- #1 Ether
97% matchPositive100% of 18 reviews2024
Dev: Mad Sailors Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Help a Space Mercenary, Ether, complete a difficult scavenging mission in an abandoned ship. Explore 4 different biomes, each with its share of dangers, and escape a swarm of mutant space bugs.
Why similar: Platformer 17.1%, Aliens 16.8%, 2D Platformer 16.4%, Action-Adventure 14.6%, Action 11%
- #2 Womb
96% match2 user reviews100% of 2 reviews2023
Dev: CountZero
Windows
During a route next to Prasinos, a colonized little planet, Helena received an order to investigate an S.O.S. sign streamed by the mothership Z9. When landing on site, she discovers that the situation was much worse than she thought.
Why similar: Platformer 17.3%, Aliens 16.9%, 2D Platformer 15.3%, Action-Adventure 15%, Action 10.4%
- #3 The battle for Christmas
96% matchPositive91% of 23 reviews2024
Dev: Peace D
Windows · Mac · Linux
It's just another boring steam platformer from a piss-poor developer, mind you. Gameplay will take you an hour, but you will get 100 achievements
Why similar: Runner 34.7%, 2D Platformer 18.1%, Platformer 16%, Action-Adventure 12.1%, Colorful 5.6%
- #4 Smelted Kin: Inhuman Impact
95% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Microbat Studio
Windows · Linux
Sci-fi 2D shooter platformer combining the control of a human character and an armored vehicle on the surface of a planet filled with robots and immortal local inhabitants
Why similar: Aliens 16.5%, Platformer 15.2%, 2D Platformer 14.4%, Action-Adventure 11.6%, Futuristic 11.4%
- #5 Brainrot's HAMSTER GAME
94% matchPositive92% of 26 reviews2025
Dev: Brainrot Studios
Windows · Mac
a silly free endless runner depicting the 1:1 experience of a hamster
Why similar: Runner 39.8%, 2D Platformer 22.8%, Platformer 17.3%, Action 8.4%, Colorful 6%
- #6 Tower Runner
93% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Testudio Studios
Windows · Mac
Scale the Tinkerer's Tower of Calamity! Jump side to side as you avoid traps. Get new spells as you ascend the tower, and use them to fight the Tinkerer and his mechanical tower.
Why similar: Runner 31.9%, 2D Platformer 17.1%, Platformer 16.6%, Action-Adventure 13.9%, Action 7.3%
- #7 Egglien
92% matchPositive100% of 34 reviews2022
Dev: Spacespy Games
Windows
A retro space themed action shooter where your bullets send you flying through the air!
Why similar: Aliens 21.8%, 2D Platformer 17.3%, Platformer 16.7%, Futuristic 13%, Space 7.8%
- #8 Chickey Kong
91% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Raúl Segura Vallejo
Windows
A tribute to 80s arcades. Scale dangerous levels, dodge enemies, and test your reflexes in this challenging pixel-art platformer. For nostalgia lovers only! We'll see you there.
Why similar: Runner 35.1%, Platformer 17.9%, Action-Adventure 15.6%, 2D Platformer 14.6%, Colorful 5.9%
- #9 Borsiis Dash
90% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Borsiis
Windows
Borsiis Dash is a community-centric 2D action game where every run is unique. You jump, dodge, and dash through obstacles, setting new personal records while influencing the game's evolution with your feedback.
Why similar: Platformer 17.3%, Artificial Intelligence 14.9%, Aliens 13.3%, Space 12.9%, Runner 11%
- #10 Angstrage
91% matchNo user reviews2021
Dev: Intuition Software
Windows · Mac
Angstrage is a simple 2D platform game full of traps, which tests your patience. No checkpoint, no bonuses, nothing extra only your dexterity and patience matter. If you think you have it in you, put yourself to the test and take it all the way.
Why similar: Runner 37.7%, 2D Platformer 21.9%, Platformer 21.6%, Action 12.9%, 2D 5.7%
- #11 I am Reptile
89% matchPositive97% of 29 reviews2025
Dev: diedemor studio
Windows
In this 2D action platformer, you'll play as a humanoid reptile and save the planet and your people from an evil corporation! Reach the control center and activate the self-destruct mechanism! It won't be easy, as there are plenty of traps, obstacles, and heavily armed guards in your way!
Why similar: Platformer 15.5%, 2D Platformer 15.5%, Aliens 14.8%, Action-Adventure 12.2%, Futuristic 10.4%
- #12 Cosmic Persecution
89% matchNo user reviews
Dev: OMEGACORE
Windows · Mac · Linux
Experience both being a one man army as well as running for your life in this intense action packed platformer. Maneuver between precarious environments and equip a cosmonaut of your choice with space-era weaponry to oppose overwhelming enemy forces.
Why similar: Runner 29.5%, Platformer 14.1%, 2D Platformer 12.3%, Action-Adventure 9.6%, Futuristic 9.5%
- #13 Bubblegum Bandit
88% matchPositive88% of 25 reviews2023
Dev: Crested Gecko Studios
Windows · Mac
With the power of gravity manipulation and bubblegum, the Bubblegum Bandit wreaks havoc and takes revenge! Steal from evil robots and blow up their ships!
Why similar: Aliens 18.4%, 2D Platformer 16.4%, Platformer 16.2%, Futuristic 10.7%, Space 8%
- #14 Little Dasher!
87% matchPositive100% of 21 reviews2023
Dev: Doğukan Önder
Windows
Little Dasher! is a mini-game that offers an average of 30-45 minutes of enjoyable and challenging platform game experience with fantastic music. Please note that the time depends on your reflexes and abilities.
Why similar: Runner 38.3%, 2D Platformer 21.4%, Platformer 13.4%, Action-Adventure 9.5%, Atmospheric 4.6%
- #15 Bearable Nightmares
86% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Pavel KonarikPub: CybertoothStudio
Windows
Smash, dash, crash, and slash through spooky forests, creepy arcades, chilling schools, and more as you upgrade your teddy hero with amazing set of abilities to reclaim the freedom to dream!
Why similar: 2D Platformer 24.4%, Platformer 20.6%, Action-Adventure 16.1%, Colorful 8.7%, Atmospheric 7.2%
- #16 Human-Like
86% match6 user reviews100% of 6 reviews2020
Dev: Strife AI
Windows
You've arrived onboard the Tenjin research station in deep space. Your mission: sabotage the station's core reactors without getting caught. Sounds easy? Think again. It watches every move you make. It learns from you. And it will kill you.
Why similar: Runner 25.3%, Artificial Intelligence 14.8%, 2D Platformer 12.1%, Futuristic 11.4%, Platformer 11%
- #17 Little Betty: Gold Rush
85% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2025
Dev: Karsten Klewer
Windows
Help brave Betty to collect the stolen gold! In this fast-paced 2D pixel art retro single screen platformer, you'll race through 60 challenging levels full of traps, obstacles and surprises.
Why similar: Runner 36.4%, 2D Platformer 19.1%, Platformer 16.3%, Action-Adventure 12.9%, Sci-fi 5.8%
- #18 GO FKN FAST
84% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2025
Dev: Jason Roberts
Windows
GO FKN FAST is a speedy 2D platformer, where the goal is to complete each level as fast as possible. Use power-ups like the Dash Orb to get blistering bursts of speed, or Jump Orbs to help you reach greater heights. Wall jump, dive, dash, and double jump through 45 different levels!
Why similar: 2D Platformer 28.5%, Platformer 21.5%, Futuristic 13.2%, Action 12.4%, Space 10%
- #19 Time Jumper
83% matchMixed62% of 13 reviews2021
Dev: Nathan Lin
Windows
Play as a time traveling wizard who's being chased by a timeless entity known only as the Void. Learn to harness your time traveling abilities as you carefully maneuver through treacherous environments from both the past and the future in Time Jumper - Time Traveling Precision Platformer.
Why similar: Runner 31.6%, 2D Platformer 16.8%, Platformer 15.9%, Futuristic 9%, Colorful 6.5%
- #20 鹿易想要活到世界尽头
84% matchNo user reviews2020
Dev: Ave Studio
Windows
当四肢退化,只剩脖颈。 论末世长颈鹿如何驰骋异星~ 两人短时间制作的小品游戏,希望大家喜欢~
Why similar: Runner 26%, Aliens 14.8%, 2D Platformer 13.4%, Platformer 13%, Action-Adventure 10.7%
- #21 FrogStray
81% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: NinthPigeon
Windows · Linux
A tough, precise platformer. Guide a lost frog home using charged jumps and wall-kicks through hand-crafted, obstacle-filled levels. A pure challenge of skill.
Why similar: Runner 37.3%, 2D Platformer 21%, Platformer 15.4%, Action-Adventure 11.6%, Action 6.2%
- #22 Connect Lyrical Spectacle Forest
82% matchNo user reviews2023
Dev: NarrativeAreaPub: NarrativeArea
Windows
Leap to evade!! Action game!!
Why similar: Runner 48.4%, 2D Platformer 28.1%, Action 15.8%, 2D 7.3%, Singleplayer 0.4%
- #23 Xentra Station
80% match1 user reviews0% of 1 reviews2025
Dev: Klemen ZagarPub: Sektor 13 Games
Windows
Xentra Station is a retro-inspired 2D shooting platform set in a futuristic mysterious world.
Why similar: Aliens 30%, 2D Platformer 22.1%, Space 15.3%, Platformer 13.7%, Sci-fi 8.7%
- #24 One Final Chaos
82% matchPositive100% of 11 reviews2015
Dev: PusselbitPub: A Sweet Studio
Windows
Addictive apocalyptic action! For how long can you survive this vast onslaught of deadly attacks? Jumping and changing direction – those are the only things you need to learn. But to survive in this chaotic space, timing and precision makes all the difference.
Why similar: Runner 60.9%, Platformer 15.7%, Space 12.6%, Action 10.8%
- #25 Etera
79% match2 user reviews0% of 2 reviews2024
Dev: Domynyo SRL
Windows
What is your purpose inside Etera?
Why similar: Runner 31.2%, 2D Platformer 16.8%, Platformer 16.4%, Action-Adventure 13.7%, Action 6.9%
- #26 Alien Breakout
78% matchPositive100% of 25 reviews2025
Dev: Vergiu
Windows
Alien Breakout is a precision platformer where you control an alien that has been captured and must escape from the laboratory.
Why similar: Aliens 30%, Platformer 15.7%, Space 14.6%, Colorful 8%, Action-Adventure 6.8%
- #27 Spunner
81% matchNo user reviews2022
Dev: Andrew Skillett
Windows
Defend yourself from drones and alien creatures in this endless runner, first person shooter game on an alien environment! Collect in game currency to upgrade your weapons to survive!
Why similar: Runner 43.8%, Aliens 30.9%, Space 15%, Combat 6.3%, Action 3.8%
- #28 Running Fox
79% match1 user reviews0% of 1 reviews2023
Dev: MBK-Games GbR
Windows
A sweet little indie game where you need to run with the little fox through a whole level of ups and downs. To complete the game, you need to collect all of the 100 gems. You may need to keep your eyes open to even find the hardest hideouts. Can you do so?
Why similar: Runner 42.3%, Platformer 24.6%, 2D Platformer 22.9%, 2D 6.2%, Linear 3.7%
- #29 Anyaroth: The Queen's Tyranny
78% matchPositive80% of 10 reviews2023
Dev: YggdraseedPub: Firenut Games
Windows
A pixel-art platformer adventure game with lots of action and a memorable story.Dive into the depths of planet Anyaroth and free its people from the tyranny of the Queen. Join the Rebellion and fight against the Regime’s mind-control system. The anya civilization needs you!
Why similar: Aliens 18.2%, Platformer 14.1%, 2D Platformer 12.9%, Space 12.8%, Action-Adventure 11.8%
- #30 Xeno
76% match7 user reviews100% of 7 reviews2024
Dev: cheshewstudio
Windows
Xeno is a 2D platform game - we move left and right and jump in the game, we can shoot and, in some cases, sneak to eliminate enemies from hiding. The game will also feature the use of the environment, such as exoskeletons or vehicles of all types, and puzzles.
Why similar: Aliens 18.2%, Platformer 18.1%, 2D Platformer 16.9%, Action-Adventure 14.2%, Futuristic 13%
- #31 Zagu Espionage
77% matchMixed57% of 14 reviews2021
Dev: nP StudiosPub: nonPareil Institute
Windows
Zagu Espionage is a single player, 2D side-scrolling action-adventure game where the player takes on the role of the main character, Zagu, a spy from the Tracha colony, who is traveling to seven different regions to defeat the Rogan empire.
Why similar: 2D Platformer 21%, Platformer 20.1%, Aliens 13.1%, Sci-fi 10%, Action-Adventure 10%
- #32 Burnit Quest
77% matchMostly Positive72% of 18 reviews2022
Dev: Wompa
Windows
Blast baddies and burn calories! Burnit Quest is a mobile enhanced fitness platformer, connect your phone to your PC to and get ready to sweat!
Why similar: Runner 34.7%, 2D Platformer 17.9%, Platformer 15.2%, Action-Adventure 11.3%, Colorful 5.1%
- #33 Spaceborne Fighters
76% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Arkadia Studio
Windows
Spaceborne Fighters is a dynamic action platformer featuring arena battles against hordes of enemies. Explore 10 diverse maps, develop your character through skill trees, and craft items to face challenges in the most spectacular way.
Why similar: Platformer 17.2%, 2D Platformer 16.3%, Aliens 14.9%, Futuristic 9.8%, Action 9.5%
- #34 Drop Dimensions
75% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Stone Circle Software Ltd
Windows
Drop is an endless runner with short enough sessions for quick casual plays and enough features and unlockables to fill more hardcore sessions. Smash your way through walls and dodge traps to survive! RPG-Lite features (leveling), quests, collectibles, achievements, leaderboards and more!
Why similar: Runner 41.8%, 2D Platformer 16.4%, Platformer 16.1%, Action 7.6%, Sci-fi 6.7%
- #35 Cursedland
72% matchMostly Positive72% of 576 reviews2025
Dev: CSStudios
Windows
Step into Cursedland, a 2D indie action platformer where every jump, movement, and decision truly matters. This is a game built around precision, reflexes, and mastery, challenging players to push their skills to the limit while navigating a world filled with chaos, humor, and surreal surprises.
Why similar: 2D Platformer 21.3%, Platformer 20.5%, Action-Adventure 17.5%, Action 13.3%, Artificial Intelligence 10.4%
- #36 PiN The Guardian Spirit
74% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Project Taro
Windows
Run, flip and smash corrupted spirits back into the light in this fast-flowing action platformer.
Why similar: Runner 36.9%, 2D Platformer 20.5%, Platformer 16.7%, 2D 5.5%, Colorful 5.4%
- #37 SuperTux
73% matchVery Positive94% of 1,175 reviews2022
Dev: The SuperTux Team
Windows · Mac · Linux
Classic 2D jump'n'run sidescroller featuring Tux the penguin. Run and jump through multiple worlds, fighting off enemies by jumping on them, bumping them from below or tossing objects at them, grabbing power-ups and other stuff on the way.
Why similar: Runner 38.7%, 2D Platformer 21.3%, Platformer 18.6%, Colorful 6.9%, 2D 6.1%
- #38 Boom Blast
75% matchNo user reviews2023
Dev: LazeHammy
Windows · Mac
Join BoomBlast to rescue a hijacked airship. Discover a new SPEEDRUN with simple and exciting mechanics, defeat all enemies and get your airship back.
Why similar: Runner 30.3%, Platformer 17.3%, 2D Platformer 16.9%, Action-Adventure 13.3%, Action 7.2%
- #39 Minipo
74% matchNo user reviews2025
Dev: Kadir Gülağız
Windows
Minipo is a fun and simple platform game designed for children. In the game, you’ll join our character Minipo on exciting adventures across 5 different worlds and 25 unique levels. The main goal is to reach the final level and reunite Minipo with her rabbit friends.
Why similar: Runner 25.7%, 2D Platformer 23.3%, Platformer 13%, Action-Adventure 11.3%, Colorful 9.5%
- #40 Beyond Sentinel
73% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Embraceware
Windows · Mac · Linux
Beyond Sentinel will have you play as both Justin and Erica in horizontal shooter and metroidvania stages as you battle in space and explore the many levels of the Sentinel station.
Why similar: Platformer 19.2%, Aliens 16.9%, Action-Adventure 16.8%, 2D Platformer 16%, Action 12.4%
- #41 Hover Groove
73% match4 user reviews75% of 4 reviews2024
Dev: Szymon AniolaPub: Szymon Anioła Entertainment
Windows
A physics-based platformer about a drone looking for a way. You are hovering above the ground with electric beams. Your goal is to angle the thrusters to overcome increasingly difficult obstacles. The controls are difficult, but mastering them is all the more satisfying!
Why similar: Runner 38.6%, 2D Platformer 20.8%, Platformer 16.7%, Action 7.5%, Sci-fi 6.4%
- #42 极限求生 Survival X
71% match7 user reviews100% of 7 reviews2024
Dev: 魔术猫
Windows
Avoid hidden traps, traverse the endless grassland, and seek the ideal oasis.
Why similar: Runner 39.4%, 2D Platformer 21.7%, Action-Adventure 17.9%, Action 12.8%, 2D 5.1%
- #43 SpringHell
71% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2023
Dev: 529games
Windows
Just Press Spacebar at the right time! It’s very simple arcade game with tiny puzzle and platformer.
Why similar: Runner 43.2%, 2D Platformer 25.2%, Platformer 24.8%, 2D 6.5%, Singleplayer 0.3%
- #44 Hot Pickle!
72% match4 user reviews100% of 4 reviews2022
Dev: Benjamin Stark
Windows · Mac · Linux
Hot Pickle! Is a 2D platform jumping game. Run, jump, shoot, and dash your way through 10 epic food-themed levels.
Why similar: Runner 31.2%, 2D Platformer 17.3%, Platformer 17%, Action-Adventure 14.5%, Action 7.4%
- #45 Riseon
69% matchPositive100% of 15 reviews2025
Dev: SHINKURO VALLEY
Windows · Linux
Riseon is an ultra-challenging jumping action game where the protagonist, trapped deep underground, leaps and climbs toward the open sky! With simple controls but extreme difficulty, every jump tests your skill and patience. Can you overcome the brutal challenge and reach the top?
Why similar: Runner 30.6%, 2D Platformer 21.9%, Platformer 17.4%, Action-Adventure 14.8%, Action 11.1%
- #46 Project Scar
70% match1 user reviews0% of 1 reviews2024
Dev: Beasts, Goblins and Hellfire Studios
Windows
Project Scar is a platform game and Endless Runner, enemies and platforms are randomly generated. Control Scar in his endless escape and quest to escape the Goblins grand jungle.
Why similar: Runner 40.6%, Platformer 20.6%, 2D Platformer 18.7%, Action 12.7%, 2D 4.9%
- #47 Viral Firar
70% matchVery Positive82% of 241 reviews2021
Dev: Stratera Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 24 minMean: 5.1 hrs≥1hr: 38%
Viral Virar is an arcade running game with beautiful pixel art. Collect and upgrade 5 different runners with unique powers to reach to the end!
Why similar: Runner 36.5%, 2D Platformer 18.9%, Platformer 17.8%, Futuristic 9.2%, Colorful 7.3%
- #48 Pogo Rocket
70% match5 user reviews100% of 5 reviews2023
Dev: Big Boy Games
Windows
Pogo sticks and Rockets, how could it go wrong? In this space-themed 2D platformer, you control an experimental rocket ship and must stop aliens from taking the Earth's resources. Play through a variety of levels with dangerous obstacles and save the world!
Why similar: 2D Platformer 23.1%, Aliens 18.7%, Platformer 15.4%, Space 14.6%, Futuristic 13.6%
- #49 Serious Sam: Kamikaze Attack!
69% matchVery Positive81% of 253 reviews2021
Dev: Be-Rad EntertainmentPub: Devolver Digital
Windows
Median: 2.2 hrsMean: 4.8 hrs≥1hr: 75%
Step into the boots of Serious Sam's most iconic foe, the Headless Kamikaze, and chase down the vile Serious Sam in this action packed arcade runner
Why similar: Runner 44.3%, 2D Platformer 17%, Platformer 16.8%, Action 10%, Sci-fi 5.2%
- #50 Moorhuhn Jump and Run 'Traps and Treasures 3'
68% matchPositive100% of 10 reviews2024
Dev: Higgs Games GmbH
Windows
In Moorhuhn Jump and Run 'Traps and Treasures 3', 31 levels full of traps and enemies await you!
Why similar: Runner 31.1%, 2D Platformer 17.7%, Platformer 17.3%, Action-Adventure 15.6%, Action 8.4%
- #51 Seekers: Enlightenment
68% match5 user reviews80% of 5 reviews2024
Dev: Mega Morph Games
Windows
In this 2D Action Platformer, embark on this journey with Ivy and Lara to seek out the real truth behind this world and perhaps the world beyond filled with gods, strange creatures, different enemies as you discover new environments.
Why similar: Platformer 21.6%, 2D Platformer 21.2%, Action-Adventure 19%, Action 14.6%, Futuristic 14.6%
- #52 Fiiish! Classic
69% matchNo user reviews2025
Dev: Andreas Neukoetter
Windows · Mac · Linux
A relaxing underwater adventure — collect, explore, and chill.
Why similar: Runner 31.9%, Platformer 19.1%, 2D Platformer 19%, Action 12.1%, Colorful 6.6%
- #53 Cube War
67% matchMostly Positive77% of 13 reviews2024
Dev: Rawi Studio
Windows
An action game in which we try to survive by killing enemies in space.
Why similar: 2D Platformer 27.2%, Action-Adventure 22.4%, Space 18.6%, Action 16.7%, 2D 8%
- #54 DICED Pilot
68% match2 user reviews100% of 2 reviews2022
Dev: Yoa Games
Windows
DICED Pilot is a 2D action game containing old-school platform-based movement/jump timing challenges, physics-based surroundings, jetpacks, and weapons that can destroy everything in sight!
Why similar: 2D Platformer 20.2%, Platformer 17.5%, Futuristic 15.2%, Space 13.4%, Sci-fi 10.9%
- #55 Botland Chronicles
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: AnachroSoft, LLC
Windows
It has been 200 years since the aliens landed and destroyed human civilization on Earth. Cities lay in ruins. Weird creatures and rogue AI run rampant. Somewhere in a dark warehouse, a small combat bot, merely a prototype, is accidentally switched on. Beep boop... What the heck?!
Why similar: Aliens 24.5%, 2D Platformer 17.5%, Platformer 16.7%, Futuristic 14.2%, Action 6.7%
- #56 Fractured Horizon
65% matchVery Positive96% of 92 reviews2024
Dev: Rune van der LeiPub: Hogeschool West-Vlaanderen
Windows
Fractured Horizon is a fast-paced parkour game, where you use Gravity Fields to traverse through a shattered world. Manipulate gravity, leap between the platforms and overcome obstacles in this speedrunning 3D platformer.
Why similar: Runner 37.2%, Platformer 18%, Action-Adventure 15.6%, Futuristic 10.5%, Colorful 8.2%
- #57 Frebbventure Alliance
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: AlmyriganHero
Windows
Y2K mascot attitude strikes back with a vengeance in this sincerely ridiculous and relentlessly intense Sakurai-inspired action platformer! With revolutionarily seamless movement and combat design, 10+ customizable playable Allies, and dozens of merciless bosses, this game's set to conquer your mind
Why similar: Platformer 23.5%, 2D Platformer 23.4%, Aliens 21.9%, Action 13.5%, 2D 6.9%
- #58 Paper Roll 2
65% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2025
Dev: Drew VanWagnerPub: Veedub Inc.
Windows
Roll on! A fast, quirky endless runner where a heroic paper roll dodges chaos, cleans messes, and unravels toward high scores.
Why similar: Runner 44.6%, 2D Platformer 25.4%, Platformer 18.1%, Action 7.3%, 2D 4.5%