Games Like Dokuro

Embark on a journey to save the prince’s eyesight in this 2D puzzle-adventure game featuring beautiful hand-drawn art and a bittersweet tale of wishes and what we’re willing to do to make them come true. Utilize your wolf and princess forms to lead the way!

Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 64.3%, Action 19.4%, Atmospheric 16.3%

Why You'll Like It: This game shares a deeply emotional narrative and a focus on guiding a vulnerable character through a dangerous world, mirroring Dokuro's core themes.

Max: The Curse of Brotherhood is a cinematic adventure filled with action-packed platforming and creative puzzle-solving. Armed with only a Magic Marker, Max must confront evil at every turn in a hostile and fantastical world in order to save his kid brother, Felix. Join Max on his great adventure!

Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 57%, Platformer 33.9%, Action 9.2%

Why You'll Like It: It features creative puzzle-platforming mechanics where you manipulate the environment to progress, much like Dokuro's castle puzzles.

Three Heroes make their way through dangers untold in a fairytale world, featuring physics-based puzzles, beautiful sights and online co-op.

Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 49.9%, Platformer 32%, Action 12.1%, Atmospheric 3.5%, Casual 2.4%

Why You'll Like It: The game centers on switching between different characters with unique abilities to solve environmental puzzles in a beautiful 2D space.

Discover the beautiful world of Nihilumbra and join Born on his adventure to find himself whilst trying to escape from his inevitable curse. Born was created from the absolute nothingness: The Void. But somehow he separates himself from the black emptiness and appears in the world.

Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 38.2%, Platformer 33.8%, Casual 12.5%, Atmospheric 11.8%, Action 3.7%

Why You'll Like It: An atmospheric puzzle-platformer where you use different colors to change the properties of the environment to survive.

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 69%, Platformer 26.5%, Casual 2.4%, Atmospheric 2.1%

Why You'll Like It: A classic puzzle-platformer that uses unique time-manipulation mechanics to solve intricate levels within a melancholic, atmospheric setting.

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

Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 60.1%, Platformer 24.8%, Atmospheric 11.5%, Action 2.1%, Casual 1.5%

Why You'll Like It: This atmospheric 2D puzzle-platformer uses a distinct monochromatic art style to tell a wordless, haunting story.

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 45.4%, Platformer 25.3%, Action 17.9%, Atmospheric 11.4%

Why You'll Like It: This atmospheric puzzle-platformer combines fluid movement with clever environmental puzzles in a dark, sci-fi setting.

Unravel is a physics-based puzzle platformer. Yarny, a character made from a single thread of yarn, must embark on a larger than life adventure.

Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 30.6%, Platformer 28.8%, Action 22.8%, Atmospheric 17.8%

Why You'll Like It: A heartfelt puzzle-platformer where you use physics-based mechanics to navigate beautiful environments and overcome obstacles.

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 53.7%, Puzzle Platformer 17.7%, Action 14.5%, Casual 14.2%

Why You'll Like It: A tight, well-designed puzzle-platformer that emphasizes clever level design and environmental interaction.

A journey begins... A treacherous tower... Unravel its mysteries!Discover the secrets kept in the long abandoned Tesla Tower!Magnetism and other electromagnetic powers will help you explore a non-linear world of beautiful hand-drawn environments, in a steampunk-inspired vision of old Europe.

Why similar: Platformer 52.6%, Puzzle Platformer 32.9%, Action 8.8%, Atmospheric 5.8%

Why You'll Like It: A 2D puzzle-platformer that relies on electromagnetic mechanics and precise movement to navigate a mysterious, hand-drawn world.

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 42.7%, Platformer 32.9%, Atmospheric 14.5%, Casual 10%

Why You'll Like It: This narrative-driven puzzle-platformer focuses on the unique abilities of different characters to work together and overcome environmental challenges.

Degrees of Separation is a puzzle platformer where cooperation is built into every move. Two contrasting souls, Ember and Rime, fall in love, but are separated by an enigmatic force, and must use their powers to progress through a spectacular world of fantasy and adventure.

Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 55.1%, Platformer 30.3%, Atmospheric 14.6%

Why You'll Like It: It features a dual-character mechanic where two protagonists must work in tandem to manipulate the environment and solve puzzles.

Giana Sisters: Twisted Dreams is a blistering hardcore platformer with contrasting worlds.

Why similar: Platformer 72.3%, Action 27.7%

Why You'll Like It: The core mechanic involves transforming between two different worlds and forms to solve puzzles and navigate complex platforming sections.

Play with shadows using your imagination to solve brain twisting platforming puzzles as you unfold a journey of loss, nostalgia and acceptance.

Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 54.2%, Platformer 29.9%, Casual 15.9%

Why You'll Like It: A creative puzzle-platformer where you manipulate objects in the foreground to create shadows that form the path for the character in the background.

Pikuniku is an absurdly wonderful puzzle-exploration game that takes place in a strange but playful world where not everything is as happy as it seems. Help peculiar characters overcome struggles, uncover a deep state conspiracy, and start a little revolution in this delightful dystopian adventure!

Why similar: Platformer 30%, Puzzle Platformer 29.1%, Casual 23.8%, Action 17.1%

Why You'll Like It: A charming and whimsical puzzle-platformer that focuses on exploration and lighthearted interaction with a colorful world.

Puns, and puzzles. Horrible puns and devious puzzles actually, along with several incorporeal entities are what makes Ghostory a pixel art puzzle adventure brimming with humour and intrigue. Take on the role of a cursed traveler, master your ghostly form, find a cure, and escape a perilous cave system.

Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 57.1%, Platformer 31%, Casual 11.9%

Why You'll Like It: This puzzle-platformer features a unique mechanic where you can transform into a ghost to pass through obstacles and solve puzzles.

Guide Gnome across the dangers of this twisted fairytale world. Can you make the annoying cloud go away? And recover his stolen Lucky Hat? Trust your friends? Find out in this, a casual platformer set in a beautiful painted world full of weird creatures you'll have to deal with.

Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 48.8%, Platformer 37.6%, Atmospheric 13.6%

Why You'll Like It: A beautiful, atmospheric puzzle-platformer that follows a small character on a journey through a dangerous, magical world.

Hue is a vibrant, award-winning puzzle-adventure, where you alter the world by changing its background colour.

Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 58.4%, Platformer 37.3%, Casual 4.3%

Why You'll Like It: This puzzle-platformer revolves around changing the background color of the world to interact with objects and solve complex logic puzzles.

Guide two brothers on an epic fairy tale journey from visionary Swedish film director, Josef Fares and top-tier developer Starbreeze Studios. Control both brothers at once as you experience co-op play in single player mode, like never before.

Why similar: Atmospheric 58.2%, Platformer 21.9%, Action 11.3%, Casual 8.6%

Why You'll Like It: An emotional puzzle-adventure that requires you to control two characters simultaneously to solve environmental challenges.

Play as the ultimate digital underdog in the Adventures of Pip,an action-platformer with a fresh gameplay twist inside a retro 32-bit world. Alas, Pip is an unlikely 1-pixel hero yet has the unique ability to absorb the pixels of his defeated enemies to evolve into three different forms.

Why similar: Platformer 41.5%, Puzzle Platformer 38.3%, Action 20.2%

Why You'll Like It: The game centers on a transformation mechanic where the protagonist evolves into different forms to gain new abilities and solve puzzles.

Color Symphony 2 is a puzzle action platformer that utilizes the ambiguity of color. Try to eliminate obstacles or find new paths by using color!

Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 36.1%, Platformer 27.1%, Action 16.9%, Atmospheric 11.8%, Casual 8%

Why You'll Like It: A puzzle-platformer where the color of the world dictates what is solid and what is passable, requiring careful timing and logic.

Assemble your team of three from seven unlikely adventurers, then descend into the mysterious depths to explore The Cave!

Why similar: Platformer 63.3%, Puzzle Platformer 25.1%, Atmospheric 6.6%, Casual 5%

Why You'll Like It: A puzzle-platformer that allows you to switch between different characters, each with unique abilities, to explore a mysterious underground world.

Take on the role of Six, a lone child lost in a massive metal vessel known as the Maw, surrounded by dangerous, distorted versions of adults. You’ll need to do your best to escape in one piece or your fate will be worse than you ever dared dream.

Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 51.6%, Atmospheric 22.7%, Platformer 20.9%, Action 4.9%

Why You'll Like It: A dark, atmospheric puzzle-platformer that emphasizes stealth and environmental interaction to survive a hostile world.

CONTRAST is a puzzle/platform game where you can move between a fantastic 3D world and a mysterious shadowy universe in 2D in the blink of an eye. Delve into a dreamlike and surreal 1920s world, inspired by the performance art world of vaudeville and film noir, and cradled by a smooth and sultry jazz ambiance.

Why similar: Platformer 52.5%, Puzzle Platformer 24.2%, Atmospheric 20.4%, Casual 2.9%

Why You'll Like It: A puzzle-platformer that uses light and shadow mechanics to allow the protagonist to walk on walls as a 2D shadow.

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 58.7%, Platformer 36.4%, Atmospheric 4.9%

Why You'll Like It: A charming, gravity-defying puzzle-platformer with a distinct art style and challenging environmental puzzles.

A hard, mind bending platformer based on imagination and quick reflexes.

Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 38%, Platformer 21.2%, Casual 17%, Action 16.5%, Atmospheric 7.3%

Why You'll Like It: A casual puzzle-platformer that uses mirror-world mechanics to challenge the player's spatial reasoning.

Experience the epic journey of Nuna and Fox as they search for the source of an eternal blizzard that threatens the survival of everything they have ever known.

Why similar: Platformer 39.6%, Puzzle Platformer 27.4%, Atmospheric 19.3%, Casual 8%, Action 5.7%

Why You'll Like It: An atmospheric puzzle-platformer that tells a cultural story through the cooperative actions of two distinct characters.

Figment is an action-adventure game that invites you to explore a unique surreal universe filled with music, humor and multi layered narrative. Join Dusty and his ever-optimistic friend, Piper, on an adventure through the different sides of the mind seeking to restore the courage that's been lost.

Why similar: Action 40.7%, Atmospheric 35.5%, Casual 23.8%

Why You'll Like It: An atmospheric puzzle-adventure set in a surreal world that blends music, art, and logic-based puzzles.

Guide 'Skul' on his quest to single-handedly take on the Imperial Army and rescue his King from captivity, in an action-packed rogue-lite 2D platformer for the ages.

Why similar: Action 56.9%, Platformer 43.1%

Shift Happens is a cooperative platformer for two. You and a friend shift your mass, throw each other and puzzle your way through four stages of stylized imaginary worlds. Including the occasional backstabbing and taunting. Play with a friend on a couch, online or even special singleplayer levels.

Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 64.1%, Platformer 24.7%, Action 11.2%

Why You'll Like It: A cooperative puzzle-platformer where characters can change their size and mass to solve environmental obstacles.

Run, climb and glide your way through a dark Nordic forest and explore its living, breathing ecosystem filled with secrets and mystical creatures. Become Fe and discover a world that you will never want to leave.

Why similar: Action 63.5%, Atmospheric 36.5%

Why You'll Like It: An atmospheric platformer that focuses on exploration and communicating with the environment through song and movement.

Use your trusty Mekabolt device to manipulate robots, solve a variety of puzzling levels and obtain batteries to fix the robots!

Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 44.2%, Platformer 26.6%, Action 10.4%, Casual 9.5%, Atmospheric 9.3%

Help a small body save a head-like organism full of air, from a leak that threatens its life. Explore their Metroidvania-style world and overcome challenging environmental puzzles to find the key to the head's survival.

Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 42.3%, Action 24.5%, Platformer 18.8%, Atmospheric 14.4%

Forge your own path in Hollow Knight! An epic action adventure through a vast ruined kingdom of insects and heroes. Explore twisting caverns, battle tainted creatures and befriend bizarre bugs, all in a classic, hand-drawn 2D style.

Why similar: Platformer 61.8%, Atmospheric 24.1%, Action 14.1%

Visit a wonderfully peculiar dog's dream in a heroic attempt to save your owner in this beautiful pixel art puzzle platformer.

Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 47%, Platformer 22.7%, Action 14.1%, Atmospheric 9.1%, Casual 7.1%

Devil's Drizzle is a 2D platformer that narrates the story of a kid in pursuit of his friend, an umbrella. Brave the storm and outrun the clutches of the demonic Pazuzu in this audacious effort to save your buddy.

Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 54.1%, Platformer 29.1%, Action 16.8%

Swing over spikes and pits, find the secrets of a mysterious tree and overcome difficult challenges as a brave tiny lizard in this small adventure.

Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 57.5%, Platformer 32.5%, Casual 10%

Stolen Hearts: Wolf Knight is an action precision platformer. Dash through challenging obstacles. Take powers of the enemies. Discover hidden secrets. Find the lost Hearts and guide them safely home. Defeat the Wolf King and his minions. Collect fireflies for character customizations along the way.

Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 53.4%, Platformer 33.3%, Action 13.3%

The Furries Princess has been kidnapped! Help these hilariously cute creatures execute a rescue mission. You will need to explore the Evil Wizard's castle and solve his puzzles to succeed. Hours of mildly brain-teasing gameplay awaits!

Why similar: Casual 100%

Help Oliver in this retro-pixel and challenging platformer. Explore a cursed cave, full of traps, secrets and diamonds. Complete all levels, get the biggest diamond for your girlfriend and break the curse that is dooming you.

Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 41.1%, Platformer 41%, Action 17.9%

Dive into the wondrous world of the Inops! The 2D puzzle based side scrolling adventure of dark and light. Battle the fire breathing demons and rescue the scattered Inops.

Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 62.8%, Atmospheric 20.1%, Casual 17.1%

Escape Goat is a puzzle platformer where you take control of a goat, who has been imprisoned for witchcraft, and overcome traps and obstacles to escape the Prison of Agnus. Fear not, for with your supreme agility, sturdy horns, and the help of a magic mouse friend, you can turn the tables on foes and use the environment to your advantage.

Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 59.6%, Platformer 30.9%, Action 9.5%

Turn off the lights, dodge the ghosts and go to sleep as soon as you can in this hand-crafted 2d platform experience! In this vampiric precision platformer you will overcome challenging puzzles and deadly enemies before going to sleep in your cosy coffin.

Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 59.5%, Platformer 29%, Casual 11.5%

Explore branching levels, fight quirky bosses, and save the day in this retro platformer inspired by the classics!

Why similar: Platformer 34%, Puzzle Platformer 25.8%, Action 20.2%, Atmospheric 20%

Join Selene in a charming platforming and puzzle adventure, where her ability to absorb and emit light from various flowers is key to activating mechanisms, overcoming obstacles, and navigating through environments that adjust depending on how you wield the light.

Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 43.3%, Platformer 31.6%, Casual 12.7%, Atmospheric 12.3%

An immersive puzzle dungeon adventure in the spirit of 1980's home computer games. Dig your way through 100 levels into the ancient depths of Dreadrock Mountain. Winner of Google Indie Games Festival / Indie Clash 1st prize / PocketGamer People's Choice Finalist / GDWC best indie game nominee.

Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 65.2%, Casual 22.9%, Action 11.9%

Drill Bird is a cozy-yet-tense digging platformer where every trip underground counts. Play as a bird fallen from the sky, in search for powerful ores to hatch your Egg. Get home before night falls, upgrade abilities, grow stronger, and unfold a sincere bird story about survival, care and purpose.

Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 38.9%, Platformer 28.1%, Action 11.8%, Casual 11%, Atmospheric 10.2%

”Shirone: the Dragon Girl" is a 3D adventure game where you help Shirone solve puzzles and riddles to find a way out of a haunted castle. Escaping the castle is the main objective, and to do that you'll need to make full use of her wings and tail!

Why similar: Action 100%

Comedic puzzle-adventure with strong RPG influences. Take away costumes from the foxes, create the most mad combinations of clothes, explore the world, find secrets and save the princess from the clutches of the cunning king!

Why similar: Platformer 59%, Casual 41%

Jump, Swing and Zip your way through colourful worlds and exciting challenges in this unique 2D action-platformer! Master the power of the Grapple on your adventure to save the world!

Why similar: Platformer 68.4%, Action 31.6%

JAD is an atmospheric jumping and puzzle platformer.

Why similar: Platformer 55.8%, Casual 27.4%, Atmospheric 16.8%

Fowl Damage is an atmospheric puzzle platformer where your default jump provides enough fall damage to destroy you! Carefully manage your jumps and falls as you adventure through this chilling, beautiful, and occasionally cute world.

Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 48.8%, Platformer 29.5%, Action 11.3%, Atmospheric 10.4%

Explore a dense, interconnected labyrinth, and unravel its many secrets. Collect items to manipulate your environment in surprising and meaningful ways. Encounter beautiful and unsettling creatures, as you attempt to survive what lurks in the dark. There is more than what you see.

Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 49.5%, Platformer 27.9%, Atmospheric 13.4%, Action 9.2%

Sir Lovelot is on a quest to find the love of his life. Join him in this wacky tight platformer, where impressing cheeky damsels is harder than a heart of stone!

Why similar: Platformer 52.3%, Puzzle Platformer 33.3%, Action 14.5%

Help tiny Kitten get back her favorite paper box only with her agile actions. In this tight platformer kitten brave hand-crafted challenges, meet cute creatures and finally fight with her old enemy!

Why similar: Platformer 49.1%, Casual 25.6%, Action 25.4%

Jump into this attractive and mysterious world! Save your lovely sister and the mythical creatures that inhabit it, imprisoned in the fortified castle by an elderly wizard!

Why similar: Platformer 54.3%, Atmospheric 25.6%, Action 20.1%

Lup is a 2D platformer with heart, throughout the game you'll have to overcome enemies and challenges using weapons and items.

Why similar: Platformer 51.6%, Action 48.4%

A Bomb Caterpillar's Big Adventure! "Öoo" is a charming yet mysterious exploration puzzle platformer where you discover creative ways to use bombs!

Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 58.3%, Platformer 29.7%, Action 12.1%

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 58.7%, Platformer 29.8%, Action 11.6%

In Hatup you'll have the mission to go through different challenges with your hat that will allow you to progress through the game's stages. Using different mechanics you will face many challenges and with different levels of difficulty.

Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 38.9%, Platformer 30.4%, Action 16%, Casual 14.7%