Games like La-Mulana

This is a challenging retro-inspired action-adventure game focused on exploration and puzzle-solving within ancient ruins. Players navigate traps and monsters to uncover secrets, offering a demanding and immersive experience.

80% positive from 2,607 · 2013 · 6% finish it · Steam Deck Verified · Lowest ever $1.49 (2013-12-22)

Metroidvania Difficult PlatformerIndieAdventureExploration

Six games like La-Mulana

Touhou Luna Nights

97% positive from 4,775 reviews2019Deck Playable

Touhou Luna Nights is a Metroidvania action game featuring time manipulation and a tense graze system. Explore a unique world with attractive dot graphics.

What players likedPlayers praise this challenging Metroidvania for its unique time-stop mechanics, rewarding gameplay, and beautiful pixel art.

The catchSold as a metroidvania but the map is small, linear and barely worth exploring.

Both are tagged Metroidvania, Difficult and Exploration.

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Pronty

91% positive from 1,290 reviews202126% finish itDeck Verified

An underwater Metroidvania with unique javelin combat, exploring a polluted city and fighting mutated sea creatures. Players control a character and a weaponized robotic swordfish for combat and exploration.

What players likedPlayers praise Pronty as a unique underwater Metroidvania with excellent boss design, atmosphere, and a compelling story.

The catchCombat feels clunky and half baked, which sours the gorgeous underwater world.

Both are tagged Metroidvania, Difficult and Exploration.

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La-Mulana 2

86% positive from 1,065 reviews201824% finish itDeck Verified

This is a Metroidvania-style action-adventure game focused on non-linear exploration and puzzle-solving within ancient ruins. Players decipher cryptic clues to uncover secrets and overcome challenges.

What players likedPlayers praise La-Mulana 2 as a challenging Metroidvania with improved puzzles, combat, and design compared to its predecessor.

The catchMovement is stiff and janky, with knockback bouncing you back several screens.

Both are tagged Metroidvania, Difficult and Action.

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Vigil: The Longest Night

86% positive from 3,597 reviews202015% finish itDeck Verified

A side-scrolling Metroidvania action game with deep combat and gear customization. Explore a dark world, fight monsters, and uncover mysteries.

What players likedPlayers praise its good graphics, music, atmosphere, and varied weapons/skills, making it a unique and mesmerizing experience.

The catchThe map is broken and unreadable, which leaves you lost in a large metroidvania.

Both are tagged Metroidvania, Difficult and Platformer.

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Supraland

95% positive from 4,925 reviews201927% finish itDeck Unsupported

First-person Metroidvania puzzle game. Explore a sandbox world, discover versatile abilities, and solve creative, unique puzzles.

What players likedPlayers praise Supraland as a metroidvania and puzzle platformer with rewarding exploration, clever puzzles, and charming humor.

The catchCombat is shallow and respawning enemies constantly interrupt puzzling and exploring.

Both are tagged Metroidvania, Exploration and Action.

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Timespinner

86% positive from 3,131 reviews201848% finish itDeck Verified

This is a 2D action-adventure platformer with time manipulation mechanics. It features pixel art, magic orbs, and familiar companions in a story-driven quest.

What players likedPlayers praise Timespinner as a charming, responsive Metroidvania, often compared to Symphony of the Night and DS Castlevanias, with good world-building and a coherent story.

The catchThe story is dialogue heavy and the writing is juvenile enough to skip outright.

Both are tagged Metroidvania, Exploration and Action.

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More about La-Mulana

What players liked

No comparisons to other games are present in the provided review.

The catch

Cryptic puzzles and difficulty effectively require a guide

Reviews: 80% positive from 2,607
Released: 2013
Finish it: 6% of players
Steam Deck: Steam Deck Verified
Price: Lowest ever $1.49 (2013-12-22)
Play: Single-playerFull controller support

It is here because it sits in the band this site looks at: well reviewed at 80% positive, but with 2,607 reviews, far fewer than the household names carry.

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