- #1 Ascender
97% matchMostly Positive77% of 22 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 26.7%, Puzzle Platformer 17.8%, Robots 7.2%, Sci-fi 6.8%, 2D Platformer 6.4%
- #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 20.4%, Dungeon Crawler 13.9%, Puzzle 7.5%, Platformer 7.4%
- #3 The SOL Device 2
96% 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 17.5%, 2D Platformer 8.1%, Exploration 8.1%, Puzzle 7.2%
- #4 Amalu, Wells between worlds
95% matchNo user reviews
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 32.4%, Puzzle Platformer 17.3%, Nonlinear 16%, Exploration 9.7%, 2D Platformer 8.4%
- #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 23.8%, Dungeon Crawler 17.3%, Puzzle Platformer 13.2%, RPG 7.4%, Puzzle 7.1%
- #6 Outpost Delta
94% 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 31.8%, Puzzle Platformer 14.1%, Sci-fi 9.9%, 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 20.6%, Exploration 10.8%, Puzzle 8.1%, Platformer 7.1%
- #8 Nonolith
92% matchNo user reviews
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 18.1%, Puzzle Platformer 16.8%, Exploration 7.9%, 2D Platformer 7.4%
- #9 Dungeon Gals
91% matchNo user 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 23.7%, Puzzle Platformer 18%, Nonlinear 14.3%, Exploration 8.6%, 2D Platformer 8.4%
- #10 Tool Land
91% 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%, Puzzle Platformer 20.2%, Nonlinear 18.1%, 2D Platformer 8.5%, Puzzle 7.7%
- #11 ANIMAL WELL
89% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 23,519 reviews2024
Dev: Billy BassoPub: Bigmode
Windows
Median: 5.7 hrsMean: 9.5 hrs≥1hr: 77%
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 17.5%, Nonlinear 12.8%, Exploration 8.7%, Puzzle 7.7%
- #12 Treasure Adventure Game
90% 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 38.5%, Puzzle Platformer 18.5%, Nonlinear 15.9%, 2D Platformer 9.4%, Platformer 6.9%
- #13 Lyden Lys
89% 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 29.4%, Puzzle Platformer 16.7%, Nonlinear 16.1%, Drama 8.2%, Exploration 7.4%
- #14 Wisdom Tower
88% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Luminight
Windows · Linux
A Retro Metroidvania focused heavily on Exploration, Puzzle Solving Combat and Platforming.
Why similar: Metroidvania 31.4%, Puzzle Platformer 19.8%, Nonlinear 17.5%, Exploration 8.9%, Platformer 7.2%
- #15 Leap Year
86% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 2,974 reviews2024
Dev: Daniel Linssen
Windows
Median: 2.3 hrsMean: 3.3 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 17.9%, Puzzle Platformer 17.1%, Exploration 8.1%, 2D Platformer 7.8%
- #16 MONOMOON
87% 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 28.5%, Nonlinear 18.4%, Puzzle Platformer 15.5%, Exploration 7.2%, Puzzle 6.9%
- #17 Microvania
85% matchPositive80% of 30 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%, Nonlinear 13.2%, Exploration 8.1%, Sci-fi 7.9%, Robots 6.3%
- #18 COREDUMP: 口口口口
86% 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 30.8%, Puzzle Platformer 20.7%, Dungeon Crawler 19.9%, Nonlinear 8.8%, Platformer 6.9%
- #19 Sisyphus Is a Bug
84% matchVery Positive100% of 50 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 19.2%, Nonlinear 18.4%, Exploration 9.2%, Puzzle 7.4%
- #20 Gridvania
84% 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 35.5%, Puzzle Platformer 24.8%, Nonlinear 12.9%, 2D Platformer 9.2%, Platformer 5.7%
- #21 Shell Soul:The Skull
82% 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 38.1%, Puzzle Platformer 20.2%, Exploration 11.5%, 2D Platformer 9.9%, Puzzle 7.9%
- #22 Golftroidvania
82% 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 28.2%, Nonlinear 17.9%, Puzzle Platformer 16.4%, Exploration 7.7%, Puzzle 5.2%
- #23 Smelted Kin
83% 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 12.8%, Sci-fi 10.9%, 2D Platformer 9.3%, Robots 7.3%
- #24 Hot-Pink
81% 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 25.3%, Puzzle Platformer 20.2%, Dungeon Crawler 16%, 2D Platformer 9.9%, Platformer 9.4%
- #25 Dream City
81% 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 25.5%, Adventure 11.3%, Platformer 11.2%, Exploration 10.1%
- #26 Plungeez
80% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Team ZerothPub: QUByte Interactive
Windows
Take a dive in the world of Plungeez, a puzzle platformer where Bonnie, a fierce woman who, after falling in the underground, must explore the sewers of Salvador in search of a way out. Light torches, boilers, and use plungers to climb and solve puzzles!
Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 26.8%, Metroidvania 24.2%, Nonlinear 17.1%, Platformer 12.5%, Pixel Graphics 9%
- #27 Xanthiom 2
79% matchNo user reviews
Dev: MathanGames
Windows
Play through the next chapter in the Xanthiom saga, now bigger and better than before!
Why similar: Metroidvania 38.9%, Exploration 9.7%, 2D Platformer 9.4%, Puzzle 8.5%, Sci-fi 8.2%
- #28 Akaku Forest
79% 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 35.7%, Puzzle Platformer 17%, Nonlinear 10.5%, Puzzle 10%, 2D Platformer 9.2%
- #29 Entangled
78% 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 20.2%, Nonlinear 16%, Sci-fi 11%, 2D Platformer 8.9%
- #30 Quarion
76% matchVery Positive94% of 149 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 36.9%, Nonlinear 25.8%, Exploration 9%, Platformer 6.5%, Pixel Graphics 6.3%
- #31 Iron Diamond
77% matchVery Positive89% of 55 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 34.8%, Nonlinear 21.1%, 2D Platformer 8.8%, Exploration 8.6%, Sci-fi 8.2%
- #32 EMUUROM
78% matchNo user reviews
Dev: borbware
Windows · Mac · Linux
Document an ancient paradise before it's lost forever. Study the behaviour of the EMUUROM creatures and use the gained knowledge to create new paths forward. Slowly, the machinations of the mythic forest sprites begin to unfold.
Why similar: Metroidvania 28.7%, Nonlinear 15.9%, Puzzle Platformer 15.8%, Exploration 7.5%, Puzzle 7%
- #33 Derelict Star
77% matchNo user 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 31.8%, Nonlinear 19.5%, Exploration 8.9%, 2D Platformer 8.3%, Sci-fi 7.6%
- #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 27.6%, Nonlinear 18.8%, Puzzle Platformer 13%, Sci-fi 9.2%, Exploration 7.1%
- #35 Side Scape
75% matchPositive92% of 39 reviews2023
Dev: MathanGames
Windows
A light-hearted, Side-Scroller/ Top-Down hybrid!
Why similar: Metroidvania 38.5%, Dungeon Crawler 23.6%, Puzzle 8.4%, Platformer 7.4%, Puzzle Platformer 7.2%
- #36 Capybound
75% 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%, Puzzle Platformer 16.1%, Nonlinear 14.4%, Exploration 8.7%, Puzzle 8%
- #37 Öoo
71% matchOverwhelmingly Positive99% of 5,680 reviews2025
Dev: NamaTakahashi
Windows
Median: 2.5 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 32.3%, Puzzle Platformer 22.5%, 2D Platformer 9.1%, Exploration 8.6%, Puzzle 8.3%
- #38 Dark Labyrinth
74% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Xiaote
Windows
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 33.1%, Puzzle Platformer 19.5%, 2D Platformer 9.1%, Exploration 9%, Puzzle 8%
- #39 Mereonozis 2D: The Kingdom of Gremlins
74% match6 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 16.7%, Sci-fi 8.8%, 2D Platformer 7.7%, Futuristic 7.6%
- #40 KnightLight
72% matchVery Positive95% of 117 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 19.1%, Exploration 11.2%, 2D Platformer 9.6%, Puzzle 6.5%
- #41 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 31.6%, Nonlinear 17.3%, Puzzle Platformer 15.8%, Exploration 8%, Puzzle 7.6%
- #42 Little Nemo and the Nightmare Fiends
73% 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 39.8%, Nonlinear 19.4%, Exploration 12%, 2D Platformer 10.6%, Platformer 8.5%
- #43 Jenny's Adventures
71% 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 39.2%, Nonlinear 22.7%, Exploration 11.1%, 2D Platformer 10.6%, Platformer 8.7%
- #44 Beneath the Ghost Kingdom
72% 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 15.8%, Platformer 10.3%, Puzzle 10.1%, 2D Platformer 10%
- #45 Lone Fungus: Melody of Spores
69% matchVery Positive96% of 241 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 10.7%, Exploration 10.2%, Adventure 7.7%, Platformer 7.4%
- #46 The Adventures of Elena Temple: Definitive Edition
73% matchVery Positive95% of 65 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 26.4%, Puzzle Platformer 17.6%, Nonlinear 15.4%, 2D Platformer 8.4%, Exploration 6.8%
- #47 DeltaPhysics
71% 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 32.7%, Nonlinear 31.4%, Puzzle Platformer 17%, Puzzle 5.5%, 2D Platformer 5%
- #48 Chegra: The Lost Recipe
70% 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 43.1%, Nonlinear 19.6%, Exploration 10.1%, Pixel Graphics 7.9%, 2D Platformer 6.5%
- #49 Goodboy Galaxy
68% matchVery Positive96% of 138 reviews2024
Dev: Goodboy Galaxy Ltd.
Windows · Linux
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 32.8%, Puzzle Platformer 18.6%, Platformer 8.9%, Exploration 8.8%, Nonlinear 6.2%
- #50 Nihilsearch
70% 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 45.8%, Futuristic 11.8%, 2D Platformer 10.7%, Sci-fi 9.7%, RPG 8%
- #51 PhotophoBoy
69% 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 29.8%, Metroidvania 25.3%, Platformer 10.7%, Exploration 8.1%, Adventure 7.4%
- #52 SELINI
67% matchVery Positive96% of 55 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 29.7%, Puzzle Platformer 14.9%, Nonlinear 13.1%, Sci-fi 9%, Robots 8.9%
- #53 Alchemist's Mountain
69% 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 18.8%, Puzzle Platformer 17.2%, 2D Platformer 8.1%, Puzzle 7.1%
- #54 The Bomb Split
67% match3 user reviews100% of 3 reviews2026
Dev: syzygy.systems
Windows · Linux
Two mysterious, challenging platformers where you launch yourself with an infinite supply of bombs.
Why similar: Metroidvania 32.6%, Puzzle Platformer 18.7%, Nonlinear 13.8%, 2D Platformer 9.8%, Exploration 7.7%
- #55 Eonheart
68% 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 24.7%, Futuristic 13.5%, 2D Platformer 11.7%, Sci-fi 10.6%, Exploration 8.9%
- #56 FrogeON
68% 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 28.5%, Futuristic 11.5%, 2D Platformer 8.7%, Platformer 8%, Exploration 7.9%
- #57 FeatherCall
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: DreamVeil Studios
Windows
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 27.3%, Puzzle Platformer 15.1%, Platformer 10.4%, Puzzle 10.2%, 2D Platformer 10.2%
- #58 1000 Amps
70% matchMostly Positive79% of 342 reviews2012
Dev: Brandon Brizzi
Windows · Mac
Median: 24 minMean: 2.7 hrs≥1hr: 36%
Light up the world! As Plug, you are charged with restoring the expansive Amp-Tree-System, and thwarting an enigmatic intruder.
Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 36.1%, Metroidvania 32.6%, Platformer 11.2%, Puzzle 10.4%, Adventure 5.3%
- #59 Babushka's Glitch Dungeon
65% matchVery Positive99% of 223 reviews2025
Dev: pets club 2
Windows · Mac
Oh hello dearie.. Babushka needs to clean up her big magical cellar. Use hag magic, or just hit stuff with your broom.
Why similar: Nonlinear 22.7%, Metroidvania 22.1%, Puzzle Platformer 18.2%, 2D Platformer 8.7%, Exploration 8.5%
- #60 Black Dust
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Alex Alaimo
Windows · Linux
Explore a hand-drawn world of trash with your giant robot, trusty orb, and (lack of) platforming skills! These hostile lands will test your understand of many bizarre mechanics, and a complete exploration can only achieved by the most devoted of players.
Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 28.3%, Nonlinear 23%, 2D Platformer 10.9%, Puzzle 9.7%, Exploration 8.7%