
A Bastard's Tale
A game about parrying, attacking, and overcoming difficult foes
Miss the retro and tense pull of Driven Out? These games line up well for what comes next.
A game about parrying, attacking, and overcoming difficult foes
Retro, Tense, Fast-paced
A fast, brutal third-person action game where you play an orc girl cutting through a sci-fi city. There are no heal items: the only way back from a mistake is to stun an enemy and execute them to take their blood. High penalty, high reward, and a fight that never lets up.
Also in Soulslike · Tense, Fast-paced, Brutal
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.
Also in Soulslike · Tense, Fast-paced, Dark
A silent drifter with a deadly illness walks a ruined, vividly beautiful world. Hyper Light Drifter is a tough top-down action RPG where the story is told in images, not words, and every fight asks you to learn its rhythm. Explore, find secrets, upgrade, and piece together what happened here.
Also in Soulslike · Retro, Tense, Fast-paced
Unsouled is a 2D action RPG game requiring immense elaborate control. Take a break from repetitive attack and dodge action by challenging yourself with the world of Unsouled.
Also in Soulslike · Retro, Tense, Fast-paced
HunterX is an action-adventure game full of spirited battles. Use various styles of weapons and magic to experience your own fighting style and explore a great world.
Also in Soulslike · Tense, Fast-paced, Dark
A hand-painted 2D action RPG about Vivian, a sellsword chasing her lost father's research through forests, haunted castles and battlefields. Fast combo combat, 70-odd monsters, real boss fights and a dark story with multiple endings. Play it casually or chase mastery: four difficulties, one sharp sword.
Retro, Fast-paced, Dark
Stylish, action-adventure game featuring counter-based, non-lethal combat centered around ronin Tomoe's signature dash-counter mechanic, fighting with nothing but her bare fists to disarm her former allies, the samurai army of Shogun Akechi.
Also in Soulslike · Retro, Tense, Fast-paced
A goofy action RPG. Armed with a plushie, smack down nightmarish foes with cuddly chaos. Cheese the boss. Dodge roll your way to victory!
Also in Soulslike · Fast-paced
A schoolgirl wakes in a dungeon with no memory, a magician named Beatrice at her side and monsters everywhere else. Lost Ruins is a 2D survival action game where the right gear matters more than fast fingers: swap weapons, spells and accessories to counter each horror, and turn the dungeon itself against what lives in it.
Retro, Tense, Fast-paced
Divinum is an action-adventure that blends stylish, expressive combat with rewarding exploration. Master devastating combos and craft unique builds to repel mysterious invaders and uncover your island's hidden truth.
Retro, Tense, Fast-paced
Master tactical sword fighting combat, or discover ways to avoid bloodshed. A journey that trusts you from beginning to end.
Retro, Tense, Brutal

A game about parrying, attacking, and overcoming difficult foes

Deviator is a Metroidvania game centered around deflect, featuring exquisite 2D hand-drawn visuals.

Chase a lost father's trail as a sellsword, cutting through monsters and bosses in fast side-scrolling combat with multiple endings.

A goofy action RPG. Armed with a plushie, smack down nightmarish foes with cuddly chaos. Cheese the boss. Dodge roll your way to victory!

A tough top-down action RPG about learning boss patterns, rolling out of trouble, and looting weapons with rules nobody warned you about.

A boy and a girl with a mysterious weapon drone in their hands embark on an adventurous journey from their small underground village to the vast…

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

In this game you will face violence and extraordinary complexity.

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…

A mighty Demon Lord wakes up as, well, a block. Fight your way back to the throne in an action roguelite where the world only moves when you do…

This game is only for the brave. Dungeons await, each one deeper, each one more perilous and each one more challenging than the last.

Grid-based dungeon crawling meets real-time fistfights in a cursed tower full of puzzles, bosses and people worth punching.

A mighty Demon Lord wakes up as, well, a block. Fight your way back to the throne in an action roguelite where the world only moves when you do…

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

False Hero is a fast-paced soulslike where every enemy you kill teaches you its attack.

Read each boss's moves, dodge with precision and cut down the Bloodstained on a grim road through a fallen kingdom.

Divinum is an action-adventure that blends stylish, expressive combat with rewarding exploration.

A dark sci-fi boss rush where a girl fused with sentient nanomachines fights her way out of a secret lab.

A goofy action RPG. Armed with a plushie, smack down nightmarish foes with cuddly chaos. Cheese the boss. Dodge roll your way to victory!

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…

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…

Fight off waves of goons with fists and improvised weapons, building a combo across fast runs that unlock permanent techniques.

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

Stylish, action-adventure game featuring counter-based, non-lethal combat centered around ronin Tomoe's signature dash-counter mechanic, fighting…

False Hero is a fast-paced soulslike where every enemy you kill teaches you its attack.

Divinum is an action-adventure that blends stylish, expressive combat with rewarding exploration.

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

Read each boss's moves, dodge with precision and cut down the Bloodstained on a grim road through a fallen kingdom.

A mighty Demon Lord wakes up as, well, a block. Fight your way back to the throne in an action roguelite where the world only moves when you do…

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…

Cut through a dark fantasy empire as a betrayed general, learning every boss the hard way.

A boy and a girl with a mysterious weapon drone in their hands embark on an adventurous journey from their small underground village to the vast…

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

Fight off waves of goons with fists and improvised weapons, building a combo across fast runs that unlock permanent techniques.

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…

A dark sci-fi boss rush where a girl fused with sentient nanomachines fights her way out of a secret lab.