Games Like INK

Splasher is a fun and challenging 2D Platformer filled with humor and surprises. Armed with a paint cannon, you’ll face the dangers of the Inkorp mega-factory in order to save your companions, the Splashers, and put an end to the Machiavellian projects of the evil boss, Le Docteur.

Why similar: Platformer 55.7%, Action 16.3%, Indie 15.5%, Difficult 8.1%, 2D 3.7%

Why You'll Like It: Features similar paint-based mechanics and fast-paced, precision-focused platforming.

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 31.4%, Platformer 31.4%, Colorful 15%, Action 11.1%, Indie 8.8%

Why You'll Like It: A minimalist, physics-based platformer that emphasizes precision and momentum in every jump.

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 42.2%, Difficult 34.1%, Indie 10.6%, 2D 4.5%, Adventure 3.5%

Why You'll Like It: Offers incredibly tight controls and challenging, screen-based platforming that rewards mastery.

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

Why similar: Platformer 51.8%, Difficult 30.4%, Indie 9.4%, 2D 4.9%, Action 2%

Why You'll Like It: The definitive precision platformer that shares the same 'try-die-repeat' loop and high difficulty.

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

Why similar: Platformer 54.7%, Difficult 25.2%, Indie 9.7%, Action 5.8%, 2D 4.2%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on speed, flow, and precision platforming with a high skill ceiling.

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 56.8%, Difficult 16.5%, Indie 10.8%, Colorful 7.7%, Action 3.9%

Why You'll Like It: A minimalist platformer where the environment and obstacles react rhythmically to the music.

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 54.5%, Difficult 26.6%, Indie 9.8%, Action 5.4%, 2D 2.2%

Why You'll Like It: A fast-paced, music-synced platformer that matches the high-energy, difficult nature of INK.

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: Platformer 46.8%, Difficult 28.4%, Indie 9.5%, Action 5.4%, Adventure 4.5%

Why You'll Like It: A brutal precision platformer from the creator of Super Meat Boy that excels in difficult, room-based challenges.

DYE is a challenging precision platformer where you help Hue rescue Pigments and defeat the nefarious Necrolights in order to restore color to the world! Jump, wall jump and float your way through 4 unique worlds with hundreds of challenges ranging from beginner to advanced level.

Why similar: Platformer 31.2%, Difficult 18.9%, Colorful 14.2%, Action 11.6%, Indie 11.6%

Why You'll Like It: Features colorful, fast-paced precision platforming that shares a similar visual and mechanical energy.

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%, Difficult 26.3%, Indie 10.8%, 2D 4.7%, Action 4.1%

Why You'll Like It: A minimalist, gravity-flipping platformer that is both difficult and highly rewarding to master.

Atomik: RunGunJumpGun is a tough as nails game that puts a gravity-defying weapon in your hands. One button lets you fly, the other blasts obstacles out of the way. With a cast of crazed characters, challenging gameplay, and a pulsing musical score, it delivers twitchy platforming goodness.

Why similar: Platformer 33.2%, Difficult 22%, Action 21%, Indie 19.1%, 2D 4.7%

Why You'll Like It: A high-speed, difficult, and minimalist platformer that requires constant adjustment to survive.

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: Platformer 41.4%, Difficult 24.8%, Indie 11.6%, Action 9.8%, Adventure 6.5%

Why You'll Like It: A brutal, fast-paced platformer that embraces death as a core part of the learning process.

Never STANDBY in this fast-paced, precise platformer and get out of the glitched world! Can you do it faster than anyone?

Why similar: Platformer 34.4%, Difficult 23.9%, Action 11%, Indie 10.2%, Adventure 7%

Why You'll Like It: A twitch-based platformer that rewards precision and speed in every short, intense level.

They Bleed Pixels is a fiendishly difficult action platformer inspired by H.P. Lovecraft and classic horror.

Why similar: Platformer 45.4%, Difficult 31.3%, Action 9.7%, Indie 7.2%, 2D 4.1%

Why You'll Like It: A hardcore, fast-paced action-platformer with a dark, stylish aesthetic and tight controls.

A simple, fast paced platformer with one small change: Your character can't run. Play as an adorable robot named Blitz and help it escape the factory it was built in. The only problem is, it seems like everything is trying to break you!

Why similar: Platformer 38.6%, Difficult 24.5%, Action 17.1%, Indie 16%, 2D 3.7%

Why You'll Like It: A difficult, fast-paced platformer that focuses on momentum and precise movement.

Element4l is an immersive and experimental indie platform game, with a strong focus on flow and smooth gameplay, wrapped in an exceptional soundtrack by Mind Tree.

Why similar: Platformer 52.5%, Indie 19.3%, Difficult 15.7%, Action 11.6%, Singleplayer 0.8%

Why You'll Like It: An atmospheric and challenging platformer that requires shifting states to 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 67.8%, Indie 17.7%, Action 9.9%, 2D 3.7%, Singleplayer 1%

Why You'll Like It: Features clever, room-based puzzle-platforming that requires precise timing and logic.

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: Platformer 44.2%, Difficult 26.2%, Indie 10.6%, Action 9.5%, 2D 4.8%

Why You'll Like It: A fast-paced, minimalist action-platformer that demands quick reflexes and constant movement.

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

Why similar: Difficult 68.4%, Indie 15.6%, Colorful 6.1%, Action 5.1%, 2D 2.9%

Why You'll Like It: While a different sub-genre, it shares the minimalist, fast-paced, and rhythm-based intensity of INK.

HoPiKo is an intense speed run platformer where you get to save gaming. Jump from platform to platform avoiding death, exploiting shortcuts and ripping through 100s of hand-crafted levels, each one dropped into a 5-stage mini run designed to break your mind!

Why similar: Platformer 63.9%, Indie 18.4%, Action 17.7%

Why You'll Like It: A fast-paced, twitchy platformer that demands quick reflexes and constant action.

RITE is a high-speed, precision platformer where you must conquer a series of challenging trials, a rite of passage for every Nim.

Why similar: Platformer 39.8%, Difficult 20%, Colorful 10.4%, Action 10%, Indie 7.9%

Why You'll Like It: A minimalist, high-difficulty precision platformer designed for players who enjoy tight, challenging levels.

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: Platformer 43.7%, Difficult 18.8%, Action 14.7%, Indie 14.5%, 2D 6.3%

Why You'll Like It: A puzzle-platformer that uses color-shifting mechanics to alter the environment and solve challenges.

Dispersio is a retro-style action platformer. As you progress through the game, you will have to use and combine special abilities, such as dashing, wall-jumping and more. There's even a hard mode for hardcore players.

Why similar: Platformer 38.2%, Difficult 28.7%, Indie 19.2%, Adventure 13.9%

Why You'll Like It: A challenging, minimalist platformer that focuses on exploration and high-difficulty movement.

Race across a curious island in this fast-paced, light-hearted platformer

Why similar: Platformer 38.3%, Difficult 23.4%, Action 14.8%, Indie 13.5%, Adventure 10%

Why You'll Like It: Fast-paced, retro-inspired platforming that features very tight controls and challenging level design.

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: Action 22.8%, GameMaker 20% ★, Indie 18.4%, Platformer 18%, Difficult 14.8%

Why You'll Like It: A fast-paced, music-driven action platformer with a unique, vertical movement style.

Karma Knight is a fast paced 2D side-scrolling platform action game with stylish combat. Find hidden items in the stages, collect different spells, defeat the enemies as you gain more experience and enjoy the overall platform action game style.

Why similar: Action 31.7%, Indie 28.5%, Platformer 20.6%, Difficult 14.5%, 2D 3.3%

Why You'll Like It: An action-heavy 2D platformer that combines challenging combat with precise movement mechanics.

Somewhere between a platformer, a puzzle game and a great big dollop of pure fun, Fly’N will challenge your skills through more than forty levels set in a luxuriant world. Experiment with the four Buds to save the World-Trees from Dyer, the loony hair-dryer who intends to destroy their Helys!

Why similar: Platformer 61.6%, Indie 13.3%, Difficult 8.4%, Action 5.6%, 2D 4.9%

Why You'll Like It: A colorful, puzzle-platformer that utilizes unique character abilities to navigate complex environments.

Klang is an innovative take on traditional rhythm games that pushes the genre beyond pressing buttons to tempo into a world of fast-paced exploration, platforming and combat.

Why similar: Platformer 36%, Difficult 23.5%, Colorful 14.1%, Action 8.5%, Indie 5.6%

Why You'll Like It: A rhythm-based action platformer that demands high precision and timing to succeed.

Can you beat the beat? Journey as a green LED mysteriously trapped inside a dying boombox and play the ultimate musical experience. In this rhythmic platform adventure where your every action needs to be right on the beat, bring electro, dub and disco music back to life!

Why similar: Platformer 45.4%, Action 18.6%, Colorful 18.1%, Indie 17.9%

Why You'll Like It: A rhythm-based platformer where every movement and action must be performed in time with the beat.

Angvik is a platform action game set in a joyful but unforgiving land.

Why similar: Platformer 49.1%, Difficult 17.8%, Indie 13.5%, Action 11.9%, 2D 3.6%

In this action platformer you play as a cat, Bast, running through a dark fantasy world. You’ll be running, jumping and sliding with smooth and precise controls designed to make you feel like a cat. But it wont be easy. In the dark you never know what lies in the shadows.

Why similar: Platformer 53.1%, Difficult 17.5%, Indie 16.4%, Action 13%

Why You'll Like It: A difficult, minimalist platformer that uses shadow and light to create challenging navigation puzzles.

Time Up is a fast paced action platformer, with each level only being 9 seconds. Sieze every opportunity, plan your route, Survive various deadly traps, and reach the finish line! This game combines a variety of classic platformer elements: The levels are carefully designed to make them harder, yet more enjoyable to give the player a...

Why similar: Platformer 27.6%, Difficult 21%, Action 17.2%, Indie 15.7%, Adventure 12%

is a fast-paced 2D top-down action game. Players take on the role of an ink bottle warrior on a journey to become the king of tools. Use your fast attacks, moves, and powerful skills to defeat the tools that stand in your way, prove that ink and pen are the best tools, and become the King of Tools.

Why similar: Difficult 50.8%, Indie 18.3%, Action 17.8%, 2D 9.6%, Singleplayer 3.5%

Fast paced 3D action platformer.

Why similar: Platformer 45.2%, Action 39.9%, Indie 11.4%, Singleplayer 3.5%

Face extreme challenges in a precision platformer where every move is a daring jump! Use your skill to fling yourself and stick to surfaces, navigating adrenaline-filled scenes and unpredictable obstacles.

Why similar: Platformer 52.9%, Action 23.5%, Indie 8.8%, 2D 7.1%, Adventure 6.2%

Slip is a fast paced side scrolling platformer featuring a two color, swap mechanic. Using your two colors flee from Steve and his wretched purple beam through a multitude of obstacles and enemies. Slip combines the elegant simplicity of platforming with a polarity mechanic to create an easy to learn, but extremely difficult to master...

Why similar: Platformer 49.9%, Action 25.2%, Indie 24.9%

VVVVV is a colorful, dynamic platformer action with puzzle elements, made in retro style.

Why similar: Action 23.9%, Platformer 22.8%, Indie 21%, Adventure 15.6%, Difficult 12.7%

All of the color has been wiped from Huey's world! Run, jump, dash, swipe, and pogo your way through this hand-drawn platformer to restore color to the land.

Why similar: Platformer 48.7%, Action 18.6%, Colorful 12.2%, Adventure 9.9%, Indie 5.2%

The world is your canvas in this innovative first-person puzzle platformer. Tag walls and other surfaces with different colors of spray paint to reveal new ways to navigate each level, including bouncing off, sliding across, and sticking to the surfaces you paint.

Why similar: Platformer 59.5%, Colorful 19.7%, Action 18.3%, Singleplayer 2.5%

Phantom Jump is a skill based platformer with rhythm mechanics, built to turn you into a speedrunner.

Why similar: Platformer 45.3%, Difficult 27.9%, Indie 20.8%, 2D 5.9%

Minimalism - platformer with a lot of levels, made in minimalist style - which is a cube protogonist. The game is a kind of labyrinth consisting of levels, to go between them you need to open the doors with collected keys.

Why similar: Platformer 36.3%, Difficult 28.1%, Indie 21%, Action 10%, Adventure 4.6%

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 53.8%, Indie 17.7%, Adventure 8%, 2D 7.2%, Difficult 6.4%

Fenix’s village was decimated by a huge explosion, leaving only our hero and the mysterious Oktarus. As Fenix, track down this shadowy villain through nine worlds, defeating brutal bosses and hundreds of minions bent on your destruction.

Why similar: Platformer 39.5%, Difficult 21.2%, Indie 13%, Action 12.8%, Adventure 8%

A robot, a poncho and a journey of discovery! Make your way through this wonderful world of pixelated parallax platforming to solve the ultimate puzzle: who is Poncho?

Why similar: Platformer 39.1%, Indie 14.6%, Adventure 11.5%, Difficult 11.4%, Action 10.6%

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 47.4%, GameMaker 24% ★, Indie 10.1%, Action 7.7%, Difficult 7.2%

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 57.9%, Indie 17.3%, Action 14.6%, Adventure 10.2%

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

Why similar: Difficult 39.9%, Platformer 30.6%, Colorful 13.5%, 2D 6.8%, Indie 4.2%

A desperate, savage survival experience full of stunning visuals, dynamic creatures, and a haunting soundtrack.

Why similar: Platformer 41.7%, Action 20.1%, Indie 18.6%, Difficult 10.7%, 2D 4.7%

Spectrum is a platformer set in an abstract world of stylized shapes and bright colors. Escape from 80 levels spread in 8 mysterious environments.

Why similar: Platformer 50.4%, Indie 19.5%, Difficult 15.7%, Adventure 14.4%

A challenging puzzle platformer in which you clone and teleport.

Why similar: Platformer 47.9%, Difficult 34.8%, Indie 8.1%, 2D 6.9%, Singleplayer 2.3%

Spark the electric jester is an action/platformer video game heavily based on best classics from the 16-bit era from both sides of the aisle.

Why similar: Platformer 59.3%, Action 15.3%, Indie 7.3%, 2D 6.9%, Colorful 5.7%

Surf through a pulsating, underground world on platforms pulled from thin air in this challenging, psychedelic, rhythm-infused action platformer that has you defying gravity to a pumping beat.

Why similar: Platformer 48.4%, Difficult 24%, Indie 10.9%, Action 7.9%, 2D 6.7%

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

Why similar: Platformer 47.9%, Colorful 17.4%, Indie 16.8%, Adventure 10.3%, 2D 5.7%

The Sun and Moon, the winner of Ludum Dare 29, is a platformer with a unique mechanic: you can dive into the ground. Momentum is conserved but gravity is reversed, letting you fling yourself high into the air or deep beneath the surface.

Why similar: Platformer 46.7%, Indie 20.6%, Action 17.7%, Difficult 15.1%

Uncover the truth about the Ghostland Yard investigators disappearance in this challenging 2D platformer. Travel across the world in more than 250 handcrafted levels to find your friends!

Why similar: Platformer 33.8%, Difficult 28.4%, Indie 11.5%, Colorful 10%, 2D 5.6%

Colors! Platform is a minimalist casual platform game.

Why similar: Platformer 34.1%, Difficult 29.6%, Colorful 20.3%, 2D 5.5%, Indie 5.5%

Experience a fast-paced, single-player adventure mixing fluid motion, split-second decision making, stylized machine-age visuals, and a dynamic soundscape.

Why similar: Platformer 52.3%, Action 19.1%, Indie 16.7%, Adventure 11.9%

2D platform game focused on intense combat against enemies and exploration of secret areas in dark dungeons full of dangers.

Why similar: Platformer 38%, Difficult 22.7%, Action 13%, Indie 12.5%, Adventure 5.8%

A 8-bit retro action platformer that goes beyond just pixels and chiptunes

Why similar: Platformer 48.1%, Action 25.2%, Indie 20.6%, 2D 6.1%