PSYCRON
Games like PSYCRON

Games like PSYCRON

A short, fast-paced 2D sci-fi metroidvania focused on exploration and movement, with an eerie lurking presence.

Zexion
A challenging sci-fi metroidvania with forbidden-tech hunting, creepy atmosphere, and dense exploration, coming in around 13-14 hours for reviewers.
2025-03-21
- Action
- Science fiction
- Platform

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PSYCRON
Games like PSYCRON

Games like PSYCRON

A short, fast-paced 2D sci-fi metroidvania focused on exploration and movement, with an eerie lurking presence.

Zexion
A challenging sci-fi metroidvania with forbidden-tech hunting, creepy atmosphere, and dense exploration, coming in around 13-14 hours for reviewers.
2025-03-21
- Action
- Science fiction
- Platform

Adventure

Indie

Side view

Exophobia

A compact retro FPS-Metroidvania about fighting through an alien-infested crashed spaceship, with unsettling encounters and about six hours of play.

2024-07-22

Shooter
Action
First person
Science fiction
Adventure
Fantasy
Indie

NanoApostle

A tight dark sci-fi boss rush game where a nanomachine-augmented girl fights through six bosses with reaction-based combat and a trial-and-error loop.

2024-09-12

Action
Strategy
Bird view / Isometric
Fighting
Indie
Role-playing (RPG)

Genopanic

A linear pixel-art adventure-platformer with light combat and puzzles in a dark sci-fi space station, offering a compact ~8-hour experience.

2024-05-17

Action
Science fiction
Platform
Adventure
Indie
Side view
Arcade

Vision Soft Reset

A fast-paced time-loop metroidvania with time manipulation and non-linear pixel-art exploration.

2019-01-16

Shooter
Action
Science fiction
Platform
Puzzle
Adventure
Indie
Side view

BLADECHIMERA

A moderately challenging ~10-hour metroidvania set in dark cyberpunk Osaka, where demon hunter Shin uses shooting and melee to recover lost skills and uncover his forgotten past.

2025-01-15

Action
Science fiction
Platform
Indie
Side view

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

Astronite

A short, cute 1-bit metroidvania with action, exploration, puzzles, and platforming on an invaded planet.

2022-11-30

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

System Purge

A challenging, atmospheric 2D platformer about infiltrating an ancient machine's buried facility to rescue a lost lover, with a short, narrative-driven playthrough.

2022-04-05

Action
Science fiction
Platform
Horror
Indie
Side view

Katanaut

A dark 2D metroidvania roguelite with fluid melee/gun combat, cosmic horror, and procedural runs on a neon space station.

2025-09-10

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

CYCLE

A charming futuristic metroidvania platformer where Lana explores a striking world to solve her mother's death, offering tight combat, elaborate bosses, and multiple endings in a ~6-hour run.

2025-10-06

Action
Platform
Adventure
Fantasy
Indie
Side view

Gravity Storm - First Mission

A compact, single-player retro 2D platformer about gravity-driven dashes and shootouts, with a tough-but-fair three-hour campaign against the mother computer.

2025-09-05

Action
Science fiction
Platform
Side view

Zexion