Games Like Escape Goat

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 35.3%, Puzzle 23.5%, Puzzle Platformer 15.8%, Indie 9.9%, Great Soundtrack 9.5%

Why You'll Like It: This direct sequel refines the original's mechanics with more complex puzzles, improved visuals, and deeper level design.

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Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 45.1%, Platformer 19.3%, Puzzle 14.2%, Pixel Graphics 8.8%, Retro 4.6%

Why You'll Like It: A masterclass in minimalist puzzle-platforming where every object you touch becomes electrified, mirroring the clever environmental interaction of Escape Goat.

Armed with only your wits and a pair of Stealthing Goggles, it’s your job to sneak your way through a deadly facility that’s determined to extinguish your fragile little life.

Why similar: Platformer 39.7%, Puzzle 20.9%, Puzzle Platformer 12.1%, Indie 9.1%, Action 5.2%

Why You'll Like It: This game shares the trap-heavy, lethal environment design and requires the same quick thinking and precise movement as Escape Goat.

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 33.4%, Puzzle 30.3%, Platformer 20.1%, Great Soundtrack 7.3%, Indie 6.3%

Why You'll Like It: An atmospheric puzzle-platformer that utilizes a unique cloning mechanic to solve environmental challenges, much like the mouse companion in Escape Goat.

A cube of sugar escapes the factories to avoid the fate of being a cookie!

Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 46.7%, Platformer 26.2%, Puzzle 11.4%, Indie 7.2%, Action 5.1%

Why You'll Like It: A classic puzzle-platformer that emphasizes tight controls and clever level design within a distinct, retro-inspired world.

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

Why similar: Platformer 36.1%, Pixel Graphics 21.8%, Great Soundtrack 18.5%, Indie 8.2%, Retro 6.7%

Why You'll Like It: A retro-styled precision platformer that focuses on gravity-flipping mechanics to navigate dangerous, trap-filled rooms.

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 55.6%, Platformer 33.5%, Indie 6.7%, 2D 4.2%

Why You'll Like It: A minimalist puzzle-platformer that emphasizes character-based abilities and clever navigation through increasingly complex environments.

Gomez is a 2D creature living in a 2D world. Or is he? When the existence of a mysterious 3rd dimension is revealed to him, Gomez is sent out on a journey that will take him to the very end of time and space. Use your ability to navigate 3D structures from 4 distinct classic 2D perspectives.

Why similar: Platformer 32.9%, Puzzle 21.6%, Puzzle Platformer 14.7%, Great Soundtrack 11.1%, Pixel Graphics 10.1%

Why You'll Like It: Features a unique perspective-shifting mechanic that transforms 2D platforming into a complex 3D puzzle-solving experience.

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 42.6%, Platformer 18.6%, Pixel Graphics 12.7%, Great Soundtrack 8.6%, Indie 7.5%

Why You'll Like It: An action-puzzle platformer with a dark, pixelated aesthetic that requires creative use of movement to overcome obstacles.

The recent events in a state prison, involving Jake from Team Hot Guns was a perfect moment for some prisoners to escape - you are one of them.

Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 40.5%, Platformer 21.1%, Indie 11.9%, Action 10.8%, Pixel Graphics 6.8%

Why You'll Like It: Shares the prison-break theme and retro aesthetic while focusing on physics-based platforming and trap avoidance.

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 58.3%, Platformer 17.5%, Puzzle 13.8%, Great Soundtrack 4.7%, Indie 4.3%

Why You'll Like It: A seminal puzzle-platformer that uses time manipulation to solve intricate environmental puzzles, appealing to fans of the genre's logic-heavy roots.

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 28.9%, Puzzle Platformer 21.8%, Puzzle 12.7%, Pixel Graphics 10.7%, Great Soundtrack 10.7%

Why You'll Like It: A retro-styled platformer that incorporates a teleportation gun, adding a layer of puzzle-solving to its fast-paced movement.

Toki Tori 2+ may look cute, but it’s a challenging puzzle adventure game. Whistle and stomp are the only moves you need to solve increasingly complex puzzles, as you go anywhere, anytime on a lush forest island!

Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 40.8%, Level Editor 20.2%, Platformer 19.4%, Puzzle 13%, Indie 3.9%

Why You'll Like It: A non-linear puzzle-platformer that relies on environmental interaction and creature behavior rather than traditional combat.

EDGE, the award winning retro-styled platform game has been extended! Now with over 40 brand new levels, additional music and all-new races against the notorious Dark Cube!

Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 50.9%, Puzzle 17.6%, Platformer 12.8%, Great Soundtrack 7.8%, Indie 6.1%

Why You'll Like It: A minimalist puzzle-platformer that focuses on navigating geometric levels with precision and speed.

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

Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 40.8%, Platformer 20.4%, Puzzle 18.5%, Great Soundtrack 10.3%, Indie 7.7%

Why You'll Like It: A color-based puzzle-platformer where changing the background color alters the world, offering a similar sense of discovery to Escape Goat.

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 35.5%, Puzzle Platformer 28.4%, Puzzle 18.1%, Indie 6.1%, Great Soundtrack 4.4%

Why You'll Like It: A beautiful puzzle-platformer centered on electromagnetic mechanics that require precise movement and logical planning.

Defy Gravity is an action platformer that is a mix between classic platforming and gravity based puzzle solving.

Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 55.3%, Platformer 27.1%, Puzzle 7.1%, Indie 3.7%, Great Soundtrack 3.5%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on gravity-manipulation puzzles that require careful timing and platforming skills.

Shift Quantum is a brain-busting platformer using a unique mechanic called SHIFTING, a way to twist your environment and invert space around you. Bend your mind to reach the exit of each level and unveil the secrets of a strange program. Extend the experience, create and share your own levels.

Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 36.2%, Level Editor 19.1%, Platformer 14.1%, Great Soundtrack 10.1%, Puzzle 8%

Why You'll Like It: Utilizes a 'shift' mechanic to flip the world, creating complex spatial puzzles similar to the logic found in Escape Goat.

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 40.7%, Level Editor 28.8%, Platformer 19.2%, Indie 5.8%, Action 5.5%

Why You'll Like It: The ultimate precision-platformer that provides a high skill ceiling and hundreds of levels filled with deadly traps.

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: Puzzle Platformer 33.6%, Platformer 28.5%, Pixel Graphics 9.6%, Puzzle 9%, Indie 6.8%

Why You'll Like It: A platformer that features a unique evolution mechanic, where the character changes form to solve different types of puzzles.

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 42.4%, Platformer 20.2%, Puzzle 14.4%, Pixel Graphics 9.6%, Indie 5.7%

Why You'll Like It: A puzzle-platformer that allows the player to switch between ghost and human forms to navigate obstacles.

Gravity Cat - it's a puzzle-platformer. You play as a cat who has an ability to change the gravity.

Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 37.6%, Platformer 34.1%, Indie 13%, Puzzle 12.6%, 2D 2.7%

Why You'll Like It: A cute but challenging puzzle-platformer that uses gravity-shifting mechanics to navigate tricky stages.

A challenging puzzle platformer in which you clone and teleport.

Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 49.7%, Platformer 22.9%, Puzzle 13.8%, Great Soundtrack 6.4%, Indie 4.2%

Why You'll Like It: A straightforward, challenging puzzle-platformer that emphasizes logic and timing in its level design.

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 49.9%, Platformer 23.2%, Puzzle 16.1%, Indie 6.2%, Action 4.6%

Why You'll Like It: Created by the developers of Limbo, this game offers sophisticated puzzle-platforming with a strong emphasis on environmental storytelling.

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

Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 59.2%, Platformer 19.1%, Puzzle 13.4%, Indie 5.6%, 2D 1.9%

Why You'll Like It: An atmospheric puzzle-platformer that relies on environmental traps and physics to create a tense, rewarding experience.

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 33%, Puzzle 26.6%, Platformer 23.7%, Action 8.2%, Great Soundtrack 6.7%

Why You'll Like It: A physics-based puzzle-platformer where you use yarn to traverse environments and solve intricate movement puzzles.

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 38.2%, Platformer 14.4%, Great Soundtrack 12.3%, Pixel Graphics 10.7%, Puzzle 7.9%

Why You'll Like It: A charming puzzle-platformer that focuses on exploration and environmental problem-solving in a pixel-art world.

Gunpoint is a stealth puzzle game that lets you rewire its levels to trick people. You play a freelance spy who takes jobs from his clients to break into high security buildings and steal sensitive data.

Why similar: Puzzle 27.2%, Platformer 18.8%, Pixel Graphics 13.3%, Great Soundtrack 11.9%, Level Editor 10%

Why You'll Like It: A puzzle-platformer that emphasizes stealth and hacking, requiring players to manipulate the environment to reach their goal.

Freeze time and manipulate the world with endless possibilities: build the solution YOU want where nothing is scripted and levels can be solved in multiple ways. When Super Meat Boy meets Braid, you may die repeatedly and enjoy it!

Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 56.8%, Platformer 23.7%, Puzzle 10.3%, Indie 6.6%, Action 2.6%

Why You'll Like It: A physics-based puzzle-platformer where manipulating objects in the environment is key to progressing through levels.

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

Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 57.8%, Platformer 21%, Indie 7.4%, Great Soundtrack 6.9%, Puzzle 6%

Why You'll Like It: A physics-heavy platformer that turns the environment into a puzzle, requiring creative movement to overcome obstacles.

A puzzling adventure where you abuse the Rules set by your Rat captors! 📜🐀 Manipulate enemies and environments with the commanding power of Rules to escape!

Why similar: Puzzle 45.6%, Pixel Graphics 22.9%, Action 12.2%, Indie 11%, 2D 8.3%

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 48.5%, Great Soundtrack 25.5%, Indie 9.4%, Pixel Graphics 9%, Action 3.9%

A highly punishing 3D precision platformer about a goat bouncing up a beautiful mountain to save its scared baby goat. Can you handle the challenge and endure all obstacles that you will face on your way up the mountain?

Why similar: Platformer 88.7%, Indie 11.3%

A punishing, one-button platformer about escaping prison. Test your skills and intellect as you ascend a tower of hand-crafted challenges. Jump, fly, slide up walls, float in bubbles and perform somersaults; all with the press of a single button. Reach the paramount. Reach.

Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 45.9%, Platformer 20.3%, Puzzle 14.7%, Pixel Graphics 13%, Action 3.4%

The treasures hidden on the peaks await the most lively, goat daredevils. The challenge will be difficult and… irritating - only the best and most patient will get to the top.

Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 37.9%, Platformer 26.8%, Pixel Graphics 12.3%, Indie 7.4%, Retro 6.1%

A puzzle platform game, with both stealth and parkour elements. Use your wits, cunning and agility to escape this deadly prison. Take the stealthy approach, progressing slowly, hiding and staying out of sight. Or utilise your athleticism to wall jump, ledge grab and speed run your way to freedom.

Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 44%, Puzzle 14%, Platformer 13.7%, Pixel Graphics 12.2%, Indie 6.6%

When indie game developers Alexey and Markus are in trouble, their only hope comes from their creation.

Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 44.4%, Platformer 23.9%, Puzzle 16.1%, Level Editor 5.9%, Indie 4.7%

A run, jump, and dodge platform game where you escape a castle full of evil and save the kingdom from wicked monsters and wizards.

Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 34.1%, Platformer 19.2%, Level Editor 18.9%, Indie 10.9%, Pixel Graphics 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 43.4%, Platformer 20.2%, Puzzle 14.3%, Pixel Graphics 7.9%, Action 3.3%

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 34.8%, Pixel Graphics 24%, Indie 15.1%, Action 10.1%, Retro 9.6%

And Yet It Moves is a puzzle-platformer, set in a unique world, made of ripped paper. Within the paper-collage you can jump, run and last but certainly not least: rotate the world. Learn how to apply the physical consequences of rotation to master the many tricky situations you may encounter.

Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 51.7%, Platformer 25.6%, Puzzle 12.8%, Indie 5.7%, 2D 2.2%

Offspring Fling is a game about a poor forest creature that has misplaced all of her children.

Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 31.4%, Platformer 28.9%, Puzzle 20.7%, Indie 9.1%, Retro 3.5%

A malicious orb has cast Savant out of his tower and transformed his surroundings into dangerous enemies!Dodge and shoot your way back up the tower, and blast down waves of enemies as you make your way towards the top! As you progress, you unlock CDs that not only give you new tracks to play to, but also grant you powerful new abilities!

Why similar: Great Soundtrack 42.3%, Indie 15.9%, Action 14.6%, Platformer 14.4%, Pixel Graphics 6.4%

Challenging 2D platformer with simple graphics and a great chiptune soundtrack.

Why similar: Platformer 45.4%, Puzzle 15.3%, Retro 14.2%, Indie 9.5%, Action 9.2%

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 42.4%, Platformer 25.8%, Puzzle 17.7%, Indie 10.5%, 2D 3.5%

140 is a challenging minimalistic platformer with abstract colorful graphics. Rhythmic awareness is required to overcome obstacles controlled by an energetic, yet melancholic electronic soundtrack.

Why similar: Platformer 53%, Great Soundtrack 17.3%, Indie 10.8%, Puzzle 8.6%, Puzzle Platformer 4.9%

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 35.6%, Platformer 15.4%, Pixel Graphics 12.9%, Indie 10.1%, Puzzle 8%

Return to the remote island classic world of rewards and traps in the HD remake of Secret Agent! Guide 006 through puzzles & arcade challenges of your favorite missions, then uncover the whole new Episode loaded with all new puzzles, enemies, challenges, hazards & help 006 finally defeat DVS!

Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 42.9%, Platformer 18.3%, Puzzle 10.6%, Level Editor 10.3%, Action 5.8%

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 49.4%, Platformer 19.4%, Puzzle 13.2%, Pixel Graphics 7.1%, 2D 4%

Embark on a thrilling co-op adventure in 'Brave Escape,' a challenging platformer demanding teamwork to conquer perilous traps and treacherous terrain.

Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 50%, Platformer 24.4%, Pixel Graphics 12.4%, Retro 6.1%, Action 4%

Simple space, dynamic jump. 6180 the moon offers a fresh, unseen game play style by connecting the top and bottom of the screen.

Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 42.4%, Platformer 27.2%, Great Soundtrack 8.7%, Indie 7.6%, Action 5.8%

The purpose of the game to jump out of a pit on falling blocks on you. Place the blocks in the correct order. It is required to put strong blocks on the bottom. Be careful, the main thing that on you did not fall crate!

Why similar: Puzzle 49.7%, Pixel Graphics 27.8%, Indie 12.9%, 2D 9.7%

Goat Life is an unusual 2D platformer with elements of survival in which you have to go through a variety of levels for a goat.

Why similar: Indie 100%

A crabby twist on the sokoban (box-pushing) genre, where you use deaths to create shells and solve puzzles.

Why similar: Puzzle 45.5%, Pixel Graphics 31.1%, Indie 16.7%, 2D 6.7%

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 53.2%, Platformer 23.6%, Pixel Graphics 11.9%, Indie 4.9%, 2D 3.3%

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

Why similar: Platformer 48.7%, Great Soundtrack 26%, Indie 9.3%, Level Editor 8.5%, Action 4.1%

Mr. Bree+ is a hardcore sidescrolling adventure platformer, enriched with great visual and musical aspects. It's about 60 levels of pure challenge, revealing along the progress, the dark past events which tells the story of our hero, a householding family pig, Mr. Bree.

Why similar: Platformer 65.6%, Indie 21.1%, Action 13.3%

Cast into an ancient crypt, survive the horrors that dwell below, and ascend from despair with your unexpected companion in this short 2D puzzle platformer. Take risks to evade the petrifying gaze from beyond the dark.

Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 41.6%, Platformer 26.4%, Puzzle 17.7%, Pixel Graphics 8.2%, Indie 3.5%