Games Like Ori and the Blind Forest: Definitive Edition

Play the critically acclaimed masterpiece. Embark on a new journey in a vast, exotic world where you’ll encounter towering enemies and challenging puzzles on your quest to unravel Ori’s destiny.

Why similar: Metroidvania 29.8%, Great Soundtrack 24%, Platformer 12%, Beautiful 9.4% ★, Atmospheric 5.5%

Why You'll Like It: It builds directly on Ori's acrobatic movement, emotional storytelling, lush audiovisual style, and exploration-heavy metroidvania design.

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 36.7%, Great Soundtrack 23.5%, Platformer 11.9%, Difficult 7.9%, Atmospheric 5.6%

Why You'll Like It: Like Ori, it pairs precise platforming and ability-gated exploration with a hauntingly beautiful world and demanding but rewarding challenge.

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 66.2%, Side Scroller 6.9%, Great Soundtrack 6.9%, Atmospheric 5.1%, Platformer 4.3%

Why You'll Like It: It delivers fast, polished traversal and combat in a tightly designed metroidvania full of secrets, platforming tests, and movement upgrades.

Immerse yourself in a gorgeous hand-painted world on a search for your true identity. As the mysterious warrior, Dust, your action-packed journey will take you from peaceful glades to snowy mountaintops and beyond.

Why similar: Metroidvania 39.1%, Great Soundtrack 19%, Platformer 18.3%, Adventure 3.2%, Fantasy 3.2%

Why You'll Like It: This is another colorful action-platformer with a heartfelt fantasy story, fluid combat, and metroidvania progression that scratches a very similar itch.

ENDER LILIES is a dark fantasy 2D action RPG about unraveling the mysteries of a destroyed kingdom. On this sorrowful journey, encounter horrific enemies against whom a moment of inattention could be fatal. Overcome these hardships and seek the truth with the help of fallen knights.

Why similar: Metroidvania 53.4%, Great Soundtrack 27%, Atmospheric 7.7%, Difficult 6.7%, 2D 1.9%

Why You'll Like It: Its melancholy atmosphere, gorgeous soundtrack, interconnected map, and steadily expanding movement toolkit make it a strong match for Ori's emotional metroidvania feel.

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 35.1%, Platformer 18.3%, Atmospheric 11.1%, Difficult 7.8%, Adventure 5%

Why You'll Like It: Its somber fantasy tone, precision platforming, and ability-driven exploration feel especially close to Ori's more difficult and atmospheric sections.

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 41.2%, Platformer 16%, Atmospheric 9.8%, Story Rich 6.4%, Cute 5.1%

Why You'll Like It: This charming metroidvania captures Ori's sense of lightness and discovery with smooth platforming, approachable combat, and a warm art style.

SteamWorld Dig is back! Dig deep, gain riches and unearth the terrors of the underworld in this platform mining adventure influenced by classic Metroidvania style games.

Why similar: Metroidvania 51.8%, Platformer 19.1%, Great Soundtrack 14.8%, Adventure 5.6%, Action 2.8%

Why You'll Like It: It offers a similarly satisfying loop of exploration, upgrades, and unlocking movement abilities that open up an increasingly interconnected world.

Aeterna Noctis is a challenging metroidvania that majestically combines action, exploration and adventure. With 2 game modes and difficulty based on action or the exclusive Noctis mode where a level of difficulty is added in precision platforming never seen in the metroidvania genre.

Why similar: Metroidvania 44%, Platformer 17.1%, Difficult 11.8%, Atmospheric 8.3%, Side Scroller 4.7%

Why You'll Like It: If your favorite part of Ori was demanding platforming inside a huge metroidvania, this is a more hardcore take on that formula.

Join renegade mechanic Robin and uncover the secrets of a dying planet. Explore a big world filled with intricate puzzles, interesting characters and menacing bosses in a beautiful platform adventure that tells a personal story about faith, purpose and the challenge of helping people.

Why similar: Metroidvania 46.2%, Great Soundtrack 17.7%, Platformer 13.2%, Story Rich 6.3%, Adventure 4.4%

Why You'll Like It: Its story-rich world, expressive animation, platforming focus, and gradually expanding toolset make it a natural follow-up for Ori fans.

A 2D Metroidvania-style game developed under the supervision of Ryo Mizuno, depicting the story of Deedlit and the events leading up to Record of Lodoss War: Diadem of the Covenant. Use a variety of weapons and spirit powers to unravel the mystery of the labyrinth.

Why similar: Metroidvania 50%, Platformer 19.1%, Cute 6.3%, Great Soundtrack 6.3%, Fantasy 5.7%

Why You'll Like It: Its elegant 2D movement, airy fantasy presentation, and ability-based progression make it feel very close to Ori from a gameplay perspective.

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 40.5%, Platformer 17.7%, Atmospheric 10.7%, Story Rich 7.3%, Cute 5.7%

Why You'll Like It: It delivers a similarly heartfelt adventure with gorgeous art, strong atmosphere, and movement-centric platforming through a whimsical fantasy world.

Help Madeline survive her inner demons on her journey to the top of Celeste Mountain, in this super-tight platformer from the creators of TowerFall. Brave hundreds of hand-crafted challenges, uncover devious secrets, and piece together the mystery of the mountain.

Why similar: Great Soundtrack 43.3%, Platformer 18.8%, Difficult 14.7%, Story Rich 5%, Atmospheric 4.7%

Why You'll Like It: It lacks the metroidvania structure, but its exacting platforming, emotional core, and sense of movement mastery resonate strongly with Ori fans.

Afterimage is a hand-drawn 2D action adventure that emphasizes fast-paced combat with diversified character builds, non-linear levels, and a gripping story set in the ruins of a fantasy world.

Why similar: Metroidvania 51.2%, Platformer 15.5%, Difficult 10.9%, Side Scroller 7.1%, Story Rich 5.1%

Why You'll Like It: It shares Ori's lush fantasy world, emphasis on movement upgrades, and sweeping exploratory structure, just with a bigger RPG lean.

Decades after the events of ENDER LILIES, Homunculi — sorrowful, artificial life forms — roam the land. In this dark fantasy Metroidvania, face formidable enemies and explore a bewitching post-apocalyptic world. Humans and Homunculi — what awaits at the end of the quest for their salvation?

Why similar: Metroidvania 56.5%, Great Soundtrack 20.3%, Platformer 3.9%, Atmospheric 3.4%, Story Rich 2.5%

Why You'll Like It: It continues the Ender formula with strong atmosphere, smooth exploration, and emotional worldbuilding that should appeal to Ori players.

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 46.2%, Platformer 16%, Atmospheric 10.5%, Side Scroller 5.4%, Cute 5.1%

Why You'll Like It: This captures the exploratory rhythm and clean movement of Ori in a smaller, charming metroidvania with a lonely but inviting atmosphere.

Gris is a hopeful young girl lost in her own world, dealing with a painful experience in her life. Her journey through sorrow is manifested in her dress, which grants new abilities to better navigate her faded reality.

Why similar: Great Soundtrack 40.5%, Beautiful 19.4% ★, Atmospheric 15.7%, Platformer 11.4%, Story Rich 4.1%

Why You'll Like It: If Ori's beauty and emotional atmosphere mattered as much as its mechanics, GRIS delivers a similarly moving and visually stunning platforming journey.

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 51.1%, Platformer 15.2%, Great Soundtrack 8.8%, Adventure 5.9%, Difficult 4.2%

Why You'll Like It: Its emotional tone, hand-drawn world, and side-scrolling metroidvania progression give it a lot of overlap with Ori's mood and structure.

As a demon army besieges his village, a young ninja ventures through a cursed world, to deliver a scroll paramount to his clan’s survival. What begins as a classic action platformer soon unravels into an expansive time-traveling adventure full of thrills, surprises, and humor.

Why similar: Metroidvania 38.4%, Great Soundtrack 28.8%, Platformer 16.7%, Difficult 4.8%, 2D 2.4%

Why You'll Like It: This starts as a sharp action-platformer and evolves into a rewarding metroidvania with strong mobility, secrets, and excellent pacing.

MO: Astray is a pixel art, side-scrolling, action-platformer. Lead MO through mind-bending puzzles using special abilities. Bizarre enemies, threatening traps and ingenious level designs await.

Why similar: Great Soundtrack 27.9%, Platformer 19.9%, Atmospheric 10.9%, Adventure 7.1%, Cute 6.3%

Why You'll Like It: This is a tougher, more puzzle-driven platformer, but its expressive world, tight controls, and eerie atmosphere should appeal to Ori fans.

Seasons After Fall is a 2D platform-puzzler game that will let you dive into a captivating universe and explore a land governed by magic and nature.

Why similar: Great Soundtrack 29%, Platformer 19.7%, Metroidvania 18.7%, Atmospheric 8.4%, Adventure 5.3%

Why You'll Like It: It shares Ori's painterly beauty and gentle fantasy atmosphere, with platforming and environmental abilities taking the place of combat-heavy progression.

Explore a beautiful, vast and ruined world riddled with dangers and lost technologies.

Why similar: Great Soundtrack 41.9%, Metroidvania 18.6%, Atmospheric 12.9%, Difficult 12.7%, Adventure 4.7%

Why You'll Like It: It trades platforming for combat, but matches Ori's evocative worldbuilding, striking art, and moody, wordless sense of adventure.

Discover a vast, haunted kingdom in Hollow Knight: Silksong! Explore, fight and survive as you ascend to the peak of a land ruled by silk and song.

Why similar: Metroidvania 34%, Great Soundtrack 23.7%, Platformer 10.2%, Difficult 8.5%, Beautiful 5.1% ★

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 54.4%, Difficult 14.4%, Atmospheric 9.4%, Cute 8.6%, Puzzle 5.7%

Why You'll Like It: Though viewed from above, it captures the same joy of discovery, environmental storytelling, and secret-filled progression through a mysterious world.

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 35.7%, Platformer 19.6%, Great Soundtrack 12.2%, Adventure 8.4%, Atmospheric 6.1%

Why You'll Like It: Its lonely ruined world, environmental storytelling, and exploration-driven progression echo Ori's adventurous tone even in 3D.

Head back to the Mexiverse in this long-awaited sequel to the smash hit Guacamelee! Uppercut your way to victory across stunning new hand-crafted levels. Featuring a dense and colorful world, new luchador moves, sassy new bosses, twice the enemies, and 300% more chickens!

Why similar: Metroidvania 44%, Platformer 18.5%, Difficult 11.7%, Atmospheric 9.1%, Side Scroller 5.6%

Why You'll Like It: While much more comedic in tone, it nails the same satisfying mix of traversal challenges, ability-gated exploration, and platform-combat flow.

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 32%, Great Soundtrack 22.2%, Platformer 20.3%, Difficult 4.5%, Adventure 4.3%

Why You'll Like It: This beautifully animated action-platformer offers classic exploratory progression and a magical tone that aligns well with Ori's fairy-tale side.

F.I.S.T.: Forged In Shadow Torch is a Metroidvania action game featuring exploration, intense combat and challenging platforming.

Why similar: Metroidvania 49.4%, Platformer 19.4%, Great Soundtrack 11.1%, Story Rich 7.4%, Adventure 4.3%

Why You'll Like It: This is a heavier, combat-focused metroidvania, but it still offers the same rewarding map exploration and ability-based traversal unlocks.

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 52.7%, Platformer 21.9%, Cute 6.2%, Adventure 4.8%, Open World 4.2%

Why You'll Like It: Its cute presentation, movement-first exploration, and airy interconnected world make it a good fit for players who loved Ori's traversal.

The definitive version of the smash-hit Metroidvania-style action-platformer, Guacamelee! STCE adds new levels, powers, challenges, and refinements to the sprawling, ridiculous, Mexican-inspired adventure of the original Guacamelee! Gold Edition.

Why similar: Metroidvania 65.7%, Platformer 28.4%, 2D 4.4%, Difficult 0.6%, Side Scroller 0.3%

Why You'll Like It: Its tightly designed map and movement abilities create a fun metroidvania progression loop for players who loved Ori's constant mobility upgrades.

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 48.1%, Great Soundtrack 18%, Platformer 18%, Adventure 4.3%, Cute 3.6%

Why You'll Like It: Its pinball twist makes it unusual, but it captures Ori's cheerful exploration and ability-gated world design in a very charming way.

“Ori and the Blind Forest” tells the tale of a young orphan destined for heroics, through a visually stunning action-platformer crafted by Moon Studios for PC.

Why similar: Great Soundtrack 33%, Metroidvania 24.7%, Platformer 11.6%, Atmospheric 8.4%, Story Rich 4.1%

Explore the ancient, mysterious world of Journey as you soar above ruins and glide across sands to discover its secrets.

Why similar: Great Soundtrack 43.9%, Beautiful 20.7% ★, Atmospheric 19.5%, Adventure 7.2%, Story Rich 4.4%

Experience the moving tale of a young woman and her lifelong bond with a magnificent wolf as they embark on a thrilling adventure through a rapidly dying world.

Why similar: Platformer 27.3%, Great Soundtrack 21.2%, Atmospheric 17.7%, Beautiful 13.4% ★, Adventure 9%

Hunted and alone, a boy finds himself drawn into the center of a dark project. INSIDE is a dark, narrative-driven platformer combining intense action with challenging puzzles. It has been critically acclaimed for its moody art style, ambient soundtrack and unsettling atmosphere.

Why similar: Platformer 30.1%, Atmospheric 21.2%, Story Rich 13.9%, 2.5D 10.8%, Adventure 7.5%

A land of discovery stretches out before you. Explore the beautiful, rugged world of RiME. Armed with your wits and a will to overcome—and the guidance of a helpful fox—you must explore the enigmatic island, reach the tower's peak, and unlock its closely guarded secrets.

Why similar: Great Soundtrack 46.6%, Atmospheric 17.3%, Adventure 7.9%, Puzzle 6%, Fantasy 5.3%

Guide two brothers on an epic fairy tale journey from visionary Swedish film director, Josef Fares and top-tier developer Starbreeze Studios. Control both brothers at once as you experience co-op play in single player mode, like never before.

Why similar: Great Soundtrack 22.4%, Atmospheric 22.1%, Story Rich 12.8%, Adventure 11.4%, Beautiful 8.3% ★

Unravel is a physics-based puzzle platformer. Yarny, a character made from a single thread of yarn, must embark on a larger than life adventure.

Why similar: Platformer 22.1%, Great Soundtrack 18.8%, Atmospheric 16.6%, Adventure 8.5%, Puzzle 7%

In a world torn between nature’s grace and cold machine invasion, one girl and her companion must rely on their bond to survive and protect what they hold dear. Their story of hope, loss, and love will stay with you long after the journey ends.

Why similar: Platformer 30.4%, Atmospheric 20.2%, Side Scroller 9.9%, Cute 9.7%, Adventure 7.2%

OneShot is a surreal top down Puzzle/Adventure game with unique gameplay capabilities. You are to guide a child through a mysterious world on a mission to restore its long-dead sun. The world knows you exist.

Why similar: Great Soundtrack 49.4%, Story Rich 13.8%, Atmospheric 13.5%, Cute 8.6%, Adventure 4.2%

Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night is an exploration-focused, side-scroller action RPG by Koji Igarashi. Play as Miriam, an orphan scarred by an alchemist's curse that slowly crystallizes her body. Battle through a demon-infested castle and defeat its master to save yourself, and all of humanity!

Why similar: Metroidvania 59.9%, Great Soundtrack 16.6%, Platformer 8.5%, Side Scroller 4%, 2.5D 2.7%

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 55.6%, Platformer 16.8%, Atmospheric 9.8%, Cute 4.1%, Puzzle 4%

Aurora, a young girl from 1895 Austria, awakens on the lost fairytale continent of Lemuria. To return home she must fight against the dark creatures of the Queen of the Night, who have stolen the sun, the moon and the stars. At stake is not only Lemuria, but Aurora’s true destiny.

Why similar: Great Soundtrack 42.1%, Platformer 17.3%, Atmospheric 8.6%, Fantasy 7.6%, Beautiful 6% ★

The Last Campfire is an adventure, a story of a lost ember trapped in a puzzling place, searching for meaning and a way home.

Why similar: Atmospheric 24.5%, Story Rich 15.8%, Cute 15.1%, Adventure 11%, Fantasy 10.4%

Experience the critically acclaimed masterpiece with its renowned Sumi-e ink art style in breathtaking high resolution.

Why similar: Great Soundtrack 56.2%, Story Rich 11.9%, Atmospheric 10.8%, Adventure 7.8%, Open World 4.2%

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 51.2%, Platformer 19.5%, Atmospheric 11.7%, Difficult 10.3%, 2D 2.5%

A story-driven, action adventure combining exploration with fast-paced combat. Untangle the past as Kena, a young Spirit Guide in search of the sacred Mountain Shrine. Help free the spirits trapped in a forgotten village with the help of the Rot, her adorable (yet powerful) spirit companions.

Why similar: Atmospheric 32.5%, Adventure 18.7%, Fantasy 16.9%, Story Rich 15.4%, Action 11.4%

Discover the beautiful world of Nihilumbra and join Born on his adventure to find himself whilst trying to escape from his inevitable curse. Born was created from the absolute nothingness: The Void. But somehow he separates himself from the black emptiness and appears in the world.

Why similar: Platformer 28%, Great Soundtrack 25.3%, Atmospheric 11.8%, Adventure 6.7%, Difficult 5.7%

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 32.8%, Great Soundtrack 26.6%, Platformer 13.9%, Difficult 7%, Story Rich 5.2%

Named Game of the Year 2019 by Giant Bomb, Polygon, Eurogamer, and The Guardian, Outer Wilds is a critically-acclaimed and award-winning open world mystery about a solar system trapped in an endless time loop.

Why similar: Great Soundtrack 46%, Atmospheric 13.9%, Story Rich 11.2%, Beautiful 9.3% ★, Adventure 5.6%

Experience the epic journey of Nuna and Fox as they search for the source of an eternal blizzard that threatens the survival of everything they have ever known.

Why similar: Platformer 29.6%, Great Soundtrack 20.7%, Atmospheric 17.5%, Story Rich 8.6%, Adventure 5.6%

Explore the fallen world of Penumbra in this precision 3D metroidvania platformer. Slash fierce enemies, conquer deadly traps, uncover ancient temples, and master fast, fluid movement across challenging platforming gauntlets in your quest to restore a fallen kingdom.

Why similar: Metroidvania 50.2%, Platformer 20.8%, Atmospheric 9%, Cute 7.5%, Fantasy 4.6%

Fight for your freedom in a sprawling fantasy world caught between the living and the fallen. Hone your skills in a retro epic featuring puzzle platforming, metroidvania exploration and crunchy soulslike combat.

Why similar: Metroidvania 74%, Difficult 12.2%, Platformer 3.9%, Action 3.3%, Adventure 3.2%

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

Why similar: Great Soundtrack 36%, Platformer 23.5%, Metroidvania 14.2%, Adventure 7.1%, Puzzle 6%

Experience the magical universe of Rayman with legendary 2D gameplay that has captured the hearts of millions of fans!

Why similar: Platformer 40.2%, Great Soundtrack 36.5%, Adventure 5%, Difficult 4.3%, 2D 3.9%

Wield the awesome powers of Enril the wind spirit to guide and protect young Toku through this unique platform adventure.

Why similar: Metroidvania 30.2%, Platformer 27.8%, Great Soundtrack 17.6%, Adventure 10.8%, Atmospheric 6.1%

Discover the secrets of the Calamity, a surreal catastrophe that shattered the world to pieces.

Why similar: Great Soundtrack 70.3%, Story Rich 8.5%, Atmospheric 4.5%, Action 3.9%, Adventure 3.5%

Blasphemous is a brutal action-platformer with skilled hack’n slash combat set in the nightmare world of Cvstodia. Explore, upgrade your abilities, and perform savage executions on the hordes of enemies that stand between you and your quest to break eternal damnation.

Why similar: Metroidvania 59.7%, Great Soundtrack 12.6%, Platformer 10.1%, Difficult 7.5%, Side Scroller 2.3%

Demons, giants, mutants, and a talking Ball with hybrid limbs?! In WarriOrb you play as a mighty demon trapped in an unlikely body. The path ahead is not an easy one. Will you do whatever it takes to regain your freedom?

Why similar: Metroidvania 28.3%, Great Soundtrack 23.4%, Platformer 12%, Difficult 7.7%, Atmospheric 6.9%