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Games like Moonscars

Games like Moonscars

A dark, stylized 2D metroidvania with punishing combat and nonlinear exploration, typically taking reviewers 7-12 hours.

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

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Moonscars
Games like Moonscars

Games like Moonscars

A dark, stylized 2D metroidvania with punishing combat and nonlinear exploration, typically taking reviewers 7-12 hours.

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)

The Tarnishing of Juxtia

A challenging 2D dark fantasy soulslike set in ruined divine kingdoms, with pixel art and a ~9-hour mostly linear campaign.

2022-07-26

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

The Last Faith

A single-player 2D metroidvania-soulslike with precise combat, firearms, and custom executions in a gothic vampire setting, offering a ~20-25 hour campaign.

2023-11-15

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

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)

Hunt the Night

A gothic pixel-art action-RPG with soulslike combat and a ~12-hour campaign through the ruined world of Medhram, well-received by Steam players.

2023-04-13

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

Death's Gambit: Afterlife

A challenging 2D action platformer with RPG depth and a dark mystery about immortality, taking roughly 18–22 hours to play.

2018-08-13

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

Ghost Song

A somber 2D metroidvania on a desolate alien moon, with cosmic horror, ability-based exploration, and a roughly 13-15 hour journey.

2022-11-03

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

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)

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)

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)

Minoria

A 2D Metroidvania action-platformer about witch-hunting, with hack-and-slash combat and a reviewer-observed 6-8 hour playtime.

2019-08-27

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

Possessor(s)

A 2D action side-scroller fusing platform-fighter combat with interconnected-world exploration, delivering a roughly 18-hour single-player adventure that shines in melee but stumbles on ranged encounters and performance.

2025-11-11

Action
Platform
Adventure
Indie
Side view

9 Years of Shadows