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A hand-crafted side-scrolling metroidvania action-adventure with a ghost companion and a roughly 12-hour story about restoring color to a dark world.

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A dark, stylized 2D metroidvania with punishing combat and nonlinear exploration, typically taking reviewers 7-12 hours.
2022-09-27
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Games like 9 Years of Shadows

A hand-crafted side-scrolling metroidvania action-adventure with a ghost companion and a roughly 12-hour story about restoring color to a dark world.

Moonscars
A dark, stylized 2D metroidvania with punishing combat and nonlinear exploration, typically taking reviewers 7-12 hours.
2022-09-27
- Action
- Platform

Adventure

Hack and slash/Beat 'em up

Indie

Side view

Somber Echoes

A single-player metroidvania action-adventure about a reborn tribune exploring a forsaken sci-fi vessel with god-given combat powers and upgrades.

2025-01-21

Action
Science fiction
Platform
Adventure
Fantasy
Indie
Side view
Historical

Monster Boy and the Cursed Kingdom

A single-player Metroidvania with shape-shifting abilities, praised for movement and visuals, but with a puzzle-heavy final act.

2019-07-25

Action
Platform
Adventure
Fantasy
Indie
Side view
Role-playing (RPG)

Tales of Kenzera™: ZAU

A ~10-12 hour metroidvania adventure in Kenzera with a touching story and colorful visuals, but rougher mechanics than genre contemporaries.

2024-04-23

Action
Platform
Puzzle
Adventure
Fantasy
Indie
Side view

Little Nemo and the Guardians of Slumberland

A charming metroidvania with dream-world exploration, secret-collecting, and memory recovery, running about 5.5 hours.

2026-03-31

Action
Platform
Adventure
Indie
Side view
Kids

Solateria

A hand-drawn action Metroidvania with parry-focused combat, a fire warrior's quest against the Shadow Plague, and Soulslike challenge eased by player-friendly conveniences, lasting about 21 hours.

2026-03-12

Action
Adventure
Indie
Side view

Hunt the Night

A gothic pixel-art action-RPG with soulslike combat and a ~12-hour campaign through the ruined world of Medhram, well-received by Steam players.

2023-04-13

Action
Adventure
Horror
Fantasy
Bird view / Isometric
Hack and slash/Beat 'em up
Indie
Role-playing (RPG)

Toziuha Night: Order of the Alchemists

A dark fantasy metroidvania starring an iron alchemist on a revenge quest, with whip-and-element combat and a reviewer-median runtime of about 17 hours.

2025-10-27

Action
Platform
Adventure
Fantasy
Indie
Side view
Role-playing (RPG)

ENDER MAGNOLIA: Bloom in the Mist

A polished dark fantasy Metroidvania with rewarding exploration and moderate difficulty, set in a sorrowful post-apocalyptic world of Homunculi, offering a lengthy ~23-hour campaign.

2025-01-22

Action
Platform
Adventure
Indie
Side view
Role-playing (RPG)

8Doors: Arum's Afterlife Adventure

A story-driven 2D Metroidvania about a girl exploring Korean-folklore purgatory to rescue her father's soul, with solid art and music and around 14 hours of gameplay.

2021-04-07

Action
Platform
Adventure
Fantasy
Indie
Side view

Gestalt: Steam & Cinder

A 2D steampunk metroidvania action-platformer with a female protagonist, story-rich narrative, and easy combat that runs about 11.5 hours.

2024-07-16

Action
Platform
Adventure
Fantasy
Indie
Side view
Role-playing (RPG)

Noreya: The Gold Project

A frenetic metroidvania with a light/gold world-altering choice, tight combat and platforming, and a roughly 12-hour run.

2024-06-21

Action
Platform
Adventure
Fantasy
Indie
Side view
Open world

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