Games Like DDNet

Take on the hard yet fair world of Bloody Trapland. Jump, slide, dash and dodge your way through the many deadly levels. Find secrets, solve puzzles, unlock mysteries and unravel the story. Go at it alone or bring your friends along for a co-op experience like no other. 1-4 players online and/or splitscreen.

Why similar: Precision Platformer 18.2%, Online Co-Op 17.6%, Difficult 14.6%, Level Editor 10.9%, 2D Platformer 8.9%

Why You'll Like It: Brutal online co-op trap platforming makes it one of the best matches for DDNet's suffer-together appeal.

Compete for the world record in this fast-paced multiplayer racing platformer! Dash through short and fun levels, or be creative and build your own levels in the fully fledged level editor!

Why similar: Precision Platformer 25.6%, Difficult 19.1%, Level Editor 15.5%, 2D Platformer 10%, Platformer 8.6%

Why You'll Like It: It turns precision platforming into fast online races with shared tech, retries, and community-made levels.

I Wanna Maker is a precision platformer with a robust level editor and online level sharing, based on I Wanna Be The Guy fangames. Create complex levels using a variety of objects, a powerful events system, and customizable visuals. Browse levels online, take on challenge modes, and more!

Why similar: Precision Platformer 26.8%, Level Editor 17.7%, Difficult 15.3%, 2D Platformer 14.2%, Platformer 9%

Why You'll Like It: Free user-created gauntlets and exacting jumps recreate the endless hard-map grind DDNet players love.

Teeworlds is a free online multiplayer game, available for all major operating systems. Battle with up to 16 players in a variety of game modes, including Team Deathmatch and Capture The Flag. You can even design your own maps!

Why similar: Multiplayer 23.6%, Platformer 23.2%, Level Editor 15.4%, Online Co-Op 10%, Co-op 8.1%

Why You'll Like It: DDNet started as a Teeworlds mod, so this is the closest you'll get to the same tee movement, hook-based physics, and multiplayer 2D feel.

Bloody Trapland is a fast-paced multiplayer platformer where the levels are filled with dozens of dangerous traps and tricky jumps that stand in your way! Play co-op with your friends or take on the challenges on your own. With support for up to 4 players at once, local and/or online.

Why similar: Online Co-Op 22.5%, Precision Platformer 20.1%, Difficult 15.5%, 2D Platformer 10.8%, Platformer 9.5%

Why You'll Like It: Another nasty cooperative trap platformer where memorization, timing, and teamwork matter constantly.

Dodge, jump, and dash your way through hundreds of terrifying geometric levels and epic bosses. Too tough? Bring your friends!

Why similar: Precision Platformer 29%, Difficult 18.1%, Team-Based 16.9%, Platformer 12.7%, Multiplayer 9.4%

Why You'll Like It: Tough co-op survival platforming with stripped-down visuals puts all the emphasis on communication and perfect movement.

N++ is a fast-paced, momentum-based platformer about darting around obstacles, narrowly evading enemies and collecting gold in a beautiful minimalist landscape.

Why similar: Precision Platformer 27.9%, Difficult 20.6%, Level Editor 16.1%, 2D Platformer 14.9%, Platformer 9.1%

Why You'll Like It: Minimalist but incredibly demanding movement, momentum control, and retries make it a pure precision-platformer counterpart.

Take control of a nimble janitor to rid the world of dust and debris.

Why similar: Precision Platformer 54.3%, Difficult 19.2%, Platformer 18.4%, Level Editor 3.8%, 2D 1.9%

Why You'll Like It: Advanced movement tech and chasing cleaner, faster runs give it the same mastery-through-repetition appeal.

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: Precision Platformer 21.9%, Difficult 17.8%, Online Co-Op 14.7%, 2D Platformer 13.1%, Co-op 12.3%

Why You'll Like It: Few games match DDNet's co-op pain factor as well as this precision platformer built entirely around coordinated movement.

With the powers granted to him by the dragon, Kayra will destroy the Remnants of Naezith, enchanted fragments of the dragon's body, to prevent anyone from exploiting their power for evil. Rush and swing through levels to top the leaderboards in this fast-paced, grappling hook precision platformer.

Why similar: Precision Platformer 39.7%, Difficult 16.5%, Platformer 15.2%, Level Editor 12.4%, Racing 9.6%

Why You'll Like It: Its grappling-hook movement and ultra-technical courses scratch the same physics-heavy execution itch.

PICO PARK is a cooperative local/online multiplay action puzzle game for 2-8 players.

Why similar: Online Co-Op 35.8%, Multiplayer 18%, Puzzle Platformer 12.9%, Co-op 10.5%, Platformer 9.3%

Why You'll Like It: Its simple controls hide demanding co-op platform sections that live or die on team coordination.

Welcome to BattleBlock Theater! You’ve got no where to go but up...on stage. Play single player or co-op to free your friends and save Hatty Hattington! Jump, solve and battle your way through a mysterious theater inhabited by highly technological felines.

Why similar: Level Editor 22.5%, Platformer 17%, Online Co-Op 15.2%, Co-op 11%, 2D Platformer 10.6%

Why You'll Like It: Co-op stages full of traps, timing, and repeated failures make it a strong lighter-toned alternative.

PICO PARK is back with all new levels! Play with 2-8 players locally or online in this co-op action-puzzle game!

Why similar: Online Co-Op 37.7%, Platformer 19.7%, Multiplayer 17.9%, Co-op 13.9%, Puzzle Platformer 4.5%

Why You'll Like It: Constant coordination puzzles and platforming failures capture the social chaos of hard co-op clears.

ibb & obb is a two player cooperative game set in a puzzle filled world where gravity goes both up and down. You can only succeed by working closely together. Find a friend for some true local co-op couch fun or match up online.

Why similar: Online Co-Op 32.8%, Co-op 20.1%, Platformer 15.5%, Difficult 8.1%, Multiplayer 7.9%

Why You'll Like It: This is a smart two-player platformer where every jump is about syncing up with a partner.

Ultimate Chicken Horse is a party platformer game where you build the level as you play, placing traps and hazards to screw your friends over, but trying not to screw yourself.

Why similar: Precision Platformer 22.6%, Platformer 16.8%, Level Editor 16.3%, Online Co-Op 16%, Multiplayer 15.5%

Why You'll Like It: The platforming is competitive rather than co-op, but player-built obstacle courses and precision movement feel very adjacent.

Jump and fly your way through danger in this rhythm-based action platformer!

Why similar: Difficult 31.2%, Precision Platformer 28.9%, Level Editor 20%, Platformer 10.6%, Character Customization 4.2%

Why You'll Like It: Shared custom levels and brutally tight 2D obstacle courses mirror DDNet's community-driven challenge loop.

DYO is a mind-bending cooperative platformer for one or two players where you can hop between two halves of a split screen.

Why similar: Platformer 28.1%, Puzzle Platformer 24.4%, Co-op 19.3%, Multiplayer 15.6%, Puzzle 8%

Why You'll Like It: Cooperative puzzle-platforming built around two players relying on each other gives it a very similar teamwork mindset.

Help Madeline survive her inner demons on her journey to the top of Celeste Mountain, in this super-tight platformer from the creators of TowerFall. Brave hundreds of hand-crafted challenges, uncover devious secrets, and piece together the mystery of the mountain.

Why similar: Precision Platformer 33.9%, Difficult 26.8%, 2D Platformer 15%, Platformer 14.6%, Puzzle Platformer 4.7%

Why You'll Like It: If you want DDNet's exacting platforming without the multiplayer, Celeste offers elite movement and hard room-by-room execution.

The infamous, tough-as-nails platformer comes to Steam with a playable Head Crab character (Steam-exclusive)!

Why similar: Precision Platformer 44.4%, Difficult 21.4%, Platformer 16.1%, 2D Platformer 14.1%, 2D 2%

Why You'll Like It: Short brutal stages, instant restarts, and relentless trial-and-error make it a classic fit for DDNet masochists.

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: Online Co-Op 28.6%, Co-op 20.8%, Platformer 20.6%, Puzzle Platformer 14.9%, Multiplayer 12.5%

Why You'll Like It: Though 3D and climbing-focused, its entire appeal is surviving brutally unforgiving co-op execution with friends.

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: Precision Platformer 44%, Difficult 28.2%, Platformer 20.5%, 2D 2.2%, Indie 1.7%

Why You'll Like It: Dense hazard-filled platforming and punishing difficulty evoke the same one-more-attempt spiral.

VVVVVV is a platform game all about exploring one simple mechanical idea - what if you reversed gravity instead of jumping?

Why similar: Precision Platformer 37.5%, Difficult 21%, Platformer 18%, 2D Platformer 17.7%, 2D 2.2%

Why You'll Like It: It delivers old-school precision platforming with clever room-based challenges and a high fail-and-retry rhythm.

A physics-based co-op platformer about a guy in a rabbit costume! Team up with a friend or three (local or online) to beat levels, find hidden carrots and race against the clock. Experience bunny madness. Embrace carrot chaos. Become Super Bunny Man.

Why similar: Online Co-Op 25.2%, Platformer 20%, 2D Platformer 16.8%, Multiplayer 12.1%, Puzzle Platformer 11.6%

Why You'll Like It: Chaotic co-op platforming, painful clears, and physics-based teamwork make it a good goofy-side recommendation.

BOKURA is a two-player puzzle adventure game. Play as two boys who ran away from their homes and work together to take yourselves somewhere far, far away. Relive the friendship of your childhood through the journey of two boys.

Why similar: Online Co-Op 47.9%, Puzzle Platformer 15.6%, Co-op 14.7%, Multiplayer 13.2%, 2D 4.3%

Why You'll Like It: Asymmetric two-player platform-puzzling makes communication the core mechanic, much like tricky DDNet maps.

Cut-throat multiplayer running game that pits 4 players against each other, locally and/or online. Run, jump, swing around, and use devious weapons and pick-ups to knock opponents off-screen! One of the most competitive games you'll ever play.

Why similar: Multiplayer 28.8%, Racing 24.1%, Platformer 21.9%, Level Editor 10.4%, Co-op 5.3%

Why You'll Like It: Competitive multiplayer races and movement tech make it a good fit if your favorite DDNet moments are the speed and execution challenges.

Super Cable Boy is a retro inspired platformer, where you are playing a living handheld gaming system with a power cord. Collect game cartridges to become more powerful and take on your quest to defeat "the Glitch", an entity that 1▧01☠01௹1‱☣∰0␢⌀▧ ..

Why similar: Precision Platformer 38.4%, 2D Platformer 20.4%, Platformer 17.7%, Multiplayer 7.6%, Co-op 7%

Why You'll Like It: Another grappling-focused 2D precision platformer, it leans hard into technical movement and difficult obstacle rooms.

Become a tiny ZX8000 robot and begin your journey through a beautiful, pixel-art world inspired by games iconic to the platformer genre. Follow a cute story, upgrade your skills, beat challenging levels, and compete with other players for the fastest speedrun!

Why similar: Precision Platformer 34.8%, Difficult 25.7%, 2D Platformer 18.6%, Platformer 13.7%, 2D 3.3%

Why You'll Like It: Tight controls, rapid retries, and demanding 2D stages give it a similar skill-check-heavy rhythm.

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: Multiplayer 37.1%, Co-op 33.6%, Platformer 21.8%, Indie 4.8%, 2D 2.6%

Why You'll Like It: It swaps jumps for grabbing and swinging, but the awkward co-op coordination and constant mishaps feel spiritually close.

A precision co-op platformer where the only obstacle is falling. Bring a friend along and work together as you face the brutal challenges that await you both on this climb! Can you both make it Two the Top?

Why similar: Precision Platformer 27.2%, Online Co-Op 23.1%, Difficult 18.4%, 2D Platformer 14%, Platformer 10.4%

Embark on a thrilling co-op adventure in 'Brave Escape,' a challenging platformer demanding teamwork to conquer perilous traps and treacherous terrain.

Why similar: Precision Platformer 23.2%, Difficult 19.5%, Online Co-Op 15.7%, 2D Platformer 11.1%, Platformer 10.7%

Splasher is a fun and challenging 2D Platformer filled with humor and surprises. Armed with a paint cannon, you’ll face the dangers of the Inkorp mega-factory in order to save your companions, the Splashers, and put an end to the Machiavellian projects of the evil boss, Le Docteur.

Why similar: Platformer 59.1%, Difficult 19.5%, Action 8.6%, Indie 6.6%, 2D 5.2%

Why You'll Like It: Fast technical 2D movement and hard obstacle courses make it a solid single-player precision substitute.

An insanely difficult precision platformer

Why similar: Precision Platformer 42.2%, Difficult 38.2%, Platformer 12.9%, 2D 4.3%, Singleplayer 1.3%

Paddle through pain. Solo or co-op. One paddle each. Lava everywhere. You’ll fall. You’ll scream. You might cry. Good luck and embrace the salt.

Why similar: Precision Platformer 27.2%, Co-op 17.1%, Racing 15.9%, Online Co-Op 15.4%, Platformer 14%

Bob Was Hungry is a challenging precision platformer with many levels designed to truly test your platforming skills. Play alone or online with 2-8 player co-op and make your way through countless perils to feed your bob!

Why similar: Difficult 45.2%, Platformer 33.2%, Co-op 17.8%, Indie 3.7%

Straima is a devilishly difficult pulse-pumper platformer for 1-4 players. It includes several game modes, selectable powers and gameplay mutators, as well as a full feature level editor with Steam Workshop support so you can design and share your weird creations with chums for immense joy.

Why similar: Precision Platformer 29.8%, Difficult 21.9%, Level Editor 17.3%, Platformer 13.2%, Co-op 7%

Play every character simultaneously and reunite them in mind boggling 100 levels

Why similar: Precision Platformer 22.7%, Difficult 21%, Level Editor 17.5%, 2D Platformer 12.3%, Puzzle Platformer 10.9%

Throw your stick-figure-self at cannonballs and airplanes in an upward pursuit of the eraser! Play cooperatively online to share the journey! Who's to say whether the company will help or hinder, though...

Why similar: Difficult 31.7%, Online Co-Op 30.1%, Platformer 12.8%, Multiplayer 11.7%, Co-op 9.1%

GARBANZO QUEST! The crazy bullet-heck platformer where your main weapon is your own spit! Bring a friend! Hand-crafted challenges, secrets, and branching paths galore!

Why similar: Precision Platformer 28.7%, Difficult 18.5%, 2D Platformer 17.7%, Platformer 14.7%, Moddable 8.6% ★

Infinite generation, jump, dodge, die, repeat. Are you the choosen one? Will you be in the Top 10 in the leaderboard? This game is insanely hard not everyone can be in the leaderboard because you need to TRYHARD. Good Luck!

Why similar: Precision Platformer 42.5%, 2D Platformer 24%, Platformer 21.6%, 2D 4.5%, Puzzle 4.1%

Melt your brain with this twisted take on the platform genre!

Why similar: Difficult 38.6%, 2D Platformer 29.3%, Platformer 22.8%, 2D 4.5%, Action 2.5%

A mega-hardcore platformer with an ability to play it online or by using hotseat co-op mode with friends, which is full of dirty tricks and all sorts of hoaxes around every corner — and all of that, in addition, peppered with easter eggs and roasted to a crust.

Why similar: Difficult 30.5%, Online Co-Op 27.3%, Platformer 20.9%, Co-op 12.1%, 2D 4.1%

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: Precision Platformer 41.3%, Difficult 33.2%, Platformer 17.5%, 2D 3.7%, Action 2.4%

A cantaloupe with strong hind legs feels incredible pain.

Why similar: Difficult 35.4%, 2D Platformer 29.5%, Platformer 22.2%, Indie 5.8%, Action 5.3%

The Dreamworld has been infected! It is up to you to explore the Dreamworld as the DreamDasher, discover its secrets, and defeat the Nightmare.

Why similar: Precision Platformer 34.9%, Difficult 23%, 2D Platformer 20.8%, Platformer 14%, Multiplayer 3.3%

Deliver those goods, real good - or get turned into scrap trying! Precision platforming, genre-bending power-ups, a challenging campaign, and a galaxy full of jokes await you in Levelhead!

Why similar: Precision Platformer 29.7%, Difficult 22.8%, Level Editor 17%, Platformer 11.7%, Puzzle Platformer 7.8%

One button platformer nightmare

Why similar: Difficult 45.4%, Platformer 39.3%, Action 9.3%, Indie 6%

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: Difficult 47.3%, Platformer 36.4%, Indie 8.6%, Action 7.7%

Race against up to 7 other players online and create catastrophic chaos with items beyond insanity. Breaking the tradition of single-player, story-based platformers. Interested? This is the brand new 2D platformer experience you want.

Why similar: 2D Platformer 31.6%, Platformer 21.3%, Multiplayer 19.4%, Racing 17.9%, 2D 5.2%

Share the love and die trying! KarmaZoo is a joyful, altruistic, cooperative platformer where up to 10 random players help each other with the unique abilities of 50 different characters - all for the sake of good Karma.

Why similar: 2D Platformer 22.3%, Platformer 21%, Puzzle Platformer 14.6%, Online Co-Op 12.8%, Multiplayer 10.9%

FREE DEMO features 1 playable character and 1 complete level with leaderboards. Try, die, retry in this challenging but fair precision platformer that takes place on 1 screen. Ultra tight controls, dozens of traps. Great for speedrunning, and 100% completionists. Also, no water levels!

Why similar: Precision Platformer 36.7%, Difficult 27.1%, 2D Platformer 18.3%, Platformer 11.7%, 2D 2.7%

The Colorful Creature is difficult platformer with puzzle color mechanics. Play over 350 levels with diverse gameplay that have many items and hazards, in-game level editor, local multiplayer, endless run, customizable skins & hats, steam workshop and more!

Why similar: Precision Platformer 25.8%, Difficult 19.3%, Level Editor 15.9%, 2D Platformer 12.9%, Platformer 9.2%

🦆 Marbles and 🐢 Checkers need your help finding their way home after being swept away in a storm. In this 90s buddy-platformer there's a ton of stuff to do and even more to collect!

Why similar: Precision Platformer 27.8%, Difficult 23.8%, 2D Platformer 19.6%, Platformer 15.9%, Co-op 7.2%

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

Why similar: Difficult 23.7%, Precision Platformer 20.2%, Platformer 14.3%, Online Co-Op 12.7%, Co-op 9.7%

Challenging 2D platformer in the best traditions of classic games, with an excellent chiptune soundtrack. The game will check your nerves for strength and bring a lot of emotions.

Why similar: Precision Platformer 33.6%, Difficult 26.1%, 2D Platformer 17.3%, Platformer 17%, 2D 3.2%

Tired of sitting on the ground? Take a sky-high journey with your friends in Only Climb: Better Together! Touch the clouds with your own hands and find out what's behind them, but remember, there are no easy paths…

Why similar: Precision Platformer 34%, Difficult 25.3%, Platformer 15.4%, Online Co-Op 7.7%, Multiplayer 6.2%

WASD : The Adventure of tori is an online co-op game for 2–4 players, where each player can only use their automatically assigned key (W, A, S, or D). Even a small mistake can make the team fail, so talk with your teammates and work together! You’ll learn the rest by crashing into it… a lot.

Why similar: Online Co-Op 41.6%, Multiplayer 17.2%, Co-op 16.3%, 2D Platformer 11.8%, Difficult 6.9%

Play Abathor Atlantis Landing and relive the glory of arcades in this action platformer for up to 4 players.

Why similar: Difficult 23%, Precision Platformer 21.6%, Platformer 16.6%, 2D Platformer 14.8%, Multiplayer 8.5%

Are you tired of being happy? Does life keep giving you everything you want? Are you finally ready to turn that frown right-side-up? Play 25 Layers of Pain. The game for masochists.

Why similar: Precision Platformer 36.8%, 2D Platformer 29.4%, Platformer 26.7%, 2D 3.5%, Action 3.3%

Dungeons Forever is not just any old platforming puzzle game. It's a possibly endless platforming puzzle game! The levels are created by you, me and everyone else!

Why similar: Level Editor 71.7%, Action 16.6%, Indie 11.7%

Tomb Rumble is a pixel art MMO platformer, where adventurers compete to retreive ancient treasures in lost temples, cursed ruins and more. Push other players into deadly traps to be the first to escape !... or be the one to fall in a lava pit.

Why similar: Precision Platformer 23.7%, Level Editor 18.4%, 2D Platformer 18.4%, Platformer 12.7%, Multiplayer 9.9%