Hollow Knight
Games like Hollow Knight

Games like Hollow Knight

A dark hand-drawn 2D metroidvania in an insect kingdom, with challenging bosses and a brutal but rewarding difficulty curve.

Hollow Knight: Silksong
A visually beautiful 2D metroidvania where you explore a haunted insect kingdom with melee sword combat — a long, highly-rated single-player adventure.
2025-09-04
- Action

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Hollow Knight
Games like Hollow Knight

Games like Hollow Knight

A dark hand-drawn 2D metroidvania in an insect kingdom, with challenging bosses and a brutal but rewarding difficulty curve.

Hollow Knight: Silksong
A visually beautiful 2D metroidvania where you explore a haunted insect kingdom with melee sword combat — a long, highly-rated single-player adventure.
2025-09-04
- Action

Platform

Adventure

Fantasy

Indie

Side view

Lone Fungus

A challenging, handcrafted mushroom-world metroidvania where ability-gated exploration and secret hunting unfold across a large 2D map.

2023-04-07

Action
Platform
Adventure
Indie
Side view

ENDER LILIES: Quietus of the Knights

A sorrowful dark-fantasy metroidvania about a girl who summons fallen knights, featuring tense soulslike combat and a ~21-hour journey through a ruined kingdom.

2021-06-21

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

Blasphemous

A brutal 2D metroidvania-soulslike with gothic religious horror, precise parrying, and a ~20-hour campaign.

2019-09-10

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

Nine Sols

A hand-drawn 2D action-platformer with Sekiro-like parry combat, an eastern fantasy setting, and a vengeful quest against the nine Sols, typically taking around 34 hours.

2024-05-28

Action
Science fiction
Platform
Adventure
Fantasy
Hack and slash/Beat 'em up
Indie
Side view

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

Dead Cells

A punishing yet fluid 2D action-platformer that mixes roguelite permadeath and metroidvania exploration in a procedurally shifting castle.

2018-08-06

Action
Platform
Adventure
Fantasy
Indie
Side view

Deepening Fire

A 2D side-scrolling action-adventure with souls-like parry-centric combat, class-based builds, and a hidden map to explore, though movement is sluggish and there's no in-game map.

2023-04-19

Action
Platform
Adventure
Hack and slash/Beat 'em up
Indie
Side view

Crimson Oath

A single-player indie souls-like with parry-focused combat and challenging bosses, set in an atmospheric world where a warrior uncovers a changing truth, lasting roughly 10-14 hours.

2026-04-29

Action
Adventure
Third person
Indie
Role-playing (RPG)

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)

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)

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

Hollow Knight: Silksong