Games Like Nulphia

Mysplaced is an enchanting action-adventure game where exploration, puzzles, and combat come together in a beautifully crafted 3D world. Dive into a realm filled with secrets, challenges, and a compelling story waiting to be uncovered.

Why similar: Metroidvania 35.2%, Conversation 15.2%, Top-Down 10.1%, Action-Adventure 10%, Puzzle 8.7%

In this Action-Puzzle Metroidvania, you will explore the lair of a long-gone mythical creature and unravel its mysteries. Consume enemies to gain their abilities, use your frog-like tongue to grapple and fight, explore the land, solve puzzles, find secrets, and complete challenges.

Why similar: Metroidvania 41.5%, Top-Down 12.6%, Puzzle 11.1%, Exploration 10.3%, Action-Adventure 9.9%

A small island in the Pacific. The greatest female pilot has vanished. Suffering from severe headaches, our protagonist depends on medication as they search for her, but... What is real and what is hallucination? A Zelda-like mystery adventure to uncover the island's truth.

Why similar: Metroidvania 37.5%, Action-Adventure 12.5%, Top-Down 9.3%, Puzzle 9%, Exploration 8.8%

Live the adventure of Torkin, prisoner of STRONGLOWEEN. Discover powerful items and fight bosses that will prevent you and other prisoners from escaping. Strongloween holds many secrets, will you discover them all?

Why similar: Metroidvania 40.2%, Action-Adventure 12.8%, Puzzle 10.3%, Exploration 10%, 3D 6.1%

End's Reach is a 3D Exploration Action Adventure Game that focuses on a character lost in the depths of space. Players will solve puzzles, collect upgrades, items, weapons and even magical abilities as they uncover the mysteries of this strange new world. A classic tale of technology taken too far.

Why similar: Metroidvania 61.5%, Action-Adventure 16.5%, 3D 8.5%, Adventure 4.8%, Atmospheric 3.8%

Get your gears in motion for a captivating monochromatic adventure where you play as Lelu, a small but determined clockwork toy who has gained consciousness and found a taste for freedom!

Why similar: Metroidvania 39.6%, Action-Adventure 13.3%, Top-Down 10.7%, Exploration 10.6%, Puzzle 9.8%

Top-down 3D action-adventure with the spirit of 90s classics. Tight combat, handcrafted dungeons, clever puzzles, and modern pacing. Collect enchanted masks to channel primal powers, brave ancient alien trials, and awaken the island’s lost protectors.

Why similar: Metroidvania 29.3%, Action-Adventure 15.4%, Top-Down 15.4%, Exploration 11.3%, Puzzle 10.3%

Explore an intricate new world of secrets and adventure. Features solid 2D Zelda-like gameplay, 12 vast non-linear dungeons and a wholesome story about the young golem Linden.

Why similar: Metroidvania 39.3%, Exploration 10.5%, Action-Adventure 10.5%, Top-Down 10.5%, Puzzle 9.8%

Tyro: Legend of Whisperwood is a Souls-like Metroidvania where your choices shape reality. Play as Tyro, a vengeful field mouse. Battle the Gladeblight's horrors, manage your Sanity Gauge, and survive a world that warps with your mind. Will you break the cycle or lose yourself to madness?

Why similar: Metroidvania 53.9%, Conversation 17.1%, Action-Adventure 14.3%, Story Rich 5.5%, Adventure 3.4%

Explore Melior's military base in Secrets Under Eco; a 3D FPS pure metroidvania experience. Find equipment and fight enemies with unique wall-bouncing combat to escape the building and country that was once called home.

Why similar: Metroidvania 44.6%, Puzzle 10.6%, Action-Adventure 9.5%, Exploration 9.1%, Story Rich 7.9%

Amo is a top-down metroidvania, where a lost dog, Amo, gets stranded on an island. Explore the vast environments, fight through the enemies of the past, and solve the many mysteries that the island holds.

Why similar: Metroidvania 58.9%, Action-Adventure 15.9%, Top-Down 14.7%, Action 4.7%, Adventure 4.6%

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 35.6%, Action-Adventure 14.2%, Exploration 13.1%, Puzzle 11%, Mystery 9.4%

In Take Care you discover a great forest full of challenging enemies and puzzles. Help rebuild a withering town in its center and bring back its inhabitants who have lost their way in search of something better.

Why similar: Metroidvania 39.9%, Action-Adventure 12.9%, Exploration 10.7%, Top-Down 10.3%, Conversation 6%

Wandersky is a skybound top-down adventure with a single arrow and a flying house. Kuu and her companion Tama are on a mission to restore the land of Hyndara. Explore a huge world filled with puzzles, enemies and quests: the sky always carries those who dare to wander…

Why similar: Metroidvania 39.8%, Action-Adventure 14.3%, Puzzle 11.3%, Exploration 11%, 3D 5.5%

《BeforeDisaster》 is a 2D action-adventure game. In the borderland, the plan of a certain cult organization gradually surfaces. The protagonist is ordered to defeat the cult leader to stop the plan. All this must be done before the disaster...

Why similar: Metroidvania 60.9%, Action-Adventure 14.8%, Action 7%, Fantasy 6.5%, Combat 4.6%

Legend of a Soul Hunter is an action-adventure game with RPG elements. Explore islands and many individual dungeons by ship. Get items with different abilities, defeat monsters and become a successful soul hunter!

Why similar: Metroidvania 39.2%, Action-Adventure 14.4%, Exploration 11.4%, Puzzle 10.5%, Colorful 4.9%

Educe is a 2D pixel art "Metroidbrainia" puzzle game where the world is your blueprint. Physically rearrange the screens of a forgotten laboratory to navigate a sprawling, non-linear maze. With no combat and a focus on logic, you must shift the environment itself to educe the path forward.

Why similar: Metroidvania 65.9%, Exploration 14.8%, Puzzle 13.6%, Adventure 5.7%

A Survival Horror game: Paranormal Investigator, Jonathan Hunter, awakens in an alternate realm finding himself fighting to survive. Forced to team up with a ghost girl named Angel trapped in a strange artifact, they must work together to escape an underground laboratory and evade dangerous enemies.

Why similar: Metroidvania 45.2%, Action-Adventure 12.5%, Exploration 12.1%, Puzzle 11.4%, 3D 6.5%

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 55.8%, Exploration 11.1%, Action-Adventure 7.5%, Adventure 5.5%, Colorful 5%

Explore a dangerous, fantastical world and slay the divine being that corrupted it. Goldstained is a top-down 2D action-adventure where unlocking new weapons with new movesets is your way forward through boss fights, puzzles, and combat!

Why similar: Metroidvania 49.5%, Action-Adventure 11.8%, Top-Down 8%, Puzzle 6.7%, Story Rich 5.9%

Brave Tales is an isometric action metroidvania where you explore the vast world of Slavic mythology and your story decisions can alter your world and reshape your destiny. You play as Kolya, who is the only one to save the village from the pure evil.

Why similar: Metroidvania 41.6%, Action-Adventure 11.3%, Puzzle 11.2%, Exploration 11%, 3D 5.7%

An Action-Adventure Souls-like mixing Combat, Climbing, and Exploration. You play a wanderer destined to become the next Guardian of Lumnis, a once-peaceful land, now forgotten and shrouded in darkness since the arrival of an evil aura.

Why similar: Metroidvania 40.6%, Action-Adventure 14.2%, Exploration 11.6%, Action 9.1%, Adventure 5.6%

Wield the dance of the shaman. Reclaim your father’s spirit. Brave the beautiful and treacherous land of Kenzera with the God of Death in Tales of Kenzera™: ZAU, a metroidvania-style adventure crafted by Surgent Studios.

Why similar: Metroidvania 54.2%, Action-Adventure 12.9%, Exploration 8.3%, Colorful 6.2%, Fantasy 4.2%

Resort adventure of exploration, life-sim and a little action. Your guide is in-game "Brochure" filled with map and activities. Check them off as you go. Learn new skills to unlock new areas. Days at the waterpark, nights at the hotel lounge. No enemies. Just your own pace. A cozy Metroidvania.

Why similar: Metroidvania 49.5%, Action-Adventure 14.2%, Conversation 13.5%, Exploration 11%, Action 5.1%

In this new hand-drawn, story-rich metroidvania, explore the last haven of a dying world, and discover the purpose you play in saving it. Shape your own path, fight the all-consuming blight, and help bring hope back to the survivors. Take up the flames of dead gods, and stand firm in Dewborne Dawn!

Why similar: Metroidvania 56.1%, Action-Adventure 9.2%, Story Rich 9.1%, Action 5.9%, Combat 4.5%

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 50.1%, Exploration 14.7%, Puzzle 10.3%, Action-Adventure 10%, Action 5.7%

Ariana must restore the Codices and unravel the Library's hidden truths...

Why similar: Metroidvania 55.3%, Action-Adventure 13.2%, Exploration 7.5%, Action 7%, Adventure 4.1%

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 69.5%, Action-Adventure 10.3%, Action 9.1%, Story Rich 9%, Singleplayer 1.3%

Top-down action-adventure with elemental magic gameplay. Guided by guilt, you embark on a journey to restore the elements in a dying world. Harness and master elemental powers to fight enemies, solve puzzles, and explore a vast world filled with ancient temples.

Why similar: Metroidvania 38.6%, Top-Down 13.8%, Action-Adventure 12.9%, Exploration 10.5%, Story Rich 7%

Play as the ancient automaton Cecilia Immergreen as you explore the world for secrets, solve puzzles, delve into dungeons, fight other Hololive members as powerful bosses, help other members with side quests, and find powerful items to explore previously unavailable locations.

Why similar: Metroidvania 41.3%, Action-Adventure 17.7%, Top-Down 15.9%, Exploration 13.3%, Action 5.6%

Wield your magical instrument and defy the mecha-goddesses of fate in this Song-Casting Story Driven Action-RPG. Explore a forbidden forest as Traveler. Help him reunite with his long lost love as you fight through abominations and solve mysterious puzzles, all while an ancient conflict unfolds.

Why similar: Metroidvania 33.7%, Action-Adventure 13%, Puzzle 10.1%, Story Rich 10%, Exploration 7.5%

Explore cryptic puzzle dungeons in this short, retro, action-adventure!

Why similar: Metroidvania 41.2%, Action-Adventure 15.1%, Puzzle 12%, Top-Down 10.7%, Action 9.4%

Are you ready for the first Yoyovania?! In this 2D top-down adventure you'll explore a sprawling urban landscape, reinterpreting your surroundings through your mastery of yoyo tricks. Navigate the city's many districts, fight rival crime bosses, and regain the influence of the Pipistrello family!

Why similar: Metroidvania 37.2%, Top-Down 17.2%, Action-Adventure 15.8%, Exploration 12%, Story Rich 9.1%

Pain-T is an exploration-driven metroidvania where color is your greatest weapon. Restore a world drained of paint, overcome hostile creatures, unlock colorfull powers, reveal hidden paths, and paint your own destiny.

Why similar: Metroidvania 52%, Exploration 15.2%, Action-Adventure 12.7%, Colorful 7.3%, Action 5.7%

From the co-creator of Eufloria and Receiver 2 comes a new indie extravaganza. Part Metroidvania, part future science expedition, Bioframe Outpost gives players the means to master a vast world in which all creatures react to each other in complex ways, with frequently unexpected results!

Why similar: Metroidvania 55%, Exploration 15.8%, Action-Adventure 15.4%, Story Rich 8.2%, Adventure 4.1%

An exploration-type action game in which "Fluffy Girl Doge" is the main character. Get the skills of "Doge" and explore the unknown ancient ruins.

Why similar: Metroidvania 65.1%, Action-Adventure 20.3%, Action 13.5%, Singleplayer 1.2%

Traverse a broken empire to help the people and learn the truth. Discover items and combine them in new ways to destroy obstacles or enemies as you explore both side-scrolling and top-down perspective areas. Set out on an action/adventure journey.

Why similar: Metroidvania 47.3%, Top-Down 15.3%, Exploration 12.7%, Action-Adventure 12.2%, Action 4.6%

Explore an interconnected world unfolding as you acquire new abilities, each region brimming with secrets to uncover as you learn your purpose in a collapsing artificial world.

Why similar: Metroidvania 42.5%, Action-Adventure 13.2%, Exploration 11.7%, Top-Down 11.3%, 3D 6.4%

Fight for your afterlife in DUST TO DUST! As a ghost on the run in a specter research facility, dash through interconnected levels, befriend the psychic Matthias, and take control of his body and powers to break down hostile coalesced creatures and wipe them out once and for all.

Why similar: Metroidvania 51.5%, Top-Down 13.6%, Exploration 9.9%, 3D 7.4%, Action 6%

Play as an old man who wakes up in a mysterious castle full of magic and danger. Explore every corner of the castle and discover what is hidden between the walls of this misterious and ancient place while you keep fighting with monsters and improving your abilities.

Why similar: Metroidvania 41%, Action-Adventure 15.1%, Puzzle 12.4%, Exploration 12%, Action 6.9%

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 57.3%, Action-Adventure 14.3%, Exploration 11.3%, Action 6.6%, Adventure 4.2%

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 57.3%, Exploration 13.1%, Story Rich 9.3%, Action-Adventure 4.8%, Fantasy 3.9%

You are an inspiration-seeking wandering artist who mysteriously ends up in a faraway Valley. Will you find the inspiration you crave, or will you be lost to the mysteries of the Valley?

Why similar: Metroidvania 42.7%, Conversation 15.5%, Top-Down 11.6%, Exploration 10.7%, Puzzle 10.1%

The Pellar is an action-adventure game in which you play the role of a lonely quack doctor. Your task is to prepare medicines, potions and bandages that will be used to help those in need. Struggle with healing various ailments in this magical world inspired by Slavic mythology.

Why similar: Metroidvania 39.4%, Action-Adventure 12.8%, Top-Down 11.9%, Exploration 11.2%, Story Rich 7%

Esdraz: The Throne of Darkness is a Metroidvania game focused on a dynamic combat system with a wide-ranging arsenal that players can tailor to fit their individual combat style. Fight a variety of enemies and evolving bosses while you come up with the best strategy to beat every encounter.

Why similar: Metroidvania 52.4%, Action-Adventure 17.2%, Action 11.4%, Adventure 6.9%, Story Rich 6.2%

Do YOU like magic, guns, and adventure, then this is the game for you. Scrap Magic is a 3D, open world adventure game. Solve puzzles, explore, and restore the city to it's former glory. But beware, the land is dangerous with the monsters and roaming freely with no one to challenge their tyranny.

Why similar: Metroidvania 43%, Action-Adventure 15.2%, Exploration 12%, Action 7%, 3D 6.9%

An ocean. Ruins. A song. Recover what silence has erased. You are the last hope of a civilization on the brink of oblivion, with your voice as your only tool. Dive, listen, awaken. Unarmed, guided only by your senses.

Why similar: Metroidvania 34.6%, Exploration 17.4%, Story Rich 11%, Mystery 11%, Puzzle 9.8%

The Chaos Rider finally wakes up after ages. Explore a mysterious island with tons of secrets and treasures to discover ! Fight your way through hordes of enemies and fulfill the dream of the Great Architect. Create your own playstyle, beat bosses and do crazy platforming in this epic adventure game

Why similar: Metroidvania 51.1%, Action-Adventure 13.4%, Exploration 12.3%, Story Rich 8.1%, Action 4.3%

You're the last surviving Elf who must find the Secret Sword, the only weapon capable of defeating the immortal Lord Velomdor.

Why similar: Metroidvania 44.8%, Puzzle 12.5%, Exploration 12%, Action-Adventure 6.1%, Colorful 6%

Weapon Devourer is a psychological horror game with souls-like and 1930's cartoon vibes, blending subtle puzzles. Battle sentient weapons, dodge their attacks, metamorphose into a fearsome entity to overcome powerful challenges, and synthesize mighty combinations by diving into the Shield's belly.

Why similar: Metroidvania 36.1%, Exploration 10.4%, Action-Adventure 10.3%, Top-Down 10.1%, Puzzle 9.9%

In this challenging action-adventure you are on a quest to find a mystic crystal to save your country from an evil militant cult. Explore vast lands and secret chambers invested with dangerous enemies. In order to succeed you must escape hazards, collect crucial items, and destroy key targets.

Why similar: Metroidvania 42%, Action-Adventure 13%, Exploration 11.4%, Top-Down 10.7%, 3D 5.8%

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 59.6%, Exploration 13.3%, Action-Adventure 13.2%, Adventure 5.4%, Action 3.1%

A meta puzzle-adventure where nothing is set in stone. Unlock features to watch the world evolve, and think outside the box to complete missions. But as you change the world to your whims, the world might have ideas of its own...

Why similar: Metroidvania 45.8%, Puzzle 12.5%, Exploration 12.2%, Top-Down 11.4%, 3D 7%

In this Insanely Twisted, 2-D action-adventure game, explore unique environments and battle bizarre creatures.

Why similar: Metroidvania 70.7%, Exploration 10.2%, Action 6.4%, Puzzle 6.1%, Adventure 4.7%

Dash into a stylish and thrilling action-adventure platformer set in a mythological Persian world where the boundaries of time and space are yours to manipulate.

Why similar: Metroidvania 62.3%, Exploration 13.1%, Action-Adventure 9.6%, Action 4.7%, Colorful 3.3%

Join Nyana on her quest to both shatter the chains that have shackled her people and rebuild their society back up from the brink of extinction. Nyana is a story rich metroidvania set in an oppressive, yet beautifully hand-drawn world.

Why similar: Metroidvania 53.8%, Action-Adventure 17.7%, Action 12%, Adventure 7.3%, Combat 4.2%

Code:Elyse is a haunting atmospheric metroidvania, set in a dark sci-fi world. After crashing down from space, Elyse finds herself alone on a planet.

Why similar: Metroidvania 58.5%, Action-Adventure 15.7%, Story Rich 7.4%, Action 6.4%, Mystery 4.1%

You're trapped, alone and cold on a distant planet. Pursued by a droid with only one purpose: killing everything. You must find an escape. Explore the hostile environment, find secret upgrades and new weapons, and finally make your escape from this dark, hostile planet...

Why similar: Metroidvania 64.3%, Exploration 12.3%, Action-Adventure 12.3%, Action 11.1%

Explore a land filled with lost legends, ancient powers, and ferocious monsters in TUNIC, an isometric action game about a small fox on a big adventure.

Why similar: Metroidvania 38.2%, Exploration 13.9%, Puzzle 12.3%, Action-Adventure 10.8%, Top-Down 8.2%

Explore the ruins of an ancient city. Solve puzzles to unlock new paths, abilities, and forgotten lore. Read the lost stories you uncover to gain insight into a tangled web of mysteries. Using only your wits and your trusty torch to guide you, you must find a way to return light to a starless sky.

Why similar: Metroidvania 40%, Puzzle 12.5%, Exploration 12.1%, Mystery 8.4%, Story Rich 7.4%