
A super high difficulty, fantastical 2D action platformer complete with an expansive original soundtrack. 20+ Levels. Multiple playable characters. Rich lore. BLEAK: Welcome to Glimmer is Act One in a timeless tale of loss and redemption.
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A super high difficulty, fantastical 2D action platformer complete with an expansive original soundtrack. 20+ Levels. Multiple playable characters. Rich lore. BLEAK: Welcome to Glimmer is Act One in a timeless tale of loss and redemption.

Flem
Try, die, cry, repeat. Flem is an old school hard-as-nails platformer about a sentient snot ball, with a nose-stalgia inducing soundtrack.

Blitz Breaker
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!
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: Action 44.5%, Indie 32.6%, Platformer 9.6%, Great Soundtrack 7.6%, Difficult 5.7%
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: Action 34.6%, Indie 26.5%, Great Soundtrack 15.8%, Difficult 12.3%, Platformer 10.7%
A desperate, savage survival experience full of stunning visuals, dynamic creatures, and a haunting soundtrack.
Why similar: Action 42.9%, Indie 32.5%, Platformer 12.2%, Great Soundtrack 6.8%, Difficult 5.6%
Hardcore action platformer with multiple endings that depend on your choices.
Why similar: Action 27.2%, Difficult 20.9%, Great Soundtrack 19.9%, Platformer 17.6%, Indie 14.3%
A platform game so difficult and at the same time, so addictive that you will enjoy having to repeat a levels dozens of times until complete them.
Why similar: Indie 40.6%, Action 35.9%, Difficult 11.9%, Platformer 11.5%
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: Indie 42.4%, Great Soundtrack 24.4%, Difficult 19.1%, Platformer 14.1%
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: Action 40.2%, Indie 29.9%, Difficult 11.1%, Great Soundtrack 10%, Platformer 8.7%
Mr. Bree+ is a hardcore sidescrolling adventure platformer, enriched with great visual and musical aspects. It's about 60 levels of pure challenge, revealing along the progress, the dark past events which tells the story of our hero, a householding family pig, Mr. Bree.
Why similar: Action 39.9%, Indie 38.5%, Platformer 21.6%
Element4l is an immersive and experimental indie platform game, with a strong focus on flow and smooth gameplay, wrapped in an exceptional soundtrack by Mind Tree.
Why similar: Indie 32.4%, Action 23.8%, Great Soundtrack 21.1%, Platformer 14.7%, Difficult 8%
Death's Gambit: Afterlife is a challenging 2D action platformer with deep RPG elements. As an agent of Death bound to his service, unravel the mystery of Siradon and discover the true price of immortality.
Why similar: Action 37.1%, Indie 24.8%, Difficult 15.1%, Platformer 12.3%, Great Soundtrack 10.7%
-A magical world beautifully depicted through in-game graphics. -Diverse levels that provide a fair challenge. -Additional bonuses that reward those who replay the game. -3 difficulty modes.
Why similar: Action 49.6%, Indie 28.7%, Platformer 12.4%, Great Soundtrack 9.2%
Concursion is a multi-genre game played on the boundaries between worlds. Steer your hero through a dangerous interdimensional universe, switching between different genres on the fly, pulling off feats of tight aerial acrobatics otherwise unattainable in one genre alone.
Why similar: Action 49.9%, Indie 38.5%, Platformer 11.6%
Super Rude Bear Resurrection is an ultra-tight, masocore platformer that anyone can beat! Use your corpses to get ahead, or take on the ultimate challenge and try to defeat the entire game without dying!
Why similar: Action 34.8%, Indie 29.2%, Difficult 13.9%, Great Soundtrack 12.3%, Platformer 9.7%
Stray Savior is a 2D action platformer packed full of lethal traps, precise jumps, and powerful bosses. Venture through the dystopian world with weapons and skills, to prove yourself and forge your own path.
Why similar: Action 46.8%, Indie 22.1%, Platformer 21.3%, Difficult 9.8%
Bannerman is a gritty and atmospheric medieval action/adventure with a bleak narrative and focus on historically accurate, challenging skill-based swordfighting!
Why similar: Action 33.8%, Great Soundtrack 27.7%, Indie 25.2%, Difficult 13.3%
Electronic Super Joy is a brutally hard platformer set in a world of pulse-pounding electronic music. Run, jump, smash & fly your way through 45+ weird & different levels, with low-gravity, world rotation, giant monsters & swarming missiles.
Why similar: Great Soundtrack 28.1%, Indie 20.9%, Platformer 19.5%, Difficult 17.3%, Action 14.2%
Klang is an innovative take on traditional rhythm games that pushes the genre beyond pressing buttons to tempo into a world of fast-paced exploration, platforming and combat.
Why similar: Action 29%, Difficult 19.7%, Great Soundtrack 18.9%, Platformer 16.7%, Indie 15.7%
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: Action 38.1%, Great Soundtrack 27%, Platformer 20.2%, Indie 14.8%
A full-blown adventure played with only two buttons. Become the recently deceased agent Terry Cooper and escape the underworld while facing the toughest, meanest and most difficult obstacles ever devised.
Why similar: Action 39%, Indie 27.3%, Great Soundtrack 12.6%, Difficult 11.8%, Platformer 9.3%
HoPiKo is an intense speed run platformer where you get to save gaming. Jump from platform to platform avoiding death, exploiting shortcuts and ripping through 100s of hand-crafted levels, each one dropped into a 5-stage mini run designed to break your mind!
Why similar: Action 42.8%, Indie 36.2%, Platformer 21%
Explore a beautiful, vast and ruined world riddled with dangers and lost technologies.
Why similar: Great Soundtrack 32.1%, Action 25%, Indie 22.7%, Difficult 20.2%
Embark on your journey, travel through rifts and restore the balance as the Rift Keeper in this handcrafted 2D roguelite platformer with challenging, fast-paced action gameplay.
Why similar: Action 41%, Indie 30.5%, Great Soundtrack 20.5%, Platformer 7.9%
Dynamic, hardcore and explosive action on the passage with a bunch of weapons, enemies and bosses.
Why similar: Action 40.8%, Indie 27.9%, Great Soundtrack 12.1%, Platformer 10.1%, Difficult 9.1%
Breathtakingly fast and tough-as-nails, Rifter is an acrobatic platformer drenched in neon and infused with a pumping 80’s synthwave soundtrack. Run, swing, smash and dash at exhilarating speeds on a quest to discover the secrets of a shattered world.
Why similar: Action 40.5%, Indie 25.2%, Great Soundtrack 14.9%, Platformer 12.1%, Difficult 7.4%
Riptale is a challenging 2D roguelike action game aiming to make sword combat be as bloody and impactful as possible. The player collects gems that allow them to execute different attacks in the order of their choosing. All this results in a symphony of combos that fill the screen with blood and guts.
Why similar: Action 45%, Indie 34.5%, Great Soundtrack 20.4%
A 8-bit retro action platformer that goes beyond just pixels and chiptunes
Why similar: Action 51.8%, Indie 34.6%, Platformer 13.5%
Electronic Super Joy 2 is a brutally hard platformer, set in a world of brain-smashing electronic music. Run, jump, smash, & slice your way through 55+ weird & different levels, with giant monsters, swarming missiles & secret areas.
Why similar: Indie 29%, Great Soundtrack 21.5%, Difficult 19.1%, Action 16.4%, Platformer 13.9%
The Madness of Little Emma is a difficult action platformer with roguelike elements. Featuring over 250 items with insane synergies, varied enemies, and numerous secrets and mysteries to discover.
Why similar: Action 35.3%, Indie 27.8%, Great Soundtrack 15.1%, Platformer 12%, Difficult 9.7%
Sit back and enjoy 30 minutes of original electronic and vaporwave music in this challenging platformer, push forward to unlock Time Trial mode and a second playable character who completely changes the gameplay.
Why similar: Action 33.8%, Difficult 26.8%, Platformer 20.6%, Indie 10.5%, Great Soundtrack 8.4%
A challenging puzzle platformer in which you clone and teleport.
Why similar: Difficult 32.1%, Indie 24.6%, Platformer 24.4%, Great Soundtrack 18.9%
Fight for your freedom in a sprawling fantasy world caught between the living and the fallen. Hone your skills in a retro epic featuring puzzle platforming, metroidvania exploration and crunchy soulslike combat.
Why similar: Action 60.5%, Difficult 33.8%, Platformer 5.6%
The End Is Nigh is a sprawling adventure platformer where you die a lot, but thats ok because you are probably already dead anyway.
Why similar: Indie 22.8%, Great Soundtrack 22%, Difficult 20.7%, Platformer 18.8%, Action 15.8%
MO: Astray is a pixel art, side-scrolling, action-platformer. Lead MO through mind-bending puzzles using special abilities. Bizarre enemies, threatening traps and ingenious level designs await.
Why similar: Action 35.4%, Indie 28.5%, Great Soundtrack 16.2%, Platformer 12.7%, Difficult 7.2%
Odium to the Core is a challenging single-button, music based game with a dark monochromatic art style. Guide Odium through dangerous and intense music-fueled levels to eliminate the spreading corruption. Reach the core and save the world!
Why similar: Action 35.9%, Indie 28.1%, Difficult 21.4%, Platformer 14.6%
DYE is a challenging precision platformer where you help Hue rescue Pigments and defeat the nefarious Necrolights in order to restore color to the world! Jump, wall jump and float your way through 4 unique worlds with hundreds of challenges ranging from beginner to advanced level.
Why similar: Action 33.7%, Indie 27.5%, Difficult 13.5%, Great Soundtrack 13%, Platformer 12.3%
In this action platformer you play as a cat, Bast, running through a dark fantasy world. You’ll be running, jumping and sliding with smooth and precise controls designed to make you feel like a cat. But it wont be easy. In the dark you never know what lies in the shadows.
Why similar: Indie 35.3%, Action 34.2%, Platformer 19.1%, Difficult 11.4%
This is a story of light - of Gleam, in a world of glass stained in darkness.
GoNNER is a tough as hell procedurally-generated 2D platformer with roguelike elements, following the largely misunderstood and altruistic Ikk on a journey to cheer up his only friend in this world - a giant landbound whale named Sally - by searching for just the right trinket in the deep and dark places nearby.
Why similar: Indie 32.1%, Platformer 21.6%, Great Soundtrack 19.1%, Action 13.7%, Difficult 13.6%
140 is a challenging minimalistic platformer with abstract colorful graphics. Rhythmic awareness is required to overcome obstacles controlled by an energetic, yet melancholic electronic soundtrack.
Why similar: Indie 27.9%, Platformer 24.6%, Great Soundtrack 22.1%, Difficult 13%, Action 12.5%
Katana ZERO is a stylish neo-noir, action-platformer featuring breakneck action and instant-death combat. Slash, dash, and manipulate time to unravel your past in a beautifully brutal acrobatic display.
Why similar: Action 30.5%, Great Soundtrack 28.2%, Indie 16.2%, Platformer 13.7%, Difficult 11.5%
Super Switch is a difficult platformer in which you have to actively switch between 2 dimensions. It's tougher than iron and extremely rewarding.
Why similar: Indie 100%
“Ori and the Blind Forest” tells the tale of a young orphan destined for heroics, through a visually stunning action-platformer crafted by Moon Studios for PC.
Why similar: Great Soundtrack 46.5%, Platformer 18%, Action 13.9%, Difficult 11.6%, Indie 10%
Explore and uncover the mystery of a surreal alien world by blasting aliens and glitching your environment in this intense retro side-scrolling action/adventure.
Why similar: Great Soundtrack 26.7%, Action 26.6%, Indie 25.1%, Platformer 16.6%, Difficult 4.9%
Gravity Circuit is a flashy action packed 2D platformer in the spirit of console classics. Follow Kai, a lone operative war hero who harnesses the mysterious powers of the Gravity Circuit, on an adventure in a futuristic world inhabited by sentient robots.
Why similar: Action 38.5%, Indie 25.5%, Platformer 19.4%, Great Soundtrack 16.6%
Giana Sisters: Twisted Dreams is a blistering hardcore platformer with contrasting worlds.
Why similar: Action 28%, Difficult 23.9%, Platformer 18.5%, Indie 17.2%, Great Soundtrack 12.3%
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: Action 28.1%, Indie 21.8%, Great Soundtrack 19.9%, Difficult 19.6%, Platformer 10.6%
Arise from the dead as the 'Cursed King' in an enthralling action platformer. Wield the chains that once imprisoned you to vanquish foes and traverse your fallen kingdom. Uncover hidden areas, strategically level up, and reclaim your throne by banishing colossal bosses!
Why similar: Action 44.8%, Difficult 25%, Platformer 23.2%, Great Soundtrack 7.1%
Circa Infinity is a brain-melting circular platformer by Kenny Sun, with a pulse-pounding soundtrack by Jack + Jim Fay.
Why similar: Action 31.2%, Indie 27%, Great Soundtrack 21.9%, Difficult 12.2%, Platformer 7.8%
TowerClimb is a difficult and rewarding procedurally generated platformer with roguelike elements. Enormous and mysterious towers of ancient unknown origin stand above humanity, extending to the heavens. Struggle forward as a weak human, driven by an iron will to reach the top.
Why similar: Indie 29.4%, Action 26.6%, Difficult 17.7%, Great Soundtrack 13.8%, Platformer 12.4%
Gravethorn is a 2D platformer that combines soulslike and metroidvania elements with deep storytelling. The story follows an Inquisitor who has lost his memory, searching for his forgotten past along with his regrets.
Stonerid is a challenging 2D platformer, which the most important feature are two parallel, different worlds. Over 30 different levels to complete, unconventional game style and lots of dangerous traps and monsters make it extremely difficult to rise to the challenge.
Why similar: Action 51.1%, Indie 36.6%, Platformer 12.3%
ION Shift delivers fast, high-stakes gameplay with precision controls and a unique sandbox-style approach to combat arenas. The campaign progressively challenges the player through evolving level design, tight mechanics, and a focus on player-driven mastery.
Why similar: Action 37.8%, Difficult 30.5%, Indie 21.5%, Platformer 10.2%
Giana Sisters: Twisted Dreams is a fast-paced platformer that will plunge you into the heart of two opposing worlds.
Why similar: Action 36.9%, Indie 28.5%, Platformer 19%, Great Soundtrack 11.7%, Difficult 3.9%
Spectrum is a platformer set in an abstract world of stylized shapes and bright colors. Escape from 80 levels spread in 8 mysterious environments.
Why similar: Indie 42.6%, Great Soundtrack 28.6%, Platformer 18.4%, Difficult 10.3%
As the final creation of the Goddess, Juxtia, journey through the ruins of two divine kingdoms, overrun by the Tarnishing. Challenging combat, a hauntingly beautiful score, and a sinister narrative work in unison to make The Tarnishing of Juxtia an unforgettable 2D dark fantasy action RPG.
Why similar: Action 55.6%, Platformer 23%, Indie 21.4%
After Death is a platform / exploration game in a dark and hostile world. With the help from lost souls, you will have to find a way to open a gate which seems to be the only exit from this mysterious world infected by monsters.
Why similar: Action 35.7%, Great Soundtrack 27.9%, Indie 27.4%, Platformer 9.1%
In Luckslinger, luck is measurable, collectable and usable whenever you please. Contains: gunslingers, dark humor, spaghetti western, vinyl digging, graffiti spraying and jazzy hip hop beats.
Why similar: Action 38.4%, Indie 29.4%, Great Soundtrack 21.2%, Platformer 10.9%
Explore an abandoned space station in this retro-themed explorative action platformer.
Why similar: Action 28.2%, Indie 25.2%, Great Soundtrack 17.2%, Platformer 17.1%, Difficult 12.3%
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: Indie 27.1%, Platformer 26.6%, Difficult 24.1%, Action 22.2%