%, 2D 5%

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 37.9%, Difficult 14.9%, Platformer 11.4%, Side Scroller 10.6%, Exploration 6.4%

Use a Spear Guardian to rescue your missing tribe members! A mysterious enemy has turned the once peaceful island into chaos. With help from your Companion and your Tribe’s wisdom, you must uncover secrets, gain new abilities, and restore peace to the island.

Why similar: Metroidvania 33.7%, Platformer 13%, Side Scroller 8.8%, Difficult 8.6%, Exploration 6.4%

Venture into an unusual, alien world full of danger and mysteries in this sci-fi Metroidvania. Grab your gear and face the challenge of sustaining a once-thriving space colony. Can you bring this place back to life? Are you ready to uncover all the secrets lurking in the darkness?

Why similar: Metroidvania 33.4%, Side Scroller 17.1%, Difficult 15.1%, Platformer 10.1%, Exploration 8.4%

Stoatman is an exciting Metroidvania adventure where you control a brave hero with a magical sword. Explore mysterious lands, discover powerful spells, and battle fantastic creatures in an enchanting fairy-tale world.

Why similar: Metroidvania 38.2%, Platformer 13.8%, Side Scroller 9.7%, Cute 7.3%, Exploration 7%

All alone, Hania sets out on a journey to find the answers to her past across this uncharted, perilous and magical world.

Why similar: Metroidvania 35.3%, Difficult 16.5%, Platformer 15.1%, Dark Fantasy 7.7%, Action 5%

A classic hand-drawn 2D Metroidvania action game, it's time for revenge! Use your Beastmaster skills to unleash your inner beast, fight with your heart-devouring sword and end the threat to Arborea, you decide the ending.

Why similar: Metroidvania 30.2%, Difficult 15.8%, Side Scroller 10.8%, Platformer 10.4%, Hand-drawn 9.2%

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 44.9%, Difficult 19.6%, Platformer 13.5%, Exploration 7%, Retro 2.6%

Shieldbound is a metroidvania action-platformer. Explore a realm that revolves around a mysterious tower with many platforming challenges. Fight powerful enemies in 2D souls-like combat... all of that, using the unique abilities of a spirit-powered shield!

Why similar: Metroidvania 27.6%, Difficult 15.1%, Side Scroller 13.7%, Platformer 10.9%, Hand-drawn 9.5%

Meet a charming cast of little creatures and save the world from a mischievous god in this character-driven metroidvania! Explore a world full of lost secrets, make new friends, and use strange creatures to your advantage to reach new heights!

Why similar: Metroidvania 35.8%, Platformer 11.6%, Exploration 9.8%, Hand-drawn 9.5%, Funny 8.9%

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 32.1%, Difficult 15.5%, Platformer 12%, Side Scroller 7.6%, Multiple Endings 7.5%

Florarium is a Metroidvania game focused on exploration and battle. Explore the mysterious world full of unexpected secrets. Battle fierce enemies with your bow. Choose your own path to your goddess in the vast, interconnected world.

Why similar: Metroidvania 40.5%, Platformer 13.7%, Hand-drawn 11.2%, Exploration 10.2%, Multiple Endings 8.3%

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 35.7%, Difficult 15.2%, Platformer 11%, Exploration 5.7%, Multiple Endings 5.4%

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 28.1%, Difficult 14.5%, Side Scroller 12.9%, Platformer 10%, Exploration 8.1%

Midpoint is a 2D Metroidvania with RPG elements. Destroy, dodge, and steal spiritual energy from your foes. Be possessed by spirits of light and darkness to gain unique upgrades, sacrifice certain traits to unlock greater power. Free the world before being consumed by darkness.

Why similar: Metroidvania 28.8%, Side Scroller 15.5%, Platformer 11.4%, Dark Fantasy 9.4%, Exploration 7.6%

Where shadow falls, it begins. Dive into Eden's Guardian, a challenging metroidvania experience with handmade pixel art set in a world with medieval and fantasy aesthetics devastated by conflict where the history of Gods and humans intertwine.

Why similar: Metroidvania 25.9%, Side Scroller 15.6%, Difficult 13.2%, Platformer 10.4%, Dark Fantasy 8.3%

A legendary series returns with a grand new adventure! Enjoy a colorful action-adventure game made alongside Ryuichi Nishizawa, creator of the original Wonder Boy in Monster World series.

Why similar: Metroidvania 38.4%, Platformer 14.3%, Side Scroller 13.1%, Exploration 6%, Cute 5.2%

Fight, dash, swim and bite your way through 3 different dungeons. Let the inner shark out! Face many different opponents and defeat powerful bosses. Makis Adventure is an Action-Platformer with a bite!

Why similar: Metroidvania 34%, Side Scroller 13.3%, Dark Fantasy 11.3%, Exploration 8.5%, Platformer 8.2%

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 35.5%, Difficult 16.4%, Platformer 12.4%, Multiple Endings 5.8%, Exploration 5.5%

Last souls is a 2D side-scrolling Metroidvania soulslike game.The player controls a mysterious caped character and explores a labyrinthine, dark and cold world.

Why similar: Metroidvania 29.2%, Difficult 14.3%, Platformer 10.9%, Side Scroller 9.2%, Hand-drawn 7.4%

Albert’s Journey is a 2d platformer adventure game with a pixel art look.

Why similar: Metroidvania 33.2%, Side Scroller 15.6%, Platformer 15.3%, Multiple Endings 8.9%, Retro 7.7%

Castle In The Darkness is a fun and challenging shout out to the early days of video games! It's an action exploration platformer with some RPG elements, much like games from the Castlevania or Metroid series. It's super fast-paced, challenging, and full of secrets!

Why similar: Metroidvania 46.8%, Difficult 17.4%, Platformer 14.7%, Pixel Graphics 5.9%, Retro 4.6%

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 39.7%, Difficult 17.5%, Side Scroller 12.4%, Exploration 10%, Platformer 7.5%

Ascend the tower to save your grandfather in this classic, hardcore action-platformer. The Tower of Mu is waiting for you... Push past each check point to the next awaiting challenge; dashing, jumping, and slinging your way up to the towers peak. Die. learn. Overcome.

Why similar: Difficult 17.5%, Metroidvania 16.9%, Platformer 12.9%, Side Scroller 12.3%, Dark Fantasy 12.2%

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 38.1%, Difficult 19.6%, Platformer 9.3%, Exploration 5.9%, Hand-drawn 5.8%

You Have to Win the Game is a free exploration platformer with a retro 1980s PC aesthetic.

Why similar: Metroidvania 50.8%, Platformer 13.4%, Difficult 11.2%, Retro 7.6%, Pixel Graphics 4%

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 32.3%, Difficult 17.2%, Hand-drawn 10.9%, Dark Fantasy 9.1%, Platformer 8.9%

Jumper Jon is a 30-second metroidvania-style platforming adventure!

Why similar: Metroidvania 34.5%, Side Scroller 14.1%, Platformer 12.6%, Cartoony 9.7%, Exploration 9.4%

As a smuggler, your hovercraft is your life. Customize your hovercraft to fit your needs and traverse the dangerous SideWays to increase your reputation. Evade the authorities and aid the many inhabitants of Dirahl to prove you’re the best smuggler around.

Why similar: Action 48.1%, Adventure 32.3%, Indie 19.6%

Pounce inside of your cozy armored mech and set off on a dangerous trek through an alien underworld full of irritable creatures and treacherous obstacles in a valiant effort to save your stranded captain and his crashed spaceship.

Why similar: Metroidvania 42.5%, Platformer 10.1%, Side Scroller 8.5%, Pixel Graphics 7.2%, Difficult 4.9%

Misspell is a 2D atmospheric Metroidvania about magic and mysteries of the past. Uncover the secrets of an island risen from the ashes of a catastrophe and master a magical living vine that changes the way you fight and explore. Every step tells a story — every enemy echoes the mistakes of the past.

Why similar: Metroidvania 33.9%, Platformer 13.3%, Hand-drawn 10.8%, Dark Fantasy 9.1%, Difficult 8.1%

In this breathtaking platformer adventure, explore a vast hand-drawn Archipelago, inspired by ancient fables and depicted in classic frame-by-frame animation, and defeat a mysterious Deity.

Why similar: Metroidvania 24.6%, Side Scroller 15.3%, Difficult 13.9%, Platformer 10%, Hand-drawn 9.8%

Gedda Cake is a metroidvania about Dragons and Cakes. Play as 6 characters with unique skills and playstyles, swap between them on the fly, battle dangerous foes and explore the vast sugar-coated lands of Sugria. Help them reclaim their invaded world and get The Cake!

Why similar: Metroidvania 29.5%, Difficult 15.8%, Side Scroller 13.3%, Platformer 11.5%, Exploration 7%

A challenging, 2D Platform Adventure game where all level mechanics can change if you don't stay balanced. Help Ethan to grow up and leave his roots in order to pursue his dreams, find clues about his past and fight against your nightmares in your journey to the Somnium Shore!

Why similar: Metroidvania 39.2%, Platformer 17.1%, Exploration 11.4%, Difficult 7.7%, Side Scroller 7.1%

Dodge bullets, missiles and lasers in battle as you wrap your head around that bunny girl costume! Combo away with your mighty Piko Hammer or spam various spells from afar with your fiery fairy friend. Explore and explode through Rabi-Rabi Island as you collect power-ups and uncover secrets...

Why similar: Metroidvania 29.2%, Side Scroller 16%, Difficult 11.2%, Platformer 10.1%, Exploration 7.8%

An exhilarating action-adventure game set in a vibrant retro-futuristic universe. Embark on daring interstellar journeys, uncovering new worlds, and battling formidable alien adversaries. Upgrade your ship and abilities as you explore the vastness of space to save the Galaxy from a hidden threat.

Why similar: Metroidvania 31.7%, Side Scroller 13.1%, Hand-drawn 12%, Platformer 8.5%, Exploration 8.3%

Gnomad is an offbeat, hand-drawn, bouncing-ball platformer. Play as a gnome exploring a whimsical, sunken forest while engaging in fast-paced combat by spiking, ricocheting, and redirecting oddball enemies and bouncy projectiles. Chain together pogo bounces with volley attacks for unique combos.

Why similar: Metroidvania 34.5%, Side Scroller 11.3%, Funny 9.2%, Exploration 8.4%, Hand-drawn 8%

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 30.5%, Side Scroller 19.8%, Difficult 14.4%, Platformer 13.5%, Pixel Graphics 5.9%

Siege Saga is the 2D physics puzzle sandbox in which you must protect yourself by building fortifications against your enemies’ projectiles. It’s like Angry Birds but the other way round!

Why similar: Adventure 63.3%, Indie 36.7%

A game about saving a dying planet.

Why similar: Metroidvania 32.8%, Side Scroller 15.9%, Platformer 10.9%, Exploration 8.1%, Cute 5.4%

Tyr: Chains of Valhalla is 2.5D platform videogame full of action, robots and vikings. Break into Valhalla to save humanity from the hands of evil in this cyberpunk nordic universe.

Why similar: Platformer 29.6%, Action 27.7%, Adventure 19.9%, Indie 11.6%, 2D 8.9%