Games like The Messenger

Looking for that same retro and funny spark as The Messenger? These games offer a similar pull for your backlog.

Timespinner
A story-driven metroidvania about Lunais, a timekeeper stranded in a hostile empire, out for revenge with the power to stop time. Explore a connected pixel art world across past and present, collect elemental orbs, raise a dream dragon, and see how the story bends when you change history.
Retro, Colorful, Fast-paced
86% of 2,844 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1$19.99
Mute Crimson+
Be a ninja and go on an action platforming adventure to save the world. Climb walls, slice up bad guys, master tricky platforming sequences and face ruthless bosses.
Retro, Colorful, Fast-paced
89% of 133 Steam reviews are positive$14.99
Quarion
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, Colorful, Fast-paced
94% of 173 Steam reviews are positive$0.99
Mago
Mago is a retro 2D platformer that puts us in the boots of a sorcerer, who was unfortunate enough to eat evil overlords' food. Now he has to rescue his beloved princess from the dinner menu of the evil Gourmet! Nostalgia awaits!
Retro, Funny, Colorful
93% of 946 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 5$5.24
Castle In The Darkness
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, Fast-paced, Mysterious
76% of 1,187 Steam reviews are positive$9.99
Cave Story+
A quiet boy wakes in a dark cave with no name and no memory, and finds a village of rabbit-like Mimigas in danger. Run, jump, shoot and fly through a massive retro action-adventure with 10 upgradeable weapons, over 20 boss fights and four endings. Cute looks, sharp claws, and a story people still talk about decades later.
Retro, Funny, Colorful
92% of 5,273 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 24$14.99
Narita Boy
A retro action-adventure inside a video game. Wield the Techno-sword against the Stallions, explore a hand-drawn Digital Kingdom soaked in neon and synth, and piece together the Creator's lost memories. The look and sound carry it; the sword fights are the fun part.
Retro, Colorful, Fast-paced
79% of 1,172 Steam reviews are positive$4.99
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 world of new lands. Enjoy a precision 2D platformer that will challenge you no matter how many times you get hit!
Retro, Funny, Colorful
92% of 61 Steam reviews are positive$12.99
Cyber 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, Fast-paced, Mysterious
83% of 1,309 Steam reviews are positive$19.99
Ninjahtic
Ninjahtic is an action/adventure platformer with elements of puzzle-solving and stealth. While it's progression is linear, the open-ended nature of every level requires exploration of an abandoned civilization located atop floating islands.
Retro, Fast-paced
80% of 76 Steam reviews are positive$1.99
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, Colorful, Fast-paced
93% of 15,676 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 45$19.99
Vengeful Guardian: Moonrider
Vengeful Guardian: Moonrider is a side-scrolling action platformer that channels the golden age of classic 16-bit action games in a full-throttle quest for revenge. Created to defend a totalitarian state, the Moonrider rejects its programming and now seeks vengeance on its creators.
Retro, Colorful, Fast-paced
85% of 496 Steam reviews are positive$5.94

Cheaper than The Messenger

Mute Crimson+

Be a ninja and go on an action platforming adventure to save the world.

$14.99

Quarion

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

$0.99

Mago

Mago is a retro 2D platformer that puts us in the boots of a sorcerer, who was unfortunate enough to eat evil overlords' food.

$5.24

Castle In The Darkness

You are the last knight standing, and the kingdom of Alexandria has been overrun by monsters.

$9.99

Cave Story+

Run and shoot through a cave full of secrets, where every boss fight and ending depends on how you play.

$14.99

Narita Boy

You play a pixel hero summoned into the Digital Kingdom, slashing corrupt programs with the legendary Techno-sword.

$4.99

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…

$12.99

Ninjahtic

Ninjahtic is an action/adventure platformer with elements of puzzle-solving and stealth.

$1.99

Vengeful Guardian: Moonrider

Vengeful Guardian: Moonrider is a side-scrolling action platformer that channels the golden age of classic 16-bit action games in a full-throttle…

$5.94

Ninja Smasher!

Ninja dash! Ninja jump! Ninja slash! 8-bit style Ninja platform action game!

$4.99

KUNAI

KUNAI is a quirky, fast-paced action platformer. You play as Tabby, a tablet who joins the fight against a robot uprising.

$3.39

Super Panda Adventures

In Super Panda Adventures, you play as the brave panda-knight Fu, who is about to finish his training to become the new guardian of the Princess.

$4.99

Hidden gems like The Messenger

Duskfade

Race through sunken forests and dunes with your mechanical bird, and let the story about loss find you.

$29.99

Infinitevania

A retro-styled 2D metroidvania with fluid modern movement. You travel between worlds, defeat powerful creatures, absorb their powers, and grow…

$14.99

Valkyrie Saga

Join Roll the Valkyrie as she subverts fate in a retro indie platformer taking after PSX classics.

$7.99

Lone Fungus: Melody of Spores

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

$19.99

Quarion

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

$0.99

Fallen Leaf

Fallen Leaf is a retro side-scrolling adventure focused on tight, action-packed level design set in a whimsical world where almost anything goes!

$16.99

Mina the Hollower

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

$19.99

Dewdrop Dynasty

Gun-jump your way through a buzzing world full of quirky monsters, tricky puzzles, and outlandish bosses in this fast-paced, lighthearted…

$11.99

SHINOBI: Art of Vengeance

Chain katana combos and ninjutsu through hand-drawn stages as a ninja master settling a score.

$29.99

Lunistice

Guide Hana the tanuki through her dreams, one colorful stage at a time, all the way to the Moon.

$4.99

Saviorless

Embark on a journey to The Smiling Islands, the realm of the Saviors, where an enigmatic guide beckons.

$12.99

Mago

Mago is a retro 2D platformer that puts us in the boots of a sorcerer, who was unfortunate enough to eat evil overlords' food.

$5.24

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