
Explore, fight against enemies, collect items, cook to save the paradise. Recruit enemy monsters to your advantage
60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include 2D, 2D Platformer, Platformer, Nonlinear.

Explore, fight against enemies, collect items, cook to save the paradise. Recruit enemy monsters to your advantage

Nixie
Nixie is a 2D story-driven exploration game about a robot’s search for a missing human lost in an android space colony. Slash, fling, and glide your way through an eclectic world, while enjoying colorful 16-bit pixel art and an infectious soundtrack!

Xolotl
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.
Nixie is a 2D story-driven exploration game about a robot’s search for a missing human lost in an android space colony. Slash, fling, and glide your way through an eclectic world, while enjoying colorful 16-bit pixel art and an infectious soundtrack!
Why similar: Metroidvania 22.1%, Collectathon 22%, Nonlinear 18.6%, Platformer 9.8%, Exploration 8%
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 27.1%, Nonlinear 19.3%, Platformer 10.5%, 2D Platformer 9.6%, Action-Adventure 9.5%
Explore, solve puzzles, and fight your way through over 100 screens and return your pumpkin pals!
Why similar: Metroidvania 23%, Nonlinear 22.8%, Collectathon 19.6%, Platformer 9.3%, 2D Platformer 8.3%
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 30%, Nonlinear 22.9%, Platformer 12.7%, Exploration 11.3%, 2D Platformer 10.7%
Escape Zolstar is a metroidvania where you explore, collect powerups, fight enemies, and defeat bosses.
Why similar: Metroidvania 26.7%, Nonlinear 24.4%, Platformer 11.6%, 2D Platformer 9.4%, Exploration 7.7%
Explore the mysterious island of Kindara in this vibrant 2D action-adventure. Fight and platform your way through jungles, icy peaks, castles, and crystal caverns in a non-linear interconnected world. Adventure awaits!
Why similar: Metroidvania 27.8%, Nonlinear 22.3%, 2D Platformer 9.3%, Exploration 9.2%, Platformer 8.2%
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 26.7%, Nonlinear 20.5%, Platformer 11.5%, 2D Platformer 9.5%, Action-Adventure 9.4%
Pinbleton Park is a small open world cosy adventure game where the whole world can transform into a giant pinball table. Help the villagers, rescue lost spirits, craft new pinball elements, and take down the corporation bent on destroying the forest!
Why similar: Creature Collector 26.1%, Collectathon 21.9%, Metroidvania 19.8%, Nature 9.4%, Action-Adventure 8.8%
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 31.9%, Action-Adventure 14.2%, Nonlinear 13.8%, 2D Platformer 12.4%, Exploration 10.9%
You have been summoned to another world to help someone gather a special kind of leaves. Explore the locale in search of increasingly difficult platforming challenges, while discovering the history and people of this new place.
Why similar: Collectathon 27.6%, Nonlinear 25.9%, 2D Platformer 10.4%, Nature 10.3%, Platformer 9%
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 21.6%, Collectathon 21.1%, Nonlinear 15.9%, Platformer 9.4%, Exploration 7.9%
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 35.3%, Nonlinear 11.2%, Platformer 11.1%, Exploration 10.8%, Action-Adventure 10.3%
Come discover a world full of Brazilian cultural personalities, with several exclusive powers to be used strategically, play win and try to be the best by entering the world rank!
Why similar: Metroidvania 23.8%, Platformer 14.3%, Nonlinear 13.8%, Action-Adventure 12.8%, Exploration 10%
Document an ancient paradise before it's lost forever. Study the behaviour of the EMUUROM creatures and use the gained knowledge to create new paths forward. Slowly, the machinations of the mythic forest sprites begin to unfold.
Why similar: Metroidvania 23.6%, Creature Collector 22.7%, Nonlinear 17.2%, Platformer 9.1%, Exploration 8.2%
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 30.5%, Nonlinear 20.1%, Action-Adventure 13.8%, Exploration 10.1%, Platformer 6.7%
Little Nemo and his friends return for a hand-animated metroidvania adventure! Explore magical dream worlds with Nemo, the Princess of Slumberland, the mischievious Flip, and royal guard Peony as they try to stop the Nightmare Fiends from ruling over dreams forever.
Why similar: Metroidvania 32.3%, Nonlinear 20.7%, Platformer 13.1%, Exploration 13%, 2D Platformer 11.4%
It's a 2D Collectathon! Run, jump and drill your way through huge levels with crazy mechanics and unique visual style to find collectables in whatever order you want!
Why similar: Collectathon 32.2%, Nonlinear 30%, 2D Platformer 13.1%, Platformer 12.6%, Action 4.4%
This is a casual idle simulation game. Nurturing chicks and collecting different chicken species. You will start with an egg, Watch the chicks grow. Use the breeding house to produce new eggs. Earn coins to upgrade facilities, gradually expand your farm, and unlock more content.
Why similar: Creature Collector 35.6%, Collectathon 30.7%, Nature 20.2%, Cute 5.3%, 2D 4.2%
Fly and fight your way through the magically altered tree you once called home! Free your friends from the prison gems that bind them! Find all your friends to open up an escape portal and get to safety!
Why similar: Nonlinear 24.3%, Platformer 13.9%, Exploration 11.6%, Action-Adventure 11.4%, 2D Platformer 11.3%
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 31.2%, Nonlinear 28.7%, Platformer 10.4%, Exploration 10.2%, Nature 5.8%
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 23.2%, Nonlinear 20.8%, Collectathon 18.5%, Platformer 10.1%, Exploration 8%
Embark on an unforgettable adventure with Uncle Che! Explore a vibrant 2D world, battle whimsical enemies, and uncover secrets to retrieve the stolen ingredients and save the recipe for legendary bread in this charming Metroidvania.
Why similar: Metroidvania 35.2%, Nonlinear 21%, Exploration 11%, Nature 7.8%, Platformer 7.6%
An alien lost on a strange planet needs help returning home
Why similar: Metroidvania 21.2%, Collectathon 20.8%, Nonlinear 17%, Platformer 9.1%, Exploration 7.7%
Wildseed is a relaxing game where you grow plants and build your garden into a haven for cute animals. Keep your animals happy and your plants healthy, find rare variants, and discover the ancient secrets your garden holds - one seed at a time.
Why similar: Creature Collector 38%, Collectathon 27.8%, Agriculture 15.7% ★, Nature 11.1%, Cute 3.9%
The Ramsey is a 2D platformer that allows you to play as cute squirrel characters solving puzzles using various weapons. Explore maze-like islands and overcome difficult obstacles with the strongest squirrels in the universe.
Why similar: Metroidvania 25.7%, Platformer 14.9%, Action-Adventure 13.1%, 2D Platformer 10.4%, Exploration 9.6%
Locked away in a lost corner of the world lies a ruin where the dead refuse to rest. Using your wits and your treacherous whip can you discover the secrets interred within this QBASIC action/adventure?
Why similar: Nonlinear 24.4%, Metroidvania 22.7%, Platformer 12.5%, Action-Adventure 10.8%, 2D Platformer 9.5%
Moth Planet is a kinetic, energetic 2D platformer where you interview moths and explore an interconnected world in search of the truth!
Why similar: Metroidvania 33.3%, Collectathon 29.8%, Platformer 12.8%, 2D Platformer 11.3%, Cute 5.2%
Platform across strange, magical terrain while meeting even stranger friends and enemies! Discover the history behind the Bitlands, and unlock new allies and powers to traverse the dangerous worlds of the Bitlands, and restore peace to a broken kingdom.
Why similar: Metroidvania 27.4%, Platformer 14.4%, Action-Adventure 12.8%, Nature 11%, Exploration 10.5%
You are a small bird traveling through 7 valleys to find the Simurgh and bring life back to your village.
Why similar: Metroidvania 28.5%, Nonlinear 18.1%, Platformer 10.6%, Exploration 10.5%, 2D Platformer 10.2%
Help Tom hack-and-slash his way though a dream from which he cannot wake up. A hand-drawn action-adventure through a dreamy world filled with fleshy monsters, insane situations and strangers that needs help.
Why similar: Metroidvania 25.9%, Collectathon 25%, Platformer 11%, Exploration 9.8%, 2D Platformer 9.2%
Ariana must restore the Codices and unravel the Library's hidden truths...
Why similar: Metroidvania 36.9%, Platformer 14.6%, Action-Adventure 11.7%, 2D Platformer 8.1%, Exploration 6.9%
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 36.6%, Nonlinear 16.6%, Platformer 15.3%, Exploration 6.6%, Action-Adventure 5.8%
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 30.3%, Nonlinear 20%, Platformer 13.4%, Exploration 12%, Action-Adventure 10.8%
Chiaroscuro is a 2D adventure platformer with metroidvania elements. Explore a world that has fallen into darkness and discover the Lights to illuminate your forgotten past.
Why similar: Metroidvania 26.3%, Nonlinear 20.5%, Platformer 11.8%, Action-Adventure 8.7%, Exploration 8.4%
Drive back magic horrors with your star gun and save your cute bunny friends in this 2D metroidvania adventure. Jump and propel yourself with your weapon to navigate the depths of underground rabbit ruins, giant trees and paths in the clouds.
Why similar: Metroidvania 24.3%, Nonlinear 20.5%, Action-Adventure 9.4%, Exploration 8.8%, 2D Platformer 8.8%
Drift adventurously in the world of Cloud Seeker! A Chinese inspired action-platformer where Yun, a young rabbit once chosen to inherit a great legacy, has to prove his worth after a sealed god is unleashed upon the world with the help of his trusted companions.
Why similar: Metroidvania 25.2%, Platformer 16.4%, Action-Adventure 15.1%, 2D Platformer 11.9%, Exploration 9.6%
Googoo: Bash! is an action platformer where you'll be bashing and snatching projectiles using Googoo's shield-pack! Help rescue the royal family by destroying the evil monsters and fearsome bosses that have taken over his sacred lands.
Why similar: Collectathon 20.9%, Platformer 13.9%, Nature 13.9%, 2D Platformer 9.2%, Action-Adventure 8.7%
Explore a sprawling, alien world in the sequel to the award winning Axiom Verge.
Why similar: Metroidvania 34.4%, Platformer 13.2%, Nonlinear 12%, Action-Adventure 10.3%, 2D Platformer 10%
ATARAXIE, in the pure style of retro games, ties itself with the SNES Gaming era and embrace difficulty, for it wishes to give experienced gamers/players the test they are really looking for!
Why similar: Metroidvania 28.1%, Platformer 14.7%, Nonlinear 14.5%, Action-Adventure 13.6%, 2D Platformer 8.8%
Explore large levels in endless ways with the ability to switch between Past, Present & Future. Set your own pace and challenge with a variety of unlockable characters and difficulty modes. Unlock additional content by clearing in-game challenges.
Why similar: Metroidvania 35.9%, Nonlinear 25.5%, Platformer 13.7%, 2D Platformer 11.6%, Action 4.8%
Capybound is a 2D platformer with puzzle elements. You wake up as a capybara in a beautiful pixelated world. Find oranges, meet and talk to many different animals, solve puzzles, unlock skills, explore the world and it's secrets, all in a quest to find your way back home.
Why similar: Metroidvania 27.5%, Collectathon 24.3%, Nonlinear 16.3%, Exploration 10%, 2D Platformer 9%
Oh hello dearie.. Babushka needs to clean up her big magical cellar. Use hag magic, or just hit stuff with your broom.
Why similar: Nonlinear 24.7%, Metroidvania 18.2%, Collectathon 13.2%, Platformer 10.8%, 2D Platformer 9.5%
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 31.7%, Nonlinear 20.6%, Exploration 12.7%, Platformer 11.9%, 2D Platformer 10.9%
A mini metroidvania game about a small but very courageous slime going on an adventure, featuring colorful pixelated visuals and chiptune songs.
Why similar: Metroidvania 26.1%, Nonlinear 18.1%, Platformer 11.7%, Exploration 9.4%, 2D Platformer 9.3%
Snowy the snowcone is an alien who has been asleep for many years. When he wakes up, his people have VANISHED! He is the last of his kind, and he needs your help to find all 30 of the missing power orbs, so he can rebuild the mothership and bring his people back, before they face extinction.
Why similar: Collectathon 25.9%, Nonlinear 15.1%, Platformer 12.5%, Action-Adventure 10.9%, 2D Platformer 9.7%
You play as Crabby the crab, Wielding your claws and magical pearls travel towards the depths of the ocean and save the world in this Metroidvania platformer. Game still early in development!
Why similar: Metroidvania 23.7%, Collectathon 22.1%, Platformer 9.2%, Action-Adventure 9.2%, Nature 9%
Hop n' Hook is a platforming-fishing game set across three distinct zones, built around movement, exploration, and collection. Swing with your rod, explore open-ended zones, and catch over 100 unique fish—some of which fight back in reactive boss encounters.
Why similar: Creature Collector 34.7%, Platformer 14.1%, Nature 13.8%, 2D Platformer 11.5%, Exploration 9.9%
You are an inspiration-seeking wandering artist who mysteriously ends up in a faraway Valley. Will you find the inspiration you crave, or will you be lost to the mysteries of the Valley?
Why similar: Metroidvania 28.5%, Collectathon 27.6%, Nonlinear 21.7%, Exploration 9.8%, Nature 6.9%
Steam port of "INO VATION! 2007" by Omega
Why similar: Collectathon 33.8%, Platformer 17.2%, Action-Adventure 15.5%, 2D Platformer 13.5%, Action 9.3%
A 2D platformer metroidvania. Discover a strange place where everyone was turned into a tiny stone. Fight difficult bosses, explore an interconnected world, and piece together the chaotic history of people who suddenly lost their humanity (or not?).
Why similar: Metroidvania 36.1%, Nonlinear 19%, Platformer 13.9%, 2D Platformer 11.7%, Cute 5.7%
A wholesome adventure about healing, discovery, and frogs. Join Bruce as he heads into a peaceful world of frog catching and quiet exploration. Discover memories, solve puzzles, uncover a hidden frog kingdom, and become the hero its slimy residents need.
Why similar: Creature Collector 33.4%, Collectathon 29.6%, Action-Adventure 13.1%, Exploration 8.2%, Nature 6.6%
Explore a strange and hostile world in this search-action platformer starring a tiny mouse named Tofu.
Why similar: Metroidvania 33.1%, Platformer 14.8%, Action-Adventure 11.5%, 2D Platformer 11%, Exploration 9.5%
Welcome to the Great Library of Dreams, where chaos has just been unleashed! Play as The Agent in this fantasy 3D Metroidvania filled to the brim with surprising secrets, daring traversal, confounding puzzles and menacing monkeys. Rid the library of the creatures wreaking havoc and bring back order!
Why similar: Metroidvania 26.6%, Collectathon 24.5%, Nonlinear 18%, Platformer 10.3%, Exploration 8.7%
A nonlinear exploration-action game set in a fantastical, lush fantasy world with a huge interconnected map, tons of movement upgrades, character customizations, and vibrant pixel art.
Why similar: Metroidvania 31.4%, Nonlinear 31.1%, Nature 17.6%, Exploration 5.7%, Action 3.6%
Spelunk, plunder, and pickaxe in Lost Caves, A 2D collect-a-thon all about exploration and treasure hunting! Venture through 4 expansive labyrinthine levels to find over 80 unique treasures to amass your wealth, and use your trusty pickaxe to defeat anything in your way!
Why similar: Collectathon 27.3%, Nonlinear 25.7%, Platformer 12.8%, Exploration 10.5%, 2D Platformer 10.4%
Explore a colorful haunted world, fight and befriend its bizarre inhabitants, unlock game changing upgrades, and unravel a story of epic proportions.
Why similar: Metroidvania 27.5%, Collectathon 25.9%, Platformer 11.4%, 2D Platformer 9.6%, Action-Adventure 6.5%
Poor Windy has come to search for the treasure hidden on the island. The queens who protect the island are not afraid of her as long as she doesn't do anything unnecessary.
Why similar: Metroidvania 29.8%, Collectathon 28.4%, Platformer 15.3%, 2D Platformer 11%, Action 7.3%
A momentum-driven 2D platforming adventure where mastering movement unlocks exploration. Leap, slide, and swing through vibrant open maps as a grounded firefly searching for family and hidden secrets.
Why similar: Collectathon 31.6%, Nonlinear 16.2%, Nature 13.3%, Platformer 12.7%, Exploration 12.2%
Embark on a whimsical adventure as Bushy Man and Bag Boy get sent on a mission to save the world from a Evil Sorcerrer called Fevil the Evil! Fevil has stolen all bathducks and is using them for his evil scheme. Meet magical characters and go on a epic adventure in this 3D-Platformer/Collectathon!
Why similar: Creature Collector 26.8%, Collectathon 22.3%, Nature 15%, Platformer 10.5%, Action-Adventure 8%
Fledge is a 2D platform game in which the player takes on the role of Corentin, a young pigeon who takes flight to find his idol and become, like him, a great explorer. However, this hasty flight is far from a success... Help him make his dream come true!
Why similar: Metroidvania 24.6%, Collectathon 24.5%, Nature 14.8%, Platformer 10.9%, Exploration 8.9%