Games Like BirdGut

The ground starts shaking, light bulbs are breaking - and something rather unusual is happening right behind the walls of your very room. Equipped with nothing but wit and courage, you slowly descend into a world inhabited by avian folk and seemingly deadly furniture monsters.

Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 33.9%, Hand-drawn 25.1%, Platformer 12.9%, Puzzle 6.6%, Adventure 6%

Why You'll Like It: Features a stunning hand-drawn aesthetic and intricate puzzle-platforming mechanics that mirror the atmospheric depth of BirdGut.

A unique adventure game filled with beautiful puzzles all hand-drawn in an original 2D style . Out of Line follows the adventures of San in a quest to escape the Factory that was once home. Dive into a story set in a mysterious world that is revealed through multiple chapters.

Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 35.7%, Hand-drawn 23.9%, Platformer 15.2%, Puzzle 5.4%, Adventure 5.2%

Why You'll Like It: A beautiful hand-drawn 2D puzzle-platformer that shares the same focus on environmental storytelling and unique art direction.

Figment is an action-adventure game that invites you to explore a unique surreal universe filled with music, humor and multi layered narrative. Join Dusty and his ever-optimistic friend, Piper, on an adventure through the different sides of the mind seeking to restore the courage that's been lost.

Why similar: Hand-drawn 38.1%, Adventure 16.9%, Funny 12.6%, Indie 12.2%, Puzzle 11%

Why You'll Like It: Offers a surreal, hand-drawn world filled with quirky humor and puzzle-solving that captures the bizarre charm of the seed game.

Pikuniku is an absurdly wonderful puzzle-exploration game that takes place in a strange but playful world where not everything is as happy as it seems. Help peculiar characters overcome struggles, uncover a deep state conspiracy, and start a little revolution in this delightful dystopian adventure!

Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 21.9%, Platformer 17.6%, Adventure 12.5%, Funny 12.1%, Indie 10.6%

Why You'll Like It: A vibrant and funny 2D platformer that balances simple mechanics with a strange, anti-establishment narrative.

BOOR is a 2D puzzle-platformer game, where you play as a girl with the ability to multiply herself, stranded on Eden, a beautiful but strange world, full of challenging puzzles with platforming elements and a refreshing gameplay.

Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 37.3%, Platformer 18.6%, Difficult 9.2%, Adventure 8.4%, Indie 7.1%

Why You'll Like It: A 2D puzzle-platformer that shares the indie spirit and atmospheric, hand-drawn visual style of BirdGut.

Help little Peet hack-and-slash his way through a beautifully haunting coma. A hand-drawn action-adventure through a dreamy world filled with fleshy monsters, insane grown-ups, and sad children looking for their mommies.

Why similar: Platformer 37.2%, Adventure 18.1%, Casual 12.7%, Psychological Horror 9.5%, Indie 9.3%

Why You'll Like It: A story-rich, hand-drawn adventure that explores dark, surreal themes through a unique platforming lens.

Pounce inside of your cozy armored mech and set off on a dangerous trek through an alien underworld full of irritable creatures and treacherous obstacles in a valiant effort to save your stranded captain and his crashed spaceship.

Why similar: Platformer 36.5%, Indie 20.6%, Adventure 18.8%, 2D 12.6%, Difficult 8.2%

Why You'll Like It: Features a charming, humorous 2D adventure with an animal protagonist navigating a hostile, mechanical environment.

Slime-san was minding his own business when suddenly… A giant worm appeared and gobbled him up! Deep within the worm’s belly, Slime-san has to face a decision: Be digested by the incoming wall of stomach acid... Or jump, slide and slime his way through the worm and back out its mouth!

Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 28.5%, Platformer 26.8%, Difficult 16.1%, Funny 11.6%, Adventure 8%

Why You'll Like It: A fast-paced, funny 2D platformer that matches the chaotic energy and precision required in BirdGut.

Tails of Iron is an epic RPG Adventure with punishingly brutal combat. As Redgi, heir to the throne, you must embark on a perilous quest to reclaim your Kingdom. Explore a deceivingly charming world. Assemble a band of brave companions. Banish the merciless Frog clan!

Why similar: Difficult 35.9%, Adventure 28.6%, 2D 21%, Indie 8.6%, Singleplayer 5.9%

Why You'll Like It: A beautifully hand-drawn adventure featuring an insect-like world that captures the gritty, dark atmosphere of a tiny creature in a big world.

BLACKHOLE is an award-winning hardcore platformer with over 15 hours of story-driven sci-fi comedy and gravity-twisting puzzles. Complete Edition out now!

Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 40.1%, Platformer 14.3%, Difficult 13.6%, Adventure 9.5%, Indie 6.9%

Why You'll Like It: A difficult and humorous puzzle-platformer that features a similar blend of sci-fi absurdity and platforming challenges.

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 41.5%, Puzzle Platformer 18.3%, Indie 15.2%, Puzzle 13.1%, Casual 6.7%

Why You'll Like It: A tight, challenging puzzle-platformer that emphasizes clever environmental manipulation in a 2D space.

Machinarium is the award-winning independent adventure game developed by the makers of Samorost series, Botanicula and CHUCHEL. Help Josef the robot save his girlfriend Berta kidnapped by the Black Cap Brotherhood gang!

Why similar: Hand-drawn 47%, Puzzle 13.2%, Adventure 12.2%, 2D 9.5%, Casual 8.3%

Why You'll Like It: A classic hand-drawn puzzle game with a distinct, quirky personality and a focus on environmental interaction.

Adventure through bizarre and intricately made levels in this 2D platformer game.

Why similar: Hand-drawn 40.4%, Platformer 34%, Adventure 15.7%, 2D 4%, Singleplayer 2.5%

Why You'll Like It: An abstract, hand-drawn platformer that focuses on a surreal, experimental experience similar to BirdGut.

Take on the role of Six, a lone child lost in a massive metal vessel known as the Maw, surrounded by dangerous, distorted versions of adults. You’ll need to do your best to escape in one piece or your fate will be worse than you ever dared dream.

Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 49.6%, Platformer 16.1%, Adventure 12.5%, Puzzle 8.2%, Indie 6.1%

Why You'll Like It: Provides a dark, atmospheric puzzle-platforming experience where the protagonist is a small, vulnerable creature in a massive, dangerous world.

From the creators of Hero Siege, Squishy the Suicidal Pig is a puzzle platformer with a counterintuitive goal where you play as Squishy, a pig wearing a yellow sweater who's trying to reach his parents in animal heaven by completing his deal with the devil.You asked for a challenge, now you have it!

Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 37.1%, Platformer 26.1%, Indie 8.9%, Difficult 7.3%, Puzzle 7.1%

Why You'll Like It: A humorous, puzzle-heavy platformer that embraces its own absurdity and dark premise.

Try this year’s must-play indie smash-hit for free, with Evergate Ki’s Awakening. Take on seven unique levels in this haunting precision puzzle-platformer, set in a stunning hand-drawn vision of the Afterlife, with an original score recorded by a live orchestra.

Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 44.5%, Hand-drawn 21.7%, Platformer 12.4%, Indie 6%, Adventure 5.8%

Why You'll Like It: A 2D puzzle-platformer with a beautiful art style and a focus on fluid, soul-based movement mechanics.

Help Zigloton steal an old relic on his journey to infiltrate a mysterious planet, in this challenging platformer developped and hand-animated by one person.

Why similar: Adventure 26.3%, Puzzle Platformer 22%, Indie 21.6%, Platformer 14.5%, Difficult 8.2%

Why You'll Like It: A free-to-play indie platformer that shares the raw, experimental feel of BirdGut.

World of Goo is a multiple award winning physics based puzzle / construction game made entirely by two guys.

Why similar: Puzzle 31.3%, Indie 24.9%, Casual 10.9%, 2D 10.1%, Funny 8.3%

Why You'll Like It: A bizarre, physics-based puzzle game that shares the quirky, hand-drawn charm and dark humor found in BirdGut.

Gris is a hopeful young girl lost in her own world, dealing with a painful experience in her life. Her journey through sorrow is manifested in her dress, which grants new abilities to better navigate her faded reality.

Why similar: Hand-drawn 26.1%, Puzzle Platformer 22.7%, Platformer 18.9%, Indie 10.2%, Adventure 8.6%

Why You'll Like It: A visually striking hand-drawn platformer that uses its art style to convey a deep, emotional, and surreal journey.

A fun platformer with two fragile flightless birds, which have gone for long and now try to find each other again.

Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 26.3%, Platformer 25.3%, Adventure 12.3%, Casual 11.9%, Indie 9.8%

Why You'll Like It: A casual, indie-developed adventure that captures the quirky, platform-heavy gameplay of smaller titles.

Fran Bow is a creepy adventure game that tells the story of Fran, a young girl struggling with a mental disorder and an unfair destiny.

Why similar: Hand-drawn 23.5%, Psychological Horror 18.4%, Puzzle 17.8%, Adventure 17.3%, Indie 13.4%

Why You'll Like It: A surreal, hand-drawn adventure that leans into dark, bizarre humor and a unique, unsettling world.

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: Puzzle Platformer 35.8%, Platformer 17.3%, Difficult 9.1%, Adventure 7.6%, Funny 6.8%

Why You'll Like It: A 2D puzzle-platformer that focuses on unique transformation mechanics within a mysterious, indie-developed world.

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: Puzzle Platformer 49.5%, Platformer 20.4%, Adventure 15.3%, Puzzle 7.3%, 2D 6.2%

Why You'll Like It: A charming puzzle-platformer that relies on creative interactions between the protagonist and their companion.

Explore an abandoned facility on the planet you've crashlanded, solving puzzles with strange plants along the way.

Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 37.9%, Platformer 23.1%, Adventure 11%, Puzzle 7.4%, Casual 7.2%

Why You'll Like It: A 2D puzzle-platformer that emphasizes environmental navigation and casual, adventure-focused gameplay.

What if someone knew your mind better than you did? The Swapper is an award-winning, narrative driven puzzle game set in the furthest reaches of space.

Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 36.4%, Platformer 22.3%, Puzzle 16%, Indie 9.1%, Adventure 6.3%

Why You'll Like It: A cerebral puzzle-platformer that focuses on atmospheric storytelling and unique mechanics within a 2D environment.

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: Puzzle Platformer 44.6%, Platformer 27.2%, Indie 7.1%, Adventure 6.8%, 2D 6.5%

Why You'll Like It: A minimalist puzzle-platformer that uses simple shapes to tell a surprisingly deep and funny story.

Carve your own path through Fourmiworld - an "open-world-ant-farm-metroidvania". Play as an interdimensional urban explorer girl, collect Gamut to unlock new abilities, and discover the sights, plights, & soundbites of a surreal alien dimension.

Why similar: Platformer 29.2%, Adventure 29%, Indie 22.7%, 2D 11.3%, Singleplayer 4.3%

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 60%, Platformer 18.2%, Puzzle 6.8%, Indie 5.9%, Difficult 3.7%

Why You'll Like It: A foundational puzzle-platformer that blends complex mechanics with a surreal, hand-painted aesthetic.

Donut County is a story-based physics puzzle game where you play as an ever-growing hole in the ground. Meet cute characters, steal their trash, and throw them in a hole.

Why similar: Funny 27.6%, Indie 19.3%, Casual 17.9%, Adventure 15.8%, Puzzle 15.7%

Why You'll Like It: A funny, physics-based game that features a bizarre premise and a distinct, charming visual style.

Samorost 3 is an exploration adventure and puzzle game from the award-winning creators of Machinarium and Botanicula. Travel across space to nine unique worlds teeming with colorful challenges, creatures and surprises to discover, brought to life with beautiful artwork, sound and music.

Why similar: Hand-drawn 48.1%, Funny 13.3%, Puzzle 9.2%, 2D 8%, Adventure 7.9%

Why You'll Like It: A surreal, hand-drawn puzzle game that excels at creating a bizarre and immersive world to explore.

Bird Game is an abstract, exploration-based RPG with unique, stylized visuals and puzzle mechanics

Why similar: Adventure 41%, Puzzle 37.9%, 2D 15.3%, Singleplayer 5.8%

It's MIDNIGHT, you're DEAD, and got a bad case of THE MUNCHIES. Chew your way through 120 levels of addictive puzzle gameplay, where your only goal is to devour everything but your own wormy self. It's quick, tasty, and hard to resist. Just like a late-night snack.

Why similar: Difficult 25.1%, Funny 21%, Puzzle 14.1%, Indie 11.6%, 2D 10.2%

Why You'll Like It: A funny, cartoonish puzzle game that features a worm protagonist in a series of logic-based challenges.

A short (and free) adventure game, where you are tasked with helping a hurt, hungry, but inventive dung beetle on its journey to find something to eat near the end of the mushroom season.

Why similar: Hand-drawn 32.6%, Casual 20.8%, Puzzle 14.8%, Adventure 14.2%, 2D 8.9%

An absurd point-and-click adventure, where you help Goby, a piece of swallowed gum, in his quest to find freedom beyond the digestive system.

Why similar: Funny 38.4%, Adventure 25.5%, Casual 21.1%, 2D 13.7%, Singleplayer 1.4%

Descend through absurd layers of history as a rat-dog-witch trying to escape employment and transcend reality. Explore weird museums, cosmic hallways, and your own bad dreams in a chaotic mash-up of art, humor, and a playable existential crisis.

Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 42.2%, Hand-drawn 27.3%, Platformer 22.3%, Casual 5.9%, Singleplayer 2.3%

You return to your old apartment one last time, in search of a sickened raven. You must speak to him, and discover the cause behind the calamity that has spread across the world.

Why similar: Hand-drawn 33.5%, Adventure 18%, Indie 17.1%, Casual 10.3%, Psychological Horror 9.5%

Jamboy and Billy are devoured by a giant and now they have to escape from its guts! Explore the giant's intestines as you defeat food monsters in this frantic, multi-genre game and go on a stomach-churning adventure!

Why similar: Platformer 46%, Funny 18.6%, 2D 11.8%, Indie 9.9%, Adventure 9.7%

Explore a throbbing pink world full of strange naked creatures to gather food for your friend in this short, surreal experience.

Why similar: Hand-drawn 57.4%, Indie 21.9%, Casual 8.7%, Psychological Horror 5.3%, 2D 4.7%

Test both mind, body and spirit in this surreal bullet hell platformer. Plum the depths of your potato-consciousness to overcome impossible challenges in search of the elusive, tantalizing TROOF.

Why similar: Platformer 33.3%, Difficult 17.1%, Funny 12.3%, Indie 11.8%, Adventure 10.8%

Klaus is lost and alone. Who? Where? Why? He doesn't know anything. Only you can help him find the truth. Join Klaus and K1 - a friendly brute - as you explore this puzzle platform game, through a geometric kaleidoscopic world with high contrast and pop art.

Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 25%, Platformer 18.3%, Hand-drawn 17.4%, Adventure 13.6%, Indie 10.8%

What has Bunny done? Why does everyone want to kill him? And why is Carrot so delicious? You’ll find all the answers in this game…

Why similar: Adventure 25.4%, Indie 20.9%, Casual 17.9%, Hand-drawn 16.2%, Funny 6.2%

Helheim Hassle is a narrative adventure game with puzzle platforming elements. Play as Bjørn, a pacifist Viking that can detach and combine limbs at will to solve challenging puzzles and get out of uncomfortable situations involving desperate Norse Gods, Goblins, Dragons, and angry skeletons.

Why similar: Adventure 46%, Indie 34.8%, Funny 11.8%, Puzzle 7.4%

Breadborn is a crazy action game where you command an army of crumb minions that came from very own body. Branches, axes, or a killer mini-gun? It's up to you to decide how to equip your army in order to sow chaos among the peasants and get to the PRINCE himself!

Why similar: Adventure 46.1%, Casual 25.2%, 2D 19.9%, Singleplayer 8.8%

Mystical puzzle quest game in a gloomy minimalism style will tell you a story of a person who's got himself into a camera, and from which there is no way out it seems. Experimental gameplay diluted with a pinch of a philosophy, that's what SORE is.

Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 43.9%, Indie 11.2%, Puzzle 11.2%, Adventure 10%, Psychological Horror 7.4%

Bite-sized surreal horror with multiple choices. Make your own way through the claymation madness!

Why similar: Adventure 19.2%, Indie 16.8%, Puzzle 14.4%, Casual 13.9%, Psychological Horror 12.2%

A psychological 2D puzzle platformer. You must switch between two versions of the past: dark & light, positive & negative, hope & despair. Every action is innately tied to this dualistic battle. Traverse a surreal landscape of memory to try and mend a fragile mind.

Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 40.9%, Platformer 28.4%, Indie 17%, Difficult 11.4%, Singleplayer 2.3%

A 2D hand-drawn puzzle adventure that spans multiple dimensions and universes. Encounter a diverse cast of characters and unravel mind-bending mysteries as you embark on unique adventures across different worlds.

Why similar: Hand-drawn 36.4%, Adventure 14.4%, Casual 12.9%, Psychological Horror 9.8%, Puzzle 9.4%

Unravel the dark secrets hidden throughout this stirring puzzle platformer about a tormented nobleman confronting the traumas of his past. Use an innovative mirror mechanic to solve challenging puzzle rooms and defeat towering bosses as you strive to piece together the ugly truth.

Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 34.9%, Hand-drawn 20.8%, Platformer 17.9%, Puzzle 6%, Indie 4.9%

Help a small body save a head-like organism full of air, from a leak that threatens its life. Explore their Metroidvania-style world and overcome challenging environmental puzzles to find the key to the head's survival.

Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 36.5%, Adventure 19%, Indie 15.3%, Platformer 12.9%, Difficult 8.7%

A NOT Troll Game, a platformer where you journey through a world that constantly trolls you. Can you make it to Zoobtryx? Beware…

Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 42.6%, Platformer 24.1%, Funny 9.4%, Puzzle 7.7%, 2D 6%

Can you think twice in under a second?

Why similar: Difficult 46%, Indie 23.9%, Puzzle 8.7%, Singleplayer 7.3%, Casual 6.4%

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: Platformer 32.7%, Adventure 13.3%, Indie 13%, Difficult 11.8%, Funny 10.3%

Experience a 10 minute dive into the unknown depths of the multiverse!

Why similar: Hand-drawn 28.8%, Adventure 24.6%, Indie 18.8%, Casual 15.1%, 2D 9.2%

Imagine you could move mountains - literally! With realistic physics, Norse runes, rotating platforms and a lot of gray cells you'll help Munin, Odin's messenger in her very own 2D-adventure, to reclaim her power on a journey through Yggdrasil.

Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 42.7%, Platformer 18.2%, Adventure 7.5%, Indie 7.3%, Puzzle 6.2%

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: Puzzle Platformer 56.7%, Platformer 32.3%, Casual 7.9%, Singleplayer 3.2%

In Between is set inside the mind of a man hit by a cruel twist of fate. Together you are on a journey through the protagonist's head, a world that doesn’t obey the laws of physics.

Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 33.6%, Hand-drawn 17.7%, Platformer 16.6%, Difficult 9.9%, Indie 5.8%

Join Bernie's movement and transform the United States in this free retro 2D platformer.

Why similar: Platformer 35.4%, Adventure 22.1%, Indie 21.4%, Psychological Horror 8.4%, 2D 5.8%

Follow Larry's life to find the source of his lack of luck. Discover his intriguing story and solve puzzles to understand how his life plays out.

Why similar: Hand-drawn 37.3%, Adventure 14.2%, Funny 13.7%, Puzzle 12.3%, 2D 9.1%

Your task is simple, exterminate all vermin. The sledge hammer you have been provided is capable of destroying almost all office appliances and furniture that may be uncooperative. Your time is running out.

Why similar: Indie 26.3%, Adventure 24.8%, Psychological Horror 16%, Casual 15.5%, Puzzle 9.6%

A quirky 2D puzzle platformer where your most powerful tool is… the DUDES!

Why similar: Platformer 43.9%, Casual 21.6%, Puzzle 15.2%, Indie 8.3%, 2D 7.5%