Games Like Öoo

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 32.3%, Puzzle Platformer 20.1%, Exploration 8.6%, Platformer 8.6%, Puzzle 7.9%

Why You'll Like It: Like Öoo, this game features deep, interconnected exploration and clever environmental puzzles that reward creative thinking.

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Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 30.9%, Platformer 12.9%, Linear 11.6%, Puzzle 10.3%, Pixel Graphics 7.4%

Why You'll Like It: This title shares the tight, puzzle-focused platforming mechanics and minimalist design philosophy found in Öoo.

Swing through the trees, spin sticky webs, and make friends with bugs! Be the adorable spider you've always wanted to be.

Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 23.9%, 2D Platformer 17.1%, Platformer 10.7%, Cute 9%, Exploration 8.6%

Why You'll Like It: It offers a similarly cute aesthetic combined with physics-based movement and creative puzzle-solving in a 2D world.

Puzzle platformer where you control both the cat and the toast, based on the famous "Buttered Cat Paradox". The game features 200+ levels, 70+ skins, plus boss fights and mini-games!

Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 33.1%, 2D Platformer 15.9%, Platformer 14.1%, Puzzle 11.4%, Cute 11%

Why You'll Like It: This game mirrors the charming, puzzle-platformer nature of Öoo with a heavy emphasis on unique, cat-based mechanics.

Explore a strange planet, collect the creatures you find, and then shape-shift into them to expand your world. Build your own path, chat with the locals, and discover the planets sprawling secrets in this quirky metroidvania platformer.

Why similar: Metroidvania 40.2%, 2D Platformer 17.8%, Platformer 14.8%, Exploration 9.6%, Cute 7.9%

Why You'll Like It: It provides a similar metroidvania experience that focuses on platforming and exploration without traditional combat.

A handcrafted open-world platformer set in a world built by Mushrooms! Explore different locations filled with secrets, acquire new abilities and use those abilities to reach new places!

Why similar: Metroidvania 38.8%, 2D Platformer 17.2%, Platformer 12.1%, Pixel Graphics 8.4%, Exploration 7.2%

Why You'll Like It: It offers a rich metroidvania experience with a focus on platforming precision and exploration in a colorful 2D world.

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 50.7%, Platformer 11.2%, Pixel Graphics 9.8%, Cute 5.5%, 2D 5.4%

Why You'll Like It: This title blends metroidvania exploration with a charming, retro-inspired aesthetic that feels very much in line with Öoo.

Go on an adventure in a world packed with secrets helped by your friend, a poulp with many abilities. Explore, solve puzzles, wander across dungeons, blast through races and much more in this cute game inspired by the best 3D platformers

Why similar: Metroidvania 22.6%, Puzzle Platformer 20.5%, Platformer 12.4%, 2D Platformer 10.8%, Exploration 8.9%

Why You'll Like It: This game focuses on creative movement and exploration within a colorful, collectathon-inspired platforming world.

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 32.4%, Puzzle Platformer 23.3%, Platformer 11.6%, Exploration 8.8%, Puzzle 8.7%

Why You'll Like It: This game is a masterclass in puzzle-platforming where you learn to interact with the environment through simple, creative mechanics.

From Jeppe Carlsen, the lead gameplay designer of LIMBO and INSIDE — COCOON takes you on an adventure across worlds within worlds. Master world-leaping mechanics and solve intricate puzzles to unravel a cosmic mystery.

Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 38%, Puzzle 27.1%, Exploration 17.4%, Adventure 7.7%, Linear 6.8%

Why You'll Like It: This game excels at world-bending puzzles and exploration, capturing the sense of discovery found in Öoo.

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 47.8%, Exploration 12.2%, Platformer 11.9%, Cute 11.3%, Puzzle 6.5%

Why You'll Like It: It features a charming art style and exploration-heavy metroidvania gameplay that aligns well with the tone of Öoo.

Take to the sky and reunite a fragmented world in this surprisingly wholesome metroidvania! Help Iko adventure across beautiful hand-painted islands, receive letters from a quirky cast of characters, and face powerful monstrous adversaries.

Why similar: Metroidvania 42.7%, Platformer 14.8%, Cute 8.9%, Exploration 8.4%, Nature 7.2%

Why You'll Like It: It provides a friendly, accessible metroidvania experience with a strong emphasis on platforming and exploration.

A journey begins... A treacherous tower... Unravel its mysteries!Discover the secrets kept in the long abandoned Tesla Tower!Magnetism and other electromagnetic powers will help you explore a non-linear world of beautiful hand-drawn environments, in a steampunk-inspired vision of old Europe.

Why similar: Metroidvania 33.4%, Platformer 20.6%, Puzzle Platformer 16.9%, Puzzle 11.4%, Exploration 4.5%

Why You'll Like It: It features complex puzzle-platforming mechanics centered around magnetism that feel like a natural progression for fans of Öoo's bomb-based puzzles.

An adorable and relaxing open world puzzle adventure for monsters who love to learn about humans!

Why similar: Puzzle 35.2%, Exploration 29.7%, Cute 26.2%, Adventure 8.9%

Why You'll Like It: It is a pure puzzle game that emphasizes open-world exploration and creative movement, much like the puzzle-heavy sections of Öoo.

Pikuniku is an absurdly wonderful puzzle-exploration game that takes place in a strange but playful world where not everything is as happy as it seems. Help peculiar characters overcome struggles, uncover a deep state conspiracy, and start a little revolution in this delightful dystopian adventure!

Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 20%, Puzzle 20%, Cute 17.7%, Platformer 15.7%, 2D 6.8%

Why You'll Like It: This game shares the whimsical, cute art style and lighthearted puzzle-platforming gameplay that makes Öoo so approachable.

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 25.6%, Puzzle Platformer 20.2%, 2D Platformer 13.2%, Platformer 9%, Exploration 8.3%

Why You'll Like It: This game offers a blend of precision platforming and exploration that fits perfectly into the metroidvania genre.

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 47.8%, Exploration 18.8%, Puzzle 17%, Cute 12.4%, Action 2.8%

Why You'll Like It: While more combat-oriented, it shares the deep sense of mystery, exploration, and puzzle-solving that defines the best metroidvanias.

A mind-bending recursive puzzle game about boxes within boxes within boxes within boxes. Learn to use infinity to your advantage as you explore a deep and elegant system.

Why similar: Puzzle 42.9%, Minimalist 40%, 2D 13.2%, Indie 3.9%

Why You'll Like It: This game offers mind-bending, recursive puzzles that will appeal to anyone who enjoys the logic-based platforming of Öoo.

Explore the wonderful world with baby Ogu! 'Ogu and the Secret Forest' is a 2D adventure game with hand-drawn characters and various types of puzzles. Befriend bouncy characters and defeat strange creatures to unravel the mystery of the charming world.

Why similar: Puzzle 20.6%, Exploration 19%, Nature 17.9%, Cute 17.6%, 2D 9.8%

Why You'll Like It: It features a charming, adventure-focused world filled with puzzles and exploration that feels very similar to Öoo.

In this award-winning puzzle adventure game, play as the Traveler on a quest to reunite the Peoples of the Tower. Observe, listen, and decipher ancient languages in a fascinating universe inspired by the Myth of Babel.

Why similar: Puzzle 49%, Puzzle Platformer 21.3%, Exploration 9.9%, Adventure 9.6%, Mystery 5.4%

Why You'll Like It: It focuses on exploration and deciphering the world through logic puzzles, capturing the mysterious spirit of Öoo.

Play as an exiled 'wum' looking for a new home in this bizarre but charming world, filled with strange creatures, puzzles, monsters and political chaos.

Why similar: Metroidvania 29.6%, Puzzle Platformer 15.6%, 2D Platformer 13.5%, Platformer 11.1%, Exploration 8.2%

Why You'll Like It: This game features a unique, cute art style and a sprawling world that rewards exploration and platforming.

Owlboy is a story-driven platform adventure game, where you can fly and explore a brand new world in the clouds! Pick up your friends, and bring them with you as you explore the open skies, in one of the most detailed adventures of this era.

Why similar: Metroidvania 28.8%, Puzzle Platformer 19.6%, 2D Platformer 11.6%, Platformer 11%, Pixel Graphics 8.7%

Why You'll Like It: This title offers a beautiful, story-rich adventure with unique flight-based platforming mechanics and exploration.

HAAK is a Metroidvania-Platformer. As the mysterious wanderer Haak, you embarked on an epic expedition across the vast cyber-wasteland to find your lost brother. Explore deserted cities and metro, refine your weapons and hack skills, and uncover the secrets behind metal and dust.

Why similar: Metroidvania 30.7%, Puzzle Platformer 23.1%, 2D Platformer 11.5%, Platformer 11.3%, Pixel Graphics 7.1%

Why You'll Like It: It combines metroidvania exploration with puzzle-platforming elements in a distinct, post-apocalyptic setting.

An attractive puzzle platformer where you use magnetism to escape a factory. Meet a cast of magnet characters and work together to solve logical conundrums.

Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 34.5%, 2D Platformer 17.3%, Platformer 13.8%, Puzzle 11.9%, Linear 8.9%

Why You'll Like It: It centers on physics-based puzzle-platforming that requires creative use of tools to navigate the environment.

Guide Timmy the little treasure hunter through traps and puzzles to reach the legendary treasure! Experience the classic mini metroidvania remade with new visuals, music, and content!

Why similar: Metroidvania 27.7%, Puzzle Platformer 19.8%, 2D Platformer 14.1%, Platformer 11.3%, Exploration 7.8%

Why You'll Like It: It is a bite-sized metroidvania that captures the essence of 2D platforming and exploration in a charming package.

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 27.6%, 2D Platformer 14.7%, Platformer 13.1%, Puzzle 9.3%, Exploration 8.1%

Why You'll Like It: This game offers a mix of action and platforming with a focus on exploration that complements the style of Öoo.

Fly into a charming handcrafted world and go on an adventure that mixes up open exploration with crispy twin-stick shooter action. Fight your way from the shiny overworld to the deepest caves, improve your ship and overcome the dungeons' bosses to rescue your friends!

Why similar: Metroidvania 50.5%, Exploration 13.9%, Minimalist 10.8%, Cute 10.1%, 2D 5.5%

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 33.2%, 2D Platformer 16.7%, Platformer 12.8%, Exploration 11.7%, Pixel Graphics 9.1%

Explore an abandoned space station in this retro-themed explorative action platformer.

Why similar: Metroidvania 57.4%, Platformer 12.7%, Pixel Graphics 11.1%, Exploration 4.1%, Action 3.2%

Why You'll Like It: It provides a challenging metroidvania experience with a heavy focus on secrets and environmental puzzles.

A world of Beauty and Mystery, Emotive Animations, Atmospheric Environments, Visually Driven Story, Metroidvania Exploration and Memorable Sword Duels.

Why similar: Metroidvania 39.7%, 2D Platformer 17.6%, Exploration 9.8%, Puzzle 8.5%, Platformer 7.9%

Why You'll Like It: This game provides a minimalist, atmospheric metroidvania experience with a focus on movement and exploration.

Hue is a vibrant, award-winning puzzle-adventure, where you alter the world by changing its background colour.

Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 35.7%, Platformer 17.4%, Puzzle 17.1%, Metroidvania 11.9%, 2D 5.1%

Why You'll Like It: This puzzle-platformer uses color-shifting mechanics to solve environmental challenges, mirroring the creative tool-use in Öoo.

The buns... you HAVE to capture them!! Think outside the bunburrow or get outsmarted by bunnies in this cute pathfinding-based puzzle game!

Why similar: Minimalist 20.1%, Puzzle 18%, Exploration 17.4%, Pixel Graphics 16.9%, Cute 15.9%

This is the original version of Braid from 2009, which may not work well on newer systems. For an updated version of the game with nicer graphics, more levels and a large amount of developer commentary, see Braid, Anniversary Edition.

Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 49%, 2D Platformer 19.2%, Platformer 14.3%, Puzzle 12.3%, 2D 3.1%

Why You'll Like It: A classic puzzle-platformer that uses time-manipulation mechanics to create deep, rewarding environmental puzzles.

Explore in a black-and-white world. You'll encounter interesting enemies, feel smooth physics effects, freely combine props to solve fun puzzles, use powerful weapons, and defeat cool bosses.

Why similar: Metroidvania 25.7%, Puzzle Platformer 17.9%, 2D Platformer 10.5%, Minimalist 8.5%, Platformer 8.1%

Explore a world full of mysteries that transform with each jump! Moonleap is a game about a moon boy on his journey to recover shooting stars. Change day to night with your jump and catch all the stars in this challenging puzzle-platformer!

Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 22.6%, 2D Platformer 12.8%, Minimalist 12.1%, Platformer 11.1%, Linear 10.2%

Drill Bird is a cozy-yet-tense digging platformer where every trip underground counts. Play as a bird fallen from the sky, in search for powerful ores to hatch your Egg. Get home before night falls, upgrade abilities, grow stronger, and unfold a sincere bird story about survival, care and purpose.

Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 24.9%, 2D Platformer 19.4%, Platformer 13.7%, Exploration 11.5%, Cute 10.3%

Hollow Floor is an exploration-based single-sitting Metroidvania inspired by VVVVVV and REDDER. Hollow Floor is a relaxed game that is full of secrets and hard challenges that can be tackled at any moment in the game or completely ignored.

Why similar: Metroidvania 37.8%, 2D Platformer 13.3%, Cute 8.4%, Platformer 8.4%, Pixel Graphics 7.3%

Explore branching levels, fight quirky bosses, and save the day in this retro platformer inspired by the classics!

Why similar: 2D Platformer 22.4%, Platformer 14.5%, Puzzle Platformer 14.4%, Exploration 12.6%, Pixel Graphics 9.6%

Hiiro is a 2D platform game focused on ambient exploration and puzzle solving. Discover a grand world filled with mysterious artifacts and forgotten ruins. Become immersed in relaxing gameplay and meditative music. Remain observant as you unravel an explanation for your solitude.

Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 22.6%, Adventure 17.9%, Platformer 16.5%, Puzzle 10.2%, Exploration 10%

After a freak accident, a seemingly ordinary chicken becomes a bomb laying free range hero. Explore the versatile mechanic of laying bombs in this explosive exploration platformer.

Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 44.9%, Pixel Graphics 17%, Action 15.3%, Adventure 10.8%, Indie 7.3%

A fantastic, oceanic, open world puzzle adventure. Solve innovative block puzzles while unearthing a mystifying story, gaining new friends that change the puzzle landscape, and unlocking powers that provide more options for how you choose to progress through the enigmatic Isles of Sea and Sky.

Why similar: Metroidvania 50.1%, Puzzle 14.5%, Exploration 13.8%, Pixel Graphics 11.6%, Retro 5.9%

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 38.4%, 2D Platformer 14.7%, Platformer 11.8%, Exploration 10%, Pixel Graphics 8.3%

Fowl Damage is an atmospheric puzzle platformer where your default jump provides enough fall damage to destroy you! Carefully manage your jumps and falls as you adventure through this chilling, beautiful, and occasionally cute world.

Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 29.3%, 2D Platformer 19.1%, Platformer 13.5%, Puzzle 10.4%, Cute 8.5%

A genealogical mystery straight out of 1998. Scour the early Internet for clues, uncover hidden connections, and piece together the family tree behind the secretive Roottree Corporation.

Why similar: Puzzle 46.7%, Mystery 32.3%, Adventure 6.7%, Retro 6%, 2D 5.7%

Explore an interconnected world full of platforming challenges in this short metroidvania. Reach new areas by swinging from ceilings, throwing bombs, bouncing off spikes, and more. Examine dozens of artifacts, commune with forgotten gods, and piece together what happened to Auridia.

Why similar: Metroidvania 43.7%, Exploration 11.7%, Platformer 11.5%, Pixel Graphics 9.5%, Puzzle Platformer 7.6%

A blocky puzzle platformer adventure.

Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 36.4%, 2D Platformer 19.3%, Linear 10%, Platformer 9.1%, Pixel Graphics 8.7%

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 46.8%, Platformer 15.7%, 2D Platformer 12.6%, Exploration 12.4%, 2D 5.1%

Help Puzzled Cat use jetpacks, portals, bombs, gum, and more to conquer treacherous platforming stages. Play your own way using save states to explore a world full of challenges and secrets - but can you find the way through? Travel through time and space and reach enlightenment.

Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 32.3%, 2D Platformer 18.6%, Platformer 12.5%, Puzzle 9.2%, Cute 8.4%

A game of strange jigsaws.

Why similar: Puzzle 39.1%, Minimalist 26%, 2D 17.1%, Adventure 14.5%, Indie 3.3%

Embark on a grand adventure in Phoenotopia! An action-adventure puzzle platformer inspired by the great classics. Meet charming townsfolk, brave the dungeons, and thwart evil in your quest to save your family.

Why similar: Metroidvania 36%, Puzzle Platformer 23.8%, Platformer 14.7%, Pixel Graphics 6.6%, Cute 5.1%

A new kind of detective game that allows you to think and investigate freely. Discover clues surrounding 12 strange and gruesome deaths and build your own theory. Pick your suspect, deduce the motive, unmask the awful truth.

Why similar: Puzzle 26.9%, Mystery 22.1%, Pixel Graphics 17.9%, Exploration 14.9%, 2D 12.8%

Carto is a charming adventure game wrapped around a unique, world-altering puzzle mechanic. Use this power to explore mysterious lands, help a quirky cast of characters, and guide Carto on her journey back to her family.

Why similar: Nature 22.5%, Cute 21.7%, Puzzle 20%, Exploration 18.4%, 2D 8.4%

The stage is set. Imagine an old baroque manor, perhaps a hotel or a museum, somewhere in central Europe. A woman wanders in search of answers.

Why similar: Puzzle 38.1%, Exploration 24.5%, Mystery 15%, Adventure 10.7%, Action 8.6%

A 2D adventure platformer game where a little man named Poppe explores different locations, finds various items and uses them along his way, fights against dangerous insects and survives in this gigantic world.

Why similar: Metroidvania 37.5%, 2D Platformer 17.7%, Platformer 12.4%, Pixel Graphics 8.1%, Cute 7.6%

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 45.7%, 2D Platformer 13.2%, Platformer 11.8%, Exploration 11.1%, Adventure 4.3%

Flow gracefully through a colorful, hand-drawn 2.5D action platformer inspired by Japanese folklore. Engage in acrobatic aerial combat, unlock powerful mystical abilities, and explore an interconnected world of myth as you seek to unravel the mysteries of your origin.

Why similar: Metroidvania 36%, 2D Platformer 19.2%, Platformer 14.4%, Exploration 11.4%, Cute 8.7%

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 30.2%, Puzzle Platformer 22.6%, Platformer 11.2%, Puzzle 8.4%, Nature 7.2%

Meet Yoku, the pint-sized postman protagonist of Yoku's Island Express! Use a unique blend of pinball mechanics, platforming and open world exploration to unlock the secrets of Mokumana Island, help the locals, awaken ancient deities and much more in this amazing new tropical adventure!

Why similar: Metroidvania 51%, Platformer 17%, Puzzle Platformer 16.3%, Cute 6.1%, Adventure 3.6%

Challenge perception, redefine reality, and reshape the world around you with an instant camera. Viewfinder is a new single player game offering gamers hours of interesting and fun experiences while uncovering the mysteries left behind.

Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 46.8%, Puzzle 17.3%, Exploration 14%, Platformer 13.8%, Adventure 4.2%

A Simple and Bite-sized retro 2D Platformer about a frog on another side-scrolling adventure

Why similar: 2D Platformer 30.9%, Platformer 18.9%, Linear 12%, Pixel Graphics 10.8%, Retro 6.8%