
The Vagrant
Chase a lost father's trail as a sellsword, cutting through monsters and bosses in fast side-scrolling combat with multiple endings.
If Elderand scratched a dark and brutal itch for you, keep reading. You will find a few strong contenders among these games.
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.
Dark, Scary, Fast-paced
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.
Dark, Retro, Hand-drawn
A first-person slasher with souls-like melee combat, eleven weapons to master and a heavy metal soundtrack. Fight through a doomed city, learn every enemy's tricks, and carve out your own legend as the dark messiah the barbarian tribes have been waiting for.
Dark, Brutal, Scary
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, Retro, Hand-drawn
Souldiers drops you, a soldier who never actually died, into Terragaya, a land on the fringe of the afterlife. Pick a class, slash and parry through a huge 16-bit world, solve puzzles and hunt secret paths. Gorgeous pixel art, a great soundtrack and combat that makes you earn every win.
Dark, Retro, Fast-paced
Explore a stunning hand-crafted world ravaged by war and ruled by a evil tyrant. Face a wide variety of enemies as you customize your strategy, switch weapons, and unlock powerful abilities
Dark, Hand-drawn, Fast-paced
An Inquisitor's faith cracks, and a decaying world opens up. Mandragora is a dark fantasy action RPG and metroidvania: six classes, brutal timed combat, hundreds of crafted weapons, and a vast interconnected Faelduum hiding 60 quests and 75 locations. Painterly art, a haunting orchestra, and bosses that will take more than one try.
Dark, Brutal, Hand-drawn
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.
Dark, Brutal, Retro
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.
Dark, Brutal, Retro
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.
Dark, Hand-drawn, Fast-paced
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, Retro, Fast-paced
Sundered is a hand-drawn metroidvania where you explore a shifting, Lovecraftian underworld as Eshe, fight overwhelming hordes and huge bosses, and choose whether to resist or embrace the corrupting powers you find. Every death reshapes the caverns, upgrades carry over, and up to four friends can share the chaos on one couch.
Dark, Brutal, Retro

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

HunterX is an action-adventure game full of spirited battles.

A brutal first-person slasher where you master eleven weapons, learn every enemy's patterns and forge your own destiny in a doomed city.

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.

Explore a stunning hand-crafted world ravaged by war and ruled by a evil tyrant.

Begin your adventure in Shattered Divinities to reveal the truth!

This is the story of Xandria, an iron alchemist. She seeks revenge regardless of the consequences.

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

An amnesiac warrior wakes with a talking sword and a flying sidekick, in a hand-painted world that looks like an animated film.

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…

You are the last knight standing, and the kingdom of Alexandria has been overrun by monsters.

Begin your adventure in Shattered Divinities to reveal the truth!

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

Fight through a mad Wild West mining town with guns, blades and spells, one gruesome boss at a time.

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

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

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…

This is the story of Xandria, an iron alchemist. She seeks revenge regardless of the consequences.

Fight through a bright hand-drawn world as three switchable fighters, building gear and reading every boss until the routine clicks.

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.

Return to your home planet after 200 years of space travel in this atmospheric, art-driven adventure.

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.

Begin your adventure in Shattered Divinities to reveal the truth!

Fight through a mad Wild West mining town with guns, blades and spells, one gruesome boss at a time.

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…

This is the story of Xandria, an iron alchemist. She seeks revenge regardless of the consequences.

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

Explore a stunning hand-crafted world ravaged by war and ruled by a evil tyrant.

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

Embark on a quest to recover the Three Rings of the Triskelion, as the last descendant of ancient Kung Fu warriors in Twilight Monk!.

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

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…