rikus123: games like the old school retro arcade, bad dudes, final fight, crime fighters,
in today's games:
age of the barbarians
abe's odyssy new and tasty.
anything less idiotic like most of the stuff coming up, with them cuteness. i want something more real, like
ruiner...
kalirion: Valfaris (unless you count it as horror)
Oniken
Tiny Barbarian DX (unless it's too "cute" for you)
If Metroidvanias are OK:
Beholgar
GRIME
Death's Gambit
Odallus: The Dark Call (honestly very light on the metroidvania aspect IIRC)
Also:
Blasphemous & Blasphemous II
They Always Run
Foregone
Dark Light
Volgarr The Viking
Ghost Song
Narita Boy
Recompile
My Friend Pedro
Katana Zero
Butcher
Gonner
Ronin
Alien Rampage
Earthworm Jim & Earthworm Jim 2
The First Samurai & The Second Samurai
Ginsha
Cyber Shadow
Blazing Chrome
Full Moon Rush
Probo Rush
Nocturnal
Doomblade
Elypse
9 Years of Shadows
Rain World
The Darkest Tales
Moonscars
Haak
The Tarnishing of Juxtia
Vesper
Moo Lander
Itorah
Orbital Bullet
Gunborg: Dark Matters
Blade Assault
ElecHead
Pronty
Nongunz
Unbound: Worlds Apart
No Time for Bravery
Guild of Darksteel
Rising Hell
Sockventure
Smelter
8Doors: Arum's Afterlife Adventure
Tribal Hunter
Olija
Unto the End
ScourgeBringer
Batbarian: Testament of the Primordials
Adventures of Chris
Janosik
Inmost
Bite the Bullet
Carrion
Boom Blaster
Cathedral
Wildfire
Fury Unleashed
Kunai
Black Future '88
Collapsed
Steel Rats
Unruly Heroes
Guacamelee series
Flashback
Another World
Mark of the Ninja
Planet Alpha
The Messenger
Guns, Gore & Cannoli series
Warhammer 40,000: Shootas, Blood & Teef
The Mummy Demastered
Dex
88 Heroes
Way of the Red
Deadlight
The Way
Slain: Back From Hell
Broforce
Apotheon
Megabyte Punch
Capsized
Blowout
Metal Slug series
Blind Fate: Edo no Yami
Source of Madness
Dark Devotion
Unworthy