Games like CYCLE

Still thinking about CYCLE and its emotional and mysterious tone? These games offer a similar pull for your backlog.

Laika: Aged Through Blood
A post-apocalyptic western where a coyote mother rides a motorbike through a hand-drawn wasteland, shooting from the saddle and reloading mid-air with a backflip. Laika: Aged Through Blood mixes tough Trials-style riding with Metroidvania exploration and a heavy story of vengeance and loss. Demanding, bloody and beautiful, it rewards precision and hits hard in every sense.
Emotional, Mysterious, Story-driven
91% of 6,056 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 14$19.99
Quarion
A short 2D pixel-style metroidvania where you explore, fight bosses, aquire items and abilities and find secrets. Inspired by games such as You Have to Win the Game and VVVVVV.
Mysterious, Retro, Colorful
94% of 172 Steam reviews are positive$0.99
After Death
After Death is a platform / exploration game in a dark and hostile world. With the help from lost souls, you will have to find a way to open a gate which seems to be the only exit from this mysterious world infected by monsters.
Mysterious, Retro, Surreal
88% of 146 Steam reviews are positive$13.99
Before I Go
Explore the haunting, dreamlike fantasy world of BEFORE I GO, a punishing Metroidvania where you embody the innocence of an inner child on an allegorical odyssey towards death acceptance. The end is inevitable, but will you brave the journey?
Emotional, Mysterious, Story-driven
82% of 85 Steam reviews are positive$19.99
Crypt Custodian
Crypt Custodian is a metroidvania about a mischievous cat who dies, gets sentenced by the afterlife's guardian, and must clean up the afterworld forever. Sweep with your broom, befriend doomed ghosts, and explore a vast, colorful land. Gentle, funny and quietly moving, it respects your time at every turn.
Emotional, Mysterious, Story-driven
97% of 3,040 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 45$11.99
Turbo Kid
A nostalgic metroidvania adventure with insane weapons, skills, and pixel gore. Ride your BMX and blast your enemies as you discover the secrets of the Wasteland.
Mysterious, Story-driven, Retro
92% of 405 Steam reviews are positive$19.99
A Sister's Journey
Help Violet find her missing sister Rena in a hand-drawn pixel-art world that is equal parts charming and trying to kill you. Expect fast run-and-gun fights, tough bosses, and precision platforming, with new weapons, upgrades, and secrets opening the map as you go.
Emotional, Mysterious, Story-driven
66% of 67 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 7$19.99
AWAKEN - Astral Blade
A 2.5D metroidvania where Tania, a bionic warrior, cuts through a land twisted by Karpas energy. Fast, fluid combat built on parries and dashes, a dense world full of hidden paths, and a mystery that only gives up its truth piece by piece.
Mysterious, Story-driven, Colorful
81% of 1,153 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 3$19.99
Iconoclasts
Robin just wants to fix things, but the theocracy running her dying planet calls her a criminal. Armed with a wrench and a stubborn streak, she puzzles, climbs and fights her way through a colorful world hiding a much darker story. Gorgeous pixel art, clever puzzles and over twenty boss battles.
Emotional, Mysterious, Story-driven
86% of 4,197 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 13$19.99
Sealed Bite: Extended
Emilia's life turns into chaos as her family members disappear, one by one. Forced to put her trust in a wolf spirit, Emilia sets off to search the land while pressured into feeding a monstrous power. Will the enigmatic figure she encounters offer guidance, or is Emilia diving head-first into peril?
Emotional, Mysterious, Story-driven
88% of 33 Steam reviews are positive$9.99
Venture to the Vile
Dive into the strange town of Rainybrook, taken over by the “Vile” in this 2.5D metroidvania! Fight your way through treacherous terrains and defeat formidable bosses to absorb their powers! Will you save the town and find your missing friend Ella — or will you give in to the monster you've become?
Mysterious, Story-driven, Surreal
72% of 150 Steam reviews are positive$24.99
Pseudoregalia
Sybil wakes inside Castle Sansa, a dream castle gone rotten, and the only way through is up, over and around it. A 3D metroidvania built on movement: every new ability bends the rules of what you can reach, and the castle never tells you which way is the right way. It only asks how far you are willing to jump.
Mysterious, Retro, Colorful
96% of 17,241 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 48$4.49

Cheaper than CYCLE

Quarion

A short 2D pixel-style metroidvania where you explore, fight bosses, aquire items and abilities and find secrets.

$0.99

Crypt Custodian

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.

$11.99

Sealed Bite: Extended

Emilia's life turns into chaos as her family members disappear, one by one.

$9.99

Genopanic

Genopanic is a pixel-art, Metroidvania-inspired adventure-platformer.

$8.99

Momodora: Reverie Under The Moonlight

Fight through a cursed land with combos, a bow and spells, learning every boss the hard way.

$9.99

Icycle: On Thin Ice

The award winning sequel to the classic platform adventure puzzler - Icycle (included).

$6.99

Pseudoregalia

Sybil wakes inside Castle Sansa, a dream castle gone rotten, and the only way through is up, over and around it.

$4.49

Planet of Lana

Guide a girl and her small companion past strange machines to bring her sister home.

$2.99

Ravva and the Cyclops Curse

Unleash your summoning powers to defeat the Cyclops Lord! Along with four unusual companions, you must journey through a dangerous land to save your…

$1.99

Awita: Journey of Hope

Awita: Journey of Hope is a captivating side-scrolling metroidvania game that follows the remarkable journey of a courageous girl determined to…

$11.99

Luna's Light

Luna's Light is the story of a young huntress who must leave her village and face a cruel post-apocalyptic world.

$5.99

CICADAMATA"

Speed through surreal levels as a cicada agent, chaining stylish kills and chasing leaderboard scores.

$9.99

Hidden gems like CYCLE

CICADAMATA"

Speed through surreal levels as a cicada agent, chaining stylish kills and chasing leaderboard scores.

$9.99

Infinitevania

A retro-styled 2D metroidvania with fluid modern movement. You travel between worlds, defeat powerful creatures, absorb their powers, and grow…

$14.99

Fatal Claw

A resurrected cat fights through a dark, hand-drawn world, stealing powers from infected foes and fusing them into new abilities.

$24.99

Lone Fungus: Melody of Spores

Embark on a heartfelt Mushroomvania adventure through a vast and dense interconnected world! It's like a mix of retro and modern classics!

$19.99

Quarion

A short 2D pixel-style metroidvania where you explore, fight bosses, aquire items and abilities and find secrets.

$0.99

Queen of treasure isle

Poor Windy has come to search for the treasure hidden on the island.

$8.99

Crypt Custodian

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.

$11.99

Turbo Kid

A nostalgic metroidvania adventure with insane weapons, skills, and pixel gore.

$19.99

Constance

Explore a strange, colorful inner world with a magic paintbrush, diving through walls and uncovering one artist's touching story.

$19.99

MIO: Memories in Orbit

A hand-drawn metroidvania aboard the Vessel, a vast ark gone quiet.

$19.99

AWAKEN - Astral Blade

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…

$19.99

Somber Echoes

Armed with God-given powers, the revived tribune Adrestia is given a second chance to save the universe from her maniacal twin sister.

$14.99

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