ElecHead
Guide a little robot whose detachable, electricity-conducting head is the key to every puzzle.
96% of 1,436 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 2$9.99
Games like Headlander
Still thinking about Headlander and its funny and retro tone? Browse these games for your next favorite.
ElecHead
A small robot with a big head, and the head is the battery. Throw it across a room to power a door, leave it behind to keep a platform alive, then sprint back before the charge runs out. ElecHead is a compact puzzle platformer where every screen asks one clever question and hands you the tools to answer it yourself.
Retro, Surreal, Colorful
96% of 1,436 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 2$9.99Retro Machina
Retro Machina is a single-player action and exploration game set in a retro-futuristic universe. Experience the journey of a little robot as it solves intricate puzzles and begins unraveling the mysteries of a world long forgotten.
Retro, Surreal, Hand-drawn
87% of 200 Steam reviews are positive$3.39The Desolate Hope
A derelict space station, four dreaming supercomputers, a creeping virus, and a coffee pot with legs. The Desolate Hope blends platforming, 8-bit dungeon crawling and turn-based boss fights into one strange, heartfelt sci-fi story. You have fifteen days of power left. Time to work.
Funny, Retro, Surreal
92% of 1,853 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 2FreeMindSeize
MindSeize is a 2D Metroidvania game set in a Sci-Fi-universe. Transfer your mind to a robot and rescue your beloved one!
Retro, Surreal, Story-driven
72% of 213 Steam reviews are positive$14.99Insanely Twisted Shadow Planet
In this Insanely Twisted, 2-D action-adventure game, explore unique environments and battle bizarre creatures.
Retro, Surreal, Hand-drawn
88% of 585 Steam reviews are positive$14.99Gato Roboto
A cat in a mech suit saves her stranded captain in this short, sharp metroidvania. Blast through an alien outpost in heavy armor, then slip out and squeeze through tunnels only a cat can fit in. Black-and-white pixel art, crunchy sounds, secrets everywhere, and a meow button. Done in an evening or two, remembered longer.
Funny, Retro, Colorful
94% of 4,410 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 11$7.99Axiom Verge
A lab accident hurls a scientist into Sudra, a ruined alien world full of biomechanical horrors. A retro-style metroidvania with a twist: you can glitch the world itself, corrupting enemies and warping walls to open paths. One developer made all of it, art, music and code, and it shows.
Retro, Surreal, Colorful
90% of 5,883 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 20$19.99Scrapland Remastered
The cult game that marked MercurySteam's origins returns; a sci-fi adventure with memorable characters, powerful ships and humor! Enjoy intense Multiplayer battles and races with ships you build.
Funny, Retro, Colorful
92% of 108 Steam reviews are positive$19.99Mr. Robot
Asimov is a lowly service mechanoid aboard the interstellar colony ship Eidolon. Carrying hundreds of frozen human colonists to a new world. When the Eidolon's computer brain malfunctions, it falls to Asimov to undertake a perilous journey through the bowels of the massive ship to save his robot friends and the precious human cargo. Mr.
Retro, Story-driven
81% of 96 Steam reviews are positive$7.99B.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.
Retro, Colorful
85% of 209 Steam reviews are positive$9.99Planet of the Eyes
An atmospheric narrative-platformer about a service robot stranded on a mysterious planet, Planet of the Eyes features a stunning visual mix of puzzle and platforming challenges, an original musical score, and fully voiced audio logs left by another survivor. Explore the mystery of an unknown world.
Funny, Retro, Surreal
90% of 177 Steam reviews are positive$9.99Hyper Light Drifter
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.
Retro, Surreal, Hand-drawn
93% of 15,669 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 37$19.99
Cheaper than Headlander
Retro Machina
Retro Machina is a single-player action and exploration game set in a retro-futuristic universe.
87% of 200 Steam reviews are positive$3.39
MindSeize
MindSeize is a 2D Metroidvania game set in a Sci-Fi-universe. Transfer your mind to a robot and rescue your beloved one!
72% of 213 Steam reviews are positive$14.99
Insanely Twisted Shadow Planet
In this Insanely Twisted, 2-D action-adventure game, explore unique environments and battle bizarre creatures.
88% of 585 Steam reviews are positive$14.99
Gato Roboto
Squeeze through tunnels as a cat, blast through an alien outpost in a mech suit, and save your stranded captain before the evening is over.
94% of 4,410 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 11$7.99
Mr. Robot
Asimov is a lowly service mechanoid aboard the interstellar colony ship Eidolon. Carrying hundreds of frozen human colonists to a new world.
81% of 96 Steam reviews are positive$7.99
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
Planet of the Eyes
An atmospheric narrative-platformer about a service robot stranded on a mysterious planet, Planet of the Eyes features a stunning visual mix of…
90% of 177 Steam reviews are positive$9.99
RAM: Random Access Mayhem
The roguelike where you play as the enemies. Take control of your foes, turn them against each other in fast-paced combat, and leap to a new host…
97% of 620 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 9$5.99
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 1,514 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 6$7.99
Robot Exploration Squad
A 2D Metroidvania game with equal focus on action and exploration. Are you a bad enough robot to make it out in one piece?
92% of 12 Steam reviews are positive$2.99
HOLY GRAIL for DUMMIES
HOLY GRAIL for DUMMIES is a colorful and absurd action-platformer about Buckethead, a hero past his prime, in a world that, let's be honest, has…
96% of 460 Steam reviews are positive$9.99
Hidden gems like Headlander
Future Knight
Frenetic action and LCD aesthetic! In this 2D Shoot 'Em Up, switch between a robot hero and his benign tumor to stop a bizarre cult.
97% of 138 Steam reviews are positive$14.99
PAPERHEAD
Run and gun through a nightmarish research facility, sketching bombs into existence with a magic pencil.
95% of 686 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 25$19.99
RAM: Random Access Mayhem
The roguelike where you play as the enemies. Take control of your foes, turn them against each other in fast-paced combat, and leap to a new host…
97% of 620 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 9$5.99
Zexion
Seek out new weapons and equipment to delve deeper into the dangerous world of Cypher-X72!
89% of 567 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 6$9.99
Ex Vitro
EX VITRO is a dark sci-fi 2D platformer where you delve into the ruins of a military research facility and discover the horrors within.
94% of 158 Steam reviews are positiveFree
Cosmobreeder Yiffai
Travel to a forgotten world and study alien creatures in this authentic retro metroidvania!
84% of 168 Steam reviews are positive$14.99
MIO: Memories in Orbit
A hand-drawn metroidvania aboard the Vessel, a vast ark gone quiet.
82% of 4,810 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 120$19.99
Akimbot
In the action-adventure platformer, Akimbot, blast your way through armies of robots, pilot spaceships and forge your own path to save the universe…
82% of 834 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 4$19.99
Full Void
A gripping, retro-inspired 2D cinematic puzzle-platformer set in a dystopian future where AI has taken over humanity.
91% of 252 Steam reviews are positive$11.99
REPLACED
R.E.A.C.H. is an AI waking up in a human body, in an alternate 1980s America where organs are currency.
85% of 9,908 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 158$14.99
Solar Ash
You play Rei, a Voidrunner racing through a dreamlike void to save her home planet, one giant beast at a time.
90% of 1,370 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1$39.99
Steel Seed
Steel Seed is a stealth-action adventure set in a dark sci-fi world on the brink of extinction.
78% of 345 Steam reviews are positive$39.99
Newest games like Headlander
PAPERHEAD
Run and gun through a nightmarish research facility, sketching bombs into existence with a magic pencil.
95% of 686 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 25$19.99
Future Knight
Frenetic action and LCD aesthetic! In this 2D Shoot 'Em Up, switch between a robot hero and his benign tumor to stop a bizarre cult.
97% of 138 Steam reviews are positive$14.99
HOLY GRAIL for DUMMIES
HOLY GRAIL for DUMMIES is a colorful and absurd action-platformer about Buckethead, a hero past his prime, in a world that, let's be honest, has…
96% of 460 Steam reviews are positive$9.99
REPLACED
R.E.A.C.H. is an AI waking up in a human body, in an alternate 1980s America where organs are currency.
85% of 9,908 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 158$14.99
RAM: Random Access Mayhem
The roguelike where you play as the enemies. Take control of your foes, turn them against each other in fast-paced combat, and leap to a new host…
97% of 620 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 9$5.99
Cosmobreeder Yiffai
Travel to a forgotten world and study alien creatures in this authentic retro metroidvania!
84% of 168 Steam reviews are positive$14.99
Steel Seed
Steel Seed is a stealth-action adventure set in a dark sci-fi world on the brink of extinction.
78% of 345 Steam reviews are positive$39.99
Zexion
Seek out new weapons and equipment to delve deeper into the dangerous world of Cypher-X72!
89% of 567 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 6$9.99
Akimbot
In the action-adventure platformer, Akimbot, blast your way through armies of robots, pilot spaceships and forge your own path to save the universe…
82% of 834 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 4$19.99
Gestalt: Steam & Cinder
Fight and platform through a steampunk city as a mercenary whose past hides more than the secrets she hunts.
79% of 1,928 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 6$19.99
The Mobius Machine
Discover a vast alien world. Fight the ferocious local fauna and killer machines. Reveal its secrets and find a way to escape.
82% of 450 Steam reviews are positive$19.99
Ex Vitro
EX VITRO is a dark sci-fi 2D platformer where you delve into the ruins of a military research facility and discover the horrors within.
94% of 158 Steam reviews are positiveFree