Games Like Duat: Beyond Light & Shadow

Duat: Beyond Light & Shadow

The mystical Egyptian underworld beckons you in Duat: Beyond Light & Shadow! Foil the plans of Set and Apep using your powers of light. Explore the varied environments of the underworld and battle your way through in this epic pixel art style Metroidvania.

★ CLOUDBERRY KINGDOM™ ★ KNYTT UNDERGROUND ★ LUMIONE ★ QOMP ★ THE DELETION ★ LEAP YEAR ★ DOWNWELL ★ STEAMWORLD DIG ★ LOST RUINS ★ ISLETS ★ CONSTANCE ★ NINE SOLS ★ WE ♥ IT 
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Cloudberry Kingdom™

90% 👍 OF 230
About This Game

Unhappily ever after. That’s how it starts. The Orb resurfaces and the classic characters return. Kobbler with his mania, Princess with her endless boredom. It’s only a matter of time before Bob, our hero, shows up to put order back to madness. Three powers struggle for victory and the fate of Cloudberry Kingdom hangs in the balance.

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Lumione

74% 👍 OF 472
About This Game

Lumione is a platformer game set in a deep-sea universe. Join the protagonist Glimmer on a journey in search of the Light as you put your wit to the test in solving challenging puzzle-like levels. Learn from your failures and restore the Light of Hope to the seabed.

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qomp

96% 👍 OF 541
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 3.3K
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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Downwell

97% 👍 OF 8.7K
About This Game

Downwell is a curious game about a young person venturing down a well in search of untold treasures with only his Gunboots to protect him.

Player reviews say you can…

  • …shoot only downward in mid-air, using recoil to slow your fall, then stomp to reload and keep descending.
  • …grab enough gems in a burst to trigger a damage-boosting gem high that suddenly speeds the whole run up.
  • …pick up side-cave weapons that can change the rules, like eating enemy corpses for health or recharging ammo with gems.
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SteamWorld Dig

94% 👍 OF 11K
About This Game

SteamWorld Dig is an action-adventure puzzler with strong Metroidvanian influences set in the SteamWorld Universe. You’ll need to dig deep into the earth, gather resources to upgrade your tools and abilities, take on enemies, solve challenging puzzles and uncover the secrets to save a dying town.

Player reviews say you can…

  • …carve your own tunnels and have the mine stay permanently changed, so your route back up depends on what you dug.
  • …use dynamite and falling rocks as weapons, collapsing boulders to crush enemies while you keep digging.
  • …place a teleporter exactly once, locking in a permanent return point that can save future expeditions or strand you if you choose wrong.
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Lost Ruins

85% 👍 OF 5.8K
About This Game

Lost Ruins is a 2D side-scrolling survival action game, where you play as a young girl that has awoken in a strange and foreign place without her memories. Explore a dark and dangerous world, battle hideous monsters, and topple incredible bosses.

Player reviews say you can…

  • …Burn Oil Puddles
  • …Freeze Water Paths
  • …Deflect Enemy Shots
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Islets

95% 👍 OF 2.5K
About This Game

Take to the sky and reunite a fragmented world in this surprisingly wholesome metroidvania! Help Iko adventure across beautiful hand-painted islands, receive letters from a quirky cast of characters, and face powerful monstrous adversaries.

Player reviews say you can…

  • …physically stitch separate islands together until dead ends turn into new routes and the whole map reconfigures
  • …fly an upgradable airship between islands, chat with NPCs in the sky, and even fight bosses mid-flight
  • …crack a hidden spot and get a choice of three random permanent upgrades like heal-on-teleport or exploding arrows
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Constance

83% 👍 OF 3.2K
About This Game

Constance is a 2D hand-drawn action adventure featuring a paintbrush-wielding artist, striving to escape from a colorful but decaying inner-world, created by her declining mental health.

Player reviews say you can…

  • …Paint-Dash Through Walls
  • …Sketch Ability Builds
  • …Balance Paint Corruption
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Nine Sols

94% 👍 OF 46K
About This Game

Nine Sols is a lore rich, hand-drawn 2D action-platformer featuring Sekiro-inspired deflection focused combat. Embark on a journey of eastern fantasy, explore the land once home to an ancient alien race, and follow a vengeful hero’s quest to slay the 9 Sols, formidable rulers of this forsaken realm.

Player reviews say you can…

  • …interrupt a machine ritual that's about to voluntarily sever a kid's head.
  • …stick a paper seal onto an enemy, then cash in the energy you banked to detonate them.
  • …think you've beaten a boss, get the win moment, then watch it stand back up for phase 2 or phase 3.