Very high quality metroidvania, many consider it even a benchmark of the genre. Complex and atmospheric. It is very difficult to find similar games to Hollow Knight, but I managed to find something. Ready to check it out?

14 Games Like Hollow Knight For PC (Steam, EGS, GOG)

14. Rain World

  • Buy: Steam
  • Buy: Epic Games Store
  • Metascore: 66
  • Similarity: 10 %
  • Year of release: 2013
  • Game play time: 30 hours
  • Genre: Hardcore
  • Singleplayer: yes
  • Coop: yes
  • Multiplayer: no
  • Trailer: Youtube
  • Reviews: Metacritic
  • Review: IGN

You are a nomadic slug. You are both predator and prey in your broken ecosystem. Grab your spear and set out to conquer the industrial ruins - because without hunting, there's no food. And keep your eyes peeled: creatures bigger than you stick to the same plan, and slimebugs look delicious.

Rain World screenshot

13. Salt and Sanctuary

  • Buy: Steam
  • Buy: Epic Games Store
  • Metascore: 84
  • Similarity: 30 %
  • 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. Hyper Light Drifter

  • Buy: Steam
  • Metascore: 84
  • Similarity: 40 %
  • Year of release: 2016
  • Game play time: 15 hours
  • Genre: Pixel Graphics
  • Singleplayer: yes
  • Coop: yes
  • Multiplayer: yes
  • Trailer: Youtube
  • Reviews: Metacritic
  • Review: IGN

Explore a beautiful, vast and ruined world riddled with dangers and lost technologies.

Hyper Light Drifter screenshot

11. Rogue Legacy (series)

  • Buy: Steam
  • Metascore: 85
  • Similarity: 40 %
  • Year of release: 2013 - 2022
  • Game play time: 25 hours
  • Genre: Metroidvania Rogalike
  • Singleplayer: yes
  • Coop: no
  • Multiplayer: no
  • Trailer: Youtube
  • Reviews: Metacritic
  • Review: IGN

Rogue Legacy is a rogue-LITE genealogy game where anyone can be a hero. Every time you die, your child takes your place. Each child is unique. One may be colorblind, one may suffer from vertigo, and one may even be a dwarf.

Rogue Legacy screenshot

10. Cuphead

similar games to Cuphead
  • Buy: Steam
  • Buy: GOG.com
  • Metascore: 88
  • Similarity: 50 %
  • 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

9. Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night

  • Buy: Steam
  • Similarity: 60 %
  • Year of release: 2019
  • Game play time: 30 hours
  • Genre: Metroidvania
  • Singleplayer: yes
  • Coop: yes
  • Multiplayer: yes
  • Trailer: Youtube
  • Reviews: Metacritic
  • Review: IGN

Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night is an exploration-focused, side-scroller action RPG by Koji Igarashi. Play as Miriam, an orphan scarred by an alchemist's curse that slowly crystallizes her body. Battle through a demon-infested castle and defeat its master to save yourself, and all of humanity!

Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night screenshot

8. ENDER LILIES: Quietus of the Knights

  • Buy: Steam
  • Metascore: 86
  • Similarity: 60 %
  • Year of release: 2021
  • Game play time: 15 hours
  • Genre: Metroidvania
  • Singleplayer: yes
  • Coop: no
  • Multiplayer: no
  • Trailer: Youtube
  • Reviews: Metacritic

The story of the girl Lily and the Immortal Knights begins in the kingdom of Zapredelje, killed by the “rain of death”. This is an RPG with a side view, where you will search in a beautiful, though sad world, and fight against enemies who can take your life if you hesitate. Uncover the mystery of this world.

ENDER LILIES: Quietus of the Knights screenshot

7. Haiku, the Robot

  • Buy: Steam
  • Similarity: 60 %
  • Year of release: 2022
  • Game play time: 10 hours
  • Genre: Metroidvania
  • Singleplayer: yes
  • Coop: no
  • Multiplayer: no
  • Trailer: Youtube
  • Reviews: Metacritic

Delve into the depths of a mechanical world in this cute, adventure-exploration game. Explore and fight in a land full of corrupt robots and machinery. All while seeking answers to the mysteries around you.

Haiku, the Robot screenshot

6. Lone Fungus

  • Buy: Steam
  • Similarity: 60 %
  • Year of release: 2023
  • Game play time: 6 hours
  • Genre: Metroidvania
  • Singleplayer: yes
  • Coop: no
  • Multiplayer: no
  • Trailer: Youtube
  • Reviews: Metacritic

A handcrafted open-world platformer set in a world built by Mushrooms! Explore different locations filled with secrets, acquire new abilities and use those abilities to reach new places!

Lone Fungus screenshot

5. Ori (series)

similar games to Ori
  • Buy: Steam
  • Metascore: 88
  • Similarity: 70 %
  • 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

4. Afterimage

  • Buy: Steam
  • Similarity: 80 %
  • Year of release: 2023
  • Game play time: 15 hours
  • Genre: Metroidvania
  • Singleplayer: yes
  • Coop: no
  • Multiplayer: no
  • Trailer: Youtube
  • Reviews: Metacritic

Afterimage is a two-dimensional action-adventure game with dynamic battles, character customization, non-linear levels and an engaging story set in the ruins of a fictional world.

Afterimage screenshot

3. Dead Cells

similar games to Dead Cells

Dead Cells is an action-platformer and metroidvania with roguelike elements. A huge, ever-changing castle awaits you... If, of course, you can defeat its guards. No saves. Kill, die, learn and try again.

Dead Cells screenshot

2. The Last Faith

  • Buy: Steam
  • Similarity: 80 %
  • Year of release: 2023
  • Game play time: 20 hours
  • Genre: Metroidvania
  • Singleplayer: yes
  • Coop: no
  • Multiplayer: no
  • Trailer: Youtube
  • Reviews: Metacritic
  • Review: IGN

A godless union of metroidvania and soulslike. The key feature of The Last Faith is uncompromising, demanding perfect precision battles with a huge number of reaching moves. You won't spare anyone who gets in your way, be it a sinner or a saint.

The Last Faith screenshot

1. Blasphemous

similar games to Blasphemous
  • Buy: Steam
  • Buy: GOG.com
  • Metascore: 77
  • Similarity: 90 %
  • Year of release: 2019
  • Game play time: 20 hours
  • Genre: Metroidvania
  • Singleplayer: yes
  • Coop: no
  • Multiplayer: no
  • Trailer: Youtube
  • Reviews: Metacritic
  • Review: IGN

Blasphemous is a brutal platform action game set in the nightmarish world of Cvstodia, where you will have to chop and slice a lot and skillfully. Explore the world, improve your skills and mercilessly destroy hordes of enemies that stand in the way of your goal to break the cycle of eternal torment.

Blasphemous screenshot

12 Games Like Hollow Knight On PlayStation 5

12. Rain World

  • Buy: Playstation Store
  • Metascore: 66
  • Similarity: 10 %
  • Year of release: 2013
  • Game play time: 30 hours
  • Genre: Hardcore
  • Singleplayer: yes
  • Coop: yes
  • Multiplayer: no
  • Trailer: Youtube
  • Reviews: Metacritic
  • Review: IGN

You are a nomadic slug. You are both predator and prey in your broken ecosystem. Grab your spear and set out to conquer the industrial ruins - because without hunting, there's no food. And keep your eyes peeled: creatures bigger than you stick to the same plan, and slimebugs look delicious.

Rain World screenshot

11. Salt and Sanctuary

  • Buy: Playstation Store
  • Metascore: 84
  • Similarity: 30 %
  • 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. Hyper Light Drifter

  • Buy: Playstation Store
  • Metascore: 84
  • Similarity: 40 %
  • Year of release: 2016
  • Game play time: 15 hours
  • Genre: Pixel Graphics
  • Singleplayer: yes
  • Coop: yes
  • Multiplayer: yes
  • Trailer: Youtube
  • Reviews: Metacritic
  • Review: IGN

Explore a beautiful, vast and ruined world riddled with dangers and lost technologies.

Hyper Light Drifter screenshot

9. Rogue Legacy (series)

  • Buy: Playstation Store
  • Metascore: 85
  • Similarity: 40 %
  • Year of release: 2013 - 2022
  • Game play time: 25 hours
  • Genre: Metroidvania Rogalike
  • Singleplayer: yes
  • Coop: no
  • Multiplayer: no
  • Trailer: Youtube
  • Reviews: Metacritic
  • Review: IGN

Rogue Legacy is a rogue-LITE genealogy game where anyone can be a hero. Every time you die, your child takes your place. Each child is unique. One may be colorblind, one may suffer from vertigo, and one may even be a dwarf.

Rogue Legacy screenshot

8. Castlevania: Symphony of the Night

  • Buy: Playstation Store
  • Metascore: 89
  • Similarity: 50 %
  • 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

7. Cuphead

similar games to Cuphead
  • Buy: Playstation Store
  • Metascore: 88
  • Similarity: 50 %
  • 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. Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night

  • Buy: Playstation Store
  • Similarity: 60 %
  • Year of release: 2019
  • Game play time: 30 hours
  • Genre: Metroidvania
  • Singleplayer: yes
  • Coop: yes
  • Multiplayer: yes
  • Trailer: Youtube
  • Reviews: Metacritic
  • Review: IGN

Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night is an exploration-focused, side-scroller action RPG by Koji Igarashi. Play as Miriam, an orphan scarred by an alchemist's curse that slowly crystallizes her body. Battle through a demon-infested castle and defeat its master to save yourself, and all of humanity!

Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night screenshot

5. ENDER LILIES: Quietus of the Knights

  • Buy: Playstation Store
  • Metascore: 86
  • Similarity: 60 %
  • Year of release: 2021
  • Game play time: 15 hours
  • Genre: Metroidvania
  • Singleplayer: yes
  • Coop: no
  • Multiplayer: no
  • Trailer: Youtube
  • Reviews: Metacritic

The story of the girl Lily and the Immortal Knights begins in the kingdom of Zapredelje, killed by the “rain of death”. This is an RPG with a side view, where you will search in a beautiful, though sad world, and fight against enemies who can take your life if you hesitate. Uncover the mystery of this world.

ENDER LILIES: Quietus of the Knights screenshot

4. Afterimage

  • Buy: Playstation Store
  • Similarity: 80 %
  • Year of release: 2023
  • Game play time: 15 hours
  • Genre: Metroidvania
  • Singleplayer: yes
  • Coop: no
  • Multiplayer: no
  • Trailer: Youtube
  • Reviews: Metacritic

Afterimage is a two-dimensional action-adventure game with dynamic battles, character customization, non-linear levels and an engaging story set in the ruins of a fictional world.

Afterimage screenshot

3. Dead Cells

similar games to Dead Cells
  • Buy: Playstation Store
  • Metascore: 89
  • Similarity: 80 %
  • Year of release: 2023
  • Game play time: 50 hours
  • Genre: Adventure
  • Singleplayer: yes
  • Coop: no
  • Multiplayer: no
  • Trailer: Youtube
  • Reviews: Metacritic
  • Review: IGN

Dead Cells is an action-platformer and metroidvania with roguelike elements. A huge, ever-changing castle awaits you... If, of course, you can defeat its guards. No saves. Kill, die, learn and try again.

Dead Cells screenshot

2. The Last Faith

  • Buy: Playstation Store
  • Similarity: 80 %
  • Year of release: 2023
  • Game play time: 20 hours
  • Genre: Metroidvania
  • Singleplayer: yes
  • Coop: no
  • Multiplayer: no
  • Trailer: Youtube
  • Reviews: Metacritic
  • Review: IGN

A godless union of metroidvania and soulslike. The key feature of The Last Faith is uncompromising, demanding perfect precision battles with a huge number of reaching moves. You won't spare anyone who gets in your way, be it a sinner or a saint.

The Last Faith screenshot

1. Blasphemous

similar games to Blasphemous
  • Buy: Playstation Store
  • Metascore: 77
  • Similarity: 90 %
  • Year of release: 2019
  • Game play time: 20 hours
  • Genre: Metroidvania
  • Singleplayer: yes
  • Coop: no
  • Multiplayer: no
  • Trailer: Youtube
  • Reviews: Metacritic
  • Review: IGN

Blasphemous is a brutal platform action game set in the nightmarish world of Cvstodia, where you will have to chop and slice a lot and skillfully. Explore the world, improve your skills and mercilessly destroy hordes of enemies that stand in the way of your goal to break the cycle of eternal torment.

Blasphemous screenshot

12 Games Like Hollow Knight On Xbox Series X|S

12. Rain World

  • Buy: Xbox Store
  • Metascore: 66
  • Similarity: 10 %
  • Year of release: 2013
  • Game play time: 30 hours
  • Genre: Hardcore
  • Singleplayer: yes
  • Coop: yes
  • Multiplayer: no
  • Trailer: Youtube
  • Reviews: Metacritic
  • Review: IGN

You are a nomadic slug. You are both predator and prey in your broken ecosystem. Grab your spear and set out to conquer the industrial ruins - because without hunting, there's no food. And keep your eyes peeled: creatures bigger than you stick to the same plan, and slimebugs look delicious.

Rain World screenshot

11. Salt and Sanctuary

  • Buy: Xbox Store
  • Metascore: 84
  • Similarity: 30 %
  • 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. Hyper Light Drifter

  • Buy: Xbox Store
  • Metascore: 84
  • Similarity: 40 %
  • Year of release: 2016
  • Game play time: 15 hours
  • Genre: Pixel Graphics
  • Singleplayer: yes
  • Coop: yes
  • Multiplayer: yes
  • Trailer: Youtube
  • Reviews: Metacritic
  • Review: IGN

Explore a beautiful, vast and ruined world riddled with dangers and lost technologies.

Hyper Light Drifter screenshot

9. Rogue Legacy (series)

  • Buy: Xbox Store
  • Metascore: 85
  • Similarity: 40 %
  • Year of release: 2013 - 2022
  • Game play time: 25 hours
  • Genre: Metroidvania Rogalike
  • Singleplayer: yes
  • Coop: no
  • Multiplayer: no
  • Trailer: Youtube
  • Reviews: Metacritic
  • Review: IGN

Rogue Legacy is a rogue-LITE genealogy game where anyone can be a hero. Every time you die, your child takes your place. Each child is unique. One may be colorblind, one may suffer from vertigo, and one may even be a dwarf.

Rogue Legacy screenshot

8. Castlevania: Symphony of the Night

  • Buy: Xbox Store
  • Metascore: 89
  • Similarity: 50 %
  • 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

7. Cuphead

similar games to Cuphead
  • Buy: Xbox Store
  • Metascore: 88
  • Similarity: 50 %
  • 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. Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night

  • Buy: Xbox Store
  • Similarity: 60 %
  • Year of release: 2019
  • Game play time: 30 hours
  • Genre: Metroidvania
  • Singleplayer: yes
  • Coop: yes
  • Multiplayer: yes
  • Trailer: Youtube
  • Reviews: Metacritic
  • Review: IGN

Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night is an exploration-focused, side-scroller action RPG by Koji Igarashi. Play as Miriam, an orphan scarred by an alchemist's curse that slowly crystallizes her body. Battle through a demon-infested castle and defeat its master to save yourself, and all of humanity!

Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night screenshot

5. ENDER LILIES: Quietus of the Knights

  • Buy: Xbox Store
  • Metascore: 86
  • Similarity: 60 %
  • Year of release: 2021
  • Game play time: 15 hours
  • Genre: Metroidvania
  • Singleplayer: yes
  • Coop: no
  • Multiplayer: no
  • Trailer: Youtube
  • Reviews: Metacritic

The story of the girl Lily and the Immortal Knights begins in the kingdom of Zapredelje, killed by the “rain of death”. This is an RPG with a side view, where you will search in a beautiful, though sad world, and fight against enemies who can take your life if you hesitate. Uncover the mystery of this world.

ENDER LILIES: Quietus of the Knights screenshot

4. Ori (series)

similar games to Ori
  • Buy: Xbox Store
  • Metascore: 88
  • Similarity: 70 %
  • 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

3. Dead Cells

similar games to Dead Cells
  • Buy: Xbox Store
  • Metascore: 89
  • Similarity: 80 %
  • Year of release: 2023
  • Game play time: 50 hours
  • Genre: Adventure
  • Singleplayer: yes
  • Coop: no
  • Multiplayer: no
  • Trailer: Youtube
  • Reviews: Metacritic
  • Review: IGN

Dead Cells is an action-platformer and metroidvania with roguelike elements. A huge, ever-changing castle awaits you... If, of course, you can defeat its guards. No saves. Kill, die, learn and try again.

Dead Cells screenshot

2. The Last Faith

  • Buy: Xbox Store
  • Similarity: 80 %
  • Year of release: 2023
  • Game play time: 20 hours
  • Genre: Metroidvania
  • Singleplayer: yes
  • Coop: no
  • Multiplayer: no
  • Trailer: Youtube
  • Reviews: Metacritic
  • Review: IGN

A godless union of metroidvania and soulslike. The key feature of The Last Faith is uncompromising, demanding perfect precision battles with a huge number of reaching moves. You won't spare anyone who gets in your way, be it a sinner or a saint.

The Last Faith screenshot

1. Blasphemous

similar games to Blasphemous
  • Buy: Xbox Store
  • Metascore: 77
  • Similarity: 90 %
  • Year of release: 2019
  • Game play time: 20 hours
  • Genre: Metroidvania
  • Singleplayer: yes
  • Coop: no
  • Multiplayer: no
  • Trailer: Youtube
  • Reviews: Metacritic
  • Review: IGN

Blasphemous is a brutal platform action game set in the nightmarish world of Cvstodia, where you will have to chop and slice a lot and skillfully. Explore the world, improve your skills and mercilessly destroy hordes of enemies that stand in the way of your goal to break the cycle of eternal torment.

Blasphemous screenshot

12 Games Like Hollow Knight For Switch

12. Rain World

  • Buy: Nintendo Store
  • Metascore: 66
  • Similarity: 10 %
  • Year of release: 2013
  • Game play time: 30 hours
  • Genre: Hardcore
  • Singleplayer: yes
  • Coop: yes
  • Multiplayer: no
  • Trailer: Youtube
  • Reviews: Metacritic
  • Review: IGN

You are a nomadic slug. You are both predator and prey in your broken ecosystem. Grab your spear and set out to conquer the industrial ruins - because without hunting, there's no food. And keep your eyes peeled: creatures bigger than you stick to the same plan, and slimebugs look delicious.

Rain World screenshot

11. Salt and Sanctuary

  • Buy: Nintendo Store
  • Metascore: 84
  • Similarity: 30 %
  • 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. Hyper Light Drifter

  • Buy: Nintendo Store
  • Metascore: 84
  • Similarity: 40 %
  • Year of release: 2016
  • Game play time: 15 hours
  • Genre: Pixel Graphics
  • Singleplayer: yes
  • Coop: yes
  • Multiplayer: yes
  • Trailer: Youtube
  • Reviews: Metacritic
  • Review: IGN

Explore a beautiful, vast and ruined world riddled with dangers and lost technologies.

Hyper Light Drifter screenshot

9. Rogue Legacy (series)

  • Buy: Nintendo Store
  • Metascore: 85
  • Similarity: 40 %
  • Year of release: 2013 - 2022
  • Game play time: 25 hours
  • Genre: Metroidvania Rogalike
  • Singleplayer: yes
  • Coop: no
  • Multiplayer: no
  • Trailer: Youtube
  • Reviews: Metacritic
  • Review: IGN

Rogue Legacy is a rogue-LITE genealogy game where anyone can be a hero. Every time you die, your child takes your place. Each child is unique. One may be colorblind, one may suffer from vertigo, and one may even be a dwarf.

Rogue Legacy screenshot

8. Cuphead

similar games to Cuphead
  • Buy: Nintendo Store
  • Metascore: 88
  • Similarity: 50 %
  • 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. Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night

  • Buy: Nintendo Store
  • Similarity: 60 %
  • Year of release: 2019
  • Game play time: 30 hours
  • Genre: Metroidvania
  • Singleplayer: yes
  • Coop: yes
  • Multiplayer: yes
  • Trailer: Youtube
  • Reviews: Metacritic
  • Review: IGN

Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night is an exploration-focused, side-scroller action RPG by Koji Igarashi. Play as Miriam, an orphan scarred by an alchemist's curse that slowly crystallizes her body. Battle through a demon-infested castle and defeat its master to save yourself, and all of humanity!

Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night screenshot

6. ENDER LILIES: Quietus of the Knights

  • Buy: Nintendo Store
  • Metascore: 86
  • Similarity: 60 %
  • Year of release: 2021
  • Game play time: 15 hours
  • Genre: Metroidvania
  • Singleplayer: yes
  • Coop: no
  • Multiplayer: no
  • Trailer: Youtube
  • Reviews: Metacritic

The story of the girl Lily and the Immortal Knights begins in the kingdom of Zapredelje, killed by the “rain of death”. This is an RPG with a side view, where you will search in a beautiful, though sad world, and fight against enemies who can take your life if you hesitate. Uncover the mystery of this world.

ENDER LILIES: Quietus of the Knights screenshot

5. Haiku, the Robot

  • Buy: Nintendo Store
  • Similarity: 60 %
  • Year of release: 2022
  • Game play time: 10 hours
  • Genre: Metroidvania
  • Singleplayer: yes
  • Coop: no
  • Multiplayer: no
  • Trailer: Youtube
  • Reviews: Metacritic

Delve into the depths of a mechanical world in this cute, adventure-exploration game. Explore and fight in a land full of corrupt robots and machinery. All while seeking answers to the mysteries around you.

Haiku, the Robot screenshot

4. Ori (series)

similar games to Ori
  • Buy: Nintendo Store
  • Metascore: 88
  • Similarity: 70 %
  • 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.

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3. Afterimage

  • Buy: Nintendo Store
  • Similarity: 80 %
  • Year of release: 2023
  • Game play time: 15 hours
  • Genre: Metroidvania
  • Singleplayer: yes
  • Coop: no
  • Multiplayer: no
  • Trailer: Youtube
  • Reviews: Metacritic

Afterimage is a two-dimensional action-adventure game with dynamic battles, character customization, non-linear levels and an engaging story set in the ruins of a fictional world.

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2. Dead Cells

similar games to Dead Cells
  • Buy: Nintendo Store
  • Metascore: 89
  • Similarity: 80 %
  • Year of release: 2023
  • Game play time: 50 hours
  • Genre: Adventure
  • Singleplayer: yes
  • Coop: no
  • Multiplayer: no
  • Trailer: Youtube
  • Reviews: Metacritic
  • Review: IGN

Dead Cells is an action-platformer and metroidvania with roguelike elements. A huge, ever-changing castle awaits you... If, of course, you can defeat its guards. No saves. Kill, die, learn and try again.

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1. The Last Faith

  • Buy: Nintendo Store
  • Similarity: 80 %
  • Year of release: 2023
  • Game play time: 20 hours
  • Genre: Metroidvania
  • Singleplayer: yes
  • Coop: no
  • Multiplayer: no
  • Trailer: Youtube
  • Reviews: Metacritic
  • Review: IGN

A godless union of metroidvania and soulslike. The key feature of The Last Faith is uncompromising, demanding perfect precision battles with a huge number of reaching moves. You won't spare anyone who gets in your way, be it a sinner or a saint.

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5. Hyper Light Drifter


Explore a beautiful, vast and ruined world riddled with dangers and lost technologies.

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4. Rogue Legacy (series)

  • Buy: App Store
  • Metascore: 85
  • Similarity: 40 %
  • Year of release: 2013 - 2022
  • Game play time: 25 hours
  • Genre: Metroidvania Rogalike
  • Singleplayer: yes
  • Coop: no
  • Multiplayer: no
  • Trailer: Youtube
  • Reviews: Metacritic
  • Review: IGN

Rogue Legacy is a rogue-LITE genealogy game where anyone can be a hero. Every time you die, your child takes your place. Each child is unique. One may be colorblind, one may suffer from vertigo, and one may even be a dwarf.

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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. Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night


Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night is an exploration-focused, side-scroller action RPG by Koji Igarashi. Play as Miriam, an orphan scarred by an alchemist's curse that slowly crystallizes her body. Battle through a demon-infested castle and defeat its master to save yourself, and all of humanity!

Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night screenshot

1. Dead Cells

similar games to Dead Cells

Dead Cells is an action-platformer and metroidvania with roguelike elements. A huge, ever-changing castle awaits you... If, of course, you can defeat its guards. No saves. Kill, die, learn and try again.

Dead Cells screenshot