60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Metroidvania, Puzzle, Puzzle Platformer, Platformer.
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.
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.
The Matter Gun
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.
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 33.6%, Puzzle Platformer 15.2%, Platformer 8%, Exploration 7.9%, Puzzle 7.4%
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 37.3%, Puzzle Platformer 19.1%, Exploration 10.6%, Platformer 10.1%, Puzzle 8.3%
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 30.4%, Puzzle Platformer 19%, Exploration 9.8%, Physics 8.3%, Surreal 8%
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 29.2%, Puzzle Platformer 15.8%, Platformer 8.1%, Nonlinear 7.8%, Exploration 7.8%
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 32.7%, Puzzle Platformer 17.2%, Platformer 8.9%, Exploration 8.7%, Cartoony 8.7%
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.
Why similar: Metroidvania 30.5%, Puzzle Platformer 13.6%, Platformer 8.6%, Exploration 7.3%, Puzzle 7.2%
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 31.6%, Puzzle Platformer 15.2%, Nonlinear 7.9%, Exploration 7.5%, Puzzle 7.5%
Squish, stretch, and deform. It's bouncy. It's silly. Use the ground as a trampoline and squeeze your way through Wobble World, a physics puzzle platformer.
Why similar: Metroidvania 28.3%, Puzzle Platformer 16.1%, Physics 10.2%, Exploration 7.8%, Platformer 7.8%
Dig through an odd world full of dangerous creatures. Uncover hidden paths and long-buried secrets. Dirtlight is a metroidvania where the journey runs deep, and offers unexpected ways to explore.
Why similar: Metroidvania 40.9%, Platformer 9.8%, Exploration 9.5%, Puzzle 9.3%, Mystery 7.6%
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 29.7%, Puzzle Platformer 13.7%, Platformer 9.6%, Exploration 9%, Puzzle 8.4%
Explore a vast, mysterious, interconnected world made entirely of clay. Meet strange critters, collect forbidden fruit and uncover the mysteries of this place as you journey to see "The Moon" for the first time.
Why similar: Metroidvania 38.9%, Puzzle Platformer 19.8%, Exploration 11.1%, Platformer 10.5%, Puzzle 8.6%
Traverse a wonderful and strange world, find playful tools, and uncover secrets in PITH, a metroidbrainia/puzzle-platforming adventure full of twists and surprises.
Why similar: Metroidvania 40%, Puzzle Platformer 19.6%, Platformer 7.5%, Puzzle 7.5%, Exploration 6.3%
Dive into the conscious and use your brushes to solve puzzles, reclaim forgotten memories.
Why similar: Metroidvania 34.5%, Puzzle Platformer 20.9%, Physics 11.6%, Platformer 8.3%, Puzzle 6.5%
Norman finds himself lost in a cave with nothing but his new bowling ball and a weird feeling that somehow he was meant to be there.
Why similar: Metroidvania 34.6%, Puzzle Platformer 17.8%, Physics 13.5%, Platformer 11.7%, Puzzle 6.8%
Nerdtastic Norman is a 2d scrolling puzzle platformer set in purgatory based on Dante's Inferno. Over 70 unique levels, dangerously hard boss battles, and 1 unique story. Help Norman gather the missing pieces of his shattered soul, and help him return to the land of the living.
Why similar: Metroidvania 36.9%, Puzzle Platformer 18.7%, Physics 8.4%, Platformer 6.1%, Cartoony 5.4%
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 28.8%, Puzzle Platformer 14.2%, Platformer 8.6%, Nonlinear 7.7%, Mystery 7.6%
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 30.8%, Puzzle Platformer 20.6%, Platformer 10.9%, Physics 8.7%, Puzzle 8.5%
Light up the world! As Plug, you are charged with restoring the expansive Amp-Tree-System, and thwarting an enigmatic intruder.
Why similar: Metroidvania 32.7%, Puzzle Platformer 32.3%, Platformer 15.4%, Puzzle 10.2%, Adventure 3.4%
GLITCHVERSE is a knowledge-lock Metroidvania puzzle game. You will explore this unknown and perilous world, acquire a variety of wondrous abilities, discover unexpected ways to use them, and ultimately unravel the secrets of this world.
Why similar: Metroidvania 45.2%, Puzzle Platformer 21.7%, Nonlinear 10%, Puzzle 9.4%, Surreal 3.9%
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 36.4%, Puzzle Platformer 19.3%, Platformer 11.3%, Puzzle 8.8%, Mystery 6.2%
Move lights. Walk on shadows. Surface Tension: Eclipse is a surreal 2D puzzlevania where cast shadows become solid platforms, every room is a spatial riddle, and the darkness hides more than it reveals.
Why similar: Metroidvania 38%, Puzzle Platformer 22.3%, Puzzle 9.3%, Platformer 8.6%, Surreal 8.3%
Type letters that fall and become part of the world. Use their shape and attributes to navigate the puzzles and secrets.
Why similar: Metroidvania 34.6%, Puzzle Platformer 15.8%, Physics 8.8%, Exploration 8.1%, Puzzle 8.1%
A sci-fi fantasy Metroidvania where you play as a vampire adrift in space. Awaken in a strange space lab, explore the station, solve puzzles, defeat enemies, find hidden rooms, collect odd items, awaken lost powers, and uncover a secret buried deep within.
Why similar: Metroidvania 43.9%, Puzzle Platformer 17.6%, Platformer 10.5%, Exploration 10.2%, Puzzle 9.9%
Try the demo! A mix between Portal, Zelda and Metroid. Exploration, puzzles, terrible combat, secret upgrades and new abilities that help you reach new places. Playtime 12-25h.
Why similar: Metroidvania 34.3%, Puzzle Platformer 19.8%, Physics 11.2%, Exploration 8.8%, Puzzle 7.7%
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 34.4%, Puzzle Platformer 21.5%, Platformer 10.2%, Puzzle 8.7%, Exploration 8.5%
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 37.7%, Puzzle Platformer 24.9%, Platformer 16.7%, Exploration 10.4%, Adventure 7.9%
DeltaPhysics is 2D nonlinear platformer - featuring clean physics-based platforming in a dynamic, interactive environment. Master movement upgrades to discover new paths through an interconnected map of platforming challenges and puzzles.
Why similar: Metroidvania 34.6%, Puzzle Platformer 16.1%, Physics 14.1%, Nonlinear 13.7%, Platformer 7%
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 34.2%, Platformer 18.7%, Puzzle Platformer 12.6%, Puzzle 10.5%, Physics 6.3%
Astro to the Rescue is an adventure game where you play as an astronaut stranded on floating islands. Rescue the Lumis from the Shadows through thrilling levels, uncover power-ups, and overcome challenges. Navigate unknown terrain and become the hero this alien world needs.
Why similar: Metroidvania 30.4%, Puzzle Platformer 16.5%, Cartoony 10.2%, Platformer 10%, Exploration 7.7%
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 39.9%, Puzzle Platformer 19%, Exploration 11.3%, Platformer 10.9%, Nonlinear 8.1%
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 33.9%, Puzzle Platformer 17.2%, Platformer 9.8%, Exploration 8.1%, Puzzle 7.8%
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 33%, Puzzle Platformer 16.6%, Platformer 9%, Exploration 8.7%, Physics 7.8%
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 46.3%, Puzzle Platformer 19.5%, Platformer 11.2%, Cartoony 7.8%, Nonlinear 7.7%
A poolcore-inspired Metroidbrainia game. Lost in an abandoned water park, use collected items to power mechanisms and explore deeper. Avoid or outwit unknown entities, solve puzzles, and find a way out.
Why similar: Metroidvania 34.5%, Puzzle Platformer 16.4%, Platformer 9.6%, Exploration 8.3%, Puzzle 8.2%
Venture beneath the Ghost Kingdom where you will encounter strange creatures, solve puzzles and uncover hidden secrets!
Why similar: Metroidvania 30%, Platformer 15.3%, Puzzle Platformer 15.3%, Puzzle 10.7%, Exploration 8.1%
This is the story of an adventurous little witch and her cat in the paper world. The puzzle mainly tests the player's observation of the stage and the application of elements. Use the cat to eat the elements and use them in the right place to open the channel or get new elements.
Why similar: Metroidvania 37.7%, Puzzle Platformer 20.1%, Platformer 10.3%, Cartoony 9.4%, Puzzle 9.2%
Explore a mysterious world where every melody can reveal a forgotten passage. Use your beak, your song and your knowledge to progress and uncover the many secrets buried deep within the Metroidvania Puzzle-Platformer that is TOUKAN.
Why similar: Metroidvania 38.5%, Puzzle Platformer 19.9%, Mystery 12.7%, Exploration 8.5%, Platformer 6.4%
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 38.3%, Puzzle Platformer 19.4%, Platformer 13.8%, Atmospheric 7.1%, Adventure 4.4%
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 27%, Puzzle Platformer 13.2%, Exploration 8.6%, Puzzle 7.8%, Physics 7.5%
A vibrant sci-fi platform adventure game where you help Maxwell the dog explore unfamiliar worlds, make strange new friends and contend with mysterious forces - by jumping, shooting, slicing, shrinking, warping and drilling.
Why similar: Metroidvania 35.4%, Puzzle Platformer 17.9%, Platformer 13.2%, Cartoony 11.9%, Exploration 8.9%
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 36.8%, Puzzle Platformer 19.3%, Platformer 11.1%, Exploration 9.5%, Puzzle 8.8%
Labyrinth of Light is a first-person puzzle game with platforming elements. The player can walk on any illuminated wall. Through a giant concrete maze in the Brutalist style, the player saves a withering tree.
Why similar: Metroidvania 32.2%, Puzzle Platformer 17%, Platformer 12.4%, Puzzle 9.1%, Exploration 8.3%
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 30.7%, Puzzle Platformer 16.7%, Platformer 10.1%, Nonlinear 8.7%, Puzzle 7.7%
FeatherCall is a fast pace, puzzle platformer where you help Luna, a mother blue bird, rescue her lost children. Brave numerous challenges and puzzles by Dashing to new heights, Throwing a guiding feather, and Gliding back to safety!
Why similar: Metroidvania 29.3%, Platformer 15.3%, Puzzle Platformer 14.5%, Puzzle 10.7%, Exploration 9.1%
Refactor is a physics-based platformer taking elements from classic Metroidvanias. Placed in a world that is a puzzle itself, you can literally turn the world upside down by rearranging the map and building your own pathways through the game.
Why similar: Metroidvania 52.1%, Puzzle Platformer 27.6%, Platformer 12%, Adventure 5%, Indie 3.3%
A gravity-bending 3D adventure where everyone turns to stone!
Why similar: Metroidvania 34.2%, Puzzle Platformer 17.6%, Platformer 12.6%, Puzzle 9.3%, Exploration 8.8%
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 51.1%, Platformer 13.2%, Exploration 11.2%, Atmospheric 7%, Mystery 6.3%
Navigate the heart of a war-ravaged world, discovering hidden truths about those around you and yourself.
Why similar: Metroidvania 31.2%, Puzzle Platformer 16.4%, Platformer 11.8%, Cartoony 10.4%, Exploration 8.1%
Explore, discover secrets, gain awesome abilities and use them to find all your lost chickens!
Why similar: Metroidvania 33.7%, Puzzle Platformer 19.5%, Platformer 11.8%, Cartoony 9.2%, Exploration 7.9%
A witch's adventure with nothing but an umbrella. Upbrella is a puzzle platformer where every trick you discover reopens the world in a new way, wrapped in cozy pixel art and a wordless friendship between a girl and a strange little creature.
Why similar: Metroidvania 34.5%, Puzzle Platformer 20.8%, Platformer 9.1%, Exploration 8.3%, Puzzle 8.2%
Play as BANX, a hero wielding a balloon as his weapon... and head? In this hand-animated action adventure set in a solar-punk world, take on hundreds of enemies in fast-paced, free-flow combat, fight an epic cast of bosses, and freely bounce through a stunning, dense, and vertical city.
Why similar: Metroidvania 37%, Puzzle Platformer 16.9%, Platformer 13.6%, Cartoony 11.7%, Physics 6.8%
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 32.2%, Puzzle Platformer 18.7%, Platformer 10.2%, Exploration 9.3%, Nonlinear 8.9%
A minimalist puzzle platformer where each level is more than they seem. Change your perspective on levels to discover new areas. Explore the world to unearth its hidden secrets.
Why similar: Metroidvania 28.7%, Puzzle Platformer 18.1%, Mystery 9.1%, Platformer 8%, Nonlinear 7.9%
RGB Platform is a Metroidvania focused on pure platforming action — move, jump, dash, and attack. Explore the interior of a massive robot, switch between three characters with unique abilities, collect every hidden alphabet, and escape.
Why similar: Metroidvania 31.9%, Puzzle Platformer 16.1%, Platformer 15.8%, Puzzle 11%, Cartoony 10%
Wake up in a world where stories come to life. In this enchanted 8-bit musical adventure, use the power of song to explore whimsical book-inspired realms, solve puzzles, and help Rhapsody find her way home from a library that doesn't want to let her go.
Why similar: Metroidvania 34.8%, Puzzle Platformer 18.5%, Platformer 10.4%, Cartoony 9.1%, Exploration 8.6%
Play as a white fox who senses and harnesses electric fields in silent industrial ruins. Read field lines, alter circuits, exchange charge with the environment, and use your electrical state to overcome obstacles as you climb through a living world-circuit.
Why similar: Metroidvania 35.5%, Puzzle Platformer 13.7%, Physics 12.2%, Exploration 11.3%, Puzzle 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 40.5%, Puzzle Platformer 20.7%, Platformer 8.7%, Atmospheric 7.4%, Adventure 6.4%
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 45.3%, Puzzle Platformer 21.4%, Exploration 12.9%, Puzzle 9.2%, Adventure 3.6%
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 35.6%, Puzzle Platformer 18.1%, Platformer 10%, Exploration 8.6%, Puzzle 8.6%
A Retro Metroidvania focused heavily on Exploration, Puzzle Solving Combat and Platforming.
Why similar: Metroidvania 39%, Puzzle Platformer 21.9%, Platformer 12.3%, Exploration 10.4%, Nonlinear 8.9%
