60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Exploration, 2D, Singleplayer, Adventure.
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 46% ★, Resource Management 14.9%, Side Scroller 11.6%, Inventory Management 9.1%, Exploration 7.3%
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 46% ★, Side Scroller 14.5%, Inventory Management 12.6%, Resource Management 10.9%, 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 38.8% ★, Resource Management 16.6%, Sci-fi 11%, Exploration 6.4%, 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 32.5% ★, Metroidvania 24.7%, Side Scroller 12.1%, Hand-drawn 7.6%, Sci-fi 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 37% ★, Inventory Management 28.5%, Resource Management 8.7%, Sci-fi 8.4%, Space 5.7%
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 48.4% ★, Inventory Management 13.1%, Exploration 11.5%, Action-Adventure 10.8%, Dark 6.3%
A fast-paced 2D handcrafted metroidvania with strange sci-fi environments. Something is roaming the halls, watching your every move.
Why similar: Metroidvania 40.7%, Side Scroller 13.8%, Sci-fi 11%, Exploration 8.8%, Action-Adventure 7.3%
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 36.5%, Side Scroller 14.2%, Sci-fi 10.4%, Hand-drawn 9%, Dark 8.4%
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 43.5% ★, Inventory Management 17.6%, Resource Management 14.6%, Side Scroller 10.9%, Exploration 6%
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 38.4% ★, Inventory Management 21.1%, Action-Adventure 7.1%, Exploration 6.7%, Collectathon 6.6%
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 46% ★, Metroidvania 39.8%, Adventure 4%, 2D 3.7%, Exploration 3.6%
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 40% ★, Side Scroller 22.3%, Resource Management 12.1%, Exploration 11%, Adventure 7.7%
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 19.9%, Space 6.5%, Exploration 4.7%, Action-Adventure 4.4%
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%, Side Scroller 12.9%, Hand-drawn 12.5%, Exploration 8.2%, Space 7.2%
Become a space mining astronaut in this chill rogue-lite mining game. Explore, mine and complete objectives while unlocking and upgrading your equipment along the way.
Why similar: Mining 41.3% ★, Resource Management 12.5%, Side Scroller 11.6%, Sci-fi 7.8%, Exploration 6.8%
“ 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 49.7%, Action-Adventure 12%, Exploration 10.9%, Dark 6.9%, Hand-drawn 6.5%
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%, Hand-drawn 10.6%, Side Scroller 10.4%, Action-Adventure 9.7%, Exploration 9%
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 43.1%, Side Scroller 18.8%, Exploration 9.2%, Atmospheric 8%, Hand-drawn 6.2%
Ignite your sword and explore the dark depths and towering heights of a forgotten island that consumed itself long ago.
Why similar: Metroidvania 37.2%, Side Scroller 18%, Hand-drawn 10.8%, Exploration 8.6%, Action-Adventure 8.4%
Explore the depths as you drill, craft, and fight to escape from a mysterious asteroid deep in the Veridian Expanse!
Why similar: Mining 33.8% ★, Metroidvania 31.5%, Exploration 7.9%, Sci-fi 7.2%, Space 4.8%
Explore a tight classic sidescrolling action-adventure and become the Guardian of the Chalklands. Explore, fight, collect, uncover new paths, hoard powerful gear and items, and forge your own legend of Chalkvania.
Why similar: Metroidvania 43.1%, Side Scroller 20.3%, Action-Adventure 10.3%, Exploration 9.5%, 2D 4.7%
Explore the dangerous mine and be the reachest miner on Steam (if You don't die...)
Why similar: Mining 43.4% ★, Inventory Management 17.1%, Side Scroller 12.7%, Hand-drawn 10.2%, Exploration 7.4%
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 52.4% ★, Side Scroller 24.1%, Exploration 9.5%, 2D 4.1%, Atmospheric 3.7%
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 51.5%, Exploration 14.2%, Action-Adventure 11.2%, Sci-fi 8%, 2D 5.2%
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 35.9%, Side Scroller 12%, Sci-fi 10.6%, Action-Adventure 7.5%, Space 7.3%
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 42.4%, Side Scroller 17.5%, Sci-fi 10.8%, Exploration 9.4%, Action-Adventure 6.2%
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 46.7%, Side Scroller 16.5%, Action-Adventure 11.2%, Exploration 9.7%, Hand-drawn 6.8%
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 49.8% ★, Metroidvania 33.3%, Exploration 3.3%, Side Scroller 3.3%, Adventure 2.8%
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 16%, Exploration 13.5%, 2D 5.1%, Adventure 2.5%
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 47% ★, Dark 8.5%, Collectathon 8%, Exploration 7.7%, Action-Adventure 6%
A game of immense adventure and fun excavation potential.
Why similar: Mining 71.3% ★, Adventure 11.3%, Exploration 10.5%, PvE 5.6%, Singleplayer 1.3%
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 43.4%, Side Scroller 14.4%, Action-Adventure 10.6%, Exploration 9.2%, 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 56.8%, Side Scroller 11.8%, Hand-drawn 7.5%, Action-Adventure 6.8%, Adventure 6.1%
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 72.7% ★, Resource Management 15.9%, Hand-drawn 8.4%, 2D 2.7%, Singleplayer 0.3%
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 52.2%, Side Scroller 15.3%, Sci-fi 9.9%, Space 8%, Action-Adventure 7.8%
2.5D open world puzzle action adventure game.
Why similar: Mining 47.1% ★, Metroidvania 30.9%, Exploration 8.4%, Collectathon 7.7%, Dark 3.7%
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 53.4%, Hand-drawn 16.5%, Atmospheric 8.5%, Action-Adventure 7.3%, Combat 5.3%
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%, Side Scroller 15.3%, Dark 10.9%, Exploration 8.3%, Hand-drawn 7.9%
"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%, Side Scroller 16.4%, Exploration 9.8%, Dark 7.9%, Sci-fi 6.8%
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%, Side Scroller 18.1%, Exploration 10.9%, Action-Adventure 6.9%, Adventure 3.2%
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 33.2%, Inventory Management 19.8%, Side Scroller 11.4%, Dark 10.2%, Action-Adventure 7.7%
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 36.8%, Side Scroller 16.5%, Hand-drawn 14.9%, Exploration 12.3%, Atmospheric 8.7%
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 49.4%, Inventory Management 14.9%, Action-Adventure 9.3%, Sci-fi 8.2%, PvE 5.1%
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 45.1%, Side Scroller 17.7%, Action-Adventure 10.7%, Exploration 8.5%, Atmospheric 5.6%
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 52.9% ★, Inventory Management 10.6%, Action-Adventure 8.6%, Exploration 6.9%, Sci-fi 6.4%
Mine your way through a vast cave system that watches as you dig deeper each day. Explore diverse biomes, collect valuable resources and craft increasingly powerful tools and upgrades until you are strong enough to reach the end before it all comes down.
Why similar: Mining 61.8% ★, Resource Management 10.7%, Exploration 10%, Atmospheric 7.4%, Dark 5.1%
SOMETHING drowned your planet in endless night... Mine Sinistervein for power, burn back the creeping shadows, whirlwind the darkness out, to finally free your home in this new Action/Adventure/Roguelite game where light draws the line between life and death.
Why similar: Mining 66% ★, Dark 14.5%, Action-Adventure 13.1%, Atmospheric 5.2%, Singleplayer 1.2%
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 51.7%, Side Scroller 11.1%, Atmospheric 8.4%, 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 53.5%, Side Scroller 14.7%, Hand-drawn 11.7%, 2D 5.7%, Atmospheric 4.8%
Explore an open fantasy world across five interconnected realms. Fight, build, and terraform with resonant tools attuned to the world's fading light. Every decision shapes the balance of a dying world and determines what remains after its end
Why similar: Metroidvania 36.6%, Side Scroller 18.3%, Action-Adventure 12.4%, Exploration 10.4%, Adventure 5.6%
A lonely trek to a desolate planet unearths a strange anomaly, seemingly causing denizens of a nearby station to become horrifying, violent mutants. Run, think, scavenge and improvise. Only the smartest will survive.
Why similar: Inventory Management 29.9%, Resource Management 18.3%, Metroidvania 17.8%, Exploration 8.6%, Atmospheric 7.3%
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 63.6%, Sci-fi 15.3%, Action-Adventure 10.5%, 2D 5.8%, PvE 3.8%
Hardcore adventure inside the human body. You take control of one bacteriophage, which steals(farms) DNA resources from various viruses. Use this DNA to evolve or create clones with which you can change positions at any time. Used wisely, you may cure all 5 organs.
Why similar: Metroidvania 31.7%, Inventory Management 23.6%, Resource Management 15.7%, Hand-drawn 11.4%, Action-Adventure 8.4%
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 44% ★, Inventory Management 26.7%, Collectathon 7.2%, Dungeon Crawler 6.6%, Resource Management 6.1%
Play through the next chapter in the Xanthiom saga, now bigger and better than before!
Why similar: Metroidvania 48.9%, Side Scroller 23.4%, Exploration 11.1%, Sci-fi 9%, 2D 4.7%
The adventure in the mysterious world of the Wall continues! Pilot your robospider into its depths, uncover lost artifacts and technologies, upgrade your exosuit and spider, and battle the horrors lurking in the dark. Unravel the mysteries buried in the depths of the Wall!
Why similar: Mining 41.7% ★, Resource Management 13.6%, Side Scroller 13.6%, Sci-fi 7.8%, Action-Adventure 6.9%
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 53.5%, Side Scroller 16.2%, Action-Adventure 10.2%, Exploration 9%, Adventure 3.8%
In this Insanely Twisted, 2-D action-adventure game, explore unique environments and battle bizarre creatures.
Why similar: Metroidvania 67%, Sci-fi 9.3%, Exploration 9%, Adventure 5.5%, 2D 5%
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%, Side Scroller 17.2%, Sci-fi 12.9%, Action-Adventure 11.4%, Space 4.9%
