60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Metroidvania, Exploration, Adventure, 2D.
After an experiment gone wrong, the world finds itself split in two! Swap between similar but slightly different versions of the world to explore the remnants of the mysterious company that caused it all. Unlock various abilities, weapons, and upgrades to navigate your way through this broken world!
Cryselts
Cryselts is a 2D pixel-art Metroidvania focused on exploration, modular suits, and ranged combat, set in a hostile world corrupted by a mutagenic threat. Join the Cryselts, an elite task force designed to protect the planet.
Shifted Heart
Explore, fight, and discover new spells and abilities in the world of Shifted Heart! Acquire an assortment of spells, customize your loadout to your liking, and save the world from certain doom.
Cryselts is a 2D pixel-art Metroidvania focused on exploration, modular suits, and ranged combat, set in a hostile world corrupted by a mutagenic threat. Join the Cryselts, an elite task force designed to protect the planet.
Why similar: Metroidvania 28.8%, Nonlinear 12.5%, Post-apocalyptic 12.3%, Exploration 8.2%, Action-Adventure 7.8%
Explore, fight, and discover new spells and abilities in the world of Shifted Heart! Acquire an assortment of spells, customize your loadout to your liking, and save the world from certain doom.
Why similar: Metroidvania 26.1%, Nonlinear 12.1%, Post-apocalyptic 11.3%, Character Customization 10.8%, Lore-Rich 10.7%
A Retro Metroidvania focused heavily on Exploration, Puzzle Solving Combat and Platforming.
Why similar: Metroidvania 29.5%, Puzzle Platformer 18.3%, Nonlinear 14.2%, PvE 11.7%, Exploration 8.1%
Venture into the wast world of Delta's Discs, while collecting discs that will help Delta, a duck knight, recover his memories, make new friends and overthrow the squirrel dictatorship.
Why similar: Metroidvania 23.6%, Puzzle Platformer 13.7%, Nonlinear 11.5%, Character Customization 9.9%, PvE 9%
Rift Walker is an open world 2D puzzle platformer where... there aren't any platforms?
Why similar: Metroidvania 28.1%, Puzzle Platformer 19.2%, Lore-Rich 16.7%, Post-apocalyptic 12.8%, Story Rich 9.3%
Explore the Echoes of Nox amongst the war between 3 factions of robots. Uncover new tools and take territory as the dynamically changing rooms switch hands between the different AIs and yourself. Reveal the secrets of the past and discover why you alone were left in this station.
Why similar: Metroidvania 32.8%, Post-apocalyptic 12.2%, PvE 11.8%, Exploration 9.4%, Multiple Endings 7.4%
Explore a world of secrets and opposition at every turn, and smash through it in fast-paced top-down combat! This game is a short 2–3 hour experience that aims for high quality of life, worldbuilding, and gameplay without demanding weeks of your time!
Why similar: Metroidvania 33.8%, Lore-Rich 13.9%, Post-apocalyptic 11.8%, Exploration 9.8%, Action-Adventure 8.9%
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 37.4%, Puzzle Platformer 21%, Exploration 10.8%, Multiple Endings 8.3%, Logic 7.5%
Delearnia: Fractions of Hope is a thrilling puzzle adventure where action, mystery, and mathematics collide. Navigate the enchanting world of Delearnia, conquer challenges, and defeat enemies with the power of mathematics. Rediscover the fun in being a thinker. Become the Mathemagician!
Why similar: Metroidvania 25.1%, Puzzle Platformer 14.4%, Lore-Rich 13%, Post-apocalyptic 10.4%, Character Customization 10.2%
Switch, adapt, and evolve in Phaze Shift, an action-platformer Metroidvania. Swap between two characters, fuse upgrades to forge new abilities, battle mechanized bosses, and explore a sleeping digital world in a hand-drawn diorama-style 2D adventure.
Why similar: Metroidvania 28.8%, Lore-Rich 16.3%, Nonlinear 14.8%, Multiple Endings 9%, Action-Adventure 8.2%
Join forces with ALAN the service bot in this mysterious post-nuclear metroidvania. Explore a deadly mutant wasteland, upgrade ALAN with abilities that unlock new areas, and uncover the secrets of The Worm.
Why similar: Metroidvania 30.6%, Post-apocalyptic 19.6%, Nonlinear 14.7%, Exploration 7.5%, Pixel Graphics 6.7%
BIOMORPH is a dark metroidvania game where you become the creatures that you kill! Solve ingenious puzzles and navigate a stunning hand-drawn world. Meet quirky characters, rebuild a city, and uncover the secrets of a sprawling, fallen civilization… and of your own mysterious origins.
Why similar: Metroidvania 27.2%, Lore-Rich 14.2%, Nonlinear 13.1%, Artificial Intelligence 10.4%, Multiple Endings 8.3%
Follow Klain's mythical adventures in this top-down Action-RPG mixing combat, exploration, puzzles and platforming. Travel through the New World, explore forgotten dungeons, confront terrible foes and... become a Godslayer!
Why similar: Metroidvania 26.2%, Lore-Rich 14.3%, Puzzle Platformer 13.7%, Multiple Endings 8.9%, Action-Adventure 7.4%
EX VITRO is a dark sci-fi 2D platformer where you delve into the ruins of a military research facility and discover the horrors within. Whether machine, creature, or something else entirely, you’ll face the violent legacy of the last survivors of humanity.
Why similar: Metroidvania 32.5%, Nonlinear 16.6%, PvE 12.6%, Multiple Endings 9.9%, Exploration 8.5%
Jump, dash, and climb through a vibrant wilderness as three playable characters in this action-adventure metroidvania. Explore a sprawling interconnected map, master unique abilities, and face powerful foes, all while uncovering the mysteries of this war-stricken world and one special cub.
Why similar: Metroidvania 40.2%, Nonlinear 15.2%, Lore-Rich 13.6%, Action-Adventure 10.8%, Pixel Graphics 7.7%
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 38.3%, Puzzle Platformer 19.9%, Exploration 11.1%, Multiple Endings 8.4%, Action-Adventure 7.7%
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 36.2%, Puzzle Platformer 19%, Nonlinear 15.5%, Exploration 10.5%, Story Rich 5.8%
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 30.2%, Puzzle Platformer 18%, Nonlinear 17%, Logic 8.7%, Multiple Endings 8.4%
Explore the vast abandoned V.I.R.U.S. Compound corrupted by machines. Restore order to the facility with a full arsenal of customizable weapons and armory acquired around the debris of this forgotten world. Can you uncover the mystery behind the Soul Cipher?
Why similar: Metroidvania 27.5%, Artificial Intelligence 13.4%, Nonlinear 11.9%, Post-apocalyptic 8.5%, Character Customization 7.4%
Toki Tori 2+ may look cute, but it’s a challenging puzzle adventure game. Whistle and stomp are the only moves you need to solve increasingly complex puzzles, as you go anywhere, anytime on a lush forest island!
Why similar: Metroidvania 28.4%, Level Editor 24.2%, Nonlinear 18.4%, Puzzle Platformer 16.7%, Exploration 6.6%
Dreeg is a multi-dimensional Metroidvania adventure. Shift between three parallel dimensions to explore, solve puzzles, and battle fierce enemies. Upgrade your Pulsar Suit and Forge to unlock unique abilities. Unravel the mysteries, avenge your fallen companion, and save the multiverse.
Why similar: Metroidvania 27.8%, Puzzle Platformer 16.2%, Nonlinear 14.5%, PvE 10.8%, Action-Adventure 7.6%
Explore, solve enigmas and fight mutated creatures in a 2D narrative-driven metroidvania with pets, set on the rooftops and the undergrounds of a flooded countryside, enriched by cinematic cutscenes, diverse scenography and memorable characters.
Why similar: Metroidvania 31%, Lore-Rich 19.1%, Puzzle Platformer 14.6%, Pixel Graphics 7.9%, Story Rich 7.4%
Shadowed Journey is a Metroidvania-like game, where the player plays a sword-cultivating disciple of a fairy sect, who secretly goes down the mountain to return home. However, in this Dharma-ending age, what awaits you is a journey to hell, and all you can rely on is your flying sword and your heart
Why similar: Metroidvania 29.5%, Lore-Rich 18.5%, Post-apocalyptic 12.7%, Multiple Endings 8.6%, Action-Adventure 7.9%
For Mercuri, a girl who fell into a fallen kingdom, everything is overwhelming. She digs deeper into the depths of the kingdom with the help of Golem Hando. Take down the enemies in front of you with TAG-ACTION that alternates between two characters and continue your exploration!
Why similar: Metroidvania 37.7%, Lore-Rich 20.3%, PvE 11.9%, Pixel Graphics 8%, Multiple Endings 6.9%
Explore the danger and mystery of a fallen land, whose hidden wonders are shrouded and marred by the stranglehold of wickedness. In "Fire in the Beastlands," you are thrust into a world beyond the brink, blamed for its waywardness, and confronted with the choice between revenge and redemption.
Why similar: Metroidvania 24.4%, Lore-Rich 12.8%, Nonlinear 12.5%, Post-apocalyptic 11.1%, Character Customization 10.1%
Use your soul as a grappling hook in this tight, non-linear, physics-based platformer. Swing through hundreds of hand-crafted challenges, explore a vast world inspired by classic metroidvanias, and find your place within the seasons of the Afterlife.
Why similar: Metroidvania 29.6%, Puzzle Platformer 16.9%, Lore-Rich 15.2%, Nonlinear 14.6%, Exploration 7.4%
A pinball horror adventure game. You will bounce and ping your way through a nonlinear world in hopes to get back to the life you were living before.
Why similar: Metroidvania 31.2%, Lore-Rich 15.4%, Nonlinear 15.1%, Multiple Endings 8.9%, Exploration 8.5%
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 30.5%, Post-apocalyptic 15.3%, Puzzle Platformer 13.4%, Nonlinear 11.3%, Exploration 7.5%
The Chaos Rider finally wakes up after ages. Explore a mysterious island with tons of secrets and treasures to discover ! Fight your way through hordes of enemies and fulfill the dream of the Great Architect. Create your own playstyle, beat bosses and do crazy platforming in this epic adventure game
Why similar: Metroidvania 39.5%, Character Customization 15.5%, Action-Adventure 10.4%, Exploration 9.4%, Story Rich 8%
Explore a dangerous, fantastical world and slay the divine being that corrupted it. Goldstained is a top-down 2D action-adventure where unlocking new weapons with new movesets is your way forward through boss fights, puzzles, and combat!
Why similar: Metroidvania 40.6%, PvE 9.9%, Action-Adventure 9.8%, Pixel Graphics 9%, Sci-fi 6.8%
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 32.1%, Puzzle Platformer 15.7%, Post-apocalyptic 15.2%, Nonlinear 15.2%, Exploration 7.8%
Xoul is a uniquely styled 2D ARPG. You can use the game's distinctive "Custom Combo" feature to create your own chain attacks, defeat various enemies, experience diverse stories, unravel the mysteries of this world—and then make your choice.
Why similar: Metroidvania 37.9%, Puzzle Platformer 19.2%, Lore-Rich 13.7%, Action-Adventure 8.5%, Multiple Endings 7.1%
Junklands is a 3D action-platformer that thrusts Rahr, a brave paper fledgling, into a polluted world ruled by its toxic overlords. Forced from home, Rahr must navigate smog-filled lands and sludge-choked rivers on a perilous quest to cleanse the Junklands and restore life.
Why similar: Metroidvania 30.1%, Puzzle Platformer 17.2%, Nonlinear 16.3%, Post-apocalyptic 15.1%, Action-Adventure 10.1%
Piece together the complete story in this Unique Adventure game with Giantess Girls, which combine First-Person exploration and decryption, Text Adventure, Rouge-like, Real-Time combat, and many interesting gameplay! There’s plenty of interesting content waiting to be explored!
Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 21%, Level Editor 19.8%, Lore-Rich 19.3%, Nonlinear 13.1%, Multiple Endings 10.8%
A vertically-structured Metroidvania where genetic mutations redefine progression. Navigate a divine-biomechanical labyrinth with dynamically evolving combat forms, where every choice alters companion fates and the world's collapse.
Why similar: Metroidvania 40.5%, Lore-Rich 14.7%, Puzzle Platformer 14.6%, Action-Adventure 8.8%, Pixel Graphics 8.3%
A dark Metroidvania where memory and madness intertwine. Explore surreal biomes, face grotesque bosses born of trauma, and recover fragments of a forgotten identity in a world that twists with your sanity.
Why similar: Metroidvania 33.6%, Lore-Rich 15.5%, PvE 12.7%, Action-Adventure 8.6%, Multiple Endings 8.4%
A colour-fuelled 2D Metroidvania. Paint your surroundings as a little lizard exploring a huge hand-crafted world, and restore emotion to a monochrome continent as you discover your true colours.
Why similar: Metroidvania 30.3%, Nonlinear 18.5%, Lore-Rich 16%, Multiple Endings 9.9%, Action-Adventure 8.9%
Explore an overgrown landscape of magic as you create your own platforms and shape your path through the world. Discover the history of a forgotten planet, collect relics to awaken your abilities, and create the very terrain you traverse.
Why similar: Metroidvania 28.9%, Puzzle Platformer 16.9%, Lore-Rich 15.3%, Nonlinear 15%, Multiple Endings 8.8%
Escape your subconscious in this psychological puzzle adventure. Explore a surreal, non-linear dreamworld filled with deadly traps and mind-bending puzzles. Navigate your way back to consciousness to reclaim your life... before it slips away forever.
Why similar: Metroidvania 31.4%, Level Editor 23.5%, Logic 12.2%, Nonlinear 12.1%, Exploration 8.5%
Explore the ruins of an ancient city. Solve puzzles to unlock new paths, abilities, and forgotten lore. Read the lost stories you uncover to gain insight into a tangled web of mysteries. Using only your wits and your trusty torch to guide you, you must find a way to return light to a starless sky.
Why similar: Metroidvania 30.3%, Lore-Rich 22.3%, Nonlinear 19.9%, Exploration 9.1%, Story Rich 7.2%
Maverick is an action-packed metroidvania with tight and deliberate controls. Run, jump, and shoot your way through a post-modern Earth under siege by alien-androids. Conquer dynamic enemies and bosses as you evolve your xeno-armor with enhancements and unlock unique abilities.
Why similar: Metroidvania 32%, Lore-Rich 15.4%, Post-apocalyptic 11.5%, Action-Adventure 9.5%, Exploration 7.9%
Embark on an epic adventure full of perils and secrets. Explore distinct forsaken lands of Devetlam and fight your way by jumping on your enemies or showering them with a plethora of magic spells. An open-world platforming action inspired by the classics.
Why similar: Metroidvania 28.1%, Nonlinear 17.1%, Lore-Rich 17%, Multiple Endings 8.4%, Action-Adventure 8.2%
A terror in the sky is bent on exterminating a young wizard and her loved ones. Featuring a riveting and sinister story, set out to explore a vast world in this modern Metroidvania RPG, filled with devious monsters, lethal dungeons, creative puzzles, lively towns & many uncharted wonders.
Why similar: Metroidvania 34.6%, Post-apocalyptic 13.1%, Puzzle Platformer 11.4%, Story Rich 9.6%, Action-Adventure 8.8%
This is an action game in which the player cannot jump by himself, but jumps with the blast of a bomb. You can dash with the blast on your back, and even attack with bombs, allowing you to enjoy bombs to the fullest.
Why similar: Metroidvania 54.4%, Sci-fi 11.4%, Action-Adventure 10.8%, PvE 10.3%, Action 7.6%
You awaken on the Altar inside the Life Cathedral. Life Blood is a first-person, Kingsfield-like action adventure game with a focus on exploration. Travel the interconnected world with fast-paced, reaction-based combat and discover the secrets within the heart of the mountain.
Why similar: Metroidvania 25.7%, Nonlinear 19.8%, Lore-Rich 15.2%, PvE 12.3%, Action-Adventure 8.2%
Explore a failed utopia, slaughter mindless and maniacal foes, and master slick movement in “The Milliner,” a noir gunslinging metroidvania. Your journey will be one of hardship, as a ruthless visionary known only as the Milliner will do everything in its power to stop you and all you stand for.
Why similar: Metroidvania 31.8%, Nonlinear 20.9%, Lore-Rich 14%, Action-Adventure 7.8%, Exploration 7.5%
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 29.4%, Nonlinear 17.3%, Puzzle Platformer 13.6%, Multiple Endings 10.9%, Sci-fi 7.4%
Combine four Augment types to transform your gun, movement, and traversal in a 2D sci-fi metroidvania. Explore interconnected environments from flooded ruins to abandoned bunkers, fight biomechanical threats, and rebuild the last human settlement.
Why similar: Metroidvania 26.5%, Lore-Rich 16.3%, Post-apocalyptic 14.9%, Action-Adventure 7.7%, Story Rich 6.9%
Thousands of years after the activation of the Vesper Protocol, a small android crosses a fallen world, hunted by merciless machines, to control the power of Light and decide the fate of his race.
Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 17.9%, Lore-Rich 17.2%, Post-apocalyptic 16.1%, Sci-fi 8.9%, Multiple Endings 8.7%
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 33%, Puzzle Platformer 18.4%, Nonlinear 15.6%, Multiple Endings 8.4%, Exploration 8%
Take the role of a nameless knight seeking repentance in a God-forsaken village in Sylva - Curse of the Demon Woods, a game about inner and outward exploration, chivalric action, featuring Metroidvania and Souls-like elements with a heavy focus on narrative and worldbuilding.
Why similar: Metroidvania 30.3%, Lore-Rich 18.7%, Puzzle Platformer 15.5%, Exploration 7%, Action-Adventure 6.9%
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 40.4%, Puzzle Platformer 20.4%, Nonlinear 13%, Exploration 9.8%, Pixel Graphics 8.5%
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 38.4%, Puzzle Platformer 18%, Lore-Rich 13.2%, Nonlinear 9.8%, Pixel Graphics 6%
In the Void, everyone is alone, and you're no exception. Use your endless health as damage, create your own strategy with abilities and Sigils, and fight through corrupted entities in this top-down action Metroidvania. Don't be fooled - you're nobody's last hope.
Why similar: Metroidvania 30.4%, Nonlinear 18.9%, PvE 10.4%, Character Customization 10.3%, Action-Adventure 7.8%
The Dark Lord won. Now what? Find out in this quirky 2D action-adventure where fluid combat meets time-twisting exploration. Shift the seasons, reshape the world, solve clever puzzles, and get swept up in a heartfelt story full of oddball characters and darkly funny charm.
Why similar: Metroidvania 23.6%, Nonlinear 15%, Lore-Rich 14.6%, Puzzle Platformer 14.1%, Action-Adventure 7%
Explore, fight, and platform through a world of deadly plants as a lone potato, Tater Spud, in search of powerups and the answers behind the flora that was once safe.
Why similar: Metroidvania 35.7%, Nonlinear 18%, PvE 13.7%, Action-Adventure 9.5%, Exploration 8.9%
Yeomna is a Metrovania 2D action platform game. Take on the role of the Half-Demon exorcist Dongbaek, and complete the cases requested by Yeomna though combat and adventure in this dream-like, mysterious Underworld.
Why similar: Metroidvania 58.6%, Story Rich 9.7%, Multiple Endings 9.7%, Action-Adventure 8.7%, Action 6.9%
Battle powerful monsters, discover ancient artifacts, and forge your own path in Eystrandi, a 2D, Norse - inspired Metroidvania in which health is constantly draining, with the only thing between life and death being one's ability to reap health from their enemies.
Why similar: Metroidvania 47.6%, Pixel Graphics 10.4%, Nonlinear 8.8%, Action-Adventure 8.5%, Story Rich 7.1%
Discover your own legend in LUCID. Platform through a crystalline world torn apart by calamity, absorb powerful abilities that expand movement and enhance combat against a diverse cast of enemies and bosses, all in gorgeous pixel art inspired by the golden age of 2D sidescrollers.
Why similar: Metroidvania 28.9%, Lore-Rich 17%, Nonlinear 16.8%, Action-Adventure 8.3%, Exploration 7.2%
Explore a giant, shifting Labyrinth and face off against powerful, ancient ghosts in this old-school action game inspired by 8-bit classics!
Why similar: Metroidvania 27.5%, Level Editor 24.7%, Character Customization 11.6%, Action-Adventure 10.9%, Pixel Graphics 7.9%
