Games Like Overclocked

ScourgeBringer is a fast-paced free-moving roguelite platformer. Help Kyhra to explore the unknown and slash her way through ancient machines guarding the seal of her past, and maybe the redemption of humanity.

Why similar: Action 37.7%, Indie 25.8%, Platformer 15.2%, Difficult 14.3%, Female Protagonist 7%

Why You'll Like It: It offers the same fast-paced, fluid combat and high-mobility platforming that defines the rhythmic nature of Overclocked.

Vernal Edge is a 2D action-packed Metroidvania featuring an intense combat system, tight platforming sequences and a powerful story of rivalry, revenge and growth.

Why similar: Platformer 36.8%, Female Protagonist 35.5%, Action 27.7%

Why You'll Like It: A fluid action-platformer featuring a female protagonist and a heavy focus on aerial combat and 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: Platformer 31.5%, Action 28.6%, Difficult 26.1%, Indie 13.8%

Why You'll Like It: This game features a similar one-hit-kill, high-speed combat loop that rewards precision and rhythmic execution.

Swing, climb, grab, and throw in this action platformer where you can grapple anywhere! Using Rena's magic bracelets, hook onto any surface to swing wherever you like, or grab your foes to send them hurtling into each other!

Why similar: Action 38%, Indie 25%, Platformer 19.9%, Female Protagonist 17.1%

Why You'll Like It: A platformer that centers on momentum-based movement and a female protagonist, matching the core gameplay feel.

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: Action 34.7%, Platformer 28.1%, Difficult 21.9%, Indie 15.3%

Why You'll Like It: This title emphasizes high-speed traversal and grappling mechanics that mirror the kinetic energy of Overclocked.

Rosenkreuzstilette is a mega-action-platformer game in which you step into the shoes of Spiritia Rosenberg, a virtuous young woman caught on the wrong side of a revolution instigated by her closest friends.

Why similar: Difficult 25.3%, Platformer 23%, Female Protagonist 20.8%, Action 18.7%, Indie 12.3%

Why You'll Like It: A challenging 2D action game with anime aesthetics and a female protagonist that demands high skill.

A 2D action game featuring a young man with the power of lightning who stands for freedom against the evil ambitions of a massive organization. When lightning strikes, a new legend is born.

Why similar: Action 44.4%, Platformer 35.3%, Indie 20.3%

Why You'll Like It: It provides a fast-paced, 2D action experience with a glass-cannon playstyle that feels very similar to Overclocked.

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 56.9%, Action 43.1%

Why You'll Like It: While 3D, it perfectly captures the high-speed, one-hit-kill, and reflex-heavy combat intensity found in the seed game.

Giana Sisters: Twisted Dreams is a fast-paced platformer that will plunge you into the heart of two opposing worlds.

Why similar: Platformer 34%, Action 26.9%, Indie 18.9%, Female Protagonist 13.3%, Difficult 6.9%

Why You'll Like It: A polished platformer with a female lead and a focus on shifting between different movement and combat states.

Cause distress in this challenging fast-paced action platformer. Experience a dark cartoon world come to life as frenetic gameplay meets comic book visuals and storytelling. Dash through beautiful arenas vanquishing vampires, rescuing hostages, disarming bombs, hacking servers and much more.

Why similar: Platformer 29.8%, Female Protagonist 27.4%, Action 25.3%, Indie 17.5%

Why You'll Like It: An action-platformer featuring a female protagonist that emphasizes fast, arcade-style combat.

Momodora: Reverie Under The Moonlight is the fourth installment in the beloved Momodora series of 2D platformers. Unleash ravaging combos against a variety of formidable monsters and deftly dodge your way through a cursed land to seek audience with the Queen and dispel the evil that threatens all life.

Why similar: Difficult 32.2%, Platformer 25.2%, Female Protagonist 24.2%, Action 18.4%

Why You'll Like It: Features fluid, responsive combat and a female protagonist in a beautifully crafted 2D world.

Demon Hearts is a 2D platformer game that will leave you feeling blood thirsty for victory every time you play! Take the winged and dangerously swift Vampiress Snow through many challenging silhouette environments while withstanding the many divergent demons, evil forces, and bosses!

Why similar: Action 44.9%, Indie 30.3%, Platformer 24.8%

Why You'll Like It: A 2D action-platformer that highlights a female protagonist and classic, difficult combat mechanics.

Make your way on foot, on a hoverbike, up skyscrapers, and down bottomless pits, as you exterminate a threat of unknown origin!

Why similar: Platformer 29.8%, Action 27.3%, Female Protagonist 25.5%, Indie 17.4%

Why You'll Like It: A retro-inspired 2D action game with a female protagonist that focuses on tight, challenging gameplay.

Hollowed tells the story of a woman who will do anything to bring her perished loved one back to the world of the living. Control Halia and her spirit Oco simultaneously on a single controller in this side-scrolling puzzle platformer.

Why similar: Action 41.4%, Indie 34.6%, Female Protagonist 24.1%

Why You'll Like It: An action-adventure platformer that features a female protagonist and challenging traversal.

The world has been taken over by synthetic lifeforms. A desperate plea for help sets Shadow, the sole survivor of his clan, on one last mission to uncover what started the path to perpetual ruin.

Why similar: Platformer 35.6%, Difficult 29.5%, Action 21.1%, Indie 13.8%

Why You'll Like It: A fast-paced, 2D ninja action game that requires precise platforming and combat reflexes.

The jailer is the key, kill him and you’ll be free. Fight your way free in this ultra-responsive, fast-paced sword-fighting and dual-stick shooting game.

Why similar: Difficult 52.2%, Action 29.5%, Indie 18.3%

Why You'll Like It: A boss-rush game that relies on rhythmic combat and extreme difficulty, appealing to fans of Overclocked's intensity.

Explore alternate dimensions, fight interdimensional criminals, and solve crimes in this thrilling action platformer!

Why similar: Action 39.2%, Indie 25.3%, Platformer 21.3%, Female Protagonist 14.2%

Why You'll Like It: A 2D action-platformer that utilizes a unique grappling hook mechanic for fast-paced movement.

Challenging precision platformer based on tight, fluid movement. Open map layout with multiple routes. Collect gems and save animals.

Why similar: Action 39.7%, Platformer 34.1%, Female Protagonist 17.1%, Indie 9.1%

Why You'll Like It: A 2D platformer that focuses on exploration and movement with a female lead.

Dead Cells is a roguelite, metroidvania inspired, action-platformer. You'll explore a sprawling, ever-changing castle... assuming you’re able to fight your way past its keepers in 2D souls-lite combat. No checkpoints. Kill, die, learn, repeat.

Why similar: Platformer 38.3%, Action 28.4%, Difficult 26%, Indie 7.3%

Why You'll Like It: The gold standard for fluid, high-speed 2D combat and platforming integration.

CALAMITY CREATURES is a 2D action game in boss rush format. Mechanical creatures of overwhelming stature stand before you. Gadgets in the prosthetic hands, the terrain, and the enemies' habits...use all the elements to dismantle the living calamity.

Why similar: Female Protagonist 35.9%, Action 33.9%, Indie 16.3%, Difficult 13.8%

Why You'll Like It: A 2D platformer with a female protagonist that blends action and puzzle-solving.

Cally's Trials is a roguelike action-platformer with a weapon-levelling system that lets you evolve weapons as you use them. Cally must save her parents from the maniacal Herbert, who has laid waste to the Caves and built a massive new base.

Why similar: Action 33.4%, Platformer 26.3%, Indie 21.2%, Female Protagonist 19.1%

Why You'll Like It: A fast-paced action-platformer with a female protagonist and a heavy emphasis on weapon variety.

Players will use a unique dash system to navigate through various obstacles! The main challenges lie in maneuvering skills and reaction speed, utilizing it to complete different levels in the game, gradually piecing together the truth of the story. This is a free-to-play prologue version.

Why similar: Platformer 30.1%, Action 29.9%, Female Protagonist 29.5%, Difficult 6.3%, Indie 4.2%

Why You'll Like It: A precision-focused 2D platformer that requires careful timing and movement.

404Sight is a free game made in support of net neutrality. It’s a 3D playground runner influenced by parkour running with the addition of a special ping ability that reveals areas that can speed the player up or slow them down.

Why similar: Action 43.8%, Indie 28.8%, Female Protagonist 27.4%

Why You'll Like It: A parkour-focused action game featuring a female protagonist and high-speed movement.

Immerse yourself in a gorgeous hand-painted world on a search for your true identity. As the mysterious warrior, Dust, your action-packed journey will take you from peaceful glades to snowy mountaintops and beyond.

Why similar: Platformer 45%, Action 34.9%, Indie 20.1%

Why You'll Like It: Combines fluid, combo-heavy combat with a female protagonist and platforming elements.

Red Goddess is an action adventure platformer. Explore an epic magical world. Unlock powers of Rage and Fear, and fight deadly enemies in fast paced red & blue combat system

Why similar: Action 43.7%, Indie 30.8%, Female Protagonist 25.5%

Why You'll Like It: A metroidvania-style game with a female protagonist that blends exploration with combat.

manage your ammunition and dodge projectiles. Charge with your bayonet and get the highest score.

Why similar: Difficult 32.3%, Action 27.5%, Female Protagonist 23.6%, Indie 16.5%

Why You'll Like It: A fast-paced, violent indie action game that shares the gritty, high-energy vibe of Overclocked.

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: Difficult 40.3%, Platformer 22.2%, Action 17.1%, Female Protagonist 14.1%, Indie 6.3%

Why You'll Like It: A difficult, single-screen precision platformer that tests your reflexes.

Turn back the clock and fight to repair Time itself in this cinematic action platformer with fast sword combat and time-based powers. You are the Warden of Time, Ouro Kronii - be proud and fight hard!

Why similar: Female Protagonist 35.8%, Action 29.3%, Platformer 24%, Indie 10.8%

Play as a gorgeous female wanted-criminal Faye. Utilize her grappling hook and acrobatics to fight enemies and traverse the ocean-engulfed planet Bluestar! (This game has steep learning curve, play with caution)

Why similar: Difficult 44.8%, Female Protagonist 29.2%, Action 26%

Why You'll Like It: A fast-paced, ninja-themed action game that prioritizes parkour and quick reflexes.

Frauki's Adventure is a challenging melee-combat platformer set in a large, interconnected world. Dodge, slash, stomp, and outplay a variety of intelligent and deadly Alien Robots. Discover shortcuts and find hidden upgrades. Challenging sword-fights and a sprawling, bizarre world await!

Why similar: Difficult 38.6%, Platformer 29%, Action 21.4%, Indie 11%

Why You'll Like It: A souls-like metroidvania with a female protagonist that emphasizes difficult, exploration-based combat.

Haneda Girl is an action-platformer game with brutal and frantic action. Clean stages swapping between two playable characters. Bullets or Slashes, your choice, but be creative. A wide variety of ways to solve each encounter are at your disposal. Dance the waltz of destruction, end the threat.

Why similar: Action 29.8%, Platformer 27.3%, Female Protagonist 27.2%, Indie 15.7%

Get your revenge on the enemy cyborg roller derby gang! Roll and fight through a beautiful neon cityscape as CB, a genetically modified cyborg, bent on getting revenge for her past...

Why similar: Action 100%

Overclocked: The Aclockalypse is a roguelike bullet hell following The Keeper’s time-twisting battle to reclaim The Eternal Sands from Greenwich and her clockwork army.

Why similar: Action 58.7%, Indie 41.3%

Lost Girl Platformer is a thrilling 2D platform game where you play as a courageous girl. Your task is to jump from platform to platform to survive and escape. But be careful: time is limited, and every jump must be precise!

Why similar: Platformer 44.8%, Action 37.9%, Indie 17.3%

Slash, stab, and shoot your way through a multi-tiered museum filled with corrupted automata, customizing your weapon with the scraps of the fallen. Clockwork Sword is a thrilling isometric hack and slash, in which you utilize combinations of weapons and elements to conquer your foes.

Why similar: Action 43.6%, Female Protagonist 37.2%, Indie 19.2%

To the Core is a roguelite action-platforming speedrunner. Run, jump and dash your way through levels filled with obstacles and hazards. Fight through heaps of enemies to save your father and set record times.

Why similar: Difficult 27.1%, Action 27.1%, Indie 23.8%, Female Protagonist 22%

A pseudo 8-bit action platformer taking a bit of inspiration from film-noir and samurai dramas, iaidoka_interlude applies a few parkour and fighting game influences to mix up familiarity with a little uniquity.

Why similar: Action 29.5%, Platformer 20.2%, Indie 20%, Difficult 17.5%, Female Protagonist 12.8%

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: Action 41.6%, Platformer 34.2%, Female Protagonist 24.2%

Exploring a disarrayed food factory, play as Lyft and fight your way through this chaos using powerful abilities. Face off against relentless robots and bring them to pieces. There’s only one option left to stop them: destroy them, throw them, PUNCH 'EM!

Why similar: Action 59.4%, Female Protagonist 40.6%

ENYO is trying to let go of an old Dystopia. It's also a 2d action platformer that does not require destroying things.

Why similar: Action 27%, Platformer 20.9%, Indie 18.7%, Female Protagonist 18.3%, Difficult 15%

A thrilling first-person action-stealth game. Play as Dana, the inventor thief, and use your gadgets to fulfill your task; retrieving a special artifact from a private art collection in a mysterious palazzo.

Why similar: Action 61.1%, Indie 24.6%, Female Protagonist 14.3%

Punch enemies, take their weapons, and switch combat styles on the fly. Blend combat skills and movement into hectic first-person gun-fu based on three movesets for punches, melee weapons and firearms.

Why similar: Difficult 53.1%, Action 33.7%, Female Protagonist 13.2%

Super Alloy Ranger is a 2D side-scrolling action game. Play as Marksman Kelly or Combat Robot No.2 to challenge different levels within the dangerous Machine Empire and unlock new weapons. Use Kelly’s shooting and No.2’s deathblows to defeat abnormal Machine Bosses!

Why similar: Action 68.4%, Indie 21.1%, Female Protagonist 10.6%

Rocket parkour your way through dizzying obstacles and lethal robot hazards, in this 3rd person action platformer with over 40 levels, and even more community levels.

Why similar: Difficult 32.2%, Platformer 25.8%, Action 21.4%, Female Protagonist 20.6%

Foregone is a fast and fluid 2D action-platformer packed with legendary loot and stunning pixel art. Collect an arsenal of powerful weapons and unravel a compelling story of regret and conspiracy as you slice your way through hordes of enemies to save Calagan.

Why similar: Platformer 25.2%, Difficult 24%, Action 21.6%, Female Protagonist 15.3%, Indie 13.8%

This is a third-person hack-and-slash roguelike game. You will play as a Knight of Light defending against the invasion of the Shadow Empire. Using the power of holy light, you can convert shadow-infected enemies into allies. Try to survive until dawn!

Why similar: Female Protagonist 45.4%, Action 42.6%, Indie 12%

Pepper Grinder is an action-packed 2D adventure blending traditional platforming with an alternate drilling mode that allows you to dive in and out of the earth like a dolphin swims through water.

Why similar: Difficult 33.1%, Platformer 25.6%, Female Protagonist 22%, Action 14.4%, Indie 4.9%

GunGirl2 is an action platformer in the style of games like Metroid, Castlevania or Cave Story. But with blood… LOTS of blood! Go on an epic adventure and explore a huge world with the heroic blonde chick GunGirl or her best friend GunDude.

Why similar: Action 60.9%, Indie 39.1%

Revenant is a pixel-art style shooting game set in the near future.

Why similar: Action 82%, Indie 18%

Design your own arsenal in Clockwork Ambrosia, a steampunk metroidvania in the vein of a run-and-gun platformer. Join Iris, an airship pilot who must combat an army of deadly robots and monsters, and experiment with over 100 rule-based weapon mods and armors to prevail through this wild adventure!

Why similar: Platformer 42.2%, Female Protagonist 35%, Action 22.8%

Fight your way across the celestial world of Avalice where cats are green, motorcycles drive up walls and monster girls do most of the buttkicking! Freedom Planet is a cartoony, combat-based platform adventure that pits a spunky dragonoid and her friends against an alien attack force.

Why similar: Platformer 34.9%, Female Protagonist 23%, Action 19.1%, Indie 11.9%, Difficult 11.1%

Challenge yourself and master 4 Distinct worlds with 66 finely tuned level screens and climb to the top of the Steam Leaderboards in this retro pixel art speedrunning platformer!

Why similar: Platformer 39.4%, Female Protagonist 34.3%, Action 23.7%, Indie 2.6%

The fast paced platforming of Freedom Planet returns! Become a full-time cartoon heroine and use abilities and items suited to your play style to explore the world of Avalice and defend its animal citizens!

Why similar: Platformer 28.2%, Female Protagonist 24%, Difficult 19.5%, Action 16.4%, Indie 11.8%

Dive, destroy and escape. TUNNEL DIVERS is a F2P high octane twin stick shooter, where you pilot a close quarters based spaceship that excels in claustrophobic areas. Play online with or against other pilots, create your own levels in the level editor, and wage war against the rogue AI, Watch Dog.

Why similar: Action 35.6%, Difficult 26%, Indie 24.8%, Female Protagonist 13.6%

Fight, block, and evade through the deadly Trials of Valor. Your timing and reflexes decide survival in this real-time roguelike fighter. Master diverse classes, and experience the character progression of an entire RPG in each run as you perfect your build or die trying.

Why similar: Difficult 58.5%, Female Protagonist 41.5%

Rebel Transmute is a challenging 2D action-platformer epic with heart! Explore the twisting caverns of an alien planet, augment your play-style to fit your strengths, battle deadly bosses, and uncover a dark truth as Moon Mikono searches for her long lost mother.

Why similar: Difficult 34.9%, Female Protagonist 24.3%, Platformer 22.6%, Action 18.2%

Wield your high-tech umbrella to take down Italy’s last mafia family while evading capture by your own agency in this thrilling third-person action-adventure shooter.

Why similar: Female Protagonist 53.9%, Action 36.1%, Indie 9.9%

This is an action game focused on combat, where a girl returns from the abyss to explore her own secrets and redemption, until the end of an eternal battle to see if she can break free from the shackles of fate.

Why similar: Female Protagonist 57.9%, Action 42.1%