Sliding Hero
Games like Sliding Hero

Games like Sliding Hero

A top-down puzzle Metroidvania set in a sinister Venetian Carnival villa, where you slide until you hit something; reviewers find the concept charming but the HUD clunky, with about 13 hours of playtime.

Pipistrello and the Cursed Yoyo
A 2D top-down 'Yoyovania' featuring yoyo-based combat and puzzles across a sprawling city's crime-boss battles, with roughly 20 hours of action-exploration.
2025-05-28
- Action

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Sliding Hero
Games like Sliding Hero

Games like Sliding Hero

Pipistrello and the Cursed Yoyo
A 2D top-down 'Yoyovania' featuring yoyo-based combat and puzzles across a sprawling city's crime-boss battles, with roughly 20 hours of action-exploration.
2025-05-28
- Action

Platform

Puzzle

Adventure

Bird view / Isometric

Indie

Metro Gravity

A single-player metroidvania with gravity-bending movement, rhythmic combat, and puzzle-heavy exploration in a surreal dream world, roughly 10 hours for reviewers.

2025-06-19

Action
Platform
Adventure
Third person
Indie
Music

Stardust Demon

A retro pixel-art metroidvania with quirky characters, diverse abilities, hidden-room exploration, and optional challenges in a roughly 16-hour story.

2024-10-23

Action
Adventure
Indie
Side view

Isles of Sea and Sky

A tropical open-world puzzle adventure built around block-pushing puzzles, with companion abilities and a mysterious story, offering roughly 25 hours of clever but sometimes frustratingly tricky screens.

2024-05-22

Puzzle
Adventure
Fantasy
Bird view / Isometric
Indie

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

HAMSTERMIND

A single-player sokoban-style puzzle adventure through a rotatable pyramid, with a light humorous tone and a roughly 21-hour campaign of hidden secrets and layered challenges.

2026-02-16

Puzzle
Adventure
Strategy
Bird view / Isometric
Indie

Batbarian: Testament of the Primordials

A snarky action-adventure puzzle game set in an eldritch abyss, blending Metroidvania exploration with bat companion Pip's puzzle-solving powers.

2020-10-15

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

The Legend of Lumina

A serene forest sokoban-style puzzler with metroidvania progression, tough-but-relaxing puzzle exploration, and a compact reviewer runtime around 3.5 hours.

2024-07-08

Puzzle
Adventure
Indie

Derelict Star

A 2D momentum-based platformer set on an abandoned freighter, blending precise movement, exploration, and navigation puzzles in a non-linear space setting.

2026-04-02

Action
Science fiction
Platform
Adventure
Indie
Side view
Open world
Mystery

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)

HeroSquare

A compact, colorful minimalist metroidvania about reflecting bullets to find your missing heart friend, with a retro arcade look and tough boss fights.

2025-10-06

Action
Adventure
Bird view / Isometric
Indie

Super Drift Blade

A mouse-only time-loop action-strategy adventure where you slide to fight monsters, solve cryptic puzzles, and explore hidden paths in a roughly 11-hour journey.

2025-08-12

Action
Adventure
Indie
Role-playing (RPG)

Pipistrello and the Cursed Yoyo