
A Retro Metroidvania focused heavily on Exploration, Puzzle Solving Combat and Platforming.
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A Retro Metroidvania focused heavily on Exploration, Puzzle Solving Combat and Platforming.

Tater Spud
Explore, fight, and platform through a world of deadly plants as a lone potato, Tater Spud, in search of powerups and the answers behind the flora that was once safe.

Amalu, Wells between worlds
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
Explore, fight, and platform through a world of deadly plants as a lone potato, Tater Spud, in search of powerups and the answers behind the flora that was once safe.
Why similar: Metroidvania 30.7%, Nonlinear 14.3%, PvE 13.3%, Platformer 11.5%, Exploration 8.9%
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 34%, Puzzle Platformer 20%, Nonlinear 13.5%, Exploration 11.4%, Platformer 11.1%
Dreeg is a multi-dimensional Metroidvania adventure. Shift between three parallel dimensions to explore, solve puzzles, and battle fierce enemies. Upgrade your Pulsar Suit and Forge to unlock unique abilities. Unravel the mysteries, avenge your fallen companion, and save the multiverse.
Why similar: Metroidvania 26.1%, Puzzle Platformer 17.1%, Nonlinear 12.7%, PvE 11.4%, Platformer 9.9%
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 35.1%, Puzzle Platformer 19.7%, Nonlinear 10.5%, Platformer 10%, Exploration 9.9%
Alwa’s Legacy is a modern retro game full of dangerous dungeons, mystic items and ancient secrets. Upgrade your magic and choose your own path in this non-linear adventure game brimming with exploration.
Why similar: Metroidvania 31.3%, Puzzle Platformer 19.3%, Platformer 11.1%, Exploration 8.2%, Action-Adventure 8%
A small crisis control team has been summoned to help a civilization in the sky escape impending doom! Explore dungeons, solve puzzles, and find lots of treasure to help prepare yourself for incredible challenges!
Why similar: Metroidvania 24.8%, Puzzle Platformer 20.8%, Nonlinear 12%, Platformer 11.5%, Exploration 10%
House of Shadow is an action-adventure metroidvania wherein you wield the powers of darkness! Explore, traverse obstacles, battle monsters born of light, slay fearsome bosses, and claim the Shadow Throne!
Why similar: Metroidvania 36.3%, Nonlinear 14.5%, Action-Adventure 12.3%, Exploration 10.1%, Platformer 6.9%
Embark on a heartfelt Mushroomvania adventure through a vast and dense interconnected world! It's like a mix of retro and modern classics!
Why similar: Metroidvania 41.3%, Platformer 11.3%, Exploration 10.6%, Action-Adventure 9.1%, Nonlinear 8%
Treasure Adventure Game casts you in the role of a young boy who lands on an island that is a fragment of what was once a continent, destroyed in the war between a demon and a wizard.
Why similar: Metroidvania 40.3%, Puzzle Platformer 21.3%, Nonlinear 13.3%, Platformer 11.9%, Action 3.5%
A Metroidvania puzzle adventure. You arrive at a sentient building filled with intriguing interactive props. Learning to use these tools is how it communicates with you.
Why similar: Metroidvania 34.6%, Puzzle Platformer 28.3%, Platformer 18.5%, Exploration 11.3%, Pixel Graphics 5.2%
Venture into the wast world of Delta's Discs, while collecting discs that will help Delta, a duck knight, recover his memories, make new friends and overthrow the squirrel dictatorship.
Why similar: Metroidvania 26.4%, Puzzle Platformer 17.1%, Nonlinear 11.9%, PvE 11.3%, Platformer 9.8%
Take a dive in the world of Plungeez, a puzzle platformer where Bonnie, a fierce woman who, after falling in the underground, must explore the sewers of Salvador in search of a way out. Light torches, boilers, and use plungers to climb and solve puzzles!
Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 29.7%, Metroidvania 24.2%, Platformer 20.7%, Nonlinear 13.8%, Pixel Graphics 7.7%
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 39.9%, Puzzle Platformer 25.2%, Exploration 13.4%, Platformer 13%, Pixel Graphics 4%
You're trapped, alone and cold on a distant planet. Pursued by a droid with only one purpose: killing everything. You must find an escape. Explore the hostile environment, find secret upgrades and new weapons, and finally make your escape from this dark, hostile planet...
Why similar: Metroidvania 49.2%, Platformer 19.3%, Exploration 10.8%, Action-Adventure 9.4%, Action 7.8%
You have stumbled into a world shrouded in darkness, where your body has transformed into that of a strange creature. Using your ability to dispel the darkness, you must explore and learn within this mysterious realm, uncovering the truth of this world while seeking a way to return to your own.
Why similar: Metroidvania 33.3%, Puzzle Platformer 21.6%, Platformer 12%, Exploration 10.1%, Action-Adventure 8.6%
"Switch Box" is a 2D pixel-art puzzle platformer. In an unfamiliar world, you must interact with the environment and utilize tools to solve challenges, overcome obstacles, and ultimately discover the path back home.
Why similar: Metroidvania 29.7%, Puzzle Platformer 26.6%, Platformer 14.4%, Action-Adventure 8.7%, Exploration 6.7%
ATARAXIE, in the pure style of retro games, ties itself with the SNES Gaming era and embrace difficulty, for it wishes to give experienced gamers/players the test they are really looking for!
Why similar: Metroidvania 33.1%, Platformer 15.1%, Action-Adventure 12%, Nonlinear 10.4%, PvE 8%
The Duduk Master, is a 2D platform game, with RPG elements that tells the story of a hero who was transformed into a monster, beside him are essential elemental skills to defeat his enemies and of course a powerful magic Duduk that can perform enchantments while playing some melodies.
Why similar: Metroidvania 26.3%, Puzzle Platformer 16.5%, Platformer 11.5%, Action-Adventure 8.9%, RPG 8.1%
Hell Being is a metroidvania where the player explores hell as a hell-born creature, face its challenges and monsters to unlock new powers and find a way out from the injustice of being born in this place.
Why similar: Metroidvania 44.5%, PvE 16.7%, Platformer 13.8%, Action-Adventure 9.4%, Pixel Graphics 7.4%
Pathfinder 08 is a fun and challenging adventure. It is a platform game with a focus on exploration and retro inspiration with some RPG elements.
Why similar: Metroidvania 40.9%, Action-Adventure 13.7%, Exploration 11.6%, Nonlinear 10.8%, Pixel Graphics 6.2%
Welcome to the Great Library of Dreams, where chaos has just been unleashed! Play as The Agent in this fantasy 3D Metroidvania filled to the brim with surprising secrets, daring traversal, confounding puzzles and menacing monkeys. Rid the library of the creatures wreaking havoc and bring back order!
Why similar: Metroidvania 31.1%, Puzzle Platformer 20.5%, Nonlinear 12.8%, Platformer 10.5%, Exploration 8.5%
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 40.1%, Puzzle Platformer 23.4%, Exploration 13.5%, Action-Adventure 8%, Action 4.2%
A mini metroidvania game about a small but very courageous slime going on an adventure, featuring colorful pixelated visuals and chiptune songs.
Why similar: Metroidvania 30.9%, Nonlinear 13.1%, Platformer 12.1%, Exploration 9.3%, Action-Adventure 8.2%
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 34.8%, Puzzle Platformer 22.6%, Nonlinear 15.8%, Platformer 11.3%, Exploration 10.9%
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 28.9%, Puzzle Platformer 20.6%, Nonlinear 15.7%, Platformer 10.9%, Exploration 9.9%
Tim-Tim the Gnome must journey through mysterious dungeons to find his kidnapped girlfriend while battling fierce monsters with dubious origins.
Why similar: Metroidvania 37.6%, Platformer 14.8%, RPG 8.6%, Action-Adventure 8.6%, Pixel Graphics 6.8%
Accompany Armin, a young apprentice, on the swashbuckling adventure of a lifetime to discover the fate of his lost father, learn the magical arts of blacksmithing, and rise to meet a destructive force threatening his homeland before time runs out.
Why similar: Metroidvania 33.5%, Puzzle Platformer 23.9%, Action-Adventure 11.4%, Platformer 10.9%, Pixel Graphics 8%
Explore the mysterious island of Kindara in this vibrant 2D action-adventure. Fight and platform your way through jungles, icy peaks, castles, and crystal caverns in a non-linear interconnected world. Adventure awaits!
Why similar: Metroidvania 36.2%, Nonlinear 17.6%, Exploration 9.9%, Platformer 9.3%, Action-Adventure 7.8%
Cryselts is a 2D pixel-art Metroidvania focused on exploration, modular suits, and ranged combat, set in a hostile world corrupted by a mutagenic threat. Join the Cryselts, an elite task force designed to protect the planet.
Why similar: Metroidvania 36.6%, Nonlinear 14.7%, Platformer 14.1%, Exploration 12.1%, Action-Adventure 9.8%
Three quality games in one package! A short but sweet metroidvania with Pix Eliz 1, a unique mix of card game and platforming in Pix Eliz 2, and an adventurous platformer which constantly renew itself in Pix Eliz 3! Playable in english and in french!
Why similar: Metroidvania 32.6%, Puzzle Platformer 19.7%, PvE 10.9%, Exploration 10.7%, Platformer 8.8%
Naru-Morph! is a 2D action platformer featuring a morphing gimmick.Utilize various abilities unique to each morph to explore the world, defeat fierce enemies, and to reach the Heavens!
Why similar: Metroidvania 47.2%, PvE 18.9%, Platformer 15.6%, Action 4.9%, 2D 4.5%
Refactor is a physics-based platformer taking elements from classic Metroidvanias. Placed in a world that is a puzzle itself, you can literally turn the world upside down by rearranging the map and building your own pathways through the game.
Why similar: Metroidvania 48.3%, Puzzle Platformer 31.6%, Platformer 13.3%, Action 5.2%, Adventure 0.9%
Experience a adventure in a seamless world of food, where you play as a brave bread. Freely explore interconnected regions, uncover hidden secrets, collect items to enhance your abilities, tackle challenging stages, and defeat formidable foes.
Why similar: Metroidvania 44.2%, Platformer 16.1%, Action-Adventure 11.3%, RPG 9.1%, Pixel Graphics 5.8%
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 31.3%, Puzzle Platformer 18.7%, Nonlinear 16.2%, Platformer 9.8%, Exploration 8.8%
Junklands is a 3D action-platformer that thrusts Rahr, a brave paper fledgling, into a polluted world ruled by its toxic overlords. Forced from home, Rahr must navigate smog-filled lands and sludge-choked rivers on a perilous quest to cleanse the Junklands and restore life.
Why similar: Metroidvania 30.1%, Puzzle Platformer 19.3%, Nonlinear 15.2%, Platformer 10.8%, Action-Adventure 10%
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 31.6%, Puzzle Platformer 21.1%, Nonlinear 16.5%, Platformer 10.6%, Exploration 10%
"The Throne" is a medieval adventure in true Metroidvania style. Get lost in a huge castle with 2.5D pixel art environments and increase your power with new abilities you find along the way. Fight fearsome bosses and navigate dangerous traps to make your way to the throne room!
Why similar: Metroidvania 35.2%, Platformer 14.7%, Action-Adventure 11.3%, Exploration 9.7%, PvE 9.7%
This adventure is about you waking up in this world named Twell. The only thing you can do now is explore what this world has to offer. Explore 8 unique dungeons, discover many secrets and visit many locations.
Why similar: Metroidvania 37.1%, RPG 14.3%, Exploration 10.2%, Nonlinear 8.3%, Action-Adventure 8.3%
Ariana must restore the Codices and unravel the Library's hidden truths...
Why similar: Metroidvania 45.3%, Platformer 15.5%, Action-Adventure 10.8%, Exploration 7.1%, Action 5.3%
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 32.9%, Puzzle Platformer 18.1%, Nonlinear 14.4%, Platformer 11.1%, Exploration 9.3%
Embark on a grand adventure in Phoenotopia! An action-adventure puzzle platformer inspired by the great classics. Meet charming townsfolk, brave the dungeons, and thwart evil in your quest to save your family.
Why similar: Metroidvania 33.9%, Puzzle Platformer 20.2%, Platformer 14.8%, Action-Adventure 8.1%, Pixel Graphics 5.1%
PorBor is a metroidvania set in a mutated civilization due to a past destructive event. Slash through enemies to form a collectable substance, forcing you to engage with close and quick combat. Explore this varied overgrown world as Bor to prevent another event, and learn about the mind of a god...
Why similar: Metroidvania 37.5%, PvE 13.8%, Platformer 13.3%, Nonlinear 12.8%, Exploration 12.5%
Ghoulboy is a retro-inspired action platformer. Explore a magical realm of dungeons, towns, treasures and devious monsters.
Why similar: Metroidvania 27%, Puzzle Platformer 19.6%, Platformer 14%, Action-Adventure 9%, Exploration 6.6%
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 33.5%, Puzzle Platformer 21%, Nonlinear 14.7%, Platformer 11.6%, Exploration 9.4%
Take command of the Wolf Knight to help him remember his dramatic past life through a story driven adventure and test your skills in this challenging Metroidvania game with die and retry platforming features happening in the fantastic 2D hand drawned world of Aurora.
Why similar: Metroidvania 31.1%, Puzzle Platformer 17.8%, Platformer 11.6%, Action-Adventure 8.8%, Exploration 8.1%
The Flat Kingdom is a beautiful and peaceful 2D land, but now it’s threatened by an evil thief and becoming 3D! The only who can stop the chaos is Flat, a little hero able to change into a circle, triangle or square in order to solve puzzles, overcome obstacles and defeat giant bosses!
Why similar: Metroidvania 38.7%, Puzzle Platformer 21.8%, Platformer 21%, Action-Adventure 9.7%, Action 6.4%
Silvercall – A retro action-platformer RPG. Play as an amnesiac adventurer, battling through perilous terrain and collecting Memory Crystals to uncover your past and your lover's dark transformation into the "Saintess".
Why similar: Metroidvania 43.7%, Platformer 15%, Action-Adventure 11.6%, RPG 10.2%, Pixel Graphics 6.4%
Little Nemo and his friends return for a hand-animated metroidvania adventure! Explore magical dream worlds with Nemo, the Princess of Slumberland, the mischievious Flip, and royal guard Peony as they try to stop the Nightmare Fiends from ruling over dreams forever.
Why similar: Metroidvania 41.4%, Nonlinear 16.2%, Platformer 14.6%, Exploration 13.9%, Magic 4.9%
Stranded in a strange tropical paradise, you must find a way to escape, but things may be deeper than they seem. Havenlocked is a 1bit top-down adventure focusing on item-based exploration of two intertwined worlds! Explore and uncover the many secrets of the haven and its abyss.
Why similar: Metroidvania 30.9%, Puzzle Platformer 23%, Action-Adventure 10.8%, RPG 10.2%, Exploration 9.5%
Jump, dash, and swim in this epic adventure! Explore the vast Aztec lands in an axolotl action-platformer! Xolotl is a cute, 2D action-platformer, in which your goal is to regain your godly form and powers.
Why similar: Metroidvania 37.2%, Nonlinear 16.1%, Platformer 12.5%, Exploration 10.1%, Action-Adventure 9.8%
In Shattered Divinities, embark on an adventure that pits you directly against divinity itself! An ancient War of Gods shattered the world, and their broken power has become the Calamities that consume all life. How will you survive in this land? And how will you uncover the secrets behind the War?
Why similar: Metroidvania 44.3%, Platformer 17.1%, RPG 8.9%, Exploration 7.3%, 2D 5.1%
Play as Kaila, a young girl determined to rescue her mother from the clutches of Graygar, the Grey Soul. Explore a vast world, uncover secrets, unlock powerful abilities, and face challenging bosses on a journey to the Underworld. Are you ready to defy Death itself?
Why similar: Metroidvania 39.9%, Platformer 13.1%, Action-Adventure 10.9%, Magic 7%, Fantasy 6%
Discover a strange world inhabited by living lights. Liturnian is a 3D-Metroidvania with fluid movement, fights against strange creatures and exciting puzzles.
Why similar: Metroidvania 45.2%, Nonlinear 16.6%, Platformer 13.9%, Exploration 6.8%, PvE 5.9%
Relic Light is a pixel-style puzzle-action dungeon game. You will play as an explorer who arrives at the remaining ruins, explores to acquire various skills, solves the complex and diverse puzzles within, and discovers the ultimate secret of the ruins.
Why similar: Metroidvania 31.4%, Puzzle Platformer 19.8%, Nonlinear 17.5%, Exploration 8.9%, Platformer 7.2%
On the surface, a 2D platformer right out of the '80s video game playbook. The eponymous Whim walks and jumps his way through static rooms, avoiding the baddies and other hazards, and collecting various items. But this game is so much more than that...
Why similar: Metroidvania 36.5%, Nonlinear 16.5%, Platformer 13.5%, Exploration 10.1%, Action-Adventure 9.6%
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 35.6%, Nonlinear 16.9%, PvE 15.5%, Platformer 13.3%, Exploration 10.8%
Get batteries to get stronger! Enjoy your adventure now! Recover lost parts and get various skills.
Why similar: Metroidvania 45%, Platformer 15%, Puzzle Platformer 13.7%, Action-Adventure 9.4%, Pixel Graphics 6.5%
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 47%, Platformer 18.5%, RPG 10.8%, Pixel Graphics 8.2%, Action 4.8%
Explore an intricate new world of secrets and adventure. Features solid 2D Zelda-like gameplay, 12 vast non-linear dungeons and a wholesome story about the young golem Linden.
Why similar: Metroidvania 35.7%, Nonlinear 17.2%, Exploration 11%, Action-Adventure 9.6%, Pixel Graphics 6.4%
Embark on a thrilling journey to redemption in this metroidvania style action platformer. Explore a multitude of locations, battle a variety of enemies and solve small puzzles to retrieve collectibles for your trophy room. Unlock new areas by upgrading your weapons and abilities.
Why similar: Metroidvania 33.1%, Puzzle Platformer 17.2%, Platformer 13.7%, Exploration 8.7%, Action-Adventure 6.7%