Games Like REDO!

A classic survival horror experience set in a dystopian future where humanity has uncovered a dark secret. Unravel a cosmic mystery, escape terrifying creatures, and scavenge an off-world government facility as Elster, a technician Replika searching for her lost dreams.

Why similar: Female Protagonist 32.9%, Sci-fi 19.2%, Dark 18%, Atmospheric 13.9%, Action 8.2%

Why You'll Like It: It perfectly captures the same sense of dread, isolation, and atmospheric storytelling found in REDO! within a sci-fi setting.

EXPLORE YOUR WAY. Awoken to a world ruined by war, Alma must traverse the vast city of Arcadia before the life force of her friends and herself withers away. Time is ticking, and every moment matters. Who will you save, and who will you leave to turn UNSIGHTED?

Why similar: Metroidvania 33.4%, Female Protagonist 14.6%, Post-apocalyptic 11.6%, Pixel Graphics 8.7%, Action 7.3%

Why You'll Like It: It features a similar focus on exploration and a strong female protagonist navigating a crumbling, dystopian world.

On the desolate moon of Lorian, a long-dormant Deadsuit awakens from slumber. Journey beneath the surface on an atmospheric 2D adventure of self-discovery, ancient mysteries, and cosmic terror. Explore winding caverns and acquire new abilities to unearth this alien world’s long-buried secrets.

Why similar: Metroidvania 31%, Post-apocalyptic 10.7%, Sci-fi 8.1%, Female Protagonist 8.1%, Dark 7.7%

Why You'll Like It: This title mirrors the lonely, melancholic atmosphere and sci-fi exploration themes that define the experience of REDO!.

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: Metroidvania 26.6%, Post-apocalyptic 14.9%, Female Protagonist 11.1%, Difficult 10.6%, Dark 8.2%

Why You'll Like It: It combines precise movement mechanics with a desolate, post-human world that feels stylistically aligned with REDO!.

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

Why similar: Metroidvania 54.6%, Pixel Graphics 12.4%, Difficult 7.3%, Adventure 7%, Action 6.1%

Why You'll Like It: This game shares a deep focus on cryptic exploration and challenging boss encounters within a minimalist, atmospheric pixel-art world.

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 46.8%, Female Protagonist 16.9%, Post-apocalyptic 9.4%, Difficult 8.4%, Dark 6%

Why You'll Like It: This game features a hauntingly beautiful, melancholic atmosphere and a female protagonist navigating a dark, ruined kingdom.

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 57.4%, Pixel Graphics 12.6%, Difficult 10.3%, Action 4.9%, Horror 4.9%

Why You'll Like It: It offers a similarly dark, oppressive atmosphere and challenging combat mechanics that reward careful exploration of a ruined world.

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

Why similar: Metroidvania 16.9%, Difficult 16.6%, Pixel Graphics 16.4%, Post-apocalyptic 11.4%, Atmospheric 9.3%

Why You'll Like It: This game excels at wordless, atmospheric storytelling and exploration of a beautiful yet decaying landscape.

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 42.9%, Female Protagonist 18.5%, Pixel Graphics 12.1%, Action 8.3%, Adventure 8.2%

Why You'll Like It: It offers a strong narrative-driven experience with beautiful pixel art and a female protagonist at the center of a dystopian conflict.

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 50.8%, Pixel Graphics 11.4%, Action 8.7%, Adventure 7.6%, 2D 4.7%

Why You'll Like It: This title provides a tight, sci-fi metroidvania experience that captures the feeling of being a lone explorer in a hostile environment.

Dive into the latest evolution of The Last Faith: a dark and gothic fusion of metroidvania and soulslike. Engage in merciless and precise combat with a huge range of weapons, firearms, and custom executions. Let nothing stand in the way of your journey to salvation.

Why similar: Metroidvania 49.2%, Pixel Graphics 12.2%, Difficult 10.9%, Horror 7.1%, Action 6.1%

Why You'll Like It: It blends gothic horror aesthetics with metroidvania exploration, providing the same dark, challenging combat experience.

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 30.9%, Female Protagonist 11.3%, Difficult 11.1%, Nonlinear 10.3%, Sci-fi 8.5%

Why You'll Like It: This game offers a sci-fi metroidvania experience with a strong focus on exploration and challenging boss fights.

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 46.6%, Nonlinear 13%, Pixel Graphics 11.8%, Adventure 9%, Atmospheric 8.3%

Why You'll Like It: This game features a post-apocalyptic world populated by machines, echoing the core thematic premise of REDO!.

In a bizarre universe where the oppressed are on the brink of oblivion, Dandara has awoken to reshape the world.

Why similar: Metroidvania 48.3%, Action 14.5%, Female Protagonist 13.6%, Pixel Graphics 8.8%, Difficult 6.5%

Why You'll Like It: Its unique movement mechanics and surreal, atmospheric world provide a fresh take on the metroidvania genre.

Lost Ruins is a 2D side-scrolling survival action game, where you play as a young girl that has awoken in a strange and foreign place without her memories. Explore a dark and dangerous world, battle hideous monsters, and topple incredible bosses.

Why similar: Metroidvania 42.2%, Pixel Graphics 11.8%, Female Protagonist 8.8%, Action 8.3%, Dark 7.8%

Why You'll Like It: It features a female protagonist in a dangerous, atmospheric world with a heavy emphasis on tactical combat.

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: Metroidvania 51.9%, Difficult 17.6%, Action 6.7%, Dark 6.5%, 2D 5.6%

Why You'll Like It: It provides a bleak, souls-like metroidvania experience that emphasizes exploration and punishing, atmospheric combat.

After Death is a platform / exploration game in a dark and hostile world. With the help from lost souls, you will have to find a way to open a gate which seems to be the only exit from this mysterious world infected by monsters.

Why similar: Metroidvania 51.5%, Action 12.1%, Adventure 12.1%, Horror 7.8%, Pixel Graphics 7.6%

Why You'll Like It: It is a direct thematic match, focusing on lonely exploration and atmospheric discovery in a mysterious, ruined world.

Paradox Soul is a chilling fight for exploration and survival; a Metroidvania pixel action-shooter hybrid!

Why similar: Metroidvania 23.9%, Post-apocalyptic 15.6%, Difficult 8.7%, Female Protagonist 7.7%, Dark 7.3%

Why You'll Like It: This game shares the post-apocalyptic, pixel-art aesthetic and focuses on surviving in a hostile, lonely environment.

Sundered is a chaotic hand­-drawn metroidvania where you resist or embrace ancient eldritch powers, a challenging and unique take on a classic genre from the creators of Jotun, now with local co-op!

Why similar: Metroidvania 46.1%, Female Protagonist 14.4%, Difficult 9.9%, Action 5.9%, Atmospheric 4.8%

Why You'll Like It: This game features intense, horror-tinged combat and a sprawling, atmospheric map that rewards curious explorers.

Death's Gambit: Afterlife is a challenging 2D action platformer with deep RPG elements. As an agent of Death bound to his service, unravel the mystery of Siradon and discover the true price of immortality.

Why similar: Metroidvania 52.3%, Pixel Graphics 12.8%, Difficult 9.8%, Action 8.3%, Adventure 6.8%

Why You'll Like It: This game offers a dark, souls-like metroidvania experience with a heavy emphasis on lore and atmospheric world-building.

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 51.7%, Pixel Graphics 13.1%, Adventure 9.7%, Action 9%, Atmospheric 7.6%

Why You'll Like It: It focuses heavily on intricate platforming and exploration within a world that feels both expansive and mysterious.

Explore the mysteries of an unknown land! ”Transiruby '' is a metroidvania game where you explore the world as a cyborg protagonist named Siruby. Slash and shoot your way to reveal its hidden secrets!

Why similar: Metroidvania 55.7%, Pixel Graphics 16.6%, Action 10.6%, Female Protagonist 10%, 2D 3.5%

Why You'll Like It: It offers a charming yet engaging metroidvania experience with a focus on exploration and discovery.

A Void Hope takes you on an atmospheric narrative adventure to find a cure for a collapsed city. Follow the story of a tormented couple as they try to decipher reality from nightmares and evade the shadowy threats lurking in the dark.

Why similar: Immersive 36.1% ★, Atmospheric 13%, Adventure 11.6%, Dark 11%, Female Protagonist 10.6%

Why You'll Like It: It emphasizes the dystopian, atmospheric adventure aspects of the genre with a focus on environmental storytelling.

Armed with God-given powers, the revived tribune Adrestia is given a second chance to save the universe from her maniacal twin sister. Find secrets, acquire upgrades, and dominate mighty foes through sheer combat prowess as you explore and conquer the horrors of the forsaken vessel Atromitos.

Why similar: Metroidvania 36%, Female Protagonist 13.7%, Dark 12%, Sci-fi 11.2%, Exploration 7%

Why You'll Like It: This game captures a similar sense of dramatic, sci-fi exploration and atmospheric storytelling.

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 57.6%, Adventure 11%, Atmospheric 10.8%, Action 8.3%, Exploration 6.6%

Why You'll Like It: While slightly more vibrant, it shares the core metroidvania DNA of exploration and discovery in a fractured world.

Claire is alone, lost, and hunted. The world has quickly becomes shrouded in darkness with unseen threats stalking Claire from the shadows. Aided by her dog and armed only with a flashlight, Claire must conquer her fear and find her comatose mother. However, there are others lost in the darkness seeking salvation.

Why similar: Female Protagonist 25.1%, Horror 24.5%, Pixel Graphics 14.2%, Adventure 10.9%, Action 9.5%

Why You'll Like It: It leans heavily into the horror and atmospheric elements of the genre, focusing on a protagonist navigating a dark, unsettling world.

Uphold your pact with the Titan of Death, Epimetheus! Fight, climb and solve your way through a twisted tower as three unique adventurers, on a mission to save their village from impending doom!

Why similar: Metroidvania 39.8%, Post-apocalyptic 25.7%, Pixel Graphics 9.1%, Action 6.7%, Adventure 6.5%

Why You'll Like It: It features classic pixel-art aesthetics and a deep, interconnected map that rewards the same exploration style found in REDO!.

A great unknown danger is approaching Roah's home planet. Follow Roah as she explores the world and encountering all of its different factions, uncovering the mystery of what is draining the planets lifeforce.

Why similar: Metroidvania 31.6%, Female Protagonist 21.6%, Action 14.2%, Difficult 12.3%, Adventure 12.2%

Why You'll Like It: This title features a female protagonist and a vast, interconnected world that encourages exploration and discovery.

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 52.3%, Difficult 20%, Atmospheric 7.7%, Exploration 6%, Action 5.9%

Why You'll Like It: This game provides a massive, challenging world to explore that will satisfy those who enjoy the difficulty of REDO!.

Embark on a journey through the longest night with Leila, a valiant member of the Vigilant Order. Delve into the hidden truths shrouded in eternal darkness, unravel the mystery surrounding Leila's enigmatic sister, and confront the eldritch horrors lurking in a world that has lost the light of day.

Why similar: Metroidvania 46.2%, Female Protagonist 17.8%, Difficult 16.2%, Horror 9.8%, Action 5.7%

The end of the world just started and everyone is gone. The machines took over and your only goal is to look for your missing sister in a retro wave atmosphere. Fight and find your way into the danger with your shield in this vibrant pixel art world.

Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 26.6%, Female Protagonist 26.3%, Pixel Graphics 15.2%, Action 14%, Adventure 13.2%

Trapped in a buried, forgotten facility, you must reach the core of an ancient machine to rescue your lost lover. System Purge is a challenging, atmospheric 2D platformer.

Why similar: Metroidvania 19.1%, Female Protagonist 18.4%, Dark 12.3%, Horror 11.9%, Pixel Graphics 10%

Welcome to Planet E1d0r4d0 is a narrative-driven management sim and side-scrolling hunting adventure about a young girl searching for the meaning of existence at the edge of the cosmos. In this chaotic, lawless universe, even immortality feels devastatingly fragile.

Why similar: Metroidvania 45.6%, Female Protagonist 22.9%, Pixel Graphics 14.8%, Adventure 10.9%, 2D 5.9%

A tough platformer following a girl diving over the heads of terrifying creatures and bouncing off walls to traverse a mysterious, unsettling world that's so much bigger than her: the "world between all worlds"

Why similar: Action 18.3%, Pixel Graphics 17.2%, Horror 15.8%, Female Protagonist 15.4%, Exploration 12%

Make your way on foot, on a hoverbike, up skyscrapers, and down bottomless pits, as you exterminate a threat of unknown origin!

Why similar: Female Protagonist 34.9%, Action 21.1%, Sci-fi 19.6%, Pixel Graphics 11.6%, Indie 6.9%

Why You'll Like It: It offers a retro-styled, action-heavy experience that focuses on the core loop of exploration and survival.

Awita: Journey of Hope is a captivating side-scrolling metroidvania game that follows the remarkable journey of a courageous girl determined to rescue her village from the clutches of a devastating epidemic.

Why similar: Metroidvania 43.7%, Female Protagonist 16%, Pixel Graphics 10.5%, Atmospheric 7.4%, Exploration 6.7%

A hand-drawn 2D metroidvania in a post-apocalyptic world. Forge your destiny in a non-linear story with multiple endings. Explore diverse biomes, conquer 20+ unique bosses, and master a magical Gauntlet with ever-evolving powers.

Why similar: Metroidvania 44%, Post-apocalyptic 16.5%, Action 10.4%, Female Protagonist 8.6%, Sci-fi 7.6%

Discover the world of Nahucan in this 2D action platformer. You are Itorah, the only human in this strange place. Explore, fight and survive to uncover your past and save Nahucan from its biggest threat, a mysterious plague!

Why similar: Metroidvania 47.3%, Female Protagonist 21.2%, Action 8.8%, Adventure 8.5%, Exploration 7.2%

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 43.1%, Post-apocalyptic 13.2%, Adventure 10.6%, Action 10%, Pixel Graphics 9.1%

Ruby the ghost hunter has a tough gig this Halloween. Explore the haunted mansion, take down some ghosts, battle spooky bosses, and rescue the lost cats!

Why similar: Metroidvania 32%, Female Protagonist 15.2%, Action 15%, Nonlinear 11.3%, Difficult 9.7%

"シシテナオ-Even in Death-" is stealth horror action game that requires trial and error. It tells the story of a young girl who wakes up in a strange and unsettling world, where eerie creatures known as "Ochibito" roam.

Why similar: Female Protagonist 26.8%, Horror 22.9%, Dark 20.8%, Action 16.8%, 2D 9.1%

Explore a sprawling, alien world in the sequel to the award winning Axiom Verge.

Why similar: Metroidvania 42.3%, Action 12%, Adventure 10.7%, Female Protagonist 9.8%, Pixel Graphics 7.2%

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 59.3%, Pixel Graphics 9.2%, Sci-fi 6.7%, Action 5.5%, Adventure 4.6%

Re:Turn - One Way Trip is a 2D side-scrolling puzzle-adventure horror game. Trapped in a ghostly train, Saki must search the past and present to find and save her friends. More importantly, Saki must use her wits if she is to survive against an unspeakable evil hellbent on avenging unrequited love.

Why similar: Female Protagonist 33.5%, Horror 25.5%, Pixel Graphics 17.5%, Exploration 14%, 2D 9.4%

Test your limits in ITTA, a bullet-hell, boss-rush style adventure. Armed with her father’s revolver and guided by a strange ghostly cat, a displaced girl must battle her way through impossible trials in search of answers… and peace.

Why similar: Female Protagonist 19.6%, Pixel Graphics 19.5%, Action 16.2%, Adventure 12.6%, Post-apocalyptic 11%

Push the limits of your combat skills, and master new abilities to progress through an unforgiving nonlinear 2D world. Face off against the relentless darkness that seeks to destroy you. In Moonscars, every death is a lesson learnt—and as you overcome each challenge, new truths will be revealed.

Why similar: Metroidvania 51.7%, Pixel Graphics 12.5%, Action 12.3%, Female Protagonist 11.3%, Difficult 5.9%

You, who was born in a world full of darkness, should wander this hollowed land to find the Relics for a person who created you. However, fallen and lost souls with trap-filled trials await in your course of doing so. Can you survive in this crumbling world and start a new era?

Why similar: Metroidvania 38.2%, Action 14.2%, Adventure 13.8%, Difficult 12.7%, Dark 5.8%

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 52.3%, Female Protagonist 20.6%, Difficult 15.8%, Exploration 7.2%, 2D 4.2%

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 64.2%, Female Protagonist 17.7%, 2D 5.4%, Action 5.1%, Difficult 3.9%

ENYO is trying to let go of an old Dystopia. It's also a 2d action platformer that does not require destroying things.

Why similar: Female Protagonist 20.9%, Action 17.4%, Difficult 11.7%, Pixel Graphics 11.6%, Dark 9.8%

Experience a meta horror pixel platformer retro game haunted by a mysterious yandere.

Why similar: Immersive 18.4% ★, Difficult 18.4%, Female Protagonist 16.8%, Horror 14.8%, Pixel Graphics 8.6%

Silvia never runs from evil—she makes it her business. Eccentric yet warm-hearted, this seasoned modern exorcist has mastered the art of confronting the supernatural, turning haunted places into tangible nightmares. But on this fateful night, nothing goes as planned.

Why similar: Female Protagonist 18.8%, Immersive 17.6% ★, Pixel Graphics 13.3%, Horror 11.6%, Dark 8.6%

What’s left of humanity are minds trapped in circuits. You are awaken as ReSetna, a warrior on a mission to rescue last human remnants. Explore seven hostile zones, face seven brutal bosses and evolve through a unique upgrade system. Uncover horrifying truth and decide if the future is worth saving.

Why similar: Metroidvania 70%, Action 13.3%, Adventure 12.1%, Indie 4.6%

After a century in stasis the girl En arrives at her destination: A Palace out of legend. Out here, using forgotten technologies, she hopes to bring back a life that shouldn’t have been lost. But nothing could prepare her for what she’ll face in the ancient halls below.

Why similar: Female Protagonist 29.7%, Sci-fi 21.8%, Horror 12.5%, Adventure 11.3%, Atmospheric 10.6%

Fight to bring beautiful colors back to a hand-crafted world of darkness and discover the story of Europa, a young warrior, and her ghostly childhood companion, Apino.

Why similar: Metroidvania 49.8%, Female Protagonist 11.1%, Pixel Graphics 10.8%, Action 7.2%, Adventure 6.8%

This is an action game focused on combat, where a girl returns from the abyss to explore her own secrets and redemption, until the end of an eternal battle to see if she can break free from the shackles of fate.

Why similar: Metroidvania 47.4%, Female Protagonist 16.9%, Pixel Graphics 11.2%, Dark 6.9%, Action 6.9%

If you were given another chance, would you take it? Or leave it in the hands of a little girl? Play as Roh, a young girl stuck in a bizarre nightmare of dark and eerie creatures.

Why similar: Horror 17.7%, Dark 16.2%, Pixel Graphics 15.1%, Adventure 13.1%, Female Protagonist 12.9%

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: Adventure 24.8%, Horror 21.4%, Female Protagonist 21.2%, Action 15.4%, Exploration 13%

You are a nomadic slugcat, both predator and prey in a broken ecosystem. Grab your spear and brave the industrial wastes, hunting enough food to survive, but be wary— other, bigger creatures have the same plan... and slugcats look delicious.

Why similar: Metroidvania 23.1%, Difficult 19.6%, Post-apocalyptic 16.6%, Pixel Graphics 9.6%, Atmospheric 9.2%

Dark Matter is a 2.5D side-scrolling survival horror game, set in a derelict spaceship besieged by a sinister alien presence, and infested with deadly parasites. As the Ensign, you must explore fetid hallways and abandoned facilities, scavenging for parts and blueprints, expanding your arsenal to up to four deadly weapons and freely...

Why similar: Metroidvania 36.1%, Action 21.3%, Female Protagonist 15%, Sci-fi 11.6%, Horror 8.8%