- #1 Atomic Owl
97% matchVery Positive90% of 69 reviews2025
Dev: Monster TheaterPub: Eastasiasoft Limited
Windows · Linux
You are Hidalgo Bladewing, a bird with a beef. Hack, slash, platform, and soar through a beautifully chaotic pixel-art neonscape in your quest to save your feathered friends. Challenging retro-inspired platforming gameplay, transforming weapons, and fowl Ninja action await.
Why similar: Adventure 100%
- #2 Drill Bird
95% matchVery Positive98% of 297 reviews2025
Dev: Sebastian LarssonPub: Perfect Random
Windows
Drill Bird is a cozy-yet-tense digging platformer where every trip underground counts. Play as a bird fallen from the sky, in search for powerful ores to hatch your Egg. Get home before night falls, upgrade abilities, grow stronger, and unfold a sincere bird story about survival, care and purpose.
Why similar: Casual 100%
- #3 PIXELMAN
96% matchVery Positive82% of 277 reviews2018
Dev: Kindermann Corp.
Windows
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 5.9 hrs≥1hr: 79%
PIXELMAN is a retro styled, action-filled, high-score chaser arcade game, where you control the title character in his mission to rescue the citizens of Pixville from the evil Baron Von Pixel and his contraptions.
Why similar: Casual 54.7%, Indie 45.3%
- #4 Adventure in the Tower of Flight
96% matchVery Positive84% of 101 reviews2015
Dev: Pixel Barrage Entertainment, Inc.
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.6 hrsMean: 5.3 hrs≥1hr: 97%
Adventure in the Tower of Flight is a retro-styled platformer in which you fly instead of jump! You are Wing, a young adventurer. Wing must climb a seeming endless the tower and collect all five known relics held within to become the ruler of the known world.
Why similar: Adventure 58.5%, Indie 41.5%
- #5 Pingorile
92% matchVery Positive91% of 53 reviews2025
Dev: John B.
Windows
A retro-style 2D platformer where you play as a penguin collecting yellow budgies to fulfill his dream of flying. Explore diverse levels, jump past obstacles, and enjoy a colorful, music-filled adventure.
Why similar: Adventure 76.4%, Indie 23.6%
- #6 Venture Kid
94% matchVery Positive83% of 224 reviews2018
Dev: Snikkabo ASPub: FDG Entertainment
Windows
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 4.2 hrs≥1hr: 92%
A 8-bit retro action platformer that goes beyond just pixels and chiptunes
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #7 Bomb Chicken
93% matchVery Positive89% of 346 reviews2019
Dev: Nitrome
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.5 hrsMean: 3.0 hrs≥1hr: 56%
After a freak accident, a seemingly ordinary chicken becomes a bomb laying free range hero. Explore the versatile mechanic of laying bombs in this explosive exploration platformer.
Why similar: Adventure 36.3%, Casual 33.8%, Indie 30%
- #8 Pulut Adventure
94% matchMixed62% of 92 reviews2015
Dev: yayapipiPub: Yayapipi Studio
Windows
Median: 12 minMean: 7.0 hrs≥1hr: 19%
Pulut Adventure is a 2D platform game with over 30 different stylistic levels and exciting mechanics. Defeat the enemy and collect different of weapon to advance your abilities. You can use the summon skills and flying mode to explore the world.
Why similar: Adventure 56.4%, Indie 43.6%
- #9 Owlboy
91% matchVery Positive84% of 6,043 reviews2016
Dev: D-Pad Studio
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 5.1 hrsMean: 7.8 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Owlboy is a story-driven platform adventure game, where you can fly and explore a brand new world in the clouds! Pick up your friends, and bring them with you as you explore the open skies, in one of the most detailed adventures of this era.
Why similar: Adventure 56.6%, Indie 43.4%
- #10 Froggo's Adventure: Verdant Venture
87% matchVery Positive97% of 281 reviews2024
Dev: SmellyFrog
Windows
A Simple and Bite-sized retro 2D Platformer about a frog on another side-scrolling adventure
Why similar: Adventure 72.1%, Indie 27.9%
- #11 Super Grappling Gecko
89% matchVery Positive99% of 77 reviews2021
Dev: CalangamesPub: Bee Legacy Publishing
Windows
Swing over spikes and pits, find the secrets of a mysterious tree and overcome difficult challenges as a brave tiny lizard in this small adventure.
Why similar: Indie 37.6%, Casual 37.2%, Adventure 25.3%
- #12 Duck Souls
90% matchVery Positive98% of 337 reviews2018
Dev: Viridino Studios
Windows
Duck Souls is a fast-paced, action platformer about a little duck with an incredible skill to dash and a mission: find all the lost eggs in order to save his species.
Why similar: Adventure 36.3%, Casual 33.8%, Indie 29.9%
- #13 Bird Game
91% matchMostly Positive77% of 74 reviews2018
Dev: Bryan Tabor
Windows · Mac · Linux
Bird Game is a short, zen-like fly 'em up where you navigate a bird through a black-and-white line drawing landscape.
Why similar: Adventure 56.4%, Indie 43.6%
- #14 Bird Game
84% matchVery Positive96% of 203 reviews2025
Dev: Black Jacket
Windows
Bird Game is an abstract, exploration-based RPG with unique, stylized visuals and puzzle mechanics
Why similar: Adventure 100%
- #15 The King's Bird
88% matchMixed69% of 596 reviews2018
Dev: Serenity Forge
Windows
Median: 24 minMean: 4.4 hrs≥1hr: 32%
Escape into a world kept secret by a tyrant, and discover the truth about your freedom. Run, jump, and fly through forgotten lost kingdoms with a uniquely momentum-based flying mechanic.
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #16 Aritana and the Harpy's Feather
89% matchVery Positive91% of 125 reviews2014
Dev: Duaik Entretenimento
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 4.0 hrs≥1hr: 92%
Aritana and the Harpy's Feather is a 2.5D platform game with an innovative stance and combo system. Race against time, face the challenges of Harpy Mountain, confront the Spirits of the Forest, and venture into the lands of the fearsome Mapinguari.
Why similar: Adventure 55.9%, Indie 44.1%
- #17 Inner silence
86% matchMixed68% of 190 reviews2017
Dev: Volens Nolens Games
Windows
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 4.4 hrs≥1hr: 96%
Inner silence - cheerful 2D platformer puzzle game
Why similar: Adventure 38.4%, Casual 34.1%, Indie 27.4%
- #18 Adventures of Pip
86% matchVery Positive87% of 275 reviews2015
Dev: Tic Toc Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.2 hrsMean: 3.8 hrs≥1hr: 52%
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: Adventure 55.4%, Indie 44.6%
- #19 Rolling Bird
84% matchVery Positive93% of 196 reviews2018
Dev: Hijong ParkPub: PsychoFlux Entertainment
Windows
Rolling Bird is a retro arcade shooter, heavily inspired by Namco's 1986 classic 'Rolling Thunder'.
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #20 Jet Gunner
85% matchMostly Positive74% of 627 reviews2014
Dev: Sinclair Strange
Windows
Median: 1.8 hrsMean: 2.8 hrs≥1hr: 67%
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: Adventure 51.2%, Indie 48.8%
- #21 Super Jagua
83% matchVery Positive81% of 117 reviews2016
Dev: cbritez
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 3.6 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Super Jagua is a classic 2D retro-style single-player platformer inspired by the greatest platformers of the 80s. Run, jump, swim, discover lots of secrets, fight brutal bosses and more in this classic NES inspired adventure.
Why similar: Adventure 51.8%, Casual 48.2%
- #22 This Is Not A Jumping Game
82% matchVery Positive96% of 123 reviews2018
Dev: Heero
Windows
This is a 2D platform game but not just a "jumping" game. Action, Puzzles, funny incidents. This is a game that makes you happy.
Why similar: Adventure 38.1%, Casual 33.8%, Indie 28.1%
- #23 Songbird Symphony
80% matchVery Positive90% of 680 reviews2019
Dev: Joysteak StudiosPub: PQube
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.9 hrsMean: 5.2 hrs≥1hr: 59%
Musical Metroidvania, with pixel art to die for. Guide orphaned chick 'Birb', on a platform adventure, as he faces off against the denizens of the forest in rhythm-action boss battles. Acclaimed for its gorgeous animation, and heart-warming storytelling, as Birb strives to discover his true origins.
Why similar: Adventure 57.5%, Indie 42.5%
- #24 Knights of the Road
75% matchVery Positive92% of 91 reviews2024
Dev: Shiny Byte Studio
Windows · Mac · Linux
An adventure game with focus on acrobatics and discovering secrets. Classic platformer gameplay in the spirit of the 8-bit era games.
Why similar: Adventure 61.1%, Indie 38.9%
- #25 Broccoli Bob
82% matchMixed68% of 108 reviews2017
Dev: Timberwolf StudiosPub: My Way Games
Windows
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 3.9 hrs≥1hr: 81%
"Broccoli Bob" is an adventure game that combined with puzzle.
Why similar: Indie 46%, Casual 27.2%, Adventure 26.8%
- #26 Grapple Dog
77% matchVery Positive87% of 852 reviews2022
Dev: Medallion GamesPub: Super Rare Originals
Windows
Median: 1.0 hrsMean: 9.4 hrs≥1hr: 50%
Jump, Swing and Zip your way through colourful worlds and exciting challenges in this unique 2D action-platformer! Master the power of the Grapple on your adventure to save the world!
Why similar: Adventure 60.7%, Indie 39.3%
- #27 Pichon
81% matchVery Positive88% of 66 reviews2018
Dev: Lisandro LoreaPub: Red Mage Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 3.6 hrs≥1hr: 81%
Pichón is a puzzle platformer where you play as a chubby bird that's constantly bouncing. Fast reflex and good timing will allow you to sort obstacles, activate secret passages and collect the necessary gems to be able to open the door at the end of each level.
Why similar: Casual 100%
- #28 Cattie
76% matchVery Positive91% of 92 reviews2023
Dev: Vergiu
Windows
Cattie is a platform game with retro graphics.
Why similar: Adventure 34.9%, Indie 33%, Casual 32.1%
- #29 重明鸟 Bright Bird
79% matchMostly Positive74% of 781 reviews2020
Dev: 北京星磐科技
Windows
Median: 4.8 hrsMean: 9.9 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Bright Bird is designed to be a seamless side-scrolling world full of challenging puzzles. Begin your exciting journey, find the bright bird to save the world!
Why similar: Adventure 56.8%, Indie 43.2%
- #30 Down Ward
79% matchVery Positive86% of 80 reviews2019
Dev: Fisholith
Windows
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 100%
- #31 Queen of Seas
81% matchMostly Positive79% of 159 reviews2017
Dev: KomBits Game Studio
Windows
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 4.4 hrs≥1hr: 82%
“Queen of Seas” is a casual platformer game. The game theme is about Yemanjá, the Queen of Seas in afro-brazilian religion. You play as a fisherman’s son, that need to dive deep and deliver offerings to the Queen of Seas poof his family’s faith.
Why similar: Adventure 37.5%, Casual 33.5%, Indie 29%
- #32 Chicken Journey
73% matchVery Positive96% of 452 reviews2023
Dev: loonyware
Windows
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 5.0 hrs≥1hr: 76%
Play as an adorable chicken in this relaxing platformer. Jump, climb and solve puzzles to find the answer to the ULTIMATE question a chicken can ask...
Why similar: Adventure 56.7%, Casual 43.3%
- #33 Fowl Damage
71% matchVery Positive93% of 149 reviews2024
Dev: May GardensPub: Red Nexus Games Inc.
Windows
Fowl Damage is an atmospheric puzzle platformer where your default jump provides enough fall damage to destroy you! Carefully manage your jumps and falls as you adventure through this chilling, beautiful, and occasionally cute world.
Why similar: Adventure 64.9%, Indie 35.1%
- #34 Magic Forest
78% matchMostly Positive71% of 62 reviews2017
Dev: Sultan.emrPub: Conglomerate 5
Windows
Magic Forest is a classic platformer in which you learn a little history of the travels of the rabbit
Why similar: Adventure 36.7%, Casual 34.1%, Indie 29.2%
- #35 Flappy Souls
71% matchVery Positive95% of 86 reviews2023
Dev: Medivelion
Windows
A mix of Flappy Bird and Dark Souls
Why similar: Casual 79.7%, Indie 20.3%
- #36 Duck Dash
67% matchVery Positive86% of 73 reviews2025
Dev: Levi Soren
Windows
A fun and simple 2D platformer game about a duck named Scruffles. Fight your way through 10 levels with a smooth feeling movement system.
Why similar: Adventure 70.6%, Indie 29.4%
- #37 Green Game: TimeSwapper
77% matchVery Positive88% of 95 reviews2016
Dev: iFun4all S.A.
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 4.4 hrs≥1hr: 99%
It’s a challenging 2D arcade game where you are a master of time. Set it to past, present or future to control various mechanisms, and make sure that a mechanical bird will safely reach the end of the level. Prepare to die a lot – you will be sliced, squashed and crushed.
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #38 Eared Hero
78% matchMostly Negative27% of 145 reviews2017
Dev: Dwarven potion brewPub: Sacred Grab Games
Windows
Median: 12 minMean: 22.2 hrs≥1hr: 29%
Eared Hero is a simple 2D game with elements of survival, which will delight you with beautiful graphics and simple gameplay. In this platformer you have to pass diverse, challenging levels for the small, defenseless rabbit.
Why similar: Adventure 40.2%, Casual 32.7%, Indie 27.1%
- #39 Cavegirl Adventures
74% matchMixed58% of 59 reviews2021
Dev: Bedrock Tribes
Windows
Cavegirl adventures is a game for platformer fans. Jump across vibrant levels and collect giant eggs to feed your tribe. Watch out for sharp thorns and dangerous plants on your way to victory!
Why similar: Adventure 40.4%, Casual 38.8%, Indie 20.8%
- #40 Pru the Pigeon
69% matchVery Positive98% of 107 reviews2024
Dev: kurigamedev
Windows · Linux
Pru the Pigeon is a bite-sized 3D platformer with precise and expressive controls. Join Pru on his quest to save his land Asasco. Explore and collect everything in sight!
Why similar: Adventure 68.5%, Indie 31.5%
- #41 Spark the Electric Jester
74% matchVery Positive92% of 1,467 reviews2017
Dev: Feperd Games
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 5.1 hrs≥1hr: 76%
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: Indie 56.3%, Adventure 43.7%
- #42 Romino's Adventure
72% matchVery Positive94% of 54 reviews2021
Dev: InterDan
Windows · Linux
A blocky puzzle platformer adventure.
Why similar: Adventure 70.1%, Indie 29.9%
- #43 Featherfall
73% matchVery Positive80% of 177 reviews2020
Dev: Sokpop Collective
Windows · Mac
Featherfall is a soulslike RPG adventure about a bird leaving its nest.
Why similar: Adventure 56.2%, Indie 43.8%
- #44 Secrets of Rætikon
76% matchMixed60% of 491 reviews2014
Dev: Broken Rules
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 24 minMean: 2.7 hrs≥1hr: 29%
Ruthless bird versus bird action. Wild animals and the artefacts of a mysterious ancient culture. A game full of challenge and discovery – unlike anything you've played before.
Why similar: Adventure 54.3%, Indie 45.7%
- #45 Jet Kave Adventure
71% matchVery Positive86% of 126 reviews2021
Dev: 7Levels
Windows
Jetpack through the prehistoric world in this Stone-Fiction adventure platformer. Enjoy challenging boss fights, flying over pitfalls, smashing through walls, knocking out enemies, and manipulating objects as you halt the alien threat once and for all.
Why similar: Casual 100%
- #46 Tribal Hunter
66% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 1,613 reviews2022
Dev: Melonsoda Soft
Windows
Median: 10.3 hrsMean: 17.5 hrs≥1hr: 80%
An action platformer with size-changing mechanics. Be quick and nimble or large and in-charge!
Why similar: Casual 55.6%, Indie 44.4%
- #47 Power Hover
73% matchVery Positive90% of 326 reviews2017
Dev: ODDROK
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 4.7 hrs≥1hr: 95%
Take control of the hoverboarding robots, explore the desolate world, defy gravity, dive into the oceans and ride with the sandworms on the dunes! Stylish graphics and groovy soundtrack will take you to an epic adventure in this action/racing game.
Why similar: Adventure 59.5%, Indie 40.5%
- #48 Canyon Capers
75% matchMixed45% of 1,899 reviews2014
Dev: CrazyMoo GamesPub: Sunset Sugar Studios
Windows
Median: 2.5 hrsMean: 4.4 hrs≥1hr: 94%
Canyon Capers is a retro style platform game brought right up to date, with tons of levels, modes, collectables and secrets.
Why similar: Casual 50.6%, Indie 49.4%
- #49 FOX n FORESTS
72% matchMostly Positive75% of 193 reviews2018
Dev: Bonus Level EntertainmentPub: astragon Entertainment
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 5.0 hrs≥1hr: 71%
FOX n FORESTS is a 16-bit style action platformer with RPG elements! Switch seasons on the fly and wield your crossbow to unveil the mystery of the 5th season.
Why similar: Adventure 56.4%, Indie 43.6%
- #50 Vibrant Venture
68% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 658 reviews2020
Dev: Semag Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Vibrant Venture is a singleplayer 2D adventure platformer game featuring a quirky cast of characters! The game features four playable characters with multiple unique abilities that can be combined for extremely versatile, fluid and fun movement!
Why similar: Adventure 71.3%, Indie 28.7%
- #51 Super Catboy
64% matchMostly Positive77% of 354 reviews2023
Dev: PixelpogoPub: Assemble Entertainment
Windows · Mac
Median: 48 minMean: 3.1 hrs≥1hr: 42%
Super Catboy is an action-packed platformer created in a high-bit pixel art style, combining the best elements of the golden 16-bit platformer era of the 90s with some ‘pawsome’ new mechanics! And let’s not forget; there’s plenty of CAT CONTENT!
Why similar: Adventure 52%, Indie 48%
- #52 Raven's Hike
67% matchVery Positive93% of 67 reviews2021
Dev: Wired Dreams Studio
Windows
No jumping, no walking. Raven's Hike is an unique 2d platformer in which all movement is based on her Grappling Hook
Why similar: Adventure 64.4%, Indie 35.6%
- #53 Fallen Leaf
62% matchVery Positive91% of 274 reviews2024
Dev: Delta Shore Games
Windows
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: Indie 100%
- #54 Dogurai
69% matchVery Positive96% of 77 reviews2019
Dev: Hungry Bear Games
Windows · Linux
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 100%
- #55 ORCS
70% matchVery Positive82% of 413 reviews2016
Dev: Pixel vs Pixel
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 3.3 hrs≥1hr: 80%
ORCS is an action/platformer 2D old school inspirated by classic like Castlevania and Ghosts 'n Goblins.
Why similar: Adventure 52.1%, Indie 47.9%
- #56 AV-17
70% matchVery Positive80% of 76 reviews2018
Dev: WANZUNGDEV
Windows · Linux
AV-17 is a FREE 2D action platformer inspired by information technology and BUBBLE BOBBLE!!
Why similar: Casual 55.4%, Indie 44.6%
- #57 Colors! Platform
65% matchVery Positive96% of 57 reviews2022
Dev: Vergiu
Windows
Colors! Platform is a minimalist casual platform game.
Why similar: Casual 61.3%, Indie 38.7%
- #58 Pixel Devil and the Broken Cartridge
70% matchMixed61% of 109 reviews2019
Dev: Level Evil
Windows
Classic platformer in the style of Pixel-art. The main character goes to the world of 8-bit games to save his girlfriend. Help him to find new abilities and find out who is behind the abduction of the girl.
Why similar: Adventure 53.1%, Indie 46.9%
- #59 Kitten Lost Her Box
65% matchMixed68% of 66 reviews2023
Dev: sadimakegames
Windows · Mac · Linux
Help tiny Kitten get back her favorite paper box only with her agile actions. In this tight platformer kitten brave hand-crafted challenges, meet cute creatures and finally fight with her old enemy!
Why similar: Casual 51.7%, Adventure 48.3%
- #60 Aureole - Wings of Hope
58% matchVery Positive98% of 99 reviews2025
Dev: Team StargazersPub: JanduSoft
Windows
At sonic speeds, Aureole - Wings of Hope takes platforming to the literal skies! Join Ramila and Ryleth on their crusade to reclaim their home from demonic forces in this unique physics-based side-scrolling game.
Why similar: Adventure 60.7%, Indie 39.3%