60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Metroidvania, Retro, Platformer, Pixel Graphics.
Explore three distant planets in this retro-inspired 2D metroidvania, developed for the Game Boy Color. Face mysterious creatures, discover powerful upgrades and uncover lost secrets. The fate of humanity is in your hands!
Xeodrifter
Xeodrifter is the story of an interstellar drifter traveling the stars on a simple mission of exploration. We join our nomad as he embarks on the investigation of a small cluster of four planets in the omega sector, after a collision with a rogue asteroid damaged his warp core.
Cathedral
Make your way through more than 600 rooms, and unravel the secrets of your past by finding the five elemental orbs. Cathedral features a vast world, meant for exploring!
Xeodrifter is the story of an interstellar drifter traveling the stars on a simple mission of exploration. We join our nomad as he embarks on the investigation of a small cluster of four planets in the omega sector, after a collision with a rogue asteroid damaged his warp core.
Why similar: Metroidvania 34.9%, Retro 13.1%, Platformer 13.1%, Sci-fi 6.3%, Side Scroller 4.7%
Make your way through more than 600 rooms, and unravel the secrets of your past by finding the five elemental orbs. Cathedral features a vast world, meant for exploring!
Why similar: Metroidvania 50.6%, Retro 11.3%, Platformer 10.5%, Adventure 7.2%, Action 6.1%
All alone, Hania sets out on a journey to find the answers to her past across this uncharted, perilous and magical world.
Why similar: Metroidvania 37.8%, Platformer 15.9%, Adventure 9.4%, Retro 7.8%, Indie 5.8%
Use your magic staff and progress through a large interconnected world where you'll solve puzzles, fight enemies and defeat bosses in order to help free the land of Alwa. Explore and uncover the secrets by using your platforming skills in this challenging and charming 8-bit adventure game.
Why similar: Metroidvania 47.3%, Platformer 14%, Retro 12.3%, Adventure 5.8%, Pixel Graphics 5.5%
Inspired by the retro glory days of 8-bit games, Rex Rocket is a traditional 2D platformer brought into the 21st century. Paying tribute to classic NES games like Mario, Mega Man, and Metroid, old-school platformer fans will find Rex Rocket a breath of fresh air.
Why similar: Metroidvania 43.6%, Platformer 16.2%, Retro 12.9%, Adventure 6.6%, Action 6.2%
Explore an abandoned space station in this retro-themed explorative action platformer.
Why similar: Metroidvania 52.8%, Platformer 12.4%, Retro 6.6%, Pixel Graphics 6.1%, Adventure 4.8%
CHIP is a 2D Metroidvania platformer in retro-style where you are a space rescuer of kittens. Explore The Universe in a shiny new spaceship. Travel from planet to planet, fight against an evil Dr.Meowcraft and robots, save the kidnapped kittens!
Why similar: Metroidvania 38.6%, Retro 15.9%, Platformer 15.6%, Indie 8.8%, Space 5.5%
You Have to Win the Game is a free exploration platformer with a retro 1980s PC aesthetic.
Why similar: Metroidvania 53.4%, Retro 15.4%, Platformer 13.9%, Indie 3.5%, Difficult 3%
The old gods have forgotten this land. No one could save our people when darkness started spreading and collecting human souls for its army. Odallus is a classic exploration/action game, inspired by Ghosts’n Goblins, Demon’s Crest and Castlevania.
Why similar: Metroidvania 45.8%, Retro 17%, Platformer 12.2%, Pixel Graphics 5.5%, Action 5%
Explore and uncover the mystery of a surreal alien world by blasting aliens and glitching your environment in this intense retro side-scrolling action/adventure.
Why similar: Metroidvania 54.7%, Platformer 11.6%, Retro 7.7%, Sci-fi 4.7%, Pixel Graphics 4.3%
A huge hand-crafted world packed with 13 unique bosses, a gripping story, and tons of enemies, Spaceport Hope is the ultimate test of gaming prowess.
Why similar: Metroidvania 32.9%, Platformer 19.6%, Indie 10.2%, Retro 8.2%, Adventure 7.1%
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 50.8%, Platformer 15.6%, Retro 9.5%, Difficult 4.7%, Indie 4.6%
Pounce inside of your cozy armored mech and set off on a dangerous trek through an alien underworld full of irritable creatures and treacherous obstacles in a valiant effort to save your stranded captain and his crashed spaceship.
Why similar: Metroidvania 46.2%, Platformer 10.8%, Retro 10.1%, Indie 5.5%, Pixel Graphics 5.3%
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 45.1%, Retro 15.6%, Space 9.1%, Side Scroller 6.6%, Action 6.4%
A "Metroid-vania"-style platform adventure, voted GAME OF THE YEAR by Gamezebo.
Why similar: Metroidvania 47.1%, Platformer 15.5%, Retro 13.3%, Adventure 9.5%, Indie 7.6%
"Mini Ghost" is a mini metroidvania in the 80's MSX art style and gameplay. It's the mini prequel of Ghost 1.0.
Why similar: Metroidvania 44.8%, Retro 15.5%, Platformer 10.1%, Adventure 7.6%, Action 7.2%
Run, gun and explore an open undercity in this otherworldly non-linear Metroidvania adventure about the Old Gods, strange creatures and the remnants of a lost world!
Why similar: Metroidvania 44.3%, Platformer 13.1%, Adventure 5.3%, Side Scroller 5.2%, Indie 5.2%
Albert’s Journey is a 2d platformer adventure game with a pixel art look.
Why similar: Metroidvania 37.2%, Platformer 16.9%, Retro 16.5%, Side Scroller 7.4%, Indie 5.2%
Mutant scum never learn! Blaster Master Zero makes its Steam debut! Blaster Master Zero is a 8-bit style top-down & sideview 2D action-adventure game that hearkens back to the golden age of the NES. The game features new gameplay elements such as improved gameplay, and a more robust scenario.
Why similar: Metroidvania 49.2%, Retro 17.3%, Platformer 15.6%, Action 9.4%, Pixel Graphics 6.3%
Play as Captain Grisham, and uncover the secrets of Planet 4-514 in this thrilling prequel to Side Scape!
Why similar: Metroidvania 36.8%, Retro 12.5%, Platformer 11.2%, Space 8.8%, Sci-fi 5.5%
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 60.3%, Platformer 19.5%, Adventure 7.4%, Indie 6.5%, Action 6.3%
Hargrave finds himself inside the walls of a mysterious labyrinth filled with strange robots. Find the way out, or find what's hidden deep inside.
Why similar: Metroidvania 46.5%, Retro 18.1%, Platformer 16.9%, Adventure 11.9%, Indie 6.5%
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 51.8%, Platformer 14.4%, Adventure 8.5%, Action 6.7%, Indie 6.6%
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 48.6%, Platformer 15.3%, Retro 8.1%, Adventure 7.8%, Open World 4.9%
Hunter’s Legacy is an old-school 2D single-player Metroidvania platformer where you control Ikki, a fierce kitty skilled with twin swords and a bow, better known as the Great Huntress of Un'Amak.
Why similar: Metroidvania 51.1%, Platformer 21.8%, Adventure 10.4%, Action 8.4%, Indie 8.3%
In Demon Peak, you play as the nameless warrior, trapped inside the depths of an unholy Mountain. Explore the mysterious and perilous enviroments, fight against a multitude of different enemies and gather magical abilities to overcome the Mountain's evil inhabitants.
Why similar: Metroidvania 48.8%, Platformer 12.8%, Adventure 11.4%, Action 9.2%, Indie 8.7%
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 48.4%, Platformer 18.8%, Retro 8%, Pixel Graphics 6.2%, Adventure 6%
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 56.3%, Platformer 12%, Pixel Graphics 6.1%, Adventure 5.7%, Side Scroller 5.2%
"Little Droid 2: Escape" is a classic 2D (Metroidvania) side-scrolling pixel art adventure where you need to find a way to escape a mysterious planet.
Why similar: Metroidvania 42.8%, Platformer 18%, Retro 12.5%, Adventure 7.3%, Pixel Graphics 4.7%
A powerful ancient evil has arisen, and the war to save humanity has begun! As an elite agent in the monster-hunting Prodigium organization, you must use a variety of weapons, upgrades, and mysterious artifacts to defend mankind against the supernatural hordes of Princess Ahmanet.
Why similar: Metroidvania 56.9%, Retro 10.6%, Platformer 8.4%, Adventure 7.6%, Action 7.1%
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 52.4%, Platformer 25.4%, Adventure 7.5%, Indie 6.9%, Action 5.8%
Venture into the darkness of the Dream Forest and discover why it's now called "Cursed". Meet interesting characters in a psychological adventure, solve puzzles and learn all about the story of Red; a fire goblin that is now looking to find his master...
Why similar: Metroidvania 47%, Retro 20.7%, Platformer 19%, Indie 9%, 2D 4.3%
Join Jason, Eve, and Fred on an intergalactic journey! The side-scrolling/top-down hybrid action adventure title "Blaster Master Zero" returns with its long-awaited sequel! Experience the yet-untold story of Jason and Eve after defeating Earth's mutant scourge in "Blaster Master Zero".
Why similar: Metroidvania 42.4%, Platformer 19%, Retro 18.3%, Action 9.7%, Pixel Graphics 7.1%
Explore a kingdom overrun by evil magic as you fight foes with your own magical bow in this retro inspired action-adventure platformer.
Why similar: Metroidvania 46%, Platformer 13.2%, Retro 13%, Adventure 6%, Pixel Graphics 5.6%
Emilia's life turns into chaos as her family members disappear, one by one. Forced to put her trust in a wolf spirit, Emilia sets off to search the land while pressured into feeding a monstrous power. Will the enigmatic figure she encounters offer guidance, or is Emilia diving head-first into peril?
Why similar: Metroidvania 45.1%, Platformer 13.7%, Side Scroller 10.3%, Retro 6.4%, Adventure 5.1%
Guide a lonely fox through a vast interconnected world of a mysterious planet Vulpis in this Metroidvania-style game. Explore non-linear paths, unlock new abilities, fight enemies, overcome obstacles, and unravel the planet's mysteries to find a way back home.
Why similar: Metroidvania 51.8%, Platformer 18.2%, Adventure 6.8%, Difficult 5.7%, Action 5%
Astronite Landing on Neplea is the prologue to this fantastic 1bit metroidvania that combines action, exploration, puzzles and platforms. Take on Astronite's first major challenge and defeat the deadly Kronch.
Why similar: Metroidvania 46.8%, Platformer 15.4%, Sci-fi 7.7%, Adventure 6.8%, Pixel Graphics 6.3%
Dive into a short story about stranded rebel fighting for his survival on a foreign mysterious planet which is a spaceship graveyard. Encounter scavengers fighting for valuable ship parts. Meet other survivors -help others to help yourself. An action platformer with metroidvania elements.
Why similar: Metroidvania 49.5%, Platformer 20.5%, Action 9.8%, Sci-fi 8.4%, Adventure 3.9%
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 46.7%, Retro 10.9%, Adventure 10.7%, Platformer 10.7%, Indie 8.6%
A challenging, 2D Platform Adventure game where all level mechanics can change if you don't stay balanced. Help Ethan to grow up and leave his roots in order to pursue his dreams, find clues about his past and fight against your nightmares in your journey to the Somnium Shore!
Why similar: Metroidvania 45.3%, Platformer 19.4%, Adventure 8.1%, Action 5.9%, Indie 4.6%
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 53.9%, Platformer 16%, Retro 6.1%, Difficult 5.9%, Adventure 4.6%
Face merciless gameplay to explore a cursed castle, discover the dark tales of its inhabitants, and kill the gods of a decaying world.
Why similar: Metroidvania 36.6%, Retro 12.5%, Platformer 12.3%, Indie 7.4%, Adventure 6.5%
Boasting beautiful, hand-drawn animations and a re-orchestrated soundtrack, the cult classic returns with a unique blend of exploration, action, and adventure!
Why similar: Metroidvania 36.3%, Platformer 21.5%, Retro 11.5%, Adventure 7%, Side Scroller 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 41.7%, Platformer 12.4%, Side Scroller 9%, Adventure 6.3%, Action 5%
Begin your adventure in Shattered Divinities to reveal the truth! Traverse the land where deities have perished, explore abandoned divine realms, battle mutated monsters, gather divine power to awaken your strength, and unveil the truth behind the deities’ fall.
Why similar: Metroidvania 52.3%, Platformer 16.2%, Adventure 7.8%, Indie 6.5%, 2D 4.3%
Hop into a Game Boy inspired metroidvania adventure! Explore a huge and open dungeon and find ability upgrades to help you in your quest! Can you survive the tiny dangerous dungeons and find the presumably huge treasure?
Why similar: Metroidvania 29.3%, Platformer 15.2%, Retro 14.6%, Adventure 9.8%, Indie 8.1%
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 48%, Platformer 12.9%, Retro 8.6%, Adventure 6.1%, Indie 5.5%
Hook your way through the colorful world of Lorera and solve its biggest mystery. From a little flower to a vicious warrior, Lorera is all about growth and persevering your way through obstacles.
Why similar: Metroidvania 26.4%, Platformer 12.1%, Adventure 10.8%, Retro 10.1%, Indie 9.3%
A game about saving a dying planet.
Why similar: Metroidvania 38.2%, Platformer 12.4%, Retro 10.1%, Side Scroller 7.8%, Adventure 5.9%
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 51.2%, Platformer 24.3%, Adventure 13.2%, Indie 11.3%
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 42%, Platformer 13.8%, Retro 11.7%, Side Scroller 8.2%, Adventure 6.6%
Welcome to the world of Glight, a dark fantasy side-scroller adventure by ATOMIC BREATH. On a daunting journey to recover something long lost, give form to your powers of light and darkness in a fast-flowing, super-tight platformer full of hidden shortcuts and devious secrets.
Why similar: Metroidvania 36%, Platformer 13.9%, Side Scroller 8.5%, Adventure 7%, Dark Fantasy 5.9%
"Once upon a time, there was a family of 4 who lived in a log cabin by the mines. Everything was cool. But one day somebody left the door open and all their pets ran away! This is the story of how they got them back."
Why similar: Metroidvania 49.5%, Retro 19.1%, Adventure 10%, Indie 8.3%, Pixel Graphics 7.3%
An ancient evil has been set loose, and Jonathan cursed in the process. Jonathan must now collect seven holy grails from around all of Egypt to cleanse himself of the curse of Sehur the First. Be delighted by the quirky humor, charming characters, and the beautifully designed world, in Pharaoh Rebirth+!
Why similar: Metroidvania 42.7%, Platformer 15.3%, Adventure 14.4%, Action 11.8%, Indie 11.1%
Unravel the mystery uncovered by a remote interplanetary mining operation. What did they find? What threat does it pose? And ultimately, what does it truly mean to be a hero?
Why similar: Metroidvania 51.4%, Adventure 14.1%, Platformer 13.9%, Indie 11.2%, Action 9.4%
Explore the ancient underground of this strange, alien world in this metroidvania platformer! Navigate your way through 9 different areas of the underground and encounter powerful bosses that make you stronger, open paths, or alter other areas of the world!
Why similar: Metroidvania 39.4%, Platformer 16.8%, Retro 12.1%, Adventure 9.8%, Action 8.5%
After Death is a platform / exploration game in a dark and hostile world. With the help from lost souls, you will have to find a way to open a gate which seems to be the only exit from this mysterious world infected by monsters.
Why similar: Metroidvania 46.4%, Retro 10.9%, Platformer 10%, Adventure 7.8%, Indie 6.4%
Sneak away from your boring family vacation and delve into ANCIENT RUINS! Borrow equipment from dead explorers and uncover the secrets of a lost civilization as you leave your parents worried sick. WARNING: The Ruby Chest may contain traces of an ancient curse (and gluten).
Why similar: Metroidvania 52.2%, Platformer 14.1%, Retro 11.2%, Indie 6.6%, Pixel Graphics 6.1%
