B.I.O.T.A.
Intense 2D action-platformer set in a mining colony infected by an alien plague.
85% of 209 Steam reviews are positive$9.99
Games like ChainStaff
If the surreal and hand-drawn rhythm of ChainStaff stuck with you, this helps. These games could fill that gap nicely.
B.I.O.T.A.
Intense 2D action-platformer set in a mining colony infected by an alien plague. In B.I.O.T.A. you can choose your hero, fight gruesome monsters, and customize your 8-bit retro experience with swappable 4-color palettes.
Fast-paced, Retro, Tense
85% of 209 Steam reviews are positive$9.99ENCHAIN
Grapple, throw, and break your fellow undead in this bone-smashing exploration movement shooter. Challenge the afterlife, collect secret artifacts, and uncover the deprived depths as you clamber out of a hopeless abyss.
Fast-paced, Retro, Brutal
96% of 97 Steam reviews are positive$19.99GRIME
Parry attacks to absorb your enemies, wield weapons that are living creatures, and grow stronger with every kill. A demanding metroidvania with souls-like combat, strange civilizations and bosses many times your size.
Surreal, Hand-drawn, Fast-paced
85% of 4,703 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 37$24.99Steel Assault
Punch, whip, and zipline your way through a post-apocalyptic America in this 16-bit retro-style action platformer! Play as Taro Takahashi, a resistance soldier on a revenge mission against the dictator who lords over the ashes.
Fast-paced, Retro, Tense
77% of 387 Steam reviews are positive$14.99Disaster Arms - Impact Project B.A.H.N.
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Hand-drawn, Fast-paced, Retro
100% of 56 Steam reviews are positive$9.99Capsized
Capsized is a fast paced 2D platformer focused on intense action and exploration. As a intrepid space traveler, your ship has crash landed on a mysterious alien planet. You must navigate through the perilous environment and fight off blood-thirsty creatures to save your crewmates and escape with your lives!
Hand-drawn, Fast-paced, Retro
81% of 595 Steam reviews are positive$9.99Rusted Moss
Rusted Moss is a metroidvania built around an elastic physics grapple: you sling yourself across a melancholic wasteland, shoot witches and rusted machines with 360° aiming, and follow Fern, a changeling raised by humans, to decide whether the Age of Men ends. Difficult, moody and rewarding to master, with mouse and keyboard recommended.
Fast-paced, Retro, Tense
88% of 1,643 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 11$19.99Environmental Station Alpha
A robot, an abandoned space station, and no one left to explain anything. Environmental Station Alpha is a tough retro metroidvania about exploring a derelict station overrun by wildlife, finding powerups, fighting bosses and digging into what actually happened here. The station hides far more than a map can show.
Surreal, Retro, Tense
81% of 1,516 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 6$7.99Chenso Club
Aliens are attacking! Who will save us? Chenso Club will! Using chainsaws, hammers, and the aliens’ own life force against them - these fearless warriors will pulverise enemies on their way to victory. Go solo! Go co-op! Go hack those aliens in this action-packed, side-scrolling platform brawler!
Fast-paced, Retro
73% of 84 Steam reviews are positive$9.99DEVIATOR
Deviator is a Metroidvania game centered around deflect, featuring exquisite 2D hand-drawn visuals. Exploring unknown wilderness and mysterious cities, delving into enigmatic realms of consciousness and encountering peculiar creatures. Try to find the truth behind this chaotic world.
Surreal, Hand-drawn, Fast-paced
66% of 884 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1$6.99Exception
When an old woman's computer system is taken over by a virus bent on total annihilation, you assume control of an ordinary software program transformed into an elite combat machine. Retake the system and build your character into a formidable instrument of retribution.
Surreal, Fast-paced, Retro
94% of 62 Steam reviews are positiveFreeValfaris
A heavy metal run-and-gun platformer. Therion fights back into the fortress of Valfaris, which vanished from the galactic charts and came back orbiting a dying sun, now crawling with things that need shooting. Brutal weapons, savage bosses, hand-crafted pixel art and a soundtrack by a former Celtic Frost guitarist. Difficult, loud and proud of it.
Fast-paced, Retro, Brutal
85% of 1,817 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 6$24.99
Cheaper than ChainStaff
Disaster Arms - Impact Project B.A.H.N.
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100% of 56 Steam reviews are positive$9.99
Capsized
Capsized is a fast paced 2D platformer focused on intense action and exploration.
81% of 595 Steam reviews are positive$9.99
Environmental Station Alpha
Explore an abandoned space station as a small robot, fight your way past its wildlife and bosses, and piece together what happened here.
81% of 1,516 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 6$7.99
Chenso Club
Aliens are attacking! Who will save us? Chenso Club will! Using chainsaws, hammers, and the aliens’ own life force against them - these fearless…
73% of 84 Steam reviews are positive$9.99
DEVIATOR
Deviator is a Metroidvania game centered around deflect, featuring exquisite 2D hand-drawn visuals.
66% of 884 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1$6.99
Genopanic
Genopanic is a pixel-art, Metroidvania-inspired adventure-platformer.
73% of 274 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1$8.99
OVERWHELM
You're outnumbered, low on ammunition and the paranoia sets in. This is an action horror-world where enemies get power-ups and you don’t.
84% of 219 Steam reviews are positive$9.99
Alien Scumbags
Alien Scumbags is a sci-fi action platformer with a big slice of horror and a stack of pop culture references.
98% of 65 Steam reviews are positive$5.99
Caster
A fast third-person shooter where the ground itself is a weapon.
79% of 3,342 Steam reviews are positive$9.99
Blast Brigade vs. the Evil Legion of Dr. Cread
Blast off in a 2D metroidvania adventure bursting with platforming thrills, deep exploration, and explosive action.
87% of 298 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 2$9.99
After Death
After Death is a platform / exploration game in a dark and hostile world.
88% of 146 Steam reviews are positive$13.99
Hidden gems like ChainStaff
PAPERHEAD
Run and gun through a nightmarish research facility, sketching bombs into existence with a magic pencil.
95% of 709 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 17$19.99
Genokids
A bizarre music band named Genokids is rocking one of their best concerts to date when The Infinite Empire of Zenodia decides to invade Earth and…
98% of 223 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1$19.99
Morbid Metal
Swap between fighters in the middle of a combo and carve through machine hordes in a ruined future, one run at a time.
82% of 1,684 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 17$17.99
ION Shift
ION Shift delivers fast, high-stakes gameplay with precision controls and a unique sandbox-style approach to combat arenas.
90% of 141 Steam reviews are positive$2.99
Haunted Lands
Slay grim cultists, infernal minions, and nightmarish creatures in this dark and bloody retro-inspired action platformer.
77% of 258 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 4$5.99
Devilated
Devilated is an ultraviolent RPG old-school shooter where you brutalize and cannibalize your demonic foes in equal measure.
85% of 168 Steam reviews are positive$19.99
Last Command
Slither through barrages, collect data to attack, and uncover the secrets of a world of programs.
95% of 2,256 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 3$9.74
Rusted Moss
A grapple-driven metroidvania where every swing, shot and choice carries weight in a dying world.
88% of 1,643 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 11$19.99
Akatori
A colorful action platformer with metroidvania elements and a staff that unlocks unique combat techniques and new ways to overcome obstacles.
71% of 335 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 6$14.99
Super Alloy Ranger
Super Alloy Ranger is a 2D side-scrolling action game. Play as Marksman Kelly or Combat Robot No.2 to challenge different levels within the…
89% of 350 Steam reviews are positive$4.49
Blast Brigade vs. the Evil Legion of Dr. Cread
Blast off in a 2D metroidvania adventure bursting with platforming thrills, deep exploration, and explosive action.
87% of 298 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 2$9.99
Dogworld
Shoot, jump, and slide your way through a ruined, mysterious, dog-filled world as you fight to save humanity from the clutches of a rogue AI named…
97% of 107 Steam reviews are positive$14.99
Newest games like ChainStaff
PAPERHEAD
Run and gun through a nightmarish research facility, sketching bombs into existence with a magic pencil.
95% of 709 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 17$19.99
Soul Chained
Fight through Purgatory in a janky adventure where you and your friends are ethereally chained together.
69% of 223 Steam reviews are positive$4.96
Akatori
A colorful action platformer with metroidvania elements and a staff that unlocks unique combat techniques and new ways to overcome obstacles.
71% of 335 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 6$14.99
Morbid Metal
Swap between fighters in the middle of a combo and carve through machine hordes in a ruined future, one run at a time.
82% of 1,684 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 17$17.99
Haunted Lands
Slay grim cultists, infernal minions, and nightmarish creatures in this dark and bloody retro-inspired action platformer.
77% of 258 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 4$5.99
ENCHAIN
Grapple, throw, and break your fellow undead in this bone-smashing exploration movement shooter.
96% of 97 Steam reviews are positive$19.99
Disaster Arms - Impact Project B.A.H.N.
DRY CONTACT - INSTIGATION OF HYBRID SOLDIER LIFELINE - BIO-AFFECTIONATE HYPER NETWORK -
100% of 56 Steam reviews are positive$9.99
Genokids
A bizarre music band named Genokids is rocking one of their best concerts to date when The Infinite Empire of Zenodia decides to invade Earth and…
98% of 223 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1$19.99
Spear
A fast-paced action-platformer where a self-aware NPC turns your mouse cursor into a makeshift spear to fight glitches, solve puzzles, and save his…
100% of 17 Steam reviews are positive$9.99
INAYAH - Life after Gods
A hand-drawn 2D metroidvania in a post-apocalyptic world. Forge your destiny in a non-linear story with multiple endings.
70% of 237 Steam reviews are positive$15.99
Magenta Horizon - Neverending Harvest
Magenta Horizon is a fast-paced 2D action platformer with challenging spectacle fighter inspired combat.
89% of 179 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1$10.99
ION Shift
ION Shift delivers fast, high-stakes gameplay with precision controls and a unique sandbox-style approach to combat arenas.
90% of 141 Steam reviews are positive$2.99