Games Like Retro Machina: Nucleonics

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: Robots 71.5%, Cute 14.4%, Exploration 13.5%, Singleplayer 0.6%

Why You'll Like It: A delightful metroidvania that focuses on exploration and combat as a small robot in a post-apocalyptic machine world.

Machinarium is the award-winning independent adventure game developed by the makers of Samorost series, Botanicula and CHUCHEL. Help Josef the robot save his girlfriend Berta kidnapped by the Black Cap Brotherhood gang!

Why similar: Robots 51.1%, Sci-fi 19.8%, Stylized 11.2%, Cute 10.5%, Hand-drawn 7%

Why You'll Like It: A classic point-and-click adventure featuring a charming robot protagonist in a beautifully detailed, hand-drawn world.

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Why similar: Robots 80.1%, Cute 17.9%, Singleplayer 1.9%

Why You'll Like It: A clever puzzle-platformer where you play as a robot whose body powers the environment, mirroring the puzzle-centric gameplay of the seed.

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: Exploration 49.9%, Hack and Slash 24.5%, Colorful 21.1%, Singleplayer 4.5%

Why You'll Like It: An isometric action-adventure game that excels at environmental puzzle-solving and exploring a mysterious, ruined world.

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: Sci-fi 71.3%, Exploration 26.9%, Singleplayer 1.9%

Why You'll Like It: Features a robot protagonist in a sprawling, interconnected world that emphasizes exploration and tactical combat.

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 64%, Third Person 14.4%, Cute 11.5%, Exploration 9.5%, Singleplayer 0.7%

Why You'll Like It: A charming 3D puzzle-platformer where you control a lonely robot navigating a world abandoned by its creators.

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: Robots 38.3%, Futuristic 15.7%, Sci-fi 13.3%, Mystery 10.1%, Colorful 9.2%

Why You'll Like It: A stylish metroidvania with a sleek, robotic aesthetic and fluid movement that emphasizes exploration.

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: Mystery 27.5%, Sci-fi 24.8%, Futuristic 21.9%, Logic 20.1%, Exploration 5.3%

Why You'll Like It: A mystery-focused puzzle game set in a sci-fi environment that requires careful observation and interaction with mechanical objects.

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

Why similar: Robots 27.8%, Mystery 14.5%, Futuristic 14.2%, Third Person 8.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 8%

Why You'll Like It: An exploration-focused adventure set in a sci-fi world that prioritizes discovery and atmospheric storytelling.

Lost, alone and separated from family, a stray cat must untangle an ancient mystery to escape a long-forgotten cybercity and find their way home.

Why similar: Robots 39.9%, Sci-fi 14.5%, Mystery 11.7%, Cute 10.9%, Third Person 10.1%

Why You'll Like It: While you play as a cat, the atmospheric exploration of a decaying, robot-inhabited sci-fi city feels very similar to the world of Retro Machina.

This atmospheric, Metroidvania hacking adventure lets you take control of a semi-sapient program struggling against deletion. In the sprawling 3D world of a Mainframe, Recompile features intense combat, tight 3D platforming, super-powered abilities and an environmental logic-based hacking mechanic.

Why similar: Sci-fi 32.3%, Mystery 24.3%, Third Person 18.7%, Exploration 12.4%, Stylized 11.7%

Why You'll Like It: A sci-fi exploration game where you play as a sentient program, blending platforming with hacking mechanics.

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 62.2%, Futuristic 29.1%, Hand-drawn 5.9%, Colorful 2.6%, Singleplayer 0.1%

Why You'll Like It: A futuristic adventure game that captures the robotic themes and atmospheric exploration of the seed game.

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

Why similar: Robots 45.8%, Arcade 27%, Cute 14.4%, Colorful 12.8%

Why You'll Like It: A puzzle-platformer that centers on using a unique tool to manipulate robots to solve environmental challenges.

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: Cute 43.1%, Sci-fi 30.4%, Exploration 12.7%, Hand-drawn 12%, Singleplayer 1.8%

Why You'll Like It: A beautiful, puzzle-heavy adventure game featuring a robot protagonist on a space station.

Catch hundreds of tinykin and use their unique powers to bring Milo back to his home planet and back to normal size!

Why similar: Third Person 40.3%, Cute 39%, Exploration 19.2%, Singleplayer 1.5%

Why You'll Like It: A vibrant exploration game that focuses on puzzle-solving and interacting with a unique world, capturing the cute and colorful tone of the seed.

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

Why similar: Singleplayer 100%

Why You'll Like It: An atmospheric point-and-click adventure that follows a robot on a journey through a stylized, mysterious world.

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

Why similar: 2.5D 60.9%, Sci-fi 38.2%, Singleplayer 1%

Why You'll Like It: A physics-based puzzle-platformer where you control a small robot in a nostalgic, retro-inspired setting.

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: Robots 54.9%, Sci-fi 26.6%, Exploration 10.3%, Hand-drawn 8.2%

Why You'll Like It: A hand-drawn metroidvania that focuses on action and exploration with a robotic theme.

Embark on an adventure with 6-mon the little robot. Take control of the robot and travel through a disused factory, avoiding falls, protecting yourself from projectiles and traversing dangerous levels to stop the activities of a crazy AI.

Why similar: Robots 61.1%, Third Person 20.4%, Stylized 11.6%, Colorful 6.3%, Singleplayer 0.6%

Why You'll Like It: A precision-platformer that features a robot protagonist in a challenging, exploration-heavy environment.

Genopanic is a pixel-art, Metroidvania-inspired adventure-platformer. Explore corridors of the space station, teeming with secrets and dangers, and engage in boss fights. Solve puzzles and uncover hidden mysteries in the dark atmosphere of a sci-fi research complex. Discover the truth with each step

Why similar: Sci-fi 67.6%, Exploration 30.8%, Singleplayer 1.6%

Why You'll Like It: A robot-focused metroidvania that combines exploration with colorful, action-oriented gameplay.

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: Isometric 44.2%, Cute 14.8%, Exploration 14.6%, Colorful 9.6%, Stylized 9.2%

Why You'll Like It: An isometric adventure game that relies heavily on exploration and deciphering a mysterious, interconnected world.

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: Cute 94.8%, Singleplayer 5.2%

Why You'll Like It: A puzzle-driven exploration game with a cute, stylized aesthetic that focuses on a journey of discovery.

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

Why similar: Cute 37.2%, Colorful 35%, Exploration 27.7%

Why You'll Like It: An indie action-adventure game that emphasizes exploration and platforming as a small robot.

A sci-fi-style rolling 3D platformer.

Why similar: Sci-fi 33.3%, Mystery 28.5%, Cute 22%, Top-Down 15.4%, Singleplayer 0.7%

Why You'll Like It: A 3D action-platformer that blends fast-paced movement with puzzle-solving elements.

A top-down adventure game in a coloring book world full of vibrant characters. Use painting powers to explore, solve puzzles, make friends, and draw on anything! From creators on Wandersong + Celeste.

Why similar: Cute 51.2%, Colorful 47.7%, Singleplayer 1.1%

Why You'll Like It: A top-down adventure game that uses puzzle-solving and world-building to create a deeply engaging experience.

Be a part of an adventurous journey in Cubots: The Origins. Explore and survive in beautiful, atmospheric environments!

Why similar: Isometric 27%, Mystery 22.1%, Logic 21.6%, 2.5D 20.8%, Exploration 8%

Why You'll Like It: A puzzle-adventure game that focuses on atmospheric exploration and logical challenges.

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

Why similar: Robots 46.4%, 2.5D 31.2%, Colorful 14.1%, Cute 7.3%, Singleplayer 0.9%

Why You'll Like It: A 2D action-adventure game that focuses on exploration and old-school platforming mechanics.

Arcade Mayhem Juanito is a retro experience about arcade-hopping. Teleport into different video games, play with unique mechanics inspired by well-known arcade games, face stunningly animated bosses and join the fight against the clonocell invasion.

Why similar: Arcade 49.8%, Sci-fi 38.7%, Hand-drawn 10.4%, Singleplayer 1.1%

Why You'll Like It: An arcade-style action game that captures the colorful, high-energy feel of classic beat-em-ups.

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

Why similar: Robots 33%, 2.5D 28.4%, Futuristic 18%, Stylized 8.9%, Exploration 6.3%

A classical science fiction point and click adventure which takes you into a deep story and murky atmosphere, while solving logical puzzles. Accompany Tessa Carter and her talking robot as she finds out about herself and searches for a way to survive.

Why similar: 2.5D 28.6%, Robots 20.9%, Sci-fi 17.3%, Mystery 14%, Futuristic 9.8%

Why You'll Like It: A sci-fi mystery game that uses a unique perspective to deliver a story-rich, atmospheric experience.

A Robot Named Fight is a Metroidvania roguelike focused on exploration and item collection. Explore a different, procedurally-generated labyrinth each time you play and discover randomized power-ups to traverse obstacles, find secrets and explode meat beasts.

Why similar: Robots 100%

Why You'll Like It: A roguelite metroidvania that features a robot protagonist exploring a world filled with mechanical threats.

"Robot Hospice" is a 2D pixel art adventure game where beloved robots spend their final days in a hospice. As a new staff member, you will gently yet painfully bid farewell to these cherished machines that once lived alongside humans.

Why similar: Robots 36.6%, Futuristic 20.1%, Sci-fi 18.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.9%, Cute 10.1%

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

Why similar: Robots 60.3%, Colorful 20.6%, Exploration 10%, Hand-drawn 8%, Singleplayer 1.1%

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 47.4%, Sci-fi 21.4%, Third Person 16.2%, Stylized 15%

Dive into a world that mixes Sci-Fi and ancient tradition. Slash through robots with a trusty katana, use hi-tech implants to navigate the surroundings, dodge enemy attacks, and land devastating finishers. Reclaim the past following the way of the Japanese samurai in the fantastic period of New Edo.

Why similar: Beat 'em up 28%, Robots 28%, 2.5D 17.2%, Sci-fi 14.5%, Hack and Slash 7.4%

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 40.7%, 2.5D 38.7%, Stylized 11.7%, Top-Down 8.6%, Singleplayer 0.3%

Discover a world overrun with robots, and play as a defective bot who tries to find a way to flee the facility. Find others who are the same kind, free them, and escape the laboratory!

Why similar: Robots 54.4%, Futuristic 31.5%, Exploration 13.7%, Singleplayer 0.5%

In this roguelike action-adventure, control humanoid "Labor" and giant "Arms" to uncover the mysteries of the world. Create fully-customizable robots, strengthen them, and take down hordes of enemies!

Why similar: Robots 26.8%, 2.5D 24.4%, Isometric 22.9%, Sci-fi 12.9%, Hack and Slash 9.2%

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 100%

This is an adventure game that takes you on a journey through a world after humans have disappeared. Lead the robot girl "Scarlet" to find the surviving humans.

Why similar: Robots 49.9%, 2.5D 28.9%, Cute 11.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 5.8%, Colorful 4%

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: Isometric 41.3%, Hack and Slash 13.5%, Third Person 13.1%, Stylized 11.2%, Top-Down 10.5%

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: Mystery 48.8%, Colorful 20.2%, Exploration 17.3%, Hand-drawn 12.6%, Singleplayer 1.1%

Enter 'Genopanic: Prologue,' the beginning of a dynamic story in a Metroidvania-style experience! Wield a plasma cutter, team up with your virtual dog LAIK, outsmart the cunning cat-girl AI VOLGA, uncover the secrets of Dark Matter, and delve into DNA experiments in a galactic adventure.

Why similar: Robots 56.8%, Colorful 12.9%, Arcade 11.2%, Cute 9.9%, Exploration 8.9%

Play as the ancient automaton Cecilia Immergreen as you explore the world for secrets, solve puzzles, delve into dungeons, fight other Hololive members as powerful bosses, help other members with side quests, and find powerful items to explore previously unavailable locations.

Why similar: Top-Down 35%, Exploration 34.3%, Cute 30%, Singleplayer 0.7%

Explore a unique and connected world. Understand its fragile balance, uncover its deepest questions, and find more than just the answers.

Why similar: Logic 26.5%, Mystery 23.9%, Sci-fi 17.2%, Colorful 13.2%, Stylized 11.2%

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

Why similar: Robots 59.1%, Mystery 28%, Third Person 12.2%, Singleplayer 0.7%

Master Key is a top-down adventure game with a strong focus on item-based exploration and secrets. Embark on a journey to discover what that key could be used for and meet colorful characters!

Why similar: Cute 38.2%, Exploration 31.2%, Top-Down 27.7%, Singleplayer 2.9%

Enjoy a stylish action combat experience as you explore a chapter storylines from Journey to the West.

Why similar: Beat 'em up 39.4%, 2.5D 20.1%, Isometric 16.6%, Arcade 11.9%, Mystery 9%

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 40.3%, Sci-fi 21.3%, Third Person 13.3%, Stylized 12.3%, Colorful 12.2%

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: 2.5D 45.7%, Robots 41.3%, Colorful 7.3%, Exploration 5.2%, Singleplayer 0.4%

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

Why similar: Robots 75%, Stylized 20%, Exploration 4.2%, Singleplayer 0.7%

Tech Blast is an action-puzzle game where a young mechanic explores an abandoned planet, solving puzzles, building mechanisms, and battling ore insects.

Why similar: Logic 36.4%, Robots 23.3%, Arcade 16.2%, Sci-fi 13.7%, Top-Down 5.9%

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

Why similar: Robots 60.7%, Sci-fi 28.9%, Exploration 9.6%, Singleplayer 0.7%

Sect-Machina is a fluid, atmospheric bug-themed metroidvania rendered in a vibrant 2D pixelated style, crafted with meticulous attention to detail in its combat, characters, environments, sound, and story.

Why similar: Stylized 55.2%, Exploration 44.8%

Space Expedition is a 2D sci-fi platformer where you play as an astronaut who is sent to a space station to collect samples of mysterious dark matter. Space Expedition combines puzzle platforming, pixel art, and atmospheric adventures set in the style of 1980s sci-fi horror films.

Why similar: Robots 64%, Colorful 18.8%, Exploration 16.6%, Singleplayer 0.6%

A post-apocalyptic 3D platformer combining puzzles with intense action. You play as El, a robot escaping from a dreadful facility and exploring the ruins of civilization.

Why similar: Stylized 31.1%, Futuristic 27.4%, Third Person 22.8%, Sci-fi 18.7%

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 57.2%, Mystery 14.6%, Cute 11.1%, Third Person 8.9%, Sci-fi 7.7%

To execute her command “Bring Mankind happiness,” Robot Rurumu hopes she can understand the "Happiness of Mankind" by becoming more human-like.

Why similar: Sci-fi 37%, Cute 23.8%, Colorful 20.8%, Exploration 17.4%, Singleplayer 1%

Embark on an epic journey through exotic worlds to uncover the mystery of the magic crystals! An exciting retro platform adventure in the nostalgic style of the 90's DOS platformers

Why similar: Cute 94.8%, Singleplayer 5.2%