Games like Nihilsearch

Looking for that same retro and dark spark as Nihilsearch? You will find a few strong contenders among these games.

REDO!
REDO! is a game about a girl trying to find another human in a dystopian world overrun by biomachines. It's a lonely and evocative game about exploring the unknown and overcoming obstacles to see what is left.
Retro, Dark, Mysterious
87% of 216 Steam reviews are positive$9.99
Evil Genome 光明重影
3D metroidvania game Evil Genome is coming! Heroine Lachesis will lead you to explore the vast wasteland world, experience different battles as well as develop your own character!
Dark, Mysterious, Fast-paced
67% of 411 Steam reviews are positive$14.99
Axiom 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, Dark, Mysterious
90% of 5,885 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 15$19.99
Hyper 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, Dark, Mysterious
93% of 15,676 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 45$19.99
HAAK
HAAK is a hand-drawn metroidvania set in a sunken cyber-wasteland. As the wanderer Haak, you head south through ruined cities and metro tunnels to find your lost brother, hooking, dashing and slashing your way past mutants, robots and puzzles. It is built for explorers: secrets everywhere, a map worth reading, and several endings to chase.
Retro, Dark, Mysterious
89% of 3,182 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 9$17.99
MegaSphere
Play as a special ops combat unit sent to investigate why the stars around Solar System are going dark in MegaSphere — a story-based post-cyberpunk action platformer adventure game of supermassive scale set in early 22nd century: smart guns, robots, self-reconstructing environments, and vast AIs.
Retro, Dark, Fast-paced
61% of 100 Steam reviews are positive$14.99
The 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.
Retro, Dark, Mysterious
92% of 1,857 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 6Free
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. Whether machine, creature, or something else entirely, you’ll face the violent legacy of the last survivors of humanity.
Retro, Dark, Mysterious
94% of 158 Steam reviews are positiveFree
MIO: Memories in Orbit
A hand-drawn metroidvania aboard the Vessel, a vast ark gone quiet. Guide the small robot MIO through overgrown ruins, earn abilities that reshape how you move, and uncover why the ship's caretakers failed. Demanding, gorgeous and full of secrets for players who like their exploration earned.
Dark, Mysterious, Fast-paced
82% of 4,847 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 111$19.99
After Death
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, Mysterious
88% of 146 Steam reviews are positive$13.99
Afterimage
A hand-drawn metroidvania in the ruined world of Engardin: fast combat with six weapon classes, a vast non-linear map, and an amnesiac heroine whose choices decide the fate of what is left of humanity. Big, beautiful, and full of secrets to dig out.
Dark, Mysterious, Fast-paced
79% of 7,074 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 52$24.99
Paradox Soul
Paradox Soul is a chilling fight for exploration and survival; a Metroidvania pixel action-shooter hybrid!
Retro, Dark, Mysterious
51% of 53 Steam reviews are positive$4.99

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Genopanic

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

$8.99

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?

$2.99

Tale of android after the Apocalypse

Niluas, an android who suddenly activated 276 years after the extinction of humanity.

$4.99

Mech Chip

Mech Chip is an action-adventure platformer with pilotable machinery.

$4.99

Quarion

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

$0.99

Robotex

Life on Earth is unsustainable. Humanity must seek a new home but the only planet found is very hostile.

$4.99

Oblivion Override

Dash through a neon dystopia as a killerbot, carve through evolving enemies and chase the Oblivion Code.

$8.99

Escape From Tethys

You're trapped, alone and cold on a distant planet. Pursued by a droid with only one purpose: killing everything. You must find an escape.

$4.99

DEVIATOR

Deviator is a Metroidvania game centered around deflect, featuring exquisite 2D hand-drawn visuals.

$6.99

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.

$7.99

SANABI

A precision platformer where a chain-hook arm carries you through a dark mega-city and a story with real weight.

$9.74

Legends of the Universe - StarCore

Metroidvania style action/platformer with tons of abilities, enemies and exploration.

$1.99

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Shattered Divinities

Begin your adventure in Shattered Divinities to reveal the truth!

$9.99

Quarion

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

$0.99

Zexion

Seek out new weapons and equipment to delve deeper into the dangerous world of Cypher-X72!

$19.99

Nobody Nowhere

a side-scrolling, story-driven text adventure game in pixel art.

$9.99

Moadra

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

$24.99

Super Roboy

Delve into the world of Super Roboy, a hand-drawn Metroidvania in a post-apocalyptic setting!

$14.99

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.

Free

Oblivion Override

Dash through a neon dystopia as a killerbot, carve through evolving enemies and chase the Oblivion Code.

$8.99

Cosmobreeder Yiffai

Travel to a forgotten world and study alien creatures in this authentic retro metroidvania!

$14.99

MIO: Memories in Orbit

A hand-drawn metroidvania aboard the Vessel, a vast ark gone quiet.

$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.

$19.99

Return

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

$15.99

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