Monster Boy and the Cursed Kingdom
Games like Monster Boy and the Cursed Kingdom

Games like 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.

Iron Diamond
A vibrant 2D action-adventure of exploring a non-linear island with combat, platforming, and a tricky grappling mechanic, lasting about 13 hours.
2024-08-23
- Adventure
- Indie

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Monster Boy and the Cursed Kingdom
Games like Monster Boy and the Cursed Kingdom

Games like 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.

Iron Diamond
A vibrant 2D action-adventure of exploring a non-linear island with combat, platforming, and a tricky grappling mechanic, lasting about 13 hours.
2024-08-23
- Adventure
- Indie

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

Little Nemo and the Guardians of Slumberland

A charming metroidvania with dream-world exploration, secret-collecting, and memory recovery, running about 5.5 hours.

2026-03-31

Action
Platform
Adventure
Indie
Side view
Kids

SHEEPO

A quirky, gentle single-player metroidvania platformer on a strange planet, where you collect creatures and shape-shift into them to uncover secrets in a short ~4.5-hour adventure.

2020-08-26

Platform
Adventure
Fantasy
Indie
Side view

BIOMORPH

A dark metroidvania where you become the creatures you kill, solve puzzles, and rebuild a ruined city across a hand-drawn world, with a reviewers' ~17-hour playtime and a well-received morph mechanic.

2024-04-05

Action
Platform
Adventure
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

The Liar Princess and the Blind Prince

A bittersweet hand-drawn 2D puzzle-adventure where a wolf-princess switches forms to save a blind prince, with a relatively short, story-focused playthrough.

2026-03-11

Action
Platform
Puzzle
Adventure
Fantasy
Indie
Side view

Ato

A compact feudal-Japan metroidvania with anthropomorphic characters, no dialogue, and parry-focused sword duels, playable in about 5-6 hours.

2020-05-08

Action
Platform
Adventure
Fantasy
Indie
Side view
Mystery

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

Crypt Custodian

A single-player afterlife metroidvania where a mischievous cat janitor explores, cleans, and battles through a sprawling ghost-filled world with snappy, rewarding combat.

2024-08-27

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

The Tenth Line

A single-player indie RPG mixing turn-based combat and 2D platforming, with a story-heavy fantasy adventure that reviewers found engaging despite a clunky defensive mechanic and roughly 16-hour length.

2017-03-17

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

Islets

A wholesome ~8.5-hour metroidvania across hand-painted sky islands, with quirky letter-writing and monster bosses.

2022-08-24

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

Iron Diamond