Games Like Master Spy

In Mark of the Ninja, you'll know what it is to truly be a ninja. You must be silent, agile and clever to outwit your opponents in a world of gorgeous scenery and flowing animation. Marked with cursed tattoos giving you heightened senses, every situation presents you with options.

Why similar: Stealth 45%, Ninja 24.1% ★, Platformer 18%, Action 3.3%, Indie 3.2%

Why You'll Like It: It is the definitive 2D stealth-platformer that emphasizes player choice, timing, and precision movement.

Katana ZERO is a stylish neo-noir, action-platformer featuring breakneck action and instant-death combat. Slash, dash, and manipulate time to unravel your past in a beautifully brutal acrobatic display.

Why similar: Great Soundtrack 25%, Platformer 14.8%, Pixel Graphics 12.2%, Difficult 11.1%, Ninja 10.5% ★

Why You'll Like It: This game shares the high-speed, one-hit-kill, and pixel-art aesthetic that makes Master Spy so addictive.

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: Stealth 51.6%, Platformer 23.4%, Difficult 5.9%, Great Soundtrack 5.6%, Indie 5.1%

Why You'll Like It: A direct spiritual cousin that focuses on navigating lethal environments while remaining hidden from sight.

SANABI is an exhilarating stylish dystopian action-platformer. Play as a legendary retired veteran and use your signature prosthetic arm to jump over cliffs and skyscrapers, zip through bullets and traps and defeat powerful enemies.

Why similar: Pixel Graphics 18.6%, Platformer 16.4%, Great Soundtrack 13.9%, Difficult 11.7%, Retro 8%

Why You'll Like It: This game features high-speed, precision-based grappling mechanics and a compelling, story-driven espionage narrative.

DEADBOLT is an extremely challenging stealth-action hybrid that allows you to take control of the reaper to quell the recent undead uprising.

Why similar: Stealth 31.5%, Great Soundtrack 26.8%, Difficult 13.6%, Pixel Graphics 10.5%, Action 3.9%

Why You'll Like It: It combines tactical stealth and precision combat with a gritty, stylish pixel-art presentation.

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: Stealth 44.8%, Great Soundtrack 13.3%, Noir 11.9%, Platformer 9.3%, Pixel Graphics 7.7%

Why You'll Like It: This title excels at blending espionage themes with clever, puzzle-like platforming mechanics.

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: Great Soundtrack 27.2%, Difficult 21%, Platformer 15.9%, Pixel Graphics 10.3%, Precision Platformer 9.8%

Why You'll Like It: While less stealth-focused, it is the gold standard for difficult, rewarding precision platforming.

In Stealth Inc 2, you play the role of a clone escaping a sinister and high-tech testing facility. Stealth Inc 2 tests both your brain and your reflexes over 60 varied levels linked together in a sprawling overworld.

Why similar: Stealth 50.5%, Platformer 29.1%, Indie 8.7%, Action 8.7%, 2D 1.9%

Why You'll Like It: It emphasizes puzzle-solving and stealth within a platforming framework, much like the core loop of Master Spy.

As a demon army besieges his village, a young ninja ventures through a cursed world, to deliver a scroll paramount to his clan’s survival. What begins as a classic action platformer soon unravels into an expansive time-traveling adventure full of thrills, surprises, and humor.

Why similar: Ninja 21.2% ★, Great Soundtrack 20.7%, Platformer 16.1%, Retro 12.8%, Pixel Graphics 9.2%

Why You'll Like It: A retro-styled action platformer that features tight controls and a fantastic soundtrack that evolves with the gameplay.

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

Why similar: Platformer 22.7%, Difficult 21.8%, Precision Platformer 16.7%, Great Soundtrack 15.2%, Pixel Graphics 9.5%

Why You'll Like It: It offers the same brutal difficulty and instant-respawn loop that defines the precision platformer genre.

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: Difficult 20.1%, Precision Platformer 17.8%, Platformer 12.3%, Pixel Graphics 12.1%, Great Soundtrack 11.9%

Why You'll Like It: It offers a unique take on precision platforming by replacing traditional jumping with magnetic attraction and repulsion.

Ghostrunner offers a unique single-player experience: fast-paced, violent combat, and an original setting that blends science fiction with post-apocalyptic themes. It tells the story of a world that has already ended and its inhabitants who fight to survive.

Why similar: Difficult 35.7%, Great Soundtrack 29.2%, Ninja 20.9% ★, Action 11.4%, Singleplayer 2.9%

Why You'll Like It: It translates the one-hit-kill stealth-action philosophy into a fast-paced, first-person precision experience.

Spy Chameleon RGB Agent is a challenging arcade-puzzle game where the player needs to avoid being spotted thanks to the color-changing mechanisms of the main character.

Why similar: Stealth 43.6%, Difficult 22.6%, Ninja 18.5% ★, Indie 10.8%, 2D 2.7%

Why You'll Like It: A stealth-focused game that requires careful observation and color-matching to bypass security systems.

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

Why similar: Great Soundtrack 22.1%, Platformer 19.1%, Difficult 16.1%, Pixel Graphics 13.7%, Precision Platformer 10.6%

Why You'll Like It: This game uses a unique gravity-flipping mechanic to create a challenging and highly precise platforming experience.

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: Great Soundtrack 29.9%, Platformer 18.7%, Difficult 15.2%, Retro 10.9%, Precision Platformer 9.8%

Why You'll Like It: A rhythm-infused precision platformer where every jump creates a platform, requiring perfect timing.

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: Great Soundtrack 30.1%, Platformer 25.4%, Difficult 20.3%, Pixel Graphics 5.5%, Indie 4.7%

Why You'll Like It: A music-driven, difficult precision platformer that matches the high-energy intensity of Master Spy.

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

Why similar: Great Soundtrack 28%, Difficult 25.1%, Platformer 22%, Action 8.1%, Indie 6.6%

Why You'll Like It: A fast-paced, difficult precision platformer that emphasizes reaction time and flawless execution.

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

Why similar: Difficult 28.4%, Platformer 25.1%, Pixel Graphics 13.9%, Precision Platformer 12.6%, Action 6.2%

Why You'll Like It: A difficult, combat-heavy precision platformer that shares the dark, retro-inspired aesthetic of Master Spy.

Ronin is stylish a turn-based action platformer following the exploits of a vengeful heroine determined to strike down five prominent figures of a powerful corporation.

Why similar: Stealth 26.9%, Ninja 25.3% ★, Platformer 16.2%, Difficult 10%, Great Soundtrack 6.4%

Why You'll Like It: A turn-based action-platformer that emphasizes stealth and careful planning before executing lethal strikes.

Bloody stealth platformer, about the ninja in which you cut the enemies into pieces.

Why similar: Ninja 21.6% ★, Stealth 18.9%, Platformer 14%, Difficult 12.2%, Pixel Graphics 9%

Why You'll Like It: A ninja-themed action platformer that focuses on stealth, crafting, and precise combat maneuvers.

OlliOlli World is a bold new skateboarding action-platformer that’s bursting with personality. Flip and flow through the vivid and vibrant world of Radlandia, meeting colorful characters as you grind, trick, and air your way to discover the mystical skate gods on your quest for Gnarvana.

Why similar: Difficult 36.3%, Platformer 30.9%, Precision Platformer 18%, Action 8.1%, 2D 6.6%

Why You'll Like It: A precision-based game that focuses on rhythm, flow, and mastering complex movement patterns.

Be a ninja and go on an action platforming adventure to save the world. Climb walls, slice up bad guys, master tricky platforming sequences and face ruthless bosses.

Why similar: Difficult 20.9%, Ninja 18.9% ★, Platformer 17.4%, Retro 9.5%, Pixel Graphics 9.1%

Why You'll Like It: An arcade-style, difficult side-scrolling platformer that focuses on speed and precise combat timing.

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: Great Soundtrack 30.7%, Difficult 26.5%, Platformer 21.6%, Indie 11.1%, Pixel Graphics 10.1%

Why You'll Like It: A challenging, retro-styled platformer that rewards persistence and precise execution of movement.

A full-blown adventure played with only two buttons. Become the recently deceased agent Terry Cooper and escape the underworld while facing the toughest, meanest and most difficult obstacles ever devised.

Why similar: Precision Platformer 20.1%, Difficult 18.6%, Great Soundtrack 17.9%, Platformer 16.1%, Action 10.6%

Why You'll Like It: A minimalist, difficult precision platformer that strips away complexity to focus on pure, challenging movement.

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: Platformer 37.2%, Great Soundtrack 30.6%, Indie 11.1%, Difficult 6.6%, 2D 4.2%

Why You'll Like It: An atmospheric puzzle-platformer that uses cloning mechanics to navigate stealthy, high-stakes environments.

Take control of Specter Knight, servant to the Enchantress, in a quest to recruit a cadre of knights and create the Order of No Quarter. Experience perfect platforming, world-class visuals, impeccable stage design, incredible music, and even meet a friend or two in Shovel Knight: Specter of Torment!

Why similar: Platformer 28.7%, Pixel Graphics 15.5%, Great Soundtrack 15%, Action 14.5%, Indie 11.4%

Why You'll Like It: It features some of the tightest, most responsive action-platforming controls in the genre.

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: Great Soundtrack 35.4%, Platformer 30.1%, Difficult 14.8%, Indie 11.3%, Action 7.6%

Why You'll Like It: An atmospheric precision platformer that tasks players with mastering four elemental forms to navigate complex terrain.

In Mark of the Ninja, you'll know what it is to truly be a ninja. You must be silent, agile and clever to outwit your opponents in a world of gorgeous scenery and flowing animation.

Why similar: Stealth 43.4%, Ninja 25.8% ★, Platformer 14.4%, Action 4.3%, Side Scroller 3.9%

In this 2d precision platformer with a teleportation twist, play as Ninja Ming and embark on the Path of Trials. Dash through 241 levels using dynamic teleportation and diverse ninjutsu skills. Conquer challenges with style—growing stronger at every turn.

Why similar: Platformer 20.2%, Precision Platformer 15.6%, Pixel Graphics 15%, Ninja 13.3% ★, Difficult 8.8%

10 SECOND NINJA X is a hardcore sidescroller. You're a ninja, there are robots, you've got ten seconds to destroy them all. Get three star ratings, climb leaderboards, discover secrets and stop Captain Greatbeard.

Why similar: Platformer 30.4%, Ninja 21.8% ★, Difficult 17.6%, Action 11.9%, Indie 8.8%

ROOT is a cyber espionage themed hardcore stealth FPS that lets you play it how you want: whether creeping along corridors undetected or bursting into rooms to blow away all adversaries. Cyber terrorism is a dangerous profession, and risks have real consequences.

Why similar: Stealth 59.9%, Action 22.8%, Indie 17.3%

The ultimate stealth battle adventure where everyone’s invisible! Risk versus reward guides your journey through the full-length single player campaign and local/online multiplayer. Vigilance is key as environmental tells such as footprints and other disturbances will point out careless cadets.

Why similar: Stealth 33%, Great Soundtrack 22.2%, Pixel Graphics 13.6%, Retro 12.4%, Indie 9.8%

Platform game with a gloomy artistic style. Challenging levels with many traps and enemies. Use all your skills to avoid dangerous traps. Destroy all opponents on your way to revenge.

Why similar: Ninja 27.6% ★, Platformer 24.4%, Difficult 19.5%, Precision Platformer 10.9%, Action 6.3%

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: Difficult 20.9%, Platformer 19.3%, Great Soundtrack 18.3%, Action 14%, Pixel Graphics 12.4%

Agent in Depth is a daring action-platformer featuring fast-paced action and instant-death combat. You’ll run, jump, aim, and deflect bullets with your katana to blow up your enemies. No checkpoints, no upgrades: just pure skills. Deflect, die, learn, repeat. Be better, be faster.

Why similar: Ninja 44.6% ★, Pixel Graphics 18%, Action 8.9%, Difficult 8%, Story Rich 6.3%

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: Great Soundtrack 38.3%, Platformer 30%, Difficult 15.3%, Indie 11.8%, Side Scroller 4.5%

Teleport, shift through bullets, and master lightning-fast takedowns in an all new kind of action game from tinyBuild and Team Shifty!

Why similar: Great Soundtrack 31%, Action 26.2%, Difficult 23.6%, Indie 16.7%, Singleplayer 2.5%

Conformity is everything in this lightning-fast platformer - get ready to shift your friendships each and every second!

Why similar: Difficult 25.2%, Noir 24.1%, Platformer 20.2%, Precision Platformer 12.6%, Action 6.5%

Acid Spy is a first person stealth action game set in a cyberpunk universe. Infiltrate heavily guarded bases and take down your enemies with skill and finesse. Master the art of quick, deadly stealth to become the acid spy.

Why similar: Stealth 55.6%, Difficult 30.4%, Action 6.6%, Indie 4.4%, Story Rich 1.5%

Master the art of lightning-fast noodle delivery in this challenging 2D platformer. With deadly traps, a range of moves to master, including teleportation, and trophies to unlock, are you ready to become the ultimate noodle delivery master?

Why similar: Difficult 25.7%, Platformer 22.5%, Precision Platformer 12.9%, Pixel Graphics 11.6%, Retro 6.7%

Join Pixel as he quests through gaming history, teleporting across the most iconic video game systems of generations past. He’ll have to jump, dodge and play smart if he wants to survive all the traps, puzzles and enemies waiting to take him down at every turn.

Why similar: Platformer 29.4%, Great Soundtrack 25.2%, Retro 19.9%, Pixel Graphics 13.4%, Indie 6.9%

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

Why similar: Great Soundtrack 22.4%, Platformer 16.9%, Difficult 16.5%, Retro 12.4%, Pixel Graphics 8.7%

Love is a reductive platforming game with a retro aesthetic and a focus on a challenging difficulty. It has an custom respawn system, 16 levels, 12 track soundtrack, competitive scoring, and a simple-to-use level creation feature.

Why similar: Platformer 32.1%, Great Soundtrack 20.7%, Retro 13.1%, Pixel Graphics 10.9%, Indie 7%

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 37.6%, Great Soundtrack 27.9%, Difficult 17.8%, Indie 7.3%, Action 3%

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

Why similar: Difficult 26%, Platformer 21.6%, Retro 17.5%, Precision Platformer 12.6%, Action 6.3%

A 2D stealth Metroidvania with parkour platforming. Explore the majestic palace and ancient prisons of a kingdom under siege. Don the mantle of the legendary Sandfox as you venture into the ruins below, and discover the true threat from a sand-borne evil.

Why similar: Stealth 47.8%, Platformer 18.1%, Pixel Graphics 13.4%, Action 8.4%, 2D 5.3%

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

Why similar: Platformer 28.1%, Retro 21.8%, Action 16.9%, Pixel Graphics 16.1%, Indie 12.2%

Gravity Circuit is a flashy action packed 2D platformer in the spirit of console classics. Follow Kai, a lone operative war hero who harnesses the mysterious powers of the Gravity Circuit, on an adventure in a futuristic world inhabited by sentient robots.

Why similar: Platformer 26.7%, Great Soundtrack 18.7%, Pixel Graphics 14.8%, Retro 12.8%, Action 8.3%

Electronic Super Joy 2 is a brutally hard platformer, set in a world of brain-smashing electronic music. Run, jump, smash, & slice your way through 55+ weird & different levels, with giant monsters, swarming missiles & secret areas.

Why similar: Great Soundtrack 22.9%, Difficult 22.4%, Platformer 17.9%, Retro 9.4%, Pixel Graphics 8.2%

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 62%, Action 19.8%, Indie 18.2%

A tense stealth game with super-powers, set in the 70s, filled with glorious fat pixels. Transform into enemies, dash, teleport, slow time and super-punch your way through this moody retro stealth game.

Why similar: Stealth 61.3%, Retro 25.1%, Action 7.1%, Indie 4.4%, Singleplayer 2.1%

Become a lightning fast thief in this fast-paced platformer about looting ancient ruins with speed and style!

Why similar: Action 32.3%, Indie 26.1%, Platformer 11.4%, Difficult 11%, Retro 7.4%

A brand-new side-scrolling entry to the NINJA GAIDEN series from the team behind Blasphemous, NINJA GAIDEN: Ragebound redefines the classic platformer saga in a spectacular, thrilling and challenging ninja adventure.

Why similar: Ninja 25.2% ★, Platformer 17.9%, Difficult 16%, Retro 11.8%, Pixel Graphics 9.6%

Journey to another planet and discover its secrets in order to bring your loved one back to life. Experience an adventure, inspired by old school classics like Another World, Heart of Darkness and Flashback.

Why similar: Platformer 26.8%, Pixel Graphics 18.6%, Retro 15%, Action 10.5%, Indie 8.6%

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: Great Soundtrack 21.9%, Platformer 20.8%, Pixel Graphics 16.9%, Difficult 10.7%, Action 9.1%

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: Great Soundtrack 31.3%, Platformer 28.5%, Retro 11.3%, Pixel Graphics 10.8%, Action 8.4%

An absurd retro-platformer that tests your patience.

Why similar: Difficult 25.3%, Platformer 21.7%, Pixel Graphics 13.2%, Great Soundtrack 7.5%, Retro 7.2%

Shadow Tactics is a hardcore tactical stealth game set in Japan around the Edo period. A new Shogun seizes power over Japan and enforces nationwide peace. In his battle against conspiracy and rebellion, he recruits five specialists with extraordinary skills for assassination, sabotage and espionage.

Why similar: Stealth 56.2%, Ninja 27.7% ★, Difficult 7.6%, Great Soundtrack 2.8%, Indie 2.5%