Games like Horace
by Paul Helman, Sean Scaplehorn
"The best platformer of 2019."Horace is a huge platforming adventure which pushes the boundaries of the genre with a profound story of a small robot learning of life, the universe and Douglas Adams. Made by videogame lovers for videogame lovers!
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$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
$14.99Cathedral
Oct 31 · Decemberborn Interactive
Both: Metroidvania · Pixel Graphics · Platformer
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!
ActionIndieMetroidvaniaAdventurePixel GraphicsRetroPlatformerDifficult2DSide Scroller👍 302
$19.99The Messenger
Aug 30 · Sabotage
Both: Platformer · Pixel Graphics · Metroidvania
As a demon army besieges his village, a young ninja ventures through a cursed world, to deliver a scroll paramount to his clan’s survival. What begins as a classic action platformer soon unravels into an expansive time-traveling adventure full of thrills, surprises, and humor.
RetroPlatformerPixel GraphicsMetroidvaniaNinja2DGreat SoundtrackIndieAction2D Platformer👍 10,714
$14.99Hollow Knight
Feb 24 · Team Cherry
Both: Metroidvania · Platformer · Difficult
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.
MetroidvaniaPlatformerSouls-likeDifficultGreat Soundtrack2DIndieSingleplayerExplorationAtmospheric👍 503,211
Bunny Must Die! Chelsea and the 7 Devils
Sep 26 · Platine Dispositif
Both: Metroidvania · Platformer · Difficult
From the creator of the Gundemonium Collection comes a thrilling new 2D action-platformer! Help Bunny escape the Devils’ Labyrinth and defeat the 7 Devils in this hilariously over-the-top action-platformer game. Battle through a large, connected map filled with unique enemies, traps, and puzzles.
MetroidvaniaAnimeActionIndiePlatformerAdventureFemale Protagonist2DDifficultPixel Graphics👍 265
$9.99Teslagrad
Dec 13 · Rain Games
Both: Platformer · Metroidvania · Puzzle Platformer
A journey begins... A treacherous tower... Unravel its mysteries!Discover the secrets kept in the long abandoned Tesla Tower!Magnetism and other electromagnetic powers will help you explore a non-linear world of beautiful hand-drawn environments, in a steampunk-inspired vision of old Europe.
PlatformerPuzzleIndieMetroidvania2DSteampunkSingleplayerPuzzle PlatformerActionAdventure👍 1,710
$14.99Vibrant Venture
Jul 24 · Semag Games
Both: Platformer · Puzzle Platformer · Difficult
Vibrant Venture is a singleplayer 2D adventure platformer game featuring a quirky cast of characters! The game features four playable characters with multiple unique abilities that can be combined for extremely versatile, fluid and fun movement!
PlatformerAdventureSide Scroller2D PlatformerPuzzle PlatformerDifficultActionPixel GraphicsCartoony2D👍 575
-80%$3.99Greak: Memories of Azur
Aug 17 · Navegante
Both: Cinematic · Metroidvania · Puzzle Platformer
Greak: Memories of Azur is a single-player puzzle platformer adventure. Azur is under threat from an enemy attack who have control of strange creatures infecting the land. Take on the role of three siblings: Greak, Adara and Raydel and utilize their unique abilities to escape the invasion together.
AtmosphericFantasyCinematicMetroidvaniaAction-AdventureSingleplayerStylizedPuzzle PlatformerPuzzleAction👍 997
$7.99Gato Roboto
May 30 · doinksoft
Both: Metroidvania · Pixel Graphics · Platformer
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.
IndieMetroidvaniaActionPixel GraphicsAdventure2DCatsPlatformerRetroSingleplayer👍 4,364
$14.99Cave Story+
Nov 22 · Nicalis, Inc., Studio Pixel
Both: Metroidvania · Difficult · Platformer
Run, jump, shoot, fly and explore your way through a massive action-adventure reminiscent of classic 8- and 16-bit games.
ExplorationMetroidvaniaDifficultPlatformerShooter2DCuteStory RichMultiple EndingsAction👍 5,233
$19.99Haiku, the Robot
Apr 28 · Mister Morris Games
Both: Metroidvania · Pixel Graphics · Platformer
Delve into the depths of a mechanical world in this cute, adventure-exploration game. Explore and fight in a land full of corrupt robots and machinery. All while seeking answers to the mysteries around you.
MetroidvaniaAdventureExplorationPixel GraphicsAtmosphericRobotsPlatformerOpen World2D PlatformerSide Scroller👍 2,577
-90%$1.49Aggelos
Jun 19 · Storybird Games
Both: Metroidvania · Pixel Graphics · Platformer
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!
AdventureIndieRPGMetroidvaniaActionPixel Graphics2DPlatformerRetroSingleplayer👍 562
-60%$7.99Rusted Moss
Apr 11 · Emlise, happysquared, sunnydaze
Both: Platformer · Pixel Graphics · Metroidvania
Rusted Moss is a twin-stick shooter metroidvania where you sling around the map with your grapple, blasting your way through witches and rusted machine monstrosities alike. This wasteland once harboring mankind has since fallen, and Fae long forgotten now knock on humanity's door...
PlatformerPixel GraphicsMetroidvaniaActionStory RichAdventure2D PlatformerPrecision PlatformerAction-Adventure2D👍 1,583
Million to One Hero
Jul 23 · Over the Top Games
Both: Metroidvania · Puzzle Platformer · Difficult
An exciting platform game, filled with action, skill, wits and competition that hides a secret inside: A powerful editor that you can use to create your own adventures… and by adventures we don’t mean simple levels… We mean full campaigns, with their world map, NPC’s and your own unique story!
Precision PlatformerChoose Your Own AdventureMetroidvania2D PlatformerPuzzle PlatformerCity BuilderPuzzleDifficultPlatformer2D Fighter
$24.99Blasphemous
Sep 10 · The Game Kitchen
Both: Metroidvania · Pixel Graphics · 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
$14.99Mago
Jun 21 · Dream Potion Games
Both: Platformer · Pixel Graphics · Difficult
Mago is a retro 2D platformer that puts us in the boots of a sorcerer, who was unfortunate enough to eat evil overlords' food. Now he has to rescue his beloved princess from the dinner menu of the evil Gourmet! Nostalgia awaits!
IndieAdventurePlatformerPixel Graphics2DRetroGreat SoundtrackFunnyDifficultSingleplayer👍 933

