Aaru's Awakening
Games like Aaru's Awakening

Games like Aaru's Awakening

A hand-drawn 2D platformer in a mythical world with teleport-based movement and a four-gods story, offering brutal, mixed-reviewed challenge.

Faerie Afterlight
A 2D Metroidvania inspired by Indonesian folklore, where Kimo and Wispy manipulate terrain, befriend Lumina's natives, and take titan abilities across a compact ~2.5-hour adventure.
2023-09-28
- Action
- Platform

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Aaru's Awakening
Games like Aaru's Awakening

Games like Aaru's Awakening

A hand-drawn 2D platformer in a mythical world with teleport-based movement and a four-gods story, offering brutal, mixed-reviewed challenge.

Faerie Afterlight
A 2D Metroidvania inspired by Indonesian folklore, where Kimo and Wispy manipulate terrain, befriend Lumina's natives, and take titan abilities across a compact ~2.5-hour adventure.
2023-09-28
- Action
- Platform

Puzzle

Adventure

Indie

Side view

Voidwrought

A hand-drawn cosmic-horror action-platformer about exploring frozen ruins, slaying gods, and expanding your shrine, with a solid but unremarkable ~12-hour campaign.

2024-10-24

Action
Platform
Indie

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

Unbound: Worlds Apart

A compact single-player puzzle-platformer built around summoning unique portals in hand-drawn worlds, with a broadly positive but mixed reception citing flat storytelling and roughly 7-8 hours of play.

2021-07-28

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

Ultros

A psychedelic hand-drawn metroidvania set on a cosmic uterus-like structure, with a black hole loop that resets progress and a median reviewer playtime around five hours.

2024-02-13

Action
Science fiction
Platform
Adventure
Indie
Side view
Mystery

Auridia

A ~6-hour single-player metroidvania focused on traversal-based discovery through ancient ruins and forgotten-god lore, with an atmospheric, lovecraftian tone.

2025-09-22

Action
Platform
Adventure
Side view

Worldless

A single-player 2D action-platformer with timing-based combat and a cryptic abstract narrative, set in a newborn universe and lasting about 11–12 hours.

2023-11-20

Action
Science fiction
Platform
Adventure
Strategy
Fantasy
Fighting
Side view
Turn-based strategy (TBS)
Role-playing (RPG)

Aeterna Noctis

A challenging hand-drawn metroidvania with a lengthy ~42-hour campaign, a precision-platforming Noctis mode, and both single-player and online PvP.

2021-12-14

Action
Platform
Puzzle
Adventure
Fantasy
Indie
Side view

Bō: Path of the Teal Lotus

A hand-drawn 2.5D metroidvania blending acrobatic combat and Japanese folklore, with a ~15-hour runtime and a deliberate, well-paced challenge.

2024-07-17

Action
Platform
Adventure
Side view

Kelipot

A short, story-driven roguelite action-platformer in plague-ravaged Celephais, with hand-drawn visuals and branching choices; reviews are mostly positive but note unfinished English localization.

2020-11-03

Action
Indie

Afterimage

A hand-drawn 2D metroidvania with fast combat and build variety in a ruined fantasy world, but its oversized map and uneven design draw mixed player sentiment.

2023-04-24

Action
Platform
Adventure
Fantasy
Hack and slash/Beat 'em up
Indie
Side view
Role-playing (RPG)

ITORAH

A short, visually striking 2D metroidvania about exploring a colorful strange world as the only human, with mixed reception due to frustrating controls and slow traversal.

2022-03-21

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

Faerie Afterlight