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We filtered the 41 games similar to Voidwrought down to the 25 that fit the “Melee” category. The Fall, Carrion and ANIMAL WELL top the list, ranked by affinity and similarity score to Voidwrought.

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The best melee games like Voidwrought

25 similar games foundUpdated May 2026

Handpicked by our similarity algorithm, these are the titles with the highest gameplay match to Voidwrought. Each one has been evaluated across 13 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.

#1The FallClosest overall match

iRank82

GenreAdventureSubgenreMetroidvania

SoloMeleeNarrativeDarkHorrorExploration2D

Steam👍 88%· 3.7KIGDB78· 2OC74· 38

Year 2014Dev Over The MoonOn PS4 · Linux · PC

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

≠ Its own twist: puzzle design, shooter and setting scifi, while skipping setting mythology

Where it drifts furthest from Voidwrought: setting.

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

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Steam GOG Epic

#2Carrion

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GenreAdventureSubgenreMetroidvania

SoloMeleeDarkNarrativeHorrorExploration2D

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 puzzle design, punishing difficulty and setting scifi, while skipping setting mythology

Where it drifts furthest from Voidwrought: setting.

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GenreAdventureSubgenreMetroidvania

SoloMeleeNarrativeHorrorExploration2D

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, vibe relaxing and cozy, relaxing feel, while skipping dark, oppressive atmosphere

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 Voidwrought: tone and setting.

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#4Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver

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GenreAdventureSubgenreMetroidvania

SoloMeleeNarrativeDarkHorrorFantasyExploration

Steam👍 74%· 1.9KRAWG👍 82%· 243MC91

Year 1999Dev Sony Interactive Entertainment · Square EnixPlaytime ~1hOn PC · PS · SEGA

✓ Fits the Metroidvanias cluster, with adventure storytelling, Metroidvania exploration and horror tension

≠ Its own twist: puzzle design, post-apocalyptic world and visual third person, while skipping precision platforming

Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver is a third-person action-adventure title developed by Crystal Dynamics. It is the direct continuation of Blood Omen: Legacy of Kain and is the second title in the series. ###Plot The game takes place 1500 years after the events of Blood Omen.

Where it drifts furthest from Voidwrought: visuals.

It predates Voidwrought by 25 years, with what that implies technically.

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#5Ori and the Blind Forest

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GenreAdventureSubgenreMetroidvania

SoloMeleeNarrativeDarkFantasyExploration2D

Steam👍 94%· 60KIGDB88· 14OC90· 97

Year 2015Dev Moon Studios · Microsoft StudiosOn PC · Xbox · Switch

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

≠ Stands apart with puzzle design, cozy, relaxing feel and punishing difficulty, while skipping horror tension

Where it drifts furthest from Voidwrought: setting.

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

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Steam Xbox

#6qomp

iRank96

GenreAdventureSubgenreMetroidvania

SoloMeleeNarrativeDarkExploration2D

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 linear, story-driven structure, while skipping horror tension

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?

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GenreAdventureSubgenreMetroidvania

SoloMeleeDarkNarrativeFantasyExploration2D

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, while skipping horror tension

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 Voidwrought: setting.

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Steam GOG Epic

#8Hollow Knight: Silksong

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GenreAdventureSubgenreMetroidvania

SoloMeleeNarrativeFantasyExploration2D

Steam👍 89%· 407KIGDB90· 4OC91· 121

Year 2025Dev Team CherryOn Xbox · PS4 · Linux

✓ Nearly identical: adventure storytelling, Metroidvania exploration and precision platforming.

≠ Missing: horror tension.

Where it drifts furthest from Voidwrought: setting and tone.

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Steam GOG Xbox

#9Ato

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GenreAdventureSubgenreMetroidvania

SoloMeleeNarrativeFantasyExploration2D

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, while skipping horror tension

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...

Where it drifts furthest from Voidwrought: setting and tone.

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#10Owlboy

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GenreAdventureSubgenreMetroidvania

SoloMeleeNarrativeFantasyExploration2D

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 setting scifi, while skipping horror tension

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.

Where it drifts furthest from Voidwrought: setting and tone.

It predates Voidwrought by 8 years, with what that implies technically.

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Steam GOG Xbox

#11Raider Kid and the Ruby Chest

iRank78

GenreAdventureSubgenreMetroidvania

SoloMeleeFantasyExploration2D

RAWG👍 78%· 27

Year 2003Dev Jupiter · NintendoOn Nintendo

✓ Nearly identical: adventure storytelling, Metroidvania exploration and precision platforming.

≠ Missing: horror tension.

Pokémon Pinball: Ruby & Sapphire is a pinball game developed by Jupiter, published by The Pokémon Company and distributed by Nintendo for the Game Boy Advance handheld game console.

Where it drifts furthest from Voidwrought: setting.

It predates Voidwrought by 21 years, with what that implies technically.

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Nintendo

#12Berry

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GenreAdventureSubgenreMetroidvania

SoloMeleeNarrativeExploration2D

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, visual pixel and visual topdown, while skipping horror tension

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 Voidwrought: tone.

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Steam itch.io

#13Hell Yeah! Wrath of the Dead Rabbit

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GenreAdventureSubgenreMetroidvania

SoloMeleeDarkExploration2D

Steam👍 85%· 3.7KRAWG👍 26%· 297MC64IGDB74· 6

Year 2012Dev Arkedo Studio · SEGAPlaytime ~1hOn PC · PS · Xbox

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

≠ Where it differs: brings puzzle design and ranged combat, while skipping horror tension

Skeletonized rabbit Ash lives in Hell, he's a prince of that place. Ash is busy recovering his hellish reputation - killing everyone in Hell, who saw his photo with a rubber duckling in the bath. Apparently, among the princes of Hell to play with the duckling is not common.

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

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Steam Xbox PS

#14SHEEPO

iRank90

GenreAdventureSubgenreMetroidvania

SoloMeleeNarrativeExploration2D

Steam👍 97%· 578OC75· 13

Year 2020Dev Kyle Thompson · TBAPlaytime ~3hOn PC · Xbox · Apple Macintosh

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

≠ Stands apart with vibe casual, cozy, relaxing feel and open world exploration, while skipping horror tension

Sheepo is a quirky metroidvania platformer featuring a shape-shifting sheep-thing, who must traverse an uncharted planet in order to collect samples of each living species for an intergalactic species database.

Where it drifts furthest from Voidwrought: tone.

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Steam GOG Epic

#15STAR WARS Jedi: Fallen Order™

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GenreAdventureSubgenreMetroidvania

SoloMeleeNarrativeFantasyExploration

Steam👍 88%· 172KRAWG👍 85%· 2.3KMC80IGDB83· 13OC82· 176

Year 2019Dev Respawn Entertainment · Electronic ArtsPlaytime ~8hOn PC · PS · Xbox

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

≠ Stands apart with action RPG combat, deep RPG systems and puzzle design, while skipping horror tension

Cal Kestis—one of the last surviving members of the Jedi Order after the purge of Order 66—is now a Padawan on the run. Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order is an action-adventure game set after Star Wars: Episode III — Revenge of the Sith™.

Where it drifts furthest from Voidwrought: visuals and setting.

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