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Games like Tales of Kenzera™: ZAU | IndieDex

Tales of Kenzera™: ZAU
Games like Tales of Kenzera™: ZAU

Games like 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.

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.
2019-07-25
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Platform

Adventure

Fantasy

Indie

Side view

Role-playing (RPG)

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Faerie Afterlight

A 2D Metroidvania inspired by Indonesian folklore, where Kimo and Wispy manipulate terrain, befriend Lumina's natives, and take titan abilities across a compact ~2.5-hour adventure.

2023-09-28

Action
Platform
Puzzle
Adventure
Indie
Side view

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8Doors: Arum's Afterlife Adventure

A story-driven 2D Metroidvania about a girl exploring Korean-folklore purgatory to rescue her father's soul, with solid art and music and around 14 hours of gameplay.

2021-04-07

Action
Platform
Adventure
Fantasy
Indie
Side view

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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)

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Prince of Persia The Lost Crown

A fast-paced single-player action-adventure platformer in mythological Persia, featuring time-space manipulation and interconnected exploration, with positive reviews but some cloud-save complaints.

2024-08-08

Action
Platform
Adventure
Fantasy
Side view

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Ori and the Will of the Wisps

A side-scrolling action-platformer with fluid movement and challenging puzzles, set in a beautiful exotic world with an emotional story, pacing around 17 hours for reviewers.

2020-03-10

Action
Platform
Adventure
Fantasy
Side view

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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

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Toziuha Night: Order of the Alchemists

A dark fantasy metroidvania starring an iron alchemist on a revenge quest, with whip-and-element combat and a reviewer-median runtime of about 17 hours.

2025-10-27

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

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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

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Dandara: Trials of Fear Edition

A short, surreal metroidvania with a polarizing point-and-jump movement system and a female-led world-reshaping quest.

2018-02-06

Action
Platform
Adventure
Fantasy
Indie
Side view
Arcade

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Constance

A 2D hand-drawn action-adventure about an artist escaping a decaying inner world, with precision platforming and a poignant mental-health narrative; reviewer playtimes average about 14-15 hours.

2025-11-24

Action
Platform
Adventure
Indie
Side view

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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