- #1 Stray Savior
97% matchVery Positive93% of 61 reviews2025
Dev: Gustav
Windows
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: Platformer 23.3%, 2D Platformer 22.8%, Action 12.3%, Pixel Graphics 11.2%, Adventure 11%
- #2 Derelict Star
96% matchVery Positive95% of 111 reviews2026
Dev: gatePub: Luminous Tree Games
Windows · Mac
A precise momentum-based platformer that emphasizes exploration and navigation puzzles. Run and jump your way through a wide variety of obstacles and challenges as you explore an abandoned derelict freighter. Be careful: getting in is often easier than getting out!
Why similar: 2D Platformer 24.6%, Platformer 23.4%, Sci-fi 12.8%, Pixel Graphics 11%, Action 8.7%
- #3 Cursedland
96% matchMostly Positive72% of 641 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: Platformer 19.7%, 2D Platformer 19.6%, Action 15.5%, Adventure 13.6%, Sci-fi 8.5%
- #4 LUNARK
95% matchVery Positive88% of 339 reviews2023
Dev: Canari GamesPub: WayForward
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.5 hrsMean: 3.3 hrs≥1hr: 56%
A pixel-art sci-fi adventure set in the midst of a rebellion against a totalitarian regime, LUNARK is a modern take on the 2D cinematic platformer genre of the '90s. Run, jump, hang, climb, roll, and shoot your way through gorgeous and mysterious locations!
Why similar: Platformer 19.4%, 2D Platformer 13.4%, Pixel Graphics 12.5%, Sci-fi 12.2%, Action 9%
- #5 Full Void
94% matchVery Positive91% of 270 reviews2023
Dev: OutOfTheBit Ltd
Windows · Mac · Linux
A gripping, retro-inspired 2D cinematic puzzle-platformer set in a dystopian future where AI has taken over humanity. A short game in handcrafted pixel art, to experience in a film-like journey. Play as a young teenager, alone in a run-down world, relying only on your hacking skills to survive.
Why similar: 2D Platformer 25.7%, Platformer 15.7%, Pixel Graphics 15.2%, Dystopian 13.5%, Adventure 9.6%
- #6 ION Shift
93% matchVery Positive92% of 154 reviews2024
Dev: Electro Soul Games
Windows
ION Shift delivers fast, high-stakes gameplay with precision controls and a unique sandbox-style approach to combat arenas. The campaign progressively challenges the player through evolving level design, tight mechanics, and a focus on player-driven mastery.
Why similar: 2D Platformer 22%, Sci-fi 19.4%, Pixel Graphics 17.6%, Platformer 11.7%, Action 10.4%
- #7 Cyberplug
94% matchVery Positive83% of 58 reviews2021
Dev: Down With The Frog
Windows
Cyberplug is a 2D platformer, where you control an electric being capable of moving at high speed and use electricity to advance through enemies and destroy a corporation that rules the cyberpunk themed city.
Why similar: 2D Platformer 25.7%, Platformer 21.1%, Sci-fi 13.8%, Action 7.6%, Precision Platformer 7.3%
- #8 DeadCore Redux
92% matchVery Positive95% of 56 reviews2026
Dev: 5 Bits Games
Windows
DeadCore Redux is a challenging FPS-platformer set in a futuristic universe. Chain precise jumps, manipulate mechanisms with your SwitchGun, hunt hidden collectibles and new shortcuts, and push your skills to the limit as you climb a colossal Tower born from the void. Will you reach the Summit?
Why similar: Platformer 30.7%, Sci-fi 25.5%, Action 15.4%, Precision Platformer 10.3%, Futuristic 9.3%
- #9 Gravity Circuit
91% matchVery Positive94% of 3,556 reviews2023
Dev: Domesticated Ant GamesPub: PID Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 6.0 hrs≥1hr: 83%
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 28.6%, 2D Platformer 22.7%, Pixel Graphics 16.5%, Action 13.7%, Sci-fi 7.7%
- #10 reIterate()
91% matchVery Positive93% of 56 reviews2022
Dev: Zayne BlackPub: Black Country Games
Windows
A modern-classic 2D precision-platformer
Why similar: Platformer 27%, 2D Platformer 26.1%, Action 14.1%, Precision Platformer 9.7%, Dystopian 9.5%
- #11 -SPROUT-
90% matchVery Positive97% of 93 reviews2020
Dev: Sparkee Software, LLC
Windows
-SPROUT- is a mini precision-platformer built for speed-running. Run, jump and dash your way through 100 levels across five unique lands, and restore your world to its former glory.
Why similar: 2D Platformer 27.1%, Platformer 22.5%, Pixel Graphics 15.3%, Adventure 8.4%, Precision Platformer 7.9%
- #12 TIRELESS: Prepare For The Adrenaline
89% matchVery Positive90% of 51 reviews2025
Dev: naro
Windows
A skill-based speedrunner platformer where you control a fast-paced robot racing through level-based space tracks at extreme speeds. Push your skills to the limit with TIRELESS!
Why similar: Platformer 32.5%, Action 17.1%, Sci-fi 16.5%, Precision Platformer 10%, Futuristic 8.4%
- #13 FLATLAND Vol.1
89% matchVery Positive86% of 59 reviews2019
Dev: kyuu FujisakiPub: Minimol Games
Windows · Mac
A fast-paced hardcore platformer featuring hand-crafted levels and lightning-fast respawns. Help Square survive his journey to the depths of Flatland, a minimalist neon-style 2D world. Run, jump, die, learn, repeat.
Why similar: 2D Platformer 29.4%, Platformer 25.3%, Action 10.2%, Adventure 10.2%, Precision Platformer 9%
- #14 Blade Jumper
86% matchVery Positive86% of 56 reviews2022
Dev: bit paradigmPub: CFK Co., Ltd.
Windows
Seoul, 2045. Climb the Kukuru Tower, a giant structure with an unfathomable width and height, facing the truths about the city at its pinnacle.
Why similar: Platformer 19.8%, 2D Platformer 19.8%, Pixel Graphics 11.3%, Sci-fi 10.8%, Adventure 8.8%
- #15 Escape From Tethys
87% matchMixed70% of 460 reviews2018
Dev: Whimsical
Windows · Mac
You're trapped, alone and cold on a distant planet. Pursued by a droid with only one purpose: killing everything. You must find an escape. Explore the hostile environment, find secret upgrades and new weapons, and finally make your escape from this dark, hostile planet...
Why similar: Platformer 47.1%, Action 32.3%, Pixel Graphics 10.8%, Action-Adventure 9.8%
- #16 Bad Bots
88% matchMixed55% of 260 reviews2013
Dev: Point Five ProjectsPub: Digital Tribe
Windows · Mac
Median: 42 minMean: 3.3 hrs≥1hr: 45%
As Sam McRae, last surviving member of the “Titan Hauler” crew, you must hack and blast your way through an onslaught of truly bad 'bots to find a way to prevent a potential planet-destroying catastrophe.
Why similar: Action 72.4%, Indie 27.6%
- #17 Ingression
85% matchVery Positive84% of 102 reviews2024
Dev: Espale StudiosPub: Ravenage Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Ingression is an unforgiving & mind-bending precision platformer where you'll think and platform with seamless portals. Travel to the future to save the past from a tremendous time paradox.
Why similar: Platformer 23.2%, 2D Platformer 22.9%, Pixel Graphics 12.7%, Sci-fi 12.4%, Action 8.6%
- #18 Magenta Horizon - Neverending Harvest
84% matchVery Positive86% of 241 reviews2024
Dev: Maddison BaekPub: 2 Left Thumbs
Windows
Median: 2.4 hrsMean: 3.4 hrs≥1hr: 80%
Magenta Horizon is a fast-paced 2D action platformer with challenging spectacle fighter inspired combat. Playing as a Reaper of the twisted purgatorial afterlife, push your skills to the limit to destroy the hordes of demons and epic bosses to reach your destination.
Why similar: 2D Platformer 36.5%, Platformer 32.1%, Action 13.8%, Adventure 13%, Singleplayer 4.5%
- #19 The Superfluous
86% matchVery Positive81% of 53 reviews2017
Dev: Voided Pixels
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 3.5 hrs≥1hr: 94%
"The Superfluous" [soo-pur-floo-uh s] A cave-diving, sci-fi, rogue-lite, platformer with jet packs and lots of explosions. Help stop an apocalyptic asteroid on collision course with Earth. Lead a squad to the center of the asteroid and blast it into space dust.
Why similar: Platformer 26.2%, Action 17.1%, Sci-fi 16.9%, Adventure 15.8%, Pixel Graphics 14.6%
- #20 Last Soul - Prologue
84% matchVery Positive87% of 52 reviews2021
Dev: Wulum Creative Technology Ltd.
Windows · Mac · Linux
Last Soul is a 2d pixel art action platformer with a compelling story about a future where mankind has lost its will. Explore and fight your way through a variety of levels, and take on awesome boss enemies.
Why similar: 2D Platformer 22.8%, Platformer 22.5%, Sci-fi 14.6%, Pixel Graphics 13.1%, Action 10.8%
- #21 Velocity Noodle
83% matchVery Positive87% of 55 reviews2022
Dev: Shotgun AnacondaPub: Top Hat Studios, Inc.
Windows
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: Platformer 27.1%, 2D Platformer 21.1%, Pixel Graphics 14.7%, Precision Platformer 8.2%, Action 7.4%
- #22 DeadCore
82% matchVery Positive85% of 2,043 reviews2014
Dev: 5 Bits Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 54 minMean: 2.8 hrs≥1hr: 47%
DeadCore is a Platformer-FPS blending exploration and speedrun. Become immersed in a futuristic and dreamlike adventure which will see you climb a huge Tower born from the void and truly put your capabilities to the test. Will you be able to reveal the secrets that lie beneath this fog-ridden world?
Why similar: Platformer 52.9%, Action 20.1%, Sci-fi 18.9%, Indie 5.9%, Singleplayer 2.3%
- #23 PI.EXE
82% matchVery Positive90% of 58 reviews2022
Dev: ZenBerry Team
Windows
Take the role of an antivirus software within the world of an operating system, eliminating malware spawns in a challenging, platforming quest!
Why similar: Platformer 29.4%, Sci-fi 16.9%, Dystopian 13.9%, Action 11.1%, Arcade 9.1%
- #24 Cloak and Dasher
81% matchVery Positive100% of 50 reviews2020
Dev: Spirit Stone Studio LLC
Windows · Mac · Linux
Become a lightning fast thief in this fast-paced platformer about looting ancient ruins with speed and style!
Why similar: Action 34%, Adventure 29.3%, Indie 12%, 2D Platformer 8%, Platformer 7.8%
- #25 Under A Star Long Cold
80% matchVery Positive82% of 100 reviews2024
Dev: Antonio FreyrePub: Merlino Games
Windows
You have 30 minutes to loot this place and pay your debts before the planet is destroyed. Intense stealth-action with permadeath. An exploration of agency and hope.
Why similar: Action 36.2%, Sci-fi 23.2%, Pixel Graphics 21.1%, Action-Adventure 16.7%, Singleplayer 2.8%
- #26 Steel Assault
81% matchMostly Positive77% of 440 reviews2021
Dev: Zenovia InteractivePub: Tribute Games Inc.
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 42 minMean: 2.3 hrs≥1hr: 44%
Punch, whip, and zipline your way through a post-apocalyptic America in this 16-bit retro-style action platformer! Play as Taro Takahashi, a resistance soldier on a revenge mission against the dictator who lords over the ashes.
Why similar: 2D Platformer 25.3%, Platformer 17.8%, Sci-fi 13.8%, Pixel Graphics 12.7%, Action 10.1%
- #27 Remnants of Naezith
79% matchVery Positive88% of 653 reviews2018
Dev: Tolga Ay
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 4.2 hrs≥1hr: 87%
With the powers granted to him by the dragon, Kayra will destroy the Remnants of Naezith, enchanted fragments of the dragon's body, to prevent anyone from exploiting their power for evil. Rush and swing through levels to top the leaderboards in this fast-paced, grappling hook precision platformer.
Why similar: Platformer 35.3%, Action 17.3%, Precision Platformer 12.8%, Adventure 10.6%, Indie 6.8%
- #28 Atomic Owl
77% matchVery Positive89% of 76 reviews2025
Dev: Monster TheaterPub: Eastasiasoft Limited
Windows · Linux
You are Hidalgo Bladewing, a bird with a beef. Hack, slash, platform, and soar through a beautifully chaotic pixel-art neonscape in your quest to save your feathered friends. Challenging retro-inspired platforming gameplay, transforming weapons, and fowl Ninja action await.
Why similar: 2D Platformer 24.2%, Platformer 22.9%, Pixel Graphics 11.7%, Action 9%, Adventure 8.1%
- #29 RITE
78% matchVery Positive85% of 345 reviews2020
Dev: Pond Games PTY LTD
Windows · Linux
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 25.1%, 2D Platformer 24%, Pixel Graphics 14.1%, Action 11.1%, Adventure 10.1%
- #30 Super Magbot
78% matchVery Positive84% of 407 reviews2021
Dev: Astral PixelPub: Team17
Windows
Median: 24 minMean: 4.7 hrs≥1hr: 37%
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: 2D Platformer 18.9%, Pixel Graphics 15.4%, Platformer 15.1%, Precision Platformer 11.5%, Action 11.2%
- #31 Advent NEON®
74% matchVery Positive99% of 329 reviews2025
Dev: CryoGX
Windows
Hyperactive 2D action platformer with wicked fast attacks, omnidirectional dashing, and time-freezing! Play well enough to transform and unleash 100% power!
Why similar: 2D Platformer 33.2%, Platformer 18.8%, Action 13%, Action-Adventure 8.8%, Adventure 7.1%
- #32 Powernaut VANGARDT
79% matchMostly Positive73% of 51 reviews2017
Dev: ConfoundGreatJob
Windows
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 3.6 hrs≥1hr: 71%
Fight for your life in this state-of-the-art 8-bit platformer!
Why similar: Platformer 22.5%, 2D Platformer 19.1%, Pixel Graphics 14.3%, Action 11.6%, Adventure 10.7%
- #33 Elypse
76% matchMostly Positive74% of 374 reviews2023
Dev: Hot Chili GamesPub: PID Games
Windows
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 3.6 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Embark upon a tragic tale and discover the ravaged world of Elypse! Fight your destiny in an arduous 2D adventure, story rich platformer, in a mesmerising and mysterious world.
Why similar: 2D Platformer 28.3%, Platformer 26.6%, Action 11.3%, Adventure 10.4%, Action-Adventure 8.5%
- #34 Jaded
73% matchVery Positive94% of 2,077 reviews2025
Dev: ShellSnore Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
A fast-paced platformer where you can slash, dash, and control time. Slow down the frenzy of combat and find the right moment to strike! Then, aim the 360-degree dash and zoom away at lightning speed! Master your abilities to maneuver around obstacles and vaporize foes before they can touch you.
Why similar: 2D Platformer 26.9%, Platformer 25.8%, Pixel Graphics 13.4%, Action 10.5%, Precision Platformer 7.5%
- #35 GravNewton
77% matchMostly Positive78% of 467 reviews2017
Dev: JOZGamerPub: JOZGames
Windows
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 4.4 hrs≥1hr: 83%
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: Platformer 36.9%, 2D Platformer 15.5%, Action 15.3%, Precision Platformer 11.3%, Pixel Graphics 8.6%
- #36 Panic Porcupine
75% matchVery Positive94% of 71 reviews2022
Dev: Spicy Gyro GamesPub: Shiny Dolphin Games LLC
Windows · Mac
A Meat-Like/Hedge-Like Mashup! Dr. Proventriculus is snatching up the Chickabirbs! Help Panic blast through over 50 stages of topsy-turvy, spike-laced, slime-drenched, buzzsaw-filled deathtraps to rescue them! And remember, there are no rings...
Why similar: Platformer 24.4%, 2D Platformer 16.7%, Pixel Graphics 13.5%, Action 11.6%, Adventure 9.1%
- #37 MO:Astray
73% matchVery Positive92% of 5,040 reviews2019
Dev: Archpray Inc.Pub: Rayark International Limited
Windows
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 4.9 hrs≥1hr: 76%
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: Platformer 23.2%, Pixel Graphics 19.4%, Sci-fi 15.9%, Action 15.5%, Adventure 14.8%
- #38 On Rusty Trails
75% matchVery Positive87% of 266 reviews2016
Dev: Black Pants Studio
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 3.5 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Conformity is everything in this lightning-fast platformer - get ready to shift your friendships each and every second!
Why similar: 2D Platformer 27%, Platformer 25.2%, Sci-fi 15.3%, Action 12.3%, Precision Platformer 8.2%
- #39 Dangerous Bullets
76% matchMixed64% of 66 reviews2017
Dev: Indie Games StudioPub: Enoops
Windows
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 6.0 hrs≥1hr: 98%
Dangerous Bullets- This dynamic hardcore platforming, challenges you.
Why similar: Platformer 25.5%, Action 18%, 2D Platformer 18%, Pixel Graphics 13.6%, Adventure 12.4%
- #40 Overloop
72% matchVery Positive94% of 247 reviews2022
Dev: Charge GamesPub: Digerati
Windows
Median: 2.2 hrsMean: 5.4 hrs≥1hr: 72%
A puzzle-platformer set in a dystopian world where the invention of a cloning device has messed things up, big time. Armed with a clone gun and a mighty fine mustache, the chore of saving THE WHOLE OF CIVILIZATION rests on your shoulders. Don’t blow it.
Why similar: 2D Platformer 20.7%, Platformer 20.6%, Sci-fi 15.8%, Pixel Graphics 13.7%, Action 11%
- #41 Rusted Moss
69% matchVery Positive89% of 1,593 reviews2023
Dev: EmlisePub: PLAYISM
Windows
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 9.3 hrs≥1hr: 76%
Rusted Moss is a twin-stick shooter metroidvania where you sling around the map with your grapple, blasting your way through witches and rusted machine monstrosities alike. This wasteland once harboring mankind has since fallen, and Fae long forgotten now knock on humanity's door...
Why similar: Platformer 27.4%, 2D Platformer 17.5%, Pixel Graphics 10.6%, Dystopian 9.8%, Action 7.7%
- #42 Magnetic By Nature
74% matchMixed69% of 84 reviews2014
Dev: Team Tripleslash
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.5 hrsMean: 4.4 hrs≥1hr: 96%
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 41.1%, Action 26.4%, Adventure 23.5%, Indie 9%
- #43 AFTERGRINDER
73% matchMostly Positive76% of 101 reviews2017
Dev: Grave Danger Games
Windows
Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 3.9 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Aftergrinder is a fast-paced 2D runner precision platformer. Skate your way through an unforgiving, difficult arcade side scroller. Pick a character, pick a level, and get ready to die. A lot. Test your skills over 90 adrenaline-inducing levels.
Why similar: 2D Platformer 25.2%, Platformer 22.7%, Pixel Graphics 11.1%, Action 8.8%, Precision Platformer 7.2%
- #44 Spectrolite
71% matchVery Positive90% of 52 reviews2021
Dev: Noel Hetei
Windows
Spectrolite is a challenging first-person platformer set in futuristic environments. Combine parkouring with powerful abilities, test your skills in fast paced timed challenges, and follow the call of a mysterious specter while traveling through a ruined world.
Why similar: Platformer 33.6%, Precision Platformer 20.9%, Action 18.5%, Action-Adventure 11.5%, Futuristic 7.2%
- #45 Prison City
70% matchVery Positive84% of 178 reviews2023
Dev: Retroware
Windows
Median: 2.1 hrsMean: 4.9 hrs≥1hr: 68%
Prison City is a dystopian, action-packed side-scroller with tight mechanics and intricate level design. Battle Techno-Terrorists with your chakram and grenades, eat hot dogs for health, and locate contacts to help take down bosses.
Why similar: 2D Platformer 22.8%, Platformer 22%, Sci-fi 13.9%, Pixel Graphics 11.7%, Adventure 10.3%
- #46 Germinal
70% matchVery Positive91% of 74 reviews2023
Dev: Moonlit Monitors
Windows
Jump, hover and clean your way through this precision platformer combining permissive jetpack mechanics with a compassionate narrative about getting lost in your own fear.
Why similar: Platformer 27.1%, Pixel Graphics 18.5%, 2D Platformer 18.3%, Action 14.9%, Precision Platformer 10%
- #47 SANABI
65% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 43,901 reviews2023
Dev: WONDER POTIONPub: NEOWIZ
Windows
Median: 7.9 hrsMean: 23.0 hrs≥1hr: 81%
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: 2D Platformer 20.4%, Pixel Graphics 19.8%, Platformer 16.8%, Action 12.2%, Adventure 8.6%
- #48 Planet Cube: Edge
70% matchVery Positive87% of 151 reviews2023
Dev: Sunna EntertainmentPub: Balor Games
Windows · Mac
Planet Cube is being invaded! Prepare to run, gun, jump and dash your way through an underwater science complex, collecting fire-power to turn the tables on a mysterious aggressor. This is high-speed adventuring set in a hand-crafted pixel art world, filled with precision platforming and thrills.
Why similar: 2D Platformer 24.7%, Platformer 22%, Sci-fi 12.5%, Pixel Graphics 10.7%, Action 8.5%
- #49 Necrosphere
71% matchVery Positive90% of 143 reviews2017
Dev: Cat Nigiri
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.2 hrsMean: 2.7 hrs≥1hr: 83%
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: Action 28.4%, Platformer 28.2%, Precision Platformer 18.4%, Pixel Graphics 15.6%, Indie 9.5%
- #50 Possessor(s)
67% matchMostly Positive76% of 588 reviews2025
Dev: Heart MachinePub: Devolver Digital
Windows
Median: 1.7 hrsMean: 6.3 hrs≥1hr: 62%
Possessor(s) is a fast-paced action side scroller with combat inspired by platform fighters, a story told through dangerous characters, set in a deep interconnected world ready for exploration.
Why similar: Platformer 33%, Action 23.7%, Adventure 19.8%, Dystopian 10.4%, Action-Adventure 9.3%
- #51 Grimhook
65% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 4,045 reviews2023
Dev: Unlimited Fries
Windows
Bounce, dash, and grapple through flooded caverns in this fast-paced first-person action platformer. Descend into Grimhook's sunken ruins as Dart, mastering Lovecraftian powers and decimating robotic foes. Explore, battle, and unravel the mysteries below Miletos.
Why similar: Platformer 33.4%, Action 16.1%, Dystopian 16%, Adventure 15.3%, Action-Adventure 10.7%
- #52 Fallback
69% matchVery Positive86% of 398 reviews2019
Dev: Endroad
Windows
Median: 36 minMean: 8.4 hrs≥1hr: 41%
Lead the rebellion in an epic rogue-like adventure. Guide your jet-pack equipped post-apocalyptic volunteers through a labyrinthine underground complex by jumping, dodging, and battling against robot minions (and masters) to get to the surface — and bring life back to the scorched Earth.
Why similar: 2D Platformer 28.9%, Platformer 24.2%, Sci-fi 19%, Dystopian 12.1%, Action 9.2%
- #53 6N23
68% matchVery Positive90% of 92 reviews2023
Dev: TajoPub: Murtabongjo
Windows
6n23 is an action-platfomer-racing game. Rush fast as you can. Use your finger, find path. It has controls similar to a fighting game, allowing you to practice your control skills.
Why similar: 2D Platformer 33%, Platformer 28.5%, Action 13.4%, Pixel Graphics 11.5%, Futuristic 6.7%
- #54 Moonscars
67% matchVery Positive83% of 1,466 reviews2022
Dev: Black MermaidPub: Balor Games
Windows
Median: 2.6 hrsMean: 6.8 hrs≥1hr: 64%
Push the limits of your combat skills, and master new abilities to progress through an unforgiving nonlinear 2D world. Face off against the relentless darkness that seeks to destroy you. In Moonscars, every death is a lesson learnt—and as you overcome each challenge, new truths will be revealed.
Why similar: 2D Platformer 24.2%, Platformer 21.5%, Pixel Graphics 19.2%, Action 18.8%, Action-Adventure 8%
- #55 Asteria
72% matchMixed55% of 251 reviews2014
Dev: Legend Studio
Windows
Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 4.5 hrs≥1hr: 96%
Asteria is a fast paced indie platformer, wrapped up in a sandbox sci-fi world where everything is destructible, mineable, collectable, craftable and creatable.
Why similar: Platformer 38.6%, Adventure 24.2%, Action 21.8%, Indie 11.9%, 2D 3.4%
- #56 BZZZT
66% matchVery Positive94% of 1,143 reviews2023
Dev: KO.DLLPub: CINEMAX GAMES
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 4.4 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Become a tiny ZX8000 robot and begin your journey through a beautiful, pixel-art world inspired by games iconic to the platformer genre. Follow a cute story, upgrade your skills, beat challenging levels, and compete with other players for the fastest speedrun!
Why similar: 2D Platformer 27.9%, Platformer 22.5%, Pixel Graphics 16.5%, Action 10.3%, Precision Platformer 8%
- #57 Trash Quest
68% matchVery Positive93% of 122 reviews2021
Dev: Francis Vace
Windows
Trash Quest is a compact metroidvania with a single spawn point, run and gun action and tight platforming. Navigate an interwoven maze of rooms through this space station, destroying robots, collecting power ups and unlocking shortcuts.
Why similar: 2D Platformer 33.8%, Platformer 16.2%, Pixel Graphics 12.4%, Action 11.8%, Sci-fi 9.7%
- #58 MegaSphere
71% matchMixed64% of 133 reviews2015
Dev: AKGames
Windows · Mac · Linux
Play as a special ops combat unit sent to investigate why the stars around Solar System are going dark in MegaSphere — a story-based post-cyberpunk action platformer adventure game of supermassive scale set in early 22nd century: smart guns, robots, self-reconstructing environments, and vast AIs.
Why similar: Action 27.1%, Adventure 24.1%, Platformer 18.3%, Pixel Graphics 18%, Indie 9.8%
- #59 1 Screen Platformer
68% matchVery Positive87% of 426 reviews2019
Dev: Return To Adventure Mountain, LLC
Windows · Mac
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: 2D Platformer 28%, Platformer 23.4%, Sci-fi 11.4%, Pixel Graphics 10.4%, Precision Platformer 8.5%
- #60 Duck Souls
67% matchVery Positive98% of 339 reviews2018
Dev: Viridino Studios
Windows
Duck Souls is a fast-paced, action platformer about a little duck with an incredible skill to dash and a mission: find all the lost eggs in order to save his species.
Why similar: Action 43.5%, Adventure 40.6%, Indie 15.9%