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24 alternatives to Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night
Castlevania creator Kickstarting his next game (pre-launch)
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night launched in 2015; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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I was at FB/Meta from late 2013 to early 2023, mostly working in the compiler/runtime spaces. I got hit in the spring 2023 layoff wave. I immediately started making games in my newfound free time (a lifelong interest, and I even worked in AA(A?) back ca. ~2000), and in October 2023 I stumbled upon the idea of a roguelike pachinko/plinko game inspired by Luck Be A Landlord. Things snowballed quickly, I started talking to publishers, then worked like crazy through all of 2024, almost the hardest I've ever worked in my career, and launched the game in December 2024. It's sold…
2025 · its alternatives →
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Hi HN ! This is an open source project I've been working on for a while. It's actually the third breakout-like game I've built. I really like the simplicity of the concept, having just one input (the puck horizontal position) and a simple gameplay that gives a low skill floor. My girlfriend and I played a lot of the excellent LBreakoutHD, an open source breakout game that follows the traditional formula of having multiple lives, scoring points by breaking bricks and catching the good upgrades that spawn randomly and fall down, while avoiding bad upgrades. She liked this game because it is…
2025 · breakout.lecaro.me · its alternatives →
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Dance your way through rouge-like dungeons
2015 · braceyourselfgames.com · its alternatives →
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A massive 2D, pixel-art, metroidvania style, platformer.
2016 · store.steampowered.com · its alternatives →
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Zelda Meets Dark Souls. RPG w/ cartoon art. (pre-launch)
2015 · neostream.com · its alternatives →
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I'll start by copying the comment I left on the Reddit post where I originally shared this project and then go into some more detail for this audience. (https://www.reddit.com/r/nes/comments/1umrnd5/i_made_an_inte...) """ Castlevania II has always held a special place in my heart. I didn’t own it myself as a kid but I had a family member who did. This meant that I only got a few chances to actually play it, but that left a big impression on me anyway. I recently beat it for the first time and along the way I decided I wanted to build the most over-the-top…
Jul 2026 · theultimatesimonsquestguide.com · its alternatives →
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A 4-colour, concentrated, action-oriented Metroidvania
2015 · beadybox.com · its alternatives →
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Remarkably pretty Metroidvania with a moving story.
2015 · store.steampowered.com · its alternatives →
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The Team decides to run their own RPG for our fans!
2016 · soundcloud.com · its alternatives →
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Leap of Fate▲67Hack 'n slash rogue-like in a cyberpunk setting
2015 · store.steampowered.com · its alternatives →
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This is something that I've been working on on-and-off in my spare time for the last few years. I started in 2020 during Covid trying to do a Mount and Blade style map in UE4, and it grew from there until where it is now - I would just add a feature, then another, until it came together. Since the start of the year I've really been trying to polish it some more. I've got the full thing planned for a Q3 25 release. Github release if you don't have Steam: https://github.com/joe-gibbs/fall-of-an-empire-release
2024 · store.steampowered.com · its alternatives →
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TIE FIGHTERS! DESTRUCTION! SPACE COMBAT! RPG! ;)
2016 · soundcloud.com · its alternatives →
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My background project for the last two years has been re-implementing my 2004 C++ shoot'em up game in TypeScript + WebGL, and it's finally done (just in time for the 20th anniversary!) Play the game online: https://nicollet.net/blog/darklaga/darklaga.html Technical article about the remake: https://nicollet.net/blog/darklaga/remake.html I have tested Firefox, Chrome and Edge on desktop and mobile (no access to a device capable of running Safari). It's amazing how much difference 20 years makes: the hardware is so much more powerful, the web…
2024 · nicollet.net · its alternatives →
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Monstrum▲53A procedurally-generated, permadeath horror game
2015 · store.steampowered.com · its alternatives →
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Slashy Souls▲73Challenge death to a battle of will and claim your victory!
2016 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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