Games Like Getting Over It with Bennett Foddy

This is a difficult game about climbing.

Why similar: Difficult 27.2%, Psychological Horror 22.4%, Philosophical 13.2%, Physics 8.9%, Platformer 5.3%

Why You'll Like It: It is essentially a modern foddian, built around awkward arm-driven climbing, one-mistake falls, and the same brutal satisfaction of slowly mastering an absurd control scheme.

The higher you climb, the bigger the fall.

Why similar: Difficult 37.9%, Psychological Horror 29.5%, Physics 16.8%, Platformer 8%, Singleplayer 2.7%

Why You'll Like It: This spiritual cousin swaps the hammer for a golf club but keeps the same physics-driven ascents, huge progress loss, and tauntingly funny tone.

Roll the boulder to the top.

Why similar: Difficult 29.3%, Psychological Horror 25.1%, Philosophical 14.2%, Physics 12%, Funny 5.2%

Why You'll Like It: Like Getting Over It, it turns a simple uphill task into a punishing physics gauntlet where every slip can erase minutes of progress.

Climb a surreal mountain on a pogo stick and make friends along the way.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 41.3%, Difficult 40.2%, Platformer 7%, Funny 5.8%, Singleplayer 1.7%

Why You'll Like It: Its pogo-stick movement creates the same rage-fueled cycle of tiny gains, catastrophic falls, and eventual mastery, with even more chaos in multiplayer.

Take up the challenge and face true high-stakes platforming in Jump King! Struggle upwards in search of the Smoking Hot Babe of legend, but explore with care; a single missed jump could lead to a long fall back down...

Why similar: Difficult 41.8%, Psychological Horror 40.1%, Philosophical 5.1%, Platformer 4.4%, Dark Humor 1.8%

Why You'll Like It: Jump King matches the seed game's cruel vertical structure and emotional highs and lows, making every successful leap feel monumental.

Travel around The Great Gales to climb challenging peaks in this physics-based climbing adventure set in 1887. Meet like-minded mountaineers, unlock helpful climbing gear, and become a pioneer of mountaineering.

Why similar: Difficult 34.4%, Psychological Horror 26.4%, Physics 15.1%, Philosophical 13.5%, Platformer 5.7%

Why You'll Like It: Its first-person climbing demands careful route planning and punishes mistakes with long drops, capturing the same tense ascent mindset.

A game about a very happy guy and his boulder. (Warning: As an accurate representation of the ancient Myth of Sisyphus, this is likely the most difficult and punishing game you will ever play.)

Why similar: Difficult 37%, Psychological Horror 15.9%, Philosophical 11.6%, Physics 7.1%, Platformer 6.7%

Why You'll Like It: Another Sisyphus-flavored ordeal, this one leans into deliberate movement, uphill struggle, and the comedy of seeing hard-earned progress vanish.

Prove your skills by driving the Bathtub on Wheels! Solve puzzles, collect soap, and dive into Jeff's family drama. Drive, Fall, Learn, Repeat.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 30.5%, Philosophical 19.6%, Physics 15.1%, Dark Humor 7%, Platformer 6.9%

Why You'll Like It: It channels the same joke-as-game spirit by making a simple vehicle absurdly hard to control through vertical obstacle courses.

This game is hard-boiled. Face the challenge of being a real, fragile egg. Escape the hen-house and jump, roll and climb your way through a farm shop, factory and other perilous environments. With some determination, you might just reach your freedom.

Why similar: Difficult 25.4%, Psychological Horror 21.5%, Philosophical 17.2%, Physics 11.6%, Dark Humor 5.5%

Why You'll Like It: This physics climber is all about unstable movement, fragile progress, and the comic despair of sliding back down.

Play as Nate, an unemployed failson with nothing going for him, until one day he discovers a power he never knew he had… putting one foot in front of the other.

Why similar: Difficult 31.8%, Psychological Horror 26.1%, Physics 15.8%, Funny 7.1%, Comedy 4.4%

Why You'll Like It: Baby Steps turns walking itself into a physics puzzle, delivering the same blend of slapstick, struggle, and improbable progress.

A physics driven parkour game inspired by "Getting Over It" and "Jump King". Flip, ski, and dive yourself up a massive mountain of stuff. Fall down, rage, get up, shake it off, parkour-on!

Why similar: Difficult 27.5%, Psychological Horror 23.2%, Philosophical 15.4%, Physics 11.1%, Platformer 5.7%

Why You'll Like It: Its flip-based mountain traversal feels like a lighter foddian, built around precise momentum, awkward control, and devastating mistakes.

Climb up from the depths of Hell. Scale various worlds solo or chained together with your friends in the 1-4 player platforming sensation.

Why similar: Physics 32.7%, Platformer 29.1%, Funny 20.5%, Third Person 7.6%, Casual 5.1%

Why You'll Like It: This co-op climbing hit recreates the terror of a single slip sending you far downward, just with chained chaos layered on top.

The End Is Nigh is a sprawling adventure platformer where you die a lot, but thats ok because you are probably already dead anyway.

Why similar: Difficult 64.7%, Platformer 16.6%, Great Soundtrack 7.6%, Indie 3.2%, Singleplayer 3%

Why You'll Like It: It shares the seed game's relentless difficulty and satisfaction curve, even if its precision platforming is less physics-based.

[3D 3rd Person Perma-Death Runner Game]Try to overcome various obstacles until the end.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 42.8%, Physics 32.6%, Platformer 13.8%, Third Person 4.8%, Casual 2.3%

Why You'll Like It: An unforgiving obstacle-course platformer where a small error can ruin a near-perfect run, scratching the same masochistic mastery itch.

Clustertruck is a chaotic physics based truckformer. Jump your way through insane levels in a game of "the floor is lava" on top of speeding trucks driven by terrible drivers.

Why similar: Difficult 45.2%, Physics 26.4%, Funny 6.4%, Platformer 5.2%, Singleplayer 5.1%

Why You'll Like It: Though faster and less punitive, Clustertruck captures the same improvisational panic of barely salvaging a bad movement line.

Experience the extreme simulated sporting sensation that's sweeping our digital nation! Mount Your Friends is a fiercely competitive sporting event for you to play with your friends in the contextual security of your own home, assuming that your home is not composed of sexual innuendo.

Why similar: Physics 40.1%, Funny 23.8%, Psychological Horror 15.4%, Comedy 13.5%, Indie 4.5%

Why You'll Like It: The climbing is sillier and more social, but its grab-based physics and constant risk of fumbling your way downward feel very Getting Over It-adjacent.

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: Difficult 66.7%, Platformer 12.9%, Great Soundtrack 10.6%, Singleplayer 3.1%, Indie 3.1%

Why You'll Like It: Celeste is more forgiving in structure, but its exacting movement and emotional payoff from repeated failure make it a great next step.

Become the fella. Walk on the stilts.

Why similar: Difficult 48.9%, Physics 22.8%, Funny 8.8%, Platformer 8.6%, Comedy 4.6%

Why You'll Like It: Balancing on stilts turns basic movement into a skill test, creating the same comedy-of-control and fear of falling.

Grab your best bud for help in this new co-op challenge to help two adorable penguins, Bread and Fred, reach the top of the snowy summit. Time your jumps, cling to walls and swing across gaps to see how far you can make it before you tumble all the way back down the mountain.

Why similar: Difficult 66.6%, Platformer 13.8%, Funny 11.2%, Comedy 6.5%, Casual 1.9%

Why You'll Like It: This co-op mountain climb is less cruel overall, yet its precision movement and high cost for mistakes create a familiar tension.

A physics-based co-op platformer about a guy in a rabbit costume! Team up with a friend or three (local or online) to beat levels, find hidden carrots and race against the clock. Experience bunny madness. Embrace carrot chaos. Become Super Bunny Man.

Why similar: Physics 36.7%, Platformer 23.1%, Funny 16.6%, Comedy 8.9%, Singleplayer 7%

Why You'll Like It: A physics platformer built around awkward bunny movement, brutal stages, and laughing through failure with friends.

Heave Ho is a riotous multiplayer party game for up to four players in couch co-op and versus play, or online with Steam Remote Play. Reach out, get a grip, and swing to victory — or meet your messy end!

Why similar: Funny 46.1%, Platformer 28.8%, Indie 15.1%, Adventure 10%

Why You'll Like It: Its hand-over-hand physics movement produces the same hilarious panic and fine-motor frustration as Bennett Foddy-style games.

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

Why similar: Difficult 68%, Platformer 17.1%, Great Soundtrack 5.5%, Indie 3%, Singleplayer 2.8%

Why You'll Like It: Like Getting Over It, it thrives on short bursts of failure, mechanical mastery, and the joy of finally clearing something that seemed impossible.

Surgeon Simulator is an over-the-top operation sim, stitching together pitch-black humour with life-saving surgery. Become Dr. Burke, a would-be surgeon with a less than conventional toolkit, as he performs procedures on patients including the Heavy from TF2! ...is that a hammer?

Why similar: Difficult 45.7%, Physics 21%, Dark Humor 11.5%, Funny 9.1%, Comedy 5.2%

Why You'll Like It: This is broader slapstick than true climbing punishment, but its deliberately unwieldy physics create the same laugh-at-your-suffering appeal.

A unique platformer where an evil AI predicts your movement. Dodge AI-spawned traps, solve optional puzzles and uncover the dark secrets of the simulation. Now with a level editor and infinite community-made content!

Why similar: Difficult 64%, Platformer 10.8%, Funny 9.5%, Comedy 5.1%, Singleplayer 3.5%

Why You'll Like It: Its hostile tone and brutal trap design echo the seed game's feeling that the game itself is mocking you into getting better.

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: Difficult 62%, Physics 19.7%, Platformer 9.7%, Singleplayer 4%, Indie 2.6%

Why You'll Like It: This minimalist precision platformer is all about exact movement, fast restarts, and obsessive self-improvement.

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: Physics 56.5%, Funny 25.6%, Comedy 4.7%, Adventure 4.2%, Action 3.7%

Why You'll Like It: Its floppy physics climbing and slapstick disasters make it a more relaxed but recognizably similar take on awkward traversal.

You are bread. Your mission, become toast! Take on all hazards to deliciousness as you head on an epic adventure in one of the the toughest games ever baked. All of the game modes (including Bagel Race) are now unlocked so there's sure to be something to suit everyone's taste!

Why similar: Difficult 48.6%, Physics 22.2%, Funny 11.3%, Comedy 5.1%, Singleplayer 3.6%

Why You'll Like It: we am Bread turns mundane movement into a maddening physics problem, very much in the spirit of intentionally uncomfortable control schemes.

Octodad: Dadliest Catch is a game about destruction, deception, and fatherhood. The player controls Octodad, a dapper octopus masquerading as a human, as he goes about his life. Octodad's existence is a constant struggle, as he must master mundane tasks with his unwieldy boneless tentacles while simultaneously keeping his cephalopodan...

Why similar: Physics 41.4%, Difficult 18.8%, Funny 14.7%, Comedy 13.4%, Indie 3.6%

Why You'll Like It: Octodad shares the seed game's comedy-through-bad-control philosophy, even if it's far gentler and more puzzle-focused.

I Am Fish is a charming, physics-based adventure starring four intrepid fish friends, forcibly separated from their home in a pet shop fish tank. Swim, fly, roll and chomp your way to the open ocean in a bid for freedom and to re-unite once again.

Why similar: Difficult 49.1%, Physics 23.7%, Platformer 6.2%, Dark Humor 5.5%, Funny 5.2%

Why You'll Like It: Guiding a wobbly fish through hazard-filled spaces delivers that same mix of silly controls, repeated mistakes, and eventual competence.

Your name is Hank. You are doing a Handstand. Jump to the top.

Why similar: Difficult 32.9%, Psychological Horror 31.3%, Philosophical 11.6%, Dark Humor 7.3%, Platformer 5.9%

It's a difficult game but it should be easier than real rock climbing.

Why similar: Difficult 26.8%, Psychological Horror 24.5%, Philosophical 15.3%, Physics 11%, Horror 6%

You are poor and bald. Get to Work.

Why similar: Difficult 53.8%, Platformer 10.5%, Funny 10.2%, Dark Humor 9.6%, Comedy 4.8%

What's better than climbing mountain in a cardboard box? Getting deep frustration every time you fall from it.

Why similar: Difficult 33.8%, Psychological Horror 32.3%, Physics 15.3%, Platformer 6.9%, Funny 3.4%

A punishing VR climbing game. Climb a surreal mountain with nothing but a hammer.

Why similar: Difficult 25.2%, Psychological Horror 22.8%, Philosophical 14.9%, Physics 11%, Horror 4.9%

Ben and Ed is a 3D platformer, in which the player controls Ed the Zombie, who is forced to participate in a grotesque game show called "Rundead". Will he beat all obstacles Hans Showmaster confronts him with, to save his best friend Ben?

Why similar: Difficult 48.3%, Funny 11.1%, Psychological Horror 8.8%, Horror 7.7%, Singleplayer 4%

The platformer without a jump button! Master the art of potion propulsion in this fast-paced adventure where strategy, precision, and creativity meet explosive fun.

Why similar: Difficult 38.2%, Psychological Horror 28%, Platformer 8.3%, Dark Humor 8.3%, Physics 8%

Bendy and the Ink Machine® is the first person puzzle action horror game that will forever ruin your childhood love of cartoons.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 34.5%, Horror 25.2%, Survival Horror 12.2%, Great Soundtrack 8.1%, Singleplayer 6.2%

Soviet Bear Uni Adventure is a painfully challenging physics-based action/adventure game. Pedal and lean to stay upright and overcome each crazy obstacle.

Why similar: Difficult 35.7%, Psychological Horror 29.2%, Physics 14.5%, Platformer 6.2%, Funny 6%

A physics-based platformer with unique controls and a pun-laden narrator. Jump, stick, and attempt to roll a loop over obstacles. Perhaps this game will teach you patience. Stick with it! I'll be right there with you. In your earhole. *Plorp*

Why similar: Difficult 29.7%, Psychological Horror 23.8%, Philosophical 18.4%, Physics 12.9%, Dark Humor 4.8%

Goat Simulator is the latest in high-tech Goat Simulation technology.

Why similar: Physics 40.7%, Funny 26.2%, Comedy 12.8%, Dark Humor 5.8%, Singleplayer 4%

A giraffe born with slippery feet sets out to find love...

Why similar: Psychological Horror 36.6%, Difficult 22.6%, Physics 8.5%, Horror 5.8%, Funny 4.4%

I hate this game is a logic game, where gameplay changes every level. Solve crazy puzzles and use forgotten functions of your PC! Be attentive, interact with everything that you see on the screen.

Why similar: Difficult 44.1%, Platformer 12.9%, Great Soundtrack 12.5%, Funny 10.5%, Dark Humor 6.6%

Hello Neighbor is a Stealth Horror Game about sneaking into your neighbor's house and figuring out what he's hiding in the basement. Play against an advanced AI that learns from your actions.

Why similar: Difficult 33.9%, Psychological Horror 28.9%, Horror 11.6%, Dark Humor 8.1%, Survival Horror 6.7%

Jump and fly your way through danger in this rhythm-based action platformer!

Why similar: Difficult 62.8%, Psychological Horror 14.6%, Platformer 7.6%, Great Soundtrack 7.4%, Singleplayer 2.7%

In Crowbar Climber, use your crowbars to make your way up! Face hooks, planks, and gears using only your arms. Can you beat the game before you run out of energy?

Why similar: Difficult 36.2%, Psychological Horror 27%, Physics 19.4%, Platformer 5.6%, Singleplayer 3%

Take control of a mighty ball and fling with great precision towards the top of the Tower. Jump through aesthetically pleasing environments filled with intriguing creatures and encounters. Falling is part of the journey, so just keep going. Can you reach the end?

Why similar: Difficult 28.8%, Psychological Horror 24.4%, Philosophical 13.3%, Physics 10.9%, Platformer 5.6%

You're in a box and you have to climb as high as possible... if you can make it.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 33.2%, Philosophical 20.9%, Physics 13.1%, Platformer 9.3%, Dark Humor 9.1%

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: Difficult 40.6%, Physics 19.6%, Philosophical 13.8%, Horror 6%, Platformer 5.4%

A difficult, minimalist, one-more-try, physics game. Slide your mouse up and down to control your skier's posture and initiate jumps. Stick the landings. Get to the cabin.

Why similar: Difficult 28.7%, Psychological Horror 23.7%, Philosophical 15.4%, Physics 11.5%, Platformer 5.8%

My Friend Pedro is a violent ballet about friendship, imagination, and one man’s struggle to obliterate anyone in his path at the behest of a sentient banana.

Why similar: Physics 18.6%, Platformer 16.9%, Great Soundtrack 15.7%, Difficult 12%, Funny 11.7%

Think you can make it out? Many have tried… All have failed. Traverse the unforgiving cave and do impossible jumps with your rocket launcher and shotgun.

Why similar: Difficult 34.3%, Psychological Horror 30.8%, Physics 14.6%, Platformer 6.5%, Funny 5.3%

City Climber is a silly physics-based game about a floppy ragdoll climber, who has to save the world. Find your way through diverse hand-crafted environments and enjoy funny challenges full of falling and destruction.

Why similar: Difficult 32.7%, Psychological Horror 27.2%, Physics 13.8%, Platformer 6.2%, Horror 5.7%

Perception is reality. In this mind-bending first-person puzzler, you escape a surreal dream world through solving impossible puzzles using the ambiguity of depth and perspective.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 39.7%, Physics 27%, Dark Humor 9.1%, Funny 8.7%, Horror 6.6%

Use your controller or keyboard to balance the clumsy but fully functional unicycle. Thrust the threatening mythical monsters with your sharpened lance as they sit on your way to glory. Climbing over the dead enemies with your unicycle may be the last climb you take.

Why similar: Difficult 32.2%, Psychological Horror 23.1%, Physics 15.5%, Dark Humor 6.1%, Funny 5.9%

Get ready to rage with your friends in this co-op precise platforming adventure! You're stuck in Hell. You can only jump upwards and all you have to do is escape … it can't be that hard, right?!

Why similar: Difficult 31.2%, Psychological Horror 28.2%, Philosophical 16.9%, Platformer 5.8%, Dark Humor 4.9%

An absurd retro-platformer that tests your patience.

Why similar: Difficult 58.5%, Platformer 12.9%, Dark Humor 9.2%, Funny 5.9%, Singleplayer 4%

Climb a massive overgrown concrete tower while constantly at risk of falling and losing precious progress. BETON BRUTAL offers a fluid and responsive first person parkour experience through tranquil brutalist architecture.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 39.2%, Difficult 31.7%, Platformer 10.1%, Physics 8.1%, Horror 5.1%

An unlucky chicken fell to the bottom of a ravine and was injured. It can no longer fly smoothly, but now it just wants to go home and hopes you can help it.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 33.7%, Difficult 18.1%, Philosophical 15.2%, Dark Humor 6.9%, Platformer 5.7%

A game for those who can stick it, and stick to it.

Why similar: Difficult 39.9%, Psychological Horror 34.3%, Dark Humor 7.3%, Platformer 7.3%, Funny 5.4%

A 35 part obstacle course that is deceptively simple and infuriatingly obvious in the most difficult way.

Why similar: Difficult 54.2%, Psychological Horror 35.9%, Casual 4.1%, Indie 3.6%, Action 2.2%