Games Like Many Buttons to Press

SPINGUN is a "manic two-button arcade shooter". Two buttons. One spaceship. Zero chance to survive.

Why similar: Intentionally Awkward Controls 54.1% ★, Flight 15.5%, Difficult 12.5%, Arcade 7.2%, Minimalist 5.4%

A hilariously hard QWOP-like tiny 3D mind twisting catch animals game! It's a EASY game!

Why similar: Intentionally Awkward Controls 76.2% ★, Flight 11.9%, Difficult 5.8%, Casual 3.3%, Cute 2.3%

It's a simple little game, but this eraser can drive you crazy. Just give it a try.

Why similar: Intentionally Awkward Controls 64.5% ★, Difficult 19.8%, Minimalist 8.3%, Casual 5.1%, 2D 2.2%

Foodie Bear is an adorkable platform action game. Our fat hero will eat a lot during the journey. He will become fatter and fatter, face more dangers at the same time. He will eat his favorite ice cream eventually !!

Why similar: Intentionally Awkward Controls 72.6% ★, Difficult 16.2%, Cute 3.5%, Action 2.4%, Cartoon 1.9%

Circle Shoot is a 2D top-down shooter game that employs unconventional controls, challenging players to master 20 levels on Normal difficulty and 10 levels on Hard difficulty using both ranged and melee weapons.

Why similar: Intentionally Awkward Controls 74.2% ★, Difficult 10.7%, Minimalist 7.1%, 2D 3.5%, Action 2.1%

A cantaloupe with strong hind legs feels incredible pain.

Why similar: Intentionally Awkward Controls 78.6% ★, Difficult 15.9%, Action 4.3%, Indie 0.9%, Singleplayer 0.3%

Take the role of a flightless Dodo in this tough as nails platformer featuring a unique two button control scheme

Why similar: Intentionally Awkward Controls 72.8% ★, Difficult 16.6%, Cute 3.9%, Pixel Graphics 3.4%, 2D 2.7%

Ball is Life is a challenging 3D precision platformer and visual novel with simple levels and plenty of balls. Hop to the beat of a lo-fi soundtrack and discover new shenanigans.

Why similar: Intentionally Awkward Controls 61.6% ★, Difficult 15.6%, Emotional 9.3%, Story Rich 5%, Cute 4.4%

Anti-gravity + Bamboo-copter + jet backpack

Why similar: Intentionally Awkward Controls 73% ★, Difficult 15.9%, Casual 5.4%, Action 4.7%, Indie 0.6%

A rage-inducing skill based game with a dynamic story that unfolds following the player choices

Why similar: Intentionally Awkward Controls 69.3% ★, Difficult 15.8%, Philosophical 5.8%, Minimalist 4%, Story Rich 3.2%

This is a precise platform game modeled after the King of Jumps.

Why similar: Intentionally Awkward Controls 75.4% ★, Difficult 12.8%, Casual 3%, Pixel Graphics 2.8%, 2D 2.4%

Manipulate your wrists, elbows and shoulders to get the arrow to the bow, draw it, aim and fire!Probably Archery gives the player more control over the minutia of their joint movements with tons of crazy scenarios to conquer, multiplayer battles to fight and brutal target challenges to dominate.

Why similar: Intentionally Awkward Controls 90.1% ★, Difficult 5.3%, Casual 2.5%, Action 1.7%, Indie 0.4%

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: Intentionally Awkward Controls 53.8% ★, Difficult 14.8%, Narration 12.4%, Philosophical 10.2%, Experimental 3.5% ★

You have one goal: reach the flag. What's so difficult about that? The rules of getting there aren't going to be posted, but they'll be taught to you anyway.

Why similar: Intentionally Awkward Controls 60.5% ★, Difficult 17.6%, Philosophical 11%, Minimalist 5.4%, Pixel Graphics 2.8%

You take on the role of a lost astronaut who must return to the spaceship in zero-gravity space. Refill oxygen, avoid obstacles, and head towards the destination. Discover endless possibilities in this unique space adventure!

Why similar: Intentionally Awkward Controls 76.2% ★, Difficult 17.1%, Story Rich 4.2%, Casual 2%, Singleplayer 0.3%

رجل عالق في برميل وسط صحراء مليئة بالتحديات! استخدم الماوس لتقفز وتدحرج وكافح نحو القمة. لعبة فيزيائية تعتمد على الدقة والإصرار، غلطة واحدة قد تعيدك للبداية! A man stuck in a barrel in a desert of challenges! Use your mouse to jump, roll, and climb to the top. One mistake can send you back to start!

Why similar: Intentionally Awkward Controls 71.1% ★, Difficult 17.6%, Arcade 7.1%, Casual 1.9%, Action 1.8%

Swing your hammer and spread your wings as you make the difficult climb to the top of Mount Olympus.

Why similar: Intentionally Awkward Controls 70.3% ★, Difficult 17.8%, Philosophical 10.8%, Action 0.6%, Indie 0.3%

Hop your way through a colorful level filled with various challenges and obstacles, master the state-of-the-art pogo stick controls, and try not to fall...

Why similar: Intentionally Awkward Controls 60.7% ★, Difficult 17.4%, Philosophical 9.1%, Emotional 9%, Action 2.1%

Play as a Vacuum Cleaner! ACUVAC is a Cleaner Collectathon with Destruction, Limb Controls, and a mix of Arcade and Sandbox elements! Suck, Blow, and Swing your hose around in this vibrant, Physics-based Action-Adventure!

Why similar: Intentionally Awkward Controls 73.8% ★, Difficult 12.9%, Arcade 5.5%, Cute 4.4%, Casual 2.4%

Become the fella. Walk on the stilts.

Why similar: Intentionally Awkward Controls 66.3% ★, Difficult 19.7%, Arcade 8.7%, Casual 2.5%, Action 2.4%

The lion fly in the sky... because King of Beasts.

Why similar: Intentionally Awkward Controls 92.4% ★, Casual 3.8%, Action 3.1%, Indie 0.3%, Singleplayer 0.3%

Goblins are prohibited from entering a local tavern, but luckily, they hatched a cunning plan. Move and balance the three goblins to help them quench their thirst and end goblin discrimination in this cute wobbling simulator.

Why similar: Intentionally Awkward Controls 73.2% ★, Difficult 17.3%, Cute 6.1%, Casual 2.7%, Indie 0.4%

Pilot a flying toilet and avoid hitting the walls and enemies. Can you make it to the end?

Why similar: Flight 50.3%, Difficult 24.3%, Minimalist 10.5%, 2D 5.7%, Pixel Graphics 4.7%

Vexation is the only rage game that's fun to play! Every level is a different genre and art style all packaged within their own little pockets of terrible game design. But while fun, it's still a rage game...

Why similar: Intentionally Awkward Controls 70.5% ★, Difficult 17.1%, Arcade 7.7%, Action 2.4%, 2D 2%

Paper Glider is a construction-paper-styled game in which you control a gliding paper triangle through a series of 70 colorful levels. The controls are simple but difficult to master, leading to a challenging and rewarding gameplay experience. Learn to master your momentum to complete all 7 worlds!

Why similar: Flight 46.5%, Arcade 14.3%, Difficult 11.9%, Minimalist 9.6%, Casual 7.8%

You are an arm. Yes, seriously, just an arm. And to be it you have to use your mouse. Oh, and everything is physics based. If it sounds hard it's because it is. Drag, jump, punch and arm around to... wait, what kind of a mission could a disembodied arm possibly have?

Why similar: Intentionally Awkward Controls 79.5% ★, Difficult 18.1%, Action 2.2%, Singleplayer 0.2%

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: Intentionally Awkward Controls 69.4% ★, Difficult 19.3%, Cute 5.7%, Action 2.5%, Casual 2.5%

SPIN. BOUNCE. STRUGGLE... In Space, nobody can hear you rage.

Why similar: Intentionally Awkward Controls 64.2% ★, Difficult 12%, Narration 11.4%, Philosophical 8.6%, Casual 2.1%

Platforming is much harder when you don't have a jump button! Walk, jump, climb and parkour by directly controlling each leg of a confused baby robot. Go from a glitching toddler to a somersaulting acrobat in the story mode, share a multi-legged robot, or compete against friends in minigames!

Why similar: Intentionally Awkward Controls 79.7% ★, Difficult 9.5%, Cute 4.1%, 2D 3.3%, Action 1.8%

Skate through an increasingly burdensome path by controlling your individual feet and body tilt in this desperately difficult challenge game.

Why similar: Intentionally Awkward Controls 68.6% ★, Difficult 20.5%, Emotional 8.2%, Action 2%, Indie 0.3%

TwinGrip is a twin-stick physics-based puzzle-platformer video-game. That's a lot of hyphens. Control each leg of your vessel individually with a controller, or both at the same time with the mouse! Master this unique control scheme and find your way home!

Why similar: Intentionally Awkward Controls 91.5% ★, Casual 3.1%, Minimalist 2.8%, 2D 2.1%, Indie 0.4%

You are a machine learning model tasked with driving an active ragdoll in a computer physics simulation. Take manual control of your feet to retain balance, walk, navigate obstacles, and perform various tasks. A challenging game partially inspired by Bennett Foddy's work.

Why similar: Intentionally Awkward Controls 65.8% ★, Difficult 18.3%, Arcade 7.4%, Minimalist 6.2%, Action 1.7%

A retro-ish, rhythm-ish game about catching raindrops and dodging hazards with an unusual two-level control scheme. You've got to try it to understand it.

Why similar: Intentionally Awkward Controls 79.5% ★, Cute 5.6%, Arcade 4%, Pixel Graphics 3.9%, Action 2.6%

Uh oh, seems like your delivery bike got stolen, but the pizzas need to keep being delivered!

Why similar: Intentionally Awkward Controls 69.4% ★, Emotional 15.4%, Philosophical 7.7%, Arcade 7.2%, Singleplayer 0.2%

Tilt and jump your way out of the depths of a grand city. A difficult game where falling is your biggest obstacle, get used to starting over. Don't get too tilted :)

Why similar: Intentionally Awkward Controls 74% ★, Difficult 18.5%, Cute 4.9%, Action 1.7%, Cartoon 0.8%

Take control of Vandozer's three pistons to jump, skid, and cling your way through many challenging levels!

Why similar: Intentionally Awkward Controls 74.2% ★, Difficult 17.8%, Action 7.1%, Indie 1%

This video game realized how boring it had been and now is trying its best to fix that.

Why similar: Emotional 19.9%, Interactive Fiction 16.3%, Game Development 14.6% ★, Philosophical 12.3%, Story Rich 8.3%

Cranked Up is an offbeat and challenging platformer game where you control rocket-powered donuts trying to save the world from an evil pizza.

Why similar: Intentionally Awkward Controls 76.2% ★, Difficult 18.2%, Cute 3.2%, Casual 1.4%, Indie 0.8%

Check out this simple motorcycle racing minigame created with Pixel Game Maker MV! Tame your wild and jacked-up bike to fly through the various stages and rub your awesome clear times in your opponents’ faces!

Why similar: Intentionally Awkward Controls 57.6% ★, Difficult 13.8%, Arcade 8.7%, Casual 6.5%, Action 5.7%

Swing through ropes and overcome obstacles.

Why similar: Intentionally Awkward Controls 76.4% ★, Difficult 20.3%, Casual 2.1%, Action 0.8%, Singleplayer 0.3%

It's a difficult game about a man with hooks.

Why similar: Intentionally Awkward Controls 75.2% ★, Difficult 20.6%, 2D 2.8%, Action 1%, Singleplayer 0.4%

You're all bound up and stuck in a hospital gown, but that won't keep you down! Hop to it in this silly 3D physics based parkour platformer, Bound Up & Squirming!

Why similar: Intentionally Awkward Controls 77.1% ★, Difficult 18%, Action 2.3%, Casual 1.9%, Singleplayer 0.3%

Make Me LAG is the first game that features a revolutionary new control scheme: your character actions are determined by the game frame count! Use external softwares and other tricks to lower the FPS count and control your character to defeat evil monsters and save the world!

Why similar: Intentionally Awkward Controls 93.7% ★, Action 5.5%, Indie 0.8%

Ria's journey to the strange storm...

Why similar: Intentionally Awkward Controls 50.7% ★, Difficult 24%, Arcade 9.8%, Cute 6.7%, 2D 4.2%

Hike your way up an expansive African mountain, one grab at a time, in this gamepad controlled 'Foddian' platformer -- where any one bad fall could send you tumbling back down to the bottom.

Why similar: Intentionally Awkward Controls 68.3% ★, Difficult 16.1%, Narration 9.6%, Pixel Graphics 2.9%, Casual 1.4%

A physics, parkour adventure! Launch yourself up a collection of biomes to reach the summit. Compete against friends by pushing them off platforms to throw them off course. Explore a unique world as a fish out of water.

Why similar: Intentionally Awkward Controls 69.5% ★, Difficult 19.7%, Emotional 8.2%, Action 2.2%, Singleplayer 0.4%

This is a game where you can learn about chopsticks while challenging physics-based puzzles with handling chopsticks. Inspired by Getting Over It with Bennett Foddy

Why similar: Intentionally Awkward Controls 78.2% ★, Difficult 19.5%, Casual 1.9%, Indie 0.3%, Singleplayer 0.1%

Propeller-powered duck delivery action! In Ducky's Delivery Service, you are a duck who uses a propeller backpack to fly around and deliver mail. Master the flight physics, grow your delivery business, fulfill special delivery requests from other ducks, and earn time attack ranks and high scores.

Why similar: Flight 34.9%, Difficult 23.4%, Arcade 15.1%, Cute 10.6%, Pixel Graphics 6.3%

In this difficult-to-master Foddian adventure, embark on a hilariously BRUTAL mission as Jeff, a turtle with massive human legs trying to find his father! Spin, Jump, and Zoom through the world as quickly as you can, your father awaits!

Why similar: Intentionally Awkward Controls 68.9% ★, Difficult 19.2%, Philosophical 9.8%, Action 1.9%, Singleplayer 0.3%

Explore a world like no other, where your keyboard becomes a level, and each key represents a room on that level. You’ll face various logic puzzles, challenging arcade levels, cunning enemies, and unexpected surprises.

Why similar: Intentionally Awkward Controls 54.9% ★, Difficult 18.2%, Minimalist 9.2%, Story Rich 6.6%, Experimental 4.2% ★

Experience the supermarket version of Grand Theft "Shopping Cart"! This is no easy job. You'll need plenty of patience, a sharp mind, and nimble hands to become a qualified shopping cart pusher, otherwise, I guarantee you'll never find all the carts!

Why similar: Intentionally Awkward Controls 66.7% ★, Difficult 22.8%, Minimalist 7.4%, Casual 2.7%, Singleplayer 0.2%

Take hold of the King’s Sword and its path as it flies through a bustling and grand feast. Choose to go the distance or smite as many of King’s conspirators as possible! No matter which you choose, there will be total chaos. Go forth, and make it a feast to remember!

Why similar: Flight 64.4%, Arcade 15.9%, Casual 6.6%, 2D 6.3%, Action 6.1%

Take flight in Flutter Plane! Guide your paper plane through tricky handcrafted levels and infinite, randomly generated challenges. Master the timing with simple single button controls, avoid the trees, and stick the landing. A charmingly tough arcade flyer awaits!

Why similar: Flight 36.6%, Difficult 27.4%, Arcade 15%, Pixel Graphics 7.8%, 2D 4.7%

Climb huge mountains, impale hundreds of enemies, and solve tricky physics puzzles... all using only a spear. Pole-vault yourself to victory in this epic joust-'em-up adventure — or face your friends in online co-op and PvP multiplayer!

Why similar: Intentionally Awkward Controls 67.1% ★, Difficult 18.4%, Emotional 12.5%, Action 1.7%, Singleplayer 0.3%

Control the UFO. Carry the Luggage. DON'T DROP IT. – A simple yet challenging foddian game for aliens.

Why similar: Intentionally Awkward Controls 71.5% ★, Difficult 20.4%, Minimalist 3.6%, Action 2.2%, 2D 2.2%

You must learn to control your body, embrace the pain, endure the agony, reach the goal by any means necessary, and overcome the challenges together with your very own flesh!!!

Why similar: Intentionally Awkward Controls 61.4% ★, Difficult 19.8%, Philosophical 13.6%, Casual 2.7%, Action 2.5%

Slash Quest is a quirky action adventure with unconventional controls and unlikely heroes. Spin a magic talking sword through exotic lands, fight nasty creatures, overcome puzzles and make friends on your way to reunite it with its rightful wielder, the Queen.

Why similar: Intentionally Awkward Controls 78.1% ★, Narration 13.2%, 2D 3.4%, Arcade 3.2%, Action 2%

Make your way around the shopping center to collect items on your shopping list. But be careful; one slip up and you'll be paying for a broken item! Avoid grumpy shoppers or simply shove them out of the way! Various other obstacles get in your way as you fill your cart and make it to checkout!

Why similar: Intentionally Awkward Controls 87.1% ★, Arcade 9.2%, Casual 3.3%, Singleplayer 0.4%

Project Red Sun is a combat flight action game that has you fighting across the world as a heroic ace against corporate armies who will spare no expense in trying to take you down. With specialized jets and weaponry, dogfight aces, airships, and more in a campaign packed with arcade gameplay.

Why similar: Flight 66.5%, Arcade 16.3%, Story Rich 12%, Action 4.8%, Singleplayer 0.4%

Take the mantle of a postman who refuses to give up his job, even after death. Clinging to your last memory, take off into the world of the forgotten to deliver your letters to the ghosts that are stuck there, allowing them to reach the afterlife. Protect your mail from those who are pursuing you.

Why similar: Flight 63.8%, Emotional 16.2%, Story Rich 8.2%, Casual 6.8%, Action 4.1%