A mixture of roguelike and metroidvania genres. With simple pixel graphics. Walk around, kill enemies and collect stuff. On randomly generated levels. Similar games to Dead Cells I was able to find, on any gaming platform.

15 Games Like Dead Cells For PC (Steam, EGS, GOG)

15. Salt and Sanctuary

  • Buy: Steam
  • Buy: Epic Games Store
  • Metascore: 84
  • Similarity: 40 %
  • Year of release: 2016
  • Game play time: 20 hours
  • Genre: Hardcore
  • Singleplayer: yes
  • Coop: no
  • Multiplayer: no
  • Trailer: Youtube
  • Reviews: Metacritic
  • Review: IGN

Explore a haunting, punishing island in this stylized 2D action RPG. Salt and Sanctuary combines fast and brutal 2D combat with richly developed RPG mechanics in a cursed realm of forgotten cities, blood-soaked dungeons, and desecrated monuments.

Salt and Sanctuary screenshot

14. BlazBlue Entropy Effect

  • Buy: Steam
  • Similarity: 50 %
  • Year of release: 2024
  • Game play time: 6 hours
  • Genre: Action Rogalike
  • Singleplayer: yes
  • Coop: yes
  • Multiplayer: yes
  • Trailer: Youtube
  • Reviews: Metacritic

Enjoy action-packed flashy combat with incredibly satisfying combos and responsive controls! Numerous characters, each with completely unique playstyles and loads of unlockable moves and upgrades! This action roguelike sets the bar for fluid fast-paced action.

BlazBlue Entropy Effect screenshot

13. Curse of the Dead Gods

  • Buy: Steam
  • Similarity: 50 %
  • Year of release: 2021
  • Game play time: 4 hours
  • Genre: Action Rogalike
  • Singleplayer: yes
  • Coop: no
  • Multiplayer: no
  • Trailer: Youtube
  • Reviews: Metacritic
  • Review: IGN

You are searching for untold riches, eternal life and power. Your quest has led you to this cursed temple, an endless labyrinth where bottomless chasms, traps and monsters await you.

Curse of the Dead Gods screenshot

12. The Binding of Isaac

  • Buy: Steam
  • Metascore: 84
  • Similarity: 50 %
  • Year of release: 2011
  • Game play time: 10 hours
  • Genre: Action Rogalike
  • Singleplayer: yes
  • Coop: no
  • Multiplayer: no
  • Trailer: Youtube
  • Reviews: Metacritic

Now with 20% more evil added with the free Halloween update!

The Binding of Isaac screenshot

11. Trinity Fusion

  • Buy: Steam
  • Buy: Epic Games Store
  • Metascore: 80
  • Similarity: 60 %
  • Year of release: 2023
  • Game play time: 5 hours
  • Genre: Action Rogalike
  • Singleplayer: yes
  • Coop: no
  • Multiplayer: no
  • Trailer: Youtube
  • Reviews: Metacritic

Take control of your parallel selves on a mission to save the dying multiverse in this rogue-lite action-platformer! Explore dark, sci-fi worlds and engage in fast, fluid and precise combat.

Trinity Fusion screenshot

10. Death Must Die

  • Buy: Steam
  • Similarity: 70 %
  • Year of release: 2024
  • Game play time: 6 hours
  • Genre: Action Rogalike
  • Singleplayer: yes
  • Coop: no
  • Multiplayer: no
  • Trailer: Youtube
  • Reviews: Metacritic

Descend the nether in search of Death himself! Choose from God-given powers to slay his hordes of minions. Unlock new heroes, collect powerful items and create game-breaking synergies in this roguelite hack and slash survivors game.

Death Must Die screenshot

9. Have a Nice Death

  • Buy: Steam
  • Metascore: 81
  • Similarity: 70 %
  • Year of release: 2023
  • Game play time: 5 hours
  • Genre: Action Rogalike
  • Singleplayer: yes
  • Coop: no
  • Multiplayer: no
  • Trailer: Youtube
  • Reviews: Metacritic
  • Review: IGN

Have a Nice Death is an action game in the roguelike genre. Its protagonist is a fatally overworked director Death, whose subordinates completely lost their shores and turned upside down the balance of coming and going of souls. Taking up his trusty scythe, Death sets out to show his employees who's in charge.

Have a Nice Death screenshot

8. Cuphead

similar games to Cuphead
  • Buy: Steam
  • Buy: GOG.com
  • Metascore: 88
  • Similarity: 80 %
  • Year of release: 2017
  • Game play time: 15 hours
  • Genre: Hardcore
  • Singleplayer: yes
  • Coop: yes
  • Multiplayer: no
  • Trailer: Youtube
  • Reviews: Metacritic
  • Review: IGN

Cuphead is literally a classic platformer. Classic because everything in it is in the spirit of the 1930s: from the graphics, which seem to have come from the pen of Walt Disney himself, to the watercolor backgrounds and jazz music.

Cuphead screenshot

7. Foregone


Foregone is a fast-paced 2D platformer that requires constant concentration. Legendary trophies and stunning pixel graphics await you. Collect a whole arsenal of deadly weapons and plunge into a story full of suffering and mystery, breaking through the hordes of enemies threatening to destroy Kalagan.

Foregone screenshot

6. Ori (series)

similar games to Ori
  • Buy: Steam
  • Metascore: 88
  • Similarity: 80 %
  • Year of release: 2016 - 2020
  • Game play time: 30 hours
  • Genre: Platformer
  • Singleplayer: yes
  • Coop: no
  • Multiplayer: no
  • Trailer: Youtube
  • Reviews: Metacritic
  • Review: IGN

Set off on a journey through the vast expanses of the fairy tale world, where you will face giant enemies and challenging but interesting puzzles. It's time to find out what fate has in store for Ori.

Ori screenshot

5. Skul: The Hero Slayer

  • Buy: Steam
  • Metascore: 80
  • Similarity: 80 %
  • Year of release: 2021
  • Game play time: 10 hours
  • Genre: Indy
  • Singleplayer: yes
  • Coop: no
  • Multiplayer: no
  • Trailer: Youtube
  • Reviews: Metacritic
  • Review: IGN

Help the skeleton Rock single-handedly defeat the Imperial army and rescue his king from captivity in the game for all time - a sharp 2D-platformer in the rogue-lite genre.

Skul: The Hero Slayer screenshot

4. Spelunky

  • Buy: Steam
  • Buy: GOG.com
  • Metascore: 90
  • Similarity: 80 %
  • Year of release: 2012
  • Game play time: 20 hours
  • Genre: Platformer
  • Singleplayer: yes
  • Coop: yes
  • Multiplayer: yes
  • Trailer: Youtube
  • Reviews: Metacritic
  • Review: IGN

Spelunky is a unique platformer with randomized levels that offer a challenging new experience each time you play. Journey deep underground and explore fantastic places filled with all manner of monsters, traps, and treasure.

Spelunky screenshot

3. Super Meat Boy

  • Buy: Steam
  • Metascore: 87
  • Similarity: 80 %
  • Year of release: 2010
  • Game play time: 15 hours
  • Genre: Platformer
  • Singleplayer: yes
  • Coop: no
  • Multiplayer: no
  • Trailer: Youtube
  • Reviews: Metacritic
  • Review: IGN

The infamous, tough-as-nails platformer comes to Steam with a playable Head Crab character (Steam-exclusive)!

Super Meat Boy screenshot

2. Hades

similar games to Hades
  • Buy: Steam
  • Buy: Epic Games Store
  • Metascore: 93
  • Similarity: 90 %
  • Year of release: 2020
  • Game play time: 30 hours
  • Genre: Action Rogalike
  • Singleplayer: yes
  • Coop: no
  • Multiplayer: no
  • Trailer: Youtube
  • Reviews: Metacritic
  • Review: IGN

Defy the god of the dead and cut your way out of the Underworld in this roguelike and dungeon-crawler from the creators of Bastion, Transistor and Pyre.

Hades screenshot

1. Hollow Knight

similar games to Hollow Knight
  • Buy: Steam
  • Buy: GOG.com
  • Metascore: 87
  • Similarity: 90 %
  • Year of release: 2017
  • Game play time: 30 hours
  • Genre: Metroidvania
  • Singleplayer: yes
  • Coop: no
  • Multiplayer: no
  • Trailer: Youtube
  • Reviews: Metacritic
  • Review: IGN

Hollow Knight is an epic adventure in a vast ruined kingdom full of insects and heroes. Explore winding caves, fight spoiled critters, and make friends with strange bugs - all in classic 2D hand-drawn artwork.

Hollow Knight screenshot

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13. Salt and Sanctuary

  • Buy: Playstation Store
  • Metascore: 84
  • Similarity: 40 %
  • Year of release: 2016
  • Game play time: 20 hours
  • Genre: Hardcore
  • Singleplayer: yes
  • Coop: no
  • Multiplayer: no
  • Trailer: Youtube
  • Reviews: Metacritic
  • Review: IGN

Explore a haunting, punishing island in this stylized 2D action RPG. Salt and Sanctuary combines fast and brutal 2D combat with richly developed RPG mechanics in a cursed realm of forgotten cities, blood-soaked dungeons, and desecrated monuments.

Salt and Sanctuary screenshot

12. Curse of the Dead Gods

  • Buy: Playstation Store
  • Similarity: 50 %
  • Year of release: 2021
  • Game play time: 4 hours
  • Genre: Action Rogalike
  • Singleplayer: yes
  • Coop: no
  • Multiplayer: no
  • Trailer: Youtube
  • Reviews: Metacritic
  • Review: IGN

You are searching for untold riches, eternal life and power. Your quest has led you to this cursed temple, an endless labyrinth where bottomless chasms, traps and monsters await you.

Curse of the Dead Gods screenshot

11. The Binding of Isaac

  • Buy: Playstation Store
  • Metascore: 84
  • Similarity: 50 %
  • Year of release: 2011
  • Game play time: 10 hours
  • Genre: Action Rogalike
  • Singleplayer: yes
  • Coop: no
  • Multiplayer: no
  • Trailer: Youtube
  • Reviews: Metacritic

Now with 20% more evil added with the free Halloween update!

The Binding of Isaac screenshot

10. Castlevania: Symphony of the Night

  • Buy: Playstation Store
  • Metascore: 89
  • Similarity: 60 %
  • Year of release: 2007
  • Game play time: 15 hours
  • Genre: Role-playing action
  • Singleplayer: yes
  • Coop: no
  • Multiplayer: no
  • Trailer: Youtube
  • Reviews: Metacritic
  • Review: IGN

The cult game from the beloved Castlevania series is finally coming to mobile devices. This direct port of the classic console RPG lets you jump, rush, and cut your way through Dracula's massive castle as Alucard, encountering a unique array of enemies and characters along the way. Rediscover the world of Castlevania with one of its original groundbreaking games with acclaimed music and graphics. Fully compatible with game controllers.

Castlevania: Symphony of the Night screenshot

9. Trinity Fusion

  • Buy: Playstation Store
  • Metascore: 80
  • Similarity: 60 %
  • Year of release: 2023
  • Game play time: 5 hours
  • Genre: Action Rogalike
  • Singleplayer: yes
  • Coop: no
  • Multiplayer: no
  • Trailer: Youtube
  • Reviews: Metacritic

Take control of your parallel selves on a mission to save the dying multiverse in this rogue-lite action-platformer! Explore dark, sci-fi worlds and engage in fast, fluid and precise combat.

Trinity Fusion screenshot

8. Have a Nice Death

  • Buy: Playstation Store
  • Metascore: 81
  • Similarity: 70 %
  • Year of release: 2023
  • Game play time: 5 hours
  • Genre: Action Rogalike
  • Singleplayer: yes
  • Coop: no
  • Multiplayer: no
  • Trailer: Youtube
  • Reviews: Metacritic
  • Review: IGN

Have a Nice Death is an action game in the roguelike genre. Its protagonist is a fatally overworked director Death, whose subordinates completely lost their shores and turned upside down the balance of coming and going of souls. Taking up his trusty scythe, Death sets out to show his employees who's in charge.

Have a Nice Death screenshot

7. Cuphead

similar games to Cuphead
  • Buy: Playstation Store
  • Metascore: 88
  • Similarity: 80 %
  • Year of release: 2017
  • Game play time: 15 hours
  • Genre: Hardcore
  • Singleplayer: yes
  • Coop: yes
  • Multiplayer: no
  • Trailer: Youtube
  • Reviews: Metacritic
  • Review: IGN

Cuphead is literally a classic platformer. Classic because everything in it is in the spirit of the 1930s: from the graphics, which seem to have come from the pen of Walt Disney himself, to the watercolor backgrounds and jazz music.

Cuphead screenshot

6. Foregone

  • Buy: Playstation Store
  • Metascore: 71
  • Similarity: 80 %
  • Year of release: 2020
  • Game play time: 10 hours
  • Genre: Action
  • Singleplayer: yes
  • Coop: no
  • Multiplayer: no
  • Trailer: Youtube
  • Reviews: Metacritic

Foregone is a fast-paced 2D platformer that requires constant concentration. Legendary trophies and stunning pixel graphics await you. Collect a whole arsenal of deadly weapons and plunge into a story full of suffering and mystery, breaking through the hordes of enemies threatening to destroy Kalagan.

Foregone screenshot

5. Skul: The Hero Slayer

  • Buy: Playstation Store
  • Metascore: 80
  • Similarity: 80 %
  • Year of release: 2021
  • Game play time: 10 hours
  • Genre: Indy
  • Singleplayer: yes
  • Coop: no
  • Multiplayer: no
  • Trailer: Youtube
  • Reviews: Metacritic
  • Review: IGN

Help the skeleton Rock single-handedly defeat the Imperial army and rescue his king from captivity in the game for all time - a sharp 2D-platformer in the rogue-lite genre.

Skul: The Hero Slayer screenshot

4. Spelunky

  • Buy: Playstation Store
  • Metascore: 90
  • Similarity: 80 %
  • Year of release: 2012
  • Game play time: 20 hours
  • Genre: Platformer
  • Singleplayer: yes
  • Coop: yes
  • Multiplayer: yes
  • Trailer: Youtube
  • Reviews: Metacritic
  • Review: IGN

Spelunky is a unique platformer with randomized levels that offer a challenging new experience each time you play. Journey deep underground and explore fantastic places filled with all manner of monsters, traps, and treasure.

Spelunky screenshot

3. Super Meat Boy

  • Buy: Playstation Store
  • Metascore: 87
  • Similarity: 80 %
  • Year of release: 2010
  • Game play time: 15 hours
  • Genre: Platformer
  • Singleplayer: yes
  • Coop: no
  • Multiplayer: no
  • Trailer: Youtube
  • Reviews: Metacritic
  • Review: IGN

The infamous, tough-as-nails platformer comes to Steam with a playable Head Crab character (Steam-exclusive)!

Super Meat Boy screenshot

2. Hades

similar games to Hades
  • Buy: Playstation Store
  • Metascore: 93
  • Similarity: 90 %
  • Year of release: 2020
  • Game play time: 30 hours
  • Genre: Action Rogalike
  • Singleplayer: yes
  • Coop: no
  • Multiplayer: no
  • Trailer: Youtube
  • Reviews: Metacritic
  • Review: IGN

Defy the god of the dead and cut your way out of the Underworld in this roguelike and dungeon-crawler from the creators of Bastion, Transistor and Pyre.

Hades screenshot

1. Hollow Knight

similar games to Hollow Knight
  • Buy: Playstation Store
  • Metascore: 87
  • Similarity: 90 %
  • Year of release: 2017
  • Game play time: 30 hours
  • Genre: Metroidvania
  • Singleplayer: yes
  • Coop: no
  • Multiplayer: no
  • Trailer: Youtube
  • Reviews: Metacritic
  • Review: IGN

Hollow Knight is an epic adventure in a vast ruined kingdom full of insects and heroes. Explore winding caves, fight spoiled critters, and make friends with strange bugs - all in classic 2D hand-drawn artwork.

Hollow Knight screenshot

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14. Salt and Sanctuary

  • Buy: Xbox Store
  • Metascore: 84
  • Similarity: 40 %
  • Year of release: 2016
  • Game play time: 20 hours
  • Genre: Hardcore
  • Singleplayer: yes
  • Coop: no
  • Multiplayer: no
  • Trailer: Youtube
  • Reviews: Metacritic
  • Review: IGN

Explore a haunting, punishing island in this stylized 2D action RPG. Salt and Sanctuary combines fast and brutal 2D combat with richly developed RPG mechanics in a cursed realm of forgotten cities, blood-soaked dungeons, and desecrated monuments.

Salt and Sanctuary screenshot

13. Curse of the Dead Gods

  • Buy: Xbox Store
  • Similarity: 50 %
  • Year of release: 2021
  • Game play time: 4 hours
  • Genre: Action Rogalike
  • Singleplayer: yes
  • Coop: no
  • Multiplayer: no
  • Trailer: Youtube
  • Reviews: Metacritic
  • Review: IGN

You are searching for untold riches, eternal life and power. Your quest has led you to this cursed temple, an endless labyrinth where bottomless chasms, traps and monsters await you.

Curse of the Dead Gods screenshot

12. The Binding of Isaac

  • Buy: Xbox Store
  • Metascore: 84
  • Similarity: 50 %
  • Year of release: 2011
  • Game play time: 10 hours
  • Genre: Action Rogalike
  • Singleplayer: yes
  • Coop: no
  • Multiplayer: no
  • Trailer: Youtube
  • Reviews: Metacritic

Now with 20% more evil added with the free Halloween update!

The Binding of Isaac screenshot

11. Castlevania: Symphony of the Night

  • Buy: Xbox Store
  • Metascore: 89
  • Similarity: 60 %
  • Year of release: 2007
  • Game play time: 15 hours
  • Genre: Role-playing action
  • Singleplayer: yes
  • Coop: no
  • Multiplayer: no
  • Trailer: Youtube
  • Reviews: Metacritic
  • Review: IGN

The cult game from the beloved Castlevania series is finally coming to mobile devices. This direct port of the classic console RPG lets you jump, rush, and cut your way through Dracula's massive castle as Alucard, encountering a unique array of enemies and characters along the way. Rediscover the world of Castlevania with one of its original groundbreaking games with acclaimed music and graphics. Fully compatible with game controllers.

Castlevania: Symphony of the Night screenshot

10. Trinity Fusion

  • Buy: Xbox Store
  • Metascore: 80
  • Similarity: 60 %
  • Year of release: 2023
  • Game play time: 5 hours
  • Genre: Action Rogalike
  • Singleplayer: yes
  • Coop: no
  • Multiplayer: no
  • Trailer: Youtube
  • Reviews: Metacritic

Take control of your parallel selves on a mission to save the dying multiverse in this rogue-lite action-platformer! Explore dark, sci-fi worlds and engage in fast, fluid and precise combat.

Trinity Fusion screenshot

9. Have a Nice Death

  • Buy: Xbox Store
  • Metascore: 81
  • Similarity: 70 %
  • Year of release: 2023
  • Game play time: 5 hours
  • Genre: Action Rogalike
  • Singleplayer: yes
  • Coop: no
  • Multiplayer: no
  • Trailer: Youtube
  • Reviews: Metacritic
  • Review: IGN

Have a Nice Death is an action game in the roguelike genre. Its protagonist is a fatally overworked director Death, whose subordinates completely lost their shores and turned upside down the balance of coming and going of souls. Taking up his trusty scythe, Death sets out to show his employees who's in charge.

Have a Nice Death screenshot

8. Cuphead

similar games to Cuphead
  • Buy: Xbox Store
  • Metascore: 88
  • Similarity: 80 %
  • Year of release: 2017
  • Game play time: 15 hours
  • Genre: Hardcore
  • Singleplayer: yes
  • Coop: yes
  • Multiplayer: no
  • Trailer: Youtube
  • Reviews: Metacritic
  • Review: IGN

Cuphead is literally a classic platformer. Classic because everything in it is in the spirit of the 1930s: from the graphics, which seem to have come from the pen of Walt Disney himself, to the watercolor backgrounds and jazz music.

Cuphead screenshot

7. Foregone

  • Buy: Xbox Store
  • Metascore: 71
  • Similarity: 80 %
  • Year of release: 2020
  • Game play time: 10 hours
  • Genre: Action
  • Singleplayer: yes
  • Coop: no
  • Multiplayer: no
  • Trailer: Youtube
  • Reviews: Metacritic

Foregone is a fast-paced 2D platformer that requires constant concentration. Legendary trophies and stunning pixel graphics await you. Collect a whole arsenal of deadly weapons and plunge into a story full of suffering and mystery, breaking through the hordes of enemies threatening to destroy Kalagan.

Foregone screenshot

6. Ori (series)

similar games to Ori
  • Buy: Xbox Store
  • Metascore: 88
  • Similarity: 80 %
  • Year of release: 2016 - 2020
  • Game play time: 30 hours
  • Genre: Platformer
  • Singleplayer: yes
  • Coop: no
  • Multiplayer: no
  • Trailer: Youtube
  • Reviews: Metacritic
  • Review: IGN

Set off on a journey through the vast expanses of the fairy tale world, where you will face giant enemies and challenging but interesting puzzles. It's time to find out what fate has in store for Ori.

Ori screenshot

5. Skul: The Hero Slayer

  • Buy: Xbox Store
  • Metascore: 80
  • Similarity: 80 %
  • Year of release: 2021
  • Game play time: 10 hours
  • Genre: Indy
  • Singleplayer: yes
  • Coop: no
  • Multiplayer: no
  • Trailer: Youtube
  • Reviews: Metacritic
  • Review: IGN

Help the skeleton Rock single-handedly defeat the Imperial army and rescue his king from captivity in the game for all time - a sharp 2D-platformer in the rogue-lite genre.

Skul: The Hero Slayer screenshot

4. Spelunky

  • Buy: Xbox Store
  • Metascore: 90
  • Similarity: 80 %
  • Year of release: 2012
  • Game play time: 20 hours
  • Genre: Platformer
  • Singleplayer: yes
  • Coop: yes
  • Multiplayer: yes
  • Trailer: Youtube
  • Reviews: Metacritic
  • Review: IGN

Spelunky is a unique platformer with randomized levels that offer a challenging new experience each time you play. Journey deep underground and explore fantastic places filled with all manner of monsters, traps, and treasure.

Spelunky screenshot

3. Super Meat Boy

  • Buy: Xbox Store
  • Metascore: 87
  • Similarity: 80 %
  • Year of release: 2010
  • Game play time: 15 hours
  • Genre: Platformer
  • Singleplayer: yes
  • Coop: no
  • Multiplayer: no
  • Trailer: Youtube
  • Reviews: Metacritic
  • Review: IGN

The infamous, tough-as-nails platformer comes to Steam with a playable Head Crab character (Steam-exclusive)!

Super Meat Boy screenshot

2. Hades

similar games to Hades
  • Buy: Xbox Store
  • Metascore: 93
  • Similarity: 90 %
  • Year of release: 2020
  • Game play time: 30 hours
  • Genre: Action Rogalike
  • Singleplayer: yes
  • Coop: no
  • Multiplayer: no
  • Trailer: Youtube
  • Reviews: Metacritic
  • Review: IGN

Defy the god of the dead and cut your way out of the Underworld in this roguelike and dungeon-crawler from the creators of Bastion, Transistor and Pyre.

Hades screenshot

1. Hollow Knight

similar games to Hollow Knight
  • Buy: Xbox Store
  • Metascore: 87
  • Similarity: 90 %
  • Year of release: 2017
  • Game play time: 30 hours
  • Genre: Metroidvania
  • Singleplayer: yes
  • Coop: no
  • Multiplayer: no
  • Trailer: Youtube
  • Reviews: Metacritic
  • Review: IGN

Hollow Knight is an epic adventure in a vast ruined kingdom full of insects and heroes. Explore winding caves, fight spoiled critters, and make friends with strange bugs - all in classic 2D hand-drawn artwork.

Hollow Knight screenshot

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11. Salt and Sanctuary

  • Buy: Nintendo Store
  • Metascore: 84
  • Similarity: 40 %
  • Year of release: 2016
  • Game play time: 20 hours
  • Genre: Hardcore
  • Singleplayer: yes
  • Coop: no
  • Multiplayer: no
  • Trailer: Youtube
  • Reviews: Metacritic
  • Review: IGN

Explore a haunting, punishing island in this stylized 2D action RPG. Salt and Sanctuary combines fast and brutal 2D combat with richly developed RPG mechanics in a cursed realm of forgotten cities, blood-soaked dungeons, and desecrated monuments.

Salt and Sanctuary screenshot

10. Curse of the Dead Gods

  • Buy: Nintendo Store
  • Similarity: 50 %
  • Year of release: 2021
  • Game play time: 4 hours
  • Genre: Action Rogalike
  • Singleplayer: yes
  • Coop: no
  • Multiplayer: no
  • Trailer: Youtube
  • Reviews: Metacritic
  • Review: IGN

You are searching for untold riches, eternal life and power. Your quest has led you to this cursed temple, an endless labyrinth where bottomless chasms, traps and monsters await you.

Curse of the Dead Gods screenshot

9. Have a Nice Death

  • Buy: Nintendo Store
  • Metascore: 81
  • Similarity: 70 %
  • Year of release: 2023
  • Game play time: 5 hours
  • Genre: Action Rogalike
  • Singleplayer: yes
  • Coop: no
  • Multiplayer: no
  • Trailer: Youtube
  • Reviews: Metacritic
  • Review: IGN

Have a Nice Death is an action game in the roguelike genre. Its protagonist is a fatally overworked director Death, whose subordinates completely lost their shores and turned upside down the balance of coming and going of souls. Taking up his trusty scythe, Death sets out to show his employees who's in charge.

Have a Nice Death screenshot

8. Cuphead

similar games to Cuphead
  • Buy: Nintendo Store
  • Metascore: 88
  • Similarity: 80 %
  • Year of release: 2017
  • Game play time: 15 hours
  • Genre: Hardcore
  • Singleplayer: yes
  • Coop: yes
  • Multiplayer: no
  • Trailer: Youtube
  • Reviews: Metacritic
  • Review: IGN

Cuphead is literally a classic platformer. Classic because everything in it is in the spirit of the 1930s: from the graphics, which seem to have come from the pen of Walt Disney himself, to the watercolor backgrounds and jazz music.

Cuphead screenshot

7. Foregone

  • Buy: Nintendo Store
  • Metascore: 71
  • Similarity: 80 %
  • Year of release: 2020
  • Game play time: 10 hours
  • Genre: Action
  • Singleplayer: yes
  • Coop: no
  • Multiplayer: no
  • Trailer: Youtube
  • Reviews: Metacritic

Foregone is a fast-paced 2D platformer that requires constant concentration. Legendary trophies and stunning pixel graphics await you. Collect a whole arsenal of deadly weapons and plunge into a story full of suffering and mystery, breaking through the hordes of enemies threatening to destroy Kalagan.

Foregone screenshot

6. Ori (series)

similar games to Ori
  • Buy: Nintendo Store
  • Metascore: 88
  • Similarity: 80 %
  • Year of release: 2016 - 2020
  • Game play time: 30 hours
  • Genre: Platformer
  • Singleplayer: yes
  • Coop: no
  • Multiplayer: no
  • Trailer: Youtube
  • Reviews: Metacritic
  • Review: IGN

Set off on a journey through the vast expanses of the fairy tale world, where you will face giant enemies and challenging but interesting puzzles. It's time to find out what fate has in store for Ori.

Ori screenshot

5. Skul: The Hero Slayer

  • Buy: Nintendo Store
  • Metascore: 80
  • Similarity: 80 %
  • Year of release: 2021
  • Game play time: 10 hours
  • Genre: Indy
  • Singleplayer: yes
  • Coop: no
  • Multiplayer: no
  • Trailer: Youtube
  • Reviews: Metacritic
  • Review: IGN

Help the skeleton Rock single-handedly defeat the Imperial army and rescue his king from captivity in the game for all time - a sharp 2D-platformer in the rogue-lite genre.

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4. Spelunky

  • Buy: Nintendo Store
  • Metascore: 90
  • Similarity: 80 %
  • Year of release: 2012
  • Game play time: 20 hours
  • Genre: Platformer
  • Singleplayer: yes
  • Coop: yes
  • Multiplayer: yes
  • Trailer: Youtube
  • Reviews: Metacritic
  • Review: IGN

Spelunky is a unique platformer with randomized levels that offer a challenging new experience each time you play. Journey deep underground and explore fantastic places filled with all manner of monsters, traps, and treasure.

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3. Super Meat Boy

  • Buy: Nintendo Store
  • Metascore: 87
  • Similarity: 80 %
  • Year of release: 2010
  • Game play time: 15 hours
  • Genre: Platformer
  • Singleplayer: yes
  • Coop: no
  • Multiplayer: no
  • Trailer: Youtube
  • Reviews: Metacritic
  • Review: IGN

The infamous, tough-as-nails platformer comes to Steam with a playable Head Crab character (Steam-exclusive)!

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2. Hades

similar games to Hades
  • Buy: Nintendo Store
  • Metascore: 93
  • Similarity: 90 %
  • Year of release: 2020
  • Game play time: 30 hours
  • Genre: Action Rogalike
  • Singleplayer: yes
  • Coop: no
  • Multiplayer: no
  • Trailer: Youtube
  • Reviews: Metacritic
  • Review: IGN

Defy the god of the dead and cut your way out of the Underworld in this roguelike and dungeon-crawler from the creators of Bastion, Transistor and Pyre.

Hades screenshot

1. Hollow Knight

similar games to Hollow Knight
  • Buy: Nintendo Store
  • Metascore: 87
  • Similarity: 90 %
  • Year of release: 2017
  • Game play time: 30 hours
  • Genre: Metroidvania
  • Singleplayer: yes
  • Coop: no
  • Multiplayer: no
  • Trailer: Youtube
  • Reviews: Metacritic
  • Review: IGN

Hollow Knight is an epic adventure in a vast ruined kingdom full of insects and heroes. Explore winding caves, fight spoiled critters, and make friends with strange bugs - all in classic 2D hand-drawn artwork.

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3 Games Like Dead Cells For Mobile (Android, iOS)

3. Castlevania: Symphony of the Night


The cult game from the beloved Castlevania series is finally coming to mobile devices. This direct port of the classic console RPG lets you jump, rush, and cut your way through Dracula's massive castle as Alucard, encountering a unique array of enemies and characters along the way. Rediscover the world of Castlevania with one of its original groundbreaking games with acclaimed music and graphics. Fully compatible with game controllers.

Castlevania: Symphony of the Night screenshot

2. Foregone

  • Buy: App Store
  • Metascore: 71
  • Similarity: 80 %
  • Year of release: 2020
  • Game play time: 10 hours
  • Genre: Action
  • Singleplayer: yes
  • Coop: no
  • Multiplayer: no
  • Trailer: Youtube
  • Reviews: Metacritic

Foregone is a fast-paced 2D platformer that requires constant concentration. Legendary trophies and stunning pixel graphics await you. Collect a whole arsenal of deadly weapons and plunge into a story full of suffering and mystery, breaking through the hordes of enemies threatening to destroy Kalagan.

Foregone screenshot

1. Hades

similar games to Hades
  • Buy: App Store
  • Metascore: 93
  • Similarity: 90 %
  • Year of release: 2020
  • Game play time: 30 hours
  • Genre: Action Rogalike
  • Singleplayer: yes
  • Coop: no
  • Multiplayer: no
  • Trailer: Youtube
  • Reviews: Metacritic
  • Review: IGN

Defy the god of the dead and cut your way out of the Underworld in this roguelike and dungeon-crawler from the creators of Bastion, Transistor and Pyre.

Hades screenshot