Games Like Song of Yosef

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 24.6%, Precision Platformer 23.6%, Nonlinear 12.7%, 2D Platformer 10.3%, Platformer 8.2%

Jump, dash, and swim in this epic adventure! Explore the vast Aztec lands in an axolotl action-platformer! Xolotl is a cute, 2D action-platformer, in which your goal is to regain your godly form and powers.

Why similar: Metroidvania 27%, Precision Platformer 20.5%, Nonlinear 12.4%, 2D Platformer 11.7%, Platformer 8.3%

Two mysterious, challenging platformers where you launch yourself with an infinite supply of bombs.

Why similar: Metroidvania 24.1%, Precision Platformer 23.8%, 2D Platformer 11.8%, Nonlinear 8.7%, Platformer 6.5%

On the surface, a 2D platformer right out of the '80s video game playbook. The eponymous Whim walks and jumps his way through static rooms, avoiding the baddies and other hazards, and collecting various items. But this game is so much more than that...

Why similar: Metroidvania 27.4%, Precision Platformer 21.6%, Nonlinear 13.2%, Platformer 9.2%, Exploration 7.3%

Can you find all 100 pumpkins in this interconnected world? If you do, you will be rewarded based on how many lives you had to use!

Why similar: Metroidvania 22.3%, Precision Platformer 18.2%, Nonlinear 10.6%, 2D Platformer 9.9%, Platformer 7.7%

An adventure that will test your skills using only 2 buttons!

Why similar: Metroidvania 34.3%, Precision Platformer 24.4%, 2D Platformer 12.6%, Platformer 9.4%, Arcade 6.7%

A 2D platformer Metroidvania with deep movement and no jump button. Upgrade your umbrella to explore an abandoned planet and ascend to the moon.

Why similar: Metroidvania 25.8%, Precision Platformer 16.4%, Nonlinear 13.8%, 2D Platformer 12.3%, Physics 10.3%

Throw on your nostalgia goggles and travel back in time with Super Win the Game, a retro-core explosion of exploration and platforming action!!

Why similar: Metroidvania 24%, Precision Platformer 18.5%, Nonlinear 12.9%, Open World 7.7%, Platformer 7.4%

"Pod's Itty Bitty Adventure" is a short retro-themed open-world Metroidvania platformer that prioritizes movement and exploration.

Why similar: Metroidvania 35.4%, Nonlinear 16.5%, Precision Platformer 14.5%, Platformer 10.8%, Open World 9.9%

Challenging precision platformer based on tight, fluid movement. Open map layout with multiple routes. Collect gems and save animals.

Why similar: Metroidvania 27.9%, Precision Platformer 22.1%, 2D Platformer 15.3%, Platformer 13.8%, Exploration 8.4%

Bounce and stomp through an enormous interconnected world, doing some intense acrobatics and getting huge combos! A superfast precision platformer that mixes up a Metroidvania world with classic Arcade mechanics.

Why similar: Metroidvania 31.2%, Precision Platformer 24.3%, 2D Platformer 10.5%, Platformer 9.4%, Arcade 8.1%

House of Shadow is an action-adventure metroidvania wherein you wield the powers of darkness! Explore, traverse obstacles, battle monsters born of light, slay fearsome bosses, and claim the Shadow Throne!

Why similar: Metroidvania 33%, Precision Platformer 18.3%, Nonlinear 14%, 2D Platformer 8.9%, Exploration 8.7%

The long-awaited "Director's Cut" version of Montezuma's Revenge, envisioned and programmed by the original developer. It's the super-charged conclusion of the classic puzzle solving action-adventure platformer you loved in your youth! Finally, you will fight King Montezuma!

Why similar: Metroidvania 36%, 2D Platformer 14.5%, Nonlinear 14.2%, Platformer 11.1%, Open World 7.4%

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 30%, Nonlinear 14.8%, 2D Platformer 13%, Platformer 10.2%, Exploration 8.3%

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 25.2%, Precision Platformer 22%, Nonlinear 14.5%, 2D Platformer 12.1%, Platformer 8.6%

Pulse Jumper is a Precision-Platformer where you can jump with guns!

Why similar: Metroidvania 31.3%, Precision Platformer 24.4%, 2D Platformer 13.2%, Platformer 10.4%, Arcade 7.6%

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 26.2%, Precision Platformer 22.6%, Nonlinear 12.7%, Platformer 8%, Physics 7.7%

Aleya's Ascent is a metroidvania inspired by Celeste and Hollow Knight. Explore a cosmic mountain range and find strange temples, hidden labyrinths, and ancient artifacts while overcoming platforming challenges, punishing fights and chase sequences to return star fragments to the night sky.

Why similar: Metroidvania 26.4%, Precision Platformer 20.6%, Nonlinear 13.5%, 2D Platformer 10.9%, Platformer 8.1%

Hollow Floor is an exploration-based single-sitting Metroidvania inspired by VVVVVV and REDDER. Hollow Floor is a relaxed game that is full of secrets and hard challenges that can be tackled at any moment in the game or completely ignored.

Why similar: Metroidvania 32.7%, Precision Platformer 24.9%, 2D Platformer 10.8%, Pixel Graphics 7.2%, Platformer 7%

Journey to the center of the planet in Piroot, an open world adventure! Explore and survive as a shipwreck's lonely survivor. What secrets lie at the planet's core, and can you trust the voice leading you there?

Why similar: Metroidvania 29%, Nonlinear 14%, 2D Platformer 10%, Open World 9.8%, Physics 9.7%

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 33.9%, Nonlinear 20.2%, Platformer 9%, Exploration 8.8%, Arcade 7.1%

Trash Quest is a compact metroidvania with a single spawn point, run and gun action and tight platforming. Navigate an interwoven maze of rooms through this space station, destroying robots, collecting power ups and unlocking shortcuts.

Why similar: Metroidvania 30.6%, Precision Platformer 23.1%, 2D Platformer 13.5%, Exploration 8.2%, Minimalist 6.4%

Zebulon the cat is lost in a strange place, but he has a lot of courage and curiosity quickly replaces fear as he explores and unravels the world around him. It also helps that smelly green food is everywhere to grab!

Why similar: Metroidvania 27.6%, 2D Platformer 13.1%, Nonlinear 9.6%, Platformer 9.3%, Pixel Graphics 7.3%

Vampire hunters are after a mischievous vampire girl, and it's up to her pet bat to save the day. Flap through peril in this open-ended precision “batformer” with a unique control scheme that re-contextualizes precision platformer trappings and flips them upside-down!

Why similar: Metroidvania 28.8%, Precision Platformer 24.9%, Nonlinear 14.8%, Platformer 10.4%, Pixel Graphics 6.4%

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 24.4%, Precision Platformer 19.5%, Nonlinear 13.9%, 2D Platformer 10.2%, Platformer 8.6%

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 27.5%, Precision Platformer 20.8%, 2D Platformer 12.1%, Platformer 9.4%, Pixel Graphics 7.4%

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: Precision Platformer 23.9%, 2D Platformer 15.8%, Platformer 11.6%, Pixel Graphics 9.5%, Colorful 9.1%

A challenging, 2D Platform Adventure game where all level mechanics can change if you don't stay balanced. Help Ethan to grow up and leave his roots in order to pursue his dreams, find clues about his past and fight against your nightmares in your journey to the Somnium Shore!

Why similar: Metroidvania 37.4%, Precision Platformer 16.4%, Platformer 14.7%, Exploration 10.7%, 2D Platformer 8.8%

Explore the Egyptian underworld in this precision platformer! Jump, whip, and dash your way through a challenging, interconnected world that weaves linear gauntlets with open-ended exploration.

Why similar: Metroidvania 27.8%, Precision Platformer 25.6%, 2D Platformer 13.4%, Platformer 9.6%, Pixel Graphics 7.7%

Joshua's Legs is a unique game with devious controls about a two-legged arachnid hoping to find his long lost prosthetic legs collection. Venture in a world that will only reveal its secrets to the true hardened climbers.

Why similar: Metroidvania 28.9%, Nonlinear 16.7%, Physics 12.3%, 2D Platformer 12%, Exploration 7.9%

RABIT is an arcade style platforming game with retro graphics and a mysterious atmosphere. Its central mechanic is the ability to toggle certain objects on and off at the click of a button. This along with several other movement abilities allows for some devious and exciting platforming sections.

Why similar: Precision Platformer 27.7%, 2D Platformer 19.8%, Platformer 13.5%, Arcade 11.3%, Physics 7.8%

Discover an enigmatic universe. Explore diverse biomes, face ancient guardians, and uncover hidden secrets in this captivating 2D pixel art platformer. Embark on an unforgettable cosmic odyssey!

Why similar: Metroidvania 31%, 2D Platformer 13.8%, Platformer 11%, Exploration 9%, Open World 8.9%

You are a princess armed with a wand and a mission. Get to the end of each level as fast as possible. You will encounter many obstacles across the ninety levels, ranging from spikes to gravity reversing zones.

Why similar: Precision Platformer 36.1%, Physics 16.1%, 2D Platformer 13.7%, Arcade 11.3%, Platformer 9.2%

Pick up the mantle of the plucky maiden getting ready for her date night that is unceremoniously interrupted by the dastardly duo of Countess Bathory and Baron de Blonde in this prologue to the colourful Janosik 2 retro action-platformer…

Why similar: Metroidvania 29.5%, Precision Platformer 22.7%, 2D Platformer 14.2%, Platformer 12.2%, Colorful 6.6%

It's a 16 bit styled pixel Metroidvania crafted by someone who loves the genre! Put your fingers on WASD and arrow keys or grab your favorite controller to play, simple and easy as these games should be.

Why similar: Metroidvania 40.7%, 2D Platformer 16.1%, Nonlinear 15.3%, Platformer 12.3%, Pixel Graphics 5.2%

Explore, solve puzzles, and fight your way through over 100 screens and return your pumpkin pals!

Why similar: Metroidvania 28.1%, Nonlinear 18%, 2D Platformer 12.4%, Platformer 9%, Open World 8.3%

Alruna; now in wide-screen! A different kind of Metroidvania, a tour-de-force of game design, with world-class temples and dungeons. Dead men yearn for Heaven, but Elysium remains out of their grasp.

Why similar: Metroidvania 30.4%, Precision Platformer 19.2%, 2D Platformer 12%, Platformer 11%, Exploration 7%

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 36.3%, Nonlinear 17.9%, 2D Platformer 15.9%, Platformer 12.2%, Exploration 10.9%

A soul-crushing, non-linear, foddylike Miseryvania.

Why similar: Metroidvania 27.4%, Precision Platformer 20.7%, 2D Platformer 11.9%, Platformer 10.7%, Exploration 7.9%

A physics-based action puzzle game focused on adjusting jump height and movement speed to solve challenges.

Why similar: Precision Platformer 37.4%, Physics 17.9%, 2D Platformer 16.6%, Platformer 11.5%, Arcade 6.7%

Harpy is a "Foddian" game, a difficult platformer with a simple and unique movement system. Climb a spire of floating islands, trek four different levels with fresh challenges and hazards, and try not to fall all the way down.

Why similar: Precision Platformer 22.1%, 2D Platformer 15.4%, Platformer 13.3%, Arcade 11.2%, Exploration 7.9%

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 34.7%, 2D Platformer 14.7%, Nonlinear 14.6%, Exploration 11.1%, Platformer 10.4%

A brutally difficult rocket-jumping precision platformer with a charming aesthetic and a non-linear map. Designed for both speedrunning and casual play, including leaderboards and training mode. Play the Demo now!

Why similar: Precision Platformer 27%, Nonlinear 20.1%, Physics 14%, 2D Platformer 11.1%, Platformer 8.5%

A handcrafted pixel art Metroidvania that blends deep exploration with roguelike progression. Discover secrets, evolve your build, and face a world where every choice can lead to one of three endings.

Why similar: Metroidvania 30.5%, Precision Platformer 22.9%, 2D Platformer 13%, Pixel Graphics 7.4%, Exploration 7.2%

An adventure platformer where the grass has been cursed & the terrain has taken to the skies. Jump, swing & glide your way through the perilous world of Terraloft, all the while avoiding touching the verdant ground!

Why similar: Metroidvania 26.5%, Precision Platformer 23.1%, 2D Platformer 14.4%, Platformer 11.4%, Open World 8.9%

A pure platformer. A humming jetpack. A lonely man.

Why similar: Metroidvania 23%, Precision Platformer 20.9%, 2D Platformer 14.2%, Platformer 12.3%, Exploration 8.3%

PorBor is a metroidvania set in a mutated civilization due to a past destructive event. Slash through enemies to form a collectable substance, forcing you to engage with close and quick combat. Explore this varied overgrown world as Bor to prevent another event, and learn about the mind of a god...

Why similar: Metroidvania 34%, 2D Platformer 14.4%, Nonlinear 12.3%, Platformer 11%, Exploration 10.9%

Dash into a stylish and thrilling action-adventure platformer set in a mythological Persian world where the boundaries of time and space are yours to manipulate.

Why similar: Metroidvania 43.5%, Precision Platformer 21.6%, 2D Platformer 13.5%, Exploration 10.1%, Colorful 4.2%

Help Beefit brave perilous lands and cavernous depths to rescue his bovine love in this tight, precision platformer with responsive controls, and skill-based gameplay.

Why similar: Metroidvania 34.8%, Precision Platformer 17.8%, 2D Platformer 16.8%, Exploration 6.6%, Action 6.1%

Pathfinder 08 is a fun and challenging adventure. It is a platform game with a focus on exploration and retro inspiration with some RPG elements.

Why similar: Metroidvania 38.3%, 2D Platformer 18.3%, Nonlinear 10.7%, Exploration 10.4%, Pixel Graphics 8.2%

Challenging retro pixel graphics action-platformer. Become a legendary rogue Janosik and explore the big mountain castle level full of secrets. Available for FREE!

Why similar: Metroidvania 28.5%, Precision Platformer 15.7%, 2D Platformer 14%, Platformer 12.4%, Pixel Graphics 7.3%

"Little Droid 2: Escape" is a classic 2D (Metroidvania) side-scrolling pixel art adventure where you need to find a way to escape a mysterious planet.

Why similar: Metroidvania 38%, Platformer 14.7%, Arcade 12%, Pixel Graphics 8.1%, Colorful 7.9%

Explore a strange planet, collect the creatures you find, and then shape-shift into them to expand your world. Build your own path, chat with the locals, and discover the planets sprawling secrets in this quirky metroidvania platformer.

Why similar: Metroidvania 38.6%, 2D Platformer 16%, Platformer 13.8%, Open World 9.7%, Exploration 9.4%

Escape Zolstar is a metroidvania where you explore, collect powerups, fight enemies, and defeat bosses.

Why similar: Metroidvania 33%, Nonlinear 19.5%, 2D Platformer 14.2%, Platformer 11.4%, Minimalist 8.8%

Explore Trash Heart, a planet in the iron grip of the Trash Lord. Find artefacts that grant powerful abilities, fight hordes of deadly foes, and save a planet of outcast robots. Or just scrounge up all the trash your grubby little raccoon hands can hold.

Why similar: Metroidvania 37.7%, Precision Platformer 27.2%, 2D Platformer 9.5%, Platformer 7.3%, Exploration 6.3%

Fight endless waves of different enemies using your grappling hook in clever ways while trying hopelessly to stay alive just a little longer so you can get a higher score.

Why similar: Precision Platformer 28%, 2D Platformer 15.1%, Platformer 11.5%, Arcade 10.4%, Physics 8.3%

Foil a little nerd's world domination plans with Kittey in A Game with a Kitty 1 and help a grumpy little Archchancellor solve a mystery in Darkside Adventures! And as a bonus, the collection also features Treasure Hunter Man 1.

Why similar: Metroidvania 34.2%, Nonlinear 20.4%, 2D Platformer 14.6%, Platformer 11.7%, Pixel Graphics 7%

Big Butt Bobby is a fun 2D platform game set in a grotesque fantasy world that should satisfy both casual players wanting to enjoy relaxing gameplay and those who want to challenge themselves.

Why similar: Metroidvania 30.8%, Precision Platformer 21.4%, Platformer 13.4%, 2D Platformer 12.2%, Arcade 9.8%

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 31.1%, Nonlinear 25.4%, Physics 15.4%, Minimalist 9.8%, 2D Platformer 7.7%

In this "Arcade Metroidbrainia", the only thing that stops you from progressing are holes in your understanding. Use mechanics in clever unique ways to uncover secrets, or dodge randomly generated hazards to get highscores.

Why similar: Metroidvania 28.9%, Precision Platformer 16.7%, Nonlinear 15.6%, Platformer 10.2%, Exploration 9.9%