Games Like Defy Gravity Extended

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

Why similar: Platformer 50.8%, Great Soundtrack 14.8%, Difficult 12.8%, Indie 6.1%, 2D 3.7%

Why You'll Like It: This iconic title shares the core gravity-flipping mechanic and high-difficulty precision platforming found in the seed game.

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 40.5%, Platformer 17.2%, Space 10.1%, Difficult 8.6%, Great Soundtrack 6.7%

Why You'll Like It: A hardcore puzzle-platformer that heavily utilizes gravity manipulation to navigate complex, dangerous environments.

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 30.9%, Platformer 22.4%, Space 15.1%, Puzzle 12.2%, Sci-fi 7.2%

Why You'll Like It: It offers a more atmospheric take on gravity and spatial puzzle-solving through its unique cloning and gravity-shifting mechanics.

Gravity Ghost is a physics game with a twist. Run, jump, and soar around planets, using gravity to glide through the air. Explore a shattered galaxy and rescue its survivors, armed with powerups and mysterious terraforming powers. Meet the 7 magical guardians and best their challenges. There's no killing, no dying, and no way to fail.

Why similar: Great Soundtrack 41%, Indie 18%, Female Protagonist 17.6%, Physics 15.2%, Puzzle 8.2%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on fluid, physics-based movement through space, capturing the gravity-centric traversal feel of the seed game.

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: Platformer 60.4%, Great Soundtrack 10.6%, Indie 7.5%, 2D 6.9%, Action 5.5%

Why You'll Like It: Combines fast-paced 2D action-platforming with a retro aesthetic that matches the energy of the seed game.

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 43.4%, Difficult 15.2%, Puzzle 9%, Great Soundtrack 5.9%, 2D 5.2%

Why You'll Like It: A gravity-focused platformer that emphasizes exploration and difficult traversal through space-themed environments.

Impulsion is a fast-paced first-person platformer designed to play with your nerves and reflexes! Make your way through 25 levels of increasing difficulty by manipulating physics to your advantage, shooting force fields to slow down or speed yourself up and the environment!

Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 29.8%, Platformer 21.1%, Difficult 8.2%, Space 8.1%, Indie 7.6%

Why You'll Like It: A momentum-based platformer that requires precise timing and physics manipulation to navigate high-speed obstacle courses.

You play an explorer stranded on a dangerous alien planet. Low on fuel, your only hope for escape is to find the planet’s core in this incredibly clever action-puzzle-platformer.

Why similar: Platformer 38.7%, Puzzle Platformer 24.3%, Great Soundtrack 8.1%, Puzzle 6.1%, Space 4.9%

Why You'll Like It: A short, punchy platformer with a teleportation mechanic that creates similar spatial puzzle 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 49.2%, Puzzle Platformer 17.3%, Puzzle 11.8%, Great Soundtrack 7.3%, Indie 7.3%

Why You'll Like It: Provides tight, satisfying puzzle-platforming mechanics that reward clever spatial thinking and quick reflexes.

A combination of platforming with a gravity gun, BEEP is an amazing physics-platformer. Despite its friendly art style, this is a hardcore platformer in the truest sense.

Why similar: Platformer 57.3%, Indie 10.6%, Puzzle 7.9%, 2D 6%, Physics 5%

Why You'll Like It: A physics-based platformer where you use a gravity gun to interact with the environment and solve puzzles.

Enter the mechanical shape-shifting, dimension switching world of the award winning, high octane action-puzzle-platformer Mighty Switch Force! Hyper Drive Edition, and blow crime away.

Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 45.7%, Platformer 25.5%, Great Soundtrack 13.6%, Female Protagonist 6.1%, Indie 4%

Why You'll Like It: Features a unique block-switching mechanic that functions similarly to gravity-based puzzles, requiring quick decision-making.

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: Platformer 57.7%, Great Soundtrack 17.2%, Difficult 13.8%, Indie 5.9%, Action 1.9%

Why You'll Like It: A high-energy, difficult platformer that relies on rhythm and precision, perfect for fans of challenging 2D action.

Gravity Error is an indie 2D puzzle/platformer about changing gravity. Guide Force in his quest seeking emotional stableness in a set of levels and avoid being crushed. Solve the puzzles in multiple creative ways.

Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 46.4%, Platformer 33.9%, Puzzle 8.4%, Indie 7.2%, 2D 4%

Why You'll Like It: A direct puzzle-platformer experience that leans heavily into gravity-shifting mechanics to solve level-based challenges.

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

Why similar: Platformer 59.1%, Difficult 17%, Great Soundtrack 10%, Indie 6.1%, 2D 4.3%

Why You'll Like It: Offers the same high-difficulty, fast-respawn platforming loop that makes Defy Gravity so addictive.

An inventive, thought-provoking puzzle platformer. Use powerups in each environment, and your own inherent gravity-bending powers, to complete each level. The more you play, the more story details you'll uncover.

Why similar: Platformer 53.2%, Indie 11%, Puzzle 10.5%, Great Soundtrack 9.1%, Difficult 8.9%

Why You'll Like It: A minimalist gravity-based platformer that strips away the fluff to focus purely on difficult, physics-based traversal.

A challenging puzzle platformer in which you clone and teleport.

Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 45.4%, Platformer 25.1%, Difficult 8.9%, Puzzle 5.5%, Great Soundtrack 4%

Why You'll Like It: A dedicated puzzle-platformer that focuses on casual but difficult mechanics in a 2D space.

Explore, fight, solve puzzles and bend gravity to escape the dream-like world of the Halls! Metro Gravity is a mind-boggling musical adventure with rhythmic combat and compelling lore.

Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 75.9%, Puzzle 11.1%, Female Protagonist 7.9%, Indie 2.7%, Action 2.5%

Navigate the beauty and hazards of the solar system while riding a wave of light through 100+ levels in this innovative action-puzzle game!

Why similar: Space 20.9%, Great Soundtrack 18.4%, Indie 18.3%, Puzzle 15.1%, Difficult 10.5%

Why You'll Like It: A physics-based puzzle game that requires manipulating wave patterns to navigate through space.

An ancient tower in a forgotten land. A lone photographer on a desperate search. Facing dangerous animals, crumbling architecture, and perilous pitfalls, can you reach the summit of the Tower, and perhaps, redemption?

Why similar: Platformer 45.1%, Puzzle Platformer 17.7%, Great Soundtrack 12.7%, Indie 5.7%, Female Protagonist 4.3%

Why You'll Like It: A platformer that uses perspective and environmental manipulation to solve puzzles, offering a similar 'brain-teasing' platforming experience.

Beyond Gravity is procedurally generated "platformer" where you jump in-between planets and try to collect as many pickups as you can. This gets progressively harder the further you jump. No need to worry tho as you can upgrade your character with loads of upgrades and power-ups!

Why similar: Platformer 42.9%, Space 22.6%, Sci-fi 7.5%, Indie 5.7%, Physics 5.6%

Why You'll Like It: A space-themed platformer that emphasizes jumping between rotating planets, capturing the gravity-hopping feel of the seed game.

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: Puzzle Platformer 71.5%, Puzzle 11.9%, Physics 7%, Action 3.8%, Funny 2.4%

Why You'll Like It: A physics-based puzzle game where movement is the primary challenge, requiring players to master momentum.

Devilishly difficult but insanely rewarding physics puzzler. Play through 85 levels of diverse and ingenious physics-based challenges.

Why similar: Platformer 32.9%, Puzzle 19.3%, Difficult 16.5%, Indie 12%, Casual 7.7%

Why You'll Like It: A physics-based puzzle game that focuses on the difficulty of controlling a ball through complex, gravity-affected levels.

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 46.9%, Platformer 33.9%, Sci-fi 5.8%, 2D 3.6%, Indie 3.6%

Why You'll Like It: A puzzle-platformer that uses the unique physical properties of different characters to navigate gravity-based obstacles.

Portal™ is a new single player game from Valve. Set in the mysterious Aperture Science Laboratories, Portal has been called one of the most innovative new games on the horizon and will offer gamers hours of unique gameplay.

Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 62.5%, Puzzle 12.9%, Platformer 10.8%, Sci-fi 4.9%, Female Protagonist 3.5%

Why You'll Like It: The definitive spatial puzzle game that uses gravity and momentum to navigate complex 3D environments.

Polarity takes it to the next level, demanding all of your wits and reflexes. Full-featured local co-op campaign.

Why similar: Puzzle 39.6%, Platformer 29.9%, Indie 12.2%, Great Soundtrack 5.7%, Sci-fi 5.3%

Dash across Scenic Locations destroying bug like creatures called the Flanx using 6 Unique Attacks that include Massive Terrain Deformation and High Speed Barrages of Energy Blasts!

Why similar: Indie 46.7%, Action 31.5%, Casual 14.9%, Singleplayer 6.8%

Why You'll Like It: An action-platformer that features high-speed movement and gravity-defying jumps in a 3D environment.

Gravitas is a short first-person puzzle platforming game that transports you to the Gallery of Refined Gravity. Manipulate gravity and the gallery itself to prove yourself a pupil worthy of the Curator’s masterwork.

Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 63.6%, Puzzle 12.7%, Space 7.2%, Platformer 5.3%, Indie 4.6%

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 43.6%, Platformer 36.2%, Puzzle 7.5%, Difficult 5.4%, Indie 5%

Wrangle the hands and arms of a 1970s space cosmonaut and push, pull and twist your way through an increasingly precarious range of physically simulated stellar scenarios, where without gravity, nothing is still, nothing is secure, and nothing is simple.

Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 47.1%, Space 18.8%, Difficult 12.1%, Puzzle 8.4%, Physics 5.8%

You are stranded on a strange and peculiar planet. It’s time to embark on your journey and find your way home! Explore a gravity defying and challenging platformer with striking visuals and a captivating story that transports you to a world beyond ours.

Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 52.3%, Platformer 30.4%, Indie 5%, Puzzle 4.1%, Difficult 3.6%

Morphopolis is about transformation and discovery. Morphopolis takes you on a puzzle adventure through a fantastical insect world. Starting as an aphid grub, you embark on an epic journey of metamorphosis toward your spawning ground.

Why similar: Puzzle 51.5%, Great Soundtrack 17.7%, Indie 17%, Casual 7.6%, 2D 3.3%

Based on a true story, discover the horror of the Canton insane asylum as you attempt to rescue your daughter. Experience the scariest game of 2014.

Why similar: Indie 54%, Action 21.3%, Female Protagonist 11.9%, Singleplayer 8%, Casual 4.9%

A deep, tactical shoot'em up. With every takedown, you’ll earn cash and xp to upgrade your ship and unlock new abilities. Online and local co-op. Unique versus mode. Realistic physics and water simulation.

Why similar: Indie 36.2%, Action 23.6%, 2D 10.1%, Shooter 9.9%, Arcade 8.8%

A true test your wits and spatial reasoning. Detour combines highway-building fun with the excitement of a competitive real-time strategy game. Construct a path for your convoy to reach its destination in this incredibly addictive title. With online multiplayer!

Why similar: Indie 43.2%, Puzzle 34.5%, 2D 8.7%, Casual 7.5%, Singleplayer 6%

Use gravity, tension, and wind currents to get your hot air balloon to its destination, dropping off cargo on your way, in this ultra-challenging physics-based game. All art used in the Howler was meticulously created by classically-trained experienced painters.

Why similar: Platformer 30.3%, Indie 20.3%, Puzzle 18.8%, Difficult 10.5%, Casual 9.1%

Swing, climb, grab, and throw in this action platformer where you can grapple anywhere! Using Rena's magic bracelets, hook onto any surface to swing wherever you like, or grab your foes to send them hurtling into each other!

Why similar: Platformer 56.1%, Indie 18%, Action 12%, Female Protagonist 9.1%, 2D 4.7%

Relicta is a first-person physics-based puzzle game where you need to creatively combine magnetism and gravity to unravel the secrets of Chandra Base.

Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 65.1%, Puzzle 8.8%, Sci-fi 6.9%, Female Protagonist 6.4%, Physics 4.9%

Bad Rats is a physics puzzle game where rats finally get their bloody revenge on their new prisoners: The cats. Come up with creative solutions for each puzzle using physics, functional objects, and your specially trained Rats. Try different ways of solving each puzzle to finish faster or earn higher scores.

Why similar: Puzzle 39.7%, Physics 29.9%, Indie 24.2%, Singleplayer 6.2%

A space game about swinging trash into things and dying.

Why similar: Indie 26.3%, Great Soundtrack 21.8%, Space 18.2%, Action 12.5%, 2D 8.1%

Saviors brings the best bullet hell experience you can find on Steam. Play through 18 challenging stages in this ultimate test of tactics and reflexes.

Why similar: Space 32%, Great Soundtrack 21%, Indie 12.2%, Difficult 9.9%, Action 8.1%

Quilly was abducted by aliens, now, he has to fight for his freedom! Destroy cube aliens with guns, bats and inteligence... avoid traps and more. Dead Bits is a first-person shooter with original dubstep soundtrack for Windows and Mac.

Why similar: Indie 40.4%, Great Soundtrack 24.2%, Action 12.6%, Casual 8.6%, Difficult 5.8%

The title says it all. Take one part falling block puzzle game, combine one part old-school platformer, add a couple thousand pixels, blend and serve. Why match colored blocks when you can just shoot the hell out of them? Your goal is to survive as long as you can. From celebrated indie developer Andrew Morrish and Adult Swim Games.

Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 38.5%, Platformer 29.6%, Indie 7.4%, Puzzle 6.6%, Great Soundtrack 5.4%

Woodle Tree Adventures is an old school platform game with a catchy and unique art style! Explore a total of 6 worlds and save the lands with the magical water drops you'll find through your journey, bringing back peace and balance and finally becoming the new hero!

Why similar: Platformer 76.7%, Indie 16%, Action 4%, Casual 2.1%, Singleplayer 1.2%

Surf through a pulsating, underground world on platforms pulled from thin air in this challenging, psychedelic, rhythm-infused action platformer that has you defying gravity to a pumping beat.

Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 36.2%, Platformer 31.6%, Great Soundtrack 12.7%, Difficult 7.6%, Indie 4%

Rewind time and manipulate gravity in order to solve parkour puzzles in this exciting new 2D platformer.

Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 45.4%, Platformer 24.8%, Difficult 8.9%, Puzzle 6.1%, Indie 4.2%

A unique action-puzzle platform game that will give you a whole new gaming experience.

Why similar: Platformer 43.3%, Puzzle Platformer 32.9%, Indie 7.2%, Female Protagonist 6.5%, Puzzle 5.1%

Innoquous 5 is a huge puzzle-platformer... with a twist! Hit a gravity arrow or jump into a flipper and you can rotate gravity, opening new paths through each of the huge collection of levels!

Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 44.8%, Platformer 30.6%, Puzzle 8.3%, Indie 7.3%, Action 5%

Ingression is an unforgiving & mind-bending precision platformer where you'll think and platform with seamless portals. Travel to the future to save the past from a tremendous time paradox.

Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 35%, Platformer 28.8%, Space 11.5%, Difficult 9.8%, Female Protagonist 4.5%

Explore alternate dimensions, fight interdimensional criminals, and solve crimes in this thrilling action platformer!

Why similar: Platformer 32.4%, Puzzle Platformer 31.6%, Space 10.7%, Indie 9.8%, Action 6.7%

In ROTA gravity bends beneath your feet! Move blocks and twist gravity to solve puzzles. Collect all 50 gems and explore 8 vibrant worlds!

Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 57.2%, Platformer 23.4%, Puzzle 9.2%, Female Protagonist 4.7%, 2D 2.9%

The Floor is Jelly is a game that answers the question: what if everything you touched was made of jello?

Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 59.1%, Platformer 25.7%, Great Soundtrack 4.8%, Indie 4.7%, Puzzle 2.7%

Nominated as a IGF Seamus McNally Finalist, NightSky is an ambient action-puzzle game that offers a gameplay experience unlike any other—cerebral challenges fill uniquely designed picturesque worlds. The player must maneuver a sphere by using realistic physics to advance; each of these worlds is broken into different areas.

Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 57.6%, Platformer 25.8%, Puzzle 5.9%, Indie 4.3%, Physics 3.3%

Explore an abandoned space station in this retro-themed explorative action platformer.

Why similar: Platformer 50.9%, Great Soundtrack 10.8%, Difficult 9.8%, Indie 7.1%, Space 5.6%

A precise 2D platformer with a twist. NO JUMPING. Master your magnetic powers to beat each level with speed and skill. Enjoy classic 16-bit gaming vibes, tackle challenging achievements and compete for global leaderboard supremacy along the way.

Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 37%, Platformer 19.3%, Difficult 9.4%, Space 6.8%, Indie 6.6%

Gravitia is an adventure game about manipulating gravity to escape a unique world full of mystery.

Why similar: Platformer 63%, Puzzle 21%, Physics 10.1%, Singleplayer 3.4%, Indie 2.4%

Momentum-driven old school platformer with modern graphics & physics with a focus on exploration. Offers precision and on later levels a lot of speed. Each world brings new abilities & gameplay

Why similar: Indie 38.6%, Female Protagonist 29.3%, Action 22.9%, Singleplayer 9.3%