Zapling Bygone
Games like Zapling Bygone

Games like Zapling Bygone

A twisted single-player metroidvania where you steal foes' abilities by wearing their skulls into a hive-mind, offering a compact ~5-hour campaign with positive but imperfect reception.

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
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Zapling Bygone
Games like Zapling Bygone

Games like Zapling Bygone

A twisted single-player metroidvania where you steal foes' abilities by wearing their skulls into a hive-mind, offering a compact ~5-hour campaign with positive but imperfect reception.

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

Fearmonium

A psychedelic metroidvania where a memory becomes a phobia, blending suspense and humour in a compact ~6-hour adventure through a boy's mind.

2021-05-20

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

OVERLORD: ESCAPE FROM NAZARICK

A compact 2D action-adventure metroidvania in Overlord's dark fantasy world, starring Clementine as she recovers her lost memories and fights to escape.

2022-06-15

Action
Platform
Horror
Side view
Arcade

CARRION

A single-player, roughly five-hour 2D reverse horror metroidvania about a tentacled creature's escape, blending exploration and physics puzzles with dark, gory Lovecraftian atmosphere.

2020-07-23

Action
Science fiction
Platform
Adventure
Horror
Indie
Side view

Skelethrone: The Prey

An atmospheric but clunky single-player dark-fantasy 2D action-platformer prequel with metroidvania structure and RPG elements, offering a brief challenging preview.

2024-03-14

Action
Fantasy
Side view
Role-playing (RPG)

MO:Astray

A pixel-art side-scrolling action-platformer with mind-bending puzzles, special abilities, and a speedrun mode, offering a cute but occasionally frustrating 13-17 hour adventure.

2019-10-24

Action
Platform
Puzzle
Adventure
Fantasy
Indie
Side view

Lone Fungus

A challenging, handcrafted mushroom-world metroidvania where ability-gated exploration and secret hunting unfold across a large 2D map.

2023-04-07

Action
Platform
Adventure
Indie
Side view

DOOMBLADE

A single-player 2D Metroidvania where Gloom Girl and her sentient weapon seek vengeance with click-to-attack combat and heavy-metal style, earning mixed reviews over performance and story, in a compact ~3.5-hour runtime.

2023-05-31

Action
Platform
Adventure
Fantasy
Indie
Side view

PSYCRON

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

2021-08-19

Action
Science fiction
Platform
Adventure
Indie
Side view

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)

Lone Fungus: Melody of Spores

A heartfelt mushroom-themed metroidvania with dense interconnected exploration and standout platforming, offering roughly 15 hours of play.

2025-11-07

Action
Warfare
Platform
Adventure
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

BIOMORPH