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Curse of the Sea Rats
Games like Curse of the Sea Rats

Games like Curse of the Sea Rats

A hand-animated pirate metroidvania with local co-op and ability-gated exploration; reviewers logged around three hours and praised the art despite mixed reception.

Never Grave: The Witch and The Curse
A metroidvania-roguelite action-adventure featuring a cursed hat, magic and enemy possession, village building, and methodical gear grinding, with up to 4-player co-op.
2026-03-04

Action

Platform

Puzzle

Adventure

Fantasy

Hack and slash/Beat 'em up

Indie

Side view

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Wonder Boy: The Dragon's Trap

A compact side-scrolling metroidvania with animal shape-shifting, hand-drawn visuals, and a re-orchestrated soundtrack.

2017-06-08

Action
Platform
Adventure
Fantasy
Indie
Side view
Kids

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Mark of the Deep

A haunted-island pirate metroidvania with soulslike combat, where exploration and unforgiving fights are undermined by control and performance issues.

2025-01-24

Action
Adventure
Fantasy
Bird view / Isometric
Indie

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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)

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Anima Flux

A compact co-op metroidvania featuring genetically enhanced soldiers battling mutants in a dystopian space city, with atmospheric storytelling and some frustrating design quirks.

2024-10-07

Action
Platform
Adventure
Indie
Side view

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Rules & Rodents

A single-player puzzle adventure where you bend rat-imposed rules to escape a castle, with a cute, charming style and a tight ~4-hour campaign.

2025-03-31

Puzzle
Adventure
Bird view / Isometric
Indie

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Rogue Waters

A single-player pirate tactical roguelite where you command a crew through procedural naval and melee combat, with a solid core but save bugs and around 10-hour playtimes.

2024-09-30

Action
Strategy
Fantasy
Third person
Bird view / Isometric
Tactical
Turn-based strategy (TBS)
Role-playing (RPG)

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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.

2023-03-27

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

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Shadow Gambit: The Cursed Crew

A roughly 20-hour single-player stealth strategy game starring a cursed pirate crew with unique abilities, set during the Inquisition.

2023-08-17

Action
Adventure
Strategy
Fantasy
Bird view / Isometric
Tactical
Indie
Role-playing (RPG)
Stealth
Sandbox

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Cat Quest III

A playful 2.5D open-world action RPG where you sail as a cat pirate, fight Pi-rats in basic but satisfying combat, and explore a pun-filled world in roughly 8–9 hours.

2024-08-08

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

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The Pirate's Fate

A choice-driven pirate visual novel where your decisions transform the story, crew, and your own identity, with LGBTQ+ themes and a compact roughly three-hour narrative.

2018-03-27

Adventure
Fantasy
Indie
Text
Role-playing (RPG)
Visual Novel

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Ebenezer and the Invisible World

A story-rich Victorian-fantasy Metroidvania in which reformed Scrooge summons ghost allies to fight through hand-drawn London over a roughly 18-hour campaign.

2023-11-03

Action
Platform
Adventure
Fantasy
Indie
Side view
Historical
Kids