Games Like Disc Room

Downwell is a curious game about a young person venturing down a well in search of untold treasures with only his Gunboots to protect him.

Why similar: Precision Platformer 34.7%, Difficult 19.2%, 2D Platformer 11.8%, Arcade 11.4%, Retro 7.5%

Why You'll Like It: It captures the same frantic, arcade-style energy and 'just one more try' loop that defines the Disc Room experience.

Super Hexagon is a minimal action game by Terry Cavanagh, with music by Chipzel.

Why similar: Difficult 63.3%, Arcade 16.4%, Indie 8.1%, Action 3.1%, Singleplayer 2.4%

Why You'll Like It: Like Disc Room, this game demands absolute focus and pattern recognition in a high-speed, minimalist environment.

Katana ZERO is a stylish neo-noir, action-platformer featuring breakneck action and instant-death combat. Slash, dash, and manipulate time to unravel your past in a beautifully brutal acrobatic display.

Why similar: Difficult 19.6%, Violent 19.1%, Gore 16.5%, 2D Platformer 15.5%, Retro 9.4%

Why You'll Like It: The game features instant-death combat that requires players to memorize patterns and execute movements with pixel-perfect precision.

Between our world and the world beyond lie the Titan Souls, the spiritual source of all living things. Scattered amongst the ruins and guarded by the idle titans charged with their care, a solitary hero armed with a single arrow is assembling shards of the Titan Soul in a quest for truth and power.

Why similar: Difficult 55.7%, Action 8.4%, Adventure 7.8%, Retro 7.3%, Indie 6.9%

Why You'll Like It: This boss-rush game features the same one-hit-kill tension and requirement for precise movement found in Disc Room.

APE OUT is a wildly intense and colorfully stylized smash ‘em up about primal escape, rhythmic violence, and frenetic jazz.

Why similar: Gore 22.6%, Violent 21.4%, Difficult 17.8%, Top-Down Shooter 13.8%, Arcade 7.9%

Why You'll Like It: This top-down, violent, and fast-paced game mirrors the chaotic intensity and arcade feel of Disc Room.

BUTCHER is a fast-paced, blood-soaked 2D shooter where carnage is the only way forward. Become a ruthless cyborg tasked with eradicating humanity, leaving nothing but blood, guts, and destruction in your wake. There's no such thing as too much violence in this grim, retro-styled gorefest.

Why similar: Gore 31.1%, Difficult 19.3%, Violent 18.6%, Action 7.7%, Retro 7.2%

Why You'll Like It: A brutal, fast-paced 2D action game that emphasizes reflex-based combat and high difficulty.

Hotline Miami is a high-octane action game overflowing with raw brutality, hard-boiled gunplay and skull crushing close combat.

Why similar: Violent 28.6%, Gore 22.4%, Difficult 14.9%, Retro 10.8%, Top-Down Shooter 9%

Why You'll Like It: This top-down action game shares the brutal, fast-paced, and trial-and-error nature of navigating dangerous, confined spaces.

Devil Daggers is a fast-paced shooter that places you in an abyssal arena to face endless legions of demons. Armed with versatile magic daggers and a fluid movement system, fight to survive as long as you can.

Why similar: Difficult 39.5%, Retro 16.6%, Survival 10.6%, Gore 9%, Action 7.7%

Why You'll Like It: An arcade-style survival game that tests your ability to dodge overwhelming patterns in a confined arena.

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

Why similar: Difficult 31.7%, Retro 18.9%, Adventure 13.3%, Action 11.8%, Indie 11%

Why You'll Like It: Offers a challenging, exploration-heavy experience with difficult boss fights that require pattern mastery.

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

Why similar: Precision Platformer 34.4%, Difficult 22.3%, 2D Platformer 15.5%, Retro 12.1%, Indie 5.1%

Why You'll Like It: A masterclass in precision platforming that uses simple mechanics to create incredibly difficult, puzzle-like challenges.

MO: Astray is a pixel art, side-scrolling, action-platformer. Lead MO through mind-bending puzzles using special abilities. Bizarre enemies, threatening traps and ingenious level designs await.

Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 23.2%, Gore 21.1%, Violent 14%, Difficult 10.5%, Action 8.4%

Why You'll Like It: This game blends precise platforming with puzzle-solving elements in a surreal, dangerous world.

Super Meat Boy is back! This time around Meat Boy is always running, literally it's an auto-runner. You will jump, dive, slide and punch your way through brutal levels and mean boss fights. We designed 5,000+ levels so you can play the game over and over without seeing the same level twice.

Why similar: Precision Platformer 21.1%, Difficult 19.8%, Violent 15.4%, Gore 11%, 2D Platformer 6.8%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the same extreme precision platforming and rapid-fire death loops found in the original and Disc Room.

In a cold, dark future dominated by mega-corporations, a small lonely planet on the edge of habitable space is the site of a shadowy research facility specializing in necrotic tissue reactivation. You are a scientist who has suddenly awoken to the realization that you are the lone survivor.

Why similar: Top-Down Shooter 35.6%, Difficult 34.2%, Action 7.7%, Indie 7.5%, Survival 6.2%

Why You'll Like It: A top-down shooter that is notoriously difficult and forces players to adapt quickly to lethal, procedural environments.

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: Retro 26.6%, Difficult 15.7%, Action 15.4%, Indie 14.5%, Adventure 12.6%

Why You'll Like It: A tight, responsive metroidvania that features challenging boss encounters and precise movement mechanics.

Explore and uncover the mystery of a surreal alien world by blasting aliens and glitching your environment in this intense retro side-scrolling action/adventure.

Why similar: Retro 29.2%, Difficult 16.4%, Action 14.3%, Indie 14.1%, 2D 11.5%

Why You'll Like It: A high-quality metroidvania that provides a satisfying sense of progression through difficult, combat-heavy areas.

Nuclear Throne is a post-apocalyptic roguelike-like top-down shooter. Not 'the final hope of humanity' post-apocalyptic, but 'humanity is extinct and mutants and monsters now roam the world' post-apocalyptic. Can you reach the Nuclear Throne?

Why similar: Difficult 46%, Top-Down Shooter 30.7%, Action 8.8%, Indie 8.5%, 2D 3.7%

Why You'll Like It: A fast-paced, top-down shooter that demands quick reflexes and constant movement to survive intense bullet-hell encounters.

Enter the Gungeon is a bullet hell dungeon crawler following a band of misfits seeking to shoot, loot, dodge roll and table-flip their way to personal absolution by reaching the legendary Gungeon’s ultimate treasure: the gun that can kill the past.

Why similar: Difficult 68.4%, Action 9.7%, Indie 9.4%, 2D 8%, Singleplayer 4.5%

Why You'll Like It: This game combines top-down combat with complex bullet-hell patterns that require the same level of spatial awareness as Disc Room.

Minit is a peculiar little adventure played sixty seconds at a time.

Why similar: Retro 24.5%, Puzzle 22.8%, Adventure 19%, Indie 15.2%, 2D 8.5%

Why You'll Like It: Uses a unique, time-limited loop mechanic that forces players to solve puzzles and navigate hazards with extreme efficiency.

Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number is the brutal conclusion to the Hotline Miami saga, set against a backdrop of escalating violence and retribution over spilled blood in the original game.

Why similar: Gore 26.8%, Violent 20.6%, Difficult 18%, Top-Down Shooter 11.1%, Retro 9.2%

Why You'll Like It: Expands on the brutal, top-down tactical combat of the original, requiring even more precision and planning.

Bleed 2 is a relentless arcade action game featuring air-dodging, bullet-reflecting, and tons of bosses. Now with randomly-generated levels and daily challenges, too!

Why similar: Arcade 34.7%, Action 32.3%, Indie 22.5%, 2D 10.4%

Why You'll Like It: An arcade-style action game that prioritizes fast movement, dodging, and high-intensity boss battles.

OlliOlli World is a bold new skateboarding action-platformer that’s bursting with personality. Flip and flow through the vivid and vibrant world of Radlandia, meeting colorful characters as you grind, trick, and air your way to discover the mystical skate gods on your quest for Gnarvana.

Why similar: Precision Platformer 29.1%, Difficult 25%, Cartoony 15.2%, 2D Platformer 15.1%, Colorful 5.7%

Why You'll Like It: While a skating game, it demands the same level of flow, rhythm, and precision to navigate complex courses without failing.

Dead Cells is a roguelite, metroidvania inspired, action-platformer. You'll explore a sprawling, ever-changing castle... assuming you’re able to fight your way past its keepers in 2D souls-lite combat. No checkpoints. Kill, die, learn, repeat.

Why similar: Difficult 37.7%, Adventure 17.8%, Action 16.2%, 2D 14.7%, Singleplayer 8.9%

Why You'll Like It: A fast-paced roguelite that rewards players for learning enemy patterns and mastering tight, responsive combat.

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 26.2%, Difficult 22.3%, Puzzle Platformer 14.3%, 2D Platformer 13.3%, Arcade 8.6%

Why You'll Like It: The gold standard for precision platforming, requiring players to master momentum and timing to survive lethal levels.

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 31.2%, Difficult 28.4%, 2D Platformer 13.2%, Puzzle Platformer 8.2%, Indie 5%

Why You'll Like It: Renowned for its difficult, screen-by-screen platforming challenges that demand perfect execution.

The jailer is the key, kill him and you’ll be free. Fight your way free in this ultra-responsive, fast-paced sword-fighting and dual-stick shooting game.

Why similar: Difficult 42.5%, Violent 36.5%, Action 9.5%, Indie 6.7%, Singleplayer 4.8%

Why You'll Like It: A pure boss-rush game that focuses entirely on dodging patterns and precise counter-attacks.

Risk of Rain is an action platformer with roguelike elements. With permanent death as a primary feature, players will have to play their best to get as far as possible. Fight on a mysterious planet with randomly spawning enemies and bosses, either alone or with 3 friends in online co-op.

Why similar: Difficult 49%, Action 15.4%, Indie 14.1%, Survival 10.6%, 2D 7.9%

Why You'll Like It: A challenging, fast-paced action game where movement and positioning are key to surviving overwhelming odds.

As a demon army besieges his village, a young ninja ventures through a cursed world, to deliver a scroll paramount to his clan’s survival. What begins as a classic action platformer soon unravels into an expansive time-traveling adventure full of thrills, surprises, and humor.

Why similar: Retro 32%, Difficult 20.8%, 2D Platformer 16.4%, 2D 9%, Action 8.2%

Why You'll Like It: Features tight, responsive controls and challenging platforming segments that require quick thinking and execution.

You are a nomadic slugcat, both predator and prey in a broken ecosystem. Grab your spear and brave the industrial wastes, hunting enough food to survive, but be wary— other, bigger creatures have the same plan... and slugcats look delicious.

Why similar: Difficult 40.5%, Survival 25.4%, 2D Platformer 12.7%, Indie 5.7%, 2D 5.2%

Why You'll Like It: A brutal survival game where the environment itself is a puzzle that requires careful movement and observation to navigate.

Shovel Knight: Treasure Trove is the complete Shovel Knight collection, containing all 5 games in the epic saga! Dig, blast, slash, and bash your way through a fantastical, 8-bit inspired world of pixel-perfect platforming, memorable characters, and world-class action-adventure gameplay.

Why similar: Retro 35.1%, Difficult 23.8%, 2D 9.5%, Indie 9%, Adventure 7.7%

Why You'll Like It: Offers classic, tight platforming mechanics with challenging enemy encounters that reward precision.

Cut robots apart in VR. Feel your sword disintegrate their metal bodies. Now you live and die in the Crashloop, a roguelike tournament to the death. Lock swords! Shoot shurikens from your wrist! This is CLONE DRONE... in the HYPERDOME!!!

Why similar: Action 61.7%, Colorful 23.9%, Singleplayer 14.4%

The skies are aflame and the seas will overflow with wreckage in Vlambeer’s stylish arcade shooter LUFTRAUSERS! Take to the skies in customized fighter planes to battle battleships, submarines, and rival aces for glory, honor, and high scores.

Why similar: Arcade 30.4%, Retro 17.5%, Difficult 13.9%, Action 12.6%, Indie 10.8%

Why You'll Like It: An arcade aerial combat game where the player must constantly dodge and weave through intense enemy fire to survive.

Welcome to the laboratory! Here tests are taken upon highly durable human clones using newest weapon technologies. Your goal is to head these tests.

Why similar: Gore 43%, Violent 38.4%, Action 8.1%, Indie 5.2%, 2D 2.4%

Orbital Bullet is a fast paced 360° action-platformer with rogue-lite elements, where all actions take place in a circular pattern. Fight your way through a variety of procedural planets and use body modifications, crafting and heavy weaponry. Kill. Die. Modify.

Why similar: Difficult 44.5%, 2D Platformer 26.3%, Action 10.8%, Indie 7.8%, 2D 6%

Kill to heal, and never stop moving in this retro-styled ADHD-fueled frantic fast-paced rogue-lite movement shooter. A short, yet intense multi-dimensional speedrun FPS experience for people with tiny attention spans. Do you have what it takes to subvert your infinite demise?

Why similar: Gore 43.3%, Retro 20.4%, Arcade 14.4%, Action 9.3%, Indie 6.4%

A puzzle-platformer set in a dystopian world where the invention of a cloning device has messed things up, big time. Armed with a clone gun and a mighty fine mustache, the chore of saving THE WHOLE OF CIVILIZATION rests on your shoulders. Don’t blow it.

Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 23.7%, 2D Platformer 15.6%, Puzzle 14.2%, Gore 13.8%, Action 7.7%

A physics-powered action roguelike. Grab asteroids, catch missiles, and hurl them back at swarming enemies. Build wild loadouts, defeat colossal bosses, and push deeper into a collapsing galaxy.

Why similar: Difficult 36.9%, Top-Down Shooter 36.8%, Action 8.2%, Colorful 7.6%, Adventure 6%

Never Give Up is a hardcore platformer determined to turn you into bloody chunks. Run, jump, and slide your way through ever-changing levels that get harder each time you succeed. You’ll need to try, die, and try again if you want to conquer the game without pressing the Give Up button.

Why similar: Difficult 30.4%, Precision Platformer 13.2%, Violent 11%, Gore 10.1%, Indie 7.8%

Marrow is a 2D, Cosmic-Horror themed, action-adventure game emphasizing challenge, puzzles, platforming, combat and navigation. Leap, crawl, slash and blast your way through the cavernous bowels of a menacing mountain in a quest to find your lost friends.

Why similar: Gore 38.7%, Violent 36.5%, Action 8.9%, Adventure 7.9%, Indie 7.9%

Splatter is a first-person fever dream where you blast constantly-adapting enemies into neon sprays of pulp and slime. Enter a digital mindscape constructed by four anonymous administrators. Can you survive? Can you remain sane? Can you remain yourself?

Why similar: Violent 33.9%, Gore 28.6%, Colorful 13.3%, Action 11.5%, Indie 7.3%

Set in a far corner of space, Valfaris is a heavy metal infused 2D action-platformer and the next game from the team behind Unity Awards finalist, Slain: Back From Hell. Brutal combat. Deadly enemies. Stunning pixel art. Savage soundtrack. Get ready to rip the galaxy a new wormhole.

Why similar: Gore 31.9%, Violent 17.8%, Difficult 14.1%, Action 11.8%, Retro 11.3%

Search for new life forms as you try to survive on a mysterious hostile world in the surreal 2D action-platformer Orange Moon.

Why similar: Gore 46.1%, Action 15.1%, Puzzle Platformer 14.3%, Adventure 13.1%, Indie 11.4%

Help Dr. Fetus create the perfect Meat Boy clone in a unique new twist on the tile-matching puzzle genre. In classic Meat Boy fashion, an endless cavalcade of devious and deadly traps stand between you and victory in this hardcore puzzle game that will push your skills to the limit.

Why similar: Difficult 29.1%, Arcade 16.2%, Puzzle 12.8%, Action 11.3%, Cartoony 9.6%

Ultraviolent, fast-paced, merciless retro FPS action. Slaughter your way through nightmarish industrial mazes, transformed cityscapes, and surreal alien structures to cut down the Growth.

Why similar: Gore 49.6%, Retro 40.9%, Action 9.5%

Fight to survive on a mysterious alien planet, outwit its vicious inhabitants, and do whatever it takes to find a way off that wretched rock.

Why similar: Difficult 34%, Action 15.7%, Adventure 13.3%, 2D 12.3%, Indie 10.4%

Trapped in a buried, forgotten facility, you must reach the core of an ancient machine to rescue your lost lover. System Purge is a challenging, atmospheric 2D platformer.

Why similar: Gore 21.9%, Violent 19.6%, Precision Platformer 16.9%, Difficult 12.7%, Retro 8.7%

Challenge lawn monsters!

Why similar: Difficult 20.8%, Gore 20.2%, Precision Platformer 19.3%, Arcade 9.9%, Puzzle 7.3%

Rogue-like FPS with strong RPG elements set in a 22nd century reality-show parody. Win a fortune or die, but never disappoint your audience. And audience is virtual or real with revolutionary but optional features for streamers and their fans.

Why similar: Gore 30.2%, Difficult 23.4%, Survival 16%, Action 14.8%, Indie 10%

BEAM is a challenging precision platformer with puzzle elements in which you need to manipulate various light beams and tightly maneuver MARBLE in order to save both your lives.

Why similar: Precision Platformer 26.5%, Difficult 21.1%, Puzzle Platformer 19.4%, 2D Platformer 10.7%, Puzzle 8.8%

A thrilling combination of violence, extreme gore, amazing graphics, simple controls, fun and humor. When you find yourself trapped in a mysterious house being overrun by the dead you do what anyone would. Slaughter them, collect their organs, build some guns and kill some bosses.

Why similar: Action 25.8%, Arcade 22.3%, Indie 20%, Casual 19.2%, 2D 8.2%

UnderParty is an Action Platformer game. This game is made up of a very high level of difficulty. It's very violent, so be careful.

Why similar: Gore 28.4%, Violent 22.8%, Cartoony 13.9%, 2D Platformer 11.7%, Difficult 9%

Clone Drone in the Danger Zone is a robot voxel slice-em-up where any part of your body can be sliced off. With your mind downloaded into a robot gladiator, you must survive the sinister trials of the arena.

Why similar: Difficult 41.1%, Survival 27.4%, Action 16.3%, Indie 9.2%, Singleplayer 6%

A vividly animated action roguelite focused on boss hunting. Unleash an array of diverse weapons and powerups to combat the corruption of the Void.

Why similar: Top-Down Shooter 31.5%, Difficult 29.7%, Cartoony 18.1%, Colorful 7.2%, Action 5.5%

A self-inflicted bullet hell that combines retro sci-fi with the sounds and sights of the disco era

Why similar: Cartoony 26.4%, Top-Down Shooter 23.7%, Arcade 14.8%, Action 11.8%, Indie 8.4%

A Meat-Like/Hedge-Like Mashup! Dr. Proventriculus is snatching up the Chickabirbs! Help Panic blast through over 50 stages of topsy-turvy, spike-laced, slime-drenched, buzzsaw-filled deathtraps to rescue them! And remember, there are no rings...

Why similar: Precision Platformer 29.6%, Retro 13.8%, Difficult 10.7%, Puzzle Platformer 9.9%, 2D Platformer 9%

Get ready to massacre monsters, race your rivals, and combat corpses of your fellow guards as you race to escape Black Iron Prison in the critically acclaimed roguelike, [REDACTED].

Why similar: Top-Down Shooter 37.5%, Difficult 36.6%, Survival 19%, Action 7%

Distant future… Brutal gladiatorial battles is a top-rated show, extremely popular all over the Universe. You’ve been sent to the abandoned planet as one of the participants of the show. Your goal is to survive as long as possible, fighting back deadly creatures in the focus of billions of viewers.

Why similar: Difficult 27.6%, Gore 24.3%, Survival 18.3%, Action 11.7%, Indie 8.6%

Perilous Warp is a fast-paced indie retro-shooter inspired by the classic 3D-actions. Communication with a distant space colony has been lost, and you bravely step into the teleporter with the desire for glorious adventures. But do not expect to win in a heartbeat!

Why similar: Gore 32.6%, Violent 30.7%, Action 13.3%, Retro 11%, Indie 10.3%

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: Precision Platformer 30.8%, Difficult 28.8%, 2D Platformer 12.7%, Retro 11.5%, Adventure 5.4%

Deflector is a top down action rogue-lite set in a deadly microcosm. Dive deep into hostile worlds teeming with viruses. Strike down increasingly challenging enemies with your weapons and their own deflected projectiles. Live, die, grow stronger and become powerful enough to reach the Source!

Why similar: Difficult 66.1%, Colorful 14%, Action 12.4%, Singleplayer 7.5%

A crazy action-adventure platformer... In Hell.

Why similar: Gore 35.2%, Action 23.1%, 2D 14.7%, Violent 12.6%, Singleplayer 6.5%