The Best Underground Games

Update : Minotauros added at rank #25.
1

Liquidators (2020)

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100
Review score
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PC Windows

Three nuclear plant workers go on a daring mission to prevent a radioactive fallout that would affect half of Europe. Every moment is permanent, and all is at stake.

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  • nonlinear
  • souls
  • perma-death
  • underground
  • cold
  • 1980s
  • fmv
  • 3d
  • historical
  • retro
  • exploration
  • dark
  • experimental

2

Cube Escape (2023)

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95
Review score
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PC Windows IOS iPhone Android

A horror game inspired by the liminal space aesthetic. Explore a huge unknown facility deep underground and solve puzzles while trying to figure out who you are, and why you are here.


  • underground
  • horror
  • editor
  • dystopian
  • level
  • sokoban
  • linear
  • psychological
  • puzzle
  • 3d
  • solitaire
  • single-player
  • exploration
  • stealth
  • first-person

3

No Parachute (2021)

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92
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PC Windows

No Parachute is a fast-paced arcade game with a pixel art style, in which you will dodge various obstacles in free fall. Try to find out what is on the other side of the tunnel, and save your arms and legs along the way!

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  • underground
  • perma-death
  • mining
  • 2.5d
  • flight
  • pixel
  • arcade
  • 3d
  • dungeon
  • violent
  • mystery
  • top-down
  • linear
  • nature

4

HAAK (2020)

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90
Review score
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Nintendo Switch PC Windows IOS iPhone Android

Explore the ruins of the once glorious city as Haak, the brave traveler. With retro-futuristic pixel world and hand-drawn graphics, this Metroidvania-style game will keep you hooked, using your hook, dash, and charged slash to uncover hidden rooms and secrets. Enjoy extremely good and fluid platforming, fun mechanics, solid level design and challenges that adapt to your skills. Make meaningful choices to change the game's fate with multiple endings. Join in and become the light that repels the darkness!


What we like:
  • Fun platforming
  • Great combat mechanics
  • Well-designed levels
  • Good controls
  • Engaging story and atmosphere
What could be improved:
  • Linear with stingy ability gating
  • Tedious and punishing platforming with dubious checkpoints
  • Inconsistent exploration
  • Poor translation
  • Lack of boss variety

  • platform
  • underground
  • dystopian
  • metroidvania
  • comic
  • post-apocalyptic
  • scroller
  • pixel
  • 2d
  • action-adventure
  • book
  • rpg
  • exploration
  • puzzle
  • combat

5

The Door in the Basement (2021)

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90
Review score
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PC Windows

The Door in the Basement is an atmospheric pixelated horror game set in a mysterious subterranean world.

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  • horror
  • atmospheric
  • underground
  • supernatural
  • survival
  • pixel
  • pixelated
  • dark
  • mystery
  • walking
  • stealth

6

Miska's Cave (2021)

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88
Review score
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Linux Mac OS PC Windows

Miska's Cave is a unique action-centric side scroller with strategic components and animated with pixel art. If you love completing challenging games that require varying strategies, this game is for you.

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  • souls
  • underground
  • scroller
  • pve
  • runner
  • action-adventure
  • magic
  • pixel
  • hand-drawn
  • beat-em-up
  • 2d
  • attack
  • score
  • casual

7

holedown (2018)

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Review score
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PC Windows

Dig deep underground by shooting balls and breaking blocks, traversing your way to the planet cores. Choose your ideal upgrades such as more starting balls, more shots per round, or storing more crystals, based on your play style and overall strategy.

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  • underground
  • cooperative
  • local
  • physics
  • stylized
  • arcade
  • space
  • minimalist
  • cartoony
  • 2d
  • controller-support
  • multiplayer
  • puzzle

8

Rescue Operation (2021)

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86
Review score
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PC Windows

Is a first-person shooter game. The game will follow the scenario of the game, and destroy the enemies in its path

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  • hero
  • spectacle
  • underground
  • wargame
  • shooter
  • first-person
  • choices
  • dungeon-crawler
  • loot
  • psychological
  • fps
  • 3d
  • werewolves
  • dungeon
  • mystery

9

The Longing (2020)

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85
Review score
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PC Windows Mac OS Linux Nintendo Switch

An unusual mix of adventure and idle game. In utter loneliness deep below the surface, it's your task to wait for the awakening of your king... for 400 days.


  • choices
  • point-and-click
  • walking-simulator
  • underground
  • idler
  • multiple-endings
  • hand-drawn
  • idle
  • real-time
  • adventure
  • atmospheric
  • experimental
  • exploration
  • book
  • 2d

10

Path of Sacrifice (2021)

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PC Windows

This is a game that you will become weaker.You are a powerful magic knight, but you need sacrifice them to arrive the next floor.Until you lost everything,like a mortal challenged the constantly growing devil king.The only thing left in the end is your exquisite swordsmanship and brave heart.

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  • mmo
  • multiplayer
  • platform
  • tutorial
  • 2d
  • underground
  • swordplay
  • pixel
  • sand
  • war

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