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Alwa's Awakening
Games like Alwa's Awakening

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A 2D retro action-adventure platformer focused on magic-staff puzzle solving and boss fights in an interconnected world, with a roughly 8.5-hour length based on reviewer playtime.

Alwa's Legacy
A roughly 10-hour modern retro action-adventure with magic staff upgrades, dungeon exploration, and balanced puzzle-platforming.
2020-06-17
- Action
- Platform

Adventure

Fantasy

Indie

Side view

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Lone Fungus: Melody of Spores

A heartfelt mushroom-themed metroidvania with dense interconnected exploration and standout platforming, offering roughly 15 hours of play.

2025-11-07

Action
Warfare
Platform
Adventure
Indie
Side view

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Blossom Tales: The Sleeping King

A short, easygoing top-down adventure starring a female hero, offering open-world exploration and dungeon combat, with reviewers averaging about 3.5 hours.

2017-03-28

Action
Adventure
Fantasy
Bird view / Isometric
Indie
Role-playing (RPG)
Open world

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Astalon: Tears of the Earth

A retro-styled single-player metroidvania with three switchable heroes, hand-drawn pixel art, and a ~13-hour climb through a twisted tower.

2021-06-03

Action
Platform
Puzzle
Adventure
Fantasy
Indie
Side view

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Aggelos

A retro 16-bit action-RPG with open-world exploration and boss fights, offering a ~7-hour campaign but mixed reviews for technical issues.

2018-06-19

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

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Astronite

A short, cute 1-bit metroidvania with action, exploration, puzzles, and platforming on an invaded planet.

2022-11-30

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

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ANIMAL WELL

A single-player 2D Metroidvania where you manipulate the environment with collected items to unravel the secrets of a dense, surreal underground labyrinth over roughly 10–14 hours.

2024-05-09

Action
Platform
Puzzle
Adventure
Horror
Survival
Indie
Side view
Mystery

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Odallus: The Dark Call

A single-player 16-bit-style metroidvania in a dark medieval fantasy world, focused on non-linear exploration, demonic combat, and movement upgrades, with a moderate difficulty and a reviewer median playtime of about 8 hours.

2015-07-15

Action
Platform
Puzzle
Adventure
Fantasy
Indie
Side view
Historical

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Environmental Station Alpha

A challenging retro action platformer set on an abandoned space station, offering a deep postgame and around 22 hours of play.

2015-04-22

Action
Science fiction
Platform
Adventure
Indie
Side view

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Gastova: The Witches of Arkana

A lighthearted 2D metroidvania where you explore, solve elemental mysteries, and balance magic, offering a short but content-rich adventure.

2026-06-15

Action
Platform
Adventure
Fantasy
Indie
Side view

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Microvania

A compact pixel-art metroidvania with exploration, upgrades, hidden paths, and boss battles, offering a brief but secret-rich single-player experience.

2025-10-23

Action
Adventure
Indie
Side view

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A Hole New World

A challenging short retro-style action platformer where the Potion Master defends a city from monsters using potions and a fairy companion, with mixed reviews.

2017-05-19

Action
Platform
Adventure
Indie
Arcade