60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Singleplayer, 2D, Action, Pixel Graphics.
New Haven is a utopia under a red moon, turned into a dystopian nightmare. You are a prisoner with no name, waking up in the middle of an emergency. Fight for survival guided by an enigmatic voice in your head, explore a falling world, solve puzzles, and unravel dark secrets.
Gears of Dissent
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!
Void Guard
Follow the Void Guardian as she inspects a space station after receiving a distress beacon from it and help her vanquish the hidden evil.
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 31.3%, Top-Down Shooter 21.5%, Exploration 8.4%, Top-Down 7.4%, Action-Adventure 6.3%
Follow the Void Guardian as she inspects a space station after receiving a distress beacon from it and help her vanquish the hidden evil.
Why similar: Metroidvania 34.4%, Top-Down Shooter 15.3%, Top-Down 10%, Sci-fi 9.5%, 2D 5.8%
A fast-paced 2D handcrafted metroidvania with strange sci-fi environments. Something is roaming the halls, watching your every move.
Why similar: Metroidvania 36.5%, Sci-fi 12.8%, Space 9%, Pixel Graphics 8.5%, Exploration 7.8%
Get your gears in motion for a captivating monochromatic adventure where you play as Lelu, a small but determined clockwork toy who has gained consciousness and found a taste for freedom!
Why similar: Metroidvania 33.3%, Top-Down 9.6%, Linear 9.3%, Action-Adventure 8.6%, Sci-fi 8.5%
Explore the depths as you drill, craft, and fight to escape from a mysterious asteroid deep in the Veridian Expanse!
Why similar: Metroidvania 26.5%, Top-Down Shooter 18%, Futuristic 7.9%, Sci-fi 7.9%, Top-Down 7.9%
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: Metroidvania 32.2%, Top-Down 13.2%, Action RPG 12.4%, Action-Adventure 10.6%, Exploration 9.6%
Blast aliens to pieces and start a rebellion in this fast paced pixel art top down shooter where sprinting kills.
Why similar: Top-Down Shooter 23.3%, Zombies 12.8%, Sci-fi 10.3%, Top-Down 9.7%, Futuristic 8.8%
You are a single ship outnumbered and outgunned by the enemy fleet. The one advantage you have is a powerful magnet that is capable of capturing the enemy bullets and firing them back at the enemy!
Why similar: Top-Down Shooter 34.5%, Top-Down 12.5%, Linear 12%, Space 7.8%, Sci-fi 7.7%
Engage in an intense space shooter that you can play in single-player or multiplayer with up to 6 players. Play a variety of different spaceships, each with their own unique stats, components, and playstyles!
Why similar: Top-Down Shooter 27.4%, Futuristic 11.9%, Top-Down 11.6%, Sci-fi 11.2%, Pixel Graphics 9.8%
Lab Bio-Terror - In this shoot em all game, you are a special agent who was sent to clean up a secret laboratory. Scientists screwed up, and it's up to you to eliminate the consequences of the leak of a dangerous virus!
Why similar: Top-Down Shooter 21.1%, Zombies 16.7%, Survival 11.7%, Sci-fi 9.8%, Top-Down 9.5%
Astronite Landing on Neplea is the prologue to this fantastic 1bit metroidvania that combines action, exploration, puzzles and platforms. Take on Astronite's first major challenge and defeat the deadly Kronch.
Why similar: Metroidvania 43.6%, Sci-fi 13.3%, Pixel Graphics 12%, Action-Adventure 8%, Combat 5.6%
Nine lives is a horde, round-based zombies experience inspired by multiple known games! Labeled "The most polished topdown shooter ever" this game is made for and by the community!
Why similar: Top-Down Shooter 25.8%, Zombies 25.7%, Survival 8.3%, Pixel Graphics 8.3%, Combat 7.1%
Retrieve your weapons, face bosses to save your dog in a retro adventure focused on 3 dungeons. Finish the Story mode to unlock the Survivor mode: a 50-floor "Death Tower". You'll enjoy classic mechanics, charming visual style, and an enchanting soundtrack.
Why similar: Metroidvania 28.7%, Survival 14.5%, Sci-fi 9.5%, Top-Down 9.2%, Action-Adventure 8%
《疫地求生》是一款像素风丧尸末日题材的角色扮演生存游戏。 你将扮演Z城的一个普通青年，在一个平凡的假期里， 丧尸危机突然爆发了…… 你必须使出浑身解数，和你的同伴一起，努力在这末世中生存下去。
Why similar: Top-Down Shooter 25.1%, Zombies 19.6%, Survival 17.6%, Exploration 9.5%, Action RPG 8.7%
Explore surreal landscapes where dreams and reality intertwine. Battle manifestations of fear, uncover the secrets of an interconnected world, and awaken the truth buried within a fading mind in Dreamdawn, a mysterious top-down action-adventure.
Why similar: Metroidvania 33.3%, Action RPG 13.3%, Sci-fi 11.2%, Exploration 9.5%, Pixel Graphics 7.7%
From the co-creator of Eufloria and Receiver 2 comes a new indie extravaganza. Part Metroidvania, part future science expedition, Bioframe Outpost gives players the means to master a vast world in which all creatures react to each other in complex ways, with frequently unexpected results!
Why similar: Metroidvania 44.2%, Exploration 11.7%, Sci-fi 11.3%, Space 10.7%, Action-Adventure 9.5%
You will zoom past hordes of zombies, kill the ones you need to, and find keys to unlock passageways in this retro top-down shooter.
Why similar: Top-Down Shooter 27.4%, Zombies 15.3%, Top-Down 11%, Linear 10.5%, Survival 8.5%
After an asteroid catastrophe, your rocket ship crash-lands in the wilderness of Mars. Explore the planet's mysteries, strategize your escape, and build a shelter to protect yourself!
Why similar: Top-Down Shooter 21.3%, Sci-fi 17%, Space 13.8%, Top-Down 13.6%, Survival 9.9%
Scales is a story-driven action-adventure RPG about a human-reptile hybrid. Players devour reptiles to absorb their DNA, and evolve through a corrupt world, where player choices ultimately determine the outcome of the story, blending combat with a darkly comedic narrative.
Why similar: Metroidvania 36.4%, Action RPG 14.4%, Top-Down 10.6%, Action-Adventure 9.1%, Pixel Graphics 8.9%
Top-down action-adventure with elemental magic gameplay. Guided by guilt, you embark on a journey to restore the elements in a dying world. Harness and master elemental powers to fight enemies, solve puzzles, and explore a vast world filled with ancient temples.
Why similar: Metroidvania 31.8%, Action RPG 13.2%, Top-Down 12.1%, Action-Adventure 8.2%, Pixel Graphics 8%
Vanishing Starlight, integrating ancient Chinese myths and Cyberpunk, is a Metroidvania platformer. Play as a prisoner who lost memory and embark on a journey across the stars where you seek lost memories, partners, and uncover your own destiny.
Why similar: Metroidvania 43.1%, Space 11%, Sci-fi 10.9%, Action-Adventure 10.6%, Adventure 8.3%
The Pinnacle of Mutant Blasting Action Is Here! — Blaster Master Zero 3's hybrid of sidescrolling and top-down action is back for its 3rd chapter, and more intense than ever before!
Why similar: Metroidvania 31.3%, Space 10.3%, Futuristic 10.3%, Pixel Graphics 8.6%, Sci-fi 7.5%
Amo is a top-down metroidvania, where a lost dog, Amo, gets stranded on an island. Explore the vast environments, fight through the enemies of the past, and solve the many mysteries that the island holds.
Why similar: Metroidvania 52.2%, Top-Down 13.8%, Action-Adventure 10.8%, 2D 6.3%, Pixel Graphics 5.6%
Join our brave captain on this action adventure in space! You'll be riding The Patchwork, a less than ideal spaceship, but enough to get away from pursuers. However, you'll be facing malfunctions, fires, enemies attacking... When it rains, it pours.
Why similar: Metroidvania 46.4%, Space 12.5%, Sci-fi 11.5%, Pixel Graphics 10.4%, Action-Adventure 6.4%
Face the horde in a world of shifting light and rainy nights. Choose from 4 heroes and 3 weapons to survive 2 deadly maps. Customize your run with 100+ nodes. Play solo or split-screen across 3 difficulties. Start at 6 AM. When the colors fade to gray, the real fight begins.
Why similar: Top-Down Shooter 28.3%, Survival 17.6%, Zombies 11.6%, Top-Down 8.9%, Action-Adventure 7.2%
Embark on a journey into a dark, fantasy world, wielding a host of weapons, sub-weapons, skills, and spells, to battle demonic entities in this immersive, true-to-form, Metroidvania.
Why similar: Metroidvania 46%, Action RPG 11.8%, Exploration 9.6%, Action-Adventure 8.8%, Pixel Graphics 6%
Survival Soldier is a shooting game with a top-down perspective. Survive to the end by slaying the onslaught of zombies!
Why similar: Top-Down Shooter 36.1%, Zombies 27.6%, Survival 22%, Top-Down 7.3%, Action 3.5%
Top down retro adventure game including 4 different stories.
Why similar: Metroidvania 25.6%, Top-Down Shooter 22.8%, Top-Down 9.5%, Pixel Graphics 9.1%, Linear 7.4%
Embark on an epic adventure in the pixelated 2D world of "Nihilsearch" on a lifeless mechanical planet. Explore dark underground complexes, battle hostile machines and life forms, and meet diverse humans, life forms, and machines. Discover the meaning of life and create your own adventure!
Why similar: Metroidvania 48.2%, Sci-fi 11.5%, Action-Adventure 10.5%, Futuristic 9.6%, Pixel Graphics 9.3%
A top-down zombie slaughter defense adventure game. Players use skills, talent trees, unique weapons, and weapon upgrades to hold the ultimate defensive line, frantically clearing wave after wave of rotting undead under the blood moon curse. From ordinary Qin soldiers to immortal war gods.
Why similar: Zombies 29.8%, Top-Down Shooter 27%, Action RPG 14.4%, Top-Down 10.3%, Combat 9.1%
Hollow Frontier is a thrilling sci-fi adventure where survival is your only option. Explore a haunting, collapsed world. Solve puzzles, fight for survival, and uncover dark secrets. Experience dynamic gameplay in both 3rd person and FPS perspectives
Why similar: Metroidvania 23.5%, Sci-fi 15.1%, Space 13.5%, Futuristic 13.5%, Action RPG 10.3%
Lost Call is a top down pixel art 2D Zelda inspired game with a metroidvania style map. Take off on a quest through an abandoned and ruined town to stop your phone from ringing all the time, and learn more about the characters who still remain within it.
Why similar: Metroidvania 38.9%, Action RPG 14.2%, Top-Down 10.2%, Exploration 10.2%, Adventure 6.7%
Explore a vibrant island full of magic and mystery in Nulphia, a top-down story-driven singleplayer adventure.
Why similar: Metroidvania 43.8%, Conversation 14.1%, Top-Down 11.8%, Exploration 9.7%, Action-Adventure 8.8%
Darkship Echoes is a tense, atmospheric sci-fi top-down shooter where you pilot a remote drone through a dark, derelict space station, using radar to scan for threats, fight rogue machines, and scavenge supplies to survive.
Why similar: Top-Down Shooter 22.1%, Survival 18.5%, Space 15.8%, Sci-fi 10.7%, Exploration 8.4%
Metroidvania style action/platformer with tons of abilities, enemies and exploration.
Why similar: Metroidvania 40.7%, Sci-fi 9%, Pixel Graphics 7.6%, Space 7.5%, Action-Adventure 7%
Fight for your freedom in a sprawling fantasy world caught between the living and the fallen. Hone your skills in a retro epic featuring puzzle platforming, metroidvania exploration and crunchy soulslike combat.
Why similar: Metroidvania 55.1%, Pixel Graphics 14%, Combat 11%, Action-Adventure 8.3%, Action 3.9%
a cute little metroidvania with challenging combat and witchcraft 🧙🍐
Why similar: Metroidvania 43.6%, Top-Down Shooter 17.8%, Exploration 7.8%, Pixel Graphics 7.2%, Top-Down 7.1%
The Search: Lost Dreams is a game made for players focused on fun and gameplay. Improve your combat arsenal, equipments and learn skills that will help you survive on this hostile planet.
Why similar: Metroidvania 48%, Sci-fi 10.6%, Action-Adventure 9%, Futuristic 8.4%, Combat 6.9%
《末日危城-希望》是一款末日生存角色扮演游戏。你要在开放的丧尸末日世界里搜寻物资，制造装备，完成各种任务，坚强活着并且寻找恢复文明的希望。
Why similar: Zombies 28.5%, Survival 19.3%, Pixel Graphics 13.7%, Action RPG 8.6%, Top-Down 5.7%
In this Action-Puzzle Metroidvania, you will explore the lair of a long-gone mythical creature and unravel its mysteries. Consume enemies to gain their abilities, use your frog-like tongue to grapple and fight, explore the land, solve puzzles, find secrets, and complete challenges.
Why similar: Metroidvania 43.2%, Top-Down 13.9%, Exploration 9.9%, Pixel Graphics 8.7%, Action-Adventure 7.9%
Old Ninja: Underworld is a 2D pixel-art Metroidvania action game where an aging ninja explores a chaotic underground world. Battle through a bizarre mix of enemies with no apparent connection, strengthen your ninja, and challenge the boss lurking deep below.
Why similar: Metroidvania 44.8%, Pixel Graphics 11.1%, Action RPG 10.1%, Exploration 7.2%, Action 7.2%
Astronium is a metroidvania with souls-like aspects, with a focus on combat and on getting weapons. Defeat strong enemies, survive ambushes, explore diferent biomes and meet interesting individuals on this hostile planet
Why similar: Metroidvania 40%, Combat 11.2%, Pixel Graphics 9.5%, Top-Down 9.2%, Exploration 6.7%
"A Song in Elyel Nalore" is a 2D Metroidvania adventure set in a world of swords and magic. Accept a dangerous guild mission that leads you into a deadly journey. Explore vast landscapes, uncover hidden secrets, and face tough challenges in this dark fantasy action RPG.
Why similar: Metroidvania 47.1%, Action RPG 14.9%, Pixel Graphics 11.2%, Exploration 6.3%, Combat 6%
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 57.8%, Sci-fi 18.2%, Action-Adventure 8.8%, Action 7.8%, 2D 6.1%
Spearhead is the story of agents who join secret organizations in a chaotic world surrounded by infectious diseases. Experience the story of six agents joining.
Why similar: Top-Down Shooter 36.6%, Linear 16.1%, Pixel Graphics 16%, Top-Down 9.6%, Combat 8%
In this Insanely Twisted, 2-D action-adventure game, explore unique environments and battle bizarre creatures.
Why similar: Metroidvania 61.3%, Sci-fi 11.2%, Exploration 8.1%, 2D 5.3%, Adventure 5.2%
AstroWars is a top down 2d shooter with monsters and a blue gun. Earn score by killing monsters and try to beat your top score.
Why similar: Top-Down Shooter 32%, Top-Down 10.2%, Survival 10.2%, Sci-fi 9.9%, Pixel Graphics 8.9%
Filiy Eclipse is an exploration action RPG that explores a mysterious world.Explore the surface, underground and sky of the star to discover what happened aboard it.
Why similar: Metroidvania 48.1%, Action RPG 15%, Sci-fi 7.3%, Pixel Graphics 5.6%, Action 5.6%
Zombie Assault: Resurgence is an intense, action packed top-down shooter, featuring deep RPG elements. Customise your loadout with unique upgradeable weapons as you gear up to take on hordes of enemies. Play solo or team up in co-op with up to 4 players.
Why similar: Top-Down Shooter 22.5%, Zombies 15.4%, Survival 11.7%, Action RPG 11.3%, Sci-fi 10.4%
Goldfish Brain is a 2D scrolling platform action game . It adopts a Metroidvania-like design. You need to explore maps and find various ability items to strengthen yourself and break through more challenges.
Why similar: Metroidvania 56.9%, Action-Adventure 11.3%, Action RPG 11%, Adventure 3.8%, Action 3.7%
Modern old school action with explosive firepower. Rack up kills to upgrade your ship. Use your tech skills wisely. And dominate the skies! This is a work-in-progress passion project! ETA November '26!
Why similar: Top-Down Shooter 28.1%, Action RPG 14.2%, Sci-fi 11.6%, Futuristic 11.3%, Space 10.3%
Secure the vaccine and escape the infested facility! Battle your way from B9 to the surface rescue chopper in this isometric roguelite shooter. Restore power, upgrade your gear with Bio-Samples, and protect humanity's last hope against endless waves of the infected.
Why similar: Top-Down Shooter 33.1%, Zombies 25.1%, Survival 19.5%, Top-Down 6.2%, Action 5.3%
An action metroidbrainia set in a dying dwarf galaxy. Scavenge wrecks, meet strange characters, and fight your way through a cold universe to piece together an interstellar puzzle.
Why similar: Metroidvania 27.4%, Top-Down Shooter 19.8%, Conversation 10.4%, Top-Down 8.1%, Exploration 6.7%
Return to a hometown that no longer exists. Survive twisted remnants of its people and uncover the truth behind the Figureless before time runs out.
Why similar: Metroidvania 28.2%, Zombies 22.4%, Combat 10.2%, Top-Down 9.5%, Pixel Graphics 8.4%
Explore a Labyrinth full of magic, monsters, and mystery in this dungeon crawler inspired by retro classics. Wield unique spells to battle enemies, break blocks, and uncover hundreds of secrets hidden within the Labyrinth's walls.
Why similar: Metroidvania 37.5%, Top-Down 15.1%, Action-Adventure 11.1%, Action RPG 10.1%, Pixel Graphics 9.9%
STU, the First AI is a Metroidvania set in the digital world of computers and the internet. Exploration is the heart of the game. Discover a vast world with new forms of digital life and humans struggling to control them.
Why similar: Metroidvania 29%, Action RPG 12.2%, Futuristic 9.4%, Sci-fi 9.4%, Pixel Graphics 7.8%
Zolg is a minimalist top-down shooter where you explore, fight enemies, collect powerups, and defeat bosses.
Why similar: Metroidvania 35.3%, Top-Down Shooter 25.2%, Top-Down 10.1%, Action-Adventure 7.8%, Exploration 6.8%
This is a 2d platform adventure exploration game that combines platform jumping and straightforward fighting. Players will gradually find the lost memory and uncover the truth of this fantastic world with AOI.
Why similar: Metroidvania 46.9%, Pixel Graphics 10.9%, Action RPG 9.9%, Conversation 7.3%, Adventure 5.3%
Embark on a Metroidvanian journey across a mysterious alien world where every ability unlocks new secrets and every corner hides danger or discovery. Fight enemies and bosses across multiple biomes, collect items and skills on your quest, and upgrade yourself and even the outpost itself.
Why similar: Metroidvania 36.1%, Pixel Graphics 10.7%, Sci-fi 9.4%, Action RPG 9.4%, Exploration 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 45.1%, Pixel Graphics 11.5%, Sci-fi 11.3%, Action-Adventure 8.3%, Top-Down 7.8%
