Games Like Rain World

As a powerful Lynx, you will make your way through vast open landscapes. In the harsh tundra, you will raise and strengthen your cubs by mastering your skills for hunting prey. Do everything you can to prepare your little ones for the vicious entities dwelling in the wilderness.

Why similar: Survival 34.6%, Atmospheric 17.7%, Exploration 15.2%, Cute 10.9%, Simulation 6.9%

Why You'll Like It: You play as a wild lynx raising cubs, hunting food, and protecting your family from natural dangers in a melancholic animal-survival experience.

Descend into the depths of an alien underwater world filled with wonder and peril. Craft equipment, pilot submarines and out-smart wildlife to explore lush coral reefs, volcanoes, cave systems, and more - all while trying to survive.

Why similar: Survival 36.9%, Open World 20.8%, Exploration 14.8%, Survival Horror 10.4%, Atmospheric 7.6%

Why You'll Like It: Its open alien ocean is a similarly captivating predator-filled ecosystem where cautious exploration, food gathering, and learning creature behavior are essential to survival.

Control a herd of charming creatures called Trebhum and explore an unforgettable alien world filled with exotic lifeforms and surreal environments. Discover dozens of mutations to overcome puzzles, explore new biomes, and survive on a dangerous planet.

Why similar: Survival 26.9%, Open World 19.2%, Exploration 13.7%, Atmospheric 12.8%, Platformer 12.5%

Why You'll Like It: This strange ecological survival adventure centers on a vulnerable creature adapting to an alien world full of bizarre fauna, environmental hazards, and looming catastrophe.

A desperate, savage survival experience full of stunning visuals, dynamic creatures, and a haunting soundtrack.

Why similar: Platformer 29.3%, Difficult 20.8%, Atmospheric 15.8%, Indie 14.2%, Action 8.6%

Why You'll Like It: A wordless, atmospheric 2D journey through a dangerous wilderness where a small creature must evade much larger predators feels especially close to Rain World's animal vulnerability.

Noita is a magical action roguelite set in a world where every pixel is physically simulated. Fight, explore, melt, burn, freeze and evaporate your way through the procedurally generated world using spells you've created yourself.

Why similar: Difficult 37.6%, Open World 14.6%, Physics 13.6%, Pixel Graphics 13.2%, 2D Platformer 9.8%

Why You'll Like It: Though more combat-driven, its systemic pixel world rewards experimentation while making every creature, physics interaction, and environmental hazard potentially lethal.

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 33.7%, Platformer 14.5%, Exploration 13.3%, Pixel Graphics 11.9%, Atmospheric 9.5%

Why You'll Like It: Its dense, mysterious world encourages patient exploration and environmental observation, with unnerving animals and secrets replacing conventional combat progression.

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 25%, Difficult 22%, Souls-like 12.5%, Platformer 11.5%, Atmospheric 6.1%

Why You'll Like It: Its immense ruined kingdom, challenging navigation, hidden routes, and mournful atmosphere make it a strong choice for players who value difficult exploratory immersion.

In this story-based adventure, play as a tiny sugar glider in your very own nature documentary. Glide among the trees, fight dangerous predators, and explore beautiful environments as you embark on a high-flying journey to save your family.

Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 25.4%, Platformer 19.5%, Open World 17.6%, Exploration 14%, Atmospheric 11.9%

Why You'll Like It: It focuses on surviving as a small animal in a predator-heavy natural world, emphasizing evasion, traversal, and ecological perspective over direct combat.

Don’t Starve is an uncompromising wilderness survival game full of science and magic. Enter a strange and unexplored world full of strange creatures, dangers, and surprises. Gather resources to craft items and structures that match your survival style.

Why similar: Survival 52.6%, Difficult 12.2%, Open World 10%, Exploration 7.1%, Indie 4.5%

Why You'll Like It: Its hostile procedural wilderness similarly turns hunger, weather, unfamiliar creatures, and experimentation into constant survival concerns.

Survive your evolution in Neogene Africa starting 10 million years ago. Ancestors: The Humankind Odyssey is a third-person open world survival game where you Explore, Expand, and Evolve to advance your clan to the next generation in the exciting new adventure from Panache Digital Games.

Why similar: Survival 33.4%, Open World 22.2%, Exploration 15.5%, Atmospheric 11.2%, Simulation 5.2%

Why You'll Like It: Its unforgiving wilderness asks you to learn a dangerous ecosystem, avoid predators, find resources, and gradually master survival through observation.

Spelunky 2 builds upon the unique, randomized challenges that made the original a roguelike classic, offering a huge adventure designed to satisfy players old and new. Meet the next generation of explorers as they find themselves on the Moon, searching for treasure and missing family.

Why similar: Difficult 40.4%, Platformer 23.8%, 2D Platformer 18.2%, Cute 6%, 2D 4.9%

Why You'll Like It: The brutal platforming and highly reactive systems create the same tense feeling that every creature, object, and route can unexpectedly end a run.

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

Why similar: Metroidvania 38.2%, Difficult 15.4%, Platformer 13.4%, Pixel Graphics 13.1%, Exploration 4.4%

Why You'll Like It: Its desolate pixel-art stations, cryptic discoveries, and hostile alien environments offer a similarly lonely and demanding exploration experience.

BELOW is a solitary journey through the haunted depths of a forbidden isle. Explore. Survive. Discover.

Why similar: Difficult 32.8%, Open World 25.1%, Souls-like 19.2%, Exploration 12.2%, Adventure 5%

Why You'll Like It: This bleak, lonely descent combines scarce resources, punishing exploration, and opaque environmental danger in a world that offers little comfort.

Darkwood - a new perspective on survival horror. Scavenge and explore a rich, ever-changing free-roam world by day, then hunker down in your hideout and pray for the morning light.

Why similar: Survival 26.6%, Survival Horror 19.4%, Open World 17.7%, Atmospheric 13.6%, Exploration 12.9%

Why You'll Like It: Its oppressive atmosphere and survival mechanics make every excursion into its hostile, unknowable wilderness feel dangerous and consequential.

Explore the ruins of the human race and discover the thriving wildlife that blossomed after our extinction in this underwater action/adventure. Encounter monstrous creatures and let curiosity guide you through an inevitable voyage of extinction.

Why similar: Metroidvania 35.6%, Post-apocalyptic 14.5%, Difficult 11.7%, Pixel Graphics 11.6%, Adventure 6.4%

Why You'll Like It: This lonely underwater exploration game captures Rain World's melancholy ruins, hostile creatures, and sense of being a small survivor in a fallen ecosystem.

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

Why similar: Difficult 28.3%, Pixel Graphics 14.9%, Atmospheric 11.3%, Metroidvania 10.4%, Post-apocalyptic 9%

Why You'll Like It: Its ruined world, sparse storytelling, difficult encounters, and evocative pixel environments capture some of Rain World's lonely post-collapse mood.

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: Platformer 19.1%, Pixel Graphics 18.5%, Difficult 16.6%, Atmospheric 11.9%, Indie 7.8%

Why You'll Like It: You guide a vulnerable slime through grim laboratories and ruined spaces, using physical movement puzzles to survive a hostile sci-fi world.

CARRION is a reverse horror game in which you assume the role of an amorphous creature of unknown origins, stalking and consuming those that imprisoned you.

Why similar: Metroidvania 38%, Pixel Graphics 20.9%, Physics 7.8%, 2D 6.7%, Platformer 6.5%

Why You'll Like It: While it reverses the prey perspective by making you the monster, its creature-like movement through hostile facilities and emergent environmental interactions remain a compelling counterpart.

Destroy... Absorb... Grow... GRIME is a fast and unforgiving Action-Adventure RPG in which you crush your foes with living weapons that mutate form and function, and then consume their remains with a black hole to strengthen your vessel as you break apart a world of anatomical horror and intrigue.

Why similar: Difficult 24.9%, Metroidvania 23.7%, Souls-like 15.4%, Platformer 13.3%, Exploration 7.9%

Why You'll Like It: This demanding alien metroidvania offers a similarly strange ecosystem, oppressive atmosphere, and need to learn hostile environments through repeated failure.

The End Is Nigh is a sprawling adventure platformer where you die a lot, but thats ok because you are probably already dead anyway.

Why similar: Difficult 42.4%, Platformer 25.1%, Post-apocalyptic 8.1%, Indie 5.5%, Pixel Graphics 4.8%

Why You'll Like It: Its relentlessly difficult movement challenges and bleak post-apocalyptic tone suit players who enjoy Rain World's demanding platforming mastery.

The legendary Knytt series continues with Nifflas’ latest creation; Knytt Underground. In this Knytteration; humans have long since abandoned the planet after practically destroying it in a war, five hundred years ago.

Why similar: Metroidvania 31.8%, Platformer 27.8%, Exploration 16.8%, Indie 8.1%, Atmospheric 6.8%

Why You'll Like It: It shares Rain World's vast interconnected caverns and quiet sense of isolation, emphasizing wandering through strange places rather than following a rigid path.

Take on the role of Six, a lone child lost in a massive metal vessel known as the Maw, surrounded by dangerous, distorted versions of adults. You’ll need to do your best to escape in one piece or your fate will be worse than you ever dared dream.

Why similar: Atmospheric 35.1%, Platformer 24%, Survival Horror 16.1%, Adventure 11.3%, Indie 7.1%

Why You'll Like It: Its small protagonist, oversized predators, and grotesque industrial environments evoke Rain World's feeling of being helpless in a world built to consume you.

Selected by the fickle finger of fate, Abe™, floor-waxer first class for RuptureFarms, was catapulted into a life of adventure when he overheard plans by his boss, Molluck the Glukkon™, to turn Abe and his fellow Mudokons into Tasty Treats as part of a last-ditch effort to rescue Molluck's failing meat-packing empire.

Why similar: Adventure 59.5%, Platformer 20.8%, Difficult 9.8%, 2D 4.3%, Atmospheric 3.5%

Why You'll Like It: You are a fragile prey animal navigating lethal industrial spaces, relying on careful movement, stealth, and knowledge of dangerous inhabitants.

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: Difficult 24.1%, Metroidvania 23.6%, Souls-like 12.4%, Platformer 10.1%, Exploration 6.3%

Thousands of years after the activation of the Vesper Protocol, a small android crosses a fallen world, hunted by merciless machines, to control the power of Light and decide the fate of his race.

Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 26%, Platformer 20.9%, 2D Platformer 17.6%, Exploration 14.9%, 2D 6.6%

Why You'll Like It: This bleak sci-fi platformer emphasizes stealthy traversal, scavenging abandoned machinery, and staying unnoticed in a dangerous mechanical wasteland.

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 29.4%, 2D Platformer 24%, Atmospheric 23.4%, Indie 7.9%, Adventure 7.6%

Why You'll Like It: Its wordless dystopian journey through brutal facilities and hostile landscapes delivers similarly oppressive environmental storytelling and vulnerability.

Uncertain of his sister's fate, a boy enters LIMBO

Why similar: Platformer 33.1%, Atmospheric 20.8%, Difficult 15.5%, Indie 9.7%, 2D 7.6%

Why You'll Like It: This minimalist, dangerous platforming odyssey shares Rain World's silent storytelling, predatory threats, and constant tension around each obstacle.

Barotrauma is a 2D co-op submarine simulator – in space, with survival horror and RPG elements. Steer your submarine, complete missions, fight monsters, fix leaks, operate machinery, man the guns and craft items, and stay alert: danger in Barotrauma doesn’t announce itself!

Why similar: Survival 37.9%, Difficult 24.6%, Survival Horror 21.9%, 2D 7.2%, Simulation 5.3%

Why You'll Like It: Its underwater survival setting turns exploration into a desperate struggle against monsters, equipment failures, and an uncaring alien environment.

Escape the depths of an otherworldly labyrinth in this cinematic puzzle platformer. Explore a hauntingly beautiful world, with three playable characters, in one dark, interconnected story.

Why similar: Platformer 19%, Pixel Graphics 18.9%, Exploration 16.4%, Atmospheric 16.1%, 2D Platformer 12.2%

Why You'll Like It: Its somber pixel-art world, punishing hazards, and environmental melancholy make it a strong atmospheric alternative despite its more narrative structure.

Nine Sols is a lore rich, hand-drawn 2D action-platformer featuring Sekiro-inspired deflection focused combat. Embark on a journey of eastern fantasy, explore the land once home to an ancient alien race, and follow a vengeful hero’s quest to slay the 9 Sols, formidable rulers of this forsaken realm.

Why similar: Difficult 26.7%, Metroidvania 25.2%, Souls-like 15.3%, Platformer 12.9%, Atmospheric 7.5%

LA-MULANA is an “Archaeological Ruin Exploration Action Game,” bringing the classic appeal of adventure with the punishing difficulty of retro-inspired gaming. Search inside ancient ruins, seeking out the “Secret Treasure of Life” – which sleeps in the sprawling ruins of “LA-MULANA” and is said to be the beginning of all civilization.

Why similar: Metroidvania 33.3%, Difficult 30.4%, Platformer 15%, Exploration 7.6%, Pixel Graphics 3.5%

Why You'll Like It: Its cryptic ruins and dangerous interconnected world reward the same patient observation and persistence needed to understand Rain World's environments.

The cult classic open-ended wilderness survival roguelike taking place in the ancient North, iron-age Finland. Throughout the years, UnReal World has been praised for its incredible depth, realism, atmos and immersion. Lose yourself in the most intricate, detailed and enchanting iron-age game world.

Why similar: Survival 53.7%, Open World 36.5%, Adventure 7%, Singleplayer 2.7%

Why You'll Like It: This uncompromising wilderness survival simulation similarly asks you to respect hunger, weather, wildlife, and the consequences of poor preparation.

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 37%, Platformer 13.1%, Pixel Graphics 13%, Difficult 8.8%, Indie 5.7%

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: Difficult 36.2%, Platformer 16.2%, Pixel Graphics 12.6%, 2D Platformer 12.1%, Atmospheric 4.5%

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 24%, Difficult 20.5%, Platformer 12.5%, Souls-like 10.5%, Exploration 9.3%

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: Pixel Graphics 27%, Atmospheric 21.8%, Cute 15.4%, Exploration 10.8%, Indie 8.9%

NIGHT IN THE WOODS is an adventure game focused on exploration, story, and character, featuring dozens of characters to meet and lots to do across a lush, vibrant world.

Why similar: Platformer 24.5%, Atmospheric 19.4%, 2D Platformer 19.3%, Exploration 17.9%, 2D 8.5%

Rusted Moss is a twin-stick shooter metroidvania where you sling around the map with your grapple, blasting your way through witches and rusted machine monstrosities alike. This wasteland once harboring mankind has since fallen, and Fae long forgotten now knock on humanity's door...

Why similar: Difficult 19.9%, Metroidvania 17.5%, Platformer 16.8%, Post-apocalyptic 12.9%, 2D Platformer 8.5%

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 25%, Platformer 12.3%, Open World 11.6%, 2D Platformer 9.8%, Exploration 9.8%

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: Difficult 26.6%, Metroidvania 24.9%, Souls-like 16.8%, Exploration 14.7%, Cute 6.8%

“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.

Why similar: Metroidvania 30.7%, Platformer 18.4%, Difficult 17.7%, Atmospheric 14.3%, Cute 4.7%

Traverse a dried-out seabed littered with the remains of a decaying civilization. Keep your unique vessel going, overcome numerous obstacles and withstand the hazardous weather conditions. How far can you make it? What will you find?

Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 25.9%, Survival 19.3%, Atmospheric 15.8%, Platformer 14%, Exploration 12.1%

A colorful action platformer with metroidvania elements and a staff that unlocks unique combat techniques and new ways to overcome obstacles. Explore beautiful worlds, fight monsters, and help Mako stop the amber storms that poison all living things.

Why similar: Difficult 21.6%, Metroidvania 15.5%, Platformer 10.5%, 2D Platformer 9.5%, Exploration 8.8%

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 29.7%, Platformer 16.9%, Difficult 13.4%, Atmospheric 8.6%, Exploration 7.1%

Explore a haunting, punishing island in this stylized 2D action RPG. Salt and Sanctuary combines fast and brutal 2D combat with richly developed RPG mechanics in a cursed realm of forgotten cities, blood-soaked dungeons, and desecrated monuments.

Why similar: Souls-like 31.8%, Metroidvania 24%, Difficult 23.4%, Platformer 8.5%, 2D 4.1%

Welcome to the charming world of Eastward - population declining! Journey through a society on the brink of collapse. Discover delightful towns, strange creatures and even stranger people! Wield a trusty frying pan and mystic powers on an adventure into the unknown…

Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 29.8%, Pixel Graphics 21.6%, Atmospheric 16.2%, Cute 9.2%, 2D 6.8%

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 19.5%, Difficult 17.9%, Platformer 14.5%, Atmospheric 9.7%, Exploration 7.2%

Dead Cells is a roguelite, metroidvania inspired, action-platformer. You'll explore a sprawling, ever-changing castle... assuming you’re able to fight your way past its keepers in 2D souls-lite combat. No checkpoints. Kill, die, learn, repeat.

Why similar: Metroidvania 24.1%, Souls-like 15.4%, Difficult 14.3%, Platformer 13.5%, Pixel Graphics 10.1%

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 36.5%, Platformer 13.9%, Atmospheric 13.8%, Exploration 13.4%, Cute 8.7%

Reaping souls of the dead and punching a clock might get monotonous but it's honest work for a Crow. The job gets lively when your assigned soul is stolen and you must track down a desperate thief to a realm untouched by death - where creatures grow far past their expiry.

Why similar: Souls-like 32.4%, Metroidvania 25.7%, Exploration 14.5%, Cute 13.4%, Adventure 6.3%

“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: Metroidvania 26%, Platformer 17.4%, Difficult 17.1%, Atmospheric 14.1%, Cute 5.4%

A metroidvania that combines the visual style of classic retro games with the fluid gameplay of modern titles. Explore different worlds, face challenging enemies and bosses, and absorb their powers to destroy the Core of Infinitevania.

Why similar: Metroidvania 22.5%, Difficult 18.7%, Platformer 12.9%, Souls-like 11.7%, 2D Platformer 8.3%

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

Why similar: 2D Platformer 17.2%, Platformer 16.6%, Pixel Graphics 13.8%, Physics 13%, Exploration 12.5%

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 26.7%, Platformer 14.4%, Pixel Graphics 11.9%, 2D Platformer 11.2%, Exploration 11%

You are trapped in an experiment, trying to find ways to make you still "yourself" , persevere, and survive.

Why similar: Difficult 45.3%, Cute 13.9%, Pixel Graphics 13.3%, Survival Horror 8.7%, 2D 4.6%

Apocalyptic Cat is an atmospheric hardcore platformer about a little black cat's journey in a post-apocalyptic world. Overcome toxic clouds, spikes, and obstacles, striving to fulfill his last dream of reaching paradise.

Why similar: Difficult 26.7%, Post-apocalyptic 16.4%, Platformer 12.9%, 2D Platformer 12.1%, Survival 11%

Inhabit a deeply-simulated science fantasy world and chisel through layers of thousand-year-old civilizations. Build a character from over a hundred mutations and cybernetics. The award-winning sandbox roguelike & RPG full of robots, deep lore, and sentient plants.

Why similar: Difficult 30.1%, Open World 24.6%, Survival 21.8%, Atmospheric 11.1%, Pixel Graphics 10.8%

Ria's journey to the strange storm...

Why similar: Difficult 33.1%, Platformer 15.2%, 2D Platformer 9.2%, Survival Horror 7.5%, Physics 6.2%

Guide Pronty and its Javelin partner Bront as it defends the once great city of Royla. Explore the deep sea, fight mutant sea creatures, and discover the secrets behind this new Atlantis in this beautiful action-packed adventure.

Why similar: Difficult 23.4%, Metroidvania 21.9%, Platformer 10.6%, 2D Platformer 8.7%, Atmospheric 8.5%

The Animal Evolution Roguelite. Hunt, Flee, Scavenge and Thrive in a living ecosystem. Choose from 125+ Evolutions and Specialisations for unique creature combinations in every run. Adapt to survive the natural curve in order to beat carcinisation... or get Darwin'd trying!

Why similar: Survival 35.6%, Pixel Graphics 17.3%, Exploration 15.7%, Cute 10.5%, 2D 7.4%