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Beyond the Ice Palace 2
Games like Beyond the Ice Palace 2

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A single-player action platformer with chain combat, hidden-area exploration, and colossal boss fights, delivering a fun but occasionally buggy ~4.5-hour campaign.

Bloodstained: Curse of the Moon 2
A dark, retro-styled 2D action platformer with sword-and-whip combat, multiple characters, and local co-op, delivering a compact ~6-hour campaign.
2020-07-10
- Action

Platform

Fantasy

Hack and slash/Beat 'em up

Indie

Side view

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FOUNTAINS

A challenging single-player action RPG with soulslike combat and metroidvania exploration in an ancient interconnected world, offering roughly 9–12 hours of play.

2024-12-20

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

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Kingdom Shell

A gloomy pixel-art 2D metroidvania about exploring a cursed kingdom and battling nightmarish foes, with old-school soulslike challenge and roughly 12-14 hours of play.

2023-10-05

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

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Blue Fire

A precision 3D metroidvania platformer with challenging movement-focused gameplay and Zelda-inspired dungeons, lasting around 13 hours.

2021-02-04

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

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Overbowed

A retro-inspired action-adventure platformer where you explore an evil-magic-overrun kingdom and fight with a magical bow in a roughly three-and-a-half-hour single-player quest.

2024-05-30

Action
Platform
Adventure
Indie

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Marko: Beyond Brave

A short single-player Metroidvania through Slavic-folklore-inspired lands, with engaging combat but some technical rough edges.

2024-09-17

Action
Adventure
Indie

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Blasphemous 2

A single-player 2D metroidvania with deliberate melee combat and a gothic religious-horror world, offering a substantial ~18-22 hour campaign.

2023-08-24

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

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Mina the Hollower

A single-player action-adventure about whipping and burrowing across a cursed island, with a challenging yet rewarding campaign of roughly 27 hours.

2026-05-28

Action
Platform
Adventure
Horror
Fantasy
Bird view / Isometric
Indie
Role-playing (RPG)

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Castle In The Darkness

A fast-paced medieval fantasy metroidvania platformer with snappy controls, tough-but-fair challenges, and a compact 8–10 hour adventure.

2015-02-05

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

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Nightfall Empress

A 16-bit dark fantasy metroidvania with RPG growth, hidden secrets, and a mature sacred-profane story; reviewers say it plays smoothly after a day-one patch.

2026-05-13

Adventure
Hack and slash/Beat 'em up
Side view

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Shovel Knight: King of Cards

A roughly six-hour single-player retro 8-bit action platformer starring King Knight, mixing Shoulder Bash levels with card-themed strategy and subject gathering in a prequel campaign.

2019-12-10

Action
Platform
Adventure
Fantasy
Indie
Side view

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Kingdom's Return: Time-Eating Fruit and the Ancient Monster

An action RPG mixing 2D side-scrolling material runs with kingdom rebuilding, featuring pixel-art anime visuals and a short ~4-hour single-player campaign with mixed reception.

2026-04-23

Action
Strategy
Fantasy
Simulator
Role-playing (RPG)