Valfaris: Mecha Therion
Therion returns as the hunt for Lord Vroll continues. Pilot an advanced machine of death and destruction in this explosive 2.5D side-scrolling shoot…
94% of 308 Steam reviews are positive$19.99
Games like Valfaris
Want something that feels retro and brutal the way Valfaris does? These games keep things close enough to feel familiar.
Valdis Story: Abyssal City
A lost holy city, two warring goddesses and a lot of things that want you dead. Valdis Story is a fast 2D action platformer with deep combat, four playable characters and a story that goes to strange places. Demanding, but the kind of demanding that makes you better.
Retro, Dark, Fast-paced
83% of 2,276 Steam reviews are positive$14.99Slain: Back from Hell
A gothic side-scrolling slasher where Bathoryn carves through six cursed realms with three elemental weapons, a parry that rewards perfect timing, and a full heavy metal soundtrack. Hard, bloody and unashamedly old school: learn the patterns, manage your mana, and die trying.
Retro, Brutal, Dark
71% of 1,703 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 2$12.99Volgarr the Viking
A hardcore 2D action platformer in the old arcade tradition: seven worlds, screen-filling bosses, buckets of blood, and a challenge that never apologizes. Every cleared level feels earned, because it is. Simple controls, meticulous design, and death around every corner.
Retro, Brutal, Dark
84% of 1,622 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1$9.99Archvale
A top-down action RPG where the screen fills with bullets and you fill it back with your own. Fight cursed guardians across a pixel-art world, craft your arsenal from over 200 weapons, and build your character with badges. Hard, fast and fair: every attack can be learned, and every boss beaten.
Retro, Fast-paced, Tense
88% of 2,066 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 11$14.99The Vagrant
A hand-painted 2D action RPG about Vivian, a sellsword chasing her lost father's research through forests, haunted castles and battlefields. Fast combo combat, 70-odd monsters, real boss fights and a dark story with multiple endings. Play it casually or chase mastery: four difficulties, one sharp sword.
Retro, Dark, Fast-paced
89% of 8,324 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 3$3.99Hyper 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, Fast-paced
93% of 15,676 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 45$19.99Foregone
Foregone is a fast 2D action-platformer with legendary loot and hand-crafted pixel art. As Calagan's strongest super-soldier, you slash through the Harrow's reanimated hordes, collect an arsenal of weapons, upgrade a branching skill tree and unravel a story of regret and conspiracy. A campaign with an ending, not an endless loop.
Retro, Dark, Fast-paced
81% of 1,342 Steam reviews are positive$19.99Return
Return to your home planet after 200 years of space travel in this atmospheric, art-driven adventure. Shoot, slash, and roll your way through dangerous enemies and ancient bosses, purchase items and unlock powerful weapons, and explore your unfamiliar home for parts to repair your ship.
Retro, Dark, Fast-paced
86% of 196 Steam reviews are positive$15.99BUTCHER
A fast, brutal 2D shooter where you play a cyborg sent to wipe out what is left of humanity. Pixel art soaked in blood, a chainsaw that never runs dry, and difficulty that starts at Hard. If you die, it was your fault, and the next attempt feels even better.
Retro, Brutal, Dark
89% of 1,063 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 2$9.99Bot Vice
A frantic arcade gallery shooter with pixel art and a 90's synth-rock soundtrack. Erin Saver has a vendetta against the criminal Wildbots, and you have 25 short, brutal stages to carry it out: take cover, dodge, lock on and shoot everything that moves. One boss per stage, and a timer that never lets you breathe.
Retro, Fast-paced, Tense
93% of 1,350 Steam reviews are positive$9.99Devilated
Devilated is an ultraviolent RPG old-school shooter where you brutalize and cannibalize your demonic foes in equal measure. Eat their face before they eat yours.
Retro, Brutal, Dark
85% of 168 Steam reviews are positive$19.99Guns of Fury
A retro run-and-gun metroidvania: infiltrate the facility of an evil corporation, blast through destructible scenery, grab hundreds of weapons and pilot mechs across a huge interconnected map. Smooth controls, big bosses and a soundtrack with 80s action movie energy.
Retro, Fast-paced, Tense
88% of 992 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 4$14.99
Cheaper than Valfaris
Valdis Story: Abyssal City
Fight your way through a lost holy city as one of four characters, building your own style of combat while a story of warring goddesses unfolds…
83% of 2,276 Steam reviews are positive$14.99
Slain: Back from Hell
Fight through six cursed gothic realms, master three elemental weapons and bring down their overlords.
71% of 1,703 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 2$12.99
Volgarr the Viking
A pixel-art viking slashes, spears and dies his way through seven brutal worlds of traps, monsters and bosses.
84% of 1,622 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1$9.99
The Vagrant
Chase a lost father's trail as a sellsword, cutting through monsters and bosses in fast side-scrolling combat with multiple endings.
89% of 8,324 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 3$3.99
Foregone
A fast 2D action-platformer where you fight the Harrow's hordes, collect legendary weapons and uncover what doomed Calagan.
81% of 1,342 Steam reviews are positive$19.99
Return
Return to your home planet after 200 years of space travel in this atmospheric, art-driven adventure.
86% of 196 Steam reviews are positive$15.99
Hyper Light Drifter
Fight through a vivid ruined land, read its story in images, and learn each battle's rhythm the hard way.
93% of 15,676 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 45$19.99
BUTCHER
You are a cyborg on a mission to exterminate humanity, one blood-soaked platform level at a time.
89% of 1,063 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 2$9.99
Furi
Chain dodges and parries through frantic phases, learning each guardian's patterns until the kill finally lands.
90% of 11,306 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 30$19.99
Bot Vice
Take cover, dodge the barrage and gun down the Wildbots across 25 one-minute arcade stages as Erin Saver.
93% of 1,350 Steam reviews are positive$9.99
Devilated
Devilated is an ultraviolent RPG old-school shooter where you brutalize and cannibalize your demonic foes in equal measure.
85% of 168 Steam reviews are positive$19.99
Hidden gems like Valfaris
Divinum
Divinum is an action-adventure that blends stylish, expressive combat with rewarding exploration.
85% of 633 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 8$14.99
Morbid Metal
Swap between fighters in the middle of a combo and carve through machine hordes in a ruined future, one run at a time.
81% of 1,685 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 17$17.99
Guns of Fury
Blast through a corporation's facility with an arsenal of weapons, mechs and quick reflexes.
88% of 992 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 4$14.99
Valfaris: Mecha Therion
Therion returns as the hunt for Lord Vroll continues. Pilot an advanced machine of death and destruction in this explosive 2.5D side-scrolling shoot…
94% of 308 Steam reviews are positive$19.99
Devilated
Devilated is an ultraviolent RPG old-school shooter where you brutalize and cannibalize your demonic foes in equal measure.
85% of 168 Steam reviews are positive$19.99
Return
Return to your home planet after 200 years of space travel in this atmospheric, art-driven adventure.
86% of 196 Steam reviews are positive$15.99
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…
85% of 496 Steam reviews are positive$5.94
Vomitoreum
Vomitoreum is an FPS Metroidvania with a focus on atmosphere and horror, inspired by the paintings of Zdzisław Beksiński.
91% of 901 Steam reviews are positive$9.99
The Last Faith
Fight through a cursed, crumbling world as Eryk, whose fading memory is as fragile as your health bar.
83% of 4,768 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 52$27.99
Archvale
Battle the Undying across a pixel-art world, crafting weapons and dodging screens full of projectiles on the way to the fabled arch.
88% of 2,066 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 11$14.99
Slave Zero X
Slave Zero X is a stylish 2.5D character action game set in the biopunk world of Slave Zero (1999).
75% of 454 Steam reviews are positive$24.99
Elderand
Only the strong will conquer this gruesome action platformer with RPG elements.
75% of 562 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1$19.99
Newest games like Valfaris
A Sister's Journey
Help Violet find her missing sister Rena in a hand-drawn pixel-art world that is equal parts charming and trying to kill you.
66% of 68 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 2$19.99
Divinum
Divinum is an action-adventure that blends stylish, expressive combat with rewarding exploration.
85% of 633 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 8$14.99
Morbid Metal
Swap between fighters in the middle of a combo and carve through machine hordes in a ruined future, one run at a time.
81% of 1,685 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 17$17.99
Last Vanguard
Explore a stunning hand-crafted world ravaged by war and ruled by a evil tyrant.
81% of 79 Steam reviews are positive$14.99
Zexion
Seek out new weapons and equipment to delve deeper into the dangerous world of Cypher-X72!
89% of 571 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 7$19.99
Guns of Fury
Blast through a corporation's facility with an arsenal of weapons, mechs and quick reflexes.
88% of 992 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 4$14.99
Devilated
Devilated is an ultraviolent RPG old-school shooter where you brutalize and cannibalize your demonic foes in equal measure.
85% of 168 Steam reviews are positive$19.99
Slave Zero X
Slave Zero X is a stylish 2.5D character action game set in the biopunk world of Slave Zero (1999).
75% of 454 Steam reviews are positive$24.99
Valfaris: Mecha Therion
Therion returns as the hunt for Lord Vroll continues. Pilot an advanced machine of death and destruction in this explosive 2.5D side-scrolling shoot…
94% of 308 Steam reviews are positive$19.99
The Last Faith
Fight through a cursed, crumbling world as Eryk, whose fading memory is as fragile as your health bar.
83% of 4,768 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 52$27.99
Bleak Sword DX
Discover and destroy increasingly horrifying creatures across an oppressive lofi world, wielding fierce weaponry and powerful magic in this…
76% of 656 Steam reviews are positive$9.99
Return
Return to your home planet after 200 years of space travel in this atmospheric, art-driven adventure.
86% of 196 Steam reviews are positive$15.99