The Best Underground Games for Android

Update : Somnus added at rank #8.
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Cube Escape (2023)

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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.

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

2

HAAK (2020)

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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

3

Minimal Dungeon RPG (2022)

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Android IOS iPhone PC Windows Mac OS

Minimal Dungeon RPG is a Simple Dungeon Crawler of RPG. Multiple rooms are connected into dungeons. Tasks, monsters, and rewards are all simplified into squares in the rooms. You can just click on the squares to play and crawl through the dungeons.

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  • underground
  • rogue-like
  • minimalist
  • dungeon
  • rpg
  • idler
  • dungeon-crawler
  • strategy
  • clicker
  • abstract
  • rich
  • casual
  • 2d
  • drama

4

DigDigDrill (2024)

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IOS iPhone Android PC Windows Mac OS

DigDigDrill is an underground mining and resource collecting game. Dig freely for minerals and treasures. Use the items you collect to forge your original drills in a hack-and-slash style equipment system.

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  • mining
  • underground
  • hack-and-slash
  • collectathon
  • destruction
  • loot
  • character
  • relaxing
  • crafting
  • customization
  • tutorial
  • resource-management
  • exploration
  • action-adventure
  • pixel

5

Thread (2022)

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PC Windows Android

A puppet themed platformer metroidvania with a focus on platforming rather than combat. Throw your crystal scissors into walls to create your own platforms, explore a twisting and mysterious land, and solve puzzles on a worldwide scale.

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  • metroidvania
  • platform
  • precision
  • dark
  • souls
  • underground
  • 2d
  • collectathon
  • post-apocalyptic
  • exploration
  • mystery
  • atmospheric
  • open-world
  • fantasy
  • pixel

6

Oliver (2023)

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PC Windows Xbox One Android

You are a Crash Test Dummy. Your goal: pass a test simulation that no other dummy has survived before. Move through a nonlinear world filled with though challenges, dangerous enemies, tricky puzzles and epic bosses. And please don't die like the others, would you?

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  • underground
  • nonlinear
  • metroidvania
  • 2.5d
  • scroller
  • underwater
  • retro
  • cooking
  • platform
  • stylized
  • abstract
  • 1990s
  • minimalist
  • space
  • education

7

Maze Escape (2024)

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PC Windows IOS iPhone Android

A maze chase game. A monster is chasing the player, and the player needs to keep running, jump over the guardrail, avoid being caught by the monster, and gradually find the maze exit and escape the maze.

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  • dungeon-crawler
  • dungeon
  • 3d
  • mystery
  • maze
  • royale
  • zombies
  • hidden-object
  • underground
  • action-adventure
  • casual
  • puzzle
  • walking-simulator
  • horror
  • adventure

8

Somnus (2025)

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PC Windows IOS iPhone Android

SOMNUS is a first-person indie game in the genre of adventure with elements of horror. The protagonist, a young boy, faces a difficult ordeal: his mother is seriously ill, and in order to pay for her treatment, he takes a job as a night guard.

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  • psychological
  • underground
  • horror
  • pixel
  • dungeon-crawler
  • dungeon
  • survival-horror
  • mystery
  • walking-simulator
  • demons
  • adventure
  • puzzle

9

Otherworld Legends aeea (2024)

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PC Windows Android

A "blood-pumping, face-bashing" roguelike brawler. Master heroes of your choice, craft uniquely broken builds, and hack & pummel through a myriad of dungeons in a thrilling rampage.

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  • rogue-like
  • roguevania
  • underground
  • metroidvania
  • pixel
  • perma-death
  • hack-and-slash
  • dungeon-crawler
  • dark
  • cooperative
  • rpg
  • retro

10

Long Drop (2022)

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By the power of POOP! Solve challenging puzzles in this medieval-themed casual puzzler. Unlock new poops and harness their power to overcome the challenges of the Long Drop.

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  • underground
  • medieval
  • comedy
  • linear
  • cartoony
  • 2d
  • casual
  • funny
  • character
  • fantasy
  • physics
  • puzzle
  • customization
  • single-player

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