Games like Hollow Knight
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Forge your own path in Hollow Knight! An epic action adventure through a vast ruined kingdom of insects and heroes. Explore twisting caverns, battle tainted creatures and befriend bizarre bugs, all in a classic, hand-drawn 2D style.
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$24.99GRIME
Aug 2 · Clover Bite
Both: Metroidvania · Souls-like · Platformer
Destroy... Absorb... Grow... GRIME is a fast and unforgiving Action-Adventure RPG in which you crush your foes with living weapons that mutate form and function, and then consume their remains with a black hole to strengthen your vessel as you break apart a world of anatomical horror and intrigue.
MetroidvaniaSouls-likePlatformerDark FantasyDifficultAction-AdventureExploration2.5DAction RPGSurreal👍 4,643
-20%$15.99Solateria
Mar 12 · Studio Doodal
Both: Metroidvania · Souls-like · Difficult
Solateria is a hand-drawn action Metroidvania with parry-focused combat. A small fire warrior journeys to find the Primordial Flame, the world’s last hope against the Shadow Plague. Defeat foes with stylish parries and explore mysterious realms to uncover the world’s secrets.
MetroidvaniaSouls-likeDifficultHand-drawn2DExplorationStory RichPlatformerDark FantasyAction👍 712
$29.99Aeterna Noctis
Dec 14 · Aeternum Game Studios S.L
Both: Metroidvania · Difficult · Platformer
Aeterna Noctis is a challenging metroidvania that majestically combines action, exploration and adventure. With 2 game modes and difficulty based on action or the exclusive Noctis mode where a level of difficulty is added in precision platforming never seen in the metroidvania genre.
MetroidvaniaDifficultPlatformerSouls-likePrecision PlatformerSoundtrack2DAction-AdventureIndieExploration👍 1,698
$11.99Deepening Fire
Apr 19 · VeryBigDog
Both: Difficult · Souls-like · Exploration
Deepening Fire is a side-scrolling action adventure game. Choose different classes, with appropriate equipment, explore hidden complex map, defeat powerful enemies, expose the conspiracy of the chaotic world, experience the souls-like battle
DifficultSouls-likeExplorationMetroidvaniaPlatformerSide ScrollerSingleplayerControllerAction RPGIndie👍 571
$24.99Blasphemous
Sep 10 · The Game Kitchen
Both: Metroidvania · Souls-like · Difficult
Blasphemous is a brutal action-platformer with skilled hack’n slash combat set in the nightmare world of Cvstodia. Explore, upgrade your abilities, and perform savage executions on the hordes of enemies that stand between you and your quest to break eternal damnation.
MetroidvaniaSouls-likePixel GraphicsDark FantasyGore2DViolentIndieDifficultAction👍 54,777
$14.993000th Duel
Dec 12 · NEOPOPCORN Corp
Both: Metroidvania · Souls-like · Platformer
3000th Duel is action-adventure game that has speedy, exciting battles as its charm. Fight against monsters with your own style of battle to travel an unidentified world and discover a secret hidden.
ActionAdventureMetroidvaniaSouls-likeIndiePlatformerDifficultDark FantasySide Scroller2D👍 365
$24.99ENDER LILIES: Quietus of the Knights
Jun 21 · Live Wire, Adglobe
Both: Metroidvania · Souls-like · Difficult
ENDER LILIES is a dark fantasy 2D action RPG about unraveling the mysteries of a destroyed kingdom. On this sorrowful journey, encounter horrific enemies against whom a moment of inattention could be fatal. Overcome these hardships and seek the truth with the help of fallen knights.
MetroidvaniaFemale ProtagonistDark FantasySouls-likeGreat SoundtrackSingleplayerAtmospheric2DDifficultIndie👍 43,108
$9.99Castle In The Darkness
Feb 5 · Matt Kap, Nicalis, Inc.
Both: Metroidvania · Platformer · Difficult
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!
MetroidvaniaIndiePlatformerActionDifficultPixel GraphicsAdventureRPGRetro2D👍 1,185
-80%$1.99Momodora: Reverie Under The Moonlight
Mar 4 · Bombservice
Both: Metroidvania · Exploration · Souls-like
Momodora: Reverie Under The Moonlight is the fourth installment in the beloved Momodora series of 2D platformers. Unleash ravaging combos against a variety of formidable monsters and deftly dodge your way through a cursed land to seek audience with the Queen and dispel the evil that threatens all life.
Metroidvania2D PlatformerSide ScrollerPixel GraphicsExplorationFemale ProtagonistSouls-like2DDifficultSpectacle fighter👍 10,508
$29.99TUNIC
Mar 16 · TUNIC Team
Both: Exploration · Souls-like · Metroidvania
Explore a land filled with lost legends, ancient powers, and ferocious monsters in TUNIC, an isometric action game about a small fox on a big adventure.
ExplorationPuzzleSouls-likeMetroidvaniaCuteAction-AdventureIsometricDifficultRPG3D👍 16,698
$14.99Valdis Story: Abyssal City
Oct 30 · Endlessfluff Games
Both: Metroidvania · Platformer · Difficult
Assume the role of Wyatt in this Action/Exploration Platformer as you explore the ruins of a holy city that was lost many years ago. Battle various types of demons, angels, and a new threat known only as the “Ferals”, using swordsmanship, martial arts, and sorcery.
MetroidvaniaActionPlatformerRPGIndie2DDifficultGreat SoundtrackSingleplayerExploration👍 2,275
-50%$9.99Death's Gambit: Afterlife
Aug 13 · White Rabbit
Both: Souls-like · Metroidvania · Platformer
Death's Gambit: Afterlife is a challenging 2D action platformer with deep RPG elements. As an agent of Death bound to his service, unravel the mystery of Siradon and discover the true price of immortality.
Souls-likeMetroidvaniaPixel GraphicsRPGDark FantasyAction2DIndieAdventurePlatformer👍 4,263
$27.99The Last Faith
Nov 15 · Kumi Souls Games
Both: Metroidvania · Souls-like
Dive into the latest evolution of The Last Faith: a dark and gothic fusion of metroidvania and soulslike. Engage in merciless and precise combat with a huge range of weapons, firearms, and custom executions. Let nothing stand in the way of your journey to salvation.
MetroidvaniaSouls-likePixel GraphicsDark FantasyViolentGothic2DGoreActionVampires👍 4,667
$24.99Afterimage
Apr 24 · Aurogon Shanghai
Both: Metroidvania · Exploration · Souls-like
Afterimage is a hand-drawn 2D action adventure that emphasizes fast-paced combat with diversified character builds, non-linear levels, and a gripping story set in the ruins of a fantasy world.
MetroidvaniaFemale Protagonist2D PlatformerAnimeSide ScrollerExplorationSouls-likeHack and SlashAction RPGDifficult👍 6,936
-50%$9.99Bō: Path of the Teal Lotus
Jul 17 · Squid Shock Studios, Christopher Stair, Trevor Youngquist
Both: Exploration · Platformer · Metroidvania
Flow gracefully through a colorful, hand-drawn 2.5D action platformer inspired by Japanese folklore. Engage in acrobatic aerial combat, unlock powerful mystical abilities, and explore an interconnected world of myth as you seek to unravel the mysteries of your origin.
Precision PlatformerSide ScrollerExploration2D PlatformerPlatformerMetroidvaniaSouls-likeAction-AdventureComic Book2D👍 1,399
$4.99The Shadowland
Jul 17 · Bloodcraft Dev
Both: Metroidvania · Souls-like · Difficult
EN Little Reaper finds himself lost in grim otherworld. Help him find the way back through treacherous obstacles and threatening foes.Prepare to rely heavily on your reflexes to complete 30+ levels spanning through 6 locations, and beat 3 unique bosses. RU Маленький жнец потерялся в мрачной потустороннем мире.
MetroidvaniaPuzzle Platformer2D PlatformerSouls-likeDifficultPlatformerAction-Adventure2DHorrorCute
Blessed Surface
Feb 27 · Corpse King Games
Both: Metroidvania · Souls-like · Exploration
An open-world 2d platformer, Blessed Surface uses the side-scrolling perspective to create a deep, greatly vertical space with no sky, only endless passages upwards. A functioning ecosystem, equipment customization, dynamic encounters and more form a rich, living world.
MetroidvaniaBullet HellSouls-like2D PlatformerExplorationOpen WorldSandboxPvEDifficultPlatformer
-75%$11.24Blasphemous 2
Aug 24 · The Game Kitchen
Both: Difficult · Metroidvania · Souls-like
The Penitent One awakens as Blasphemous 2 joins him once again in an endless struggle against The Miracle. Dive into a perilous new world filled with mysteries and secrets to discover, and tear your way through monstrous foes that stand between you and your quest to end the cycle once and for all.
DifficultCombatFantasyMetroidvaniaSouls-likeAdventurePixel Graphics2D PlatformerSide ScrollerHack and Slash👍 16,844