Games Like Defunct

Refunct is a peaceful, short first-person platformer about restoring a vibrant world.

Why similar: Great Soundtrack 37.9%, Platformer 22.9%, Colorful 11%, Adventure 9.7%, Family Friendly 7.8%

Why You'll Like It: Like Defunct, this game focuses on fluid movement and parkour in a short, relaxing, and highly satisfying 3D environment.

Fast paced 3D action platformer.

Why similar: Fast-Paced 56.8%, Great Soundtrack 28%, Platformer 9.3%, Indie 3.5%, Singleplayer 2.3%

Why You'll Like It: A fast-paced 3D platformer that captures the same sense of speed and momentum-driven traversal found in Defunct.

Leaping from mind-boggling heights, bouncing off Champolines, soaring inches from floating islands, BUD can do it all - that look of mild terror, that’s his daredevil face. Help the adorable little robot collect MOM’s scattered ship parts and return them to the moon.

Why similar: Robots 29.7%, Adventure 19.5%, Family Friendly 12.8%, Casual 9%, Colorful 8.4%

Why You'll Like It: Expands on the movement mechanics of its predecessor with an open-world approach that emphasizes verticality and traversal.

Experience the thrills of a fast-paced single and multiplayer Parkour game. Join the Rebellion and deride the security forces of an anti-leisure tyranny. Rise up to the many challenges of a futuristic Open World. Assemble your team, enhance your gear and perform incredible tricks and combos.

Why similar: Fast-Paced 39%, Great Soundtrack 18%, Platformer 15.7%, Colorful 9%, Adventure 8.6%

Why You'll Like It: This game features a vibrant world filled with robots and high-speed parkour that mirrors the momentum-based gameplay of Defunct.

Experience the freedom of unbounded climbing as you take control of BUD, a procedurally animated robot on a quest to save his planet. Create your own path through an alien world as you control and ride a giant plant on a vertical journey to the stars.

Why similar: Robots 42.3%, Adventure 17.6%, Platformer 10.9%, Great Soundtrack 10.4%, Casual 8.2%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on unique, physics-based climbing and exploration that shares the experimental movement feel of Defunct.

Neon White is a single-player speedrunning FPS where you can sacrifice your guns for godlike parkour moves.

Why similar: Fast-Paced 44.9%, Great Soundtrack 24.1%, Platformer 16.6%, Adventure 6.4%, Indie 5.1%

Why You'll Like It: While more combat-focused, its core loop is entirely built around speed-running, flow, and optimizing movement paths.

A Story About My Uncle is a first person platforming adventure game about a boy who searches for his lost uncle, and ends up in a world he couldn’t imagine existed. The movement is a crucial part of the games core gameplay – focusing on swinging through the world with a grappling hook that gives the player a wonderful sense of speed and...

Why similar: Adventure 82.7%, Platformer 6.5%, Great Soundtrack 3.6%, Indie 2.6%, Family Friendly 1.9%

Why You'll Like It: Features a unique grappling hook mechanic that creates a similar sense of momentum and aerial freedom.

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: Fast-Paced 33.1%, Robots 16.9%, Score Attack 16.9%, Platformer 12%, Colorful 7.8%

Why You'll Like It: A precision platformer that requires rhythmic movement and speed, appealing to fans of challenging platforming mechanics.

Scrap Garden is a charming puzzle platformer about the adventures of Canny, a lonely robot, who awakens in a post-apocalyptic world to find all other robots shut down and seized up. What happened to the City? Why did all robots stop moving? Did anyone survive except him?

Why similar: Robots 36.1%, Family Friendly 17.8%, Adventure 17.4%, Indie 11.7%, Platformer 9.6%

Why You'll Like It: Features a charming robot protagonist and 3D platforming gameplay that shares the thematic aesthetic of Defunct.

Deep within the realm of sleep, Sybil finds herself pulled to a distorted castle. Grow strong, and unlock new abilities to build up a deep movement system, fight enemies, find secrets, and free the weary soul of Castle Sansa, in this retro-inspired 3D Platformer Metroidvania.

Why similar: Platformer 59.8%, Adventure 18.1%, Indie 11.5%, Singleplayer 10.5%

Why You'll Like It: A movement-focused 3D platformer that prioritizes fluid traversal and exploration within an interconnected world.

Downward is a first-person open-world parkour based platform adventure set in the medieval ruins of a post-apocalyptic planet Earth. Make your way through breath-taking landscapes, face ancient guardians and unravel the deep mystery that lies behind the disappearance of humanity.

Why similar: Great Soundtrack 32.6%, Platformer 24.2%, Adventure 14.5%, Indie 9.7%, Family Friendly 9.5%

Why You'll Like It: A first-person parkour adventure that focuses on fluid movement through a post-apocalyptic world.

Never STANDBY in this fast-paced, precise platformer and get out of the glitched world! Can you do it faster than anyone?

Why similar: Great Soundtrack 25.9%, Racing 20%, Platformer 16.5%, Adventure 9.8%, Indie 7.3%

Why You'll Like It: A fast-paced, difficult platformer that demands quick reflexes and constant forward momentum.

Ready. Set. YO! - Join Penny & Yo-Yo in a kinetic 3D-platformer bursting with innovative gameplay! Showcase your catalog of tricks and chain impressive combos to deliver Penny & Yo-Yo's perfect breakout performance. Take the stage with this vibrant pair in Penny’s Big Breakaway.

Why similar: Platformer 27.6%, Adventure 18.8%, Great Soundtrack 17.9%, Family Friendly 15%, Colorful 13.6%

Why You'll Like It: A momentum-based 3D platformer where controlling your character's physics and speed is the key to success.

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: Racing 79.1%, Adventure 13%, Indie 7.9%

Why You'll Like It: A racing-focused adventure game that captures the speed and flow of moving through a stylized world.

Tyler: Model 005 is a 3D action-platformer and exploration game set in the 1950s where you customize and control a spunky miniature robot named Tyler. Many years after powering down, Tyler is accidentally powered on during a thunderstorm and must discover what has happened to his creator and home.

Why similar: Robots 36.4%, Platformer 21.9%, Great Soundtrack 15.3%, Adventure 13.4%, Casual 6.4%

Why You'll Like It: An adventure game featuring a robotic protagonist that emphasizes exploration and action-oriented platforming.

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: Fast-Paced 47.7%, Great Soundtrack 19.1%, Racing 11.2%, Platformer 7.9%, Indie 6%

Why You'll Like It: A chaotic, high-speed platformer where maintaining momentum is essential to surviving the moving obstacles.

Marble Skies is a fast paced 3D-platformer where you control your marble through various levels and try to get the best time for each one. Complete all the levels in your own time, or challenge your friends to get on top of the leaderboards!

Why similar: Racing 31.5%, Great Soundtrack 21.1%, Platformer 11.7%, Family Friendly 10.3%, Arcade 9.4%

Why You'll Like It: A physics-based racing and platforming game that shares the momentum-heavy gameplay loop of Defunct.

Welcome to the world of Freight Hopper. A high-octane first-person parkour experience. Test your spontaneous planning and reach the goal as fast as possible!

Why similar: Racing 52.3%, Platformer 16.7%, Robots 10.4%, Family Friendly 9.1%, Colorful 7.1%

Why You'll Like It: A runner-style 3D platformer that focuses on speed and precision in a sci-fi setting.

Sonic Frontiers is a groundbreaking open-zone action-adventure game set on the ancient Starfall Islands. Join Sonic as he battles hordes of powerful enemies with an all-new combat system, explores the mysteries of the islands, and saves his friends!

Why similar: Fast-Paced 39.2%, Great Soundtrack 26.9%, Platformer 14.6%, Colorful 8.6%, Adventure 7.6%

Why You'll Like It: Offers an open-world take on high-speed 3D platforming that aligns closely with the racing and speed elements of Defunct.

Explore the fallen world of Penumbra in this precision 3D metroidvania platformer. Slash fierce enemies, conquer deadly traps, uncover ancient temples, and master fast, fluid movement across challenging platforming gauntlets in your quest to restore a fallen kingdom.

Why similar: Platformer 60.4%, Adventure 20.1%, Indie 11.7%, Singleplayer 7.8%

Why You'll Like It: A 3D platformer that emphasizes tight movement controls and high-speed traversal through dangerous environments.

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: Fast-Paced 35%, Robots 21.1%, Platformer 18.6%, Great Soundtrack 16.2%, Indie 6.1%

Why You'll Like It: An action-platformer with a robot protagonist that emphasizes fast-paced combat and movement.

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 41.7%, Adventure 26.4%, Indie 25.2%, Singleplayer 6.6%

Why You'll Like It: A metroidvania featuring a robotic suit that provides satisfying movement and exploration mechanics.

KilaFlow is a fast paced Precision 3d Platformer featuring a Toy Robot Antivirus who switches gears to speed up and save Datyte from the infection of an evil and mysterious Virus threat! Bounce, Slide, and Spin between programs and worlds to generate Keygems and cure the cute critters in your path!

Why similar: Racing 52.4%, Platformer 22.9%, Colorful 12.7%, Adventure 9.3%, Singleplayer 2.7%

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: Great Soundtrack 48.1%, Platformer 32%, Indie 19.9%

Why You'll Like It: A high-speed, precision-based platformer that tests your ability to maintain flow under pressure.

Left to fend for himself after mankind abandoned the doomed planet Aurora, robot Kramer 227 must find a way through 20 action-packed levels and rescue his robotic friends before Aurora crashes into its sun.

Why similar: Great Soundtrack 30.2%, Indie 26.8%, Platformer 23.4%, Family Friendly 19.5%

Why You'll Like It: A platformer featuring a robot protagonist that focuses on energy management and traversal.

Airscape is a fast-paced, ultra-challenging 60 level action platformer. You play a deep-sea octopus, kidnapped by a mechanical alien race. Jump, dodge, and swim through a skybound environment full of floating islands, water formations, and robotic terrors.

Why similar: Platformer 23.9%, Arcade 17.7%, Great Soundtrack 16%, Colorful 11.6%, Adventure 8.6%

Why You'll Like It: A gravity-defying platformer that requires quick thinking and fluid movement to survive.

Embark on an adventure with 6-mon the little robot. Take control of the robot and travel through a disused factory, avoiding falls, protecting yourself from projectiles and traversing dangerous levels to stop the activities of a crazy AI.

Why similar: Robots 49.9%, Platformer 22.8%, Colorful 8.4%, Indie 6.7%, Adventure 6.6%

Fractured Horizon is a fast-paced parkour game, where you use Gravity Fields to traverse through a shattered world. Manipulate gravity, leap between the platforms and overcome obstacles in this speedrunning 3D platformer.

Why similar: Racing 24.9%, Platformer 24.3%, Family Friendly 14.8%, Adventure 14.3%, Colorful 12.3%

After an accident, your ship crashes on an unknown island, a convergence point between worlds. Explore impossible landscapes, overcome traps and puzzles, recover the lost Loops, and see if you can find the legendary Golden Loop in this 3D platforming narrative adventure.

Why similar: Robots 23.3%, Family Friendly 17.9%, Platformer 16.8%, Colorful 12.7%, Adventure 12.5%

Distance is an atmospheric racing platformer. Fusing futuristic arcade racing with parkour, survive a deadly, mysterious, neon-drenched city by jumping, rotating, and flying.

Why similar: Racing 47.7%, Great Soundtrack 21.5%, Fast-Paced 17.4%, Arcade 5%, Platformer 4.3%

A robot, a poncho and a journey of discovery! Make your way through this wonderful world of pixelated parallax platforming to solve the ultimate puzzle: who is Poncho?

Why similar: Platformer 20.8%, Robots 19.3%, Adventure 17.9%, Great Soundtrack 16.1%, Indie 11.6%

Why You'll Like It: A platformer that uses depth-shifting mechanics to create unique traversal challenges.

An atmospheric narrative-platformer about a service robot stranded on a mysterious planet, Planet of the Eyes features a stunning visual mix of puzzle and platforming challenges, an original musical score, and fully voiced audio logs left by another survivor. Explore the mystery of an unknown world.

Why similar: Platformer 30%, Robots 29.8%, Adventure 13.6%, Indie 10%, Colorful 9.5%

Why You'll Like It: A puzzle-platformer featuring a robot protagonist in a mysterious, atmospheric world.

Escape from a mysterious underground megastructure in this short atmospheric 3d-platformer.

Why similar: Robots 42.5%, Adventure 26.6%, Platformer 19.4%, Indie 6%, Singleplayer 5.4%

Run fast, soar through the air, and master your landings as you speed through procedural worlds to outrun the end of the universe, by yourself and with friends!

Why similar: Fast-Paced 43.8%, Racing 25.5%, Platformer 8.6%, Arcade 7.3%, Colorful 5%

Experience a fast-paced, single-player adventure mixing fluid motion, split-second decision making, stylized machine-age visuals, and a dynamic soundscape.

Why similar: Platformer 46.6%, Adventure 31%, Indie 22.4%

Why You'll Like It: A platformer that uses magnetic physics to create unique movement challenges and momentum-based puzzles.

A new chapter of charming 3D platformer about the little rusty robot C4N who unwittingly finds himself in the midst of momentous events in Robo Land. In order to solve the new riddle, Canny will once again need to run and jump a lot, solve puzzles, and fight against enemies who are much bigger and stronger than he is.

Why similar: Robots 32.9%, Great Soundtrack 20.2%, Adventure 18.9%, Family Friendly 12.2%, Indie 8.7%

SteamWorld Dig is an action-adventure puzzler with strong Metroidvanian influences set in the SteamWorld Universe. You’ll need to dig deep into the earth, gather resources to upgrade your tools and abilities, take on enemies, solve challenging puzzles and uncover the secrets to save a dying town.

Why similar: Platformer 36.8%, Robots 27.4%, Adventure 13.2%, Indie 9.4%, Great Soundtrack 7.4%

Time Loader is a story-driven puzzle-platformer with tiny robots, alternate realities, nostalgic music, and primitive tech from the 90s!

Why similar: Platformer 30.7%, Family Friendly 28%, Adventure 15.6%, Indie 10.5%, Casual 9%

A precise momentum-based platformer that emphasizes exploration and navigation puzzles. Run and jump your way through a wide variety of obstacles and challenges as you explore an abandoned derelict freighter. Be careful: getting in is often easier than getting out!

Why similar: Platformer 70.3%, Adventure 24.1%, Singleplayer 5.6%

A tale of survival about two shipwrecked robots - ION and ANI - on their life-defining journey in this unique genre-mix of exploration, puzzle and survival.

Why similar: Robots 35%, Adventure 25.9%, Great Soundtrack 20.8%, Indie 14.3%, Singleplayer 4%

A Small Robot Story is an adventure-platformer where you play as Rae, a small robot who activates and has no idea why. So you need to set out and find out what's up! With a heavy emphasis on story, A Small Robot Story will take you through forests, factories, caves, laboratories, and more.

Why similar: Robots 38%, Platformer 30.8%, Adventure 21.7%, Indie 9.4%

A skill-based speedrunner platformer where you control a fast-paced robot racing through level-based space tracks at extreme speeds. Push your skills to the limit with TIRELESS!

Why similar: Racing 32.3%, Fast-Paced 31.4%, Platformer 12.5%, Robots 10.8%, Arcade 6.2%

Hyperactive 2D action platformer with wicked fast attacks, omnidirectional dashing, and time-freezing! Play well enough to transform and unleash 100% power!

Why similar: Fast-Paced 51.5%, Platformer 11.7%, Robots 11.3%, Colorful 9.1%, Indie 5.3%

Discover a world overrun with robots, and play as a defective bot who tries to find a way to flee the facility. Find others who are the same kind, free them, and escape the laboratory!

Why similar: Robots 63.6%, Adventure 17.9%, Indie 12.4%, Singleplayer 6%

Groovy is a robotic sphere that exists in the abstract and crazy world of mechanisms. The game world is divided into two modes - Arcade and Survival, each of them filled with a unique environment, challenges and enemies.

Why similar: Racing 41.7%, Platformer 13.5%, Robots 13%, Arcade 8.8%, Adventure 7.6%

A minimalistic sci-fi platform racing game that challenges the players to think in both horizontal and vertical perspectives.

Why similar: Racing 66.7%, Fast-Paced 26.3%, Indie 7.1%

This is a short hardcore enthralling puzzle-platform game about a lonely robot, which tries to find his master. To go all the way you'll have to look for the master in two dimensions at the same time. Parallel world module will help to overcome any obstacles!

Why similar: Robots 29.3%, Platformer 24.5%, Arcade 14.4%, Adventure 13%, Indie 9.7%

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Why similar: Platformer 43.1%, Robots 23.7%, Adventure 16.7%, Indie 10%, Singleplayer 6.4%

You are an intelligent robot created by scientists for the best annual tournament "Project: R.E.B.O.O.T".

Why similar: Indie 30.8%, Platformer 27.6%, Adventure 23.4%, Casual 14.9%, Singleplayer 3.3%

A 2.5D retro platformer where you join M1L0 on his quest for the Great Legume.

Why similar: Robots 37.6%, Colorful 18.6%, Platformer 18.3%, Adventure 17.1%, Singleplayer 8.4%

You were on the way to a recycling process when fortunately for you - and unfortunately for the environment - you accidentally ran off. Now your goal is to escape from the facility, which is an extremely difficult task due to the fact that you are a battery without legs.

Why similar: Indie 50.4%, Platformer 49.6%

The evil I.N.K.T. Corporation has declared 'Color is a Crime!' and leeched Chroma City of all its beauty and interest. The race to rescue Chroma City has just begun, and only de Blob can save the world from a black-and-white future with his unique abilities to color the world back to life.

Why similar: Great Soundtrack 38.3%, Platformer 18.1%, Adventure 13.2%, Colorful 9.9%, Casual 9.2%

Speed through a gorgeous retrowave world using parkour skills and a grappling hook to scale and ride walls in this fast-paced, 3D platformer. Blast enemies, manipulate time and abuse physics to avoid falling to your death.

Why similar: Fast-Paced 39.6%, Racing 26.3%, Platformer 12.7%, Arcade 8.4%, Indie 5.4%

iZBOT is fast paced, double jumping, wall sliding, edge of your seat platformer that delivers delicious bite sized challenging platforming levels while always keeping you in the action.

Why similar: Fast-Paced 43.6%, Platformer 20.2%, Robots 19.9%, Arcade 9.1%, Singleplayer 3.7%

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: Fast-Paced 39.8%, Great Soundtrack 14.9%, Racing 13.9%, Platformer 11.9%, Colorful 6.8%

A laid-back but smart puzzle game. Stuffo is the last remaining puzzle bot stuck in a world filled with bite-sized brain-teasers. Help Stuffo to solve the mind-bending puzzles by using various blocks to climb, push and teleport your way to the exit.

Why similar: Robots 63.5%, Adventure 20.3%, Indie 9.8%, Singleplayer 6.4%