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Hollow Knight is described as 'Forge your own path in Hollow Knight! An epic action adventure through a vast ruined kingdom of insects and heroes. Explore twisting caverns, battle tainted creatures and befriend bizarre bugs, all in a classic, hand-drawn 2D style' and is a Platform Game in the games category. There are more than 50 games similar to Hollow Knight for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Steam, Mac, Linux and Nintendo Switch apps. The best Hollow Knight alternative is Super Meat Boy. It's not free, so if you're looking for a free alternative, you could try Cave Story (Dokutsu Monogatari) or Nikki and the Robots. Other Hollow Knight like games are Ori, VVVVVV, Frogatto & Friends and Braid.

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  1. Super Meat Boy icon

    Super Meat Boy

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    Super Meat Boy is a platform game developed by Team Meat and is the successor to Edmund McMillen's and Jonathan McEntee's flash game, Meat Boy, originally released on the Newgrounds website in October 2008.

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    Comments about Super Meat Boy as an Alternative to Hollow Knight
    Aleksandr Dikov
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    Super Meat Boy is hardcore arcade platformer. It's not Metroidvania so there's no word to explore.

    Guest
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    Super Meat Boy is a platformer only, not a Metroidvania.

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
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    • Super Meat Boy is the most popular Windows, Android, Mac & iPhone alternative to Hollow Knight.

    • Super Meat Boy is the most popular commercial alternative to Hollow Knight.

    • Super Meat Boy is Paid and ProprietaryHollow Knight is also Paid and Proprietary
  2. Cave Story (Dokutsu Monogatari) icon

    Cave Story (Dokutsu Monogatari)

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    Cave Story, or Dokutsu Monogatari, is a Japanese freeware Metroidvania side-scrolling Metroidvania platform-adventure game developed by Studio Pixel . It has been translated into English by Aeon Genesis Translations.

    41 Cave Story (Dokutsu Monogatari) alternatives

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    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    • Mac
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    • RetroArch
    • Internet Archive
    • Haiku
    • AmigaOS
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    • Lakka
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    Aleksandr Dikov
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    Another one good example of Metroidvania games.

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    • Cave Story (Dokutsu Monogatari) is the most popular free alternative to Hollow Knight.

    • Cave Story (Dokutsu Monogatari) is Free and ProprietaryHollow Knight is Paid and Proprietary
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    Ori

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    Embark on an all-new adventure in a vast and exotic world, where you’ll encounter towering enemies and challenging puzzles on your quest to discover Ori’s true destiny.

    68 Ori alternatives

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    • Pay once
    • Proprietary

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    • Windows
    • Xbox
    • Steam
    • Nintendo Switch
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  5. VVVVVV icon

    VVVVVV

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    In VVVVVV, the player controls Captain Viridian, who is lost in an alternate dimension, in search of the missing members of his spaceship's crew. Instead of jumping, the player is able to control the direction of gravity, allowing Captain Viridian to flip between the floors...

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    • Pay once
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    • Online
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    • VVVVVV is the most popular Web-based alternative to Hollow Knight.

    • VVVVVV is the most popular Open Source alternative to Hollow Knight.

    • VVVVVV is Paid and Open SourceHollow Knight is Paid and Proprietary
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    Frogatto & Friends

     23 likes
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    Frogatto & Friends is an action-adventure game, starring a certain quixotic frog. A quiet errand run turns into a battle to fend off an invading army, and only Frogatto is foolhardy enough to sleuth out why.

    69 Frogatto & Friends alternatives

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    • Pay once
    • Proprietary

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    • Steam
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  7. Braid icon

    Braid

     54 likes
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    Braid is a platforming game in a painterly style where you manipulate the flow of time to solve puzzles.

    57 Braid alternatives

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    • Paid
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    Dead Cells

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    A roguelike, Castlevania-inspired, action-platformer, Dead Cells allows you to explore a sprawling, ever-changing castle, unlock new gear and gain access to unreachable areas. Fight to the death using the weapons and loot you find during each run, slowly building your strength...

    25 Dead Cells alternatives

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    • Pay once
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  10. Bastion icon

    Bastion

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    Bastion is the first title from Supergiant Games, an original action role-playing game set in a lush imaginative world, in which players must create and fight for civilization’s last refuge as a mysterious narrator marks their every move.

    38 Bastion alternatives

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  11. Fe icon

    Fe

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    Embark on an adventure in a Nordic forest using a unique song mechanic to communicate wordlessly with mystical creatures. Scale, glide, learn animal cries to form alliances with wildlife, and combat the Silent Ones. A world filled with secrets awaits your discovery.

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    • Pay once
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    • Windows
    • EA App
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  12. Rayman icon

    Rayman

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    Rayman is a platform video game series created by Michel Ancel and owned by Ubisoft. The original Rayman was a 2D sprite-based platformer similar to those of the 16-bit era. Rayman 2: The Great Escape moved the series into 3D, and added more variety to the gameplay with new...

    52 Rayman alternatives

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    Nikki and the Robots

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    A cute physics platformer that plays in a fictional world of the future the infamous super villain Dr. Lacroix schemes to seize world supremacy with his army of robots. You take the role of Nikki and try to cross those evil plans on behalf of a secret organization.

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    • Free
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    • Discontinued

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    Teslagrad

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    Teslagrad is a 2D puzzle-platformer with action elements where magnetism and other electromagnetic powers are the key to go throughout the game, and thereby discover the secrets kept in the long abandoned Tesla Tower.

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    • Pay once
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