Games Like The Will of Our Fathers

A folklore-inspired, eerie action-adventure dungeon crawler about preventing a curse that requires your blood to complete. Master your weapon, explore a world brimming with items, abilities, and spells, and ensure that endless night never befalls your hometown of Elmwood.

Why similar: Souls-like 29.9%, Dungeon Crawler 18.9%, Nonlinear 18.8%, Exploration 8.9%, Action-Adventure 7%

Explore mysterious worlds, solve puzzles and battle in order to uncover the burdens of the past.

Why similar: Dungeon Crawler 23.8%, Nonlinear 22.9%, Top-Down 15.1%, Exploration 13.2%, Action-Adventure 7.8%

A retro-inspired action-adventure game with a focus on exploration and nonlinearity, Ahack Adventure 2 provides a journey through nine increasingly harrowing dungeons, and many genuine secrets to find!

Why similar: Nonlinear 25.8%, Dungeon Crawler 20.6%, Exploration 12.3%, Action-Adventure 8.7%, Top-Down 7.9%

In this lighthearted pastoral adventure, explore a vast and whimsical world, confronting dangers in whichever order you choose using nothing but a magical shield.

Why similar: Souls-like 29.7%, Nonlinear 16.3%, Top-Down 10.8%, Exploration 9.1%, Puzzle 6.9%

Relive is a dark yet hopeful action-adventure where you create new plant growth with every step, transform the remains of fallen foes to amplify your magical powers, and overcome deadly challenges to transform the world around you.

Why similar: Souls-like 19.6%, Nonlinear 16.7%, Dungeon Crawler 13%, Top-Down 11.5%, Exploration 9.1%

Embark on a thrilling 2D top-down adventure! Explore dark dungeons, solve unique puzzles, translate ancient documents, and follow clues given to you by a maggot in your brain! Experience the journey solo or team up in 2-player co-op for a different experience!

Why similar: Nonlinear 21.7%, Dungeon Crawler 16.2%, Top-Down 14.2%, Lore-Rich 7.9%, Action-Adventure 7.1%

A first person adventure platformer, focused on exploration with time based mechanics and puzzle elements. Enter the ruins of the Kingdom of Pharygia. Swiftly traverse its dillapidated, intricate infrastructure to delve further into the depths of iniquity, in order to cast light on hidden truths.

Why similar: Souls-like 21.8%, Dungeon Crawler 17.8%, Nonlinear 13.5%, Exploration 8.6%, Action-Adventure 7.4%

Inside The Crystal Mountain is a difficult action-adventure game with fast-paced combat and soulslike elements where you explore a mysterious world filled with ambiguous characters and challenging enemies.

Why similar: Souls-like 32.6%, Dungeon Crawler 20.2%, Top-Down 12.6%, Exploration 11.9%, Action-Adventure 7.1%

A challenging top-down action RPG where you fight storm-twisted monsters, explore handcrafted dungeons, uncover hidden secrets, and forge your build with powerful amulets. Join the Leaflings on a storm-battered island and find the strength to save their world.

Why similar: Souls-like 29.8%, Dungeon Crawler 17.5%, Top-Down 15.1%, Exploration 10.2%, PvE 8%

Lightwood is an immersive semi-open world Metroidvania. Master your skills and fight magnificent Lords as you unravel the ancient mysteries behind the kingdom's decay.

Why similar: Souls-like 34.3%, Nonlinear 24.6%, Metroidvania 11.4%, Exploration 10.2%, Action-Adventure 7.5%

Start on your fantasy adventure in this completely nonlinear souls-like! Place Life Stones in the world to create your own 'bonfires' as you cut through the challenging enemies and seek out the Divine Rings!

Why similar: Souls-like 30.8%, Nonlinear 18.6%, Dungeon Crawler 18.4%, Exploration 9.6%, Top-Down 8.5%

Explore a world that changes everyday where you’ll hunt weird monsters called ‘Apomo.’ Catch and cook fish to get buffs, collect bugs to cast spells, and find gear to fit your play style.

Why similar: Souls-like 39.9%, Top-Down 15.5%, Exploration 13.4%, Action-Adventure 10.3%, Pixel Graphics 6.3%

One day, Brichi finds a mysterious sword that suddenly transports him to an unknown land. He needs to search every island and dungeon in search of an opportunity to return home. Many dangers and obstacles await him along the way. Embark on this adventure and see it all for yourself!

Why similar: Souls-like 28.2%, Nonlinear 23%, Dungeon Crawler 19.4%, Metroidvania 8.7%, Top-Down 6.7%

A strange knight sat in front of a fire, darkness surrounding him. His sword stuck in the ground, covered in dried blood. He warns you against going any further, but the intrigue of what lies beyond far surpasses the instinct of self preservation.

Why similar: Souls-like 33.7%, Dungeon Crawler 22.7%, Exploration 8.2%, Action 8.1%, Adventure 7.8%

You awaken on the Altar inside the Life Cathedral. Life Blood is a first-person, Kingsfield-like action adventure game with a focus on exploration. Travel the interconnected world with fast-paced, reaction-based combat and discover the secrets within the heart of the mountain.

Why similar: Souls-like 30.7%, Nonlinear 23.2%, Exploration 11.1%, PvE 9.5%, Metroidvania 7.3%

Switch between characters, use your grappling hook to explore a phantom island, home to mammoths. Face threats from hunters and choose to play stealthily or confront the dangers head-on. Inspired by real events. Wishlist today!

Why similar: Souls-like 29.6%, Nonlinear 17.9%, Top-Down 11.3%, Exploration 11%, Metroidvania 8.2%

A chimeric fusion of the souls-like and maze game genres, players control an animate vessel powered by motes of light. Explore the labyrinths of the shadowy Abyss, the lush Gods' Grove, the ruined Church Town, and more. Meet unique characters, challenge bosses, collect items, and seal your fate.

Why similar: Souls-like 38.6%, Exploration 15.1%, Top-Down 10.3%, PvE 10%, Puzzle 7.4%

Top-down 3D action-adventure with the spirit of 90s classics. Tight combat, handcrafted dungeons, clever puzzles, and modern pacing. Collect enchanted masks to channel primal powers, brave ancient alien trials, and awaken the island’s lost protectors.

Why similar: Souls-like 28.2%, Top-Down 20.2%, Exploration 14.1%, Action-Adventure 10.4%, Puzzle 7.9%

Play as an Armlys alien named Vagrient in this evolving sci-fi action/adventure game, featuring RPG elements. It's full of exploration, combat, character progression, puzzle solving and obstacle clearing!

Why similar: Dungeon Crawler 20.3%, Nonlinear 20%, Top-Down 16.1%, Exploration 11.1%, Action-Adventure 7.3%

Mr Figs is a challenging top-down action puzzler set in the ruins that created Mr Figs. Explore, collect, and bomb your way to your birthplace and bring it to ruin!

Why similar: Top-Down 34.8%, Puzzle 11.7%, Exploration 11.5%, Dungeon Crawler 11.3%, Adventure 9.8%

Use an accordion to explore an open world inspired by Brazil!! 🪗🎶

Why similar: Souls-like 30.9%, Nonlinear 14.1%, Exploration 11.9%, Top-Down 10.9%, Metroidvania 8.4%

You are a small bird traveling through 7 valleys to find the Simurgh and bring life back to your village.

Why similar: Souls-like 34.4%, Nonlinear 17.7%, Exploration 13.4%, Metroidvania 10.3%, PvE 9.5%

A girl befriends a strange and powerful creature; the duo goes on an interdimensional adventure in this 16-bit inspired top-down action-adventure! Explore environments both familiar and fantastical while engaging in precise and strategic combat with bizarre creatures.

Why similar: Souls-like 40.4%, Exploration 15.5%, Top-Down 14.9%, Action-Adventure 8.5%, Action 5.3%

SLYME BREAKER is the RPG that hates the genre. SLYME BREAKER has a focus on proactive combat, involved exploration, and meaningful deconstruction of RPG standards. Play as the bandit Gryme after his attack on a lowly Slime monster for some XP goes wrong and he is devoured by the Slime!

Why similar: Souls-like 22%, Nonlinear 20.8%, Dungeon Crawler 16.5%, Exploration 9.4%, Metroidvania 6.5%

The magical misadventure of a novice wizard thrown (literally) into the unfamiliar world outside. Go on a sprawling hand-drawn adventure with spells to study, bosses to best, and a huge handcrafted world to traverse on the long journey home.

Why similar: Souls-like 28.3%, Nonlinear 21.9%, Top-Down 10.2%, Exploration 9.2%, Metroidvania 7.9%

The Bar Souls is a retro pixel souls-like set in a mysterious digital world. Face ruthless bosses, solve puzzles that test mind and heart, and let perseverance unveil hidden secrets on your path to the end.

Why similar: Souls-like 46.8%, PvE 11.9%, Top-Down 11.7%, Puzzle 7.8%, Action-Adventure 7.5%

Ten Years of Rain is a fantasy adventure with a unique Central Asian inspired setting. Pick up your blade, call your hawk, and prepare to travel the cursed lands of the steppe. Battle the forces of the Great Khan, explore the secret places of the world, and discover the cause of the long rain...

Why similar: Nonlinear 27.1%, Dungeon Crawler 22.1%, Top-Down 13.1%, Exploration 11.9%, Puzzle 6.5%

Wake up and walk, Warden! Because the siege continues. We must find the Heir... And finally put an end to this cursed night.

Why similar: Souls-like 36.1%, Dungeon Crawler 20.9%, Exploration 11.5%, Metroidvania 9%, Action-Adventure 7.5%

Weapon Devourer is a psychological horror game with souls-like and 1930's cartoon vibes, blending subtle puzzles. Battle sentient weapons, dodge their attacks, metamorphose into a fearsome entity to overcome powerful challenges, and synthesize mighty combinations by diving into the Shield's belly.

Why similar: Souls-like 31.6%, Nonlinear 19.4%, Top-Down 12.1%, Exploration 11.9%, Metroidvania 8.5%

Ancient Mind is a puzzle-action-adventure game about discovering the remains of an ancient civilization. Explore dungeons, fight monsters, solve puzzles, and discover the truth about ancient mysteries.

Why similar: Nonlinear 27.5%, Top-Down 17.2%, Exploration 13.2%, PvE 10.1%, Action-Adventure 8%

Explore a land filled with lost legends, ancient powers, and ferocious monsters in TUNIC, an isometric action game about a small fox on a big adventure.

Why similar: Souls-like 32%, Exploration 15.6%, Nonlinear 15.3%, Top-Down 9.8%, Metroidvania 8.9%

Eat everything. Grow stronger. Save the Gourmet Kingdom. A charming action-adventure where you devour foes, solve clever dungeon puzzles, and battle monstrous bosses in a whimsical, food-filled world. Find the five Divine Spices and save the Gourmet Kingdom from the Demon Chef!

Why similar: Dungeon Crawler 20.2%, Nonlinear 19.9%, Top-Down 12.4%, Exploration 10.7%, Metroidvania 8.4%

Explore the dungeon and defeat the Skeleton King!

Why similar: Dungeon Crawler 28.4%, Top-Down 12.9%, Exploration 12%, Action 11%, Action-Adventure 10.7%

Dead Ink is a hardcore souls-like game set at dizzying height atop a perilous vertical world. Use harvested ink from your enemies to print weapons, inventory items and your corporeal form.

Why similar: Souls-like 37%, Nonlinear 26.3%, Top-Down 16.9%, Exploration 7.7%, Action-Adventure 5.4%

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: Souls-like 29.7%, Top-Down 12.6%, Metroidvania 11.5%, Nonlinear 11.4%, Exploration 10.1%

Go Alone is a pixel art soulslike metroidvania adventure with magical ranged spells and fast-paced combat.

Why similar: Souls-like 40.6%, Exploration 13.6%, Metroidvania 13.3%, Adventure 7.4%, Pixel Graphics 5.6%

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: Nonlinear 29.2%, Exploration 15.9%, Top-Down 14.6%, Metroidvania 11.6%, Adventure 9.8%

Ice Slider is a game by Shining Watermelon Studios where you play as a hiker named Rob who enters Icy Cave. A cave with a Gauntlet of Ice Puzzles, in which he has to complete to exit. Play as Rob as he goes through this gauntlet of puzzles. Each Level

Why similar: Dungeon Crawler 34.6%, Exploration 19.8%, Top-Down 16.1%, Puzzle 10.1%, Action-Adventure 9.7%

You were thrown in a strange world. You are alone, and you got nothing. What to do next? You decide it! Explore, defeat monsters, get riches, learn new abilities, discover secrets, and learn the truth.

Why similar: Souls-like 27.6%, Dungeon Crawler 19.1%, Nonlinear 16.4%, Top-Down 10.7%, PvE 8.4%

Wild Tower is a Three Kingdoms-themed 2D top-down dark fantasy action-adventure game with light Rogue elements. Step into the perilous tower, explore unknown rooms, scavenge powerful equipment, and confront formidable enemies lurking within in life-threatening battles.

Why similar: Souls-like 38.5%, Dungeon Crawler 24.7%, Top-Down 17.3%, Pixel Graphics 5.9%, Action-Adventure 3.6%

A retro-style adventure game where you explore dungeons, solve puzzles, and uncover secrets to find Mya's missing cat.

Why similar: Dungeon Crawler 25.7%, Nonlinear 18.8%, Top-Down 14.3%, Exploration 13.3%, PvE 11.4%

A retro turn-based RPG with souls-like and metroidvania elements. Craft spells by combining magical glyphs, dispatch enemies through turn-based combat, discover the secrets and rich history in a deeply interconnected open world!

Why similar: Dungeon Crawler 25%, Nonlinear 21.7%, Top-Down 14.4%, Exploration 13.1%, PvE 11.1%

Explore a broken world. Fight with a silent machine. Solve puzzles that break the rules. The game has already begun, even on this page.

Why similar: Nonlinear 24.1%, Exploration 16.9%, Action-Adventure 9.9%, Metroidvania 9.5%, Pixel Graphics 8.8%

MechaBlade Hero is an indie action adventure game where you control a robot fighting your way through an army of robots to get out of a giant tower.

Why similar: Souls-like 42.9%, Dungeon Crawler 33.6%, Action-Adventure 12.7%, Adventure 3.8%, Action 3.8%

Explore the danger and mystery of a fallen land, whose hidden wonders are shrouded and marred by the stranglehold of wickedness. In "Fire in the Beastlands," you are thrust into a world beyond the brink, blamed for its waywardness, and confronted with the choice between revenge and redemption.

Why similar: Souls-like 29.2%, Dungeon Crawler 17.9%, Nonlinear 16.9%, Exploration 10.1%, Metroidvania 8%

Experience the emotional life of a zombie with his butt stuck in a microwave. It's a 2D platformer with critical thinking based combat where each different enemy feels like a puzzle to solve instead of relying on brute hack & slash tactics.

Why similar: Souls-like 31.7%, Nonlinear 24.3%, Exploration 12.6%, Metroidvania 10.4%, Action-Adventure 7.9%

Spend hours having fun exploring this maze that gets bigger and bigger. In Key, with each level won, the maze gets bigger and harder. Dodge spikes and traps, push blocks of ice, find the key and open the door before time runs out.

Why similar: Dungeon Crawler 33.6%, Exploration 19.8%, Top-Down 19.2%, Action-Adventure 10.3%, Adventure 5.5%

20 years after the defeat of the Shaper of Magic, Warlock, the island of Melas is in a time of peace. But when the dark cult known as the Wicken return to resurrect Warlock from his ashes, you must spring into action to stop them before the apocalypse is set into motion.

Why similar: Dungeon Crawler 31.8%, Exploration 14.9%, Action 11.6%, Action-Adventure 11.1%, Adventure 10.6%

In Take Care you discover a great forest full of challenging enemies and puzzles. Help rebuild a withering town in its center and bring back its inhabitants who have lost their way in search of something better.

Why similar: Souls-like 35.9%, Top-Down 14.4%, Exploration 14.2%, Metroidvania 10.9%, Action-Adventure 9.2%

Make your way through a 2D ruined world with metroidvania elements, unleash fast and powerful attacks in Hack & Slash combat and face fearsome enemies in difficult fights. Breathe and be brave.

Why similar: Souls-like 46.9%, Metroidvania 11.9%, Nonlinear 9.8%, Action 7.5%, Adventure 7.2%

Explore an intricate new world of secrets and adventure. Features solid 2D Zelda-like gameplay, 12 vast non-linear dungeons and a wholesome story about the young golem Linden.

Why similar: Nonlinear 24%, Top-Down 15.2%, Exploration 14.5%, Metroidvania 11.2%, Puzzle 8.3%

When Chaos came, He brought us two blessings. One is your heart. A Witch's Heart. How will you respond to His kindness? Will you carry His will and slay Demons roaming this world, or shall you rebel and abandon your destined path? Will you carry this burden and face lurking threats?

Why similar: Souls-like 32.5%, Nonlinear 19.4%, Top-Down 12.9%, Exploration 10.7%, Action-Adventure 7.1%

Master high-skilled combat to uncover the secrets of an ancient, interconnected world.

Why similar: Souls-like 33.3%, Nonlinear 22.2%, Top-Down 11.3%, Exploration 10.9%, Metroidvania 9.2%

Adrenaline Dungeon is a top-down dungeon crawler game, play as an unknown man stuck in a time-looped dungeon. Uncover clues to discover a new order trying to rewrite history. Use different weapons and abilities to escape the dungeon and prevent history from being rewritten.

Why similar: Dungeon Crawler 42.4%, Top-Down 19.9%, Action-Adventure 11.1%, Action 8.1%, Adventure 7.4%

Master the elements of poison, fire, ice, and meteorite in Shadow of Aya, a top-down action-adventure ode to the 8-bit classics. But beware—as your powers grow, so do the forces against you. The journey downward is choked with shadow, and the creatures who lurk among them.

Why similar: Nonlinear 23.9%, Top-Down 18.4%, Exploration 17.1%, Pixel Graphics 7.9%, Adventure 7.6%

In a world overrun with creature & corruption, salvation must find a way. It is up to Rib, the Wet One, to cleanse the lands.

Why similar: Souls-like 38.5%, Dungeon Crawler 25.6%, Exploration 16.3%, Puzzle 7.5%, Action-Adventure 6.4%

A 2D space action RPG with a slow and deliberate style, reminiscent of the Soulslike genre.

Why similar: Souls-like 49.2%, PvE 13.7%, Top-Down 12.4%, Action-Adventure 8.4%, Action 6.1%

Life aboard the ship was easy for a small monkey until a colossal sea beast took it over. Fight, collect, and explore room after room as you push deeper into the lower decks, where something massive waits at the very bottom.

Why similar: Souls-like 31.8%, Dungeon Crawler 20.2%, Exploration 13.4%, Action-Adventure 9%, Puzzle 7%

Gorble is a short marble-based dungeon crawl.

Why similar: Souls-like 32.7%, Dungeon Crawler 32.3%, Exploration 14.8%, Action-Adventure 6.9%, Adventure 6.3%

A puzzle solving, dungeon crawling, action adventure, role playing game.

Why similar: Nonlinear 23.6%, Dungeon Crawler 23.3%, Top-Down 15.3%, Exploration 10.2%, Action-Adventure 7.8%