
Quarion
A short 2D pixel-style metroidvania where you explore, fight bosses, aquire items and abilities and find secrets.
Miss the hand-drawn and retro pull of Templar? You will find a few strong contenders among these games.
You are Paul de Raque, a Knight Templar on a journey to the Holy Land with the goal to reunite with his Order in Jerusalem. But you are more than just a common crusader - you are on a holy mission. The future of the world and all mankind rests on your shoulders…
Retro, Dark, Fast-paced
A doomed sailor washes up on a cursed island, and everything on it wants you dead. Salt and Sanctuary is a 2D soulslike metroidvania with fast, gory combat, more than 600 weapons, spells and armor to find, and a grim hand-drawn world of forgotten cities and blood-soaked dungeons. Die, lose your salt, learn, and go deeper.
Also in Soulslike · Hand-drawn, Retro, Dark
A fast, tough 2D action platformer in the spirit of the 8-bit classics: one knight, a fallen kingdom, a missing princess and over 50 bosses between you and her. Explore a huge interconnected world, collect more than 100 weapons and items, and expect to die a lot along the way.
Retro, Dark, 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
Thy Sword is a hack n' slash platformer with procedural levels and roguelike elements. A world of Sword & Sorcery awaits!
Retro, Fast-paced, Tense
Blasphemous is a brutal 2D action-platformer set in Cvstodia, a nightmare land cursed by something called The Miracle. As The Penitent One, you carve through grotesque monsters with a sword born from guilt, explore a non-linear gothic world, and piece together its secrets one tormented soul at a time.
Also in Soulslike · Hand-drawn, Retro, Dark
You have to take on the role of a mercenary going on a dangerous mission, you are sent to an abandoned city to restore magical totems and destroy enemy invaders.
Retro, Fast-paced
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.
Also in Soulslike · Hand-drawn, Retro, Dark
Saint Slayer is an NES-style 2D action game, featuring loads of stages, enemies, and gore set against the backdrop of late-17th century Europe. Play as the ex-soldier Rudiger and wield the Spear of Sacrilege as you save the Holy Roman Empire from the corrupt Catholic priest Father Pacer.
Retro, Dark, Fast-paced
Defeat the mage Kalinur and bring peace back to the kingdom in this mini metroidvania with a lot of action.
Retro, Fast-paced
In this game you will face violence and extraordinary complexity. You will have to become one of three heroes to slash enemies or to die from their hands. What will your hero do? It depends only on your skills…
Also in Soulslike · Retro, Dark, Fast-paced
Cursed Castilla (Maldita Castilla EX) is an arcade action platformer full of creatures from medieval myths from Spain and the rest of Europe, as well as from chivalric romances. The extended version of the classic Maldita Castilla, originally created by the indie Locomalito.
Retro, Dark, Fast-paced

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

Saint Slayer is an NES-style 2D action game, featuring loads of stages, enemies, and gore set against the backdrop of late-17th century Europe.

Defeat the mage Kalinur and bring peace back to the kingdom in this mini metroidvania with a lot of action.

Embark on a quest for revenge in Lords of Exile, an 8-bit side-scrolling action platformer set in the far Lands of Exilia.

Knight's Try is a tough platformer with retro 64 bit 3D graphics.

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

Fight through a cursed, crumbling world as Eryk, whose fading memory is as fragile as your health bar.

What could be scarier than a massive dungeon-tower infested with skulls, ogres, and dragons?

Only the strong will conquer this gruesome action platformer with RPG elements.

A fast 2D action-platformer where you fight the Harrow's hordes, collect legendary weapons and uncover what doomed Calagan.

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

You are Paul de Raque, a Knight Templar on a journey to the Holy Land with the goal to reunite with his Order in Jerusalem.

Mina the Hollower sends a mouse Hollower to a cursed island, whip in paw.

Saint Slayer is an NES-style 2D action game, featuring loads of stages, enemies, and gore set against the backdrop of late-17th century Europe.

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!.

Templar 2 is a 2D indie action platform game. Immerse yourself in the darkest, scariest and bloodiest Middle Ages.

You have to take on the role of a mercenary going on a dangerous mission, you are sent to an abandoned city to restore magical totems and destroy…

Embark on a quest for revenge in Lords of Exile, an 8-bit side-scrolling action platformer set in the far Lands of Exilia.

Fight through a cursed, crumbling world as Eryk, whose fading memory is as fragile as your health bar.

Jrago The Demon Hunter is an indie METROIDVANIA style 2D Platforming Action-Adventure Role Playing Game.

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

Only the strong will conquer this gruesome action platformer with RPG elements.

Defeat the mage Kalinur and bring peace back to the kingdom in this mini metroidvania with a lot of action.