
La-Mulana
A tough retro action-adventure where every puzzle, trap and guardian guards one big mystery worth solving.
Did La-Mulana 2 leave you in a retro and mysterious frame of mind? You will find a few strong contenders among these games.
Explore unearthly ruins, solve arcane riddles and pick up your sword against the indescribable horrors that lurk amidst the forgotten depths of our world. Beware the creeping grip of madness as you uncover secrets not meant for the eyes of men!
Retro, Mysterious, Hand-drawn
Alwa’s Legacy is a modern retro game full of dangerous dungeons, mystic items and ancient secrets. Upgrade your magic and choose your own path in this non-linear adventure game brimming with exploration.
Retro, Mysterious, Atmospheric
Embark on a heartfelt Mushroomvania adventure through a vast and dense interconnected world! It's like a mix of retro and modern classics!
Retro, Mysterious, Atmospheric
A block pushing puzzle game with metroidvania style progression, set in a serene forest world.
Retro, Mysterious, Atmospheric
A creature-scanning metroidvania in a lost paradise. Point your scanner at the EMUUROM creatures, log everything in the EMUUDEX, and use what you learn to open paths that were hiding in plain sight. No hand-holding, no combat, just you, an 8-bit world and layers of secrets.
Retro, Mysterious, Atmospheric
Lana and her small companion Mui cross a hand-painted planet where nature and machines collide, solving quiet puzzles and uncovering buried truths. A gentle, cinematic adventure with no spoken words, just expressive faces, an orchestral score and six to eight hours of beauty with teeth.
Mysterious, Hand-drawn, Atmospheric
Explore an interconnected world full of platforming challenges in this short metroidvania. Reach new areas by swinging from ceilings, throwing bombs, bouncing off spikes, and more. Examine dozens of artifacts, commune with forgotten gods, and piece together what happened to Auridia.
Retro, Mysterious, Atmospheric
A first-person metroidvania about curiosity: explore a big toy-box world, find abilities that open paths you already wrote off, and get rewarded with a chest for climbing something you were never supposed to climb. Clever puzzles, fast old-school shooting, and a dry sense of humor. Around 12 to 25 hours.
Mysterious, Atmospheric, Story-driven
A dense pixel-art labyrinth full of strange creatures and secrets. No combat, no hand holding: you explore, experiment with odd tools that all have hidden uses, and slowly uncover layers of puzzles that go far deeper than the credits. Cute and unsettling at the same time, and quietly brilliant.
Retro, Mysterious, Tense
A small fox wakes in a ruined land with nothing but curiosity and a stick. TUNIC looks like a cozy adventure, then hands you a half-finished instruction manual written in a language nobody can read. Explore, fight, and piece the manual together to learn how the world, and the game, actually work.
Also in Soulslike · Retro, Mysterious, Hand-drawn
When earthquakes shake a steampunk trading town, a little steambot digs down to find her missing friend. Dig for treasure, sell it, upgrade your gear and push deeper into a colorful hand-drawn underworld full of secrets, traps and things that would rather you didn't keep digging.
Retro, Mysterious, Hand-drawn
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.
Retro, Mysterious, Tense

A tough retro action-adventure where every puzzle, trap and guardian guards one big mystery worth solving.

Alwa’s Legacy is a modern retro game full of dangerous dungeons, mystic items and ancient secrets.

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

Explore a strange, colorful world with no combat and no map markers, learning its creatures well enough to make the hidden paths reveal themselves.

Guide Lana and Mui through gentle puzzles and a wordless story, where a hand-drawn planet hides truths worth uncovering.

Wander a small, strange open world, deduce how it works, and uncover what hides right under your nose.

Mine for treasure, upgrade your gear and explore a colorful hand-drawn underworld full of hidden wonders.

Explore an interconnected world full of platforming challenges in this short metroidvania.

A first-person metroidvania about curiosity: explore a big toy-box world, find abilities that open paths you already wrote off, and get rewarded…

Begin your adventure in Shattered Divinities to reveal the truth!

Embark on an epic adventure in Under the Island! A 2D action-adventure steeped in ‘90s charm, step into the shoes of Nia, and battle fierce…

Lone Fungus is a handcrafted Metroidvania where you are the last mushroom alive in a world built by mushrooms.

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.

Guide Lana and Mui through gentle puzzles and a wordless story, where a hand-drawn planet hides truths worth uncovering.

Embark on an epic adventure in Under the Island! A 2D action-adventure steeped in ‘90s charm, step into the shoes of Nia, and battle fierce…

Explore an interconnected world full of platforming challenges in this short metroidvania.

Explore a strange, colorful world with no combat and no map markers, learning its creatures well enough to make the hidden paths reveal themselves.

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

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

Blast alien organisms, absorb their Protoplasm and grow new powers to survive a hostile planet.

A block pushing puzzle game with metroidvania style progression, set in a serene forest world.

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

Explore unearthly ruins, solve arcane riddles and pick up your sword against the indescribable horrors that lurk amidst the forgotten depths of our…

Wander a small, strange open world, deduce how it works, and uncover what hides right under your nose.

Blast alien organisms, absorb their Protoplasm and grow new powers to survive a hostile planet.

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

Explore a strange, colorful world with no combat and no map markers, learning its creatures well enough to make the hidden paths reveal themselves.

Begin your adventure in Shattered Divinities to reveal the truth!

Guide Lana and Mui through gentle puzzles and a wordless story, where a hand-drawn planet hides truths worth uncovering.

Embark on an epic adventure in Under the Island! A 2D action-adventure steeped in ‘90s charm, step into the shoes of Nia, and battle fierce…

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

Explore an interconnected world full of platforming challenges in this short metroidvania.

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

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

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