Games Like Boxman's Struggle

A game I made for a certain kind of person. To hurt them.

Why similar: Difficult 33.7%, Psychological Horror 32.4%, Physics 15.4%, Platformer 6.9%, Funny 3.4%

Why You'll Like It: This is the definitive physics-based climbing game that established the genre of frustrating, precision-based movement.

This is a difficult game about climbing.

Why similar: Difficult 24.4%, Psychological Horror 20.3%, Physics 15%, Platformer 14.2%, Adventure 9.1%

Why You'll Like It: It mirrors the exact gameplay loop and punishing difficulty of the seed game with a focus on deliberate, physics-heavy climbing.

Take up the challenge and face true high-stakes platforming in Jump King! Struggle upwards in search of the Smoking Hot Babe of legend, but explore with care; a single missed jump could lead to a long fall back down...

Why similar: Difficult 34.7%, Psychological Horror 33.1%, Platformer 10.9%, Adventure 6.7%, Action 6%

Why You'll Like It: A legendary precision platformer that shares the same 'one mistake can cost you everything' philosophy found in Boxman's Struggle.

Climb a surreal mountain on a pogo stick and make friends along the way.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 28.2%, Difficult 27.4%, Platformer 14.3%, Adventure 8.5%, Action 8.3%

Why You'll Like It: The pogo-stick mechanics provide a similar level of physics-based frustration and require immense patience to master.

Travel around The Great Gales to climb challenging peaks in this physics-based climbing adventure set in 1887. Meet like-minded mountaineers, unlock helpful climbing gear, and become a pioneer of mountaineering.

Why similar: Difficult 26.4%, Physics 21.7%, Psychological Horror 20.1%, Platformer 13.2%, Adventure 9%

Why You'll Like It: This game offers a more polished, atmospheric take on the climbing genre while maintaining the challenging physics-based controls.

Struggling is a physics-based co-op platformer with a twisted spin on teamwork. Control the arms of a squishy abomination and lead it through a deranged world.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 26.7%, Physics 26%, Adventure 11.9%, Platformer 10.7%, Funny 10.6%

Why You'll Like It: It features hilarious, physics-based limb control that forces players to coordinate awkward movements to overcome obstacles.

Roll the boulder to the top.

Why similar: Difficult 23.3%, Psychological Horror 20%, Physics 17.8%, Platformer 12%, Action 9%

Why You'll Like It: It captures the thematic essence of repetitive, difficult climbing tasks that define the frustration-platformer genre.

The higher you climb, the bigger the fall.

Why similar: Difficult 25.2%, Physics 20.9%, Psychological Horror 19.7%, Platformer 16.1%, Action 8.7%

Why You'll Like It: It applies the 'Getting Over It' formula to golf, demanding extreme precision and offering the same level of psychological challenge.

A physics driven parkour game inspired by "Getting Over It" and "Jump King". Flip, ski, and dive yourself up a massive mountain of stuff. Fall down, rage, get up, shake it off, parkour-on!

Why similar: Difficult 23.1%, Psychological Horror 19.4%, Physics 17.3%, Platformer 14.4%, Action 8.3%

Why You'll Like It: A direct take on the climbing-rage genre that emphasizes momentum and precise timing to reach the summit.

Grab your best bud for help in this new co-op challenge to help two adorable penguins, Bread and Fred, reach the top of the snowy summit. Time your jumps, cling to walls and swing across gaps to see how far you can make it before you tumble all the way back down the mountain.

Why similar: Difficult 50.4%, Platformer 31.5%, Funny 14.3%, Casual 3.8%

Why You'll Like It: A cooperative platformer that relies on physics-based momentum and teamwork to scale difficult environments.

City Climber is a silly physics-based game about a floppy ragdoll climber, who has to save the world. Find your way through diverse hand-crafted environments and enjoy funny challenges full of falling and destruction.

Why similar: Difficult 22.6%, Psychological Horror 18.8%, Physics 17.9%, Platformer 12.8%, Action 6.8%

Why You'll Like It: Players must control each limb individually to scale buildings, creating a high-difficulty physics challenge.

Soviet Bear Uni Adventure is a painfully challenging physics-based action/adventure game. Pedal and lean to stay upright and overcome each crazy obstacle.

Why similar: Difficult 24.7%, Psychological Horror 20.3%, Physics 18.8%, Platformer 12.9%, Action 7.1%

Why You'll Like It: A physics-based platformer that uses absurd movement mechanics to create a challenging and funny experience.

Human Fall Flat is a hilarious, light-hearted platformer set in floating dreamscapes that can be played solo or with up to 8 players online. Free new levels keep its vibrant community rewarded.

Why similar: Physics 40.4%, Adventure 19.1%, Action 18.3%, Funny 16.4%, Indie 4%

Why You'll Like It: The clumsy, ragdoll-style movement mechanics create a similar sense of chaotic, physics-driven platforming.

Heave Ho is a riotous multiplayer party game for up to four players in couch co-op and versus play, or online with Steam Remote Play. Reach out, get a grip, and swing to victory — or meet your messy end!

Why similar: Adventure 33.3%, Platformer 24.5%, Funny 21.9%, Indie 20.3%

Why You'll Like It: The game focuses on physics-based swinging and grabbing, making movement itself the primary challenge and source of comedy.

You're in a box and you have to climb as high as possible... if you can make it.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 24.6%, Platformer 20.8%, Physics 18.2%, Action 9.9%, Funny 9.3%

Why You'll Like It: It shares the box-based aesthetic and the core goal of navigating difficult terrain with limited movement options.

Your name is Hank. You are doing a Handstand. Jump to the top.

Why similar: Difficult 29.4%, Psychological Horror 28%, Platformer 16%, Adventure 10.9%, Action 8.6%

Why You'll Like It: A precision platformer that demands high levels of control and patience to navigate its difficult obstacle courses.

Experience the extreme simulated sporting sensation that's sweeping our digital nation! Mount Your Friends is a fiercely competitive sporting event for you to play with your friends in the contextual security of your own home, assuming that your home is not composed of sexual innuendo.

Why similar: Physics 46.7%, Funny 24.8%, Indie 13.5%, Psychological Horror 9.6%, Action 3%

Why You'll Like It: It involves a competitive, physics-based climbing mechanic where players must stack themselves to reach new heights.

This game is hard-boiled. Face the challenge of being a real, fragile egg. Escape the hen-house and jump, roll and climb your way through a farm shop, factory and other perilous environments. With some determination, you might just reach your freedom.

Why similar: Difficult 22.7%, Physics 19.6%, Psychological Horror 19.3%, Platformer 12.3%, Action 8.5%

Why You'll Like It: This game focuses on the physics of movement and the extreme frustration of losing progress in a precision-platforming setting.

Octodad: Dadliest Catch is a game about destruction, deception, and fatherhood. The player controls Octodad, a dapper octopus masquerading as a human, as he goes about his life. Octodad's existence is a constant struggle, as he must master mundane tasks with his unwieldy boneless tentacles while simultaneously keeping his cephalopodan...

Why similar: Physics 44.3%, Funny 14.1%, Adventure 13.3%, Difficult 10.7%, Indie 10%

Why You'll Like It: Controlling the protagonist's limbs requires constant attention to physics, resulting in the same kind of comedic failure found in the seed game.

You are bread. Your mission, become toast! Take on all hazards to deliciousness as you head on an epic adventure in one of the the toughest games ever baked. All of the game modes (including Bagel Race) are now unlocked so there's sure to be something to suit everyone's taste!

Why similar: Difficult 30%, Physics 25.7%, Funny 11.7%, Adventure 11.7%, Action 10.7%

Why You'll Like It: The intentionally difficult and awkward controls make simple movement a frustrating yet rewarding puzzle.

Get ready to rage with your friends in this co-op precise platforming adventure! You're stuck in Hell. You can only jump upwards and all you have to do is escape … it can't be that hard, right?!

Why similar: Difficult 26.9%, Psychological Horror 24.3%, Platformer 15.2%, Adventure 10.1%, Action 9.7%

Why You'll Like It: It is designed specifically to test the player's patience through difficult, precision-based platforming challenges.

Use your controller or keyboard to balance the clumsy but fully functional unicycle. Thrust the threatening mythical monsters with your sharpened lance as they sit on your way to glory. Climbing over the dead enemies with your unicycle may be the last climb you take.

Why similar: Difficult 20%, Physics 18%, Psychological Horror 14.4%, Platformer 10.9%, Action 10%

Why You'll Like It: This game focuses on the physics of balance, requiring careful input to navigate obstacles without falling.

Clustertruck is a chaotic physics based truckformer. Jump your way through insane levels in a game of "the floor is lava" on top of speeding trucks driven by terrible drivers.

Why similar: Physics 28.1%, Difficult 25.8%, Action 18.2%, Platformer 8.9%, Indie 6.8%

Why You'll Like It: While faster-paced, it relies heavily on physics-based platforming and momentum to navigate chaotic, moving obstacles.

In Crowbar Climber, use your crowbars to make your way up! Face hooks, planks, and gears using only your arms. Can you beat the game before you run out of energy?

Why similar: Physics 24.1%, Difficult 24.1%, Psychological Horror 18%, Action 11.8%, Platformer 11.2%

Why You'll Like It: It utilizes physics-based climbing mechanics that require the player to carefully hook and pull themselves up surfaces.

You're so exhausted you can only crawl, but still refuse to sleep.

Why similar: Physics 41.5%, Action 21.8%, Funny 16.2%, Indie 12.5%, Casual 4.2%

Why You'll Like It: The game turns simple tasks into physics-based nightmares, mirroring the comedic frustration of Boxman's Struggle.

Be the weapon! Swing like an axe, thrust like a spear, and soar like an arrow in this physics-based platformer. Flip, throw, and carve your path to the peak! Rage burns, revenge awaits... Are you up to the challenge?

Why similar: Difficult 33.8%, Physics 30.5%, Platformer 13.6%, Adventure 11.5%, Funny 6.3%

Why You'll Like It: A medieval-themed climbing game that emphasizes physics-based interaction with the environment to progress.

Take control of a mighty ball and fling with great precision towards the top of the Tower. Jump through aesthetically pleasing environments filled with intriguing creatures and encounters. Falling is part of the journey, so just keep going. Can you reach the end?

Why similar: Difficult 22.6%, Psychological Horror 19.2%, Physics 16%, Platformer 13.3%, Action 8.8%

Why You'll Like It: The game utilizes momentum-based physics to launch the character through difficult, trap-filled levels.

Prove your skills by driving the Bathtub on Wheels! Solve puzzles, collect soap, and dive into Jeff's family drama. Drive, Fall, Learn, Repeat.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 25.5%, Physics 23.7%, Platformer 17.4%, Action 10.9%, Adventure 10.4%

Why You'll Like It: It applies the same physics-based frustration found in climbing games to the act of driving, making simple movement a challenge.

A difficult, minimalist, one-more-try, physics game. Slide your mouse up and down to control your skier's posture and initiate jumps. Stick the landings. Get to the cabin.

Why similar: Difficult 23.6%, Psychological Horror 19.5%, Physics 17.8%, Platformer 14.5%, Funny 7.3%

Why You'll Like It: The game uses physics-based movement to make a simple skiing task surprisingly difficult and prone to failure.

A giraffe born with slippery feet sets out to find love...

Why similar: Psychological Horror 25.9%, Difficult 16%, Action 12.1%, Adventure 12.1%, Physics 11.3%

Why You'll Like It: The absurd, physics-based movement of the giraffe makes navigating the environment both difficult and hilarious.

It's a difficult game but it should be easier than real rock climbing.

Why similar: Difficult 23.3%, Psychological Horror 21.3%, Physics 17.9%, Platformer 11%, Action 7.9%

A punishing VR climbing game. Climb a surreal mountain with nothing but a hammer.

Why similar: Difficult 24%, Psychological Horror 21.7%, Physics 19.5%, Platformer 7.3%, Funny 6.8%

Think you can make it out? Many have tried… All have failed. Traverse the unforgiving cave and do impossible jumps with your rocket launcher and shotgun.

Why similar: Difficult 24%, Psychological Horror 21.6%, Physics 19.1%, Platformer 13.7%, Adventure 9.8%

A co-op climbing game about two stuck-together toys on an escape mission from their evil owner.

Why similar: Difficult 25.6%, Psychological Horror 20.5%, Platformer 16.6%, Adventure 10.2%, Physics 8%

A game about a very happy guy and his boulder. (Warning: As an accurate representation of the ancient Myth of Sisyphus, this is likely the most difficult and punishing game you will ever play.)

Why similar: Difficult 29.4%, Platformer 16.1%, Psychological Horror 12.7%, Adventure 11.2%, Physics 10.6%

Every grip is a rebellion against fate. The top holds the only secret method to defeat the demon king, but the path there is paved with countless falls. We pay tribute to every challenger. Reaching the end, you win the dawn of the world; and every attempt, you have already won your own dawn.

Why similar: Difficult 25.7%, Psychological Horror 25.5%, Platformer 13.5%, Physics 11.8%, Adventure 9.3%

The treasures hidden on the peaks await the most lively, goat daredevils. The challenge will be difficult and… irritating - only the best and most patient will get to the top.

Why similar: Difficult 26%, Psychological Horror 20.9%, Physics 16.3%, Platformer 13.6%, Action 8.8%

Become the fella. Walk on the stilts.

Why similar: Difficult 30%, Physics 26.3%, Platformer 15.9%, Action 10.2%, Funny 9%

An absurd retro-platformer that tests your patience.

Why similar: Difficult 32.9%, Platformer 21.9%, Action 14.7%, Adventure 14%, Indie 8.9%

A highly punishing 3D precision platformer about a goat bouncing up a beautiful mountain to save its scared baby goat. Can you handle the challenge and endure all obstacles that you will face on your way up the mountain?

Why similar: Difficult 44%, Platformer 26.9%, Adventure 20.7%, Indie 4.8%, Singleplayer 3.6%

STANDBOX is a single-player physics sandbox about bullying a ragdoll. Shoot him, push him, watch him get back up until he doesn't.

Why similar: Physics 59.7%, Action 19.9%, Funny 6.7%, Indie 6.4%, Casual 4.3%

It was another night shift at your job in a warehouse, when a madman with a box on his head, took control over the complex. Now you are under his control, to get out of here you have to solve his wicked riddles and smash through his weird cardboard structures by using anything you find in the boxes.

Why similar: Physics 32%, Adventure 26.9%, Psychological Horror 26.3%, Indie 14.8%

A game for those who can stick it, and stick to it.

Why similar: Difficult 34.9%, Psychological Horror 30%, Platformer 19.2%, Action 8.1%, Funny 7.9%

Have game developers often forced you to climb somewhere with no purpose? This time, your goal is to hit rock bottom and nothing else. It should be simple enough, good luck to everyone.

Why similar: Physics 28.3%, Psychological Horror 21.4%, Platformer 21.3%, Adventure 14.9%, Funny 8.1%

Now with barely functioning co-op features! A challenging 3D platformer with little room for error. Escape a dungeon, alone or with others jumping to the top, and sacrifice your collectables for items to aid in your ordeal.

Why similar: Difficult 33.2%, Psychological Horror 31.5%, Platformer 19.1%, Funny 8.5%, Adventure 6.9%

A punishing yet friendly get-to-the-top adventure across a haunted, retro-inspired world.

Why similar: Difficult 51%, Action 23%, Platformer 14%, Physics 10%, Indie 1.4%

Caveman World: Mountains of Unga Boonga is a retro inspired platformer adventure game set in fantasy prehistoric time. You play as a Caveman, exploring various levels and overcoming physical obstacles. Levels become increasingly more difficult as you encounter enemies, obstacles, traps and more!

Why similar: Platformer 16.5%, Difficult 15.6%, Physics 15.4%, Adventure 15%, Psychological Horror 12.6%

Attempt to jump to the top of the world in this short, yet difficult platforming adventure. Meet strange friends along the way and make sure not to fall!

Why similar: Psychological Horror 49.5%, Platformer 34.6%, Difficult 6.5%, Adventure 4.5%, Indie 2.8%

In Hyper Box you try to beat a bunch of platform levels in less than 30 seconds each by using the box rotation to your advantage, this is meant to be a very challenging yet rewarding experience as you improve at the game.

Why similar: Difficult 36.3%, Platformer 25.2%, Physics 17.4%, Action 15.9%, Indie 3.8%

One mountain; Zero checkpoints

Why similar: Psychological Horror 48.8%, Platformer 34%, Physics 15.9%, Singleplayer 1.3%

From the depths of hell, climb chained to your friends through diverse worlds. Solo or co-op, try to reach the summit and discover what awaits you there...

Why similar: Platformer 33.9%, Physics 23.9%, Adventure 23.3%, Funny 13.5%, Casual 5.4%

Fling yourself into a mountain climbing adventure! Become the first to reach the top of the highest mountain in the world and meet eccentric characters along the way!

Why similar: Physics 35.3%, Platformer 18.6%, Action 17.9%, Adventure 15.9%, Funny 9%

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: Difficult 38.6%, Platformer 29.9%, Adventure 10.1%, Indie 9.2%, Action 8.1%

Plunge into high-stakes punishment platforming in JUMP KING QUEST! Explore alone or fall together in dynamic online climbing action as you fight your way upwards on an unhinged quest to The Smoking Hot Babe at The Top. In this world, every ledge is a battlefield…

Why similar: Difficult 45.4%, Psychological Horror 37.3%, Funny 14.3%, Singleplayer 3%

A surreal boxing quest with a duck! Test your reflexes as you fight your way through an evil corporation in search for retribution.

Why similar: Difficult 40.5%, Action 17.6%, Adventure 16.8%, Funny 12.1%, Indie 9.9%

Hans is a physics-driven, parkour adventure. Ascend to the sky with our lonely watermelon hero. Navigate treacherous platforms, defy physics by slowing down time, try not to fall and chase the dream of reuniting with humanity. No saves. Bounce, fail, adapt, and bounce again.

Why similar: Difficult 39.4%, Physics 25.9%, Platformer 20.2%, Funny 7.9%, Casual 2.6%

Climb a massive overgrown concrete tower while constantly at risk of falling and losing precious progress. BETON BRUTAL offers a fluid and responsive first person parkour experience through tranquil brutalist architecture.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 29.7%, Difficult 24%, Platformer 23%, Physics 11.5%, Indie 6%

Potatoman will put your reflexes and worldview to the test as you journey through scorching deserts, dark forests, busy cities, the tallest mountains and eventually your own potato-consciousness in search of the ultimate answer. Are you prepared to face the TROOF?

Why similar: Difficult 24.3%, Platformer 20.6%, Psychological Horror 18.1%, Action 10.5%, Adventure 9.8%

Only Up + First-person rolling mechanics. This combo is pure madness. Try not to fall!

Why similar: Difficult 32.6%, Physics 20.3%, Platformer 16.9%, Action 12.1%, Adventure 11%

Only some will reach the top. Will you be one of them? in this precision 3D platformer where every jump is a risk and easy to learn-hard to master controls you will certainly feel rewarded once you start climbing from the Pit of Despair. Just don't fall. FREE NOW

Why similar: Difficult 26.5%, Psychological Horror 22.9%, Physics 18.4%, Platformer 15.7%, Action 7.5%