Games like Metroidvania
If Metroidvania is your kind of game, the closest matches are YuanQi : 元氣, Boots Versus Plants and Setsuna — 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 Metroidvania: Explore a dark pixel-art metroidvania filled with fast-paced combat, challenging bosses, hidden secrets, and rewarding exploration as you unlock new paths through a mysterious world.
Players who liked Metroidvania also play
Steam players who put hours into Metroidvania also tend to own these titles — a signal called collaborative filtering. imho.run cross-references millions of library ownership patterns to surface games whose real audiences overlap, regardless of whether their genre tags match.
YuanQi : 元氣
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Top pick for Metroidvania fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Metroidvania.
"Yuan Qi" is a 2D action-adventure game where players harness Five Element powers to fight, explore, and grow stronger. Meditate to obtain martial arts charms, combine skills freely, and create unique combat builds through elemental interactions.
Boots Versus Plants
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Second-strongest match for Metroidvania fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Metroidvania.
In the platformer from the creators of RRRR fights with mutant plants on the way to find a solution to the dark past. Overcome many thoughtful challenges and puzzles.
Setsuna
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Third-strongest match for Metroidvania fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Metroidvania.
Play as "Setsuna," an android assassin. In this cyberpunk-themed 2D action-adventure game, traverse a futuristic metropolis ruled by a super-corp alongside your accompanying AI, clash with powerful enemies, collect abilities to explore the unknown, and search for the meaning of your existence.
Once We're Home
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Ranked #4 for Metroidvania fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Metroidvania.
An Action-Adventure-Platformer-RPG-lite of our rescue dog Marduk, the zoomies-powered & always hungry husky! Find out how he found his home with us, and how we found family with each other.
RedCloak
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Ranked #5 for Metroidvania fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Metroidvania.
The story of Little Red Riding Hood begins in the forest with her companion Light in an unfamiliar place with no memory. Enjoy a full-scale side-scrolling action RPG with tough boss battles where even a moment of inattention can kill you, and uncover the truth about the lost world.
KilLLine
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Ranked #6 for Metroidvania fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Metroidvania.
Slip through a cursed gothic castle as a lone assassin. Move in the shadows, strike from melee or range, solve mechanism puzzles, and hunt the vampire lord that rules the ruins. A stealth-action platformer built on precise movement and deadly timing.
Samurai Kento
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Ranked #7 for Metroidvania fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Metroidvania.
Play as Kento, an Elder Samurai, and face the evil Yokai in this 2D pixelated mini action RPG set in Feudal Japan based scenarios!
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
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 Metroidvania.
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 Metroidvania.
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.
Ultimate Custom Night
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Metroidvania.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Bongo Cat
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Metroidvania.
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?
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 Metroidvania.
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.
STRAFTAT
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Metroidvania.
STRAFTAT is a 1v1/2v2 ONLINE first person SHOOTER with quick rounds in over 350 MAPS ; Including all WEAPONS, proximity chat and 4 players FFA.
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 Metroidvania.
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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Frequently asked about Metroidvania
- What games are most similar to Metroidvania?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Metroidvania are YuanQi : 元氣, Boots Versus Plants, Setsuna.
- Who developed Metroidvania?
- Metroidvania was developed by David Chuks and published by Ascension Gaming Hub.
imho.run ranks Steam game alternatives using a mix of collaborative filtering (ALS / iALS / EASE / LightGCN), content scoring over genres, categories, Steam tags, developers, and publishers, plus AI-extracted vibes mined from review text. The page above is generated in seed mode anchored on Metroidvania.
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