
Dark Devotion
Fight your way down through a cursed temple, lose everything on death, and keep just enough to try again.
Still thinking about Blasphemous and its dark and brutal tone? These games keep things close enough to feel familiar.
A gothic metroidvania with soulslike teeth. Eryk wakes with no memory in a cursed world, and his mind is running out. Carve your own path with swords, guns and spells, learn every boss the hard way, and let the gorgeous pixel art haunt you.
Also in Soulslike · Dark, Brutal, Atmospheric
A 2D dark fantasy pilgrimage through a fallen temple, where heavy, deliberate combat meets a roguelite twist: die and you lose your gear, but every boss and secret you uncover stays yours. Dozens of weapons, blessings, curses and one-way doors make each run a fresh act of devotion.
Also in Soulslike · Dark, Brutal, Atmospheric
Miriam's body is slowly turning to crystal, and the cure lies somewhere in a demon-crowded castle. A side-scrolling action RPG from Koji Igarashi where every enemy can drop a new ability, every corridor hides a weapon, and the map keeps unfolding the further you push. Explore, level up, cook, craft, and carve your way to the castle's master.
Dark, Brutal, Atmospheric
A doomed sailor washes up on a cursed island, and everything on it wants you dead. Salt and Sanctuary is a 2D soulslike metroidvania with fast, gory combat, more than 600 weapons, spells and armor to find, and a grim hand-drawn world of forgotten cities and blood-soaked dungeons. Die, lose your salt, learn, and go deeper.
Also in Soulslike · Dark, Brutal, Atmospheric
Fast-paced first-person platformer with character upgrading. Begin your journey across the Devilish Megastructures as a frail, armless priest and grow stronger through sacred relics.
Dark, Atmospheric, Tense
A hand-drawn 2D action-platformer of cosmic horror. Hatch from your cocoon, carve through the ruins of a dead civilisation, tear Ichor from the gods hoarding it, and build a shrine of loyal followers in the wreckage. Tight controls, over 50 Relics and Souls, and eleven bosses between you and the truth.
Dark, Atmospheric, Surreal
Morbid: The Seven Acolytes is a Horrorpunk Action RPG filled with Lovecraftian horrors and Cronenbergian gore, making it the most gruesome take on the isometric Souls-like genre yet!
Also in Soulslike · Dark, Brutal, Atmospheric
Begin your adventure in Shattered Divinities to reveal the truth! Traverse the land where deities have perished, explore abandoned divine realms, battle mutated monsters, gather divine power to awaken your strength, and unveil the truth behind the deities’ fall.
Dark, Tense, Retro
Deep underground, Gloom Girl discovers DOOMBLADE, a sentient weapon hellbent on escape after eons in chains. Together, “Doom and Gloom” embark on a vengeful quest to unlock the powerful abilities and destroy the Dread Lords once and for all in this 2D Action Metroidvania.
Also in Soulslike · Dark, Brutal, Atmospheric
You are an angel with one holy job: shoot your way through Hell and kill Satan. Bloody Hell is a short, bloody bullet-hell metroidvania with dashes, a grapple, five demon bosses, secret-filled corners and baby chickens to rescue.
Dark, Brutal, Tense
A lost holy city, two warring goddesses and a lot of things that want you dead. Valdis Story is a fast 2D action platformer with deep combat, four playable characters and a story that goes to strange places. Demanding, but the kind of demanding that makes you better.
Dark, Retro
THE NEO-SANCTUM SHALL FALL. Claim retribution against the theocratic Faiths as you master vicious hack-and-slash combat in this action-RPG where style is salvation.
Also in Soulslike · Dark, Brutal, Atmospheric

Fight your way down through a cursed temple, lose everything on death, and keep just enough to try again.

Fight through a cursed island as a doomed sailor, learning from every death as you push deeper into its hand-drawn dark.

A fast 2D Metroidvania where you hunt the blood of gods beneath a star-scorched sky.

Fast-paced first-person platformer with character upgrading.

Deep underground, Gloom Girl discovers DOOMBLADE, a sentient weapon hellbent on escape after eons in chains.

Fight your way through a lost holy city as one of four characters, building your own style of combat while a story of warring goddesses unfolds…

Begin your adventure in Shattered Divinities to reveal the truth!

Gravethorn is a 2D platformer that combines soulslike and metroidvania elements with deep storytelling.

UNWORTHY is a hardcore combat-focused metroidvania without jumping.

Explore the ruins of Penumbra, master fast fluid movement, and fight to restore a fallen kingdom.

THE NEO-SANCTUM SHALL FALL. Claim retribution against the theocratic Faiths as you master vicious hack-and-slash combat in this action-RPG where…

A dead cat with a broom explores a vast, colorful afterlife, cleaning up its messes and getting to know the doomed souls who live there.

Parry, transform into other chess pieces and carve a path through a plague-haunted medieval land.

Begin your adventure in Shattered Divinities to reveal the truth!

Fast-paced first-person platformer with character upgrading.

A hand-drawn 2D metroidvania where parrying is everything. A small fire warrior with no memories crosses a land ruined by the Shadow Plague, learns…

THE NEO-SANCTUM SHALL FALL. Claim retribution against the theocratic Faiths as you master vicious hack-and-slash combat in this action-RPG where…

Master high-skilled combat to uncover the secrets of this war-torn empire and escape your captors.

Mina the Hollower sends a mouse Hollower to a cursed island, whip in paw.

Guide the bionic warrior Tania through a hand-drawn dark fantasy world, where fast, demanding combat and hidden paths lead to a mystery told piece…

Join Kim Rip, a Royal Guard whose humanity is gradually slipping away, on a thrilling 2.5D action-adventure platforming journey in 'The Devil…

A fast 2D Metroidvania where you hunt the blood of gods beneath a star-scorched sky.

Fight and platform through a steampunk city as a mercenary whose past hides more than the secrets she hunts.

You are an angel with one holy job: shoot your way through Hell and kill Satan.

Help Violet find her missing sister Rena in a hand-drawn pixel-art world that is equal parts charming and trying to kill you.

Paris burns in 1499 and Rose Belmont walks in with the Vampire Killer.

Mina the Hollower sends a mouse Hollower to a cursed island, whip in paw.

Parry, transform into other chess pieces and carve a path through a plague-haunted medieval land.

Begin your adventure in Shattered Divinities to reveal the truth!

A hand-drawn 2D metroidvania where parrying is everything. A small fire warrior with no memories crosses a land ruined by the Shadow Plague, learns…

Gravethorn is a 2D platformer that combines soulslike and metroidvania elements with deep storytelling.

Fast-paced first-person platformer with character upgrading.

Cross a decaying dark fantasy world as an Inquisitor, fighting through brutal timed combat to uncover what hides in Faelduum.

Master high-skilled combat to uncover the secrets of this war-torn empire and escape your captors.

Join Kim Rip, a Royal Guard whose humanity is gradually slipping away, on a thrilling 2.5D action-adventure platforming journey in 'The Devil…

A fast 2D Metroidvania where you hunt the blood of gods beneath a star-scorched sky.