Games Like Adventures of Shuggy

From the creative mind behind The Adventures of Shuggy comes an exciting new retro-styled 2D platformer, a winner of Dream Build Play 2012 and a top 50 game of 2012 according to Game Informer. Grab the gateway guns and explore a huge lab filled with mysterious puzzles in this classic platforming adventure.

Why similar: Platformer 45.3%, Puzzle 17.9%, Indie 13.9%, Time Manipulation 11.5% ★, Puzzle Platformer 8.9%

Why You'll Like It: It features complex portal-based puzzle-platforming that requires similar spatial reasoning to Shuggy's room challenges.

Enter a macabre and comical silent world filled with mischief, time travel and delicious pie. Includes Steam Achievements, Cloud, and Leaderboards!

Why similar: Platformer 39.9%, Time Manipulation 16.4% ★, Puzzle 16.4%, Puzzle Platformer 13.3%, Indie 11.6%

Why You'll Like It: Like Shuggy, this game centers on unique time-manipulation mechanics to solve intricate platforming puzzles.

You are stranded on a strange and peculiar planet. It’s time to embark on your journey and find your way home! Explore a gravity defying and challenging platformer with striking visuals and a captivating story that transports you to a world beyond ours.

Why similar: Platformer 39.2%, Puzzle Platformer 24.8%, Indie 11.1%, Local Co-Op 9.8%, Puzzle 8.1%

Why You'll Like It: It features gravity-defying mechanics and challenging puzzle-platforming levels that feel very similar to Shuggy.

Max: The Curse of Brotherhood is a cinematic adventure filled with action-packed platforming and creative puzzle-solving. Armed with only a Magic Marker, Max must confront evil at every turn in a hostile and fantastical world in order to save his kid brother, Felix. Join Max on his great adventure!

Why similar: Platformer 50.3%, Puzzle Platformer 33.1%, Puzzle 14.2%, 2D 1.6%, Singleplayer 0.9%

Why You'll Like It: This game combines creative environmental manipulation with platforming, mirroring the puzzle-solving feel of Shuggy.

This is the original version of Braid from 2009, which may not work well on newer systems. For an updated version of the game with nicer graphics, more levels and a large amount of developer commentary, see Braid, Anniversary Edition.

Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 31.3%, Platformer 30.7%, Time Manipulation 14.8% ★, Puzzle 13.5%, Indie 6.9%

Why You'll Like It: This classic puzzle-platformer shares the time-rewind mechanic and deep, room-based logic puzzles found in Shuggy.

ibb & obb is a two player cooperative game set in a puzzle filled world where gravity goes both up and down. You can only succeed by working closely together. Find a friend for some true local co-op couch fun or match up online.

Why similar: Platformer 26.9%, Local Co-Op 24.1%, Co-op 17.6%, Puzzle 13.7%, Puzzle Platformer 8%

Why You'll Like It: A quintessential co-op puzzle-platformer that relies on gravity and physics-based teamwork.

Assemble your team of three from seven unlikely adventurers, then descend into the mysterious depths to explore The Cave!

Why similar: Platformer 41.5%, Local Co-Op 20.6%, Puzzle 15.2%, Puzzle Platformer 6.4%, Co-op 5.8%

Why You'll Like It: This game offers a series of distinct, room-based puzzles that require switching between characters, much like Shuggy.

Embark on a journey to give his majesty the ride of his afterlife. Guide a chariot containing the King's remains through underground caves using physics-based mechanics such as pushing, pulling, riding and swinging.

Why similar: Platformer 26.3%, Local Co-Op 20.5%, Puzzle Platformer 13.9%, Local Multiplayer 9.8%, Indie 9.1%

Why You'll Like It: A physics-based co-op platformer that requires constant coordination to navigate obstacles.

Snapshot is the tale of a lone robot lost in an abandoned world. Armed with only his trusty camera, Pic sets forth on his great adventure. A camera might not seem like enough for a puzzle platforming adventure, but this camera is different from most: It has the ability to capture and remove from the world the very objects that it...

Why similar: Platformer 50.9%, Puzzle 18.2%, Indie 15.8%, Puzzle Platformer 14.4%, Singleplayer 0.8%

Why You'll Like It: The game uses a unique camera mechanic to capture and move objects, providing a puzzle-platforming experience that rewards clever thinking.

Three Heroes make their way through dangers untold in a fairytale world of great castles and strange machinery, featuring physics-based puzzles, beautiful sights and online co-op.

Why similar: Platformer 35.8%, Puzzle Platformer 21.7%, Local Co-Op 17.9%, Puzzle 9.4%, Co-op 6.5%

Why You'll Like It: This title offers a similar blend of physics-based puzzles and platforming with a strong focus on cooperative character abilities.

Light up the world! As Plug, you are charged with restoring the expansive Amp-Tree-System, and thwarting an enigmatic intruder.

Why similar: Platformer 41.1%, Puzzle Platformer 31.3%, Puzzle 13.9%, Indie 10.5%, 2D 2.3%

Why You'll Like It: A unique puzzle-platformer where you navigate rooms by lighting them up, echoing Shuggy's room-clearing structure.

Help Puzzled Cat use jetpacks, portals, bombs, gum, and more to conquer treacherous platforming stages. Play your own way using save states to explore a world full of challenges and secrets - but can you find the way through? Travel through time and space and reach enlightenment.

Why similar: Platformer 30%, Time Manipulation 23.7% ★, Puzzle Platformer 23.1%, Puzzle 11.3%, 2D 5.3%

Why You'll Like It: This game features time-manipulation elements and difficult platforming challenges that feel like a direct spiritual successor.

Enter the wacky & whimsical world of Uurnog Uurnlimited! Explore a silly, puzzle-filled land full of cubes, bombs, weird people & adorable animals — then steal them all! Play single player or co-op as you jump, grab, throw & teleport your colorful collection back to the Save Room.

Why similar: Platformer 48%, Indie 33.5%, Puzzle 18.4%

Why You'll Like It: A quirky puzzle-platformer that encourages experimentation with objects and room-based progression.

Grab a friend and get squishy! Putty Pals is the ultimate co-op platformer, challenging two players to work together and overcome puzzles in a bright and beautiful world.

Why similar: Platformer 32.4%, Local Co-Op 25.5%, Local Multiplayer 14.3%, Puzzle Platformer 10.5%, Indie 9.9%

Why You'll Like It: A colorful co-op platformer that requires players to work together to overcome environmental puzzles.

Toki Tori 2+ may look cute, but it’s a challenging puzzle adventure game. Whistle and stomp are the only moves you need to solve increasingly complex puzzles, as you go anywhere, anytime on a lush forest island.

Why similar: Platformer 47.3%, Puzzle Platformer 28.4%, Puzzle 18.3%, 2D 6%

Why You'll Like It: A brilliant puzzle-platformer that focuses on environmental interaction rather than traditional combat.

Puzzling Action for One or Two Players.

Why similar: Platformer 27.2%, Puzzle Platformer 18.4%, Local Co-Op 17.5%, Puzzle 10.6%, Co-op 9.7%

Why You'll Like It: A challenging co-op puzzle-platformer that emphasizes tight controls and clever level design.

The "Perpetual Testing Initiative" has been expanded to allow you to design co-op puzzles for you and your friends!

Why similar: Platformer 44.4%, Puzzle Platformer 24.3%, Puzzle 16.9%, Co-op 12.2%, Singleplayer 2.2%

Why You'll Like It: The gold standard for co-op puzzle-solving that shares the same spirit of using unique tools to overcome environmental hurdles.

VVVVVV is a platform game all about exploring one simple mechanical idea - what if you reversed gravity instead of jumping?

Why similar: Platformer 74%, Indie 15.3%, 2D 5.4%, Puzzle 3.7%, Singleplayer 1.6%

Why You'll Like It: This gravity-flipping platformer provides the same tight, room-based challenge and puzzle-heavy focus.

Take control of five cute, mystical creatures of miniature proportions called CreaVures. CreaVures always travel in pairs, and they must use their special abilities to help each other solve interesting platforming puzzles.

Why similar: Platformer 65.6%, Indie 34.4%

Why You'll Like It: A cute, atmospheric puzzle-platformer where you must use the unique abilities of different creatures to progress.

Guide a group of rectangles through 120 levels, using their different skills together to overcome a series of obstacles in each environment. Discover the human-made story of the first sentient artificial intelligences with Danny Wallace’s BAFTA-winning narration.

Why similar: Platformer 54.4%, Puzzle Platformer 27.7%, Indie 9.9%, 2D 5.9%, Singleplayer 2.1%

Why You'll Like It: A minimalist puzzle-platformer that emphasizes character-specific abilities to solve environmental puzzles.

Gish isn't your average hero. In fact, he's not your average anything...you see, Gish is a ball of tar. A Sunday stroll with his lady friend, Brea, goes awry when a shadowy figure emerges from an open manhole and pulls Brea below ground.

Why similar: Platformer 44.4%, Indie 27.1%, Local Multiplayer 7.8%, Local Co-Op 6.6%, Puzzle 5.7%

Why You'll Like It: A physics-based platformer that uses unique character movement to solve puzzles in a dark, atmospheric setting.

Your party finds themselves trapped in a Dungeon-themed Castle. Solve puzzles, crack riddles, dodge traps and discover hidden secrets in your adventure to Escape from Skull Dungeon!

Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 45.2%, Puzzle 30.2%, Co-op 24.6%

Why You'll Like It: A dungeon-crawling puzzle-platformer that shares the spooky aesthetic and room-based progression of Shuggy.

Two unique characters and a total of 4 islands and 16 levels to explore, Tobe's Vertical Adventure shall bring you back to the 16-bit era.

Why similar: Platformer 44.7%, Local Co-Op 36%, Indie 19.3%

Why You'll Like It: A charming platformer that focuses on vertical navigation and collecting items within a time limit.

N++ is a fast-paced, momentum-based platformer about darting around obstacles, narrowly evading enemies and collecting gold in a beautiful minimalist landscape.

Why similar: Platformer 28.5%, Local Co-Op 28.4%, Puzzle Platformer 18.5%, Local Multiplayer 15.2%, Indie 7.8%

Why You'll Like It: A physics-based platformer that focuses on momentum and precision, offering a high skill ceiling for puzzle-platformer fans.

A journey begins... A treacherous tower... Unravel its mysteries!Discover the secrets kept in the long abandoned Tesla Tower!Magnetism and other electromagnetic powers will help you explore a non-linear world of beautiful hand-drawn environments, in a steampunk-inspired vision of old Europe.

Why similar: Platformer 56.4%, Puzzle 16.1%, Puzzle Platformer 13.8%, Indie 8.7%, 2D 3.9%

Why You'll Like It: A puzzle-platformer that uses magnetism and electricity mechanics to create complex environmental challenges.

Extreme Exorcism is a paranormal platformer where every move you make comes back to haunt you.

Why similar: Platformer 58%, Indie 26.9%, Co-op 15.1%

Why You'll Like It: This action-platformer features a ghost-recording mechanic that forces you to deal with your past actions, similar to Shuggy's time-based puzzles.

You are Tiny, a nerdy inventor, who tries to reclaim his most beloved possession - Grandpa's underpants!

Why similar: Platformer 56.1%, Indie 23.5%, Puzzle 19.5%, Singleplayer 0.9%

Why You'll Like It: A physics-based puzzle-platformer that allows you to cut and manipulate the environment to solve problems.

Take control of the Seven Deadly Sins as you forge your destiny on a quest to troll humanity.

Why similar: Platformer 53.8%, Local Co-Op 26.3%, Indie 19.9%

Why You'll Like It: A co-op platformer where you control different characters with unique abilities to solve puzzles and defeat enemies.

When Blobolonia is threatened by an evil Emperor, the blob comes to Earth looking for help. Instead, he finds a young boy. Help the blob dethrone the evil Emperor that's terrorizing Blobolonia and establish a friendship with the blob that will last a lifetime.

Why similar: Platformer 42.8%, Puzzle Platformer 32.2%, Puzzle 18%, 2D 6%, Singleplayer 1.1%

Why You'll Like It: A classic puzzle-platformer where you transform your companion into various tools to solve environmental puzzles.

Oh hello dearie.. Babushka needs to clean up her big magical cellar. Use hag magic, or just hit stuff with your broom.

Why similar: Platformer 49.9%, Puzzle Platformer 31.2%, Puzzle 18.9%

Gravity Error is an indie 2D puzzle/platformer about changing gravity. Guide Force in his quest seeking emotional stableness in a set of levels and avoid being crushed. Solve the puzzles in multiple creative ways.

Why similar: Platformer 42.1%, Puzzle Platformer 21.2%, Puzzle 16.2%, Indie 15.5%, 2D 5%

Call Grandpops and tell him that dinner's ready? What sounds like a straightforward task from Mum becomes an adventure when Owyn leaves the safety of his house and enters a garden world where threats abound, and not even the slowest of creatures can be trusted...

Why similar: Platformer 46.4%, Puzzle Platformer 20.4%, Puzzle 14.8%, Indie 11.7%, 2D 5.3%

A paranoid computer issued a lock down on a mad scientist's mansion after his experiments and security robots broke loose, and you are trapped inside! Overcome all the pitfalls of the mansion in this action puzzle game! Test your skills and wit in nearly 200 levels!

Why similar: Indie 100%

Past Synergy is a 2 player co-op game that tests you and your friend's synergy. Divide the ability and roles between you and your friend to overcome the obstacles in a cave.

Why similar: Platformer 37.6%, Puzzle Platformer 20.8%, Puzzle 14.3%, Local Co-Op 12%, Co-op 5.8%

CO-OP is a 2.5D puzzle-platformer. You control two robots; R3D, who can absorb all the light sources around him, and BLU3, who converts that energy into an explosive power. They find themselves in what seems like a recycling facility, with drones analyzing their every move...

Why similar: Indie 34.7%, Co-op 34%, Puzzle Platformer 31.2%

Play as Sam, a kid that controls the dead! Defeat your enemies with magic and control their bodies to solve challenging puzzles!

Why similar: Platformer 31.8%, Puzzle Platformer 18.7%, Local Co-Op 18.3%, Puzzle 14.9%, Indie 11.2%

Join Shaun the Sheep and his friends Timmy and Shirley on this epic adventure journeying through caverns, the busy streets of London and through outer space all in search of the green grass of home. Now with new multiplayer modes, controller support, widescreen graphics and much, much more!

Why similar: Platformer 42.9%, Puzzle 35.2%, Indie 21%, Singleplayer 0.9%

Woodle Tree Adventures is an old school platform game with a catchy and unique art style! Explore a total of 6 worlds and save the lands with the magical water drops you'll find through your journey, bringing back peace and balance and finally becoming the new hero!

Why similar: Platformer 59.5%, Indie 21.4%, Local Co-Op 18.3%, Singleplayer 0.8%

Battle your way through a twisted graffiti world where your prowess in puzzle solving makes the difference between life & death!

Why similar: Platformer 74.5%, Indie 25.5%

The two adventurers Handy and Dandy have caused a dimensional tear which is now separating them and the entire cave where they have to solve platforming puzzles to reunite again in this 2D co-op game.

Why similar: Local Co-Op 37%, Indie 28.9%, Puzzle Platformer 19.1%, Co-op 15%

Play as a new reaper, completing quests, collecting spells, and gathering equipment to fight through hordes of enemies in this grim but whimsical 2D adventure!

Why similar: Platformer 39.5%, Local Co-Op 25.1%, Local Multiplayer 12.9%, Co-op 12.1%, Indie 7.3%

Wakey Wakey is a Puzzle Platformer with a unique world-bending twist. Navigate your everchanging bedroom, take control of new household objects, and overcome surprising obstacles to help this sleepy guy get a good night's rest.

Why similar: Platformer 46.3%, Puzzle Platformer 28%, Puzzle 17.9%, 2D 5.7%, Singleplayer 2.1%

Escape Goat 2 is a puzzle platformer game where you use machinery, the environment, and a friendly mouse to progress through a dungeon.

Why similar: Platformer 55.3%, Puzzle 20.5%, Indie 14.1%, Puzzle Platformer 7.1%, 2D 2.4%

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: Platformer 48.3%, Local Co-Op 26.1%, Indie 19.2%, 2D 5.4%, Singleplayer 1%

Offspring Fling is a game about a poor forest creature that has misplaced all of her children.

Why similar: Platformer 47.7%, Puzzle 19.1%, Puzzle Platformer 15.9%, Indie 13.4%, 2D 3%

You have to find out what happened in this fantastic world and help the Raccoon find his way home!

Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 57.2%, Puzzle 29.1%, Indie 11.3%, Singleplayer 2.4%

🦆 Marbles and 🐢 Checkers need your help finding their way home after being swept away in a storm. In this 90s buddy-platformer there's a ton of stuff to do and even more to collect!

Why similar: Platformer 50.2%, Local Co-Op 17%, Co-op 11.5%, Indie 8.9%, Local Multiplayer 6.8%

Kinduo is a local cooperative game where two elemental friends overcome obstacles to return to their island, push boxes, use electricity to connect objects, break ice blocks, blow things up and more in this cute and colorful co-op game!

Why similar: Platformer 27.5%, Local Co-Op 24.2%, Puzzle Platformer 19.7%, Co-op 9.4%, Local Multiplayer 8.8%

Playing a cute robot, you travel from room to room solving tough puzzles and overcoming tricky platforming that will test your skills. Collecting health is necessary, because when you die, all the health you’ve collected comes back. The catch is that you have to start over at the very beginning.

Why similar: Platformer 41.9%, Puzzle Platformer 20.9%, Indie 18.4%, Puzzle 16.9%, Singleplayer 2%

Minimalistic puzzle game telling about a tricky life situation, which gets your Hero. Mysterious world and treacherous enemies. Strange laws of this weird reality. Here the help of friends is more dangerous than the attack of enemies! Welcome to NEONomicon!

Why similar: Platformer 54.4%, Indie 23.9%, Puzzle Platformer 18%, 2D 3.6%

Play as the ultimate digital underdog in the Adventures of Pip,an action-platformer with a fresh gameplay twist inside a retro 32-bit world. Alas, Pip is an unlikely 1-pixel hero yet has the unique ability to absorb the pixels of his defeated enemies to evolve into three different forms.

Why similar: Platformer 57%, Puzzle Platformer 20.6%, Indie 12.3%, Puzzle 10.1%

Adventures of different characters with their unique atmosphere and puzzles.

Why similar: Platformer 52%, Puzzle 21.1%, Indie 14%, 2D 6.4%, Puzzle Platformer 4.3%

Command treasure hunters Wyv and Keep through an ancient Amazonian temple in search of the Lost Idol! Use quick reflexes and teamwork to conquer a gauntlet of 60 fiendish puzzles and deadly traps. Unlock the secrets of the mystical Xu'hutl pygmies and their terrifying overlord, the great Quetzecola.

Why similar: Platformer 54.9%, Indie 25.6%, Puzzle 19.4%

A platform-adventure game about time travelling, puzzle solving and a friendship between an Old Inventor and a Snail.

Why similar: Platformer 34.9%, Puzzle Platformer 29.3%, Puzzle 12.6%, Time Manipulation 11.5% ★, Indie 10.4%

The Watchmaker is an action adventure set in a strange steampunk world of giant clock mechanisms, where time has gone mad. Join Alexander, a clock tower keeper, on his quest to restore time to its natural rhythm!

Why similar: Platformer 32.7%, Puzzle Platformer 20.9%, Time Manipulation 16.5% ★, Puzzle 15.8%, Indie 14.1%

Explore thirteen different castles, overcoming a variety of puzzles and traps while you attempt to escape

Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 43.2%, Indie 32.1%, Puzzle 24.7%

Puns, and puzzles. Horrible puns and devious puzzles actually, along with several incorporeal entities are what makes Ghostory a pixel art puzzle adventure brimming with humour and intrigue. Take on the role of a cursed traveler, master your ghostly form, find a cure, and escape a perilous cave system.

Why similar: Platformer 38.4%, Puzzle Platformer 27.6%, Puzzle 15.8%, Indie 10.9%, 2D 5.5%

Spirits Abyss is a roguelite platformer with destructible terrain. Cast into the Abysm you must explore its diverse depths battling phantasmic meanies and plundering its useful treasures to find a way home... but does something nestle beyond the realmic veil of death?

Why similar: Platformer 47.2%, Local Co-Op 27.5%, Indie 9.7%, Co-op 8.9%, 2D 5.2%