Games Like Toki Tori 2+

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 33.4%, Puzzle Platformer 17.9%, Nonlinear 13%, Platformer 9.2%, Exploration 7.8%

Why You'll Like It: Like Toki Tori 2+, this game features a dense, non-linear world where environmental secrets and clever item usage are the primary drivers of progression.

Gomez is a 2D creature living in a 2D world. Or is he? When the existence of a mysterious 3rd dimension is revealed to him, Gomez is sent out on a journey that will take him to the very end of time and space. Use your ability to navigate 3D structures from 4 distinct classic 2D perspectives.

Why similar: Platformer 33%, Puzzle 19.8%, Exploration 12.8%, Puzzle Platformer 12.7%, Indie 6%

Why You'll Like It: This game shares a focus on perspective-shifting puzzles and non-linear exploration within a charming, interconnected world.

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: Metroidvania 38.8%, Nonlinear 20%, Exploration 13.7%, Puzzle 12.1%, Cute 9.4%

Why You'll Like It: Progression is gated by the player's actual understanding of the game's mechanics and world, mirroring the knowledge-based design of the seed game.

Take to the sky and reunite a fragmented world in this surprisingly wholesome metroidvania! Help Iko adventure across beautiful hand-painted islands, receive letters from a quirky cast of characters, and face powerful monstrous adversaries.

Why similar: Metroidvania 32.6%, Platformer 11.6%, Side Scroller 10.9%, Open World 8.5%, Cute 6.2%

Why You'll Like It: A charming, non-linear Metroidvania that focuses on exploration and world-building through clever platforming challenges.

Explore a strange planet, collect the creatures you find, and then shape-shift into them to expand your world. Build your own path, chat with the locals, and discover the planets sprawling secrets in this quirky metroidvania platformer.

Why similar: Metroidvania 37.8%, Platformer 14.4%, Open World 12.7%, Exploration 8.1%, Cute 6.9%

Why You'll Like It: A non-violent Metroidvania that emphasizes creature interaction and movement-based exploration rather than combat.

Named Game of the Year 2019 by Giant Bomb, Polygon, Eurogamer, and The Guardian, Outer Wilds is a critically-acclaimed and award-winning open world mystery about a solar system trapped in an endless time loop.

Why similar: Open World 33.3%, Exploration 29.1%, Puzzle 18.2%, Adventure 10.1%, Singleplayer 4.9%

Why You'll Like It: It is the definitive experience for 'knowledge-based progression,' where the only way to advance is by learning how the world functions.

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 32.3%, Puzzle Platformer 22.1%, Open World 9.8%, Exploration 8.3%, Puzzle 7.1%

Why You'll Like It: This game blends first-person exploration with physics-based puzzle-solving in a way that feels consistently rewarding and inventive.

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 53.4%, Platformer 15.5%, Exploration 7.3%, Puzzle 6.7%, Puzzle Platformer 4.3%

Why You'll Like It: A deeply complex puzzle-Metroidvania that demands extreme observation and logical deduction to navigate its interconnected ruins.

Meet Yoku, the pint-sized postman protagonist of Yoku's Island Express! Use a unique blend of pinball mechanics, platforming and open world exploration to unlock the secrets of Mokumana Island, help the locals, awaken ancient deities and much more in this amazing new tropical adventure!

Why similar: Metroidvania 42.1%, Platformer 14.2%, Puzzle Platformer 11.5%, Family Friendly 7.5%, Open World 7%

Why You'll Like It: This title offers a unique, non-linear exploration experience that replaces traditional traversal with creative pinball-based mechanics.

Baba Is You is a puzzle game where the rules you have to follow are present as blocks you can interact with. By manipulating them, you can change how the game works, repurpose things you find in the levels and cause surprising interactions!

Why similar: Puzzle 43%, Cute 16.5%, Level Editor 15.7%, Indie 8.8%, 2D 8.3%

Why You'll Like It: It captures the core spirit of Toki Tori 2+ by allowing players to manipulate the rules of the world to solve increasingly complex puzzles.

Explore an abandoned space station in this retro-themed explorative action platformer.

Why similar: Metroidvania 66.5%, Platformer 15.1%, Adventure 5.2%, Exploration 4.5%, Indie 3.1%

Why You'll Like It: A secrets-heavy Metroidvania that emphasizes discovery and environmental puzzles over traditional combat progression.

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 30.1%, Platformer 19.2%, Puzzle Platformer 13.1%, Puzzle 9%, Side Scroller 7.6%

Why You'll Like It: A puzzle-platformer that uses physics and magnetism to create clever, non-linear navigation challenges.

Use and upgrade magic items, collect hidden treasures, and uncover the secrets between two worlds in this cute isometric puzzler! When a certain vacationing Elephant stumbles upon a way into the land of the dead, will she unwittingly let something far more sinister slip through?

Why similar: Metroidvania 23.5%, Nonlinear 17.4%, Puzzle Platformer 15.2%, Open World 10%, Platformer 9%

Why You'll Like It: An isometric puzzle-platformer that emphasizes non-linear exploration and creative use of environmental tools.

The gameplay in Toki Tori is a blend of two genres. While it looks like a platform game, it's a puzzle game at heart. To progress through the game, the player must pick up each egg in a level using a set number of tools.

Why similar: Puzzle 30.1%, Platformer 21.8%, Puzzle Platformer 12.5%, Cute 9%, Family Friendly 7%

Why You'll Like It: The original title provides a more traditional, yet still highly clever, puzzle-platforming experience that shares the same DNA.

You wake up, alone, on a strange island full of puzzles that will challenge and surprise you.

Why similar: Puzzle 26.4%, Open World 24.7%, Exploration 15.6%, Nonlinear 14.7%, Colorful 7.3%

Why You'll Like It: While not a platformer, it is the gold standard for games that rely entirely on environmental observation and pattern recognition to progress.

Play as an exiled 'wum' looking for a new home in this bizarre but charming world, filled with strange creatures, puzzles, monsters and political chaos.

Why similar: Metroidvania 31.6%, Puzzle Platformer 14.3%, Platformer 12.2%, Exploration 7.8%, Cute 7.3%

Why You'll Like It: Features a quirky, open-world design with a heavy emphasis on exploration and unique puzzle-solving interactions.

Go on an adventure in a world packed with secrets helped by your friend, a poulp with many abilities. Explore, solve puzzles, wander across dungeons, blast through races and much more in this cute game inspired by the best 3D platformers

Why similar: Metroidvania 22.3%, Puzzle Platformer 17.4%, Platformer 12.6%, Family Friendly 8.2%, Cute 8%

Why You'll Like It: A collectathon platformer that features creative, puzzle-oriented challenges within a non-linear, interconnected world.

Summon portals to overcome vicious beasts, devious puzzles and fiendish platforming challenges. Master the unique powers of each portal to stop the collapse of reality, while exploring lush, hand-drawn worlds and unraveling a deep narrative full of mysteries.

Why similar: Metroidvania 31.8%, Side Scroller 16.6%, Platformer 15.3%, Open World 8.8%, Exploration 7.1%

Why You'll Like It: A puzzle-platformer where manipulating the environment through dimension-shifting is essential to navigating the world.

Deep within the realm of sleep, Sybil finds herself pulled to a distorted castle. Grow strong, and unlock new abilities to build up a deep movement system, fight enemies, find secrets, and free the weary soul of Castle Sansa, in this retro-inspired 3D Platformer Metroidvania.

Why similar: Metroidvania 48.2%, Nonlinear 22.1%, Platformer 13.9%, Exploration 9.5%, Adventure 2.7%

Why You'll Like It: A movement-focused, non-linear platformer that rewards players for mastering the game's physics and traversal abilities.

Hue is a vibrant, award-winning puzzle-adventure, where you alter the world by changing its background colour.

Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 26.6%, Platformer 16%, Puzzle 13.3%, Metroidvania 10.4%, Side Scroller 10.1%

Why You'll Like It: Utilizes color-based mechanics to change the environment, requiring logical thinking to solve platforming puzzles.

Throw on your nostalgia goggles and travel back in time with Super Win the Game, a retro-core explosion of exploration and platforming action!!

Why similar: Metroidvania 25.8%, Nonlinear 17.3%, Side Scroller 15%, Open World 11.1%, Platformer 8.5%

Why You'll Like It: A retro-styled exploration game that focuses on non-linear discovery and environmental navigation.

Owlboy is a story-driven platform adventure game, where you can fly and explore a brand new world in the clouds! Pick up your friends, and bring them with you as you explore the open skies, in one of the most detailed adventures of this era.

Why similar: Metroidvania 31.9%, Puzzle Platformer 19.3%, Platformer 12.8%, Animals 7.2% ★, Cute 6.9%

Why You'll Like It: An exploration-focused adventure that uses unique flight and character-interaction mechanics to solve puzzles and navigate the world.

You are a nomadic slugcat, both predator and prey in a broken ecosystem. Grab your spear and brave the industrial wastes, hunting enough food to survive, but be wary— other, bigger creatures have the same plan... and slugcats look delicious.

Why similar: Metroidvania 30.4%, Open World 17.5%, Platformer 17.1%, Exploration 12.1%, Cute 7.5%

Why You'll Like It: The game forces you to learn the complex behaviors of an ecosystem to survive, mirroring the creature-interaction mechanics of the seed game.

Wield the awesome powers of Enril the wind spirit to guide and protect young Toku through this unique platform adventure.

Why similar: Metroidvania 26.8%, Platformer 22.6%, Puzzle Platformer 17.4%, Adventure 11.8%, Family Friendly 8.6%

Why You'll Like It: Features unique wind-manipulation mechanics that are used both for solving puzzles and aiding in traversal.

Explore the fallen world of Penumbra in this precision 3D metroidvania platformer. Slash fierce enemies, conquer deadly traps, uncover ancient temples, and master fast, fluid movement across challenging platforming gauntlets in your quest to restore a fallen kingdom.

Why similar: Metroidvania 49.4%, Platformer 18.8%, Exploration 12.2%, Cute 11.3%, Adventure 4%

Why You'll Like It: Combines precision platforming with a non-linear, interconnected world that encourages exploration and mastery of movement.

Set sail for adventure with a paper hat on your head and a magical shrinking boat in your pocket, in search of legendary treasures! Solve tricky puzzles, battle formidable foes, piece together clues and dig up secrets to uncover your own shrouded history as you explore this sprawling open world.

Why similar: Metroidvania 42.8%, Platformer 19.1%, Adventure 14.3%, Cute 9.2%, Indie 8.2%

Why You'll Like It: Offers a classic, non-linear exploration experience with a strong focus on environmental puzzles and discovery.

Vibrant Venture is a singleplayer 2D adventure platformer game featuring a quirky cast of characters! The game features four playable characters with multiple unique abilities that can be combined for extremely versatile, fluid and fun movement!

Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 21.3%, Side Scroller 21.1%, Level Editor 18.8%, Platformer 14.5%, Cute 6.7%

Why You'll Like It: A physics-based platformer that encourages creative movement and puzzle-solving within its side-scrolling world.

In Hatup you'll have the mission to go through different challenges with your hat that will allow you to progress through the game's stages. Using different mechanics you will face many challenges and with different levels of difficulty.

Why similar: Metroidvania 26.1%, Side Scroller 16.4%, Puzzle Platformer 15.9%, Platformer 11.3%, Puzzle 7%

Why You'll Like It: A compact, interconnected action-adventure game that relies on puzzle-platforming to gate progress.

A creature-scanning metroidvania. Explore an ancient paradise before it's lost forever. Study the EMUUROM creatures, document your findings in the EMUUDEX, and use what you learn to unlock new paths.

Why similar: Metroidvania 27.5%, Nonlinear 19%, Puzzle Platformer 16%, Platformer 9.5%, Exploration 6.7%

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 33.1%, Puzzle Platformer 24.4%, Platformer 11.4%, Exploration 8.2%, Puzzle 8%

Escape from a laboratory house in this unique puzzling platformer with a twist! All important objects are randomly placed in the world before the start of the game. Each playthrough will take a different path through the house, but can always be completed. A perfect introduction to Randomizers.

Why similar: Metroidvania 24.9%, Nonlinear 18.4%, Puzzle Platformer 15.8%, Platformer 9.2%, Exploration 6.5%

Five animal friends with unique abillities unite in this metroidvania adventure! You'll need to master each animal's skill to complete your quest! Play as the dog, duck, cat, frog and raccoon at the same time!

Why similar: Metroidvania 34.1%, Nonlinear 23.5%, Family Friendly 9%, Platformer 9%, Exploration 8.1%

Wenjia is a 2D platform game with puzzle-solving elements. Players can freely travel between two realms (the material world and the energy world), each of them with different challenges and obstacles. Players must utilize both realms’ mechanisms to reach their final goal.

Why similar: Metroidvania 26.4%, Puzzle Platformer 16.7%, Side Scroller 15.4%, Platformer 10.1%, Family Friendly 7.1%

Why You'll Like It: An atmospheric puzzle-platformer that uses dimension-shifting mechanics to create interesting navigation challenges.

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 30.8%, Puzzle Platformer 18.5%, Open World 12.4%, Platformer 10.1%, Exploration 7.4%

Offspring Fling is a game about a poor forest creature that has misplaced all of her children.

Why similar: Platformer 25.3%, Puzzle Platformer 23.5%, Puzzle 16.7%, Cute 10.1%, Family Friendly 7%

Why You'll Like It: A challenging puzzle-platformer that requires careful planning and environmental mastery to succeed.

Simulation World - This is a puzzle, story and open world. Feel the vanilla atmosphere as you progress through the puzzles. Rescue the simulation from a virus that wants to destroy the computer world

Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 23.7%, Side Scroller 18.7%, Platformer 13.2%, Open World 10%, Puzzle 9.8%

You're a frog who just got given a brain! 🐸 Point-and-click your way through a hand-drawn world and solve puzzles, collect items and talk to other hexed animals. . . Can you lift the curse?

Why similar: Metroidvania 37.2%, Exploration 13.3%, Puzzle 12.1%, Cute 10.6%, Open World 7.6%

Musical Metroidvania, with pixel art to die for. Guide orphaned chick 'Birb', on a platform adventure, as he faces off against the denizens of the forest in rhythm-action boss battles. Acclaimed for its gorgeous animation, and heart-warming storytelling, as Birb strives to discover his true origins.

Why similar: Metroidvania 27.4%, Puzzle Platformer 16.9%, Side Scroller 16.5%, Platformer 10%, Exploration 6.6%

Togges is a charming and colourful 3D Puzzle-Platformer. Go on adventures, stack adorable living blocks and solve puzzles around the Cosmos to save the Galaxy from the threats of the Void.

Why similar: Open World 19.6%, Platformer 11.8%, Puzzle 10.7%, Puzzle Platformer 10.1%, Family Friendly 9.8%

With amazing new abilities, re-visit a land full of wonder on a new adventure in LostWinds 2: Winter of the Melodias - sequel to the award-winning ‘LostWinds’.

Why similar: Platformer 32.4%, Puzzle Platformer 30.7%, Adventure 25.2%, Puzzle 11.8%

Explore, solve puzzles, and fight your way through over 100 screens and return your pumpkin pals!

Why similar: Metroidvania 34.7%, Nonlinear 27.7%, Open World 13.6%, Platformer 11.8%, Adventure 4.4%

A cute yet challenging puzzle-platformer with a unique mechanic of moving the world itself to create new paths. Play solo or with a friend in local co-op mode to help Ben & Abi navigate this mysterious world. Test your logic skills by solving clever puzzles to help them find their way back home

Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 25.6%, Side Scroller 20%, Platformer 15%, Family Friendly 10.1%, Puzzle 9.6%

Alwa’s Legacy is a modern retro game full of dangerous dungeons, mystic items and ancient secrets. Upgrade your magic and choose your own path in this non-linear adventure game brimming with exploration.

Why similar: Metroidvania 37.8%, Puzzle Platformer 22.1%, Platformer 13%, Exploration 8.3%, Cute 6.9%

TORIDORI 2 is the wonderful world of a photographer who is able to capture his dreams in the photo, but he can only take 2 shots per dream. The differences of some details will be the difference between these two shots. Carefully explore every corner and enjoy the game.

Why similar: Puzzle 23.3%, Cute 20.4%, Family Friendly 18.3%, Adventure 17.7%, Casual 11%

Help Puzzled Cat use jetpacks, portals, bombs, gum, and more to conquer treacherous platforming stages. Play your own way using save states to explore a world full of challenges and secrets - but can you find the way through? Travel through time and space and reach enlightenment.

Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 30.3%, Side Scroller 16.8%, Platformer 13.8%, Puzzle 8.7%, Cute 8.5%

Semblance is an innovative platformer with deformable terrain, set in a beautiful minimalist world. It’s a game that asks, what if you could deform and reshape the world itself? Semblance takes the idea of a ‘platform’ in a platformer and turns it on its head.

Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 20.5%, Side Scroller 16.7%, Platformer 11.6%, Nonlinear 9.8%, Family Friendly 7.6%

Freeze time and manipulate the world with endless possibilities: build the solution YOU want where nothing is scripted and levels can be solved in multiple ways. When Super Meat Boy meets Braid, you may die repeatedly and enjoy it!

Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 48%, Platformer 23.4%, Side Scroller 11.4%, Puzzle 9.3%, Indie 5%

A top-down adventure game in a coloring book world full of vibrant characters. Use painting powers to explore, solve puzzles, make friends, and draw on anything! From creators on Wandersong + Celeste.

Why similar: Metroidvania 19.9%, Adventure 17.5%, Cute 15.8%, Indie 11.8%, Puzzle 11.4%

2D Puzzle Game with Full Level Editor and Local Coop

Why similar: Family Friendly 19.1%, Puzzle 18.7%, Exploration 18.2%, Cute 14.6%, Colorful 10.7%

Delve into the depths of a mechanical world in this cute, adventure-exploration game. Explore and fight in a land full of corrupt robots and machinery. All while seeking answers to the mysteries around you.

Why similar: Metroidvania 30.4%, Nonlinear 14.7%, Side Scroller 13.3%, Open World 12%, Platformer 9.6%

Yooka-Laylee and the Impossible Lair is a brand-new 2.5D platformer from some of the key creative talent behind 'Donkey Kong Country'. As the colourful buddy duo you must tackle a series of stunning, 2.5D levels and explore a puzzling 3D Overworld rich with secrets and surprises!

Why similar: Platformer 32.3%, Adventure 18.3%, Indie 10.4%, Family Friendly 9.3%, Exploration 7.4%

Forage, explore, tame, and wrangle your adorable companions in this beautiful first-person, virtual-pet, adventure game!

Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 17.2%, Open World 14.3%, Family Friendly 12.3%, Cute 11.7%, Exploration 11.4%

Crypt Custodian is a charming metroidvania about cleaning up the afterlife. Play as Pluto - a mischievous cat who has died, and is sentenced to be the afterworld's janitor... FOREVER! Hang out with other doomed ghosts, battle beasts, and explore a vastly expansive landscape.

Why similar: Metroidvania 38.1%, Nonlinear 17.9%, Platformer 9.5%, Exploration 8.5%, Cute 8.2%

Seasons After Fall is a 2D platform-puzzler game that will let you dive into a captivating universe and explore a land governed by magic and nature.

Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 21.2%, Metroidvania 19.3%, Platformer 18.8%, Side Scroller 9.4%, Cute 7.4%

Explore this unique world of infographics: All the bar charts, line diagrams and pie charts react to what you are doing. Metrico+ is a combination of exploration, skill, experimentation, but most of all: thinking outside of the box. Are you smart enough to solve all the mysteries?

Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 30.7%, Side Scroller 26%, Platformer 11.5%, Puzzle 11.1%, Exploration 9.9%

Explore the mysterious island of Kindara in this vibrant 2D action-adventure. Fight and platform your way through jungles, icy peaks, castles, and crystal caverns in a non-linear interconnected world. Adventure awaits!

Why similar: Metroidvania 35.1%, Nonlinear 22.7%, Platformer 8.8%, Exploration 8.1%, Cute 6.2%

Meet Lumote, the squishiest bioluminescent creature, in this beautiful 3D puzzle platformer. Take control of the world’s inhabitants on a quest into the Great Depths to seize control from the Mastermote.

Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 28.6%, Platformer 15.5%, Cute 9.7%, Puzzle 9.4%, Open World 8.9%

A retro-inspired adventure puzzle game featuring multiple playable characters with interwoven storylines. Explore the natural (and unnatural) world for unique interactions and unlock items to aid you in your quest. There's nothing as simultaneously charming and strange as the world of Tux and Fanny.

Why similar: Exploration 18.9%, Nonlinear 17.7%, Puzzle 16.8%, Cute 11.8%, Colorful 11%

TitTok 3: FINAL CHAPTER. An adventurous 2D puzzle-platformer with Cats, explosions, portals and deadly lasers! An epic conclusion to the enchanting trilogy. TikTok ≠ TitTok

Why similar: Side Scroller 27.8%, Platformer 20.4%, Puzzle 13.2%, Cute 9.9%, Family Friendly 8.2%