- #1 TWINSTAR 双星
97% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Yuhan HE
Windows
A Metroidvania set in a mysterious space laboratory. Explore an interconnected station, fight hostile enemies, uncover hidden rooms, and gain new abilities. Each discovery brings you closer to a massive secret buried within.
Why similar: Metroidvania 37.5%, Puzzle Platformer 19.8%, Exploration 13.3%, Platformer 8.5%, Puzzle 7.3%
- #2 Dream City
96% matchNo user reviews
Dev: MuggleGreen
Windows
A Metroidvania puzzle adventure. You arrive at a sentient building filled with intriguing interactive props. Learning to use these tools is how it communicates with you.
Why similar: Metroidvania 33.6%, Puzzle Platformer 25%, Platformer 15.6%, Exploration 11.5%, Adventure 7.9%
- #3 1000 Amps
96% matchMostly Positive79% of 345 reviews2012
Dev: Brandon Brizzi
Windows · Mac
Median: 24 minMean: 2.7 hrs≥1hr: 36%
Light up the world! As Plug, you are charged with restoring the expansive Amp-Tree-System, and thwarting an enigmatic intruder.
Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 34.6%, Metroidvania 31.1%, Platformer 15.2%, Puzzle 9.5%, Adventure 3.6%
- #4 The SOL Device 2
95% match9 user reviews67% of 9 reviews2021
Dev: Straitlace Studios
Windows
After escaping the research ship, Samuel finds himself crash landed on a foreign planet overrun by a hostile organization. Now it's up to Samuel and his trusty SOL equipment to rescue the scientists who also escaped the ship, and find a way off of the planet.
Why similar: Metroidvania 34.3%, Puzzle Platformer 20.3%, Exploration 11%, Platformer 10.6%, Puzzle 7.9%
- #5 Polly's Puzzle Box
94% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Box Penguin Games
Windows · Mac
As a small flea, explore a mysterious puzzle box filled with shapes and secrets. Gather strange items with hidden abilities, and unravel a trail of clues as you attempt to escape.
Why similar: Metroidvania 37.1%, Puzzle Platformer 19%, Exploration 10.8%, Platformer 10%, Puzzle 8.3%
- #6 ANIMAL WELL
93% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 23,932 reviews2024
Dev: Billy BassoPub: Bigmode
Windows
Median: 5.7 hrsMean: 9.5 hrs≥1hr: 76%
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 38.6%, Puzzle Platformer 19.9%, Exploration 11.5%, Platformer 9.6%, Puzzle 8.3%
- #7 Shell Soul:The Skull
94% matchNo user reviews
Dev: BlueWindGame
Windows
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 39.8%, Puzzle Platformer 21.2%, Exploration 14.1%, Puzzle 7.9%, Multiple Endings 6.2%
- #8 Nonolith
92% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Justcamh
Windows · Mac · Linux
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 31.5%, Puzzle Platformer 19.2%, Exploration 10.5%, Platformer 9.1%, Puzzle 7.1%
- #9 Spatial Dip
91% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Andrew GrantPub: Assorted Nonsense Games
Windows · Mac
Scale into ever-smaller nested worlds. Shrink into your spaceship's mechanisms. Uncover the fractal worlds within and meet the zany goobers who call them home. Track down the root of the system errors, whether by replacing old gears or getting Grandma Beetle's bakery back in business.
Why similar: Metroidvania 33.3%, Puzzle Platformer 23.5%, Exploration 13.3%, Platformer 7.6%, Puzzle 5.7%
- #10 Switch Box
90% match5 user reviews40% of 5 reviews2025
Dev: 鲁搬三试
Windows
"Switch Box" is a 2D pixel-art puzzle platformer. In an unfamiliar world, you must interact with the environment and utilize tools to solve challenges, overcome obstacles, and ultimately discover the path back home.
Why similar: Metroidvania 31.1%, Puzzle Platformer 25.3%, Platformer 13%, Puzzle 8.9%, Exploration 7.4%
- #11 Norman's Night In
91% match9 user reviews67% of 9 reviews2019
Dev: Bactrian Games
Windows
Norman finds himself lost in a cave with nothing but his new bowling ball and a weird feeling that somehow he was meant to be there.
Why similar: Metroidvania 35.7%, Puzzle Platformer 20.7%, Platformer 12.6%, Adventure 7.6%, Physics 6.9%
- #12 Öoo
89% matchOverwhelmingly Positive99% of 5,955 reviews2025
Dev: NamaTakahashi
Windows
Median: 2.6 hrsMean: 3.1 hrs≥1hr: 85%
A Bomb Caterpillar's Big Adventure! "Öoo" is a charming yet mysterious exploration puzzle platformer where you discover creative ways to use bombs!
Why similar: Metroidvania 34.3%, Puzzle Platformer 24.4%, Exploration 10.9%, Platformer 10.7%, Puzzle 8.6%
- #13 Refactor
89% matchNo user reviews
Dev: NextGen Pants, Inc
Windows · Mac · Linux
Refactor is a physics-based platformer taking elements from classic Metroidvanias. Placed in a world that is a puzzle itself, you can literally turn the world upside down by rearranging the map and building your own pathways through the game.
Why similar: Metroidvania 49.7%, Puzzle Platformer 29.7%, Platformer 11.9%, Adventure 5.3%, Indie 3.4%
- #14 KnightLight
88% matchVery Positive95% of 120 reviews2024
Dev: LuminosityPub: DigiPen Institute of Technology
Windows
A 2D puzzle-platformer where you light your way through the darkness. Play as the Light, exploring an abandoned civilization where you find a suit of armor that seems to have magical properties. Suit up using the powers of the suit to channel your light magic to see what this strange place hides.
Why similar: Metroidvania 38.9%, Puzzle Platformer 20.9%, Exploration 14.2%, Platformer 9.3%, Puzzle 6.8%
- #15 FeatherCall
87% matchNo user reviews
Dev: DreamVeil Studios
Windows
FeatherCall is a fast pace, puzzle platformer where you help Luna, a mother blue bird, rescue her lost children. Brave numerous challenges and puzzles by Dashing to new heights, Throwing a guiding feather, and Gliding back to safety!
Why similar: Metroidvania 29.1%, Puzzle Platformer 16.1%, Platformer 15.8%, Exploration 11.2%, Puzzle 10.4%
- #16 Core Descent
86% matchPositive100% of 12 reviews2026
Dev: travisisgood
Windows
Core Descent is a puzzle-platformer set in a vivid world filled with puzzles to solve, items to collect, and secrets to find.
Why similar: Metroidvania 27.7%, Puzzle Platformer 23%, Exploration 12.6%, Platformer 11.1%, Puzzle 8.5%
- #17 Beneath the Ghost Kingdom
86% matchNo user reviews
Dev: From Highberg
Windows
Venture beneath the Ghost Kingdom where you will encounter strange creatures, solve puzzles and uncover hidden secrets!
Why similar: Metroidvania 30.2%, Puzzle Platformer 17.3%, Platformer 16%, Puzzle 10.5%, Exploration 10.1%
- #18 Somnium Shore
85% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Rodrigo Pelegrini R.
Windows
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 45.3%, Platformer 17%, Exploration 14.3%, Puzzle Platformer 8.6%, Adventure 5.9%
- #19 Kami: The Great Guardian
84% match5 user reviews100% of 5 reviews2026
Dev: Endemic Artifacts
Windows
In this short, compact 2D Metroidvania, join Kami on their quest to save their homeland from a calamity wrought from the stars. Use the abilities you discover to explore deeper into the source of this corruption and restore nature.
Why similar: Metroidvania 53.2%, Platformer 15.8%, Exploration 14.8%, Pixel Graphics 6.1%, 2D 4.6%
- #20 Dark Labyrinth
84% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Xiaote
Windows
You have stumbled into a world shrouded in darkness, where your body has transformed into that of a strange creature. Using your ability to dispel the darkness, you must explore and learn within this mysterious realm, uncovering the truth of this world while seeking a way to return to your own.
Why similar: Metroidvania 36.9%, Puzzle Platformer 21.8%, Exploration 11.8%, Platformer 11.6%, Puzzle 8.6%
- #21 Sisyphus Is a Bug
83% matchVery Positive100% of 51 reviews2025
Dev: moraguma
Windows · Linux
As punishment for dirtying Olympus's marble halls, Sisyphus, the dung beetle, must push his ball of dung up and down Mount Olympus every day, for the rest of his life. That is, unless he can complete the seemingly impossible task of reaching Olympus before the sun sets
Why similar: Metroidvania 38%, Puzzle Platformer 22.5%, Exploration 12.6%, Platformer 10.8%, Puzzle 8.3%
- #22 After Hue
82% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Afterthought
Windows
After Hue is a charming puzzle platformer starring an adorable chameleon on a grand adventure! Shift colors, phase through obstacles, and unravel the mysteries hidden within every hue!
Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 28.8%, Metroidvania 19.9%, Exploration 12%, Platformer 11.4%, Puzzle 10.4%
- #23 Full Bore
82% matchVery Positive85% of 245 reviews2014
Dev: Whole Hog GamesPub: Nkidu Games Inc.
Windows · Linux
Median: 2.4 hrsMean: 4.2 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Deep underground lies a reminder of Boarkind’s darkest hours. All it takes is one little boar to dig it back up. A block puzzler with an exploratory twist, Full Bore throws the player into an open world of crumbling mines, arcane ruins, and technological wonders with only curiosity to lead the way.
Why similar: Metroidvania 28.1%, Puzzle Platformer 15.3%, Platformer 14.6%, Puzzle 14%, Exploration 8.2%
- #24 Amalu, Wells between worlds
81% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: IndieTech Studio
Windows
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 41.3%, Puzzle Platformer 22.1%, Exploration 14.5%, Platformer 11.7%, Adventure 3.2%
- #25 Ascent DX
79% matchVery Positive99% of 279 reviews2025
Dev: Johan PeitzPub: Apskeppet
Windows · Mac
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 50.6%, Exploration 14%, Platformer 13.9%, Multiple Endings 8.2%, Adventure 5.9%
- #26 Tool Land
81% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: bjsjsk
Windows
Tool Land is an adventure exploration platformer puzzle game. Collect tools with unique functions, uncover the secrets behind various mechanisms, and explore every corner of this hand-drawn doodle art world!
Why similar: Metroidvania 33.4%, Puzzle Platformer 25.2%, Platformer 12.3%, Exploration 9.2%, Puzzle 9.1%
- #27 Teslagrad
80% matchVery Positive84% of 2,464 reviews2013
Dev: Rain Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 6.1 hrs≥1hr: 88%
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 36%, Platformer 20.6%, Puzzle Platformer 15%, Puzzle 10.8%, Exploration 5.4%
- #28 Lyden Lys
78% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Løftet
Windows
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 35.3%, Puzzle Platformer 20.2%, Platformer 10.6%, Exploration 10.5%, Puzzle 7.9%
- #29 If you win...you lose !
79% matchMixed53% of 19 reviews2022
Dev: Mohamed Trigui.
Windows
A quite difficult and quite original platform adventure game, die and retry.
Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 31.5%, Metroidvania 23.5%, Platformer 19.5%, Adventure 9.7%, Multiple Endings 8%
- #30 方块 Block
77% matchPositive97% of 29 reviews2026
Dev: GlanielStudio
Windows
Block is a minimalist platform puzzle game where you explore various bizarre locations and interact with creative scene mechanisms!
Why similar: Metroidvania 44.9%, Puzzle Platformer 24.5%, Platformer 12.3%, Puzzle 8%, Logic 6.8%
- #31 Leap Year
75% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 3,047 reviews2024
Dev: Daniel Linssen
Windows
Median: 2.3 hrsMean: 3.2 hrs≥1hr: 78%
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 32.2%, Puzzle Platformer 20.9%, Exploration 11.6%, Platformer 10.5%, Puzzle 7.6%
- #32 La-Mulana
78% matchMostly Positive80% of 2,597 reviews2013
Dev: NIGOROPub: PLAYISM
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 7.7 hrs≥1hr: 83%
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 55.1%, Platformer 14.3%, Exploration 9.3%, Puzzle 6.8%, Puzzle Platformer 4.1%
- #33 Outpost Delta
77% matchPositive80% of 10 reviews2020
Dev: Hidden Achievement LLC
Windows · Mac · Linux
Outpost Delta is a single player, 2-D side-scrolling sci-fi shooter for PC. Take on the role of Delta, the outpost’s emergency defense, who along with her AI companion must defend the space station against alien intruders.
Why similar: Metroidvania 40.9%, Puzzle Platformer 18.2%, Platformer 11.5%, Exploration 9%, Sci-fi 5.9%
- #34 A Purrtato Tail - By the Light of the Elderstar
76% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Drunk Robot Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
A character collecting puzzle Metroidvania about potato cats on the Isle of Moar.
Why similar: Metroidvania 42.8%, Puzzle Platformer 26.4%, Platformer 16.7%, Adventure 14.1%
- #35 Rift Walker
76% matchNo user reviews
Dev: ahando
Windows
Rift Walker is an open world 2D puzzle platformer where... there aren't any platforms?
Why similar: Metroidvania 35.4%, Puzzle Platformer 24.7%, Exploration 11.5%, Platformer 9.9%, Puzzle 9.6%
- #36 Hob
75% matchVery Positive88% of 5,538 reviews2017
Dev: Runic GamesPub: Arc Games
Windows
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 9.5 hrs≥1hr: 67%
Transform the world of Hob! A new action-adventure from Runic Games, the award-winning studio behind Torchlight I and II. It's your chance. Make it home.
Why similar: Metroidvania 31.8%, Puzzle Platformer 19.1%, Platformer 14.3%, Exploration 12.2%, Puzzle 10.7%
- #37 Nerdtastic Norman & The Soul Fragments
73% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Section 8 Studios
Windows
Nerdtastic Norman is a 2d scrolling puzzle platformer set in purgatory based on Dante's Inferno. Over 70 unique levels, dangerously hard boss battles, and 1 unique story. Help Norman gather the missing pieces of his shattered soul, and help him return to the land of the living.
Why similar: Metroidvania 41.1%, Puzzle Platformer 23.4%, Exploration 7.2%, Platformer 7.1%, 2D 5.3%
- #38 Environmental Station Alpha
74% matchVery Positive83% of 1,627 reviews2015
Dev: Arvi TeikariPub: Hempuli Oy
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 6.2 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Explore an abandoned space station in this retro-themed explorative action platformer.
Why similar: Metroidvania 61.3%, Platformer 12.6%, Pixel Graphics 8.1%, Exploration 5%, Adventure 4.1%
- #39 Surface Tension: Eclipse
73% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Redo Games
Windows
Navigate a surreal, dreamlike world in this atmospheric 2D puzzlevania. Manipulate light and shadow to cast solid platforms out of thin air, solve intricate room puzzles, and uncover the mysteries hidden within the high-contrast darkness. Master the eclipse to survive.
Why similar: Metroidvania 43.1%, Puzzle Platformer 30.3%, Platformer 7.1%, Puzzle 6%, Adventure 5.1%
- #40 Ascender
74% matchMostly Positive78% of 23 reviews2017
Dev: GameChanger Studio
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 3.7 hrs≥1hr: 95%
Ascender is a 2D explorative puzzle metroidvania. The game is set in the open world of GOA's districts, and the player will face many unique puzzles to solve. Warning!! This game will truly challenge your puzzle and platforming skill :D
Why similar: Metroidvania 35.8%, Puzzle Platformer 24%, Platformer 11.2%, Puzzle 7.5%, Exploration 7.1%
- #41 Portal Walk
72% matchPositive100% of 13 reviews2025
Dev: Art&Fact
Windows
Portal Walk is incredible pixel platformer about an adventure between worlds with action events and challenging bosses.
Why similar: Metroidvania 33.3%, Puzzle Platformer 17%, Platformer 12.8%, Exploration 10.1%, Logic 8.2%
- #42 Bitup
73% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Cosmogonia Games
Windows
BitUp is a side scrolling, exploration metroidvania game set in a Cubist-Impressionist universe. A game kept hidden by its legendary creator, while its protagonist looks for answers. Players must aid Bit in its quest to find out what lies beyond.
Why similar: Metroidvania 47%, Platformer 15.5%, Puzzle Platformer 13.8%, Exploration 11.6%, Adventure 4.9%
- #43 Echoes of the Unread
72% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Clever Cat GamesPub: 8 Bit Legit
Windows · Linux
Wake up in a world where stories come to life. In this enchanted 8-bit musical adventure, use the power of song to explore whimsical book-inspired realms, solve puzzles, and help Rhapsody find her way home from a library that doesn't want to let her go.
Why similar: Metroidvania 35.3%, Puzzle Platformer 21.1%, Platformer 11%, Exploration 10.8%, Puzzle 7.9%
- #44 Null Path
71% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: NordlePub: Moist Men Studios
Windows
Your skill, patience, and ingenuity will be tested in this homage to precision platformers! Traverse various biomes, from caves to volcanic wastelands and mysterious towers. Each environment with it's own deadly traps, puzzles, and challenges designed to push you to your limits.
Why similar: Metroidvania 39.6%, Puzzle Platformer 26.3%, Platformer 11.9%, Puzzle 5.4%, Pixel Graphics 4.4%
- #45 Get the Ball Rolling
71% matchPositive90% of 10 reviews2022
Dev: GET THE BALL ROLLING LLC
Windows
A single player ball rolling adventure/platformer with puzzles, powerups, physics, portals and gravity flips. Get the Ball Rolling!
Why similar: Metroidvania 42.4%, Puzzle Platformer 24.2%, Exploration 14.2%, Platformer 6.2%, Physics 4.4%
- #46 Skala
70% matchVery Positive89% of 313 reviews2022
Dev: Gustav Almström
Windows · Linux
Skala is a puzzle game about changing the scale of the world.
Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 35%, Platformer 14.9%, Logic 14.2%, Puzzle 12.9%, Physics 6.9%
- #47 Ember Fall
69% match4 user reviews75% of 4 reviews2025
Dev: ASH GAMES
Windows
Step into the shoes of a lone wanderer in a ruined world, guarding the last ember of hope. Solve creative light-based puzzles, battle predators lurking in the shadows, and uncover the forgotten secrets of a broken land in this emotional platformer adventure.
Why similar: Metroidvania 41.6%, Puzzle Platformer 24.5%, Platformer 12.1%, Adventure 7%, Puzzle 6.8%
- #48 Gateways
71% matchVery Positive90% of 250 reviews2012
Dev: Smudged Cat Games Ltd
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 36 minMean: 5.1 hrs≥1hr: 40%
From the creative mind behind The Adventures of Shuggy comes an exciting new retro-styled 2D platformer, a winner of Dream Build Play 2012 and a top 50 game of 2012 according to Game Informer. Grab the gateway guns and explore a huge lab filled with mysterious puzzles in this classic platforming adventure.
Why similar: Metroidvania 33.5%, Platformer 23%, Puzzle 16.7%, Puzzle Platformer 13.4%, Indie 6.1%
- #49 Iconoclasts
70% matchVery Positive86% of 4,950 reviews2018
Dev: Joakim SandbergPub: Bifrost Entertainment
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 8.7 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Join renegade mechanic Robin and uncover the secrets of a dying planet. Explore a big world filled with intricate puzzles, interesting characters and menacing bosses in a beautiful platform adventure that tells a personal story about faith, purpose and the challenge of helping people.
Why similar: Metroidvania 46.8%, Puzzle Platformer 17.3%, Platformer 10.9%, Pixel Graphics 7.7%, Adventure 4.6%
- #50 Memory Draw
68% matchPositive90% of 10 reviews2026
Dev: Restart Studio
Windows
Dive into the conscious and use your brushes to solve puzzles, reclaim forgotten memories.
Why similar: Metroidvania 39.4%, Puzzle Platformer 27.3%, Platformer 9.8%, Puzzle 7.2%, Physics 6.6%
- #51 Insanely Twisted Shadow Planet
70% matchVery Positive87% of 898 reviews2012
Dev: Shadow Planet ProductionsPub: Xbox Game Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 48 minMean: 5.5 hrs≥1hr: 46%
In this Insanely Twisted, 2-D action-adventure game, explore unique environments and battle bizarre creatures.
Why similar: Metroidvania 64.3%, Exploration 11.1%, Adventure 5.8%, Puzzle 5.5%, Sci-fi 4.9%
- #52 Undying Elf
69% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: 百里
Windows
A Metroidvania 2D platformer focused on exploration, puzzles and collection, with creative puzzles and well-designed maps.
Why similar: Metroidvania 28.7%, Puzzle Platformer 19.9%, Platformer 15.1%, Puzzle 10%, Exploration 9.5%
- #53 Supraland
67% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 14,884 reviews2019
Dev: Supra Games
Windows
Median: 7.3 hrsMean: 11.8 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Try the demo! A mix between Portal, Zelda and Metroid. Exploration, puzzles, terrible combat, secret upgrades and new abilities that help you reach new places. Playtime 12-25h.
Why similar: Metroidvania 37.8%, Puzzle Platformer 24.6%, Exploration 12.1%, Puzzle 8.3%, Platformer 6.4%
- #54 Dirtlight
68% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Applava
Windows
Dig through an odd world full of dangerous creatures. Uncover hidden paths and long-buried secrets. Dirtlight is a metroidvania where the journey runs deep, and offers unexpected ways to explore.
Why similar: Metroidvania 52.5%, Platformer 15.3%, Exploration 14.5%, Puzzle 9.3%, Adventure 5.3%
- #55 GLIDE
68% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: BruteForce
Windows
Explore, puzzle, jump Exploration, Mystery, Puzzles. Become a cat hero and explore an unknown world. Overcome treacherous terrain, discover hidden passages, and solve ancient puzzles to uncover the secrets hidden in the shadows. Will you reach the end of this perilous journey?
Why similar: Metroidvania 42.1%, Puzzle Platformer 21.9%, Platformer 9.5%, Puzzle 7.8%, Adventure 5.6%
- #56 Flat Kingdom Paper's Cut Edition
69% matchMostly Positive73% of 198 reviews2016
Dev: Fat Panda GamesPub: Games Starter
Windows · Mac
Median: 5.5 hrsMean: 5.8 hrs≥1hr: 95%
The Flat Kingdom is a beautiful and peaceful 2D land, but now it’s threatened by an evil thief and becoming 3D! The only who can stop the chaos is Flat, a little hero able to change into a circle, triangle or square in order to solve puzzles, overcome obstacles and defeat giant bosses!
Why similar: Metroidvania 43.5%, Puzzle Platformer 22.4%, Platformer 20.5%, Indie 6.9%, Adventure 6.7%
- #57 Wisdom Tower
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Luminight
Windows · Linux
A Retro Metroidvania focused heavily on Exploration, Puzzle Solving Combat and Platforming.
Why similar: Metroidvania 39.9%, Puzzle Platformer 25.3%, Exploration 13.3%, Platformer 13.1%, Pixel Graphics 4%
- #58 Ripple Park
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Phase Wanderer
Windows
You are lost in a vast and eerie labyrinth filled with pools and puzzles. Gather items to activate various mechanisms as you explore further. Face various unknown entities that lurk within. Unravel the mysteries of the labyrinth and your own identity to find your way out. Inspired by poolcore.
Why similar: Metroidvania 35.5%, Puzzle Platformer 19.6%, Platformer 10.7%, Exploration 10.6%, Puzzle 8.3%
- #59 Cats Catching Mice: The Black and White World
65% matchVery Positive99% of 78 reviews2025
Dev: 半星BanXing
Windows · Linux
Explore in a black-and-white world. You'll encounter interesting enemies, feel smooth physics effects, freely combine props to solve fun puzzles, use powerful weapons, and defeat cool bosses.
Why similar: Metroidvania 36.2%, Puzzle Platformer 20.7%, Exploration 10.9%, Platformer 10.6%, Puzzle 8.5%
- #60 Axiom Verge
67% matchVery Positive90% of 6,505 reviews2015
Dev: Thomas Happ Games LLC
Windows · Linux
Median: 6.2 hrsMean: 9.5 hrs≥1hr: 82%
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 64.3%, Platformer 11.9%, Pixel Graphics 5.8%, Exploration 5.2%, Sci-fi 4.3%