
A short 2D pixel-style metroidvania where you explore, fight bosses, aquire items and abilities and find secrets. Inspired by games such as You Have to Win the Game and VVVVVV.
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A short 2D pixel-style metroidvania where you explore, fight bosses, aquire items and abilities and find secrets. Inspired by games such as You Have to Win the Game and VVVVVV.

Hollow Floor
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.

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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.
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 44.9%, Retro 11.5%, Pixel Graphics 8.5%, Platformer 8.1%, Exploration 7%
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 36.5%, Nonlinear 16.7%, Platformer 9.2%, Exploration 8.7%, Retro 8.1%
You Have to Win the Game is a free exploration platformer with a retro 1980s PC aesthetic.
Why similar: Metroidvania 57%, Retro 13.7%, Platformer 11.5%, Pixel Graphics 5.1%, Exploration 2.8%
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 53.5%, Exploration 13%, Platformer 11.5%, Pixel Graphics 11.5%, Adventure 6.4%
Play as Captain Grisham, and uncover the secrets of Planet 4-514 in this thrilling prequel to Side Scape!
Why similar: Metroidvania 40.3%, Retro 11.4%, Exploration 9.7%, Platformer 9.5%, Pixel Graphics 8.5%
A fast-paced 2D handcrafted metroidvania with strange sci-fi environments. Something is roaming the halls, watching your every move.
Why similar: Metroidvania 49.1%, Exploration 11.2%, Platformer 9.5%, Pixel Graphics 9.3%, 2D Platformer 6.2%
Explore branching levels, fight quirky bosses, and save the day in this retro platformer inspired by the classics!
Why similar: Nonlinear 31.7%, Retro 14.1%, Platformer 11.4%, Exploration 11%, Pixel Graphics 9.1%
Hop into a Game Boy inspired metroidvania adventure! Explore a huge and open dungeon and find ability upgrades to help you in your quest! Can you survive the tiny dangerous dungeons and find the presumably huge treasure?
Why similar: Metroidvania 34%, Retro 14.1%, Platformer 13.7%, Adventure 10.3%, Pixel Graphics 10.1%
Guns of Fury is a retro-inspired action platformer that combines the run & gun and Metroidvania genres. Explore a vast interconnected world, gain new abilities and weapons, battle epic bosses and stop the plans of an evil corporation before it’s too late!
Why similar: Metroidvania 42.2%, Retro 13.8%, Platformer 12.9%, Pixel Graphics 9.5%, Arcade 6.1%
Simona's Requiem is a retro-styled platformer Inspired by old action-adventure games but with a modern touch. Pick up the scythe as Simona and slash your way to the Fisher King who has hidden behind the moon.
Why similar: Metroidvania 29.7%, Nonlinear 20%, Platformer 10.5%, Exploration 9.7%, Retro 7.2%
Explore an abandoned space station in this retro-themed explorative action platformer.
Why similar: Metroidvania 57.6%, Pixel Graphics 11%, Platformer 10.5%, Retro 6.1%, Adventure 4.7%
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 44.1%, Platformer 11.2%, Pixel Graphics 9.4%, Retro 8.3%, Exploration 7.4%
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 42%, Nonlinear 15.7%, Exploration 10.2%, Platformer 9.2%, Pixel Graphics 8.2%
Explore and uncover the mystery of a surreal alien world by blasting aliens and glitching your environment in this intense retro side-scrolling action/adventure.
Why similar: Metroidvania 61.4%, Platformer 10%, Pixel Graphics 8.1%, Retro 7.2%, Exploration 4.1%
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 39.7%, Retro 12.4%, Platformer 11.6%, Pixel Graphics 8.2%, Exploration 8%
Throw on your nostalgia goggles and travel back in time with Super Win the Game, a retro-core explosion of exploration and platforming action!!
Why similar: Metroidvania 35.6%, Nonlinear 22.6%, Platformer 9.3%, Exploration 8.2%, Retro 7%
Explore a kingdom overrun by evil magic as you fight foes with your own magical bow in this retro inspired action-adventure platformer.
Why similar: Metroidvania 48.2%, Retro 11.3%, Platformer 10.7%, Pixel Graphics 9.7%, Adventure 5.7%
You are the Ball. Escape.
Why similar: Metroidvania 26.2%, Pixel Graphics 17.3%, Exploration 17.1%, 2D Platformer 10.7%, Platformer 9.7%
Explore, solve puzzles, and fight your way through over 100 screens and return your pumpkin pals!
Why similar: Metroidvania 34.8%, Nonlinear 26.3%, Platformer 9.3%, Multiple Endings 5.1%, 2D Platformer 5%
Genopanic is a pixel-art, Metroidvania-inspired adventure-platformer. Explore corridors of the space station, teeming with secrets and dangers, and engage in boss fights. Solve puzzles and uncover hidden mysteries in the dark atmosphere of a sci-fi research complex. Discover the truth with each step
Why similar: Metroidvania 47.5%, Platformer 13.6%, Exploration 11.1%, Pixel Graphics 10.9%, 2D Platformer 6.8%
Explore the mysterious island of Kindara in this vibrant 2D action-adventure. Fight and platform your way through jungles, icy peaks, castles, and crystal caverns in a non-linear interconnected world. Adventure awaits!
Why similar: Metroidvania 39.6%, Nonlinear 24.2%, Exploration 9.4%, Platformer 7.8%, 2D Platformer 5.3%
Five animal friends with unique abillities unite in this metroidvania adventure! You'll need to master each animal's skill to complete your quest! Play as the dog, duck, cat, frog and raccoon at the same time!
Why similar: Metroidvania 34.4%, Nonlinear 22.4%, Exploration 8.3%, Platformer 7.2%, Pixel Graphics 7.1%
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 48.3%, Platformer 11.7%, Exploration 10.9%, Adventure 7%, Retro 6.7%
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 34.9%, Retro 14%, Exploration 11.2%, Platformer 11%, Pixel Graphics 9.4%
Elliot Quest is an adventure/RPG where players explore the mysterious Urele island in search of an ancient demon. With 5 dungeons to conquer, 16 bosses to defeat, and countless treasures to discover and hidden areas. Well-balanced gameplay easy to pick up but challenging to master.
Why similar: Metroidvania 58.7%, Pixel Graphics 12.5%, Platformer 10.9%, Adventure 9.5%, Indie 4.5%
Master Key is a top-down adventure game with a strong focus on item-based exploration and secrets. Embark on a journey to discover what that key could be used for and meet colorful characters!
Why similar: Metroidvania 36%, Nonlinear 19.6%, Retro 13.6%, Pixel Graphics 9.3%, Exploration 9%
Zolg is a minimalist top-down shooter where you explore, fight enemies, collect powerups, and defeat bosses.
Why similar: Metroidvania 43.5%, Nonlinear 17.6%, Exploration 8.9%, Retro 8.2%, Arcade 7.1%
Make your way through more than 600 rooms, and unravel the secrets of your past by finding the five elemental orbs. Cathedral features a vast world, meant for exploring!
Why similar: Metroidvania 58.5%, Retro 10.9%, Platformer 9.4%, Adventure 7.5%, Pixel Graphics 7.4%
Trash Quest is a compact metroidvania with a single spawn point, run and gun action and tight platforming. Navigate an interwoven maze of rooms through this space station, destroying robots, collecting power ups and unlocking shortcuts.
Why similar: Metroidvania 48.3%, Retro 13.4%, Exploration 11.8%, Platformer 7.3%, 2D Platformer 7%
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 49.7%, Platformer 14.9%, Exploration 10.9%, 2D Platformer 6.7%, Adventure 5.8%
Bounce and stomp through an enormous interconnected world, doing some intense acrobatics and getting huge combos! A superfast precision platformer that mixes up a Metroidvania world with classic Arcade mechanics.
Why similar: Metroidvania 43.5%, Platformer 11%, Arcade 10.1%, Pixel Graphics 6.5%, Adventure 6.2%
Space Expedition is a 2D sci-fi platformer where you play as an astronaut who is sent to a space station to collect samples of mysterious dark matter. Space Expedition combines puzzle platforming, pixel art, and atmospheric adventures set in the style of 1980s sci-fi horror films.
Why similar: Exploration 17.8%, Pixel Graphics 16.6%, Platformer 16%, 2D Platformer 11.1%, Space 8.6%
A world of Beauty and Mystery, Emotive Animations, Atmospheric Environments, Visually Driven Story, Metroidvania Exploration and Memorable Sword Duels.
Why similar: Metroidvania 35.5%, Nonlinear 20.8%, Exploration 8%, Retro 7.9%, Platformer 5.8%
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 49.7%, Platformer 11.4%, Pixel Graphics 8.4%, Exploration 7.5%, Nonlinear 6%
VVVVVV is a platform game all about exploring one simple mechanical idea - what if you reversed gravity instead of jumping?
Why similar: Platformer 22.5%, Pixel Graphics 20.7%, Retro 15.3%, Metroidvania 10.5%, 2D Platformer 9.2%
Discover a vast world full of mysteries and action in this Metroidvania-style game inspired by the classics of the 16-bit era.
Why similar: Metroidvania 60.1%, Adventure 11.9%, Platformer 10.1%, Pixel Graphics 8%, Indie 5.9%
A wacky metroidvania. ⚡ Meet weird characters, unlock new abilities and complete a mysterious mission . . .
Why similar: Metroidvania 36%, Adventure 34%, Indie 17.5%, Exploration 8.5%, Colorful 3.9%
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 52.9%, Platformer 14.6%, Exploration 12.8%, Colorful 5.2%, 2D Platformer 4.3%
Rebel Transmute is a challenging 2D action-platformer epic with heart! Explore the twisting caverns of an alien planet, augment your play-style to fit your strengths, battle deadly bosses, and uncover a dark truth as Moon Mikono searches for her long lost mother.
Why similar: Metroidvania 34.6%, Nonlinear 18.8%, Retro 9.8%, Exploration 8.1%, Platformer 7.7%
Explore the depths below a remote mountain town in this procedurally-generated Adventure Platformer. Taking inspiration from hack 'n slash dungeon crawlers and Metroidvania-style platformers, Chasm will immerse you in a fantasy world full of exciting treasure, deadly enemies, and abundant secrets.
Why similar: Metroidvania 62.4%, Pixel Graphics 11.4%, Platformer 10.4%, Adventure 5.7%, Indie 3.3%
Explore a sprawling, alien world in the sequel to the award winning Axiom Verge.
Why similar: Metroidvania 48.5%, Nonlinear 13%, Platformer 12.5%, Adventure 7.9%, Pixel Graphics 7%
Metroidvania style action/platformer with tons of abilities, enemies and exploration.
Why similar: Metroidvania 49.7%, Platformer 16.1%, Pixel Graphics 7.5%, 2D 5.4%, Adventure 5.2%
Metroidvania dungeon crawler about Death & Grief full of puzzles, secrets & challenges. Inspired by old GameBoy Color games with Retro Pixel Art Aesthetics but with challenging boss fights & Lore-Rich
Why similar: Metroidvania 50.7%, Retro 15.2%, Exploration 11.5%, Arcade 10.5%, Adventure 4.8%
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 33.3%, Nonlinear 22.6%, Exploration 9.8%, Platformer 9.6%, Retro 5.7%
Exographer is an exploration game based on science. Become an explorer, stranded in an alien planet, and discover the secrets of an extinct civilization. Gain new powers to avoid dangers and obstacles in your journey, and use your camera to reveal particles and hidden clues.
Why similar: Metroidvania 22.9%, Platformer 17.3%, Exploration 16.7%, Pixel Graphics 11.5%, 2D Platformer 10.1%
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 55.2%, Platformer 11.6%, Exploration 10.4%, 2D 5.2%, 2D Platformer 5%
Dungeon of Zolthan is a casual, arcade-style metroidvania platformer where your goal is to defeat Zolthan; a powerful mage that lives inside the dungeon. Using an array of powerups and your own wit and guile, guide your character through Zolthan's Dungeon!
Why similar: Metroidvania 39.8%, Indie 13.5%, Platformer 13%, Retro 9.5%, Adventure 6.9%
Astronite is a 1bit metroidvania that combines action, exploration, puzzles and platforms. Recover the planet where you and yours lived before it was invaded by strange creatures.
Why similar: Metroidvania 32.6%, Nonlinear 22.4%, Exploration 9.9%, Platformer 9.4%, Pixel Graphics 6.4%
Defeat the mage Kalinur and bring peace back to the kingdom in this mini metroidvania with a lot of action.
Why similar: Metroidvania 39.2%, Platformer 12.7%, Exploration 10%, Pixel Graphics 7.8%, Nonlinear 7.5%
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 44.2%, Platformer 12%, Exploration 11.4%, Pixel Graphics 7.9%, 2D Platformer 6.6%
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 45.8%, Nonlinear 11.1%, Exploration 10.1%, Platformer 9.6%, Adventure 7.1%
Travel to a forgotten world and study alien creatures in this authentic retro metroidvania!
Why similar: Metroidvania 44.5%, Retro 14%, Platformer 13.1%, Pixel Graphics 9.2%, 2D Platformer 6.4%
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 41.4%, Retro 13.4%, Platformer 11.2%, Pixel Graphics 8.8%, 2D Platformer 5.9%
SJ-19 Learns to Love is a short boss focused metroidvania about a killer robot who learns to love~ 💕 Explore, defeat bosses, and gain the power of LOVE!
Why similar: Nonlinear 38.2%, Platformer 18.7%, Pixel Graphics 9.3%, 2D Platformer 9.1%, Metroidvania 7.2%
Metroidvania with challenging puzzles and free exploration as long as you have oxygen.
Why similar: Metroidvania 60.4%, Platformer 25.2%, Indie 14.4%
Critically-acclaimed action-RPG that takes the template laid down by classics like Wonder Boy, nails the 16-Bit aesthetics for nostalgia fans, but updates the mechanics to feel fresh and modern. Explore a beautiful open world and plunder dungeons, caves and forests to help take down epic bosses!
Why similar: Metroidvania 51.7%, Adventure 11%, Retro 10.3%, Platformer 9.4%, Pixel Graphics 8.6%
Cave Crawler is a short, 2D side-scrolling action platformer. Explore caves filled with interesting enemies and fun platforming challenges.
Why similar: Platformer 29.1%, Retro 19.1%, Pixel Graphics 16.7%, 2D Platformer 14.1%, 2D 9.4%
A short adventure in which you will have to use precise platforming in order to find your cat, Xavier.
Why similar: Platformer 31.1%, 2D Platformer 15.3%, Pixel Graphics 14.9%, Adventure 12.8%, 2D 10.4%
Berry is a short orthogonal 3D platformer about a tiny, blue spider. Gain new abilities, weave through projectiles, collect and purchase a variety of items, and combat various bosses in this tiny metroidvania adventure.
Why similar: Metroidvania 38.7%, Platformer 18.9%, Adventure 12.3%, Pixel Graphics 8.6%, 2D Platformer 8%