Games like Apotheon on Nintendo Switch
Closest overall match: Dex (★ 3.4). Highest rated: Hyper Light Drifter at ★ 4.1. Quickest to finish: The Swords of Ditto at about 2 hours.
We compared Apotheon against every game in our catalog on shared tags, genre, rating, playtime and release era, and these 10 came closest. What ties them together most: Full controller support, controller support and 2D. Updated Oct 16, 2026.
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66%
1. Dex
Shares Metroidvania, Nudity, Captions available, controller support and Side Scroller and 5 more tags; same release year.
- Year
- 2015
- Rating
- ★ 3.4
- Metacritic
- 62
- Playtime
- 4h
- Finish rate
- 55%
- Shared genres
- 3, 4, RPG, Indie
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64%
2. Wuppo
Shares Metroidvania, Great Soundtrack, 2D, Full controller support and steam-trading-cards and 3 more tags; released within 1 year.
- Year
- 2016
- Rating
- ★ 3.2
- Metacritic
- 80
- Playtime
- 3h
- Finish rate
- 36%
- Shared genres
- 3, 4, RPG, Indie
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63%
3. Shantae and the Pirate's Curse
Shares Metroidvania, Nudity, controller support, Side Scroller and Great Soundtrack and 6 more tags; rated 0.6 higher; released within 1 year.
- Year
- 2014
- Rating
- ★ 3.8
- Playtime
- 6h
- Finish rate
- 71%
- Shared genres
- 3, 4, RPG, Indie
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63%
4. Lost Castle
Shares Nudity, Side Scroller, 2D, Full controller support and steam-trading-cards and 3 more tags; released within 1 year.
- Year
- 2016
- Rating
- ★ 3.2
- Playtime
- 4h
- Finish rate
- 41%
- Shared genres
- 3, 4, RPG, Indie
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61%
5. Moon Hunters
Shares Mythology, Captions available, Great Soundtrack, Full controller support and steam-trading-cards and 3 more tags; released within 1 year.
- Year
- 2016
- Rating
- ★ 3.4
- Metacritic
- 62
- Playtime
- 3h
- Finish rate
- 50%
- Shared genres
- 3, 4, RPG, Indie
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60%
6. Sundered
Shares Metroidvania, controller support, Side Scroller, 2D and Full controller support and 4 more tags; released within 2 years.
- Year
- 2017
- Rating
- ★ 3.4
- Metacritic
- 76
- Playtime
- 3h
- Finish rate
- 50%
- Shared genres
- 3, 4, Indie
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59%
7. Mercenary Kings
Shares Side Scroller, 2D, Full controller support, steam-trading-cards and Steam Cloud and 2 more tags; released within 1 year.
- Year
- 2014
- Rating
- ★ 2.9
- Metacritic
- 76
- Playtime
- 3h
- Finish rate
- 25%
- Shared genres
- 3, 4, RPG, Indie
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58%
8. Victor Vran
Shares controller support, Full controller support, steam-trading-cards, Steam Cloud and Steam Achievements and 1 more tags; same release year.
- Year
- 2015
- Rating
- ★ 3.4
- Metacritic
- 75
- Playtime
- 4h
- Finish rate
- 50%
- Shared genres
- 3, 4, RPG, Indie
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58%
9. Hyper Light Drifter
Shares Metroidvania, controller support, Great Soundtrack, 2D and Full controller support and 3 more tags; rated 0.9 higher; released within 1 year.
- Year
- 2016
- Rating
- ★ 4.1
- Metacritic
- 84
- Playtime
- 4h
- Finish rate
- 61%
- Shared genres
- 3, 4, RPG, Indie
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58%
10. The Swords of Ditto
Shares controller support, 2D, Full controller support, Steam Achievements and Singleplayer.
- Year
- 2018
- Rating
- ★ 3.4
- Metacritic
- 74
- Playtime
- 2h
- Finish rate
- 32%
- Shared genres
- 3, 4, RPG, Indie
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Questions people ask
What is the best game like Apotheon on Nintendo Switch?
On our similarity model, Dex is the closest match to Apotheon on Nintendo Switch — shares Metroidvania, Nudity, Captions available, controller support and Side Scroller and 5 more tags; same release year.
Which game like Apotheon is rated highest?
Hyper Light Drifter holds the highest player rating in this list at 4.1/5 from 599 players.
How this list is built
Every game in our catalog is scored against Apotheon on five signals: weighted tag overlap (rare tags count more), genre overlap, platform family overlap, rating and playtime proximity, and release era. The list is recomputed nightly as ratings and new releases change.
Base game data via RAWG.