- #1 Lone Fungus: Melody of Spores
97% matchVery Positive96% of 241 reviews2025
Dev: BASTI GAMES
Windows
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 49.9%, Adventure 10.2%, Platformer 10.1%, Action-Adventure 9.5%, RPG 9.4%
- #2 史莱狗(Slimg)
96% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Cow Studio
Windows
Slimg is a Metroidvania game. Slimg left this mysterious planet to repair the crashed spaceship and embark on a magical adventure
Why similar: Metroidvania 49.5%, RPG 14.5%, Platformer 12.3%, Action-Adventure 9.8%, Adventure 4.9%
- #3 Aggelos
96% matchMostly Positive78% of 656 reviews2018
Dev: Storybird GamesPub: PQube
Windows
Median: 1.3 hrsMean: 5.0 hrs≥1hr: 56%
Critically-acclaimed action-RPG that takes the template laid down by classics like Wonder Boy, nails the 16-Bit aesthetics for nostalgia fans, but updates the mechanics to feel fresh and modern. Explore a beautiful open world and plunder dungeons, caves and forests to help take down epic bosses!
Why similar: Metroidvania 48.9%, RPG 23.2%, Adventure 13.7%, Platformer 8.6%, Indie 3.4%
- #4 The Last Tree
95% matchNo user reviews
Dev: zzmingo
Windows · Mac
A 2D pixel-like Metrovania game, exploring the game world with a unique atmosphere. In a mysterious and huge tree world, as time goes by, trees and plants have withered, the ecology has become worse, life has become scarce, and who will save the world that is about to break.
Why similar: Metroidvania 53.5%, RPG 19.7%, Adventure 12%, Platformer 11.1%, 2D 2.1%
- #5 Orcen Axe
94% matchPositive85% of 20 reviews2022
Dev: origamihero games
Windows
Necromancy, wizards, dragons and a lost love? Better grab that magical axe of yours and get your life back on track!
Why similar: Metroidvania 44.1%, RPG 16.5%, Platformer 11.9%, Adventure 9.6%, Action-Adventure 7.7%
- #6 Shadow Labyrinth
94% matchMixed57% of 323 reviews2025
Dev: Bandai Namco Studios Inc.Pub: Bandai Namco Entertainment Inc.
Windows
Shadow Labyrinth is a 2D action platformer and a genre-twisting alternate take on the iconic PAC-MAN. As The Swordsman, you wake on a mysterious planet amidst relics of wars past. To survive you will discover secrets, consume your enemies, and grow from prey to apex predator.
Why similar: Metroidvania 52.5%, Underground 15.9% ★, Platformer 11.3%, Action-Adventure 10%, Adventure 7.3%
- #7 Silvercall
93% matchPositive92% of 12 reviews2025
Dev: CUNX
Windows · Mac
Silvercall – A retro action-platformer RPG. Play as an amnesiac adventurer, battling through perilous terrain and collecting Memory Crystals to uncover your past and your lover's dark transformation into the "Saintess".
Why similar: Metroidvania 49%, RPG 14.2%, Platformer 12.5%, Action-Adventure 11.3%, Adventure 8.5%
- #8 Elliot Quest
92% matchMostly Positive73% of 189 reviews2014
Dev: Ansimuz GamesPub: PlayEveryWare
Windows
Median: 24 minMean: 5.8 hrs≥1hr: 37%
Elliot Quest is an adventure/RPG where players explore the mysterious Urele island in search of an ancient demon. With 5 dungeons to conquer, 16 bosses to defeat, and countless treasures to discover and hidden areas. Well-balanced gameplay easy to pick up but challenging to master.
Why similar: Metroidvania 54.8%, RPG 18.6%, Adventure 11.7%, Platformer 9.8%, Indie 2.7%
- #9 Super Panda Adventures
91% matchVery Positive93% of 1,020 reviews2014
Dev: BlueEagle ProductionsPub: Paul Schneider
Windows
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 4.2 hrs≥1hr: 94%
In Super Panda Adventures, you play as the brave panda-knight Fu, who is about to finish his training to become the new guardian of the Princess. At the same day of the big celebration party, some uninvited Robots show up to conquer the planet and take the Princess away in their Space Ships!
Why similar: Metroidvania 57.1%, Platformer 20.7%, Adventure 9.7%, RPG 7.7%, Indie 2.8%
- #10 Shattered Divinities
91% matchNo user reviews
Dev: StellarSoul
Windows
In Shattered Divinities, embark on an adventure that pits you directly against divinity itself! An ancient War of Gods shattered the world, and their broken power has become the Calamities that consume all life. How will you survive in this land? And how will you uncover the secrets behind the War?
Why similar: Metroidvania 49.8%, Platformer 14.2%, RPG 12.5%, Adventure 7.5%, Dark Fantasy 5.9%
- #11 Valdis Story: Abyssal City
90% matchVery Positive84% of 2,710 reviews2013
Dev: Endlessfluff Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 7.1 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Assume the role of Wyatt in this Action/Exploration Platformer as you explore the ruins of a holy city that was lost many years ago. Battle various types of demons, angels, and a new threat known only as the “Ferals”, using swordsmanship, martial arts, and sorcery.
Why similar: Metroidvania 69.5%, Platformer 11.7%, RPG 11.5%, Exploration 2.3%, 2D 1.8%
- #12 Bread Adventure
89% matchPositive100% of 21 reviews2025
Dev: Wheafun Studio
Windows · Mac · Linux
Experience a adventure in a seamless world of food, where you play as a brave bread. Freely explore interconnected regions, uncover hidden secrets, collect items to enhance your abilities, tackle challenging stages, and defeat formidable foes.
Why similar: Metroidvania 52%, Platformer 14%, RPG 13.3%, Action-Adventure 11.5%, Adventure 5.3%
- #13 Savior
89% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Starsoft Entertainment
Windows · Mac
Savior is an action-adventure platformer. Dramatically change a vast open world. Parkour effortlessly with pain-free intuitive platforming. Engage a variety of opponents with strategic, precision melee combat. Discover a rich world full of quests, colorful characters and countless secrets.
Why similar: Metroidvania 56.3%, RPG 21%, Adventure 12%, Platformer 7.7%, Indie 3%
- #14 Faeland
87% matchVery Positive90% of 324 reviews2023
Dev: Talegames
Windows
Take on the role of skilled hunter, Sam, in Faeland, an adventure RPG set in a beautiful world inspired by 8-bit classics.
Why similar: Metroidvania 59.4%, RPG 22.6%, Adventure 12.5%, Indie 3.1%, 2D 2.3%
- #15 Inexistence Rebirth
88% matchMostly Positive71% of 132 reviews2020
Dev: Jonathan Brassaud
Windows
Median: 24 minMean: 3.1 hrs≥1hr: 34%
Rediscover this great Metroidvania game in a brand new version with a lot of features and improvements! Run in a vast world full of mysteries and action in this Metroidvania-style game inspired by the classics of the 16-bit era.
Why similar: Metroidvania 54.1%, Platformer 15.7%, RPG 15.4%, Adventure 7.9%, Exploration 2.8%
- #16 8Doors: Arum's Afterlife Adventure
86% matchMostly Positive78% of 1,561 reviews2021
Dev: Rootless StudioPub: NEOWIZ
Windows
Median: 7.6 hrsMean: 9.3 hrs≥1hr: 93%
8Doors is a story-driven Metroidvania-style action platformer heavily influenced by Korean folktales. Play as ‘Arum’, a brave girl that has entered the realm of the afterlife in search of her father’s soul and guide her through the '8 Doors of Purgatory' to solve the mysteries that lie deep within.
Why similar: Metroidvania 59.2%, Platformer 12.3%, Adventure 11.5%, Action-Adventure 7.4%, Indie 2.8%
- #17 Chasm
86% matchMostly Positive73% of 2,617 reviews2018
Dev: Bit Kid, Inc.
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 5.6 hrsMean: 7.1 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Explore the depths below a remote mountain town in this procedurally-generated Adventure Platformer. Taking inspiration from hack 'n slash dungeon crawlers and Metroidvania-style platformers, Chasm will immerse you in a fantasy world full of exciting treasure, deadly enemies, and abundant secrets.
Why similar: Metroidvania 64.1%, RPG 13%, Platformer 10.3%, Adventure 7.7%, 2D 2.2%
- #18 Torii: Beyond The Gates
85% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Oh Baby Games
Windows · Mac
The spirit realm has broken. Your brother has gone missing. Forge the path you were destined for. Explore the gates and find out why there has been broken links inside the spirit realm. Battle, discover and find the secrets, and make new connections in a beautiful hand-drawn 2D style.
Why similar: Metroidvania 52.6%, RPG 15.6%, Platformer 13%, Action-Adventure 8%, Adventure 6.4%
- #19 ReSetna
84% matchVery Positive83% of 174 reviews2025
Dev: Today's GamesPub: Module16
Windows
What’s left of humanity are minds trapped in circuits. You are awaken as ReSetna, a warrior on a mission to rescue last human remnants. Explore seven hostile zones, face seven brutal bosses and evolve through a unique upgrade system. Uncover horrifying truth and decide if the future is worth saving.
Why similar: Metroidvania 70%, Platformer 16.9%, Adventure 10.2%, Indie 2.8%
- #20 UnEpic
84% matchVery Positive91% of 8,120 reviews2014
Dev: @unepic_franPub: Unepic Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 11.4 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Daniel was just an average guy. He was a great videogame player, a big fan of sci-fi movies, and a novice RPG player. In the midst of an RPG, he was teleported to a castle. At first, Daniel believed that he was having a massive hallucination.
Why similar: Metroidvania 47.9%, RPG 26.3%, Platformer 13%, Exploration 3.7%, Adventure 3.5%
- #21 AOI
83% matchMostly Positive72% of 43 reviews2022
Dev: Pura Studio
Windows
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 51.6%, RPG 14.5%, Platformer 13.6%, Adventure 10.3%, Action-Adventure 6.5%
- #22 The Doors That Led to Nowhere
82% matchVery Positive94% of 102 reviews2024
Dev: SoloCap Games
Windows · Mac
Wake up lost in a void of darkness. With no other option, press onward through cryptic dimensional doors, wielding a mysterious blade created by the fallen entities that came long before you in this heart-pounding First Person RPG.
Why similar: Metroidvania 33.7%, RPG 21.6%, Adventure 12.5%, Platformer 12.5%, Action-Adventure 11.1%
- #23 Into The Underdusk
82% matchMixed68% of 28 reviews2022
Dev: Stone Crow Games
Windows
Get lost in the Underdusk: a broken world full of danger and mystery. Experience brutal precision platforming, search for collectibles to expand your powerset and regain your lost memories in an atmospheric 2D pixel art adventure.
Why similar: Metroidvania 47.9%, Underground 18.7% ★, Platformer 11.2%, Action-Adventure 8.8%, Adventure 5.5%
- #24 Dusted Dusk
81% matchNo user reviews
Dev: D.X.
Windows
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 53.7%, Action-Adventure 11.5%, Platformer 9.4%, Exploration 7.4%, Adventure 7.3%
- #25 Blightseeker
80% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Hypernoodle Games
Windows
Jump and dash through unknown, labyrinthine worlds in this VR adventure. Fight back against maddened creatures, or cure them of the blight that fuels their rage. Collect treasures, tools, and powers as you search for the source of this ancient ill, and decide whether to quell or unleash it.
Why similar: Metroidvania 56.6%, Platformer 14.1%, Adventure 12.5%, Exploration 6.9%, Action-Adventure 6.6%
- #26 Feudal Alloy
81% matchMostly Positive71% of 952 reviews2019
Dev: Attu Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 5.0 hrs≥1hr: 80%
Feudal Alloy is an epic action adventure with fish-controlled medieval robots! Explore an unusual medieval world with a fish-controlled robot, Attu. Improve your combat techniques and skills by smashing many kinds of mechanical creatures in a beautiful hand-drawn world.
Why similar: Metroidvania 56.2%, RPG 17.4%, Platformer 9%, Adventure 9%, Exploration 3%
- #27 Honey's Sweet Revenge
78% match2 user reviews100% of 2 reviews2024
Dev: etheweirdoPub: UNDEAD WRLD
Windows
Honey's Sweet Revenge is a metroidvania with mechanics inspired by platform fighters. Customize your item loadout and defeat enemies and bosses.
Why similar: Metroidvania 60.5%, Action-Adventure 13.8%, Adventure 11.7%, Platformer 10.1%, 2D 2.3%
- #28 Legends of the Universe - StarCore
79% matchMostly Positive77% of 124 reviews2016
Dev: LunarCore Games
Windows
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 4.6 hrs≥1hr: 98%
Metroidvania style action/platformer with tons of abilities, enemies and exploration.
Why similar: Metroidvania 47.1%, Platformer 14.7%, RPG 12.6%, Action-Adventure 9.1%, Adventure 6.5%
- #29 Castlevania: Belmont's Curse
77% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: KONAMI
Windows
Crimson Curse —Will Your Fate Bloom in Despair or Salvation Set 23 years after Castlevania Dracula's Curse - follow a young Belmont's journey in an all new 2D Action-Exploration title from KONAMI, Evil Empire and Motion Twin.
Why similar: Metroidvania 50.2%, RPG 14.6%, Action-Adventure 10.2%, Platformer 10.1%, Dark Fantasy 6.8%
- #30 Dreadstone - The Immortal Prisoner
77% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Tortuga Software
Windows
Dreadstone – The Immortal Prisoner is an upcoming indie 2D Metroidvania platformer. Especially important to us are the game elements “looting” and “leveling“. The goal is to create a combination of our favorite games.
Why similar: Metroidvania 47.3%, RPG 17.1%, Adventure 13.9%, Action-Adventure 8.8%, Platformer 8.2%
- #31 Exodus
78% matchMixed56% of 27 reviews2014
Dev: Galhmac Game StudioPub: Multi-Form
Windows
Exodus is a 2D Platform/Exploration (metroidvania) game for Windows, with oldschool gameplay mechanics, and HD native resolution (1920*1200). Musics are made by Yann Van Der Cruyssen (Saira, Block That Matter).
Why similar: Metroidvania 57.3%, Platformer 20.4%, Adventure 17.6%, Indie 4.7%
- #32 Alice Into the Panopticon
76% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Team Lunarians
Windows
Guide Alice, a young girl lost in an unfamiliar and dangerous world, in her quest to return home. In this 2D action-adventure metroidvania game you will meet peculiar characters, traverse a multitude of sceneries, and fight powerful beings known as Egregores to unravel the truth.
Why similar: Metroidvania 52.5%, Platformer 14%, Adventure 11.1%, Dark Fantasy 8.6%, Exploration 6.4%
- #33 Liona's Adventure
75% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Peyman Hadizadeh
Windows
Once in a peaceful village , there lived a brave little warrior named Liona,One fateful night, the village was attacked by a horde of monstrous creatures. Liona's parents died in battle. Liona, witnessing the loss of her parents, felt a fire ignite within her heart—a burning desire for vengeance.
Why similar: Metroidvania 43.7%, RPG 25.4%, Adventure 14.5%, Action-Adventure 12.9%, 2D 2.8%
- #34 The Journey of Clinbo
75% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Mechanical Heart
Windows
Ember Journey of Clinbo This is a fantasy, pixel-art Metroidvania-style game. You are Clinbo, the only "transgressor" robot to possess a soul in a limbo between life and death—a realm where countless souls are judged by a single standard: "Harmony."
Why similar: Metroidvania 46%, RPG 15.4%, Platformer 12.3%, Action-Adventure 8.5%, Exploration 8.1%
- #35 Chronicles of Teddy
76% matchMixed70% of 330 reviews2015
Dev: StorybirdPub: LookAtMyGame
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 4.8 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Chronicles of Teddy : Harmony of Exidus is a 2D Adventure / Action game with a Pixel Art Retro finish. Help Tarant in a quest, in which you will have to fight, use your sense of direction and hearing to accomplish your mission.
Why similar: Metroidvania 54.3%, RPG 14.1%, Platformer 10.9%, Adventure 8.3%, Action-Adventure 4.4%
- #36 Twell
74% matchPositive83% of 12 reviews2023
Dev: Lucas RobPub: Lucas Rob Holding B.V.
Windows
This adventure is about you waking up in this world named Twell. The only thing you can do now is explore what this world has to offer. Explore 8 unique dungeons, discover many secrets and visit many locations.
Why similar: Metroidvania 45.5%, RPG 21.9%, Adventure 14%, Action-Adventure 8.8%, Exploration 6.7%
- #37 Ineth
74% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Mean Light Studio
Windows · Linux
A pixel-art Metroidvania with challenging platformer mechanics, set in a medieval magical world. Discover a great variety of spells and abilities to defeat enemies and solve puzzles. Find mythical charms and items to help Ineth fight her way out of her prison.
Why similar: Metroidvania 60.9%, Platformer 19.3%, Adventure 12.2%, 2D 4.4%, Indie 2.4%
- #38 Blessing Part I
71% matchPositive93% of 40 reviews2025
Dev: 故障幽灵
Windows
Blessing Part I is a 2D pixel style horizontal board action adventure game. Players will take on the role of a swordsman 'Luo' who lost everything in the past and embarks on revenge alone. With only a large sword and flesh and blood, they will fight against the twisted creatures in the darkness.
Why similar: Metroidvania 53.5%, RPG 18.6%, Action-Adventure 10.6%, Adventure 6.9%, Dark Fantasy 6.7%
- #39 Guacamelee! Super Turbo Championship Edition
73% matchVery Positive92% of 6,988 reviews2014
Dev: Drinkbox Studios
Windows
Median: 2.1 hrsMean: 6.7 hrs≥1hr: 66%
The definitive version of the smash-hit Metroidvania-style action-platformer, Guacamelee! STCE adds new levels, powers, challenges, and refinements to the sprawling, ridiculous, Mexican-inspired adventure of the original Guacamelee! Gold Edition.
Why similar: Metroidvania 71.5%, Platformer 21.6%, 2D 5.4%, Action-Adventure 0.5%, Adventure 0.4%
- #40 Escape From Tethys
73% matchMixed69% of 457 reviews2018
Dev: Whimsical
Windows · Mac
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 63.6%, Platformer 18.5%, Action-Adventure 10.5%, Exploration 7.4%
- #41 Stoatman
72% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Frostum
Windows
Stoatman is an exciting Metroidvania adventure where you control a brave hero with a magical sword. Explore mysterious lands, discover powerful spells, and battle fantastic creatures in an enchanting fairy-tale world.
Why similar: Metroidvania 54.7%, Platformer 14.5%, Adventure 8.8%, Exploration 5.5%, Dark Fantasy 5.3%
- #42 Cryselts
71% matchNo user reviews
Dev: B3N Games Studio
Windows · Mac
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 46.1%, Platformer 13.1%, Action-Adventure 10.7%, Exploration 8.1%, Adventure 7%
- #43 Life on Mars Remake
73% matchPositive93% of 42 reviews2017
Dev: Oscar Kenneth Albero Ingles
Windows
Remake of the 8 bits MSX2 game of the same name, with a 16 bits look. Genre: Metroidvania (2D Metroid/Castlevania style) with RPG elements. Explore, investigate, find improvements for your suit, find weapons, upgrade your weapons in workshops, fight incredible mutants...
Why similar: Metroidvania 57.5%, RPG 23.8%, Adventure 15%, Indie 3.6%
- #44 Castle In The Darkness
72% matchMostly Positive77% of 1,266 reviews2015
Dev: Matt KapPub: Nicalis, Inc.
Windows
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 6.1 hrs≥1hr: 83%
Castle In The Darkness is a fun and challenging shout out to the early days of video games! It's an action exploration platformer with some RPG elements, much like games from the Castlevania or Metroid series. It's super fast-paced, challenging, and full of secrets!
Why similar: Metroidvania 64.2%, Platformer 14.8%, RPG 10%, Adventure 6.4%, Indie 2.2%
- #45 Old Ninja : UnderWorld
70% match2 user reviews0% of 2 reviews2025
Dev: Waterfall Studio
Windows
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 52.6%, Underground 17.1% ★, Adventure 11.4%, Action-Adventure 8.1%, Exploration 5.6%
- #46 Ariana and the Elder Codex
70% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Idea FactoryPub: Idea Factory International, Inc.
Windows
Ariana must restore the Codices and unravel the Library's hidden truths...
Why similar: Metroidvania 56.3%, Platformer 14.3%, Action-Adventure 11.6%, Adventure 9.5%, Exploration 4.7%
- #47 Tales of Kenzera™: ZAU
68% matchVery Positive83% of 929 reviews2024
Dev: Surgent StudiosPub: Electronic Arts
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 5.7 hrs≥1hr: 73%
Wield the dance of the shaman. Reclaim your father’s spirit. Brave the beautiful and treacherous land of Kenzera with the God of Death in Tales of Kenzera™: ZAU, a metroidvania-style adventure crafted by Surgent Studios.
Why similar: Metroidvania 55.7%, Action-Adventure 11.5%, Platformer 10.4%, Adventure 9.2%, Exploration 5.2%
- #48 End's Reach
69% matchPositive100% of 15 reviews2025
Dev: Cuirass Entertainment Ltd.
Windows · Mac · Linux
End's Reach is a 3D Exploration Action Adventure Game that focuses on a character lost in the depths of space. Players will solve puzzles, collect upgrades, items, weapons and even magical abilities as they uncover the mysteries of this strange new world. A classic tale of technology taken too far.
Why similar: Metroidvania 69.3%, Action-Adventure 16%, Adventure 12.1%, Indie 1.5%, Singleplayer 1.1%
- #49 Tyro: Legend of Whisperwood
69% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Turtlevania Games
Windows · Mac
Tyro: Legend of Whisperwood is a Souls-like Metroidvania where your choices shape reality. Play as Tyro, a vengeful field mouse. Battle the Gladeblight's horrors, manage your Sanity Gauge, and survive a world that warps with your mind. Will you break the cycle or lose yourself to madness?
Why similar: Metroidvania 59.5%, Action-Adventure 13.6%, Adventure 8.4%, Dark Fantasy 8.2%, Multiple Endings 5%
- #50 Terry Tales
69% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Ansimuz Games
Windows · Mac
A retro-inspired 2D action-adventure where exploration, combat, and classic pixel art come together in a mysterious interconnected world.
Why similar: Metroidvania 36.7%, RPG 18.1%, Adventure 14.6%, Exploration 8.5%, Platformer 8.3%
- #51 Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night
68% matchVery Positive93% of 40,867 reviews2019
Dev: ArtPlayPub: 505 Games
Windows
Median: 10.9 hrsMean: 25.2 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night is an exploration-focused, side-scroller action RPG by Koji Igarashi. Play as Miriam, an orphan scarred by an alchemist's curse that slowly crystallizes her body. Battle through a demon-infested castle and defeat its master to save yourself, and all of humanity!
Why similar: Metroidvania 65.9%, RPG 13.1%, Platformer 6.6%, Dark Fantasy 5.5%, Adventure 4.8%
- #52 Lost Tales - The Castle Escape
71% match6 user reviews17% of 6 reviews2019
Dev: HUE HUE GAME STUDIO
Windows
This lost tale is about a princess who has been kidnapped by a King who wants to make her his seventh wife and when she wakes up in a cell the Princess escapes, looking for a way out of this castle, killing anyone who stands in her way.
Why similar: Metroidvania 42.4%, RPG 34.6%, Adventure 18.5%, Indie 4.6%
- #53 Ascent DX
66% matchVery Positive99% of 272 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 58.8%, Platformer 13.8%, Adventure 11.2%, Exploration 8.2%, Multiple Endings 5.6%
- #54 Mystik Belle
70% matchVery Positive88% of 223 reviews2015
Dev: Last Dimension
Windows · Linux
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 3.8 hrs≥1hr: 79%
A colorful pixel-art metroidvania/point-and-click adventure hybrid about magic, cute witches and joys of vandalism.
Why similar: Metroidvania 63%, RPG 12.9%, Adventure 11.9%, Platformer 8.7%, Indie 2.1%
- #55 Crownless
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Studio Wallnut
Windows
Carry your life as a fragile crown in Crownless! An epic action adventure built for exploration and punchy combat. Explore a vast hand-crafted 2D world, uncover forgotten realms, and dash, swim, and forge your way through the unknown.
Why similar: Metroidvania 57.4%, Platformer 15.2%, Adventure 9%, Exploration 7.4%, Action-Adventure 6.7%
- #56 Liminalia
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Space74
Windows · Mac
Unravel the mysteries of these forgotten lands in a hand-drawn, narrative-driven 2D action-adventure, as a white-robed girl awakens in the depths of an abandoned world.
Why similar: Metroidvania 43.9%, Platformer 13.7%, Dark Fantasy 12.8%, Adventure 8.3%, Action-Adventure 6.3%
- #57 Florarium
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Team Melting Caramel
Windows
Florarium is a Metroidvania game focused on exploration and battle. Explore the mysterious world full of unexpected secrets. Battle fierce enemies with your bow. Choose your own path to your goddess in the vast, interconnected world.
Why similar: Metroidvania 57.3%, Platformer 14.3%, Exploration 8%, Adventure 7.1%, Multiple Endings 4.7%
- #58 Quarion
64% matchVery Positive94% of 149 reviews2025
Dev: ZejoantPub: Bootleg Bytes
Windows · Linux
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 49.4%, Underground 14.3% ★, Platformer 10.6%, Adventure 8.1%, Exploration 7.2%
- #59 Croakspire
66% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Lotus Arcade
Windows
Dive into a fortress labyrinth crawling with monsters, defending yourself with your... tongue? As a frog, it's your best bet to traverse this retro-inspired 2D metroidvania title. Collect treasures to gain permanent upgrades, discovering new areas of the massive interconnected map with them!
Why similar: Metroidvania 57.7%, Action-Adventure 12.4%, Adventure 9.5%, Platformer 8.9%, Exploration 7%