20 Games Like Classic NES Series: Metroid()
Crackle Cradle
Crackle Cradle is a 2D sidescrolling platformer/shooter developed by FoxTail. This game entails guiding the selected heroine through various areas, traps, and monsters, relying on a mixture of evasive skills and accuracy with their weapons.
Planet Alpha
Planet Alpha is an adventure set in a living alien world where you have the ability to manipulate the daytime.
To survive on this strange planet you will have to be observant of how the environment and the wildlife behaviour changes depending on the time of day.
Member rating: 69 /100180
Zoids Wild: Blast Unleashed
An new game based on Zoids Wild announced for the Nintendo Switch.
A new anime series called Zoids Wild was announced with a toy line arriving first as well as a manga, a phone app and the Switch game.
Blazing Chrome
Blazing Chrome is a classic co-op run 'n gun with an original arcade feel. Players can choose between Mavra, the badass human resistance, soldier or Doyle, the groovy rebel robot, to kick some metal ass.
Member rating: 81 /100300
Pikuniku
Pikuniku is an absurdly wonderful puzzle-exploration game that takes place in a strange but playful world where not everything is as happy as it seems. Help peculiar characters overcome struggles, uncover a deep state conspiracy, and start a fun little revolution in this delightful dystopian adventure!
Member rating: 66 /100680
Star Control: Origins
The Earthlings have joined the interstellar club. The galaxy will never be the same.
The year is 2086 and Earth has detected an alien distress call originating from the surface of Triton. In response, Star Control is formed with you as The Captain of Earth's first prototype starship.
Member rating: 77 /100110
Astral Chain
ASTRAL CHAIN, a brand new action game from PlatinumGames, exclusive to Nintendo Switch! As part of a police special task force, it’s up to you to fight against mysterious, alien-like creatures who have invaded the world.
Member rating: 83 /100710
PlanetSide Arena
"PlanetSide Arena is a massive-scale, match-based, sci-fi arena shooter that reintroduces players to the revolutionary PlanetSide Franchise - the record-breaking MMOFPS series that redefined all-out planetary warfare. Played solo, in teams of three, or as part of large combat groups, PlanetSide Arena features unique character classes, seasonal progression mechanics, combined arms combat, and a variety of match-based game modes."
"Massive Clash
This intense large-scale arena pits two sides battling it out for dominance. Choose your side and prepare for a full-on assault in this massive 250 vs 250 battle.
Battle Royale
Play solos or teams in this jetpack-fueled last mercenary standing sci-fi royal rumble. Customize your loadout, drop into the Arena, loot, and survive."
Member rating: 80 /10010
Toby: The Secret Mine
A challenging puzzle platformer inspired by games like Limbo and Badland.
Member rating: 50 /10090
Sexy Hiking
Sexy Hiking is a freeware physics-based platformer for PC created by Jazzuo.
This is the game that inspired Bennett Foddy to develop Getting Over It with Bennett Foddy.
Member rating: 52 /10050
Forgotton Anne
Forgotton Anne is a 2d cinematic adventure game combining puzzle platforming with adventure game elements. You play as Anne, the enforcer keeping order in the Forgotton Realm, as she sets out to squash a rebellion that might prevent her master, Bonku, and herself from returning to the human world.
The World of Forgotton Anne: Imagine a place where everything that is lost and forgotten goes; old toys, letters, single socks. The Forgotten Realm is a magical world inhabited by Forgotlings, creatures composed of mislaid objects longing to be remembered again.
Member rating: 73 /100420
SolSeraph
Retro-inspired tower defense and action platformer SolSeraph reinvents the classics!
As the guardian of humanity, civilization is in your hands. Build your cities and set up defensive structures to protect them from the constant threat of monsters, then descend into their lairs with sword and spells to eliminate them for good. Explore floating islands, ancient caverns, and lost cities. The world is yours!
Brought to you by ACE Team, the creative minds behind Rock of Ages and Zeno Clash, SolSeraph combines action and strategy for a rich and unique gameplay experience reminiscent of the 16-bit era.
Member rating: 50 /10010
Earth Defense Force: Iron Rain
The EDF series moves away from its traditional series and into new territory with this new project. Developed by YUKE'S, with a theme song by Takashi Niigaki
and creatures designed by Ryu Oyama for an EDF game that has never been seen before.
Welcome to EARTH DEFENSE FORCE: IRON RAIN.
Set on planet Earth devastated by war,
this new adventure joins the EDF as they continue to battle to save the world.
Member rating: 50 /10020
Exception
When an old woman's computer system is taken over by a fascist virus bent on total annihilation, you assume control of an ordinary software program transformed into an elite combat machine. Retake the system and build your character into a formidable instrument of retribution.
The Surge 2
The Surge 2 keeps what fans and critics loved about the original while also expanding greatly upon the formula. The Surge 2 takes place in a brand new environment: a sprawling, devastated city with larger, more ambitious level design and improved engine. Combat is more brutal and tactical than ever, with even more options thanks to an expanded limb targeting system.
Member rating: 74 /100310
Immortal: Unchained
Immortal: Unchained is a souls-inspired third-person shooter/action RPG.
Member rating: 50 /100150
Rebel Galaxy Outlaw
Rebel Galaxy Outlaw is an open-world space combat adventure game, spread across the nearly 40 systems of the Dodge Sector. Play as a mercenary, a trader, a pirate, or whatever mix of the three you feel fits you best. With an engaging storyline and a full conversation system, you can follow the narrative, or ignore it and forge your own path at any time.
Member rating: 60 /10060
Far Cry
A tropical paradise seethes with hidden evil in Far Cry, a cunningly detailed action shooter that pushed the boundaries of combat to shocking new levels.Freelance mariner Jack Carver is cursing the day he ever came to this island. A week ago, a brash female reporter named Valerie had offered him an incredible sum of cash to take her to this unspoiled paradise. Shortly after docking, however, Jack's boat was greeted by artillery fire from a mysterious militia group swarming about the island.
With his boat destroyed, his money gone, and the gorgeous Valerie suddenly missing, Jack now finds himself facing an army of mercenaries amidst the wilds of the island, with nothing but a gun and his wits to survive. But the further he pushes into the lush jungle canopy, the stranger things become.
Jack encounters an insider within the militia group who reveals the horrific details of the mercenaries' true intentions. He presents Jack with an unsettling choice: battle the deadliest mercenaries, or condemn the human race to a maniac's insidious agenda.