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 50.9%, Great Soundtrack 15%, Difficult 12.8%, Indie 6%, 2D 3.6%

Why You'll Like It: This game shares the core gravity-flipping mechanic and precision platforming challenge that defines 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 40.6%, Platformer 17.3%, Space 10%, Difficult 8.7%, Great Soundtrack 6.8%

Why You'll Like It: A difficult, gravity-themed puzzle platformer that requires precise movement and quick thinking.

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 43.7%, Difficult 15.2%, Puzzle 9%, Great Soundtrack 6%, 2D 5%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses heavily on gravity-based platforming and momentum in a challenging 2D environment.

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 22.6%, Space 14.9%, Puzzle 12.2%, Sci-fi 7.1%

Why You'll Like It: This atmospheric title uses gravity and cloning mechanics to create complex spatial puzzles in a space setting.

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 38.9%, Puzzle Platformer 24.3%, Great Soundtrack 8.3%, Puzzle 6.1%, Space 4.9%

Why You'll Like It: Combines precision platforming with a unique teleportation mechanic that requires similar puzzle-solving logic.

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 58.1%, Space 11%, Puzzle 7.8%, Sci-fi 6.1%, Female Protagonist 5.7%

Why You'll Like It: A physics-based puzzle platformer that utilizes gravity and magnetism mechanics to navigate complex environments.

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 43.3%, Space 22.5%, Sci-fi 7.5%, Indie 5.6%, Physics 5.6%

Why You'll Like It: A space-themed platformer that emphasizes momentum and timing as you jump between orbiting objects.

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 48.7%, Puzzle Platformer 18%, Puzzle 11.6%, Great Soundtrack 7.5%, Indie 7%

Why You'll Like It: A tight puzzle platformer that focuses on environmental interaction and clever level design.

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 45.5%, Platformer 25.6%, Great Soundtrack 13.8%, Female Protagonist 6.1%, Indie 3.9%

Why You'll Like It: A fast-paced puzzle platformer where switching mechanics are essential for navigating and solving levels.

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 30.6%, Indie 4.9%, Puzzle 4.1%, Difficult 3.6%

Why You'll Like It: Features gravity-defying platforming mechanics that require players to think creatively about their 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: Puzzle Platformer 46.5%, Platformer 26.5%, Difficult 12.9%, Indie 4.1%, Physics 3.9%

Why You'll Like It: The ultimate test of momentum-based precision platforming, sharing the difficult but rewarding feel of the seed game.

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

Why similar: Platformer 57.7%, Great Soundtrack 17.8%, Difficult 13.1%, Indie 5.6%, 2D 3.4%

Why You'll Like It: A high-speed platformer that rewards mastery of momentum and fluid movement through difficult stages.

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: Platformer 34.3%, Puzzle Platformer 22%, Great Soundtrack 15.1%, Difficult 13.6%, Indie 4.8%

Why You'll Like It: Offers high-quality precision platforming with a focus on tight controls and challenging, screen-based puzzles.

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 45.2%, Puzzle Platformer 17.6%, Great Soundtrack 12.9%, Indie 5.5%, Female Protagonist 4.2%

Why You'll Like It: A puzzle platformer that uses unique visual and mechanical shifts to change how you traverse levels.

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 41.8%, Indie 17.7%, Female Protagonist 17.4%, Physics 14.9%, Puzzle 8.2%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on physics-based movement and momentum in space, providing a more atmospheric take on the genre.

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 57.7%, Indie 10.5%, Puzzle 7.9%, 2D 5.8%, Physics 4.9%

Why You'll Like It: A 2D platformer that incorporates physics-based puzzles and exploration in a sci-fi setting.

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

Why similar: Platformer 58.7%, Difficult 17.8%, Great Soundtrack 10.1%, Indie 5.9%, 2D 4.1%

Why You'll Like It: The gold standard for difficult, precision-based platforming that demands perfect timing and momentum control.

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 47%, Platformer 34.1%, Sci-fi 5.7%, 2D 3.5%, Indie 3.5%

Why You'll Like It: A minimalist puzzle platformer that uses physics and unique character abilities to navigate challenging spaces.

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 20.8%, Great Soundtrack 18.9%, Indie 18.1%, Puzzle 15.2%, Difficult 10.5%

Why You'll Like It: A momentum-based puzzle game that requires precise control to navigate through space-themed levels.

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 17.4%, Difficult 13.8%, Indie 5.7%, Action 1.9%

Why You'll Like It: A difficult, high-energy platformer that emphasizes rhythm and precise movement through dangerous 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 62.6%, Puzzle 12.9%, Platformer 10.9%, Sci-fi 4.8%, Female Protagonist 3.5%

Why You'll Like It: The quintessential physics-based puzzle game that forces players to manipulate space and momentum to succeed.

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 75.6%, Puzzle 11.1%, Female Protagonist 8.1%, Indie 2.7%, Action 2.5%

Uncertain of his sister's fate, a boy enters LIMBO

Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 60.8%, Platformer 23.7%, Puzzle 6%, Indie 3.5%, 2D 2%

Why You'll Like It: An atmospheric puzzle platformer that emphasizes physics-based environmental hazards and careful movement.

Hunted and alone, a boy finds himself drawn into the center of a dark project. INSIDE is a dark, narrative-driven platformer combining intense action with challenging puzzles. It has been critically acclaimed for its moody art style, ambient soundtrack and unsettling atmosphere.

Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 54%, Platformer 30.2%, Puzzle 7.6%, Indie 4.1%, Action 2.5%

Why You'll Like It: A masterclass in puzzle platforming that uses physics and environmental logic to create tension and challenge.

Perspective is an experimental platformer. The player avatar moves in a 2D space that transforms when the player changes perspective in 3D space. The player needs to use this mechanic navigate the 2D avatar to a goal in order to progress from level to level.

Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 78.6%, Puzzle 15.8%, Indie 5.6%

Why You'll Like It: A unique puzzle platformer where changing your camera perspective is the key to navigating the environment.

Q.U.B.E. 2 is the sequel to the hit first-person puzzle game Q.U.B.E. You are Amelia Cross, a stranded archaeologist who has awoken among the ruins of an ancient alien landscape. With the distant help of another survivor you must solve the puzzles of this mysterious world and find a way back home.

Why similar: Puzzle 20.5%, Puzzle Platformer 19.1%, Indie 15.5%, Space 12.2%, Action 10.3%

Why You'll Like It: A first-person physics puzzle game that requires manipulating the environment to traverse complex rooms.

An epic open-world puzzle Metroidbrainia that respects your intelligence! Knowledge is your superpower. Use creatures as tools to determine your own path.

Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 52.7%, Platformer 30.2%, Puzzle 7.2%, 2D 3.5%, Indie 3.1%

Why You'll Like It: A puzzle-heavy platformer that relies on environmental interaction rather than traditional combat.

The Talos Principle is a first-person puzzle game in the tradition of philosophical science fiction. Made by Croteam and written by Tom Jubert (FTL, The Swapper) and Jonas Kyratzes (The Sea Will Claim Everything).

Why similar: Puzzle 42.4%, Great Soundtrack 22.2%, Sci-fi 16.3%, Difficult 9.4%, Indie 4.3%

Why You'll Like It: A deep physics-based puzzle game that challenges the player to manipulate objects and gravity to progress.

This is the original version of Braid from 2009, which may not work well on newer systems. For an updated version of the game with nicer graphics, more levels and a large amount of developer commentary, see Braid, Anniversary Edition.

Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 61%, Platformer 22%, Puzzle 6.3%, Great Soundtrack 3.4%, Indie 2.8%

Why You'll Like It: A classic puzzle platformer that uses time manipulation to solve complex spatial challenges.

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 59%, Great Soundtrack 10.9%, Indie 7.2%, 2D 6.5%, Action 5.4%

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

Why similar: Puzzle 39.5%, Platformer 30.1%, Indie 12%, Great Soundtrack 5.8%, Sci-fi 5.2%

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 63.8%, Puzzle 12.7%, Space 7.1%, Platformer 5.4%, Indie 4.5%

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 36.4%, Puzzle 7.5%, Difficult 5.4%, Indie 4.9%

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 53.5%, Indie 10.8%, Puzzle 10.5%, Great Soundtrack 9.3%, Difficult 8.9%

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

Why similar: Platformer 31.6%, Puzzle 18.4%, Difficult 15.8%, Indie 11.3%, Casual 7.5%

Prepare for a challenge. Gun Rocket is a 2D physics arcade game that is not for the feint of heart or the stiff of fingers. In search of adventure, you have been caught by holes in space and time. Can you escape?

Why similar: Space 26.4%, Difficult 19.4%, Great Soundtrack 16.5%, Sci-fi 8.3%, 2D 6.7%

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 47.2%, Space 18.8%, Difficult 12.2%, Puzzle 8.5%, Physics 5.7%

A challenging puzzle platformer in which you clone and teleport.

Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 45.4%, Platformer 25.2%, Difficult 8.9%, Puzzle 5.5%, Great Soundtrack 4.1%

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 34.1%, Puzzle 8.4%, Indie 7.1%, 2D 3.9%

Play as Sally, the granddaughter of a brilliant and eccentric inventor, who invited you to explore her 70s lab, filled with unique inventions. Solve puzzles by crossing TV screens that alter your gravity, size, or both. Observation, manipulation, and thinking are key to progressing!

Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 38.6%, Puzzle 20.8%, Female Protagonist 10%, Physics 7.1%, Sci-fi 7.1%

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 51.6%, Great Soundtrack 17.9%, Indie 16.6%, Casual 7.6%, 2D 3.4%

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 40.2%, Physics 29.7%, Indie 24.1%, Singleplayer 6%

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 46.4%, Action 32%, Casual 14.8%, Singleplayer 6.7%

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 43.1%, Puzzle 34.9%, 2D 8.6%, Casual 7.5%, Singleplayer 5.9%

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 36.1%, Action 23.9%, Shooter 10.1%, 2D 10%, Arcade 8.7%

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 53.7%, Action 21.6%, Female Protagonist 11.9%, Singleplayer 7.9%, Casual 4.9%

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 56.5%, Indie 17.7%, Action 12.1%, Female Protagonist 9.1%, 2D 4.6%

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 21.3%, Difficult 8.2%, Space 8%, Indie 7.5%

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 30.4%, Indie 19.9%, Puzzle 18.8%, Difficult 11.3%, Casual 8.9%

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 56%, Platformer 23%, Puzzle 9%, Female Protagonist 4.6%, 2D 2.7%

Help Puzzled Cat use jetpacks, portals, bombs, gum, and more to conquer treacherous platforming stages. Play your own way using save states to explore a world full of challenges and secrets - but can you find the way through? Travel through time and space and reach enlightenment.

Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 50.8%, Platformer 23.9%, Difficult 9.6%, Puzzle 5.9%, 2D 4%

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 39.9%, Great Soundtrack 24.7%, Action 12.7%, Casual 8.5%, Difficult 5.8%

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 35.6%, Platformer 29.5%, Space 11.6%, Difficult 8.3%, Female Protagonist 4.6%

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 58%, Space 22.1%, Sci-fi 8.2%, 2D 6.4%, Action 4.1%

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 31.8%, Great Soundtrack 21.5%, Indie 12.1%, Difficult 9.9%, Action 8.2%

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 29.7%, Indie 7.3%, Puzzle 6.5%, Great Soundtrack 5.5%

A space game about swinging trash into things and dying.

Why similar: Indie 26%, Great Soundtrack 22.4%, Space 18.1%, Action 12.6%, 2D 7.9%

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 77%, Indie 15.7%, Action 4.1%, Casual 2.1%, Singleplayer 1.1%