Games Like Necrosphere

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: Precision Platformer 54%, Difficult 13.4%, Platformer 11.4%, Great Soundtrack 10.7%, Indie 4.9%

Why You'll Like It: Shares the brutal difficulty and precise, screen-by-screen platforming challenges found in Necrosphere.

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

Why similar: Precision Platformer 48.3%, Great Soundtrack 11.9%, Difficult 10.5%, Platformer 10.5%, Pixel Graphics 8%

Why You'll Like It: Features minimalist controls and high-difficulty platforming that relies on gravity-flipping mechanics rather than jumping.

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: Precision Platformer 47.5%, Great Soundtrack 15.5%, Difficult 14.4%, Platformer 9.2%, Pixel Graphics 6.4%

Why You'll Like It: Combines high-difficulty platforming with a strong narrative and a focus on mastering specific movement techniques.

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

Why similar: Precision Platformer 61.4%, Difficult 12.2%, Platformer 10.1%, Great Soundtrack 6.7%, Pixel Graphics 4.5%

Why You'll Like It: A seminal precision platformer that demands perfect timing and mastery of movement to overcome its difficult levels.

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: Precision Platformer 50.8%, Platformer 13.4%, Difficult 13%, Action 9.4%, Pixel Graphics 7.8%

Why You'll Like It: A fast-paced, difficult precision platformer that emphasizes quick reflexes and repeated attempts.

Super Rude Bear Resurrection is an ultra-tight, masocore platformer that anyone can beat! Use your corpses to get ahead, or take on the ultimate challenge and try to defeat the entire game without dying!

Why similar: Precision Platformer 55.5%, Difficult 11.4%, Action 10.2%, Indie 8%, Great Soundtrack 7.6%

Why You'll Like It: A difficult precision platformer where your own corpses become platforms, adding a layer of strategy to the challenge.

Circa Infinity is a brain-melting circular platformer by Kenny Sun, with a pulse-pounding soundtrack by Jack + Jim Fay.

Why similar: Precision Platformer 61.4%, Great Soundtrack 10.3%, Difficult 7.6%, Action 7%, Indie 5.6%

Why You'll Like It: A unique, mind-bending precision platformer that requires rhythmic timing and spatial awareness.

Challenging 2D platformer in the best traditions of classic games, with an excellent chiptune soundtrack. The game will check your nerves for strength and bring a lot of emotions.

Why similar: Precision Platformer 61.1%, Difficult 18.4%, Platformer 14%, Indie 6.5%

Why You'll Like It: A retro-styled, difficult platformer that focuses on traps and precise movement sequences.

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: Precision Platformer 59.6%, Difficult 11.1%, Platformer 9.5%, Pixel Graphics 6.3%, Action 5.8%

Why You'll Like It: Uses a very limited control set to create a high-intensity, difficult action experience with a distinct retro aesthetic.

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: Precision Platformer 58.4%, Difficult 20%, Platformer 7%, Pixel Graphics 5.2%, Indie 5%

Why You'll Like It: Features a minimalist control scheme where every movement is high-stakes and failure results in significant progress loss.

This is a SHORT, 2D PLATFORMER with TIGHT CONTROLS about exploring a single level to get past a bunch of TRAPS. There is an EASY mode and a HARD mode depending on your skill level.

Why similar: Precision Platformer 61.5%, Difficult 17.3%, Platformer 10.7%, Action 5.6%, Pixel Graphics 4.9%

Why You'll Like It: Distills the precision platformer genre into single-screen challenges that require perfect execution.

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

Why similar: Precision Platformer 57.7%, Difficult 17%, Platformer 12%, Action 8.4%, Indie 4.9%

Why You'll Like It: A retro-inspired precision platformer that captures the same difficult, trap-filled atmosphere as Necrosphere.

Explore an abandoned space station in this retro-themed explorative action platformer.

Why similar: Metroidvania 47.6%, Platformer 11.3%, Pixel Graphics 9.9%, Difficult 9.1%, Great Soundtrack 9%

Why You'll Like It: A challenging metroidvania with pixel graphics that rewards exploration and precise boss encounters.

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 34.2%, Platformer 24.1%, Action 13.6%, Pixel Graphics 13.5%, Great Soundtrack 8.5%

Why You'll Like It: A challenging side-scrolling platformer that emphasizes speed and precise combat maneuvers.

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: Precision Platformer 61.8%, Difficult 10%, Indie 6.7%, Action 6.1%, Pixel Graphics 5.4%

Why You'll Like It: A precision platformer that replaces traditional jumping with magnetic attraction and repulsion mechanics.

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: Difficult 26.8%, Great Soundtrack 25.7%, Indie 19.8%, Platformer 18.5%, Pixel Graphics 9.2%

Why You'll Like It: A difficult platformer that requires careful navigation and precise timing to overcome its obstacles.

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: Precision Platformer 26.6%, Great Soundtrack 21.2%, Platformer 18.3%, Difficult 17.5%, Indie 7%

Why You'll Like It: A high-energy precision platformer with a heavy focus on its soundtrack and challenging level design.

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: Action 19.8%, Great Soundtrack 19.1%, Platformer 18.6%, Pixel Graphics 16.2%, Indie 14.9%

Why You'll Like It: A puzzle-platformer with a unique movement mechanic that requires precision and quick thinking.

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 28.8%, Platformer 17.4%, Difficult 15.7%, Pixel Graphics 15.7%, Action 15%

Why You'll Like It: Features instant-death precision combat and platforming that rewards planning and execution in a pixel-art setting.

Spirits Abyss is a roguelite platformer with destructible terrain. Cast into the Abysm you must explore its diverse depths battling phantasmic meanies and plundering its useful treasures to find a way home... but does something nestle beyond the realmic veil of death?

Why similar: Precision Platformer 36.1%, Difficult 22.4%, Platformer 18.3%, Action 9.2%, Indie 8.2%

Why You'll Like It: A difficult, roguelike platformer that emphasizes vertical exploration and precise movement.

Explore and uncover the mystery of a surreal alien world by blasting aliens and glitching your environment in this intense retro side-scrolling action/adventure.

Why similar: Metroidvania 50.8%, Great Soundtrack 14.4%, Platformer 11.1%, Pixel Graphics 7.5%, Action 6.8%

Why You'll Like It: A classic-style metroidvania that emphasizes exploration and difficult, pattern-based combat.

Pounce inside of your cozy armored mech and set off on a dangerous trek through an alien underworld full of irritable creatures and treacherous obstacles in a valiant effort to save your stranded captain and his crashed spaceship.

Why similar: Metroidvania 49.5%, Action 12.1%, Platformer 11.9%, Pixel Graphics 10.6%, Indie 10.2%

Why You'll Like It: A compact, challenging metroidvania featuring a cat in a mech suit with tight, responsive controls.

Blasphemous is a brutal action-platformer with skilled hack’n slash combat set in the nightmare world of Cvstodia. Explore, upgrade your abilities, and perform savage executions on the hordes of enemies that stand between you and your quest to break eternal damnation.

Why similar: Metroidvania 50.3%, Difficult 12.5%, Pixel Graphics 10.3%, Platformer 8.4%, Great Soundtrack 7.6%

Why You'll Like It: A dark-fantasy metroidvania that features difficult combat and platforming within a grim, pixelated world.

UNWORTHY is a hardcore combat-focused metroidvania without jumping. Explore a grim universe, discover new weapons and abilities, and defeat the vile creatures that plague the land.

Why similar: Metroidvania 51.2%, Difficult 16.8%, Action 13%, Indie 9.8%, Pixel Graphics 9.1%

Why You'll Like It: A souls-like metroidvania that lacks a jump button, forcing players to rely on precise movement and combat timing.

Delve into the depths of a mechanical world in this cute, adventure-exploration game. Explore and fight in a land full of corrupt robots and machinery. All while seeking answers to the mysteries around you.

Why similar: Metroidvania 63.7%, Platformer 21.3%, Pixel Graphics 15.1%

Why You'll Like It: A charming yet difficult metroidvania that focuses on exploration and precise platforming in a robotic world.

Aeterna Noctis is a challenging metroidvania that majestically combines action, exploration and adventure. With 2 game modes and difficulty based on action or the exclusive Noctis mode where a level of difficulty is added in precision platforming never seen in the metroidvania genre.

Why similar: Precision Platformer 41.8%, Metroidvania 26.4%, Difficult 13.7%, Platformer 9.9%, Action 4.2%

Why You'll Like It: A massive, difficult metroidvania that leans heavily into complex, precision-based platforming challenges.

You're outnumbered, low on ammunition and the paranoia sets in. This is an action horror-world where enemies get power-ups and you don’t.

Why similar: Platformer 22.9%, Action 20.9%, Indie 14.7%, Difficult 12.6%, Metroidvania 11.6%

Why You'll Like It: A difficult, minimalist action-platformer where the enemies grow stronger as you defeat bosses.

A metroidvania that combines the visual style of classic retro games with the fluid gameplay of modern titles. Explore different worlds, face challenging enemies and bosses, and absorb their powers to destroy the Core of Infinitevania.

Why similar: Metroidvania 37.6%, Difficult 15.1%, Platformer 14.7%, Action 10.1%, Great Soundtrack 8.2%

Death's Gambit: Afterlife is a challenging 2D action platformer with deep RPG elements. As an agent of Death bound to his service, unravel the mystery of Siradon and discover the true price of immortality.

Why similar: Metroidvania 45.9%, Difficult 11.8%, Pixel Graphics 10.4%, Action 10.4%, Platformer 8.9%

Stray Savior is a 2D action platformer packed full of lethal traps, precise jumps, and powerful bosses. Venture through the dystopian world with weapons and skills, to prove yourself and forge your own path.

Why similar: Precision Platformer 32.3%, Platformer 21%, Action 17.6%, Difficult 10.8%, Pixel Graphics 10.5%

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: Great Soundtrack 35.6%, Difficult 21.8%, Pixel Graphics 15.2%, Action 12.8%, Indie 10.8%

After Death is a platform / exploration game in a dark and hostile world. With the help from lost souls, you will have to find a way to open a gate which seems to be the only exit from this mysterious world infected by monsters.

Why similar: Metroidvania 40.2%, Great Soundtrack 22.1%, Action 13.5%, Indie 9.7%, Platformer 9%

Experience rage-inducing precision platforming as a recently deceased soccer player damned to Inferno! Kick your sibling's soul out of Hell for your chance at redemption!

Why similar: Precision Platformer 57.6%, Difficult 17.1%, Platformer 10.7%, Action 8.8%, Pixel Graphics 5.8%

Ball laB is a hardcore platformer with minimalist graphics.

Why similar: Precision Platformer 56.1%, Difficult 17.2%, Platformer 12.6%, Pixel Graphics 7.7%, Indie 6.1%

Bannerman is a gritty and atmospheric medieval action/adventure with a bleak narrative and focus on historically accurate, challenging skill-based swordfighting!

Why similar: Great Soundtrack 35.4%, Difficult 22.7%, Action 20.6%, Indie 14.2%, Pixel Graphics 7%

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

Why similar: Great Soundtrack 22.8%, Difficult 20.4%, Platformer 17.7%, Action 17%, Indie 12.4%

Demons, giants, mutants, and a talking Ball with hybrid limbs?! In WarriOrb you play as a mighty demon trapped in an unlikely body. The path ahead is not an easy one. Will you do whatever it takes to regain your freedom?

Why similar: Precision Platformer 35.6%, Metroidvania 22.8%, Great Soundtrack 13.2%, Difficult 12%, Platformer 9.3%

Challenge all your skill and quick thinking ability in this precision platform game, where you are a bitrom who controller over gravity called Newton, who is trying to escape from a deformed creature that relentlessly follows him in subspace.

Why similar: Precision Platformer 57.2%, Difficult 16.6%, Platformer 11.8%, Action 7.8%, Indie 3.9%

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: Action 29.5%, Platformer 24%, Indie 20.1%, Pixel Graphics 14.3%, Great Soundtrack 12.2%

Skelethrone is a challenging 2D action platformer with RPG elements inspired by games like Castlevania and Dark Souls.

Why similar: Metroidvania 45.5%, Difficult 21%, Platformer 12.9%, Action 10.5%, Pixel Graphics 10%

Skelly Selest is a score-attack hack slash dash run 'n' gun-athon. Venture into the procedurally generated perdition depths of Hell to purge the evil taint of the Deamonica Netherlords and their fiendly followers.

Why similar: Difficult 26.2%, Great Soundtrack 25.5%, Action 18.9%, Pixel Graphics 15.3%, Indie 14.1%

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: Precision Platformer 64.1%, Platformer 10%, Pixel Graphics 8%, Action 6.9%, Indie 5.9%

Explore the haunting, dreamlike fantasy world of BEFORE I GO, a punishing Metroidvania where you embody the innocence of an inner child on an allegorical odyssey towards death acceptance. The end is inevitable, but will you brave the journey?

Why similar: Precision Platformer 39.1%, Metroidvania 27.9%, Difficult 14.9%, Platformer 8.1%, Action 7.2%

FREE DEMO features 1 playable character and 1 complete level with leaderboards. Try, die, retry in this challenging but fair precision platformer that takes place on 1 screen. Ultra tight controls, dozens of traps. Great for speedrunning, and 100% completionists. Also, no water levels!

Why similar: Precision Platformer 59.6%, Difficult 17%, Platformer 8.6%, Action 6.2%, Pixel Graphics 6.1%

A punishing yet friendly get-to-the-top adventure across a haunted, retro-inspired world.

Why similar: Precision Platformer 57.5%, Difficult 18%, Action 10.5%, Pixel Graphics 7.7%, Platformer 5.4%

Skeleton Boomerang is a platformer where the hero, Hunter, must use an enchanted boomerang to put an end to an army of bony soldiers led by the voodoo master Mr. Saturday. Get high scores, collect upgrades, find secrets, and overcome many skeletal challenges!

Why similar: Great Soundtrack 36.6%, Action 28.3%, Indie 18.1%, Platformer 17%

Fight for your freedom in a sprawling fantasy world caught between the living and the fallen. Hone your skills in a retro epic featuring puzzle platforming, metroidvania exploration and crunchy soulslike combat.

Why similar: Metroidvania 56%, Difficult 17.4%, Pixel Graphics 12.7%, Action 11.3%, Platformer 2.7%

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 35.5%, Great Soundtrack 29.7%, Indie 17.4%, Pixel Graphics 17.4%

Dangerous Bullets- This dynamic hardcore platforming, challenges you.

Why similar: Action 29%, Platformer 25.9%, Difficult 17.1%, Pixel Graphics 14.3%, Indie 13.8%

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

Why similar: Action 36.1%, Platformer 25.6%, Indie 22.5%, Pixel Graphics 15.7%

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: Precision Platformer 23.3%, Pixel Graphics 16.8%, Action 15.9%, Platformer 13.5%, Difficult 11.8%

Concursion is a multi-genre game played on the boundaries between worlds. Steer your hero through a dangerous interdimensional universe, switching between different genres on the fly, pulling off feats of tight aerial acrobatics otherwise unattainable in one genre alone.

Why similar: Action 43%, Indie 30.9%, Platformer 26.1%

Custodian: Beginning of the End is a brutal and difficult platformer designed for caution and reaction. Explore, seek secrets and collect mechanisms to become even stronger and meet the impending End!

Why similar: Metroidvania 45%, Difficult 21.3%, Platformer 15.3%, Action 9.9%, Pixel Graphics 8.5%

BE FASTER. Take on the role of a corpo scav drone pilot, tasked with tearing through the decaying corpse of a world to salvage the remains of a powerful energy source. Master flight through hostile environments and deadly security measures in 100 precision platforming levels.

Why similar: Action 28.6%, Platformer 28.4%, Precision Platformer 18.4%, Pixel Graphics 15.3%, Indie 9.3%

Dynamic, hardcore and explosive action on the passage with a bunch of weapons, enemies and bosses.

Why similar: Action 25.7%, Platformer 16.7%, Indie 16.4%, Difficult 16.1%, Great Soundtrack 16%

100 moves, 2 buttons, 0 tutorials. Master a massive moveset hidden within a D-Pad and 2 buttons. Conquer +100 levels in the ultimate movelike precision platformer.

Why similar: Precision Platformer 60.9%, Difficult 17.8%, Platformer 11.3%, Pixel Graphics 7.8%, Indie 2.3%

Evilmorph – this is a platform game the main feature of which is a transformation into your enemies after killing them. After slaying the foes you obtain their abilities which gives you one kind of power instead of another. Will you be able to overcome all the obstacles of the grim labyrinth? Will you face against the numerous enemies?

Why similar: Action 54.2%, Difficult 20.2%, Platformer 15.7%, Indie 9.9%

Hardcore action platformer with multiple endings that depend on your choices.

Why similar: Difficult 28.3%, Platformer 22.2%, Great Soundtrack 20.1%, Action 13.1%, Pixel Graphics 9.8%

Inhabit Krog, a mysterious blue creature in a red loincloth, as he traverses a labyrinth of ladders, levers, traps, and monsters. Explore the nooks and crannies of a bizarre and evocative world as you hack and slash your way to victory, leaving a graveyard of grotesque bosses in your wake.

Why similar: Precision Platformer 49.5%, Difficult 14.7%, Great Soundtrack 11.6%, Pixel Graphics 7.4%, Action 6.2%