Games Like Salt and Sanctuary

Salt and Sanctuary

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.

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Death's Gambit: Afterlife

81% 👍 OF 5.6K
About This Game

Death's Gambit: Afterlife is a challenging 2D action platformer with deep RPG elements. As an agent of Death bound to his service, unravel the mystery of Siradon and discover the true price of immortality.

Player reviews say you can…

  • …Rematch Heroic Bosses
  • …Mix Combat Builds
  • …Unlock Hidden Routes
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Unworthy

81% 👍 OF 860
About This Game

UNWORTHY is a hardcore combat-focused metroidvania without jumping. Explore a grim universe, discover new weapons and abilities, and defeat the vile creatures that plague the land.

Player reviews say you can…

  • …Fight Without Jumping
  • …Switch Weapon Strategies
  • …Track Hidden Secrets
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GRIME

85% 👍 OF 6.7K
About This Game

Destroy... Absorb... Grow... GRIME is a fast and unforgiving Action-Adventure RPG in which you crush your foes with living weapons that mutate form and function, and then consume their remains with a black hole to strengthen your vessel as you break apart a world of anatomical horror and intrigue.

Player reviews say you can…

  • …Absorb Foes to Evolve
  • …Parry to Strike
  • …Wield Living Weapons
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ENDER MAGNOLIA: Bloom in the Mist

95% 👍 OF 18K
About This Game

Decades after the events of ENDER LILIES, Homunculi — sorrowful, artificial life forms — roam the land. In this dark fantasy Metroidvania, face formidable enemies and explore a bewitching post-apocalyptic world. Humans and Homunculi — what awaits at the end of the quest for their salvation?

Player reviews say you can…

  • …walk straight through enemies and only dodge their actual attacks.
  • …use a map that marks explored rooms, cleared areas, and even hints at hidden or incomplete sections so you always know where secrets are.
  • …toggle custom difficulty modifiers all the way up to no healing and no-hit, then take the same bosses on with totally different rules.
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AWAKEN - Astral Blade

82% 👍 OF 1.2K
About This Game

AWAKEN - Astral Blade is a 2.5D action-adventure metroidvania where you play as Tania, a bionic warrior fighting through a world twisted by Karpas energy. Master parries, upgrade your abilities, and survive relentless enemies and bosses. Is there any chance of survival in such a desperate place?

Player reviews say you can…

  • …Chain Weapon Combos
  • …Parry Into Counters
  • …Dash To Slow Time
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Skelethrone: The Prey

75% 👍 OF 450
About This Game

This game is a challenging 2D action platformer with RPG elements inspired by games like Castlevania and Dark Souls. Skelethrone: The Prey is a free prequel to the main game, setting the stage for the events that will unfold throughout Skelethrone: The Chronicles of Ericona campaign.

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Deepening Fire

72% 👍 OF 639
About This Game

Deepening Fire is a side-scrolling action adventure game. Choose different classes, with appropriate equipment, explore hidden complex map, defeat powerful enemies, expose the conspiracy of the chaotic world, experience the souls-like battle

Player reviews say you can…

  • …Parry Enemy Strikes
  • …Explore Hidden Routes
  • …Switch Combat Classes
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Solateria

83% 👍 OF 780
About This Game

Solateria is a hand-drawn action Metroidvania with parry-focused combat. A small fire warrior journeys to find the Primordial Flame, the world’s last hope against the Shadow Plague. Defeat foes with stylish parries and explore mysterious realms to uncover the world’s secrets.

Player reviews say you can…

  • …Parry, Then Counter
  • …Find the Missing King
  • …Unlock Hidden Paths
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DARK SOULS™: REMASTERED

92% 👍 OF 156K
About This Game

Then, there was fire. Re-experience the critically acclaimed, genre-defining game that started it all. Beautifully remastered, return to Lordran in stunning high-definition detail running at 60fps.

Player reviews say you can…

  • …get lost, take an elevator shortcut, and end up back at the starting shrine.
  • …open the wrong treasure chest and get eaten alive by the "chest."
  • …lure the first boss to the edge of a narrow wall and watch it dodge itself straight off to its death.
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Mandragora: Whispers of the Witch Tree

76% 👍 OF 3.9K
About This Game

Slay your way in Mandragora: Whispers of the Witch Tree, an epic action RPG set in a dark fantasy world. Battle monsters, master six unique Classes, craft hundreds of useful items, and explore the secrets of an expansive, interconnected world.

Player reviews say you can…

  • …Mix Class Talents
  • …Unlock Hidden Routes
  • …Dodge and Parry