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Alruna and the Necro-Industrialists

Alruna is a compact and high-density Metroidvania, with a focus on sequence-breaking and playing things out of order.

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qomp

94% 👍 OF 379
About This Game

You are the Ball. Escape.

Player reviews say you can…

  • …Play as the Pong ball itself, steering its escape with one button that changes its direction while it keeps moving.
  • …Face boss encounters using the same pared-down control scheme as the platforming levels.
  • …Unlock a set of challenges by completing the main game.
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Leap Year

97% 👍 OF 3.2K
About This Game

Leap Year is a clumsy platformer about knowledge and discovery. Explore a compact, hand drawn world filled with hidden paths. Understand the game’s secrets to reach new areas and collect all the pages of your calendar.

Player reviews say you can…

  • …Collect Calendar Dates
  • …Rethink Every Jump
  • …Decode Hidden Routes
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ANIMAL WELL

96% 👍 OF 24K
About This Game

Explore a dense, interconnected labyrinth, and unravel its many secrets. Collect items to manipulate your environment in surprising and meaningful ways. Encounter beautiful and unsettling creatures, as you attempt to survive what lurks in the dark. There is more than what you see.

Player reviews say you can…

  • …ride your thrown frisbee across a room after you land on it.
  • …use a bubble wand to keep making platforms, turning jumps into near-infinite air time with the right timing.
  • …hit the credits, then keep digging into post-game mysteries that can take a whole community sharing notes to untangle.
4

Momodora: Reverie Under The Moonlight

93% 👍 OF 11K
About This Game

Momodora: Reverie Under The Moonlight is the fourth installment in the beloved Momodora series of 2D platformers. Unleash ravaging combos against a variety of formidable monsters and deftly dodge your way through a cursed land to seek audience with the Queen and dispel the evil that threatens all life.

Player reviews say you can…

  • …beat a boss without taking damage and get a unique reward drop instead of the usual loot.
  • …turn into a cat to slip into tiny hidden spaces, then switch back and keep fighting with your leaf and bow.
  • …hunt down secret items and optional bosses that can change the ending, including one specific missable item the true ending hinges on.
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Odallus: The Dark Call

88% 👍 OF 1.4K
About This Game

The old gods have forgotten this land. No one could save our people when darkness started spreading and collecting human souls for its army. Odallus is a classic exploration/action game, inspired by Ghosts’n Goblins, Demon’s Crest and Castlevania.

Player reviews say you can…

  • …Rescue Your Son
  • …Revisit With New Abilities
  • …Find Hidden Stages
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Primal Planet

88% 👍 OF 792
About This Game

Unveil a heartfelt story of family, dinosaurs, and UFOs! Craft, upgrade, and survive in a realm of primeval predators, savage tribes and... ancient aliens. Rise from a humble cave dweller to the planet’s last hope — alone or in local co-op. Welcome to the dinovania!

Player reviews say you can…

  • …Hunt Dinosaurs
  • …Burn Thorn Barriers
  • …Craft Survival Tools
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Haiku, the Robot

90% 👍 OF 3.6K
About This Game

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.

Player reviews say you can…

  • …Explore Robot Arcadia
  • …Unlock Ability-Gated Paths
  • …Slash Corrupted Machines
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Shantae and the Pirate's Curse

93% 👍 OF 3.1K
About This Game

Embark on an all-new adventure with Shantae, the hair-whipping belly dancing genie. After losing her magic, Shantae teams up with the nefarious pirate Risky Boots in order to save Sequin Land from a curse.

Player reviews say you can…

  • …chain a glide hat, dash boots, and cannon jumps to fly through hazards, skip fights, and reach places you couldn't touch before.
  • …start New Game+ with every mobility power unlocked and tear through the world immediately.
  • …hunt down all 20 dark-magic cacklebats to change the true ending.
9

Guns of Fury

89% 👍 OF 1.0K
About This Game

Guns of Fury is a retro-inspired action platformer that combines the run & gun and Metroidvania genres. Explore a vast interconnected world, gain new abilities and weapons, battle epic bosses and stop the plans of an evil corporation before it’s too late!

Player reviews say you can…

  • …Blast Breakable Scenery
  • …Pilot Combat Mechs
  • …Unlock Hidden Routes
10

Rabi-Ribi

95% 👍 OF 12K
About This Game

Dodge bullets, missiles and lasers in battle as you wrap your head around that bunny girl costume! Combo away with your mighty Piko Hammer or spam various spells from afar with your fiery fairy friend. Explore and explode through Rabi-Rabi Island as you collect power-ups and uncover secrets...

Player reviews say you can…

  • …finish the entire game at 0% items, and the world adds new springs so you can keep going without upgrades.
  • …recruit bosses into your town after beating them, then pay them to buff you for the next fights.
  • …dodge a boss phase where some bullets hurt only if you're grounded and others hurt only if you're jumping.
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Owlboy

83% 👍 OF 6.1K
About This Game

Owlboy is a story-driven platform adventure game, where you can fly and explore a brand new world in the clouds! Pick up your friends, and bring them with you as you explore the open skies, in one of the most detailed adventures of this era.

Player reviews say you can…

  • …Fly Between Islands
  • …Carry Friends Into Battle
  • …Use Companion Weapons