60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Exploration, Singleplayer, Adventure, 2D.
Tunnels is a single-player mining metroidvania adventure. Delve the alien depths, upgrade your tank, master deep itemization, and uncover the mysteries below.
Rockfall
Rockfall is a 2D mining adventure where you descend into dangerous depths to gather resources, upgrade your gear, and survive hidden dungeons filled with traps, treasure, and danger. Dig deep, explore wisely… and don’t stay underground too long.
AstroPoly
A pixel-art space mining game. Dig into procedurally generated planets, chart your own route across the star map, collect rare ores, level up your gear, and grow your fortune by investing in the market.
Rockfall is a 2D mining adventure where you descend into dangerous depths to gather resources, upgrade your gear, and survive hidden dungeons filled with traps, treasure, and danger. Dig deep, explore wisely… and don’t stay underground too long.
Why similar: Mining 45.9% ★, Resource Management 14.6%, Side Scroller 11.9%, Inventory Management 9.1%, Exploration 7.4%
A pixel-art space mining game. Dig into procedurally generated planets, chart your own route across the star map, collect rare ores, level up your gear, and grow your fortune by investing in the market.
Why similar: Mining 45.9% ★, Side Scroller 14.8%, Inventory Management 12.6%, Resource Management 10.7%, Exploration 5.7%
Explore the vastness of space, dig deep into planets to find resources, upgrade your ship and survive against alien life in this short space mining adventure! How far are you willing to travel into the dark unknown?
Why similar: Mining 38.7% ★, Resource Management 16.3%, Sci-fi 11.2%, Exploration 6.5%, Space 5.9%
SAMA is a hand painted, digging and puzzle adventure where you take the role of a mining ship and the little Alien blob crew hijacked by a pirate ship. Your Aliens have to dig, fight and puzzle their way through the subterranean worlds fulfilling the ransom demand. Can you do it?
Why similar: Mining 32.1% ★, Metroidvania 25%, Side Scroller 12.2%, Hand-drawn 7.6%, Sci-fi 6.4%
An atmospheric 2D metroidvania set in a world changed by a mysterious cataclysm, where many living creatures have vanished and toys have gained consciousness. Explore interconnected locations, unlock new abilities, fight enemies, and uncover the mystery behind this new form of life.
Why similar: Metroidvania 35.8%, Side Scroller 22.3%, Action-Adventure 11.4%, Exploration 9.3%, Adventure 7%
Explore an abandoned mining complex, dig through rock, gather resources and upgrade your equipment. Venture ever deeper into NERA, follow the traces left behind, and try to uncover what really happened beneath the surface.
Why similar: Mining 53.2% ★, Exploration 10.7%, Resource Management 9.4%, Action-Adventure 8.6%, Sci-fi 6.9%
Dig, trade, and survive in this pixel-art roguelite. The darkness drains your life, but your voice is your shield: Speak into your microphone to ward off the shadows! Fill your daily quota to upgrade your gear, or face the wrath of the Cave Troll. Remember: Silence brings death.
Why similar: Mining 48.1% ★, Inventory Management 13%, Exploration 11.6%, Action-Adventure 10.9%, Dark 6.4%
A 2D space mining adventure. Mine exotic resources, unlock powerful equipment, and fend off relentless enemies to build an inter-dimensional portal, the last hope of salvation for your civilization.
Why similar: Mining 36.9% ★, Inventory Management 28.4%, Resource Management 8.5%, Sci-fi 8.5%, Space 5.8%
A fast-paced 2D handcrafted metroidvania with strange sci-fi environments. Something is roaming the halls, watching your every move.
Why similar: Metroidvania 40.8%, Side Scroller 13.9%, Sci-fi 10.9%, Exploration 8.7%, Action-Adventure 7.3%
Descend into a persistent mine, extract valuable ores and rare discoveries, manage your tools and cargo, then return to smelt, craft, complete contracts, and expand your operation in this combat-free mining game.
Why similar: Mining 51.7% ★, Inventory Management 17.5%, Resource Management 17.1%, Exploration 8.1%, Atmospheric 2.4%
On the desolate moon of Lorian, a long-dormant Deadsuit awakens from slumber. Journey beneath the surface on an atmospheric 2D adventure of self-discovery, ancient mysteries, and cosmic terror. Explore winding caverns and acquire new abilities to unearth this alien world’s long-buried secrets.
Why similar: Metroidvania 36.7%, Side Scroller 14.3%, Sci-fi 10.3%, Hand-drawn 9%, Dark 8.4%
Descend into mysterious caves with countless treasures to excavate in a mining exploration adventure. Upgrade your gear, fight bosses, uncover secrets and save the island from an ancient threat below!
Why similar: Mining 38.2% ★, Inventory Management 20.9%, Action-Adventure 7.2%, Exploration 6.7%, Collectathon 6.5%
Descend into the depths, extract valuable resources, and turn them into the engine of a growing industrial operation. Build underground infrastructure and process everything on the surface to expand your production and unlock increasingly powerful upgrades.
Why similar: Mining 43.4% ★, Inventory Management 17.6%, Resource Management 14.3%, Side Scroller 11.1%, Exploration 6.1%
The CEO of Taurus Corp., Mr. Taurus, is offering a fortune for someone to go underground. You are not the first to take the job. Will you be the last?
Why similar: Mining 39.7% ★, Side Scroller 22.6%, Resource Management 11.8%, Exploration 11.1%, Adventure 7.8%
Your ultimate goal was to achieve the dream of living on Mars, but the journey didn't go as planned. After a rough ride that left your engine destroyed, you are now stranded on space and must mine asteroids to repair your ship to try finish the voyage.
Why similar: Mining 56% ★, Resource Management 19.5%, Space 6.6%, Exploration 4.8%, Action-Adventure 4.5%
An exhilarating action-adventure game set in a vibrant retro-futuristic universe. Embark on daring interstellar journeys, uncovering new worlds, and battling formidable alien adversaries. Upgrade your ship and abilities as you explore the vastness of space to save the Galaxy from a hidden threat.
Why similar: Metroidvania 37.1%, Side Scroller 13%, Hand-drawn 12.4%, Exploration 8.1%, Space 7.2%
SteamWorld Dig is back! Dig deep, gain riches and unearth the terrors of the underworld in this platform mining adventure influenced by classic Metroidvania style games.
Why similar: Mining 45.5% ★, Metroidvania 40.3%, Adventure 4%, 2D 3.7%, Exploration 3.7%
“ Elmer is a Metroidvania-style adventure game. ” AltroQuando is a place for those with a forgotten past, an illusionary present, and a future held only as a promise. Your presence here is the proof that you are seeking your own original sin, your own mask.
Why similar: Metroidvania 49.8%, Action-Adventure 12%, Exploration 10.9%, Dark 6.9%, Hand-drawn 6.5%
Venture into an unusual, alien world full of danger and mysteries in this sci-fi Metroidvania. Grab your gear and face the challenge of sustaining a once-thriving space colony. Can you bring this place back to life? Are you ready to uncover all the secrets lurking in the darkness?
Why similar: Metroidvania 43.3%, Side Scroller 18.9%, Exploration 9.1%, Atmospheric 8%, Hand-drawn 6.2%
Lead Rolly in his adventure within the wonderful world of Shroomast, and explore its deep semi open-world underground. Goo Keeper is a pure metroidvania with tons of unique bosses, hand-crafted worlds and creatures, and tons of awesome abilities.
Why similar: Metroidvania 41.1%, Hand-drawn 10.5%, Side Scroller 10.4%, Action-Adventure 9.7%, Exploration 8.9%
Ignite your sword and explore the dark depths and towering heights of a forgotten island that consumed itself long ago.
Why similar: Metroidvania 37.5%, Side Scroller 18.1%, Hand-drawn 10.7%, Exploration 8.6%, Action-Adventure 8.4%
Take command of the galaxy's newest search and rescue ship, the Rescue Hornet, and venture into this metroidvania set on a hostile alien world. Use all your tools including your powerful claw arm to defend yourself from dangerous creatures, solve puzzles and search for survivors of an alien attack.
Why similar: Metroidvania 51.7%, Exploration 14.1%, Action-Adventure 11.2%, Sci-fi 8%, 2D 5.1%
Explore the depths as you drill, craft, and fight to escape from a mysterious asteroid deep in the Veridian Expanse!
Why similar: Mining 33.4% ★, Metroidvania 31.8%, Exploration 7.9%, Sci-fi 7.2%, Space 4.8%
Fight against vicious creatures and discover the secrets of a dangerous world as a bounty hunter in Endbloom, a sci-fi metroidvania combining stunning 3D graphics with exciting 2D gameplay.
Why similar: Metroidvania 42.5%, Side Scroller 17.5%, Sci-fi 10.7%, Exploration 9.3%, Action-Adventure 6.2%
Remake to 2016's Legends of the Universe - StarCore, a Metroidvania style Action-Platformer with several abilities, enemies and areas to explore.
Why similar: Metroidvania 36.1%, Side Scroller 12.1%, Sci-fi 10.5%, Action-Adventure 7.6%, Space 7.3%
A small and peaceful mining simulator where you explore underground secrets. Find hidden items, upgrade your drilling machine, fight your way forward, and escape the strange tunnel.
Why similar: Mining 52% ★, Side Scroller 24.5%, Exploration 9.6%, 2D 4.1%, Atmospheric 3.7%
Fly your mining pod into the crust of Luna, Mars, Io and Callisto. Drill deep, haul ore up, and pour the profits into your rig. Fuel always burns, hulls crack, and something old is awake down there. A 2D mining adventure with a story campaign, base building and a living ore market.
Why similar: Mining 44.3% ★, Side Scroller 14.3%, Resource Management 13.1%, Sci-fi 8.8%, Exploration 6.1%
Resort adventure of exploration, life-sim and a little action. Your guide is in-game "Brochure" filled with map and activities. Check them off as you go. Learn new skills to unlock new areas. Days at the waterpark, nights at the hotel lounge. No enemies. Just your own pace. A cozy Metroidvania.
Why similar: Metroidvania 46.8%, Side Scroller 16.5%, Action-Adventure 11.2%, Exploration 9.7%, Hand-drawn 6.8%
Explore the dangerous mine and be the reachest miner on Steam (if You don't die...)
Why similar: Mining 43.1% ★, Inventory Management 17%, Side Scroller 12.9%, Hand-drawn 10.3%, Exploration 7.5%
Join our brave captain on this action adventure in space! You'll be riding The Patchwork, a less than ideal spaceship, but enough to get away from pursuers. However, you'll be facing malfunctions, fires, enemies attacking... When it rains, it pours.
Why similar: Metroidvania 52.3%, Side Scroller 15.3%, Sci-fi 9.9%, Space 7.9%, Action-Adventure 7.8%
Dig to the center of the Earth before time runs out. Mine gems to sell on the black market, build up your infrastructure, uncover relics of forgotten civilizations, and upgrade to face the dangers of the deep. Don't get caught by bandits or authorities while you drill into your last dig.
Why similar: Mining 46.7% ★, Dark 8.6%, Collectathon 7.9%, Exploration 7.7%, Action-Adventure 6%
Fight, dash, swim and bite your way through 3 different dungeons. Let the inner shark out! Face many different opponents and defeat powerful bosses. Makis Adventure is an Action-Platformer with a bite!
Why similar: Metroidvania 43.5%, Side Scroller 14.4%, Action-Adventure 10.6%, Exploration 9.1%, Hand-drawn 8.2%
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 56.9%, Side Scroller 11.9%, Hand-drawn 7.5%, Action-Adventure 6.8%, Adventure 6.1%
In this new hand-drawn, story-rich metroidvania, explore the last haven of a dying world, and discover the purpose you play in saving it. Shape your own path, fight the all-consuming blight, and help bring hope back to the survivors. Take up the flames of dead gods, and stand firm in Dewborne Dawn!
Why similar: Metroidvania 53.6%, Hand-drawn 16.5%, Atmospheric 8.4%, Action-Adventure 7.3%, Combat 5.2%
The Monk is an epic adventure in the cyberpunk world. Blood, implants, brutality and fights. That all you can try by yourself
Why similar: Metroidvania 35.1%, Side Scroller 15.4%, Dark 10.9%, Exploration 8.3%, Hand-drawn 7.8%
A 2D mining game about digging your way off a dead planet. Drill deep for rare ores, dodge lava and gas pockets, upgrade your rig, then pool your haul with friends to smelt bars, craft parts, and build the rocket that gets your crew home. Solo or 1–16 players.
Why similar: Mining 61.2% ★, Resource Management 15.7%, Exploration 13.7%, 2D 5.1%, Adventure 2.6%
SteamWorld Dig is an action-adventure puzzler with strong Metroidvanian influences set in the SteamWorld Universe. You’ll need to dig deep into the earth, gather resources to upgrade your tools and abilities, take on enemies, solve challenging puzzles and uncover the secrets to save a dying town.
Why similar: Mining 49.2% ★, Metroidvania 33.7%, Exploration 3.3%, Side Scroller 3.3%, Adventure 2.9%
Dash into a stylish and thrilling action-adventure platformer set in a mythological Persian world where the boundaries of time and space are yours to manipulate.
Why similar: Metroidvania 55.3%, Side Scroller 17.8%, Exploration 10.8%, Action-Adventure 7.1%, Adventure 3.2%
Under tier upon tier of dark stratas, there grows endless vegetables, dig them, merge them, then eat them! This is a rouge-lite strategy game in which you play as a rabbit digging for vegetables, increasing your power as you advance through layers until you reach the final treasure!
Why similar: Mining 72.8% ★, Resource Management 15.6%, Hand-drawn 8.6%, 2D 2.7%, Singleplayer 0.3%
2.5D open world puzzle action adventure game.
Why similar: Mining 46.6% ★, Metroidvania 31.4%, Exploration 8.5%, Collectathon 7.6%, Dark 3.7%
Run, gun, and platform your way through the 4 seasons, shotgunning, freezing, and burning your foes along the way. Light animals on fire, get eaten by flowers, crush baby spiders underfoot, featuring an interactive world, competent physics, and custom death animations for all you freaks out there.
Why similar: Metroidvania 36.9%, Side Scroller 16.5%, Hand-drawn 14.9%, Exploration 12.2%, Atmospheric 8.7%
Shadow Sacrament is a grim horrorvania where you play as a tormented detective who must investigate the secrets of an ancient, horrific monastery. Explore hidden chambers, solve intricate puzzles, and face terrifying nightmares that lurk in its shadowy halls. Hunt the Haunt.
Why similar: Metroidvania 33.5%, Inventory Management 19.4%, Side Scroller 11.4%, Dark 10.2%, Action-Adventure 7.8%
A game of immense adventure and fun excavation potential.
Why similar: Mining 70.9% ★, Adventure 11.6%, Exploration 10.6%, PvE 5.6%, Singleplayer 1.3%
Slumbering Feline is a single-player, one-shot game featuring a feline-themed story. Step into the shoes of Momo, who finds herself lost in a strange dream and trying to escape from her slumber. Can Momo find her way out of this dreamscape?
Why similar: Metroidvania 45.2%, Side Scroller 17.8%, Action-Adventure 10.7%, Exploration 8.5%, Atmospheric 5.5%
Garden of the Atom is a combat-focused Metroidvania where you hold nothing back. Start with every movement ability unlocked and play as 'Prodigy,' an exiled genius infiltrating a futuristic dictatorship to stop a tyrant from harnessing a cataclysmic meteor shower.
Why similar: Metroidvania 49.7%, Inventory Management 14.7%, Action-Adventure 9.4%, Sci-fi 8.2%, PvE 5%
Aetherion is a 2D action-adventure with exploration, combat and terraforming. Travel through five connected realms as Spark and reshape their landscapes. Your actions affect the Essence Light that holds the world together: where it fades, decay spreads.
Why similar: Metroidvania 36.7%, Side Scroller 18.4%, Action-Adventure 12.5%, Exploration 10.3%, Adventure 5.6%
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 51.8%, Side Scroller 11.2%, Atmospheric 8.3%, Exploration 8%, Hand-drawn 6%
Wake up on Hart Island, dazed and amnesiac, holding a mysterious magic pencil... that you're accused of stealing ? In this hand-drawn 2D Metroidvania, your creativity is your weapon: sketch your tools to survive the dangers and piece together your memories.
Why similar: Metroidvania 53.6%, Side Scroller 14.7%, Hand-drawn 11.7%, 2D 5.6%, Atmospheric 4.7%
Miner Crysis is a 2D sci-fi mining adventure where you pilot a drill-ship to explore a collapsing moon held together by a mysterious crystal machine. Mine resources, battle alien threats, find secret rooms, defeat bosses, and buy powerful upgrades to grow stronger and progress.
Why similar: Mining 48.5% ★, Resource Management 17.1%, Sci-fi 10.1%, Exploration 7.8%, Action-Adventure 6.5%
This is an action game in which the player cannot jump by himself, but jumps with the blast of a bomb. You can dash with the blast on your back, and even attack with bombs, allowing you to enjoy bombs to the fullest.
Why similar: Metroidvania 63.8%, Sci-fi 15.3%, Action-Adventure 10.5%, 2D 5.7%, PvE 3.8%
"Futanatural" is a side-scrolling puzzle escape game set in an abandoned hotel. Rookie reporter Mia Kirimura gets trapped in an abandoned hotel she's covering and must solve riddles to escape. By exploring the abandoned hotel and solving riddles, you can advance to new areas.
Why similar: Metroidvania 47.1%, Side Scroller 16.4%, Exploration 9.7%, Dark 7.9%, Sci-fi 6.8%
Play through the next chapter in the Xanthiom saga, now bigger and better than before!
Why similar: Metroidvania 49%, Side Scroller 23.5%, Exploration 11%, Sci-fi 9%, 2D 4.6%
Velvet Veil is a 2D Metroidvania-style Action Adventure with elements of Bullet Hell and unique platforming Mechanics. Ages after a forgotten apocalypse only the dolls of a humanoid species remain. These dolls come to life through the power of memories.
Why similar: Metroidvania 53.6%, Side Scroller 16.2%, Action-Adventure 10.2%, Exploration 8.9%, Adventure 3.8%
Far Star is a story-driven action-adventure game with Metroidvania influences. There is something fishy going on in this galaxy, but this won’t stop your intergalactic general services crew from doing their job using a varied set of skills, weapons and outfits.
Why similar: Metroidvania 43.1%, Side Scroller 17.2%, Sci-fi 12.9%, Action-Adventure 11.5%, Space 4.9%
Canary in a Crater is an asteroid-delving 2D platformer about digging deep, uncovering valuables, and fighting off hungry alien snails. Spend your hard-earned credits on a wide variety of unlockable gadgets and upgrades to get you deeper and deeper!
Why similar: Mining 52.6% ★, Inventory Management 10.5%, Action-Adventure 8.7%, Exploration 7%, Sci-fi 6.5%
Dig for resources. Craft and infuse gear with stats and powerful effects. Kill monsters in turn-based dungeon battles. Gather loot, defeat the bosses. Prestige, unlock permanent buffs and repeat. Embrace the grind.
Why similar: Mining 43.9% ★, Inventory Management 26.7%, Collectathon 7.2%, Dungeon Crawler 6.7%, Resource Management 6%
Dig down, sell what you haul up, go deeper. A pixel-art mining incremental about numbers that climb: 19+ ores, 40+ permanent talents, sealed caves, portals to other dimensions. Prestige and keep what you built. The tenth run clears in minutes what the first took an hour.
Why similar: Mining 46.8% ★, Resource Management 15%, Side Scroller 11.2%, Exploration 7.4%, Collectathon 6.3%
Omega Warp is a sci-fi themed action-adventure, which takes place aboard an interstellar freighter. Explore, upgrade your skills and equipment, and uncover the mysteries surrounding the freighter's loss of communication with the base of operations on Earth.
Why similar: Metroidvania 39.3%, Side Scroller 11.7%, Sci-fi 10.8%, Action-Adventure 10.4%, Exploration 9.2%
In this Insanely Twisted, 2-D action-adventure game, explore unique environments and battle bizarre creatures.
Why similar: Metroidvania 67.2%, Sci-fi 9.3%, Exploration 8.9%, Adventure 5.5%, 2D 5%
