
Retro-style platformer inspired by the 16bit classics. Jump and shoot your way through challenging levels. Watch two distinct visual styles collide. Enjoy the awesome rocking music. In the name of all that is childhood!
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Retro-style platformer inspired by the 16bit classics. Jump and shoot your way through challenging levels. Watch two distinct visual styles collide. Enjoy the awesome rocking music. In the name of all that is childhood!

Potatoman Seeks the Troof
Potatoman will put your reflexes and worldview to the test as you journey through scorching deserts, dark forests, busy cities, the tallest mountains and eventually your own potato-consciousness in search of the ultimate answer. Are you prepared to face the TROOF?

Shovel Knight: Treasure Trove
Shovel Knight: Treasure Trove is the complete Shovel Knight collection, containing all 5 games in the epic saga! Dig, blast, slash, and bash your way through a fantastical, 8-bit inspired world of pixel-perfect platforming, memorable characters, and world-class action-adventure gameplay.
Potatoman will put your reflexes and worldview to the test as you journey through scorching deserts, dark forests, busy cities, the tallest mountains and eventually your own potato-consciousness in search of the ultimate answer. Are you prepared to face the TROOF?
Why similar: Retro 21.5%, Great Soundtrack 20.4%, Platformer 19.2%, Pixel Graphics 16.1%, Indie 14%
Shovel Knight: Treasure Trove is the complete Shovel Knight collection, containing all 5 games in the epic saga! Dig, blast, slash, and bash your way through a fantastical, 8-bit inspired world of pixel-perfect platforming, memorable characters, and world-class action-adventure gameplay.
Why similar: Great Soundtrack 29.1%, Platformer 19.8%, Retro 18.5%, Pixel Graphics 14%, Indie 8.9%
Love is a reductive platforming game with a retro aesthetic and a focus on a challenging difficulty. It has an custom respawn system, 16 levels, 12 track soundtrack, competitive scoring, and a simple-to-use level creation feature.
Why similar: Platformer 26%, Great Soundtrack 21.9%, Retro 16.8%, Indie 16%, Pixel Graphics 13.1%
Part man, part blade, all badass – help Fist Slash defeat the evil Dr. X and recover the mystical mirror shards before they're used to wreak ultimate destruction on the world!
Why similar: Indie 28.9%, Retro 21.2%, Action 21.1%, Pixel Graphics 15.7%, Platformer 13.2%
Join Pixel as he quests through gaming history, teleporting across the most iconic video game systems of generations past. He’ll have to jump, dodge and play smart if he wants to survive all the traps, puzzles and enemies waiting to take him down at every turn.
Why similar: Great Soundtrack 24.7%, Retro 23.6%, Platformer 22.1%, Pixel Graphics 15%, Indie 14.6%
The Kingdom of Bones needs you! Purify the land and stop Evil King once and for all. Take the skull-smashing puzzle platformer in a new direction with TURBO action, TURBO puzzles and TURBO boss battles.
Why similar: Great Soundtrack 27.6%, Indie 22.7%, Action 18.7%, Retro 17.1%, Platformer 13.9%
Nil-Ninjahtic: Ronin is a pseudo 8-bit action platformer. While it integrates gameplay mechanics of the previous titles in the series, they are combined in a manner which differentiates itself from its predecessors.
Why similar: Platformer 23.3%, Indie 21.2%, Retro 19.7%, Action 18.3%, Pixel Graphics 17.5%
A 8-bit retro action platformer that goes beyond just pixels and chiptunes
Why similar: Indie 22.6%, Retro 22.5%, Action 20.8%, Platformer 18.4%, Pixel Graphics 15.7%
Dogurai is a retro-styled platformer with animal-like characters, graphics and soundtrack designed with old portable games in mind - down to the limited color ranges and sprite sizes!
Why similar: Indie 26.4%, Action 22.3%, Retro 20%, Platformer 17.2%, Pixel Graphics 14%
Welcome to Cataegis - The White Wind: Ziggurat Chapter, a frantic 2D arcade action retro-style game that pays homage to the glory days of 8-bit side scrolling gaming.
Why similar: Indie 26.9%, Action 25.9%, Retro 18.3%, Platformer 14.9%, Pixel Graphics 13.9%
kuso is the sequel to LOVE, and is a challenging yet fair platformer with a simple aesthetic. You have the ability to run, jump, and leave your own checkpoint. Make your way through acid, long jumps, disappearing platforms, bouncers, giant saws, and much more in this dreadful mechanical world.
Why similar: Great Soundtrack 34%, Indie 28.7%, Action 21.3%, Platformer 16%
Unravel the mysteries of old-school gameplay in this classic side-scrolling platformer, venture through four different environments and procedurally generated levels for ever-changing play sessions, and hope to lift... The Curse of the Lost Cause.
Why similar: Indie 27.3%, Action 23.3%, Retro 19.6%, Platformer 16%, Pixel Graphics 13.7%
Step into the gilded boots of King Knight in the biggest and most regal Shovel Knight game of them all! Leap, Shoulder Bash, gather new subjects, and strategize your way through this prequel in your quest to become King of Cards!
Why similar: Platformer 19.7%, Indie 18.9%, Great Soundtrack 17.7%, Pixel Graphics 15.3%, Action 15.3%
When a global war nearly decimated humankind, an evil military organization called Oniken takes advantage of the situation to dominate and oppress the few remaining survivors. Even though any resistance to this organization seemed hopeless, a small rebel movement organizes strikes against Oniken.
Why similar: Retro 28.6%, Platformer 21.6%, Indie 12.4%, Old School 11.5%, Action 10.5%
Skeleton Boomerang is a platformer where the hero, Hunter, must use an enchanted boomerang to put an end to an army of bony soldiers led by the voodoo master Mr. Saturday. Get high scores, collect upgrades, find secrets, and overcome many skeletal challenges!
Why similar: Great Soundtrack 43.5%, Indie 21.8%, Action 19.5%, Platformer 15.1%
Bloo Kid 2 is a classic 2D retro-style platformer experience with lovely designed pixel-graphics and a full chiptune soundtrack. Run, jump and swim your way through five huge worlds with twelve levels each. Master brutal bossfights and discover lots of secrets in the world of Bloo Kid 2.
Why similar: Indie 28.7%, Platformer 24.5%, Retro 19.1%, Action 18.2%, Pixel Graphics 9.5%
Take control of Specter Knight, servant to the Enchantress, in a quest to recruit a cadre of knights and create the Order of No Quarter. Experience perfect platforming, world-class visuals, impeccable stage design, incredible music, and even meet a friend or two in Shovel Knight: Specter of Torment!
Why similar: Indie 22.1%, Platformer 19.8%, Action 18.9%, Pixel Graphics 16%, Great Soundtrack 13.5%
Lament, an NES styled Action-Platformer about a wolf with a buster sword!
Why similar: Great Soundtrack 32.6%, Retro 26.2%, Platformer 21.4%, Action 19.8%
TripTrip is a challenging autorunner with color-matching and platforming mixed together. Stay on track, dodge walls, and weather hazardous conditions - all while matching The Ball's color to the floor! Master the four colors to guide The Ball through more than 8 worlds!
Why similar: Great Soundtrack 29.8%, Indie 23.7%, Action 19.6%, Retro 17%, Pixel Graphics 9.9%
Try, die, cry, repeat. Flem is an old school hard-as-nails platformer about a sentient snot ball, with a nose-stalgia inducing soundtrack.
Why similar: Indie 30.3%, Action 25.4%, Platformer 18.6%, Great Soundtrack 15.8%, Retro 9.8%
TAYAL IS A RETRO & MEGA STYLE FAN GAME. WE WILL FOLLOW A BOY TO FIND OUT THE TRUTH OF HIS FATHER.
Why similar: Indie 30.9%, Retro 24.5%, Action 24.1%, Pixel Graphics 20.6%
Shovel Knight is a sweeping classic action-adventure game with awesome gameplay, memorable characters, and an 8-bit retro aesthetic. If you love games with perfect platforming, beautiful art, infectious music, lovable bosses, humor and levity, and real heart… Shovel Knight is for you!
Why similar: Indie 23.5%, Action 19.4%, Great Soundtrack 16.3%, Retro 14.8%, Platformer 14.6%
Fallen Leaf is a retro side-scrolling adventure focused on tight, action-packed level design set in a whimsical world where almost anything goes!
Why similar: Platformer 21.7%, Retro 21.1%, Old School 17.8%, Pixel Graphics 16.5%, Indie 13.3%
A fetus in a simulation is taught a series of lessons about life by a primitive, overly literal artificial intelligence. There's 30 different "lessons" to get through, but you probably won't survive.
Why similar: Indie 26.4%, Great Soundtrack 25.5%, Action 21.8%, Platformer 14.2%, Pixel Graphics 12.1%
In this pixel-perfect homage to the classic action platformers, you play as Sydney Hunter - an explorer who gets trapped inside a Mayan pyramid while he's out exploring!
Why similar: Indie 19.1%, Action 17%, Great Soundtrack 15%, Retro 14.4%, Platformer 13.1%
A simple, fast paced platformer with one small change: Your character can't run. Play as an adorable robot named Blitz and help it escape the factory it was built in. The only problem is, it seems like everything is trying to break you!
Why similar: Great Soundtrack 29%, Indie 21.8%, Platformer 18.3%, Action 17.5%, Pixel Graphics 13.3%
THE JOYLANCER: LEGENDARY MOTOR KNIGHT is a new breed of action game, combining ultra-technical action with a simple control scheme and an artstyle inspired by portable games of old! Wield the divine power of the Motor Knights and save the world!
Why similar: Indie 28.2%, Action 24.7%, Retro 17.4%, Pixel Graphics 15.5%, Platformer 14.2%
Retro platforming action in this adaptation of a terrible movie.
Why similar: Retro 24.7%, Indie 23.3%, Platformer 18.9%, Action 17.9%, Pixel Graphics 15.1%
Spark the electric jester is an action/platformer video game heavily based on best classics from the 16-bit era from both sides of the aisle.
Why similar: Great Soundtrack 31.6%, Platformer 22.1%, Retro 13.8%, Pixel Graphics 12.5%, Action 12.3%
Take control of one of three playable characters (Gunvolt, Ekoro, and Beck) as you blast your way past the baddies in stage after stage of side-scrolling action! Each stage ends with a boss encounter. Defeat the boss to complete the stage.
Why similar: Retro 23.5%, Platformer 23.2%, Indie 18.7%, Action 18.2%, Pixel Graphics 16.4%
Hikikomori No Chuunibyou is a pseudo 8-bit platform-adventure game with beat-em-up, puzzle, and stealth elements. With its storytelling directing the player through open-ended levels, progression through each stage requires usage of parkour-like abilities and martial-arts techniques.
Why similar: Retro 23.7%, Indie 22.4%, Action 19.4%, Platformer 19.3%, Pixel Graphics 15.2%
Jet Gunner is a 2D platform action indie game that's full of Nestalgia. Full of action, gunfights, bosses and explosions so if you're into the whole 8-Bit vibe you should love this. From the sound, to the graphics to the flicker, this should pay tribute to those classic hard as nails, run 'n' gun games.
Why similar: Action 26.3%, Platformer 20.7%, Retro 20.3%, Indie 16.8%, Pixel Graphics 15.9%
Super Thrustforce: Orbital Meat Police is an old-school arcade game featuring gravity-based gameplay and lots of shooting.
Why similar: Indie 30.6%, Action 25.3%, Old School 23.9%, Retro 20.2%
In Savage Halloween the world is taken over by monsters from the afterlife who were trapped in the Earth after a Halloween party, and now they have decided to make their new home here.
Why similar: Great Soundtrack 22.6%, Retro 18.7%, Indie 17.3%, Action 15.3%, Platformer 14.7%
The faith of the forest is threatened by evil forces. A mysterious curse has turned your human body into a small mushroom and your world is invaded by molds, but not all is lost. Your new form comes with new abilities!
Why similar: Platformer 23.7%, Retro 23.2%, Pixel Graphics 23.1%, Action 15.5%, Indie 14.5%
KR-17 is a 32-bit, story-driven, side-scrolling action puzzle-platformer which follows the story of a military robot on a mission to subdue a rogue agent operating out of an installation on the planet Valiant. It will be the first in a multi-genre series of games centered around the story of Terrius, KR-17's home.
Why similar: Platformer 27.3%, Indie 21.8%, Action 18.5%, Retro 16.2%, Pixel Graphics 16.1%
Beat your inner demons without attacking them, in this extremely difficult platformer about how grief changes one's perception of the world. It is an expression of the developer's experience with cancer and heartbreak.
Why similar: Great Soundtrack 22.9%, Indie 21.5%, Action 17.8%, Retro 14.2%, Platformer 13.7%
Huge classic platformer with several power-ups and 8-12 hours of main story & 300+ hidden locations just begging for exploration · 56 big Levels · 5 huge worlds
Why similar: Platformer 32.7%, Indie 17.9%, Retro 17.8%, Pixel Graphics 15.3%, Action 10.9%
Jack & the cat is an old school arcade platformer for Halloween that will put your platform skills to the test!
Why similar: Great Soundtrack 25.7%, Indie 24.2%, Action 20%, Retro 15.9%, Platformer 14.2%
NightmareZ is a side-scrolling platform action game with multiple enemies, lots of fancy features and retro visuals. This is a retro styled platform and action game which will immerse you in a unique world full of good and evil demons.
Why similar: Indie 25%, Action 22%, Retro 20.9%, Platformer 19.5%, Pixel Graphics 12.5%
Stuck in the Underworld without the slightest clue why, a young fiend has a bit of a mystery to solve in this action/adventure platformer. With a world to explore, a past to uncover, and quite the task to complete, players must embark on a quest filled with monsters, towns, dungeons, bosses, and various platforming challenges.
Why similar: Indie 26.2%, Retro 22.3%, Action 20.8%, Platformer 16.5%, Pixel Graphics 14.2%
Atomik: RunGunJumpGun is a tough as nails game that puts a gravity-defying weapon in your hands. One button lets you fly, the other blasts obstacles out of the way. With a cast of crazed characters, challenging gameplay, and a pulsing musical score, it delivers twitchy platforming goodness.
Why similar: Indie 26.6%, Action 22%, Great Soundtrack 19.9%, Platformer 16.1%, Pixel Graphics 15.5%
Mago is a retro 2D platformer that puts us in the boots of a sorcerer, who was unfortunate enough to eat evil overlords' food. Now he has to rescue his beloved princess from the dinner menu of the evil Gourmet! Nostalgia awaits!
Why similar: Great Soundtrack 26.4%, Platformer 20.5%, Retro 17%, Indie 16.7%, Pixel Graphics 14.7%
This is a game about a cat who fights with enemies. 2D platformer is made in a retro style.
Why similar: Indie 49%, Retro 20.7%, Platformer 16.9%, Pixel Graphics 13.4%
Dive into action with The Big Dam Heroes! Join the Teenager, the Mutant, the Ninja and the Turtle as they risk their lives to defuse bombs under dams. Find loot, craft equipment and triumph... or perish.
Why similar: Indie 22.9%, Great Soundtrack 22.2%, Action 19%, Retro 15.1%, Platformer 11.2%
Blast vicious aliens, explore their mysterious labyrinth, and rescue indie game makers in this lighthearted NES inspired first-person action adventure!
Why similar: Indie 24.4%, Action 20.6%, Great Soundtrack 17%, Retro 14.7%, Old School 13.7%
Expelled - the adventure of a rabbit on dangerous planets, and all in order to use the only chance to get out of prison and return home to his wife and children.
Why similar: Great Soundtrack 22.5%, Platformer 21.9%, Indie 19.1%, Action 15.8%, Retro 11.8%
Venture into the haunted wilds with Gable, a little owl, as she sets out to rekindle the dormant relics of a land long abandoned to ruin.
Why similar: Indie 37.6%, Action 29.4%, Pixel Graphics 16.7%, Platformer 16.3%
The Sun and Moon, the winner of Ludum Dare 29, is a platformer with a unique mechanic: you can dive into the ground. Momentum is conserved but gravity is reversed, letting you fling yourself high into the air or deep beneath the surface.
Why similar: Indie 30.5%, Great Soundtrack 25.8%, Platformer 24%, Action 19.7%
Fight your way across the celestial world of Avalice where cats are green, motorcycles drive up walls and monster girls do most of the buttkicking! Freedom Planet is a cartoony, combat-based platform adventure that pits a spunky dragonoid and her friends against an alien attack force.
Why similar: Great Soundtrack 32%, Platformer 22%, Retro 16%, Pixel Graphics 11.4%, Indie 9.8%
Every day is a wonderful day for invertebrates! Come join the Squidlits of Blipston for a squishy adventure of spoopy castles, muffins, and wiggles! Made with classic handheld technology in mind, Squidlit strives to be the closest modern recreation of GameBoy game-design methods on the market.
Why similar: Retro 21.8%, Indie 18.8%, Platformer 15.6%, Great Soundtrack 14.9%, Pixel Graphics 14.7%
An atmospheric platformer where players fight weird monsters that keep on claiming they're part of an operating system.
Why similar: Platformer 23.6%, Retro 22.1%, Action 20.9%, Indie 17.1%, Pixel Graphics 16.4%
The ultra-refined 2D side-scrolling action you remember from "Azure Striker Gunvolt" is recharged and better than ever! In Gunvolt 2, series anti-hero Copen joins the fray as a playable character! Copy abilities from defeated boss characters and use them as your own!
Why similar: Platformer 23%, Indie 22.8%, Action 19.4%, Retro 17.6%, Pixel Graphics 17.2%
The recent events in a state prison, involving Jake from Team Hot Guns was a perfect moment for some prisoners to escape - you are one of them.
Why similar: Indie 26%, Action 24%, Retro 22.7%, Platformer 17.4%, Pixel Graphics 9.9%
You're outnumbered, low on ammunition and the paranoia sets in. This is an action horror-world where enemies get power-ups and you don’t.
Why similar: Platformer 25.5%, Indie 22%, Action 17.7%, Great Soundtrack 13.6%, Pixel Graphics 12.2%
League of Evil is an action game where you, as a bionic super agent take on the mission to defeat the League of Evil. Use your acrobatic skills to punch your way through levels filled with deadly traps and defeat your enemies. The world is counting on you!
Why similar: Indie 34.3%, Action 27.6%, Platformer 22.5%, Pixel Graphics 15.6%
Spaß Taxi (Spaß is German for "fun") is a fun retro arcade game where you bring passengers from one station to another in a flying, rotating taxi. It's a clone of the classic game "Space Taxi" from 1984 with a modernized gameplay using physics and more freedom of movement.
Why similar: Retro 26%, Great Soundtrack 22.1%, Action 19.2%, Pixel Graphics 19.2%, Indie 13.5%
Shin Samurai Jazz is a platform-adventure game. It combines the likes of film noir and samurai cinema, presenting them with 8-bit graphics, an electro-jazz soundtrack, and a comic/manga-like style creating a unique atmosphere.
Why similar: Retro 22.3%, Platformer 21%, Indie 20.4%, Action 18.4%, Pixel Graphics 18%
You play an explorer stranded on a dangerous alien planet. Low on fuel, your only hope for escape is to find the planet’s core in this incredibly clever action-puzzle-platformer.
Why similar: Great Soundtrack 26.3%, Platformer 24.1%, Pixel Graphics 15.7%, Retro 15.6%, Indie 11.9%
"That game where you can pee, poop and puke." -- this is a 2D platformer with 360° aiming. It is violent, it is fast, it is absolutely over the top. Jump around, slide, dash and dunk into enemies to kill them, and then eat them. On your quest for meat you encounter a lot of deadly traps in a post-apocalyptic wasteland.
Why similar: Indie 26.2%, Great Soundtrack 26.2%, Action 21.7%, Platformer 14.6%, Pixel Graphics 11.3%