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Ranking compiled by Lluis Enric Mayans, Founder & Head of ContentHow this is calculatedOrdered by an attribute-similarity model, not editorial opinion.

We filtered the 39 games similar to Auridia down to the 24 that fit the “Narrative” category. Axiom Verge, Iconoclasts and Reventure top the list, ranked by affinity and similarity score to Auridia.

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GenreAdventureSubgenreMetroidvania
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NarrativeSolo
Year 2025Dev Norseboar Games
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Within the “Narrative” category, the closest game to Auridia is Axiom Verge — scoring 84/100 on our similarity scale. Iconoclasts and Reventure follow close behind.

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The best narrative games like Auridia

24 similar games foundUpdated May 2026

Handpicked by our similarity algorithm, these are the titles with the highest gameplay match to Auridia. Each one has been evaluated across 8 real attributes — from combat style and progression mechanics to world structure and visual perspective — so every recommendation is based on how the game actually plays, not just its genre label.

#1Axiom Verge
Axiom Verge
AdventureMetroidvania
SoloNarrativeExploration2DPixel Art
Steam👍 90%· 6.5KIGDB84· 15OC85· 90
Year 2015Dev Thomas Happ GamesOn PS4 · Linux · PC

✓ Fits the Metroidvanias cluster, with adventure storytelling, Metroidvania exploration and precision platforming

≠ Where it differs: brings melee combat, setting scifi and setting cyberpunk

It predates Auridia by 10 years, with what that implies technically.

Genre100Game mode100Tone100Progression100Visuals100
Iconoclasts
AdventureMetroidvania
SoloNarrativeExplorationPixel Art2D
Steam👍 86%· 4.9KIGDB85· 8OC84· 57
Year 2018Dev Joakim Sandberg · Bifrost EntertainmentOn PS4 · Linux · PC

✓ Same family of Metroidvanias: adventure storytelling, Metroidvania exploration and precision platforming

≠ Stands apart with puzzle design, cozy, relaxing feel and melee combat

Genre100Game mode100Progression100Visuals100Tone77
Reventure
AdventureMetroidvania
SoloNarrativeExplorationPixel Art2D
Steam👍 95%· 9.8KRAWG👍 82%· 64MC84
Year 2019Dev PixelattoPlaytime ~3hOn PC · iOS · Nintendo

✓ Fits the Metroidvanias cluster, with adventure storytelling, Metroidvania exploration and precision platforming

≠ Its own twist: puzzle design, dark, oppressive atmosphere and open world exploration

An adventure with 100 different endings You are a wannabe hero who is supposed to do hero-ish things but sometimes blows that off and does crazy stuff instead. Features: One hundred different endings Choose your path, every decision leads to a new ending. Will you find the real one?

Genre100Game mode100Progression100Visuals100Tone71
Ato
AdventureMetroidvania
SoloNarrativeExploration2DPixel Art
Steam👍 97%· 466
Year 2019Dev WolfWoot · Tiny Warrior GamesPlaytime ~2hOn PC

✓ Both are Metroidvanias — sharing adventure storytelling, Metroidvania exploration and precision platforming

≠ Where it differs: brings fighting mechanics, puzzle design and punishing difficulty

Ato is an Atmospheric Sword Dueling Game set in the Era of Feudal Japan. It tells a visually driven story about a father who has given up his past ways in order to live a life of peace with his wife and child. However this peace is soon disturbed as his child is taken from him...

Genre100Game mode100Progression100Visuals100Tone53
Hollow Knight: Silksong
AdventureMetroidvania
SoloNarrativeExploration2DMelee
Steam👍 89%· 407KIGDB90· 4OC91· 121
Year 2025Dev Team CherryOn Xbox · PS4 · Linux

✓ Both are Metroidvanias — sharing adventure storytelling, Metroidvania exploration and precision platforming

≠ Stands apart with melee combat and fantasy world, while skipping visual pixel

Genre100Game mode100Tone100Progression100Visuals72
The Swapper
AdventureMetroidvania
SoloNarrativeExploration2DSci-Fi
Steam👍 94%· 7.5KRAWG👍 63%· 528MC87IGDB88· 10OC85· 33
Year 2013Dev Curve DigitalPlaytime ~3hOn PC · PS · Xbox

✓ Same family of Metroidvanias: adventure storytelling, Metroidvania exploration and precision platforming

≠ Where it differs: brings puzzle design, horror tension and setting scifi, while skipping visual pixel

The Swapper is a classical platform game with several elements of Metroidvania focused on solving puzzles. The game follows a female astronaut stranded on the abandoned space research station in a science-fictional universe.

It predates Auridia by 12 years, with what that implies technically.

Genre100Game mode100Tone100Progression100Visuals73
Aquaria
AdventureMetroidvania
SoloNarrativeExploration2DMagic
Steam👍 88%· 1.5KRAWG👍 59%· 77MC82IGDB75· 2
Year 2007Dev FinjiPlaytime ~1hOn PC · iOS · Apple Macintosh

✓ Same family of Metroidvanias: adventure storytelling, Metroidvania exploration and precision platforming

≠ Stands apart with combat magic, melee combat and fantasy world, while skipping visual pixel

Aquaria is an underwater 2d sidescrolling action-adventure game with a great emphasis on exploration and solving various puzzles. Players are invited to take the place of Naija, ocean dweller, resembling a human woman with fish-like features, which allow her to swim and breathe underwater.

It predates Auridia by 18 years, with what that implies technically.

Genre100Game mode100Tone100Progression100Visuals73
Waking Mars
AdventureMetroidvania
SoloNarrativeExploration2DMelee
Steam👍 89%· 1.2KRAWG👍 55%· 66MC79
Year 2012Dev Tiger Style · Tiger Style GamesPlaytime ~1hOn PC · iOS · Android

✓ Same family of Metroidvanias: adventure storytelling, Metroidvania exploration and precision platforming

≠ Where it differs: brings puzzle design, melee combat and setting scifi, while skipping visual pixel

###Best for mobile The game is an adventure-platformer, where the player takes control over the main character, traveling through the Martian caves. You will have to manage the thrust of the jetpack that the protagonist has. The game was released on the PC in 2012. Before this, it was repeatedly recognized as the best game for mobile devices. ###Key features The game is set in the future.

It predates Auridia by 13 years, with what that implies technically.

Genre100Game mode100Tone100Progression100Visuals73
Owlboy
AdventureMetroidvania
SoloNarrativeExplorationPixel Art2D
Steam👍 84%· 6.1KRAWG👍 74%· 307MC88IGDB89· 13OC88· 98
Year 2016Dev D-Pad StudioPlaytime ~4hOn PC · PS · Xbox

✓ Fits the Metroidvanias cluster, with adventure storytelling, Metroidvania exploration and precision platforming

≠ Its own twist: puzzle design, cozy, relaxing feel and melee combat

Owlboy is a pixel-art platformer game about an owl-humanoid boy called Otus. When his homeland was attacked by pirates, Otus starts an adventure to protect his home and reveal the secrets of his race. He makes new friends on the way. Each of them has special powers, useful during fights.

It predates Auridia by 9 years, with what that implies technically.

Genre100Game mode100Progression100Visuals100Tone51
FEZ
AdventureMetroidvania
SoloNarrativeExploration2DPixel Art
Steam👍 93%· 16KRAWG👍 80%· 1.2KMC91IGDB86· 12OC88· 50
Year 2012Dev POLYTRON · Microsoft StudiosPlaytime ~2hOn PC · PS · Xbox

✓ Same family of Metroidvanias: adventure storytelling, Metroidvania exploration and precision platforming

≠ Its own twist: puzzle design, vibe casual and vibe relaxing

FEZ is a 2D and 3D game at the same time. Even though it is a platformer game in which you solve puzzles in the dimension your looking at, you can manipulate with the world itself by rotating it all around.

Where it drifts furthest from Auridia: tone.

It predates Auridia by 13 years, with what that implies technically.

Genre100Game mode100Progression100Visuals100Tone47
Berry
AdventureMetroidvania
SoloNarrativeExploration2DPixel Art
Steam👍 99%· 145
Year 2021Dev Leuns · DegicaPlaytime ~1hOn PC · Web

✓ Fits the Metroidvanias cluster, with adventure storytelling, Metroidvania exploration and precision platforming

≠ Stands apart with cozy, relaxing feel, melee combat and visual topdown

RPG Maker MZ Game Jam "Touch the Star"Berry won first place in the official RPG Maker MZ Game Jam "Touch the Star." About the GameBerry is a short orthogonal 3D platformer centered on delivering light bullet-hell challenges and precise projectile manipulation using its unique web-orbiting systems.

Where it drifts furthest from Auridia: tone.

Genre100Game mode100Progression100Visuals78Tone48
ANIMAL WELL
AdventureMetroidvania
SoloNarrativeExplorationPixel Art2D
Steam👍 96%· 24KRAWG👍 83%· 77OC89· 57
Year 2024Dev Shared MemoryPlaytime ~7hOn PC · PS · Nintendo

✓ Fits the Metroidvanias cluster, with adventure storytelling, Metroidvania exploration and precision platforming

≠ Stands apart with puzzle design, horror tension and vibe relaxing

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

Where it drifts furthest from Auridia: tone.

Genre100Game mode100Progression100Visuals100Tone36
qomp
AdventureMetroidvania
SoloNarrativeExploration2DPixel Art
Steam👍 96%· 531
Year 2021Dev Stuffed Wombat · AtariPlaytime ~2hOn PC · Linux

✓ Same family of Metroidvanias: adventure storytelling, Metroidvania exploration and precision platforming

≠ Its own twist: puzzle design, punishing difficulty and dark, oppressive atmosphere

You have been trapped between paddles for decades. Now it is time to take matters into your own hands and try to escape this endless torment. In qomp you use only a single button to defeat bosses, solve puzzles and overcome platforming challenges. At the end of your journey lies freedom. Or does it?

Where it drifts furthest from Auridia: tone.

Genre100Game mode100Progression100Visuals100Tone34
Dead Cells
AdventureMetroidvania
SoloNarrativeExploration2DPixel Art
Steam👍 97%· 180KRAWG👍 88%· 1.7KMC88IGDB90· 12OC89· 151
Year 2018Dev Plug In DigitalPlaytime ~10hOn PC · PS · Xbox

✓ Fits the Metroidvanias cluster, with adventure storytelling, Metroidvania exploration and precision platforming

≠ Where it differs: brings roguelike runs, action RPG combat and deep RPG systems

Dead Cells is a roguelike adventure title developed by Motion Twin. ###Story Not much story is present in the game, as only bits of any information are given out to the players. The game takes place at a remote island, where the players take place of the Prisoner.

Where it drifts furthest from Auridia: tone.

Genre100Game mode100Progression100Visuals100Tone32
Carrion
AdventureMetroidvania
SoloNarrativeExplorationPixel Art2D
Steam👍 95%· 31KIGDB75· 9OC76· 118
Year 2020Dev Phobia Game Studio · Devolver DigitalOn PS4 · Linux · Android

✓ Both are Metroidvanias — sharing adventure storytelling, Metroidvania exploration and precision platforming

≠ Stands apart with horror tension, puzzle design and dark, oppressive atmosphere

Where it drifts furthest from Auridia: tone.

Genre100Game mode100Progression100Visuals100Tone31

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