- #1 TWINSTAR 双星
97% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Yuhan HE
Windows
A Metroidvania set in a mysterious space laboratory. Explore an interconnected station, fight hostile enemies, uncover hidden rooms, and gain new abilities. Each discovery brings you closer to a massive secret buried within.
Why similar: Metroidvania 32.4%, Puzzle Platformer 17.1%, Exploration 9.7%, 2D Platformer 8.4%, Puzzle 6.6%
- #2 Switch Box
96% match5 user reviews40% of 5 reviews2025
Dev: 鲁搬三试
Windows
"Switch Box" is a 2D pixel-art puzzle platformer. In an unfamiliar world, you must interact with the environment and utilize tools to solve challenges, overcome obstacles, and ultimately discover the path back home.
Why similar: Metroidvania 25.2%, Puzzle Platformer 20.5%, Dungeon Crawler 13.8%, Puzzle 7.5%, Platformer 7.4%
- #3 The SOL Device 2
95% match9 user reviews67% of 9 reviews2021
Dev: Straitlace Studios
Windows
After escaping the research ship, Samuel finds himself crash landed on a foreign planet overrun by a hostile organization. Now it's up to Samuel and his trusty SOL equipment to rescue the scientists who also escaped the ship, and find a way off of the planet.
Why similar: Metroidvania 29.7%, Puzzle Platformer 17.6%, 2D Platformer 8.2%, Exploration 8.1%, Puzzle 7.2%
- #4 Amalu, Wells between worlds
95% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: IndieTech Studio
Windows
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 32.5%, Puzzle Platformer 17.4%, Nonlinear 15.9%, Exploration 9.7%, 2D Platformer 8.5%
- #5 Secrets of Orion: Sword of Destiny.
94% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2023
Dev: Alisson araujoPub: Alisson Araujo
Windows
A warrior who wandered in search of redemption after abdicating his post receives a call to return to his ancient continent. Explore the continent of Orion in a 2D action adventure with 3 endings according to your choices.
Why similar: Metroidvania 23.9%, Dungeon Crawler 17.2%, Puzzle Platformer 13.3%, RPG 7.4%, Puzzle 7.1%
- #6 Outpost Delta
93% matchPositive80% of 10 reviews2020
Dev: Hidden Achievement LLC
Windows · Mac · Linux
Outpost Delta is a single player, 2-D side-scrolling sci-fi shooter for PC. Take on the role of Delta, the outpost’s emergency defense, who along with her AI companion must defend the space station against alien intruders.
Why similar: Metroidvania 31.9%, Puzzle Platformer 14.1%, Sci-fi 9.8%, Futuristic 6.4%, Platformer 6.3%
- #7 The Matter Gun
93% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Karumbe Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
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 36.1%, Puzzle Platformer 20.7%, Exploration 10.8%, Puzzle 8.1%, Platformer 7.2%
- #8 Lyden Lys
92% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Løftet
Windows
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 28.3%, Puzzle Platformer 16.1%, Nonlinear 15.4%, Drama 11.8%, Exploration 7.1%
- #9 Nonolith
91% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Justcamh
Windows · Mac · Linux
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 27.8%, Nonlinear 18%, Puzzle Platformer 16.9%, Exploration 7.8%, 2D Platformer 7.4%
- #10 Tool Land
90% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: bjsjsk
Windows
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 27.1%, Puzzle Platformer 20.3%, Nonlinear 17.9%, 2D Platformer 8.5%, Puzzle 7.7%
- #11 Ascender
91% matchMostly Positive78% of 23 reviews2017
Dev: GameChanger Studio
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 3.7 hrs≥1hr: 95%
Ascender is a 2D explorative puzzle metroidvania. The game is set in the open world of GOA's districts, and the player will face many unique puzzles to solve. Warning!! This game will truly challenge your puzzle and platforming skill :D
Why similar: Metroidvania 28.5%, Puzzle Platformer 19%, Robots 7.7%, Sci-fi 7.2%, 2D Platformer 6.8%
- #12 Undying Elf
89% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: 百里
Windows
A Metroidvania 2D platformer focused on exploration, puzzles and collection, with creative puzzles and well-designed maps.
Why similar: Metroidvania 22.4%, Puzzle Platformer 15.5%, Dungeon Crawler 14.2%, Platformer 8.3%, 2D Platformer 8.1%
- #13 ANIMAL WELL
88% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 23,932 reviews2024
Dev: Billy BassoPub: Bigmode
Windows
Median: 5.7 hrsMean: 9.5 hrs≥1hr: 76%
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 34.4%, Puzzle Platformer 17.7%, Nonlinear 12.7%, Exploration 8.6%, Puzzle 7.7%
- #14 Dungeon Gals
87% matchVery Positive100% of 75 reviews2026
Dev: DoricDream
Windows
A small crisis control team has been summoned to help a civilization in the sky escape impending doom! Explore dungeons, solve puzzles, and find lots of treasure to help prepare yourself for incredible challenges!
Why similar: Metroidvania 23.8%, Puzzle Platformer 18.1%, Nonlinear 14.2%, Exploration 8.5%, 2D Platformer 8.5%
- #15 Treasure Adventure Game
88% matchVery Positive88% of 52 reviews2021
Dev: Robit Games
Windows
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 38.6%, Puzzle Platformer 18.5%, Nonlinear 15.8%, 2D Platformer 9.4%, Platformer 7%
- #16 MONOMOON
86% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Gentle Giant
Windows
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 29.4%, Nonlinear 17.8%, Puzzle Platformer 15.8%, Exploration 7.4%, Puzzle 7.2%
- #17 Leap Year
85% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 3,047 reviews2024
Dev: Daniel Linssen
Windows
Median: 2.3 hrsMean: 3.2 hrs≥1hr: 78%
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 26.5%, Nonlinear 17.7%, Puzzle Platformer 17.2%, Exploration 8.1%, 2D Platformer 7.8%
- #18 Wisdom Tower
86% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Luminight
Windows · Linux
A Retro Metroidvania focused heavily on Exploration, Puzzle Solving Combat and Platforming.
Why similar: Metroidvania 31.5%, Puzzle Platformer 19.9%, Nonlinear 17.4%, Exploration 8.8%, Platformer 7.3%
- #19 Microvania
84% matchPositive81% of 31 reviews2025
Dev: Dreampunk
Windows · Mac
Explore a tiny world, find upgrades, discover hidden paths, and battle bosses in this retro-style metroidvania action platformer.
Why similar: Metroidvania 33.1%, Nonlinear 13.1%, Exploration 8.1%, Sci-fi 7.9%, Robots 6.3%
- #20 COREDUMP: 口口口口
84% matchNo user reviews
Dev: FANGKUAI4
Windows
COREDUMP: 口口口口 is a Metroidvania inspired puzzle platformer where you recover lost colliders, switch between phasing through walls and charged bouncing, and uncover hidden paths across an interconnected world.
Why similar: Metroidvania 30.9%, Puzzle Platformer 20.8%, Dungeon Crawler 19.8%, Nonlinear 8.8%, Platformer 7%
- #21 Sisyphus Is a Bug
83% matchVery Positive100% of 51 reviews2025
Dev: moraguma
Windows · Linux
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 32.5%, Puzzle Platformer 19.3%, Nonlinear 18.3%, Exploration 9.1%, Puzzle 7.4%
- #22 Gridvania
82% matchNo user reviews2024
Dev: ExpertStars
Windows
In this 2D Puzzle Metroidvania, explore the world collecting items to help you solve puzzles on your way to reach the flag! Will you remember where you came from, and will you be able to collect all the hidden gems?
Why similar: Metroidvania 35.6%, Puzzle Platformer 24.9%, Nonlinear 12.8%, 2D Platformer 9.2%, Platformer 5.8%
- #23 Shell Soul:The Skull
81% matchNo user reviews
Dev: BlueWindGame
Windows
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 38.2%, Puzzle Platformer 20.3%, Exploration 11.4%, 2D Platformer 9.9%, Puzzle 7.9%
- #24 Golftroidvania
81% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Ken Austin
Windows
Explore, jump, and golf your way through a haunted fantasy world filled with challenges and nefarious monsters.
Why similar: Metroidvania 28.3%, Nonlinear 17.8%, Puzzle Platformer 16.5%, Exploration 7.7%, Puzzle 5.3%
- #25 Smelted Kin
82% matchMixed64% of 11 reviews2020
Dev: Microbat Studio
Windows · Linux
Science fiction 2D shooter with platformer and metroidvania elements. Players will have to explore a huge research complex consisting of nonlinear levels, which is crowded with robots
Why similar: Metroidvania 40.3%, Puzzle Platformer 12.9%, Sci-fi 10.9%, 2D Platformer 9.3%, Robots 7.3%
- #26 Hot-Pink
80% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Zhetkenshek
Windows · Mac · Linux
The Hot-Pink is 2d Platformer game that has a uniqe system, You will have to find keys to the locked doors and fight your enemy.
Why similar: Metroidvania 25.4%, Puzzle Platformer 20.3%, Dungeon Crawler 15.9%, 2D Platformer 9.9%, Platformer 9.5%
- #27 Dream City
79% matchNo user reviews
Dev: MuggleGreen
Windows
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 34.5%, Puzzle Platformer 25.6%, Adventure 11.3%, Platformer 11.2%, Exploration 10%
- #28 Entangled
79% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Bim
Windows
Relax to a story-driven puzzle platforming experience, solving puzzles using quantum entanglement. Entangle objects to find your way through a cave full of mysteries and friends. Embark on your journey through time in search of meaning in a life with no end.
Why similar: Metroidvania 30.5%, Puzzle Platformer 20.3%, Nonlinear 15.9%, Sci-fi 11%, 2D Platformer 8.9%
- #29 Quarion
77% matchVery Positive94% of 159 reviews2025
Dev: ZejoantPub: Bootleg Bytes
Windows · Linux
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.
Why similar: Metroidvania 37.1%, Nonlinear 25.7%, Exploration 9%, Platformer 6.6%, Pixel Graphics 6.3%
- #30 Akaku Forest
78% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Dowfamidas
Windows
Akaku Forest is a game that blends puzzles, platforming, and thrilling boss battles in a Metroidvania-style format. You take control of Aki-Maku, a courageous forest spirit. Use your torch to solve puzzles or face off against your enemies. Save the forest!
Why similar: Metroidvania 35.8%, Puzzle Platformer 17.1%, Nonlinear 10.4%, Puzzle 10%, 2D Platformer 9.2%
- #31 Iron Diamond
77% matchVery Positive89% of 56 reviews2024
Dev: North Folk Studios
Windows
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 34.9%, Nonlinear 21%, 2D Platformer 8.8%, Exploration 8.5%, Sci-fi 8.2%
- #32 Xanthiom 2
78% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: MathanGames
Windows
Play through the next chapter in the Xanthiom saga, now bigger and better than before!
Why similar: Metroidvania 39%, Exploration 9.6%, 2D Platformer 9.5%, Puzzle 8.5%, Sci-fi 8.2%
- #33 Derelict Star
75% matchVery Positive95% of 111 reviews2026
Dev: gatePub: Luminous Tree Games
Windows · Mac
A precise momentum-based platformer that emphasizes exploration and navigation puzzles. Run and jump your way through a wide variety of obstacles and challenges as you explore an abandoned derelict freighter. Be careful: getting in is often easier than getting out!
Why similar: Metroidvania 32.1%, Nonlinear 19.3%, Exploration 8.9%, 2D Platformer 8.2%, Sci-fi 7.5%
- #34 Droian
76% matchNo user reviews
Dev: United Ghouls Studio
Windows
Unravel the eerie secrets of Droian, a sci-fi horror metroidvania. Guide a lone I.A.N bot through a desolate moon to save humanity, battling twisted creatures of flesh and machine. Explore dark, labyrinthine environments and uncover cryptic mysteries, where every path holds a chilling surprise.
Why similar: Metroidvania 27.7%, Nonlinear 18.6%, Puzzle Platformer 13.1%, Sci-fi 9.2%, Exploration 7.1%
- #35 Side Scape
76% matchPositive93% of 40 reviews2023
Dev: MathanGames
Windows
A light-hearted, Side-Scroller/ Top-Down hybrid!
Why similar: Metroidvania 38.6%, Dungeon Crawler 23.4%, Puzzle 8.5%, Platformer 7.4%, Puzzle Platformer 7.2%
- #36 EMUUROM
73% matchVery Positive96% of 69 reviews2026
Dev: borbwarePub: Coyote Time Publishing
Windows · Mac · Linux
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%, Nonlinear 17.8%, Puzzle Platformer 15.3%, Exploration 7.2%, Puzzle 6.7%
- #37 Plungeez
75% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Team ZerothPub: QUByte Interactive
Windows
Explore a non-linear underground world in this puzzle-adventure. Solve intricate environmental challenges, uncover hidden secrets, and navigate a pixel-art labyrinth where every path leads to a new mystery. Can you plunge into the depths and find what lies beneath?
Why similar: Metroidvania 32.1%, Nonlinear 18.1%, Puzzle Platformer 16.1%, Exploration 7.8%, 2D Platformer 7%
- #38 Mereonozis 2D: The Kingdom of Gremlins
74% match7 user reviews86% of 7 reviews2024
Dev: Pavel Gorev
Windows
A puzzle-bazed metroidvania. Help the robot to repair the station. But there are gremlins who will try to break everything you've just fixed!
Why similar: Metroidvania 28%, Puzzle Platformer 16.8%, Sci-fi 8.7%, 2D Platformer 7.7%, Futuristic 7.6%
- #39 SELINI
72% matchVery Positive94% of 66 reviews2026
Dev: Cymban
Windows
A wordless metroidvania through fog-covered ruins and the remnants of a lost world. Explore, gain new abilities and uncover meaning without guidance or dialogue.
Why similar: Metroidvania 30.4%, Puzzle Platformer 13.6%, Nonlinear 12.9%, Robots 8.4%, Sci-fi 8.2%
- #40 Capybound
74% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Vinicius de Moraes
Windows
Capybound is a 2D platformer with puzzle elements. You wake up as a capybara in a beautiful pixelated world. Find oranges, meet and talk to many different animals, solve puzzles, unlock skills, explore the world and it's secrets, all in a quest to find your way back home.
Why similar: Metroidvania 32.1%, Puzzle Platformer 16.2%, Nonlinear 14.3%, Exploration 8.7%, Puzzle 8%
- #41 Öoo
70% matchOverwhelmingly Positive99% of 5,955 reviews2025
Dev: NamaTakahashi
Windows
Median: 2.6 hrsMean: 3.1 hrs≥1hr: 85%
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 32%, Puzzle Platformer 22.7%, 2D Platformer 9.1%, Exploration 8.6%, Puzzle 8.3%
- #42 Mold
73% matchNo user reviews
Dev: soraslove
Windows · Mac · Linux
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 31.7%, Nonlinear 17.2%, Puzzle Platformer 15.8%, Exploration 7.9%, Puzzle 7.6%
- #43 KnightLight
71% matchVery Positive95% of 120 reviews2024
Dev: LuminosityPub: DigiPen Institute of Technology
Windows
A 2D puzzle-platformer where you light your way through the darkness. Play as the Light, exploring an abandoned civilization where you find a suit of armor that seems to have magical properties. Suit up using the powers of the suit to channel your light magic to see what this strange place hides.
Why similar: Metroidvania 35.9%, Puzzle Platformer 19.2%, Exploration 11.1%, 2D Platformer 9.6%, Puzzle 6.5%
- #44 Hap Hazard
72% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Nicraftin
Windows · Linux
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 30%, Nonlinear 18.9%, Puzzle Platformer 15.6%, Exploration 9.5%, Puzzle 8.6%
- #45 Little Nemo and the Nightmare Fiends
71% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Team Nemo, Inc
Windows
Little Nemo and his friends return for a hand-animated metroidvania adventure! Explore magical dream worlds with Nemo, the Princess of Slumberland, the mischievious Flip, and royal guard Peony as they try to stop the Nightmare Fiends from ruling over dreams forever.
Why similar: Metroidvania 40%, Nonlinear 19.3%, Exploration 11.9%, 2D Platformer 10.6%, Platformer 8.6%
- #46 The Adventures of Elena Temple: Definitive Edition
73% matchVery Positive95% of 66 reviews2018
Dev: GrimTalin
Windows
Ever miss being a child, playing games at your grandma's or in your old bedroom? Look no further! Play The Adventures of Elena Temple, the classic you never knew existed, on old machines that kind of sort of maybe existed. It's not like you can remember for sure, right?
Why similar: Metroidvania 26.5%, Puzzle Platformer 17.7%, Nonlinear 15.3%, 2D Platformer 8.4%, Exploration 6.8%
- #47 本源行者 Tao Traveller 1900
71% matchNo user reviews
Dev: 本源界中国游戏工作室
Windows
In "Tao Traveller 1900", you will come to a world where reality and legends are intertwined. Exploring the secrets behind the decay and turmoil as the "yihana" in the chaotic era. Touch the profoundness of Chinese culture, Feel the characters and how everything changes in two realities ......
Why similar: Metroidvania 35.9%, Dungeon Crawler 21.9%, Drama 17.6%, Sci-fi 8.4%, RPG 7.6%
- #48 Lone Fungus: Melody of Spores
68% matchVery Positive96% of 258 reviews2025
Dev: BASTI GAMES
Windows
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 44.3%, Nonlinear 10.6%, Exploration 10.1%, Adventure 7.9%, Platformer 7.4%
- #49 Beneath the Ghost Kingdom
70% matchNo user reviews
Dev: From Highberg
Windows
Venture beneath the Ghost Kingdom where you will encounter strange creatures, solve puzzles and uncover hidden secrets!
Why similar: Metroidvania 27.8%, Puzzle Platformer 15.9%, Platformer 10.4%, Puzzle 10.1%, 2D Platformer 10%
- #50 Jenny's Adventures
69% matchMixed67% of 18 reviews2025
Dev: Pranav Gaur
Windows
Play as a cat in this 2D world where you discover new abilities and paths to finally reach the summit. What's there? Even I don't know. Yet. Oh, it now has local co-op.
Why similar: Metroidvania 39.3%, Nonlinear 22.5%, Exploration 11%, 2D Platformer 10.6%, Platformer 8.8%
- #51 Polly's Puzzle Box
70% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Box Penguin Games
Windows · Mac
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.
Why similar: Metroidvania 37.4%, Puzzle Platformer 19.1%, Nonlinear 10.9%, Exploration 9.2%, Puzzle 8.7%
- #52 DeltaPhysics
69% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2024
Dev: MacroTree GamesPub: MacroTree Games
Windows · Linux
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 32.8%, Nonlinear 31.2%, Puzzle Platformer 17.1%, Puzzle 5.5%, 2D Platformer 5%
- #53 Chegra: The Lost Recipe
68% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Ciderheart Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Embark on an unforgettable adventure with Uncle Che! Explore a vibrant 2D world, battle whimsical enemies, and uncover secrets to retrieve the stolen ingredients and save the recipe for legendary bread in this charming Metroidvania.
Why similar: Metroidvania 43.3%, Nonlinear 19.5%, Exploration 10%, Pixel Graphics 7.8%, 2D Platformer 6.5%
- #54 Battle Witch
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Feliciano Creadoros
Windows
Battle Witch is a bullet hell metroidvania where you shoot, dodge, and fly using powerful spells. Explore the ruins of a mana-infested mining town, left in chaos after a catastrophic magical incident. Master your magic, conquer the chaos, and uncover the secrets buried beneath the rubble.
Why similar: Metroidvania 29.7%, Nonlinear 18%, Dungeon Crawler 14.8%, Exploration 6.8%, Platformer 6.8%
- #55 Nihilsearch
68% matchMixed50% of 16 reviews2022
Dev: Team_Bug
Windows
Embark on an epic adventure in the pixelated 2D world of "Nihilsearch" on a lifeless mechanical planet. Explore dark underground complexes, battle hostile machines and life forms, and meet diverse humans, life forms, and machines. Discover the meaning of life and create your own adventure!
Why similar: Metroidvania 45.9%, Futuristic 11.8%, 2D Platformer 10.7%, Sci-fi 9.7%, RPG 7.9%
- #56 PhotophoBoy
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: More_RetroGames
Windows · Linux
A retro style platform game with metroidvania undertones in which the light wants to destroy you. Acquire specific skills to be able to explore a subway fortress where there is a hidden mystery.
Why similar: Nonlinear 29.6%, Metroidvania 25.4%, Platformer 10.8%, Exploration 8%, Adventure 7.4%
- #57 Alchemist's Mountain
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Evil Art Bunny Studios
Windows
Alchemist's Mountain is a classic platforming puzzle dungeon adventure with a literal twist! Rotate the dungeons to solve them and chart your path to the pinnacle of the Starfall Spire where legends rumor lie the secret to immortality and everlasting wealth.
Why similar: Metroidvania 30.5%, Dungeon Crawler 18.6%, Puzzle Platformer 17.2%, 2D Platformer 8.2%, Puzzle 7.1%
- #58 Eonheart
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: AeraDev
Windows
Explore Eonheart, an enigmatic machine complex in this classic-style 2D Puzzle Platformer where you can create platforms by yourself and manipulate them to traverse the complex, brave dangers, surpass challenges, solve mechanisms, and discover long-lost secrets!
Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 24.8%, Futuristic 13.5%, 2D Platformer 11.7%, Sci-fi 10.6%, Exploration 8.9%
- #59 Kami: The Great Guardian
65% match5 user reviews100% of 5 reviews2026
Dev: Endemic Artifacts
Windows
In this short, compact 2D Metroidvania, join Kami on their quest to save their homeland from a calamity wrought from the stars. Use the abilities you discover to explore deeper into the source of this corruption and restore nature.
Why similar: Metroidvania 49.7%, Exploration 11.7%, Platformer 10.4%, Nonlinear 9.5%, Pixel Graphics 7.9%
- #60 FrogeON
66% matchNo user reviews
Dev: JofraDev
Windows
A precision platformer where you control a frog using dash chips to overcome traps, avoid electrified enemies, and conquer challenges in chaotic digital environments.
Why similar: Metroidvania 28.6%, Futuristic 11.5%, 2D Platformer 8.7%, Platformer 8%, Exploration 7.9%