
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.
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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.

Ghost Song
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.

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 it solves intricate puzzles and begins unraveling the mysteries of a world long forgotten.
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 29.3%, Robots 12.2%, Platformer 10.8%, Post-apocalyptic 10%, Difficult 9.9%
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: Metroidvania 23.7%, Robots 16.7%, Post-apocalyptic 13.9%, Platformer 10.1%, Story Rich 5.9%
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 29.3%, Robots 16.8%, Dark Fantasy 11.5%, Platformer 10.2%, Open World 8.2%
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 30.4%, Robots 14.9%, Difficult 12.2%, Platformer 11.4%, Exploration 6.7%
Explore unearthly ruins, solve arcane riddles and pick up your sword against the indescribable horrors that lurk amidst the forgotten depths of our world. Beware the creeping grip of madness as you uncover secrets not meant for the eyes of men!
Why similar: Metroidvania 31.6%, Difficult 17.7%, Platformer 13%, Exploration 6.9%, Mystery 6.5%
Deviator is a Metroidvania game centered around deflect, featuring exquisite 2D hand-drawn visuals. Exploring unknown wilderness and mysterious cities, delving into enigmatic realms of consciousness and encountering peculiar creatures. Try to find the truth behind this chaotic world.
Why similar: Metroidvania 40.3%, Dark Fantasy 15.1%, Platformer 14.7%, Difficult 7.8%, Atmospheric 5.5%
Solateria is a hand-drawn action Metroidvania with parry-focused combat. A small fire warrior journeys to find the Primordial Flame, the world’s last hope against the Shadow Plague. Defeat foes with stylish parries and explore mysterious realms to uncover the world’s secrets.
Why similar: Metroidvania 34.8%, Difficult 18.3%, Dark Fantasy 13.4%, Platformer 10.3%, Story Rich 6.1%
Explore the haunting, dreamlike fantasy world of BEFORE I GO, a punishing Metroidvania where you embody the innocence of an inner child on an allegorical odyssey towards death acceptance. The end is inevitable, but will you brave the journey?
Why similar: Metroidvania 29.6%, Difficult 16%, Dark Fantasy 15.1%, Platformer 8.9%, Open World 6.2%
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 42.6%, Platformer 13.5%, Story Rich 9.9%, Exploration 9.6%, Atmospheric 8.4%
Explore an abandoned space station in this retro-themed explorative action platformer.
Why similar: Metroidvania 53.8%, Platformer 13.4%, Difficult 10.1%, Adventure 4.5%, Exploration 3.4%
Deepening Fire is a side-scrolling action adventure game. Choose different classes, with appropriate equipment, explore hidden complex map, defeat powerful enemies, expose the conspiracy of the chaotic world, experience the souls-like battle
Why similar: Metroidvania 27.2%, Difficult 17.5%, Platformer 11.4%, Dark Fantasy 10%, Open World 7.5%
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: Metroidvania 22%, Dark Fantasy 20.3%, Post-apocalyptic 15.6%, Atmospheric 6.4%, Story Rich 6.4%
Paradox Soul is a chilling fight for exploration and survival; a Metroidvania pixel action-shooter hybrid!
Why similar: Metroidvania 22%, Post-apocalyptic 14%, Robots 13.7%, Difficult 11.2%, Platformer 9.1%
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 44.5%, Platformer 13.4%, Exploration 9.9%, Puzzle 9.2%, Mystery 7.4%
Make your way through more than 600 rooms, and unravel the secrets of your past by finding the five elemental orbs. Cathedral features a vast world, meant for exploring!
Why similar: Metroidvania 55.6%, Difficult 12.7%, Platformer 12.4%, Adventure 7.4%, Action 6.6%
Discover the secrets of a sundered world as you help Aryn save his comrades in this story-rich, fully-voiced, 2.5D action-platformer. Fight terrible dangers and explore ancient mysteries as Aryn uncovers the forces that forge his destiny.
Why similar: Metroidvania 27.2%, Difficult 15.1%, 2.5D 14%, Dark Fantasy 13.5%, Platformer 11.6%
You, who was born in a world full of darkness, should wander this hollowed land to find the Relics for a person who created you. However, fallen and lost souls with trap-filled trials await in your course of doing so. Can you survive in this crumbling world and start a new era?
Why similar: Metroidvania 32.5%, Difficult 15.7%, Dark Fantasy 12.2%, Platformer 9.4%, Adventure 8.1%
Uros is a 2.5D metroidvania-style action platformer. Enter the nightmares, upgrade your skills, fight against creepy creatures and face the evil god of nightmares in your mission to restore stability to the dream world.
Why similar: Metroidvania 33.8%, Dark Fantasy 18%, Platformer 14.1%, 2.5D 12.6%, Exploration 5.9%
Forge your own path in Hollow Knight! An epic action adventure through a vast ruined kingdom of insects and heroes. Explore twisting caverns, battle tainted creatures and befriend bizarre bugs, all in a classic, hand-drawn 2D style.
Why similar: Metroidvania 37.7%, Difficult 16%, Platformer 12.2%, Dark Fantasy 7.2%, Exploration 5%
Summon portals to overcome vicious beasts, devious puzzles and fiendish platforming challenges. Master the unique powers of each portal to stop the collapse of reality, while exploring lush, hand-drawn worlds and unraveling a deep narrative full of mysteries.
Why similar: Metroidvania 26.8%, Platformer 14.1%, Dark Fantasy 12%, Difficult 11.9%, Atmospheric 6.7%
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 34.4%, Platformer 24%, Difficult 11%, Puzzle 9.9%, Dark Fantasy 4%
Dive into Fatal Claw, a Metroidvania game in vibrant 2D artwork. Explore the arcane underworld your way with Kisha. Your ultimate goal is to find the key to the surface world alongside other survivors, while vanquishing infected enemies and absorbing their power. Start your clawsome adventure now!
Why similar: Metroidvania 26.7%, Difficult 15.2%, Dark Fantasy 13.9%, Platformer 11.1%, Exploration 6.1%
Explore and uncover the mystery of a surreal alien world by blasting aliens and glitching your environment in this intense retro side-scrolling action/adventure.
Why similar: Metroidvania 58.7%, Platformer 13.3%, Sci-fi 7.3%, Difficult 4.1%, Exploration 3.6%
Run, gun and explore an open undercity in this otherworldly non-linear Metroidvania adventure about the Old Gods, strange creatures and the remnants of a lost world!
Why similar: Metroidvania 42%, Difficult 16.5%, Platformer 13.3%, Exploration 5.8%, Adventure 4.7%
Begin your adventure in Shattered Divinities to reveal the truth! Traverse the land where deities have perished, explore abandoned divine realms, battle mutated monsters, gather divine power to awaken your strength, and unveil the truth behind the deities’ fall.
Why similar: Metroidvania 51.7%, Platformer 17.2%, Dark Fantasy 8.3%, Adventure 7.2%, Indie 5.3%
Embark upon a tragic tale and discover the ravaged world of Elypse! Fight your destiny in an arduous 2D adventure, story rich platformer, in a mesmerising and mysterious world.
Why similar: Metroidvania 31%, Dark Fantasy 19.2%, Platformer 16%, Action-Adventure 8.2%, Atmospheric 5.8%
Master high-skilled combat to uncover the secrets of an ancient, interconnected world.
Why similar: Metroidvania 42.6%, Dark Fantasy 20.7%, Open World 13.1%, Exploration 9.7%, Story Rich 8.4%
Explore a beautiful, vast and ruined world riddled with dangers and lost technologies.
Why similar: Difficult 26.7%, Metroidvania 19.8%, Post-apocalyptic 12.9%, Atmospheric 10.9%, Exploration 6.9%
Crashed on a desolate but mysterious planet you find yourself eye to eye with an ancient civilisation. Explore the planet, find powerful upgrades, and fulfill your destiny.
Why similar: Metroidvania 42.3%, Platformer 14%, Exploration 8.7%, Open World 7.6%, Atmospheric 7.3%
Metroidvania with challenging puzzles and free exploration as long as you have oxygen.
Why similar: Metroidvania 52%, Platformer 30%, Indie 18%
Aeterna Noctis is a challenging metroidvania that majestically combines action, exploration and adventure. With 2 game modes and difficulty based on action or the exclusive Noctis mode where a level of difficulty is added in precision platforming never seen in the metroidvania genre.
Why similar: Metroidvania 34.1%, Difficult 18.1%, Platformer 13.3%, Open World 7.2%, Action-Adventure 5.6%
A hand-drawn 2D metroidvania in a post-apocalyptic world. Forge your destiny in a non-linear story with multiple endings. Explore diverse biomes, conquer 20+ unique bosses, and master a magical Gauntlet with ever-evolving powers.
Why similar: Metroidvania 42%, Platformer 18.7%, Post-apocalyptic 15.4%, Sci-fi 7.9%, Atmospheric 7.2%
Rebel Transmute is a challenging 2D action-platformer epic with heart! Explore the twisting caverns of an alien planet, augment your play-style to fit your strengths, battle deadly bosses, and uncover a dark truth as Moon Mikono searches for her long lost mother.
Why similar: Metroidvania 32.4%, Difficult 16.3%, Platformer 9.9%, Sci-fi 9.7%, Exploration 7%
Voidwrought is a 2D action-platformer set in a hand-drawn world of cosmic horrors. Explore the thawing ruins of the First Civilisation and strike down the gods that dwell there. Grow your powers, uncover ancient artifacts, and expand your shrine amid the wreckage.
Why similar: Metroidvania 45.1%, Platformer 14.6%, Dark Fantasy 12%, Exploration 9.2%, Atmospheric 6.9%
Emerald Dreams: Sanity - Platformer Quest is an exciting 2.5D platformer and adventure Metroidvania that takes you on a journey through mysterious worlds. The game offers a rich story set in a dark fantasy universe where every decision you make can lead to one of multiple endings.
Why similar: Metroidvania 49.5%, Platformer 20.9%, Exploration 9.4%, Story Rich 8%, Adventure 7%
A story-driven Metroidvania where the allies you choose to bond with change how you fight and explore. Journey through the high-fantasy world of Raoah, uncover lost civilizations, and forge bonds that shape your path through a land on the brink of collapse.
Why similar: Metroidvania 41%, Dark Fantasy 22.6%, Exploration 9.6%, Action-Adventure 9.2%, Story Rich 8.5%
A mysterious signal. A missing crew. And the one man trying to piece it all together. As Abe Douglas, dive deep into a fully underwater metroidvania to explore massive oceanic biomes, battle monstrous bosses, and piece together a mystery that threatens not only your crew, but your own sanity.
Why similar: Metroidvania 48.6%, Exploration 10.4%, Story Rich 9.7%, Mystery 9.7%, Atmospheric 7.3%
Nine Sols is a lore rich, hand-drawn 2D action-platformer featuring Sekiro-inspired deflection focused combat. Embark on a journey of eastern fantasy, explore the land once home to an ancient alien race, and follow a vengeful hero’s quest to slay the 9 Sols, formidable rulers of this forsaken realm.
Why similar: Metroidvania 32.3%, Difficult 16.5%, Platformer 11.6%, Dark Fantasy 10.7%, Sci-fi 5.9%
Guide Pronty and its Javelin partner Bront as it defends the once great city of Royla. Explore the deep sea, fight mutant sea creatures, and discover the secrets behind this new Atlantis in this beautiful action-packed adventure.
Why similar: Metroidvania 35.9%, Difficult 18.7%, Platformer 12.4%, Exploration 7.5%, Atmospheric 6.9%
3000th Duel is action-adventure game that has speedy, exciting battles as its charm. Fight against monsters with your own style of battle to travel an unidentified world and discover a secret hidden.
Why similar: Metroidvania 25%, Difficult 13.2%, Dark Fantasy 12.8%, 2.5D 11.8%, Platformer 9.9%
Become the stealer of forms in GRIME II, a surreal action-adventure metroidvania. Launch tendrils made of hands to absorb foes and summon molds in their shape, as you explore a bizarre lived-in-world obsessed with art.
Why similar: Metroidvania 55%, 2.5D 23.4%, Exploration 12%, Atmospheric 3.8%, Action 3.7%
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: Post-apocalyptic 37.4%, Platformer 24.6%, Atmospheric 12.9%, Puzzle 12.7%, Adventure 6.8%
Discover all the secrets of two completely different worlds.
Why similar: Difficult 36.9%, Post-apocalyptic 31.3%, Atmospheric 10.1%, Adventure 6.1%, Exploration 5%
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: Metroidvania 42.3%, Platformer 16.8%, Sci-fi 9.2%, Atmospheric 9.2%, Exploration 9.1%
Four elements. One destiny. Embark on an elemental journey inspired by tales of balance and power, reborn as a Metroidvania adventure.
Why similar: Metroidvania 35.1%, Dark Fantasy 16.1%, Difficult 12.7%, Platformer 7.7%, Exploration 6.6%
Discover a vast, haunted kingdom in Hollow Knight: Silksong! Explore, fight and survive as you ascend to the peak of a land ruled by silk and song.
Why similar: Metroidvania 38.8%, Difficult 19.2%, Platformer 11.7%, Exploration 5.8%, Story Rich 5%
LA-MULANA is an “Archaeological Ruin Exploration Action Game,” bringing the classic appeal of adventure with the punishing difficulty of retro-inspired gaming. Search inside ancient ruins, seeking out the “Secret Treasure of Life” – which sleeps in the sprawling ruins of “LA-MULANA” and is said to be the beginning of all civilization.
Why similar: Metroidvania 45.2%, Difficult 19.8%, Platformer 14.4%, Exploration 5.8%, Puzzle 5.4%
Venture into a frenetic metroidvania and take part in a fight between divinities where you will have to choose between Corrupting Gold and Purifying Light to achieve your ends.
Why similar: Metroidvania 31.6%, Dark Fantasy 17%, Platformer 12.3%, Open World 9.3%, Exploration 6.9%
Rusted Moss is a twin-stick shooter metroidvania where you sling around the map with your grapple, blasting your way through witches and rusted machine monstrosities alike. This wasteland once harboring mankind has since fallen, and Fae long forgotten now knock on humanity's door...
Why similar: Metroidvania 26.5%, Platformer 18.2%, Difficult 14.7%, Post-apocalyptic 14.5%, Story Rich 6.6%
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 39.6%, Platformer 14.9%, Mystery 10.6%, Exploration 9.1%, Puzzle 8.8%
Venineth is a single-player game focusing on unraveling the mysteries of ancient alien technology, somewhere in the universe via exploration, platforming, and puzzle-solving, in a dangerous, distant worlds.
Why similar: Difficult 18.9%, Adventure 12%, Sci-fi 11.9%, Mystery 10%, Action 9.7%
Play as a special ops combat unit sent to investigate why the stars around Solar System are going dark in MegaSphere — a story-based post-cyberpunk action platformer adventure game of supermassive scale set in early 22nd century: smart guns, robots, self-reconstructing environments, and vast AIs.
Why similar: Metroidvania 55.1%, Platformer 12.5%, Adventure 12.1%, Action 10.8%, Indie 9.5%
Decades after the events of ENDER LILIES, Homunculi — sorrowful, artificial life forms — roam the land. In this dark fantasy Metroidvania, face formidable enemies and explore a bewitching post-apocalyptic world. Humans and Homunculi — what awaits at the end of the quest for their salvation?
Why similar: Metroidvania 58.7%, Dark Fantasy 20.1%, Difficult 5.3%, Platformer 4.1%, Story Rich 3.4%
After Death is a platform / exploration game in a dark and hostile world. With the help from lost souls, you will have to find a way to open a gate which seems to be the only exit from this mysterious world infected by monsters.
Why similar: Metroidvania 56.9%, Platformer 13.2%, Adventure 8.9%, Action 7.3%, Indie 6.5%
Armed with God-given powers, the revived tribune Adrestia is given a second chance to save the universe from her maniacal twin sister. Find secrets, acquire upgrades, and dominate mighty foes through sheer combat prowess as you explore and conquer the horrors of the forsaken vessel Atromitos.
Why similar: Metroidvania 28.6%, Dark Fantasy 14.9%, Platformer 11.2%, Sci-fi 9.7%, Story Rich 8.2%
BAIONLENJA is a first-person metroidvania with an extreme movement focus. Explore the vast and interconnected research facility, where a mysterious fossil grants you unimaginable power and mobility. B-Hop, Rocket Jump and Air Strafe to uncover the secrets of the BAIONLENJA corporation.
Why similar: Metroidvania 60.7%, Platformer 19.6%, Atmospheric 12.3%, Singleplayer 3.9%, Action 3.5%
Assume the role of Wyatt in this Action/Exploration Platformer as you explore the ruins of a holy city that was lost many years ago. Battle various types of demons, angels, and a new threat known only as the “Ferals”, using swordsmanship, martial arts, and sorcery.
Why similar: Metroidvania 62.4%, Platformer 15%, Difficult 9.4%, Action 4.2%, Exploration 3.1%
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 43.2%, Platformer 17.1%, Exploration 10.4%, Sci-fi 8.2%, Story Rich 7.6%
HAAK is a Metroidvania-Platformer. As the mysterious wanderer Haak, you embarked on an epic expedition across the vast cyber-wasteland to find your lost brother. Explore deserted cities and metro, refine your weapons and hack skills, and uncover the secrets behind metal and dust.
Why similar: Metroidvania 36.6%, Post-apocalyptic 21.2%, Platformer 15.2%, Action-Adventure 7.2%, Exploration 6.9%