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Wonder Boy: The Dragon's Trap
Games like Wonder Boy: The Dragon's Trap

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Games like Wonder Boy: The Dragon's Trap

A compact side-scrolling metroidvania with animal shape-shifting, hand-drawn visuals, and a re-orchestrated soundtrack.

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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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

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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

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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

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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

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Treasure Adventure World

A cute 2D metroidvania featuring sailing, a shrinking boat, puzzles, and open-world exploration in a compact adventure.

2018-02-07

Action
Platform
Puzzle
Adventure
Fantasy
Indie
Side view
Open world

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The Messenger

A ninja's scroll-delivery quest evolves from a snappy action platformer into a time-traveling metroidvania with retro pixel art and a slow-burn start.

2018-08-30

Action
Comedy
Platform
Adventure
Indie
Side view
Arcade

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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

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Beholgar

A retro-styled metroidvania action-adventure where players explore caverns, woods, and castles, battling creatures and solving mysteries in a ~9-10 hour campaign.

2022-02-04

Action
Platform
Adventure
Fantasy
Indie
Side view
Arcade

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Pharaoh Rebirth+

A comedic 2D metroidvania in ancient Egypt where a cursed hero explores, fights, and collects holy grails across a charming world in about 15 hours.

2016-03-17

Action
Platform
Adventure
Indie
Side view

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The Siege and the Sandfox

A 2D stealth Metroidvania with parkour platforming through a besieged kingdom's ruins, marked by mixed reviews praising its art/audio and agile hero but noting backtracking.

2025-05-20

Action
Platform
Adventure
Fantasy
Indie
Side view
Stealth

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Curse of the Sea Rats

A hand-animated pirate metroidvania with local co-op and ability-gated exploration; reviewers logged around three hours and praised the art despite mixed reception.

2023-04-06

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