
Quarion
A short 2D pixel-style metroidvania where you explore, fight bosses, aquire items and abilities and find secrets.
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A full-blown adventure played with only two buttons. Become the recently deceased agent Terry Cooper and escape the underworld while facing the toughest, meanest and most difficult obstacles ever devised.
Retro, Minimalist, Dark
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
After Death is a platform / exploration game in a dark and hostile world. With the help from lost souls, you will have to find a way to open a gate which seems to be the only exit from this mysterious world infected by monsters.
Retro, Dark, Surreal
A 2D platformer stripped to the bone: a little square, a 1x1 tileset, and nothing on screen but pure platforming. No enemies, no bullets, no lasers. Multiple difficulty levels, best-time tracking and community-made maps make it easy to start and hard to put down.
Retro, Minimalist, Fast-paced
Trash Quest is a compact metroidvania with a single spawn point, run and gun action and tight platforming. Navigate an interwoven maze of rooms through this space station, destroying robots, collecting power ups and unlocking shortcuts.
Retro, Minimalist, Fast-paced
You are the Ball. Escape.
Retro, Minimalist, Fast-paced
Explore the haunting, dreamlike fantasy world of BEFORE I GO, a punishing Metroidvania where you embody the innocence of an inner child on an allegorical odyssey towards death acceptance. The end is inevitable, but will you brave the journey?
Retro, Dark, Fast-paced
Challenging 2D platformer in the best traditions of classic games, with an excellent chiptune soundtrack. The game will check your nerves for strength and bring a lot of emotions.
Retro, Minimalist, Fast-paced
Bounty hunting isn't all sweat and grit! Travel through an exotic world as Lira, platforming though obstacles, juggling enemies, surviving nightmares, and looking for a cure of her Necrolepsy!
Retro, Fast-paced, Surreal
A huge hand-drawn metroidvania where you play the King of Darkness, cursed to fight the Queen of Light forever. Explore 16 connected areas, fight demanding bosses and tackle precision platforming that pushes the genre to its limits. Two difficulty modes let you shape how brutal it gets.
Retro, Dark, Fast-paced
A platformer with no jump button. Instead, Captain Viridian flips gravity, falling from floor to ceiling to cross a strange dimension and rescue a scattered crew. Short, tough, and full of clever screens built around one brilliant idea, with a chiptune soundtrack worth the trip on its own.
Retro, Minimalist, Fast-paced
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

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

GARBANZO QUEST! The crazy bullet-heck platformer where your main weapon is your own spit! Bring a friend!

A dead cat with a broom explores a vast, colorful afterlife, cleaning up its messes and getting to know the doomed souls who live there.

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


100 moves, 2 buttons, 0 tutorials. Master a massive moveset hidden within a D-Pad and 2 buttons.

Guide a small square through precision platforming levels with a dash, a jump and nothing to hide behind.

Trash Quest is a compact metroidvania with a single spawn point, run and gun action and tight platforming.

Genopanic is a pixel-art, Metroidvania-inspired adventure-platformer.

An all-new Metroidvania-style game developed using Pixel Game Maker MV!

Embark upon a tragic tale and discover the ravaged world of Elypse!

Guide the King of Darkness through a vast, atmospheric world of brutal bosses and razor-thin platforming.

Help Violet find her missing sister Rena in a hand-drawn pixel-art world that is equal parts charming and trying to kill you.

100 moves, 2 buttons, 0 tutorials. Master a massive moveset hidden within a D-Pad and 2 buttons.

Explore the haunting, dreamlike fantasy world of BEFORE I GO, a punishing Metroidvania where you embody the innocence of an inner child on an…

Explore a tiny world, find upgrades, discover hidden paths, and battle bosses in this retro-style metroidvania action platformer.

Vampire hunters are after a mischievous vampire girl, and it's up to her pet bat to save the day.

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

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…

GARBANZO QUEST! The crazy bullet-heck platformer where your main weapon is your own spit! Bring a friend!

A dead cat with a broom explores a vast, colorful afterlife, cleaning up its messes and getting to know the doomed souls who live there.

Hollow Floor is an exploration-based single-sitting Metroidvania inspired by VVVVVV and REDDER.

Genopanic is a pixel-art, Metroidvania-inspired adventure-platformer.

Uncover the truth about the Ghostland Yard investigators disappearance in this challenging 2D platformer.