Games like Dogworld

Axiom Verge is a metroidvania-style game with retro side-scrolling action. As a scientist who awakens in a mysterious, alien world, you'll use powerful weapons and abilities to explore, solve puzzles, and battle bosses. With a focus on progressive discovery, uncover the secrets of this mysterious world and learn its connection to your own fate.

Momodora: Reverie Under the Moonlight is a side-scrolling action platformer set in a cursed land on the brink of destruction. As priestess Kaho, players must journey through hordes of enemies and bosses to seek the Queen's help. With melee combos, dodge mechanics, and various items/spells, players can enjoy the story casually or challenge their reflexes with increased difficulty.

Gato Roboto is a black and white 2D metroidvania game where you play as a cat in a mech suit. Explore a large interconnected world, battling alien creatures and solving puzzles to unlock new abilities. With tight controls and retro-inspired design, Gato Roboto offers a challenging and engaging experience.

Hyper Light Drifter is a challenging 2D action-RPG drawing inspiration from 16-bit classics, with a dark, dangerous world to explore. As a Drifter, you'll uncover lost technologies, battle vicious enemies, and search for a cure to your insatiable illness. Every element in this game is hand-animated, and success will require mastery of its tough mechanics and varied skills.

"Blue Fire" is a 3D platformer adventure game set in a decaying kingdom. As the hero, players explore, solve puzzles, and engage in challenging combat against shadowy creatures to rekindle the dying embers of the world. With precise movement controls and various abilities to unlock, players must navigate treacherous environments and confront the darkness within.

"Kero Blaster" is a challenging action-platformer game where players control a bipedal frog tasked with zapping baddies and rescuing his kidnapped girlfriend. The game features tight controls, pixel-perfect platforming, and a variety of weapons to aid in your quest. Set in a unique arrives-like world, players must navigate through different stages, battling bosses and uncovering the mystery behind the strange occurrences happening in the teleporter business.

"Bleed" is a shooter game that challenges players to take down heroes in action-packed levels. The game features 7 levels with bosses, set-pieces, and four difficulty options. It has a unique control scheme, supports local co-op for up to 2 players, and offers additional characters and game modes to unlock.

Guns of Fury is a retro-inspired action platformer that combines the run & gun and Metroidvania genres. Explore a vast interconnected world, gain new abilities and weapons, battle epic bosses and stop the plans of an evil corporation before it’s too late!

"Haak is a single-player Platformer game with Metroidvania elements, set in a post-apocalyptic world with unique pixel graphics. As Haak, a traveler from the north, explore the land using your hook, dash, and charged slash to survive against dangerous mutants and dark forces. The hand-drawn retro-futuristic pixel world and intriguing story will keep you engaged through compelling gameplay and phenomenal music."

You died? So what? Tuck your guts back in and gear up to fight your way through the ranks of a mysterious and twisted cult. You, your guns, and your dynamite will have to shoot, slide, blast, duck, dodge, and maybe throw a gib or two to survive in this old-school-inspired shooter.