- #1 AeroBird
96% matchVery Positive92% of 113 reviews2026
Dev: POYANA BRADYLUIPub: Poyana Bradylui
Windows
AeroBird is a fast-paced acrobatic platformer where every jump matters.
Why similar: Adventure 48.5%, Casual 40.3%, Indie 11.2%
- #2 Atomic Owl
95% matchVery Positive89% of 80 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.
- #3 Powernaut VANGARDT
97% matchMostly Positive73% of 51 reviews2017
Dev: ConfoundGreatJob
Windows
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 3.6 hrs≥1hr: 71%
Fight for your life in this state-of-the-art 8-bit platformer!
Why similar: Adventure 39.7%, Casual 31.5%, Indie 28.8%
- #4 PIXELMAN
96% matchVery Positive81% of 278 reviews2018
Dev: Kindermann Corp.
Windows
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 5.8 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 54.9%, Indie 45.1%
- #5 Drill Bird
94% matchVery Positive98% of 394 reviews2025
Dev: Sebastian LarssonPub: Perfect Random
Windows
Median: 1.1 hrsMean: 1.9 hrs≥1hr: 59%
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%
- #6 Adventure in the Tower of Flight
94% matchVery Positive84% of 101 reviews2015
Dev: Pixel Barrage Entertainment, Inc.
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.6 hrsMean: 5.2 hrs≥1hr: 98%
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 59.5%, Indie 40.5%
- #7 Pingorile
91% matchVery Positive90% of 61 reviews2025
Dev: John B.
Windows · Mac
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 77.2%, Indie 22.8%
- #8 Venture Kid
92% matchVery Positive84% of 230 reviews2018
Dev: Snikkabo ASPub: FDG Entertainment
Windows
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 4.3 hrs≥1hr: 92%
A 8-bit retro action platformer that goes beyond just pixels and chiptunes
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #9 Pulut Adventure
93% matchMixed62% of 93 reviews2015
Dev: yayapipiPub: Yayapipi Studio
Windows
Median: 12 minMean: 7.1 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 57.5%, Indie 42.5%
- #10 Bomb Chicken
91% matchVery Positive89% of 351 reviews2019
Dev: Nitrome
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.5 hrsMean: 3.2 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 37.1%, Casual 33.5%, Indie 29.4%
- #11 Bird Game
87% matchVery Positive95% of 254 reviews2025
Dev: Black Jacket
Windows
Bird Game is an abstract, exploration-based RPG with unique, stylized visuals and puzzle mechanics
Why similar: Adventure 100%
- #12 Owlboy
90% matchVery Positive84% of 6,120 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 57.6%, Indie 42.4%
- #13 Super Grappling Gecko
88% matchVery Positive99% of 78 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: Casual 37.1%, Indie 37%, Adventure 26%
- #14 Duck Souls
89% matchVery Positive98% of 343 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 37.2%, Casual 33.6%, Indie 29.3%
- #15 Froggo's Adventure: Verdant Venture
85% matchVery Positive97% of 302 reviews2024
Dev: SmellyFrog
Windows
A Simple and Bite-sized retro 2D Platformer about a frog on another side-scrolling adventure
Why similar: Adventure 72.5%, Indie 27.5%
- #16 Bird Game
89% 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 57.5%, Indie 42.5%
- #17 The King's Bird
86% matchMixed69% of 601 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%
- #18 Aritana and the Harpy's Feather
86% matchVery Positive92% of 131 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 57%, Indie 43%
- #19 Inner silence
84% matchMixed68% of 193 reviews2017
Dev: Volens Nolens Games
Windows
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 4.3 hrs≥1hr: 96%
Inner silence - cheerful 2D platformer puzzle game
Why similar: Adventure 39.3%, Casual 33.8%, Indie 26.9%
- #20 Adventures of Pip
84% matchVery Positive87% of 277 reviews2015
Dev: Tic Toc Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.2 hrsMean: 4.0 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 56.5%, Indie 43.5%
- #21 Rolling Bird
82% matchVery Positive93% of 201 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%
- #22 Queen of Seas
83% matchMostly Positive79% of 163 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 38.4%, Casual 33.2%, Indie 28.4%
- #23 Jet Gunner
82% 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 52.3%, Indie 47.7%
- #24 Cattie
76% matchVery Positive90% of 94 reviews2023
Dev: Vergiu
Windows
Cattie is a platform game with retro graphics.
Why similar: Adventure 35.7%, Indie 32.4%, Casual 31.9%
- #25 Songbird Symphony
79% matchVery Positive90% of 690 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 58.5%, Indie 41.5%
- #26 Super Jagua
81% matchVery Positive82% of 119 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 52.5%, Casual 47.5%
- #27 Knights of the Road
75% matchVery Positive92% of 93 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 62.1%, Indie 37.9%
- #28 This Is Not A Jumping Game
79% 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 38.9%, Casual 33.6%, Indie 27.5%
- #29 Pichon
80% 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%
- #30 Broccoli Bob
81% matchMixed68% of 109 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 45.4%, Adventure 27.5%, Casual 27.1%
- #31 重明鸟 Bright Bird
78% matchMostly Positive74% of 781 reviews2020
Dev: 北京星磐科技
Windows
Median: 4.8 hrsMean: 9.8 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 57.9%, Indie 42.1%
- #32 Down Ward
78% 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%
- #33 Chicken Journey
73% matchVery Positive96% of 474 reviews2023
Dev: loonyware
Windows
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 4.9 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 57.4%, Casual 42.6%
- #34 Grapple Dog
74% matchVery Positive85% of 931 reviews2022
Dev: Medallion GamesPub: Super Rare Originals
Windows
Median: 1.0 hrsMean: 8.9 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 61.7%, Indie 38.3%
- #35 Fowl Damage
70% matchVery Positive94% of 157 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 66.1%, Indie 33.9%
- #36 Tribal Hunter
70% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 1,655 reviews2022
Dev: Melonsoda Soft
Windows
Median: 10.0 hrsMean: 17.4 hrs≥1hr: 80%
An action platformer with size-changing mechanics. Be quick and nimble or large and in-charge!
Why similar: Casual 55.5%, Indie 44.5%
- #37 Spark the Electric Jester
74% matchVery Positive92% of 1,494 reviews2017
Dev: Feperd Games
Windows
Median: 3.7 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 55.2%, Adventure 44.8%
- #38 Magic Forest
77% matchMixed70% of 63 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 37.5%, Casual 33.9%, Indie 28.7%
- #39 ORCS
75% matchVery Positive82% of 417 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 53.2%, Indie 46.8%
- #40 Green Game: TimeSwapper
76% matchVery Positive89% of 97 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%
- #41 Duck Dash
66% matchVery Positive87% of 82 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 71.5%, Indie 28.5%
- #42 Eared Hero
77% matchMostly Negative27% of 146 reviews2017
Dev: Dwarven potion brewPub: Sacred Grab Games
Windows
Median: 12 minMean: 21.7 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 41%, Casual 32.4%, Indie 26.6%
- #43 Cavegirl Adventures
73% matchMixed57% of 61 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 41.2%, Casual 38.4%, Indie 20.4%
- #44 Flappy Souls
70% matchVery Positive96% of 89 reviews2023
Dev: Medivelion
Windows
A mix of Flappy Bird and Dark Souls
Why similar: Casual 79.9%, Indie 20.1%
- #45 Pru the Pigeon
68% matchVery Positive98% of 117 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 69.4%, Indie 30.6%
- #46 Romino's Adventure
71% matchVery Positive95% of 55 reviews2021
Dev: InterDan
Windows · Linux
A blocky puzzle platformer adventure.
Why similar: Adventure 71%, Indie 29%
- #47 Featherfall
72% matchMostly Positive79% of 182 reviews2020
Dev: Sokpop Collective
Windows · Mac
Featherfall is a soulslike RPG adventure about a bird leaving its nest.
Why similar: Adventure 57.2%, Indie 42.8%
- #48 Go Slimey Go!
61% matchVery Positive99% of 156 reviews2025
Dev: TembacPub: Tembac and Chabbie
Windows · Mac
Go Slimey Go! is a fast-paced 2D platformer built around momentum, exploration, and satisfying movement. Featuring colorful pixel art, handcrafted levels full of secrets, and a highly energetic soundtrack.
Why similar: Adventure 38.2%, Casual 32.7%, Indie 29.2%
- #49 Jet Kave Adventure
69% matchVery Positive86% of 135 reviews2021
Dev: 7Levels
Windows
Median: 1.2 hrsMean: 8.0 hrs≥1hr: 58%
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%
- #50 Power Hover
71% matchVery Positive90% of 334 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 60.6%, Indie 39.4%
- #51 Vibrant Venture
67% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 662 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 72.2%, Indie 27.8%
- #52 Canyon Capers
73% 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 50.9%, Indie 49.1%
- #53 Dispersio
71% matchVery Positive89% of 91 reviews2016
Dev: Achpile
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 48 minMean: 6.5 hrs≥1hr: 47%
Dispersio is a retro-style action platformer. As you progress through the game, you will have to use and combine special abilities, such as dashing, wall-jumping and more. There's even a hard mode for hardcore players.
Why similar: Adventure 56.7%, Indie 43.3%
- #54 Secrets of Rætikon
72% matchMixed60% of 495 reviews2014
Dev: Broken Rules
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 24 minMean: 2.8 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 56.8%, Indie 43.2%
- #55 Cave Crawler
63% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 3,123 reviews2022
Dev: Evan Youssef
Windows
Cave Crawler is a short, 2D side-scrolling action platformer. Explore caves filled with interesting enemies and fun platforming challenges.
Why similar: Adventure 41.7%, Casual 40.3%, Indie 18%
- #56 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 65.3%, Indie 34.7%
- #57 Fallen Leaf
61% matchVery Positive91% of 293 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%
- #58 Super Catboy
63% matchMostly Positive77% of 386 reviews2023
Dev: PixelpogoPub: Assemble Entertainment
Windows · Mac
Median: 48 minMean: 3.0 hrs≥1hr: 41%
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 53%, Indie 47%
- #59 Dogurai
68% 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%
- #60 Colors! Platform
65% matchVery Positive96% of 57 reviews2022
Dev: Vergiu
Windows
Colors! Platform is a minimalist casual platform game.
Why similar: Casual 61.6%, Indie 38.4%