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238 games like Aquaria

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01 Night in the Woods Cover

2017 · Linux, Mac, Switch

Night in the Woods

72%

Night In The Woods is an adventure game heavily focused on story, characters and exploration, with some platforming to get around town. Mae's a cat so the roofs and ledges and powerlines are all her playground, and she's not the only one up there by a long sho...

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Aquaria

72% Sehr nah dran
Shared DNA
✓ Adventure Genre ✓ Indie Genre ✓ Platform Genre ✓ Drama Theme ✓ Fantasy Theme ✓ Single player Mode ✓ Side view Perspective ✓ Exploration Game feel
Trade-offs

Weltdesign in IGDB nicht eindeutig klassifiziert · Keine Beschreibung von IGDB verfügbar

02 Journey Cover

2012 · PC, PS3, PS4

Journey

66%

A third-person adventure game in which the player, controlling a robed figure, makes a pilgrimage through a desert landscape to a rugged mountain with a beacon of light in the distance while uncovering the history of their people, rescuing and cooperating with...

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Aquaria

66% Spannender Match
Shared DNA
✓ Adventure Genre ✓ Indie Genre ✓ Platform Genre ✓ Fantasy Theme ✓ Single player Mode ✓ Side view Perspective ✓ Exploration Game feel
Trade-offs

Weltdesign in IGDB nicht eindeutig klassifiziert · Keine Beschreibung von IGDB verfügbar

03 Hollow Knight: Silksong Cover

2025 · Linux, Mac, Switch

Hollow Knight: Silksong

66%

Hollow Knight: Silksong is the epic sequel to Hollow Knight, the epic action-adventure of bugs and heroes. As the lethal hunter Hornet, journey to all-new lands, discover new powers, battle vast hordes of bugs and beasts and uncover ancient secrets tied to you...

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Aquaria

66% Spannender Match
Shared DNA
✓ Adventure Genre ✓ Indie Genre ✓ Platform Genre ✓ Fantasy Theme ✓ Single player Mode ✓ Side view Perspective ✓ Exploration Game feel
Trade-offs

Weltdesign in IGDB nicht eindeutig klassifiziert · Keine Beschreibung von IGDB verfügbar

04 Celeste Cover

2018 · Stadia, Linux, Mac

Celeste

65%

Help Madeline survive her inner demons on her journey to the top of Celeste Mountain, in this super-tight platformer from the creators of TowerFall. Brave hundreds of hand-crafted challenges, uncover devious secrets, and piece together the mystery of the mount...

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Aquaria

65% Spannender Match
Shared DNA
✓ Adventure Genre ✓ Indie Genre ✓ Platform Genre ✓ Fantasy Theme ✓ Single player Mode ✓ Side view Perspective ✓ Exploration Game feel
Trade-offs

Weltdesign in IGDB nicht eindeutig klassifiziert · Keine Beschreibung von IGDB verfügbar

05 Hollow Knight Cover

2017 · Linux, Mac, Switch

Hollow Knight

56%

A 2D metroidvania with an emphasis on close combat and exploration in which the player enters the once-prosperous now-bleak insect kingdom of Hallownest, travels through its various districts, meets friendly inhabitants, fights hostile ones and uncovers the ki...

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Aquaria

56% Spannender Match
Shared DNA
✓ Adventure Genre ✓ Indie Genre ✓ Platform Genre ✓ Fantasy Theme ✓ Single player Mode ✓ Side view Perspective
Trade-offs

Weltdesign in IGDB nicht eindeutig klassifiziert · Keine Beschreibung von IGDB verfügbar

06 Dead Cells Cover

2018 · Android, Linux, Mac

Dead Cells

56%

Dead Cells is a 2D side-scrolling action platformer combining roguelike and Metroidvania design. Players control the Prisoner, an immortal creature that possesses corpses and fights through procedurally generated levels filled with mutated enemies. Combat cent...

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Aquaria

56% Spannender Match
Shared DNA
✓ Adventure Genre ✓ Indie Genre ✓ Platform Genre ✓ Fantasy Theme ✓ Single player Mode ✓ Side view Perspective
Trade-offs

Weltdesign in IGDB nicht eindeutig klassifiziert · Keine Beschreibung von IGDB verfügbar

07 Rogue Legacy Cover

2013 · Linux, Mac, Switch

Rogue Legacy

56%

You control a family of characters one at a time, and when your character dies, you choose who his or her successor is, whether it is a barbarian son of yours who has OCD, your daughter who became a ninja even though she can't see well, an assassin who is figh...

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Aquaria

56% Spannender Match
Shared DNA
✓ Adventure Genre ✓ Indie Genre ✓ Platform Genre ✓ Fantasy Theme ✓ Single player Mode ✓ Side view Perspective ✓ Exploration Game feel
Trade-offs

Weltdesign in IGDB nicht eindeutig klassifiziert · Keine Beschreibung von IGDB verfügbar

08 Alwa's Awakening Cover

2017 · Linux, Mac, NES

Alwa's Awakening

56%

Use your magic staff and progress through a large interconnected world where you'll solve puzzles, fight enemies and defeat bosses in order to help free the land of Alwa. Explore and uncover the secrets by using your platforming skills in this challenging and...

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Aquaria

56% Spannender Match
Shared DNA
✓ Adventure Genre ✓ Indie Genre ✓ Platform Genre ✓ Fantasy Theme ✓ Single player Mode ✓ Side view Perspective
Trade-offs

Weltdesign in IGDB nicht eindeutig klassifiziert · Keine Beschreibung von IGDB verfügbar

09 Uncharted: Drake's Fortune Cover
54%

A 400-year-old clue in the coffin of Sir Francis Drake sets a modern-day fortune hunter on an exploration for the fabled treasure of El Dorado, leading to the discovery of a forgotten island in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. The search turns deadly when Nat...

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Aquaria

54% Spannender Match
Shared DNA
✓ Adventure Genre ✓ Platform Genre ✓ Fantasy Theme ✓ Single player Mode ✓ Exploration Game feel ✓ Linear World design
Trade-offs

No description available from IGDB

10 Super Metroid Cover

1994 · New 3DS, SFAM, SNES

Super Metroid

54%

The Space Pirates, merciless agents of the evil Mother Brain, have stolen the last Metroid from a research station, and once again Mother Brain threatens the safety of the galaxy! Samus Aran must don her awesome array of high-tech weaponry to retrieve the dead...

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Aquaria

54% Spannender Match
Shared DNA
✓ Adventure Genre ✓ Platform Genre ✓ Single player Mode ✓ Side view Perspective ✓ Exploration Game feel ✓ Linear World design
Trade-offs

No description available from IGDB

11 Braid Cover

2008 · Linux, Mac, PC

Braid

54%

Braid is a puzzle-platformer, drawn in a painterly style, where you can manipulate the flow of time in strange and unusual ways. From a house in the city, journey to a series of worlds and solve puzzles to rescue an abducted princess. In each world, you have a...

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Aquaria

54% Spannender Match
Shared DNA
✓ Adventure Genre ✓ Indie Genre ✓ Platform Genre ✓ Fantasy Theme ✓ Single player Mode ✓ Side view Perspective ✓ Linear World design
Trade-offs

No description available from IGDB

12 Metroid Fusion Cover

2002 · GBA, 3DS, WiiU

Metroid Fusion

54%

Metroid Fusion is a side-scrolling action-adventure game that combines exploration, combat, and progression within a structured environment. Players navigate distinct sectors, acquire new abilities, and unlock access to previously restricted areas as they adva...

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Aquaria

54% Spannender Match
Shared DNA
✓ Adventure Genre ✓ Platform Genre ✓ Single player Mode ✓ Side view Perspective ✓ Exploration Game feel ✓ Linear World design
Trade-offs

No description available from IGDB

13 Valiant Hearts: The Great War Cover

2014 · Android, Switch, PC

Valiant Hearts: The Great War

53%

Valiant Hearts: The Great War is the story of 4 crossed destinies and a broken love in a world torn apart. Dive into a 2D animated comic book adventure, mixing exploration, action and puzzles. In Valiant Hearts, the lives of all these characters are inextricab...

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Aquaria

53% Spannender Match
Shared DNA
✓ Adventure Genre ✓ Platform Genre ✓ Single player Mode ✓ Side view Perspective ✓ Exploration Game feel ✓ Linear World design
Trade-offs

No description available from IGDB

14 Life Is Strange Cover

2015 · Android, Linux, Mac

Life Is Strange

52%

Life Is Strange is a five part episodic game that sets out to revolutionize story based choice and consequence games by allowing the player to rewind time and affect the past, present and future.

Your match for

Aquaria

52% Spannender Match
Shared DNA
✓ Adventure Genre ✓ Indie Genre ✓ Drama Theme ✓ Fantasy Theme ✓ Single player Mode ✓ Exploration Game feel
Trade-offs

Weltdesign in IGDB nicht eindeutig klassifiziert · Keine Beschreibung von IGDB verfügbar

15 Little Nightmares Cover

2017 · Android, Stadia, Switch

Little Nightmares

49%

Little Nightmares is a puzzle-platform horror adventure game developed by Tarsier Studios and published by Bandai Namco Entertainment. Set in a mysterious world, Little Nightmares follows the journey of Six, a hungry little girl who must escape the Maw, an iro...

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Aquaria

49% Mutiger Treffer
Shared DNA
✓ Adventure Genre ✓ Indie Genre ✓ Platform Genre ✓ Fantasy Theme ✓ Single player Mode ✓ Side view Perspective
Trade-offs

Weltdesign in IGDB nicht eindeutig klassifiziert · Keine Beschreibung von IGDB verfügbar

16 Subnautica Cover

2018 · Android, Mac, Switch

Subnautica

49%

Descend into the depths of an alien underwater world filled with wonder and peril. Craft equipment, pilot submarines and out-smart wildlife to explore lush coral reefs, volcanoes, cave systems, and more, all while trying to survive.

Your match for

Aquaria

49% Mutiger Treffer
Shared DNA
✓ Adventure Genre ✓ Indie Genre ✓ Single player Mode ✓ Exploration Game feel
Trade-offs

Open World instead of Linear · Keine Beschreibung von IGDB verfügbar

17 Mark of the Ninja Cover

2012 · Linux, Mac, PC

Mark of the Ninja

49%

Mark of the Ninja is a side-scrolling action stealth video game developed by Klei Entertainment and published by Microsoft Studios. It was announced on February 28, 2012 and later released for the Xbox 360 via Xbox Live Arcade on September 7, 2012. A Microsoft...

Your match for

Aquaria

49% Mutiger Treffer
Shared DNA
✓ Adventure Genre ✓ Indie Genre ✓ Platform Genre ✓ Single player Mode ✓ Side view Perspective ✓ Linear World design
Trade-offs

No description available from IGDB

18 Dreaming Sarah Cover

2015 · Linux, Switch, PC

Dreaming Sarah

49%

Dreaming Sarah is an adventure game where you explore the dream world of a young girl named Sarah, who is in a deep coma. Collect items and abilities as you solve puzzles, interact with people and objects to try to wake up.

Your match for

Aquaria

49% Mutiger Treffer
Shared DNA
✓ Adventure Genre ✓ Indie Genre ✓ Platform Genre ✓ Fantasy Theme ✓ Single player Mode ✓ Side view Perspective
Trade-offs

Weltdesign in IGDB nicht eindeutig klassifiziert · Keine Beschreibung von IGDB verfügbar

19 Silent Hill 2 Cover

2001 · PS2

Silent Hill 2

48%

The second entry in the Silent Hill franchise, Silent Hill 2 is a narrative-focused third-person psychological survival horror game with emphasis on combat, exploration and puzzle-solving elements which follows James Sunderland, a man who receives a letter, se...

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Aquaria

48% Mutiger Treffer
Shared DNA
✓ Adventure Genre ✓ Drama Theme ✓ Single player Mode ✓ Exploration Game feel ✓ Linear World design
Trade-offs

No description available from IGDB

20 Terraria Cover

2011 · Android, Stadia, Linux

Terraria

47%

Terraria is a 2D sandbox action-adventure game with platforming and role-playing elements. Players create a character and are placed in a procedurally generated world where they mine resources, craft equipment, build structures, and fight enemies. Progression...

Your match for

Aquaria

47% Mutiger Treffer
Shared DNA
✓ Adventure Genre ✓ Indie Genre ✓ Platform Genre ✓ Fantasy Theme ✓ Single player Mode ✓ Side view Perspective ✓ Exploration Game feel
Trade-offs

Open World instead of Linear · Keine Beschreibung von IGDB verfügbar

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