Quarion
A short 2D pixel-style metroidvania where you explore, fight bosses, aquire items and abilities and find secrets.
94% of 172 Steam reviews are positive$0.99
Games like Ichiro
If Ichiro left you wanting something retro and tense, you have options. These games offer a similar pull for your backlog.
Ninja Smasher!
Ninja dash! Ninja jump! Ninja slash! 8-bit style Ninja platform action game!
Retro, Fast-paced
86% of 21 Steam reviews are positive$4.99The Messenger
A young ninja runs a scroll through a cursed world while a demon army closes in. It starts as a fast 8-bit action platformer with acrobatic, tight controls, then opens into a time-traveling metroidvania with branching paths, hidden levels and a soundtrack made in Famitracker. The writing is genuinely funny, the bosses offbeat, the whole thing a loving nod to the classics.
Retro, Fast-paced
92% of 10,803 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 46$19.99SHINOBI: Art of Vengeance
SHINOBI returns as a hand-drawn 2D action platformer from the team behind Streets of Rage 4. As ninja master Joe Musashi, you cut through a dozen striking stages with katana, kunai and ninjutsu, chaining combos and executions in fast, fluid combat. A revenge story with arcade bones, made to be played at full speed.
Retro, Fast-paced
83% of 3,686 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 107$29.99Ninja VS Zombies
2D ninja action game in the Metroidvania style of exploration. The game is influenced by games from the 8bit/16bit era, with a focus on the Metroid and Castlevania series. Explore vast dungeons and destroy the "Demon King," the avenger of the ninja clan!
Retro, Tense, Fast-paced
60% of 5 Steam reviews are positive$2.99iaidoka_interlude
A pseudo 8-bit action platformer taking a bit of inspiration from film-noir and samurai dramas, iaidoka_interlude applies a few parkour and fighting game influences to mix up familiarity with a little uniquity.
Retro, Tense, Fast-paced
75% of 73 Steam reviews are positive$0.99Quarion
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.
Retro, Fast-paced
94% of 172 Steam reviews are positive$0.99Cyber Shadow
A ninja action platformer in the 8-bit tradition: dash, slash and leap through the ruined machine city of Mekacity, rescue your clan and take on a synthetic army. Handcrafted pixel art, a pounding soundtrack and bosses that will test every reflex you have.
Retro, Tense, Fast-paced
83% of 1,308 Steam reviews are positive$19.99Hikikomori No Chuunibyou
Hikikomori No Chuunibyou is a pseudo 8-bit platform-adventure game with beat-em-up, puzzle, and stealth elements. With its storytelling directing the player through open-ended levels, progression through each stage requires usage of parkour-like abilities and martial-arts techniques.
Retro, Fast-paced
62% of 47 Steam reviews are positive$1.99HunterX
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.
Tense, Fast-paced
79% of 604 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 2$14.99Chibi Ninja Shino-kun: Treasure of Demon Tower
Jump, slide and wall-kick your way through Demon Tower in this 90s-style ninja platformer!
Retro, Fast-paced
100% of 14 Steam reviews are positive$6.99Ato
A world of Beauty and Mystery, Emotive Animations, Atmospheric Environments, Visually Driven Story, Metroidvania Exploration and Memorable Sword Duels.
Retro, Tense, Fast-paced
97% of 342 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1$14.99Ninja Issen (忍者一閃)
With its cyberpunk city brought to life with retro graphics, Ninja Issen invites players into a world filled with "hyper ninja action" as they work alone to annihilate waves of enemy troops using a variety of ninja skills and fight bosses coming at you with relentless, diverse attack patterns.
Retro, Tense, Fast-paced
91% of 53 Steam reviews are positive$14.99
Cheaper than Ichiro
iaidoka_interlude
A pseudo 8-bit action platformer taking a bit of inspiration from film-noir and samurai dramas, iaidoka_interlude applies a few parkour and fighting…
75% of 73 Steam reviews are positive$0.99
Hikikomori No Chuunibyou
Hikikomori No Chuunibyou is a pseudo 8-bit platform-adventure game with beat-em-up, puzzle, and stealth elements.
62% of 47 Steam reviews are positive$1.99
Shin Samurai Jazz
Shin Samurai Jazz is a platform-adventure game. It combines the likes of film noir and samurai cinema, presenting them with 8-bit graphics, an…
71% of 52 Steam reviews are positive$0.99
Ninjahtic
Ninjahtic is an action/adventure platformer with elements of puzzle-solving and stealth.
80% of 76 Steam reviews are positive$1.99
Nil-Ninjahtic: Ronin
Nil-Ninjahtic: Ronin is a pseudo 8-bit action platformer. While it integrates gameplay mechanics of the previous titles in the series, they are…
73% of 30 Steam reviews are positive$1.99
Ninja 1987
Ninja 1987 is a dive back into the past with the most authentic 8-bit side-scrolling action-platformer.
86% of 37 Steam reviews are positive$1.49
Shiro
Shiro is an adventure platformer in which you have to find your missing sister
81% of 503 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1$0.90
Kunoichi Beat
Kunoichi Beat is a pseudo 8-bit, quasi-cinematic platformer with minor stealth elements.
100% of 3 Steam reviews are positive$1.99
Maytroid. I swear it's a nice game too
I swear it's a nice action metroidvania game.
79% of 174 Steam reviews are positive$1.99
samurai_jazz
An action/adventure game taking ques from both film-noir and samurai-drama's of old, "samurai_jazz" takes players on an adventure through an…
74% of 58 Steam reviews are positive$0.99
Overbowed
Explore a kingdom overrun by evil magic as you fight foes with your own magical bow in this retro inspired action-adventure platformer.
91% of 96 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1$0.80
Hidden gems like Ichiro
Fatal Claw
A resurrected cat fights through a dark, hand-drawn world, stealing powers from infected foes and fusing them into new abilities.
90% of 550 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 19$24.99
Infinitevania
A retro-styled 2D metroidvania with fluid modern movement. You travel between worlds, defeat powerful creatures, absorb their powers, and grow…
92% of 302 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1$14.99
Quarion
A short 2D pixel-style metroidvania where you explore, fight bosses, aquire items and abilities and find secrets.
94% of 172 Steam reviews are positive$0.99
BLADECHIMERA
Hunt demons through a cyberpunk ruin as an amnesiac slinger whose partner turns into blade, shield and stepping stone.
88% of 1,393 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 9$14.99
Super Roboy
Delve into the world of Super Roboy, a hand-drawn Metroidvania in a post-apocalyptic setting!
92% of 110 Steam reviews are positive$14.99
SHINOBI: Art of Vengeance
Chain katana combos and ninjutsu through hand-drawn stages as a ninja master settling a score.
83% of 3,686 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 107$29.99
Toziuha Night: Order of the Alchemists
This is the story of Xandria, an iron alchemist. She seeks revenge regardless of the consequences.
79% of 148 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 3$18.99
Islets
Fly a rickety airship between floating islands, reignite their cores and watch the map knit itself together as you explore.
95% of 1,920 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 8$19.99
Ato
A world of Beauty and Mystery, Emotive Animations, Atmospheric Environments, Visually Driven Story, Metroidvania Exploration and Memorable Sword…
97% of 342 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1$14.99
HunterX
HunterX is an action-adventure game full of spirited battles.
79% of 604 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 2$14.99
Cyber Shadow
Slice and dash through a ruined machine city as the last of your ninja clan, one borrowed-time mission at a time.
83% of 1,308 Steam reviews are positive$19.99
Narita Boy
You play a pixel hero summoned into the Digital Kingdom, slashing corrupt programs with the legendary Techno-sword.
79% of 1,171 Steam reviews are positive$4.99
Newest games like Ichiro
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.
66% of 67 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 2$19.99
Fatal Claw
A resurrected cat fights through a dark, hand-drawn world, stealing powers from infected foes and fusing them into new abilities.
90% of 550 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 19$24.99
Infinitevania
A retro-styled 2D metroidvania with fluid modern movement. You travel between worlds, defeat powerful creatures, absorb their powers, and grow…
92% of 302 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1$14.99
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…
82% of 85 Steam reviews are positive$19.99
Toziuha Night: Order of the Alchemists
This is the story of Xandria, an iron alchemist. She seeks revenge regardless of the consequences.
79% of 148 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 3$18.99
SHINOBI: Art of Vengeance
Chain katana combos and ninjutsu through hand-drawn stages as a ninja master settling a score.
83% of 3,686 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 107$29.99
Quarion
A short 2D pixel-style metroidvania where you explore, fight bosses, aquire items and abilities and find secrets.
94% of 172 Steam reviews are positive$0.99
Ninja Brigade feat. Jonah Weingarten
A fast-paced pixel art metroidvania, where the musician Jonah Weingarten is drawn to feudal Japan via an arcade station.
91% of 11 Steam reviews are positive$12.99
Kunoichi Beat
Kunoichi Beat is a pseudo 8-bit, quasi-cinematic platformer with minor stealth elements.
100% of 3 Steam reviews are positive$1.99
Super Roboy
Delve into the world of Super Roboy, a hand-drawn Metroidvania in a post-apocalyptic setting!
92% of 110 Steam reviews are positive$14.99
MOMIBOSU
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…
92% of 61 Steam reviews are positive$12.99
BLADECHIMERA
Hunt demons through a cyberpunk ruin as an amnesiac slinger whose partner turns into blade, shield and stepping stone.
88% of 1,393 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 9$14.99