
DragonLoop
Dragon Loop is a metroidvania combining time travel and branching map design.
If Vision Soft Reset left you wanting something retro and surreal, you have options. You will find a few strong contenders among these games.
Dragon Loop is a metroidvania combining time travel and branching map design. Explore the large open world in a five day loop, opening up new worldlines. Explore a 2D, hand-drawn world, engage in fast-paced battles, and retrieve memories to shape the future.
Surreal, Mysterious, Replayable
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, Surreal, Mysterious
A hand-drawn Metroidvania where time is your currency and knowledge is your only upgrade. Every power is yours from the start; you just don't know it yet. Each loop reveals more, each reset is a chance to run it better, and breaking the cycle is entirely on you.
Surreal, Mysterious, Replayable
A stealth puzzle adventure where time works like a media player: rewind your mistakes, peek at the future, then watch your plan unfold. Guide a girl with precognitive powers and a mysterious cat past patrolling robots, through a colorful, surreal world that ends somewhere surprisingly moving.
Surreal, Mysterious, Colorful
Lost to Time is a time-pause focused 2D action platforming metroidvania game, with a carefully crafted world to explore in an non-traditional fantasy RPG fashion. In order to overcome insurmountable odds, Chrona must manipulate the flow of time in order to gain advantages over opponents.
Retro, Surreal, Mysterious
Run, jump, rewind, and avoid a time paradox? A time-traveling gal changes the past where she drank tapioca to prevent the extinction of humanity in this time-loop action puzzle game!
Retro, Surreal, Replayable
Super Time Force Ultra is an insane platformer filled with robots and dinosaurs and fun and time travel... sometimes all at the same time!
Retro, Surreal, Replayable
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, Mysterious, Colorful
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, Surreal, Mysterious
A platform-adventure game about time travelling, puzzle solving and a friendship between an Old Inventor and a Snail.
Retro, Surreal, Mysterious
Most of your actions have been taken away. In each time loop, slide the mouse to kill monsters, crack the puzzles locked by knowledge, and explore the hidden paths! Go deeper in a limited time and discover the truth of the world.
Surreal, Mysterious, Replayable
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, Mysterious, Replayable

Dragon Loop is a metroidvania combining time travel and branching map design.

Run, jump, rewind, and avoid a time paradox? A time-traveling gal changes the past where she drank tapioca to prevent the extinction of humanity in…

A platform-adventure game about time travelling, puzzle solving and a friendship between an Old Inventor and a Snail.

Most of your actions have been taken away. In each time loop, slide the mouse to kill monsters, crack the puzzles locked by knowledge, and explore…

Sybil wakes inside Castle Sansa, a dream castle gone rotten, and the only way through is up, over and around it.

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

From the creative mind behind The Adventures of Shuggy comes an exciting new retro-styled 2D platformer, a winner of Dream Build Play 2012 and a top…

Time Loader is a story-driven puzzle-platformer with tiny robots, alternate realities, nostalgic music, and primitive tech from the 90s!

Ouroboros presents a bright, cheerful world in which something is horrifyingly wrong.

In Chronoquartz, every move matters! You have 10 turns per loop: explore, solve puzzles, and use your past knowledge to progress.

Manipulate time to your will at any moment to solve challenges, avoid deadly traps and make it to the end of this strange journey.

Your future self shows up yelling about crabs, hands you a laser cannon and vanishes.

In Chronoquartz, every move matters! You have 10 turns per loop: explore, solve puzzles, and use your past knowledge to progress.

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

Run a hand-drawn world where time runs out and knowing what to do is the only thing you keep.

A time-bending puzzle game about working with - and against - your past selves.

Explore, fight, solve puzzles and bend gravity to escape the dream-like world of the Halls!

Most of your actions have been taken away. In each time loop, slide the mouse to kill monsters, crack the puzzles locked by knowledge, and explore…

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

Dragon Loop is a metroidvania combining time travel and branching map design.

Freeze time, dodge between the bullets, and squeeze every run into half a minute of frantic cyberpunk action.

Orten Was The Case - A free movement puzzle/adventure game where you play as a youngster stuck in a time loop with the simple task of saving the…

TimeMelters is a strategy hero-defense game where every run creates a new timeline.

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

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

Run a hand-drawn world where time runs out and knowing what to do is the only thing you keep.

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

Freeze time, dodge between the bullets, and squeeze every run into half a minute of frantic cyberpunk action.

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

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

In Chronoquartz, every move matters! You have 10 turns per loop: explore, solve puzzles, and use your past knowledge to progress.

Travel through time and help Mai and her Grandfather uncover the mysteries of the world after the Last Great War.

A hero resurrected. A new Adventure. With stunning, 2D pixel art, Adventure of Samsara combines classic gameplay, a deeply connected world, and a…

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

Most of your actions have been taken away. In each time loop, slide the mouse to kill monsters, crack the puzzles locked by knowledge, and explore…

A time-bending puzzle game about working with - and against - your past selves.