
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.
60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Adventure, Singleplayer, Time Manipulation, Indie.

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.

Collapse Relapse
Explore and collect upgrades before the timeloop resets! Collapse Relapse is a 2D platformer where you have to think and plan out your route in order to be able to escape in time, with secrets galore!

Mai: Child of Ages
Travel through time and help Mai and her Grandfather uncover the mysteries of the world after the Last Great War. Explore the connections between ancient eras and dystopian futures in an adventure that blends thrilling combat with precision platforming.
Explore and collect upgrades before the timeloop resets! Collapse Relapse is a 2D platformer where you have to think and plan out your route in order to be able to escape in time, with secrets galore!
Why similar: Time Manipulation 30.1% ★, Metroidvania 29.4%, Nonlinear 15.4%, Time Travel 14.5% ★, Atmospheric 3.5%
Travel through time and help Mai and her Grandfather uncover the mysteries of the world after the Last Great War. Explore the connections between ancient eras and dystopian futures in an adventure that blends thrilling combat with precision platforming.
Why similar: Time Travel 29.2% ★, Time Manipulation 21.1% ★, Metroidvania 19.8%, Puzzle Platformer 10%, Dark 6.5%
In a place of reality, a soul longs for an escape and is not alone; dark things are lurking but energy is your friend. Soulbound is an atmospheric metroidvania platformer packed with action where the past is your future.
Why similar: Metroidvania 22.2%, Time Manipulation 20.7% ★, Time Travel 19% ★, Difficult 10.7%, Dark 10.2%
Perceive the future in this time-loop metroidvania.
Why similar: Time Travel 31.9% ★, Metroidvania 23.7%, Time Manipulation 21% ★, Nonlinear 13.3%, Exploration 6.2%
Time is your greatest resource and secrets are your only upgrades. Master an unraveling time loop in this knowledge-based Metroidvania. As the last Weaver, exploit time-altering anomalies and use what you learn to break the cycle. Explore what remains. Uncover the mystery. Perfect the loop.
Why similar: Time Travel 26.2% ★, Time Manipulation 22.4% ★, Metroidvania 20.4%, Puzzle Platformer 9.1%, Puzzle 6.8%
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: Time Manipulation 24.5% ★, Metroidvania 22%, Time Travel 20.4% ★, Puzzle Platformer 9.4%, Puzzle 6.7%
Run, jump, rewind, and avoid a time paradox? A time-traveling gal changes the past where she drank tapioca to prevent the extinction of humanity in this time-loop action puzzle game!
Why similar: Time Travel 49.2% ★, Time Manipulation 35.6% ★, Puzzle 8.2%, Action 4.6%, Singleplayer 1.5%
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 32.8%, Puzzle Platformer 14.4%, Nonlinear 11.7%, Puzzle 8.8%, Exploration 8.8%
PARADOX is a puzzle-platformer about time traveling and avoiding paradoxes.
Why similar: Time Travel 33.4% ★, Time Manipulation 30.6% ★, Puzzle Platformer 13.9%, Difficult 13.1%, Puzzle 7.5%
Traverse a wonderful and strange world of cubes shrouded in fog in PITH, a 3D metroidvania adventure. Find tools to help delve deeper and uncover secrets that were hiding in plain sight.
Why similar: Metroidvania 34.5%, Puzzle Platformer 16.3%, Nonlinear 11.7%, Puzzle 7.9%, Lovecraftian 7.3%
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 28.2%, Nonlinear 14.6%, Dark 11.9%, Difficult 10.9%, Horror 8.9%
A lone man's journey through a strange world. Dimension switching mechanic - switch between the dimensions to traverse the world and solve puzzles.
Why similar: Time Manipulation 34.8% ★, Puzzle Platformer 15.1%, Dark 13.1%, Mystery 9.7%, Puzzle 8.9%
Dragon Loop is a metroidvania combining time travel and branching map design. Explore the large open world in a five day loop, opening up new worldlines. Explore a 2D, hand-drawn world, engage in fast-paced battles, and retrieve memories to shape the future.
Why similar: Time Travel 35.1% ★, Time Manipulation 25.9% ★, Metroidvania 24.6%, Side Scroller 7%, Multiple Endings 2.6%
Looppip is a magical seed that carries an ancient hourglass with the power to turn back time. Your mission is to save the bee hives, essential for the survival of life on Earth, and reverse the environmental collapse threatening nature.
Why similar: Time Travel 34.8% ★, Metroidvania 23.9%, Time Manipulation 20.8% ★, Puzzle Platformer 12.1%, Puzzle 6.5%
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 27.9%, Difficult 14.7%, Puzzle Platformer 13.4%, Lovecraftian 11.5%, Mystery 7.4%
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: Time Travel 28.8% ★, Metroidvania 20.8%, Nonlinear 17.1%, Difficult 10.8%, Side Scroller 9%
The heroine who lost her memory was trapped in a five-day loop. Connect with your partners to travel through a world with strange time changes, continue to become stronger, retrieve memories, and understand the truth. The game is a time loop Metroidvania.
Why similar: Time Travel 35.9% ★, Time Manipulation 34.4% ★, Metroidvania 25.1%, Action 2.6%, Adventure 1.4%
Hourturn is an atmospheric game that begins inside a large, constantly turning hourglass. You are a tiny grain of sand within it, striving to stop it and escape, but what awaits the grain of sand outside? Is this the only way to measure time?
Why similar: Time Travel 36.6% ★, Time Manipulation 19.3% ★, Mystery 10.1%, Dark 8.5%, Puzzle 8.4%
Run, glide, and grapple across an open world filled with floating islands. Armed with an Eye that gives you the power to rewind and accelerate time, use it to solve puzzles, fight enemies, and rescue your dragon friends.
Why similar: Time Travel 32.9% ★, Time Manipulation 32.1% ★, Puzzle Platformer 10.5%, Puzzle 8.2%, Exploration 7.1%
In Hourglass you can create a time-clone of yourself to solve challenging puzzles. You will play as Aywa, a young adventurer who is traveling to Egypt to find her missing father - an archeologist, who never returned from his latest expedition.
Why similar: Time Manipulation 18.8% ★, Time Travel 17.8% ★, Puzzle Platformer 16.6%, Difficult 11.8%, Puzzle 10.5%
In this "Arcade Metroidbrainia", the only thing that stops you from progressing are holes in your understanding. Use mechanics in clever unique ways to uncover secrets, or dodge randomly generated hazards to get highscores.
Why similar: Metroidvania 27.4%, Nonlinear 16.9%, Puzzle Platformer 12.3%, Puzzle 9.4%, Exploration 9.4%
You're stuck in a time loop – and you have five minutes to stop it.
Why similar: Time Travel 31.6% ★, Time Manipulation 26.9% ★, Nonlinear 13.6%, Mystery 7.6%, Puzzle 6.4%
In this platform game you will have to overcome challenging puzzles using a weapon capable of rewinding the time of an object.
Why similar: Time Manipulation 38.1% ★, Time Travel 22.1% ★, Puzzle Platformer 13.9%, Side Scroller 13.3%, Puzzle 11.6%
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 28.8%, Nonlinear 18.3%, Puzzle Platformer 15.1%, Exploration 8.8%, Puzzle 8.2%
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 29.7%, Nonlinear 15.8%, Puzzle Platformer 12.8%, Mystery 9%, Puzzle 8.6%
Stranded at sea in an alternate timeline, you must master a complex time travel system to find a way home while piecing together the mystery of an obsessed captain and his quest that led him to the Greenland Sea in search of a supernatural anomaly.
Why similar: Time Travel 34.8% ★, Nonlinear 14.9%, Mystery 11.2%, Time Manipulation 9.4% ★, Puzzle 9.3%
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 28.1%, Lovecraftian 21.1%, Side Scroller 11.4%, Difficult 9.8%, Horror 9.3%
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 30.5%, Difficult 15.7%, Dark 13.2%, Mystery 10.2%, Puzzle Platformer 9.3%
A game about nurturing friendships and celebrating the changing of seasons, where you play as Sunny, a cute little tanuki with the ability to control the flow of time just by walking around.
Why similar: Time Travel 44.7% ★, Time Manipulation 34.3% ★, Nonlinear 16.5%, Singleplayer 2.3%, Adventure 2.1%
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 25.9%, Dark 15.4%, Horror 11.9%, Puzzle Platformer 10.9%, Mystery 9.1%
You are Alex, a time-displaced astronaut unraveling the space station Theia doomed in both the war-torn 2185 and the post-apocalyptic 2385 to find your lost brother. Master an arsenal of time travel abilities and weapons in this sci-fi metroidvania FPS: Tempus Vitae.
Why similar: Time Manipulation 35.6% ★, Metroidvania 28.5%, Time Travel 22.5% ★, Horror 4.3%, Action 3.1%
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 33.4%, Puzzle Platformer 17.1%, Dark 14.1%, Side Scroller 10.2%, Puzzle 9.8%
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 24%, Lovecraftian 13.3%, Puzzle Platformer 12.5%, Demons 10.9%, Side Scroller 10.3%
As a small flea, explore a mysterious puzzle box filled with shapes and secrets. Gather strange items with hidden abilities, and unravel a trail of clues as you attempt to escape.
Why similar: Metroidvania 35.2%, Puzzle Platformer 15.5%, Nonlinear 10.1%, Puzzle 9.8%, Exploration 9.3%
BlockBot: Shape-shifting puzzle adventure in a vibrant pixel world. Transform, solve, explore. Each level unlocks new potential. Perfect for quick plays or long sessions, offering unique challenges every time you dive in.
Why similar: Metroidvania 30.2%, Time Manipulation 26.1% ★, Nonlinear 15.9%, Puzzle Platformer 15.4%, Puzzle 8.9%
A puzzle game about destroying your past self.
Why similar: Time Travel 31.4% ★, Time Manipulation 28.7% ★, Nonlinear 12.7%, Puzzle 8.1%, Mystery 6.3%
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 41%, Nonlinear 18.1%, Difficult 17.1%, Exploration 10.3%, Side Scroller 9.1%
《故障与漏洞世界》是一款平台解密游戏。你将探索这个未知且充满危险的世界,获取各种奇妙能力并发掘出意想不到的用法,最终解开这个世界的秘密。
Why similar: Metroidvania 42.3%, Nonlinear 22.1%, Puzzle Platformer 19.6%, Puzzle 10.7%, Adventure 4.2%
Five days is a fully open world, no limits time travel puzzle adventure. This game isn't just a time loop of the same day on repeat, this game lets you travel between five different days. Use your knowledge of the future and ability to travel to the past to assassinate a heavily defended king.
Why similar: Time Travel 39.1% ★, Time Manipulation 32% ★, Mystery 10.1%, Puzzle 8.2%, Exploration 7.6%
The world resets every three days, but not everything has to be forgotten. Choose what carries into the next loop as you uncover secrets in a cozy metroidvania set in a world of children's toys.
Why similar: Time Travel 47.7% ★, Metroidvania 29%, Exploration 8.6%, Multiple Endings 7.9%, Adventure 3.5%
The Sexy Brutale — a never-ending masked ball featuring intrigue, murder and the (quite possibly) occult! Relive the same mysterious day where the guests at the casino mansion are being murdered by the staff over and over again...
Why similar: Time Manipulation 35% ★, Time Travel 33.5% ★, Mystery 12.6%, Puzzle 11%, Adventure 3.3%
Master time in this time-bending sokoban-like puzzle game with a story. You travel back in time to be in two places at once, to solve puzzles impossible to complete alone. Your success hinges on your ability to collaborate with yourself. Can you learn to manipulate time to save humanity?
Why similar: Time Travel 43.1% ★, Time Manipulation 32.2% ★, Difficult 12.2%, Puzzle 7.5%, Multiple Endings 4.5%
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 24.9%, Nonlinear 16.1%, Puzzle Platformer 15.2%, Mystery 10.6%, Exploration 7.7%
You play as a father who has recently lost his son. Driven by grief, you embark on a time-bending journey in order to revive him back from the dead. But by the end of your journey, the horrors that you witness will make you question the credibility of your actions.
Why similar: Time Travel 41.4% ★, Lovecraftian 24.3%, Horror 10%, Mystery 7.8%, Puzzle 7.1%
Jump through time in an instant with an unprecedented level of freedom in an open world. After crash landing in the distant past Eleanor must use her time travelling powers to piece together her broken ship, rescue her crew and navigate through alternate futures full of dangers.
Why similar: Time Travel 33% ★, Time Manipulation 27% ★, Nonlinear 17%, Puzzle Platformer 10.9%, Puzzle 6.3%
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 28.8%, Nonlinear 19.9%, Mystery 15.7%, Exploration 11.7%, Puzzle 10.8%
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 21.5%, Horror 14.8%, Exploration 10.8%, Dark 7.8%
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 22.2%, Dark 14.8%, Puzzle Platformer 14%, Horror 12.1%, Puzzle 11.4%
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 29.7%, Nonlinear 23.8%, Difficult 18.2%, Puzzle 10.9%, Exploration 7.3%
Nightmare Tale is an interactive horror novel with dark secrets and intricate puzzles. Take control of the fate of the main character named Tom, who inherited an old hotel. You will have to keep your sanity while discovering the horrifying secrets of the hotel.
Why similar: Lovecraftian 24.3%, Nonlinear 19.2%, Horror 11.4%, Dark 9.5%, Puzzle 9%
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 30%, Puzzle Platformer 16.4%, Difficult 15.5%, Side Scroller 14%, Exploration 6.7%
Huoqi Xuezhong Temple is a 3D suspense exploration game. The ancient temple covered in heavy snow suddenly caught fire. A mysterious shadow transported you back three hours before the fire started. Faced with six people gathered at this temple with different purposes.
Why similar: Time Travel 42.2% ★, Nonlinear 16.6%, Puzzle Platformer 12%, Mystery 9.4%, Puzzle 8.8%
An interactive thriller about a man trapped in a time loop. Featuring James McAvoy, Daisy Ridley, and Willem Dafoe.
Why similar: Time Travel 38.8% ★, Time Manipulation 25.5% ★, Mystery 13.3%, Puzzle 10.2%, Adventure 3.8%
Chiaroscuro is a 2D adventure platformer with metroidvania elements. Explore a world that has fallen into darkness and discover the Lights to illuminate your forgotten past.
Why similar: Metroidvania 31%, Nonlinear 17.8%, Difficult 15.7%, Side Scroller 9.1%, Exploration 7.9%
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 36.4%, Lovecraftian 25.4%, Exploration 10%, Puzzle 7.6%, Puzzle Platformer 7%
Use your ability to go back in time to overcome obstacles and reach your goal. Are you ready to help your future self?
Why similar: Time Travel 47.1% ★, Time Manipulation 23.2% ★, Puzzle Platformer 16.7%, Side Scroller 5.8%, Adventure 5.7%
Explore a mysterious world where every melody can reveal a forgotten passage. Use your beak, your song and your knowledge to progress and uncover the many secrets buried deep within the Metroidvania Puzzle-Platformer that is TOUKAN.
Why similar: Metroidvania 34.9%, Puzzle Platformer 17.4%, Mystery 15.4%, Exploration 8.8%, Side Scroller 8.1%
Higher: The Last Dream is an immersive 2D platformer where you play as Starlight, a hero of light thrown into lost worlds, drained of all color and joy. But behind every world he crosses lies a truth he no longer remembers.
Why similar: Metroidvania 28.2%, Demons 14.2%, Nonlinear 13.9%, Side Scroller 11.3%, Dark 10.7%