60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Metroidvania, Adventure, Singleplayer, Exploration.
Outsmart your past self in a battle of cause and effect. Explore an interconnected clay world, discover its hidden rules, and uncover the secrets it would rather keep buried.
ANIMAL WELL
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.
Mold
Evolve your body further to survive this vast, yet dense, system of caves. You must use your wits to outsmart predators lurking in the dark and to solve puzzling challenges in order to further advance in this strange world.
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 33.3%, Puzzle Platformer 15.5%, Nonlinear 10.9%, Exploration 8.4%, Puzzle 7.6%
Evolve your body further to survive this vast, yet dense, system of caves. You must use your wits to outsmart predators lurking in the dark and to solve puzzling challenges in order to further advance in this strange world.
Why similar: Metroidvania 30.1%, Nonlinear 14.5%, Puzzle Platformer 13.8%, Exploration 7.6%, Puzzle 7.4%
Play as Timmy, whisked into a mysterious cat realm invaded by monsters. Journey through enchanting realms, solve puzzles, and harness new abilities to save this world—and maybe your own—in a cozy, dark, and hand-drawn 2D adventure full of secrets and quirky cats.
Why similar: Metroidvania 34.5%, Puzzle Platformer 18.7%, Dark 12.8%, Puzzle 8.7%, Side Scroller 7.8%
Endure... Evolve... Or Die. Embrace the unknown and traverse a vast alien world riddled with bizarre creatures, deadly hazards, and grim mysteries. Seek redemption, and confront the terrifying sin buried in the depths of the forgotten planet Protea VI.
Why similar: Metroidvania 31.6%, Nonlinear 14.8%, Dark 11.7%, Horror 9%, Difficult 8.4%
The NONOLITH consumes you. Copy and paste the world around you to discover the secrets of this ancient, enigmatic structure. You are very powerful, you just don't know it yet.
Why similar: Metroidvania 30.8%, Nonlinear 17.6%, Puzzle Platformer 17.1%, Exploration 8.7%, Puzzle 7.5%
Explore unearthly ruins, solve arcane riddles and pick up your sword against the indescribable horrors that lurk amidst the forgotten depths of our world. Beware the creeping grip of madness as you uncover secrets not meant for the eyes of men!
Why similar: Metroidvania 32.3%, Puzzle Platformer 16.5%, Difficult 11.7%, Lovecraftian 8.8%, Exploration 7.9%
A wordless metroidvania through fog-covered ruins and the remnants of a lost world. Explore, gain new abilities and uncover meaning without guidance or dialogue.
Why similar: Metroidvania 30%, Puzzle Platformer 13.7%, Nonlinear 11.6%, Dark 8%, Exploration 7.7%
GREENFIELD is a story driven puzzle-platformer set in a lonely atmospheric world. Embark the surreal depths of a fractured mind and a forgotten island facility in search of answers to a haunting mystery.
Why similar: Metroidvania 23.5%, Puzzle Platformer 15.8%, Dark 13.9%, Horror 11.6%, Puzzle 10.3%
In MONOMOON, the way forward is reserved for the knowing and the daring. Guided by moonlight, you’ll uncover hidden truths and wander through a tiny and mysterious open world.
Why similar: Metroidvania 32%, Nonlinear 18.1%, Puzzle Platformer 15.9%, Exploration 8.1%, Puzzle 7.9%
Document an ancient paradise before it's lost forever. Study the behaviour of the EMUUROM creatures and use the gained knowledge to create new paths forward. Slowly, the machinations of the mythic forest sprites begin to unfold.
Why similar: Metroidvania 30.9%, Puzzle Platformer 15.6%, Nonlinear 15%, Exploration 8%, Puzzle 7.7%
How might life inside Artificial Intelligence be like? Is it possible to stop this painful routine? This life even real or not? Try your luck...
Why similar: Metroidvania 28.6%, Dark 15%, Puzzle Platformer 12.8%, Horror 11.9%, Exploration 8.8%
Help a small body save a head-like organism full of air, from a leak that threatens its life. Explore their Metroidvania-style world and overcome challenging environmental puzzles to find the key to the head's survival.
Why similar: Metroidvania 28.6%, Puzzle Platformer 15.6%, Dark 7.4%, Surreal 7.3%, Difficult 7.3%
A pure exploration and puzzle adventure on a dangerous alien world. Solve environmental challenges through logic, experimentation, and clever use of versatile tools. Sneak past enemies, plan your moves, and hunt down the 23 sacred talismans to earn your escape—or face eternal captivity.
Why similar: Metroidvania 34.8%, Dark 13.3%, Difficult 12.3%, Puzzle Platformer 11.2%, Puzzle 7.6%
Embark on an unforgettable adventure with Uncle Che! Explore a vibrant 2D world, battle whimsical enemies, and uncover secrets to retrieve the stolen ingredients and save the recipe for legendary bread in this charming Metroidvania.
Why similar: Metroidvania 45.9%, Nonlinear 18.3%, Difficult 13.1%, Exploration 10.7%, Side Scroller 7.5%
Cursed to lose your mind during a planetary exploration, You only have your wits to help you through the perils of you own psyche. Playing as Jorvin the rat, with mechanics similar to "Prince of Persia", defeat your demons and find peace with yourself.
Why similar: Metroidvania 27.4%, Puzzle Platformer 15.2%, Lovecraftian 10%, Demons 9.3%, Dark 8.9%
Selenetrope is a survival horror game where you play as a lab grown homunculus struggling to survive in a base below the surface of an exoplanetary moon. Battle your insane and misbegotten brothers and stave off a raging fever that threatens to destroy you from within.
Why similar: Nonlinear 26.9%, Metroidvania 23.9%, Horror 14.9%, Exploration 11.1%, Dark 7.6%
A 2D pixel-art metroidvania where you fight using elemental spirits instead of basic attacks. Explore, collect, and solve puzzles in a magical forest.
Why similar: Metroidvania 33.3%, Puzzle Platformer 19.3%, Difficult 11.8%, Side Scroller 11.5%, Exploration 6.9%
As punishment for dirtying Olympus's marble halls, Sisyphus, the dung beetle, must push his ball of dung up and down Mount Olympus every day, for the rest of his life. That is, unless he can complete the seemingly impossible task of reaching Olympus before the sun sets
Why similar: Metroidvania 37.7%, Puzzle Platformer 20.4%, Nonlinear 18.8%, Exploration 10.6%, Puzzle 8.8%
Explore the haunting, dreamlike fantasy world of BEFORE I GO, a punishing Metroidvania where you embody the innocence of an inner child on an allegorical odyssey towards death acceptance. The end is inevitable, but will you brave the journey?
Why similar: Metroidvania 36.7%, Nonlinear 16.1%, Difficult 12.9%, Side Scroller 8.1%, Surreal 7.6%
Explore a mind and space-bending labyrinth, overcome challenging obstacles, and discover many strange secrets. Distort the walls around you to reach otherwise inaccessible locations.
Why similar: Metroidvania 33.6%, Nonlinear 24.3%, Difficult 14.1%, Puzzle 10.5%, Exploration 7.7%
Amalu: Wells Between Worlds is a pixel-art 2D platformer, and Metroidvania blending Atmospheric exploration, Spell-casting puzzle mechanics, Amazigh/North African mythology and an emotional storytelling
Why similar: Metroidvania 40.8%, Puzzle Platformer 20%, Nonlinear 17.7%, Exploration 12.2%, Action 3.2%
Lovecraft Tales is an atmospheric, dark puzzle-adventure game set in Lovecraft's universe.
Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 21.9%, Dark 13.7%, Lovecraftian 12.5%, Horror 11.7%, Puzzle 9.7%
Rocket-jump using exploding fireballs, unlock abilities and master an ever-growing movement system. After descending into a broken underworld, you must learn to traverse Satan Hill. Explore the non-linear corners of the underworld, find secrets, defeat demons and reclaim the Eye of Evil.
Why similar: Metroidvania 39.3%, Nonlinear 21.3%, Psychedelic 9.2%, Exploration 8.9%, Dark 8.1%
Explore the surreal city of Voidsk in a first-person atmospheric Metroidvania. Unlock new abilities, uncover hidden places, and choose your own path through its quiet, unsettling streets.
Why similar: Metroidvania 24.1%, Nonlinear 16.6%, Psychedelic 10.6%, Dark 10.2%, Horror 7.5%
Aleya's Ascent is a metroidvania inspired by Celeste and Hollow Knight. Explore a cosmic mountain range and find strange temples, hidden labyrinths, and ancient artifacts while overcoming platforming challenges, punishing fights and chase sequences to return star fragments to the night sky.
Why similar: Metroidvania 33.3%, Nonlinear 17.5%, Puzzle Platformer 16.6%, Difficult 10.5%, Side Scroller 10.1%
Nakawak is a handheld style Metroidvania. Explore! Power Up! Escape! This is a retro game displaced in time. Now features expanded content!
Why similar: Metroidvania 33.6%, Lovecraftian 16.6%, Side Scroller 10.1%, Horror 10.1%, Difficult 8%
Explore, jump, and golf your way through a haunted fantasy world filled with challenges and nefarious monsters.
Why similar: Metroidvania 32.8%, Nonlinear 18.3%, Puzzle Platformer 17.4%, Exploration 9%, Side Scroller 8.2%
Explore a broken world. Fight with a silent machine. Solve puzzles that break the rules. The game has already begun, even on this page.
Why similar: Metroidvania 32.9%, Nonlinear 20.6%, Exploration 12.4%, Puzzle 10.6%, Mystery 10.3%
Lyden Lys is a knowledge-based metroidvania about an existential journey through a lost homeland. Control the surroundings through music, explore a smoldering world, discover what happened to your people, decide the fate of your successors, and find yourself.
Why similar: Metroidvania 36.2%, Puzzle Platformer 18.9%, Nonlinear 17.4%, Exploration 9.1%, Puzzle 8.6%
Harness the power of the elements in a thrilling 2D Metroidvania adventure! Traverse a plague-stricken kingdom, face deadly foes, and uncover the truth behind a devastating storm. With handcrafted environments and challenging combat, shape your destiny in a world teetering on the edge of ruin.
Why similar: Metroidvania 45.5%, Puzzle Platformer 19.6%, Side Scroller 13.1%, Puzzle 6.7%, Dark 5.3%
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 42.4%, Difficult 12.5%, Side Scroller 11.4%, Exploration 9.9%, Atmospheric 7.9%
Press one button to switch between timelines. Use this time-flip device to find and liberate missing people. Lead them out by switching the world state. You carry no weapons, so you must time-flip your way around the enemies and violence.
Why similar: Metroidvania 30%, Puzzle Platformer 13.6%, Time Travel 12.9% ★, Psychedelic 11.2%, Puzzle 7.8%
Explore an interconnected world full of platforming challenges in this short metroidvania. Reach new areas by swinging from ceilings, throwing bombs, bouncing off spikes, and more. Examine dozens of artifacts, commune with forgotten gods, and piece together what happened to Auridia.
Why similar: Metroidvania 46.8%, Lovecraftian 13.7%, Exploration 11.9%, Puzzle 7.1%, Atmospheric 6.8%
It is a simple game. Help Chibisi make a pie. Simply collect five apples and the victory is yours. But you must not think if there is something hidden there...
Why similar: Metroidvania 22.1%, Nonlinear 19%, Dark 14.4%, Puzzle Platformer 13.6%, Puzzle 9.3%
2D-Action-Platformer with terrain transformation. Place tiles to reach new heights, block incoming projectiles, or hide yourself from the enemy. All abilities/weapons acquired are equipped at all times. Stand still and hold fire for a laser beam, move and fire for a bubble, move and hold to roll…
Why similar: Metroidvania 32.4%, Nonlinear 20%, Side Scroller 10.4%, Dark 9.5%, Surreal 6.8%
Leap Year is a clumsy platformer about knowledge and discovery. Explore a compact, hand drawn world filled with hidden paths. Understand the game’s secrets to reach new areas and collect all the pages of your calendar.
Why similar: Metroidvania 32.8%, Nonlinear 19.5%, Puzzle Platformer 19.4%, Exploration 10%, Puzzle 8.3%
Use your soul as a grappling hook in this tight, non-linear, physics-based platformer. Swing through hundreds of hand-crafted challenges, explore a vast world inspired by classic metroidvanias, and find your place within the seasons of the Afterlife.
Why similar: Metroidvania 33.8%, Puzzle Platformer 17.9%, Nonlinear 17%, Exploration 8.7%, Puzzle 8.2%
Tool Land is an adventure exploration platformer puzzle game. Collect tools with unique functions, uncover the secrets behind various mechanisms, and explore every corner of this hand-drawn doodle art world!
Why similar: Metroidvania 34.4%, Puzzle Platformer 23.6%, Nonlinear 20.2%, Puzzle 10%, Exploration 8%
Slime Well is a Metroidvania-style puzzle game where players take control of a slime, skillfully using its abilities to solve puzzles, explore, and ultimately uncover the truth of this world.
Why similar: Metroidvania 44%, Nonlinear 19.9%, Psychedelic 13.9%, Puzzle 12.8%, Adventure 8%
A nameless skeleton awakens in a graveyard. To recover lost memories and uncover the truth, it embarks on a journey of self-discovery.
Why similar: Metroidvania 45.9%, Puzzle Platformer 22.3%, Exploration 13.8%, Puzzle 9.7%, Adventure 3.9%
A 2D puzzle-platformer where you light your way through the darkness. Play as the Light, exploring an abandoned civilization where you find a suit of armor that seems to have magical properties. Suit up using the powers of the suit to channel your light magic to see what this strange place hides.
Why similar: Metroidvania 41.5%, Puzzle Platformer 20.3%, Side Scroller 13.5%, Exploration 12.9%, Puzzle 7.7%
Being Food is a third-person, Bird Game. In this puzzle-platformer, you play as a cute bird named Oolahla in what starts seemingly like a normal bird day. Something is different about today, though... Do you know what it takes to be a bird? Will you survive the bird day?
Why similar: Metroidvania 35.8%, Puzzle Platformer 20.9%, Psychedelic 14.7%, Puzzle 10.8%, Exploration 10.4%
SHOOT NOT TO KILL? use The Matter Gun to traverse this one of a kind 2d PUZZLE-platformer (metroidvania/brania). Drop into the lab, explore the caves, discover new types of matter, uncover secrets, and try not to cause the end of the world...or something.
Why similar: Metroidvania 46.6%, Puzzle Platformer 24.4%, Exploration 14%, Puzzle 10.7%, Adventure 3.5%
A minimalist puzzle platformer where each level is more than they seem. Change your perspective on levels to discover new areas. Explore the world to unearth its hidden secrets.
Why similar: Metroidvania 29.8%, Puzzle Platformer 19.3%, Nonlinear 17.4%, Exploration 8.6%, Puzzle 7.7%
Seven: Reboot is a cryptic experimental puzzle game. It consists of a wide variety of puzzles of all difficulties. It’s a game about numbers and their meaning. Make notes, construct theories, communicate with other players and solve the mysteries of Seven!
Why similar: Metroidvania 25.7%, Nonlinear 16.1%, Psychedelic 11.3%, Difficult 9.6%, Puzzle 8.7%
Atmospheric FPS action, with puzzles, with spheres. Shoot, rotate, survive: unlock your path through a tight maze filled with spherical dangers. The Blank space is leaking out... Find a Mindgun.
Why similar: Metroidvania 32.8%, Dark 11.7%, Difficult 10.1%, Surreal 9.2%, Puzzle 8.6%
Scale into ever-smaller nested worlds. Shrink into your spaceship's mechanisms. Uncover the fractal worlds within and meet the zany goobers who call them home. Track down the root of the system errors, whether by replacing old gears or getting Grandma Beetle's bakery back in business.
Why similar: Metroidvania 37.6%, Puzzle Platformer 24.1%, Exploration 12.8%, Surreal 10.4%, Puzzle 6.9%
Nerdtastic Norman is a 2d scrolling puzzle platformer set in purgatory based on Dante's Inferno. Over 70 unique levels, dangerously hard boss battles, and 1 unique story. Help Norman gather the missing pieces of his shattered soul, and help him return to the land of the living.
Why similar: Metroidvania 42.1%, Puzzle Platformer 21.8%, Dark 11.8%, Exploration 6.3%, Atmospheric 5.8%
Embark on a journey through a hand-drawn world of Bleeding Deities inspired by ancient tribes and their beliefs. Unveil dark secrets, face ruthless challenges, and confront evil deities as you search for the Legendary Baktun Stone. Will you restore peace to your people?
Why similar: Metroidvania 27.4%, Nonlinear 20.4%, Time Travel 17.5% ★, Difficult 9.7%, Side Scroller 8.8%
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 57.1%, Difficult 16.2%, Exploration 8.2%, Puzzle 7.5%, Puzzle Platformer 3.8%
A boy, home alone, wanders into a shadowy underworld of knights and skeletons. Navigate a cunning labyrinth, find keys, solve color puzzles, and dodge foes in this gripping side-scroller. Uncover secrets in a haunting, nonlinear adventure.
Why similar: Metroidvania 43.7%, Puzzle Platformer 16.6%, Side Scroller 14.9%, Puzzle 13.8%, Adventure 5.7%
You are about to get on a journey around small planet-like worlds as if you were in the Little Prince's world. However, these ones are filled with monsters that are striving to kill you, deadly traps and riddles, which require you to be quick-witted and attentive.
Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 14.9%, Psychedelic 13.8%, Lovecraftian 13.6%, Dark 12.9%, Difficult 10.5%
Explore an alien ecosystem that reshapes itself each time you die. Mutate to reach new areas and adapt to your surroundings. Find your own way to brave the planet’s dangers and unearth its deepest secrets.
Why similar: Metroidvania 32.8%, Puzzle Platformer 16.5%, Nonlinear 15.9%, Difficult 10.2%, Exploration 8.9%
Uncertain of his sister's fate, a boy enters LIMBO
Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 39.1%, Dark 17.1%, Puzzle 11.7%, Horror 8.4%, Atmospheric 7.3%
A Retro Metroidvania focused heavily on Exploration, Puzzle Solving Combat and Platforming.
Why similar: Metroidvania 40.1%, Puzzle Platformer 23.1%, Nonlinear 19.6%, Exploration 11.3%, Action 2.5%
EX VITRO is a dark sci-fi 2D platformer where you delve into the ruins of a military research facility and discover the horrors within. Whether machine, creature, or something else entirely, you’ll face the violent legacy of the last survivors of humanity.
Why similar: Metroidvania 40.1%, Nonlinear 20.9%, Exploration 10.9%, Horror 10.4%, Dark 7.8%
Uncover the truth behind your death and your sibling’s in a story-driven precision platformer inspired by the Pied Piper myth. Navigate a decaying, interconnected world where movement is your only defense. No combat, only precision, consequence, and secrets hidden in the dark.
Why similar: Metroidvania 33%, Puzzle Platformer 12.7%, Difficult 12.2%, Exploration 10.3%, Dark 8.6%
Ceaseless hunger draws you yet a bit closer to the gates of Foghorn. Devour men and beasts alike to acquire a wide array of combat abilities. Through shadows and mold, track down the paling memories of this bygone kingdom, all in a classic hand-drawn action platformer.
Why similar: Metroidvania 36.4%, Nonlinear 15.8%, Difficult 13.2%, Exploration 9.1%, Surreal 9%
Educe is a 2D pixel art "Metroidbrainia" puzzle game where the world is your blueprint. Physically rearrange the screens of a forgotten laboratory to navigate a sprawling, non-linear maze. With no combat and a focus on logic, you must shift the environment itself to educe the path forward.
Why similar: Metroidvania 64.3%, Exploration 14.8%, Puzzle 13.7%, Adventure 7.2%
Explore the ruins of an ancient city. Solve puzzles to unlock new paths, abilities, and forgotten lore. Read the lost stories you uncover to gain insight into a tangled web of mysteries. Using only your wits and your trusty torch to guide you, you must find a way to return light to a starless sky.
Why similar: Metroidvania 34.7%, Nonlinear 23.2%, Puzzle 11.2%, Exploration 10.8%, Mystery 8.6%
