Games Like Retro Machina

Retro Machina is a single-player action and exploration game set in a retro-futuristic universe. Experience the journey of a little robot as they solve intricate puzzles and begin unraveling the mysteries of a world long forgotten.

Why similar: Robots 60.5%, Colorful 20.4%, Exploration 10%, Hand-drawn 8%, Singleplayer 1.1%

Embark on a journey across vast landscapes in Caravan SandWitch, a captivating narrative-driven exploration adventure.

Why similar: Metroidvania 23.8%, Robots 22.2%, Post-apocalyptic 19.5%, Colorful 9.9%, Action-Adventure 8.6%

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 34.2%, Puzzle Platformer 14.2%, Platformer 10.1%, Story Rich 7.3%, Action 6.9%

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 33.8%, Robots 24.1%, Platformer 11.9%, Exploration 8.5%, Action-Adventure 6.3%

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 25.9%, Robots 13.4%, Post-apocalyptic 10.5%, Hand-drawn 9.8%, Platformer 9.7%

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 29.2%, Robots 17.4%, Platformer 10.9%, Hand-drawn 9.3%, Action-Adventure 7.6%

Alwa’s Legacy is a modern retro game full of dangerous dungeons, mystic items and ancient secrets. Upgrade your magic and choose your own path in this non-linear adventure game brimming with exploration.

Why similar: Metroidvania 29.9%, Puzzle Platformer 17.8%, Platformer 11.4%, Fantasy 8.8%, Action-Adventure 8.8%

Become symphonic in Narita Boy! A radical action-adventure as a legendary pixel hero trapped as a mere echo within the Digital Kingdom. Discover the mysteries behind the Techno-sword, lock swords with the corrupt and tainted Stallions. Save the world!

Why similar: Metroidvania 23.9%, Emotional 20.3%, Platformer 12.3%, Action-Adventure 9%, Action 8.8%

Delve into the world of Super Roboy, a hand-drawn Metroidvania in a post-apocalyptic setting! Learn enemy skills, explore an interconnected world, battle mutants and robots, and uncover the emotional story of a young robot searching for his father.

Why similar: Metroidvania 24.8%, Robots 18.5%, Hand-drawn 12.8%, Platformer 10.3%, Action-Adventure 7.9%

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 28.3%, Hand-drawn 13.9%, Platformer 11.8%, Colorful 9.5%, Action-Adventure 8.6%

A single-player journey of discovery through an ancient world of wonders, created by solo developer Jonas Manke.

Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 23.6%, Platformer 15.1%, Colorful 11.9%, Exploration 10.2%, Puzzle 9.8%

A little robot digs to repair her world. Dig, build, discover and mend in a chill, stop-motion world.

Why similar: Robots 44.1%, Puzzle 17.1%, Exploration 15.7%, Colorful 11.8%, Indie 6.4%

Explore strange and wonderful islands and dark labyrinths below in this narrative puzzle platformer. Guide young mechanic Mo on her quest to repair a world on the brink of collapse. The powerful Omni Switch at your disposal may not be enough to fix the damage that hides beneath the surface...

Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 18.8%, Post-apocalyptic 15.6%, Hand-drawn 15.2%, Platformer 10.4%, Story Rich 7.6%

A robot, a poncho and a journey of discovery! Make your way through this wonderful world of pixelated parallax platforming to solve the ultimate puzzle: who is Poncho?

Why similar: Robots 18.9%, Platformer 15.2%, Puzzle Platformer 14.2%, Post-apocalyptic 12%, Adventure 8.6%

F.I.S.T.: Forged In Shadow Torch is a Metroidvania action game featuring exploration, intense combat and challenging platforming.

Why similar: Metroidvania 38.7%, Platformer 15.5%, Action-Adventure 10.4%, Story Rich 8.7%, Exploration 8.3%

An atmospheric narrative-platformer about a service robot stranded on a mysterious planet, Planet of the Eyes features a stunning visual mix of puzzle and platforming challenges, an original musical score, and fully voiced audio logs left by another survivor. Explore the mystery of an unknown world.

Why similar: Robots 21.4%, Puzzle Platformer 16.7%, Platformer 16.1%, Puzzle 11.1%, Colorful 7.2%

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Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 33.1%, Platformer 17.9%, Robots 13.8%, Puzzle 12.6%, Action 7.6%

Selfloss is an emotional exploration game filled with rich lore, set in a whale-worshipping, Slavic-inspired world. Embark on the journey of the healer, Kazimir, and his magical staff as he fights a mysterious Miasma in search of a ritual to cure his wounded soul.

Why similar: Emotional 15%, Metroidvania 14.3%, Post-apocalyptic 12.1%, Puzzle Platformer 11.9%, Dark 9.6%

Fight for your freedom in a sprawling fantasy world caught between the living and the fallen. Hone your skills in a retro epic featuring puzzle platforming, metroidvania exploration and crunchy soulslike combat.

Why similar: Metroidvania 61%, Action-Adventure 13.8%, Action 8.8%, Singleplayer 4.7%, Adventure 3.7%

A deep wordless metroidvania with 20+ hours of exploration through fog-covered ruins and the remnants of a lost world. Gain new abilities, uncover hidden paths and discover meaning without dialogue or guidance.

Why similar: Metroidvania 26.1%, Robots 16.5%, Post-apocalyptic 15.1%, Platformer 10.6%, Exploration 6.8%

A Small Robot Story is an adventure-platformer where you play as Rae, a small robot who activates and has no idea why. So you need to set out and find out what's up! With a heavy emphasis on story, A Small Robot Story will take you through forests, factories, caves, laboratories, and more.

Why similar: Robots 44.5%, Platformer 27%, Adventure 12.4%, 2D 8.5%, Indie 7.6%

Feudal Alloy is an epic action adventure with fish-controlled medieval robots! Explore an unusual medieval world with a fish-controlled robot, Attu. Improve your combat techniques and skills by smashing many kinds of mechanical creatures in a beautiful hand-drawn world.

Why similar: Metroidvania 37.7%, Robots 16.9%, RPG 9.8%, Platformer 8.8%, Action 8%

A short, atmospheric experience set inside a handcrafted dream. You are a small, solitary citizen drifting through augmented memories. Boot up your LonelyOS and let the robots guide you.

Why similar: Robots 36.6%, Puzzle Platformer 16.6%, Hand-drawn 16%, Platformer 9.5%, Story Rich 7.7%

Escape from a mysterious underground megastructure in this short atmospheric 3d-platformer.

Why similar: Robots 38.9%, Puzzle Platformer 22.3%, Platformer 13.4%, Adventure 11.8%, Singleplayer 4.9%

A wacky metroidvania. ⚡ Meet weird characters, unlock new abilities and complete a mysterious mission . . .

Why similar: Action 29.5%, Indie 20.1%, Adventure 20.1%, Metroidvania 19.6%, Colorful 5.7%

Use your trusty Mekabolt device to manipulate robots, solve a variety of puzzling levels and obtain batteries to fix the robots!

Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 21.8%, Robots 17.6%, Platformer 13.1%, Action-Adventure 9.7%, Puzzle 8.8%

Mechanism - - an adventure game about a lonely robot. Dive into a depressive steampunk world which has been infected with a strange disease called "Phlegm".

Why similar: Robots 41.3%, Dark 12.9%, Puzzle 11.7%, Adventure 10.3%, Indie 10.1%

A 2.5D retro platformer where you join M1L0 on his quest for the Great Legume.

Why similar: Robots 36.4%, Colorful 19%, Action 15.1%, Platformer 13.2%, Singleplayer 8.1%

Welcome to the Museum! Machinika Museum is a mystery game where you discover beautiful and mysterious machines of extra-terrestrial origins in an atmospheric galaxy-spanning 3D puzzle game. Will you be able to understand their stories and discover what happened to their previous owner?

Why similar: Puzzle 32.6%, Story Rich 18.9%, Exploration 15.8%, Indie 12.8%, Adventure 12.1%

An adventure about a robot saving her home from a dark crystalline force. Set upon a biopunk space station bursting with fantastic plants and aliens.

Why similar: Adventure 18.9%, Indie 18%, Puzzle 15.3%, Hand-drawn 14.7%, Story Rich 13.3%

Scrap Garden is a charming puzzle platformer about the adventures of Canny, a lonely robot, who awakens in a post-apocalyptic world to find all other robots shut down and seized up. What happened to the City? Why did all robots stop moving? Did anyone survive except him?

Why similar: Robots 29.1%, Post-apocalyptic 19.5%, Action 8.9%, Puzzle Platformer 8.7%, Exploration 8.1%

Dive into the immersive world of Retrace the Light, a captivating 2.5D action-adventure game centered around the "Spatial Retracing" feature. Assume the role of an Enforcer working for a super AI in a futuristic world, exploring the depths of human consciousness and healing their emotional wounds.

Why similar: Metroidvania 43.2%, Action-Adventure 13.1%, Exploration 11.9%, Puzzle 11.4%, RPG 9.5%

Kingdom Shell is an atmospheric 2D platformer with a captivating storyline. Explore the local lands to stop the invasion of nightmarish creatures and unravel the mysteries of the Kingdom.

Why similar: Metroidvania 38.8%, Fantasy 10.7%, Dark 10%, Story Rich 9.2%, Platformer 8.5%

In the action-adventure platformer, Akimbot, blast your way through armies of robots, pilot spaceships and forge your own path to save the universe from impending doom! Set in a sci-fi world where only robots exist, travel the galaxy and experience non-stop robot mayhem and explosive action!

Why similar: Robots 29.9%, Platformer 24.2%, Colorful 15.6%, Action 10.4%, Singleplayer 6.3%

Machine Tower 2984 is a top-down mechanical fantasy style Roguelike game. You will embark on an adventure in a tower filled with mechanical mechanisms, challenging the five robots that control the machine tower and searching for the huge secrets behind the entire tower.

Why similar: Robots 40.4%, Action 22%, Adventure 16.4%, RPG 11.5%, Indie 6.1%

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

Why similar: Metroidvania 23%, Robots 17.6%, Post-apocalyptic 17.4%, Platformer 9.6%, Dark 9.2%

Automaton Heart is an RPG with platforming elements where you visit obscure and interesting places while upgrading your organs and strategizing about which items to bring along.

Why similar: Robots 49.3%, RPG 21.3%, Action 17.2%, Adventure 12.3%

A journey begins... A treacherous tower... Unravel its mysteries!Discover the secrets kept in the long abandoned Tesla Tower!Magnetism and other electromagnetic powers will help you explore a non-linear world of beautiful hand-drawn environments, in a steampunk-inspired vision of old Europe.

Why similar: Metroidvania 31.2%, Platformer 22.1%, Puzzle Platformer 13.9%, Puzzle 10.8%, Indie 4.9%

Transform the world of Hob! A new action-adventure from Runic Games, the award-winning studio behind Torchlight I and II. It's your chance. Make it home.

Why similar: Metroidvania 22.5%, Puzzle Platformer 14.5%, Platformer 12.4%, Puzzle 8.9%, Exploration 7.5%

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: Platformer 25.5%, Colorful 23.2%, Exploration 12.7%, Action 12.4%, Metroidvania 10.4%

Become a brave hero and embark to the dangerous journey though mysterious forbidden lands. Reveal secrets of the legendary past, find the last pieces of gone magic and gain courage to slay the terrible monster!

Why similar: Metroidvania 32.4%, Platformer 15.5%, Hand-drawn 13.8%, Action-Adventure 12.7%, Colorful 10.8%

Submachine is a hand-drawn puzzle adventure game. You find yourself in a vast network of desolate locations containing puzzles, secrets, notes and items to collect to help you along the way. Follow the story of a banished lighthouse keeper to discover his descent into ruins.

Why similar: Hand-drawn 27.2%, Puzzle 15.3%, Colorful 13.6%, Exploration 13.5%, Adventure 7.3%

Explore a vast, interconnected dream world full of secrets and collectibles in this metroidvania adventure inspired by classic 2D platformers. Reclaim your lost memories to save Slumberland from the mysterious Oblivion.

Why similar: Metroidvania 35.3%, Hand-drawn 16.1%, Platformer 9.9%, Exploration 8.7%, Action-Adventure 8.6%

Time Loader is a story-driven puzzle-platformer with tiny robots, alternate realities, nostalgic music, and primitive tech from the 90s!

Why similar: Emotional 31.2%, Puzzle Platformer 25.7%, Platformer 16.9%, Story Rich 10.7%, Adventure 5.6%

Embark on a heartfelt Mushroomvania adventure through a vast and dense interconnected world! It's like a mix of retro and modern classics!

Why similar: Metroidvania 40.8%, Platformer 12.1%, Action-Adventure 10.5%, Exploration 9.5%, Adventure 7%

CRYMACHINA is an action RPG where mechanical girls strive to survive in a post-apocalyptic world to become “Real Humans''. But what does it mean to be a “Real Human”?

Why similar: Action-Adventure 19%, Dark 17.1%, RPG 16.3%, Action 15.6%, Colorful 14.9%

Inspired by 16 and 32-bit classics, Gestalt: Steam & Cinder fuses tight 2D platforming and exhilarating combat with an engrossing, twist-laden narrative in a stunningly handcrafted steampunk world.

Why similar: Metroidvania 30.7%, Platformer 12.7%, RPG 11.1%, Fantasy 9%, Story Rich 8.5%

MotionRec is a recording puzzle action game where you progress through stages by recording and playing back your own movements.

Why similar: Robots 21.8%, Metroidvania 19.8%, Puzzle Platformer 18.7%, Action-Adventure 9.5%, Puzzle 7.9%

Before Fate is a retro sci-fi survival RPG. Explore fractured worlds across time, gather resources, craft gear, survive dungeons, and piece together the final timeline.

Why similar: Hand-drawn 18.9%, Action-Adventure 13.6%, Colorful 11.3%, Exploration 10.6%, RPG 10%

Hazel Sky is a heartfelt adventure about a young engineer facing his destiny and his desires. Fix ramshackle flying machines and jump, climb, swing, and slide through a beautiful, mysterious world.

Why similar: Emotional 31.6%, Colorful 13.2%, Story Rich 11.7%, Puzzle 10.4%, Exploration 10.3%

Return to the indie classic Teslagrad, recharged to provide the ultimate electromagnetic experience! Escape a tyrant king, master the art of Teslamancy, and uncover the secrets buried deep within the Tesla Tower in this puzzle-platforming adventure!

Why similar: Metroidvania 23.9%, Puzzle Platformer 16.4%, Platformer 12.1%, Action-Adventure 9.3%, Puzzle 8.3%

The Last Campfire is an adventure, a story of a lost ember trapped in a puzzling place, searching for meaning and a way home.

Why similar: Emotional 27.2%, Puzzle Platformer 16%, Puzzle 13.1%, Fantasy 11.4%, Story Rich 9%

Robot wants stuff! Go get it for him in this compilation of the metroidvania Robot Wants series, including an all-new Robot adventure!

Why similar: Metroidvania 29.5%, Robots 23%, Platformer 11.5%, Action 9.7%, Colorful 7.1%

Wield your magical instrument and defy the mecha-goddesses of fate in this Song-Casting Story Driven Action-RPG. Explore a forbidden forest as Traveler. Help him reunite with his long lost love as you fight through abominations and solve mysterious puzzles, all while an ancient conflict unfolds.

Why similar: Metroidvania 20.3%, Emotional 17.5%, Action-Adventure 9.1%, Story Rich 8%, Puzzle 6.8%

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 36.2%, Puzzle Platformer 19.8%, Platformer 11.2%, Exploration 9.2%, Puzzle 9%

Explore an interconnected world full of platforming challenges in this short metroidvania. Reach new areas by swinging from ceilings, throwing bombs, bouncing off spikes, and more. Examine dozens of artifacts, commune with forgotten gods, and piece together what happened to Auridia.

Why similar: Metroidvania 36.9%, Platformer 11.9%, Story Rich 9.7%, Exploration 9.5%, Puzzle Platformer 8.8%

A little robot becomes a pilgrim and crosses a wild post-apocalyptic world to find the meaning of life.

Why similar: Robots 58.6%, Story Rich 14.2%, Adventure 9.2%, Exploration 6.2%, Singleplayer 5.9%

A puzzle-platformer set in a dystopian world where the invention of a cloning device has messed things up, big time. Armed with a clone gun and a mighty fine mustache, the chore of saving THE WHOLE OF CIVILIZATION rests on your shoulders. Don’t blow it.

Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 25.2%, Platformer 15.7%, Puzzle 12.5%, Exploration 9.8%, Action 9%

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 31.2%, Puzzle Platformer 18.6%, Platformer 12%, Puzzle 8.3%, Exploration 8.3%