60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Singleplayer, Action, Pixel Graphics, 2D.
After a psychologist visit goes terribly wrong, you find yourself trapped in the mind of a game developer on the brink of physical and emotional burnout during the final stages of an intense project. Experience a metroidvania-lite drenched in anxiety and based on a very true story.
Escape From Tethys
You're trapped, alone and cold on a distant planet. Pursued by a droid with only one purpose: killing everything. You must find an escape. Explore the hostile environment, find secret upgrades and new weapons, and finally make your escape from this dark, hostile planet...
Sydney Hunter and the Curse of the Mayan
In this pixel-perfect homage to the classic action platformers, you play as Sydney Hunter - an explorer who gets trapped inside a Mayan pyramid while he's out exploring!
You're trapped, alone and cold on a distant planet. Pursued by a droid with only one purpose: killing everything. You must find an escape. Explore the hostile environment, find secret upgrades and new weapons, and finally make your escape from this dark, hostile planet...
Why similar: Metroidvania 45.5%, Platformer 21.7%, Action 10.4%, Action-Adventure 10%, Exploration 7.9%
In this pixel-perfect homage to the classic action platformers, you play as Sydney Hunter - an explorer who gets trapped inside a Mayan pyramid while he's out exploring!
Why similar: Metroidvania 18.1%, Platformer 15.5%, Retro 12.7%, Action 11.5%, Adventure 9.4%
Tormenture is a psychological horror game where you play as a child trapped in a cursed 8-bit game with a dark secret. To survive, you must find four relics and solve reality-blurring puzzles. But beware—some creatures may escape the game and haunt you in the real world. A game within a game.
Why similar: Retro 33.8%, Pixel Graphics 18.6%, Exploration 17.2%, 2D 10.7%, Adventure 9.2%
After a science experiment gets out of control, you need to survive and escape this dark prison that hides weird secrets. The game is a cinematic platform of terror and stealth, inspired by INSIDE, Another World, Blackthorne and Prince of Persia.
Why similar: Dark Humor 28.8%, 2D Platformer 18%, Platformer 16.2%, Pixel Graphics 11.9%, Action-Adventure 11.5%
A unique platforming experience where the protagonist, story, and mechanics are constantly changing. Take control of legendary warriors, giant worms, greedy kings, and lazy demons, each with their own purpose.
Why similar: Parody 21.4% ★, Dark Humor 17.6%, Platformer 11.6%, 2D Platformer 9.5%, Precision Platformer 9.4%
Fearmonium is a psychedelic metroidvania where suspense intertwines with humour. Beginning the game as an unpleasant memory, you must progress and become a true phobia by breaking through all boundaries to uncover the most hidden corners of Max's mind.
Why similar: Metroidvania 53.2%, Action-Adventure 17.8%, 2D 8.2%, Action 6.5%, Adventure 6.3%
You are an intern trapped in an endless office hell. Fight your way through demonic coworkers, get promoted, and find a way to escape this cursed skyscraper.
Why similar: Comedy 29.1%, Procedural Generation 26.8%, Pixel Graphics 18.4%, Combat 11.5%, Action 10.8%
The End Is Nigh is a sprawling adventure platformer where you die a lot, but thats ok because you are probably already dead anyway.
Why similar: Platformer 39.1%, Precision Platformer 30.1%, 2D 6.9%, Adventure 6.2%, Pixel Graphics 6%
Zapling Bygone is a twisted metroidvania where you murder your foes and steal their abilities by wearing their skulls and absorbing their consciousness into your hive-mind.
Why similar: Metroidvania 37.8%, 2D Platformer 12%, Platformer 12%, Action-Adventure 9.9%, Exploration 8%
You are the Entangled One, a malformed entity. Traverse the flesh wastes under the eye of an eternal eclipse. Delve deep into the planet's guts. Uncover a fleshy ecosystem. Engage in deliberate, challenging combat, using your whiplike arms and collectible sub attacks to augment your combat style!
Why similar: Retro 21.6%, Platformer 21.5%, 2D Platformer 15.7%, Precision Platformer 13.5%, Action-Adventure 11.5%
You find yourself trapped in a mysterious room upon awakening. Surrounding you are sparse pieces of furniture, mannequins, and countless buttons. Can you safely escape this room?
Why similar: Action-Adventure 44.1%, Comedy 32.5%, Exploration 21.5%, Singleplayer 1.9%
The Perfect Pencil is a surreal action platformer where exploration and choice shape everything. Discover hidden paths, meet bizarre characters, and unravel a psychological story filled with bizzare humor.
Why similar: Metroidvania 48%, 2D Platformer 16.2%, Action-Adventure 14.3%, Exploration 10.1%, Action 5.1%
You are PETER SHORTS! You have been captured and taken to a secret cloning facility. Can you escape with your newly-cloned brethren?
Why similar: Metroidvania 30%, Parody 18.7% ★, Platformer 11.5%, 2D Platformer 11.1%, Action-Adventure 9%
Trapped in a buried, forgotten facility, you must reach the core of an ancient machine to rescue your lost lover. System Purge is a challenging, atmospheric 2D platformer.
Why similar: Platformer 24.2%, Metroidvania 22.1%, Pixel Graphics 11.4%, Retro 9.5%, Precision Platformer 8.5%
You've died and landed in purgatory, your options? Unending suffering or finding a way back to your world.
Why similar: Platformer 31.7%, 2D Platformer 23.6%, Retro 17%, Action 16.2%, 2D 9.3%
Test both mind, body and spirit in this surreal bullet hell platformer. Plum the depths of your potato-consciousness to overcome impossible challenges in search of the elusive, tantalizing TROOF.
Why similar: Platformer 22.9%, Retro 19.2%, Comedy 15.7%, Pixel Graphics 12.2%, Action-Adventure 11.2%
A crazy action-adventure platformer... In Hell.
Why similar: Platformer 36.5%, Metroidvania 27.9%, Comedy 14.7%, Action 9.1%, 2D 7.9%
You a hero, so have to explore a world full of dangers. overcome various difficulties, traps and demons.
Why similar: Action 22.9%, 2D Platformer 17.5%, Action-Adventure 16.3%, Adventure 15.9%, Pixel Graphics 15.1%
A fast-paced 2D handcrafted metroidvania with strange sci-fi environments. Something is roaming the halls, watching your every move.
Why similar: Metroidvania 37.6%, 2D Platformer 12.4%, Platformer 11.6%, Action-Adventure 9.2%, Pixel Graphics 8.4%
You just want to play a video game in an old game club, but time passes quickly, and strange noises draw you into a dark nightmare! A nightmare that begins with an old video game... Are you ready to experience a 2D platformer game within the heart of a 3D first person psychological horror game?
Why similar: Metroidvania 36.9%, Platformer 16.8%, Retro 15.8%, Pixel Graphics 9.9%, Exploration 7.3%
Plunge into high-stakes punishment platforming in JUMP KING QUEST! Explore alone or fall together in dynamic online climbing action as you fight your way upwards on an unhinged quest to The Smoking Hot Babe at The Top. In this world, every ledge is a battlefield…
Why similar: Metroidvania 35.8%, Platformer 18%, 2D Platformer 14.5%, Precision Platformer 13.4%, Exploration 8.9%
Embark on a journey of anomalies and repetition in "Prison Loop," a captivating indie puzzle game. Trapped in a mysterious temporal loop within a high-security prison, your objective is to observe anomalies throughout the environment.
Why similar: Action-Adventure 33.8%, Exploration 28.4%, Action 17%, Adventure 15%, Singleplayer 5.9%
Laugh in the face of death in this hauntingly humorous comedy adventure about a wayward soul trying to make it back to the land of the living. Engage in bullet-hell lite battles, solve puzzles, and communicate with the dead as you navigate this “colorful” world. Death is just the beginning.
Why similar: Comedy 25.7%, Pixel Graphics 15.7%, Retro 13.3%, Action-Adventure 12.1%, Adventure 8.5%
Descend through absurd layers of history as a rat-dog-witch trying to escape employment and transcend reality. Explore weird museums, cosmic hallways, and your own bad dreams in a chaotic mash-up of art, humor, and a playable existential crisis.
Why similar: Dark Humor 34%, Platformer 24.8%, Comedy 19.5%, Exploration 11.9%, Action 7.4%
Unravel the mystery uncovered by a remote interplanetary mining operation. What did they find? What threat does it pose? And ultimately, what does it truly mean to be a hero?
Why similar: Metroidvania 54.4%, Platformer 18%, Adventure 14.1%, Action 13.5%
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 33%, Platformer 15%, 2D Platformer 12.4%, Precision Platformer 10.8%, Pixel Graphics 8.9%
This Strange Realm Of Mine is a First Person Shooter mixed with poetry and psychological horror. Graphic style is 3D mixed with pixel art.
Why similar: Retro 27.2%, Shooter 24.2%, Pixel Graphics 16.7%, Dark Humor 9.8%, 2D 7.8%
You're hungry. For a schnitzel. The problem is: you have to get it!
Why similar: Platformer 35.9%, Comedy 19.7%, Adventure 16.6%, Exploration 15.1%, Action 10.8%
Puns, and puzzles. Horrible puns and devious puzzles actually, along with several incorporeal entities are what makes Ghostory a pixel art puzzle adventure brimming with humour and intrigue. Take on the role of a cursed traveler, master your ghostly form, find a cure, and escape a perilous cave system.
Why similar: Dark Humor 29.5%, Platformer 23.4%, Retro 16.2%, Pixel Graphics 12.6%, 2D 8.8%
You're Benny, a test character trapped in an unfinished game by a figure called The Designer. She's up against a deadline for her publisher which means it's your last day as a test character. Navigate the facility, dodge game-dev chaos and defy expectations to become the main character.
Why similar: Platformer 38.4%, Action-Adventure 21.5%, Comedy 17.4%, Adventure 10.4%, Action 8.5%
Lovish is an outrageous 8-bit action-adventure game! Quest with Sir Solomon through a series of bite-sized rooms, as he attempts to free Princess Tsuna, the woman he loves, from the Devil Lord's clutches!
Why similar: Parody 23.6% ★, Platformer 11.3%, Retro 10.7%, Comedy 10.2%, 2D Platformer 9%
A Meat-Like/Hedge-Like Mashup! Dr. Proventriculus is snatching up the Chickabirbs! Help Panic blast through over 50 stages of topsy-turvy, spike-laced, slime-drenched, buzzsaw-filled deathtraps to rescue them! And remember, there are no rings...
Why similar: Platformer 18.6%, Retro 16%, Precision Platformer 15.7%, 2D Platformer 9.8%, Pixel Graphics 9.5%
You’re stuck on the night shift. The code refuses to compile, the deadline is on fire, and your mind is no longer yours. To keep from passing out and blowing the entire shift, you have to drink coffee. Lots of it.
Why similar: Shooter 40.5%, Action 22.2%, Dark Humor 18.5%, Retro 13.6%, Adventure 5.2%
GARBANZO QUEST! The crazy bullet-heck platformer where your main weapon is your own spit! Bring a friend! Hand-crafted challenges, secrets, and branching paths galore!
Why similar: Platformer 21.7%, 2D Platformer 18.3%, Retro 17.4%, Precision Platformer 15%, Pixel Graphics 12.4%
The Guise is a dark metroidvania fairy tale about a boy trapped in the body of a monster. Can he hold onto his humanity? It's up to you.
Why similar: Metroidvania 41.2%, Platformer 19.5%, Pixel Graphics 10.8%, Exploration 9.1%, 2D 6.8%
A frantic adventure. Welcome to the Upturned Inn: a grand hotel for the dead! You just want to find your room.
Why similar: Comedy 26.9%, Platformer 19.3%, Action-Adventure 17.3%, Exploration 12.4%, Combat 8.6%
Paradox Soul is a chilling fight for exploration and survival; a Metroidvania pixel action-shooter hybrid!
Why similar: Metroidvania 32.7%, Platformer 15.4%, 2D Platformer 10.8%, Pixel Graphics 9.3%, Shooter 8.6%
First-person horror metroidvania about fisting your way through a prison island crawling with cybernetic monstrosities. Explore, evolve, escape. Inspired by Tetsuo: The Iron Man.
Why similar: Metroidvania 73.5%, Exploration 17.4%, Action 9.1%
An existential platformer where Doomsday is just around the corner. Save the world or become an eternal corporate slave for the God of Death. Choices matter. Or do they? Goof around and find out.
Why similar: Dark Humor 28.1%, Platformer 19%, Precision Platformer 15.2%, Action-Adventure 14.5%, Pixel Graphics 12%
Now with barely functioning co-op features! A challenging 3D platformer with little room for error. Escape a dungeon, alone or with others jumping to the top, and sacrifice your collectables for items to aid in your ordeal.
Why similar: Platformer 32%, Retro 31%, Precision Platformer 30.3%, Adventure 5.5%, Singleplayer 1.3%
A trip to hell. Hordes of demons. Big guns. Insane combat encounters. Pixel art mustaches. It's going to be a long day for Officer John Mustache.
Why similar: Retro 24.8%, Action 20.9%, Pixel Graphics 16%, Action-Adventure 14.7%, Adventure 12.9%
You're outnumbered, low on ammunition and the paranoia sets in. This is an action horror-world where enemies get power-ups and you don’t.
Why similar: Platformer 38.5%, Metroidvania 16.4%, Action 15.5%, Pixel Graphics 12.1%, Retro 10.8%
An unique blend of retro-fps, metroidvania and adventure. Escape the cyber afterlife you've been trapped into, hop between realities and shoot your way out with the help of your new allies. But are they really your friends? The Arena conspiracy goes deeper than you could possibly imagine...
Why similar: Dark Humor 39.2%, Action-Adventure 22.8%, Shooter 18.9%, Retro 11.5%, Action 7.6%
Explore terrifying liminal spaces. Horror walking simulator with reality-bending platforming and supernatural threats. Get lost between dimensions.
Why similar: Platformer 31.8%, Shooter 25.9%, Action 15.2%, Adventure 14.9%, Exploration 12.2%
Get ready to rage with your friends in this co-op precise platforming adventure! You're stuck in Hell. You can only jump upwards and all you have to do is escape … it can't be that hard, right?!
Why similar: Dark Humor 19.6%, Platformer 18.9%, Precision Platformer 15.9%, Retro 15.9%, Pixel Graphics 10.9%
A punishing yet friendly get-to-the-top adventure across a haunted, retro-inspired world.
Why similar: Precision Platformer 25.9%, Pixel Graphics 19.1%, Retro 16.2%, Platformer 15.1%, Action 12.9%
A nostalgic metroidvania from the good old days back in 19XX. Take on the role of Sean, a young boy who ventures into the fictional city of Arostia to repay his father's debt. Rescue your 3 friends from imprisonment, defeat strong enemies, all while getting your debt paid in time!
Why similar: Metroidvania 35.5%, Action-Adventure 12.3%, Retro 9.6%, Pixel Graphics 9.4%, Platformer 7.6%
In this fast-paced, puzzle-loaded action adventure, you’ll juggle housework, zombie hordes, family dinners and radioactive squirrels! Oh, and you have to prevent the end of the world while keeping everyone from finding out it was all your fault.
Why similar: Metroidvania 31.2%, Comedy 15.5%, Platformer 15.4%, Retro 14%, Pixel Graphics 8.6%
It's a Retro PS2 style Horror ARPG about a frustrated executioner in late 17th century. He ran away from the gallows. It aroused a riot of monsters, he had to clean up this cruel mess, and find out the truth of this crazy world.
Why similar: Retro 57.5%, Action 20.1%, Adventure 16.7%, Singleplayer 5.7%
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 32.4%, Platformer 13%, Precision Platformer 11%, 2D Platformer 9.4%, Action-Adventure 9.3%
A puzzle-platformer set in a dystopian world where the invention of a cloning device has messed things up, big time. Armed with a clone gun and a mighty fine mustache, the chore of saving THE WHOLE OF CIVILIZATION rests on your shoulders. Don’t blow it.
Why similar: Dark Humor 22.5%, Platformer 17.8%, 2D Platformer 13.8%, Pixel Graphics 10.9%, Exploration 8.5%
Your party enters a deep and dark dungeon… but sacrifices must be made! Control 3 different heroes and use their special abilities to solve tricky puzzles by sacrificing your teammates!
Why similar: Dark Humor 23.3%, Platformer 17.9%, Retro 17.5%, Pixel Graphics 11.9%, Adventure 11.8%
Stuck in the Underworld without the slightest clue why, a young fiend has a bit of a mystery to solve in this action/adventure platformer. With a world to explore, a past to uncover, and quite the task to complete, players must embark on a quest filled with monsters, towns, dungeons, bosses, and various platforming challenges.
Why similar: Retro 25.7%, Platformer 25.5%, Action 18.4%, Adventure 16.5%, Pixel Graphics 14%
Prison City is a dystopian, action-packed side-scroller with tight mechanics and intricate level design. Battle Techno-Terrorists with your chakram and grenades, eat hot dogs for health, and locate contacts to help take down bosses.
Why similar: Retro 19.5%, Platformer 19.2%, Shooter 18.3%, 2D Platformer 17.3%, Pixel Graphics 11.1%
You are the Ball. Escape.
Why similar: 2D Platformer 16.6%, Precision Platformer 15.6%, Metroidvania 15.3%, Pixel Graphics 11.9%, Action-Adventure 10.9%
Take control of a mighty ball and fling with great precision towards the top of the Tower. Jump through aesthetically pleasing environments filled with intriguing creatures and encounters. Falling is part of the journey, so just keep going. Can you reach the end?
Why similar: Platformer 26%, Precision Platformer 21.5%, Pixel Graphics 14.8%, Action 9.1%, Exploration 8.9%
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 44.1%, Platformer 15.3%, Pixel Graphics 10.1%, Exploration 9.7%, Retro 8%
Sneak away from your boring family vacation and delve into ANCIENT RUINS! Borrow equipment from dead explorers and uncover the secrets of a lost civilization as you leave your parents worried sick. WARNING: The Ruby Chest may contain traces of an ancient curse (and gluten).
Why similar: Metroidvania 41%, Platformer 13.5%, 2D Platformer 11.5%, Retro 9.7%, Pixel Graphics 9.4%
Challenge all your skill and quick thinking ability in this precision platform game, where you are a bitrom who controller over gravity called Newton, who is trying to escape from a deformed creature that relentlessly follows him in subspace.
Why similar: Platformer 32.9%, Precision Platformer 25.9%, 2D 11.2%, 2D Platformer 10.6%, Action 9.6%
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 46.2%, Retro 11.2%, Pixel Graphics 10.5%, Exploration 9.8%, Action-Adventure 9.5%
