Games like Butterfly: Twisted Thread
If Butterfly: Twisted Thread is your kind of game, the closest matches are Emerald Dreams: Sanity - Platformer Quest, Omega-Altro and Seasons after Fall — picked from the ranked list below. Each pick is ranked by what players of this game also play, shared genres and tags, and review-mined similarity — not a generic popularity list.
Get personalized picks →About Butterfly: Twisted Thread: Butterfly: Twisted Thread is a hand-drawn 2D Metroidvania where you use a mystical butterfly to draw platforms, objects, and attack tools into the world. Explore interconnected areas, solve physics-based puzzles, fight enemies, and unlock new paths through creative drawing.
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Emerald Dreams: Sanity - Platformer Quest
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Top pick for Butterfly: Twisted Thread fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Butterfly: Twisted Thread.
Emerald Dreams: Sanity - Platformer Quest is an exciting 2.5D platformer and adventure Metroidvania that takes you on a journey through mysterious worlds. The game offers a rich story set in a dark fantasy universe where every decision you make can lead to one of multiple endings.
Omega-Altro
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Second-strongest match for Butterfly: Twisted Thread fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Butterfly: Twisted Thread.
Young mercenary Rita was called by some organisation on the mission: piloting and shooting! What secrets this mission has?Fly and explore the underground sectors, find and enter rooms, shoot the enemies, and find switchers to advance!
Seasons after Fall
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Third-strongest match for Butterfly: Twisted Thread fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Butterfly: Twisted Thread.
Seasons After Fall is a 2D platform-puzzler game that will let you dive into a captivating universe and explore a land governed by magic and nature.
Greak: Memories of Azur
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Ranked #4 for Butterfly: Twisted Thread fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Butterfly: Twisted Thread.
Greak: Memories of Azur is a single-player puzzle platformer adventure. Azur is under threat from an enemy attack who have control of strange creatures infecting the land. Take on the role of three siblings: Greak, Adara and Raydel and utilize their unique abilities to escape the invasion together.
Momodora: Moonlit Farewell
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Ranked #5 for Butterfly: Twisted Thread fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Butterfly: Twisted Thread.
"Momodora: Moonlit Farewell" is the latest installment in the Momodora series. Join Momo, High Priestess of the village of Koho, as she embarks on a divine mission to save her people from imminent destruction at the hands of the demon hordes summoned by a malevolent bellringer.
GIGA WRECKER
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Ranked #6 for Butterfly: Twisted Thread fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Butterfly: Twisted Thread.
Become more than human and save mankind from total annihilation! From legendary developer Game Freak comes an action adventure like no other - manipulate the world around you and smash the evil Ajeet to smithereens!
Alwa's Legacy
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Ranked #7 for Butterfly: Twisted Thread fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Butterfly: Twisted Thread.
Alwa’s Legacy is a modern retro game full of dangerous dungeons, mystic items and ancient secrets. Upgrade your magic and choose your own path in this non-linear adventure game brimming with exploration.
Hollow Knight
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Ranked #8 for Butterfly: Twisted Thread fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Butterfly: Twisted Thread.
Forge your own path in Hollow Knight! An epic action adventure through a vast ruined kingdom of insects and heroes. Explore twisting caverns, battle tainted creatures and befriend bizarre bugs, all in a classic, hand-drawn 2D style.
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Doki Doki Literature Club!
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Butterfly: Twisted Thread.
The Literature Club is full of cute girls! Will you write the way into their heart? This game is not suitable for children or those who are easily disturbed.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with Butterfly: Twisted Thread.
Episode 1 now FREE! Life is Strange is an award-winning and critically acclaimed episodic adventure game that allows the player to rewind time and affect the past, present and future.
Bongo Cat
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Butterfly: Twisted Thread.
Bongo cat needs your help. Bongo cat needz more hatz!!! Every time you press a key, Bongo cat will punch your taskbar. Type, click, play, work to collect more points. Which hats will you find?
The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Butterfly: Twisted Thread.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Butterfly: Twisted Thread.
Explore the abandoned childhood wonder of Indigo Park! Guided by Rambley the Raccoon, help restore power to the destroyed amusement park while you run from the reason it shut down.
The Looker
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Butterfly: Twisted Thread.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
Sheepy: A Short Adventure
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Butterfly: Twisted Thread.
A Short Handcrafted Pixel Art Platformer that follows Sheepy, an abandoned plushy brought to life. Sheepy: A Short Adventure is the first short game from MrSuicideSheep.
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Seasons after Fall
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Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Butterfly: Twisted Thread.
Seasons After Fall is a 2D platform-puzzler game that will let you dive into a captivating universe and explore a land governed by magic and nature.
Alwa's Legacy
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Butterfly: Twisted Thread.
Alwa’s Legacy is a modern retro game full of dangerous dungeons, mystic items and ancient secrets. Upgrade your magic and choose your own path in this non-linear adventure game brimming with exploration.
Hollow Knight
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Butterfly: Twisted Thread.
Forge your own path in Hollow Knight! An epic action adventure through a vast ruined kingdom of insects and heroes. Explore twisting caverns, battle tainted creatures and befriend bizarre bugs, all in a classic, hand-drawn 2D style.
Frequently asked about Butterfly: Twisted Thread
- What games are most similar to Butterfly: Twisted Thread?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Butterfly: Twisted Thread are Emerald Dreams: Sanity - Platformer Quest, Omega-Altro, Seasons after Fall.
- Who developed Butterfly: Twisted Thread?
- Butterfly: Twisted Thread was developed by Kaita studio.
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