- #1 Kill The Plumber
97% matchMostly Positive72% of 114 reviews2015
Dev: KeybolPub: Tekitown
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.6 hrsMean: 5.0 hrs≥1hr: 95%
Kill the Plumber is a challenging anti-platformer game. Play as the enemies instead of the hero for a unique new experience!
Why similar: Platformer 35.2%, Puzzle Platformer 29.8%, Difficult 12.6%, Indie 11.2%, Adventure 7.8%
Why You'll Like It: This game subverts traditional platformer tropes by putting you in the role of the enemy, mirroring the counterintuitive nature of the seed game.
- #2 Total Party Kill
96% matchVery Positive96% of 167 reviews2019
Dev: Adventure Islands
Windows · Mac
Your party enters a deep and dark dungeon… but sacrifices must be made! Control 3 different heroes and use their special abilities to solve tricky puzzles by sacrificing your teammates!
Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 30%, Platformer 20.6%, Indie 13.2%, Puzzle 11.2%, Adventure 8.6%
Why You'll Like It: Like the seed game, this title requires you to intentionally kill your own characters to solve puzzles and progress.
- #3 Manual Samuel - Last Tuesday Edition
96% matchVery Positive83% of 3,505 reviews2016
Dev: Perfectly ParanormalPub: Curve Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 5.0 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Wealthy, handsome, and... dead? Samuel strikes a deal with Death for one last shot at life, but only if he can survive a day doing everything manually. Blink, breathe, walk, and work - Guide Sam in this darkly humorous and brutally difficult adventure!
Why similar: Difficult 31.4%, Funny 22.7%, Indie 22.1%, Adventure 17.4%, 2D 3.4%
Why You'll Like It: It shares the dark, slapstick humor and the frustration of managing awkward mechanics to complete simple tasks.
- #4 Super Meat Boy
95% matchVery Positive94% of 36,925 reviews2010
Dev: Team Meat
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 10.3 hrs≥1hr: 77%
The infamous, tough-as-nails platformer comes to Steam with a playable Head Crab character (Steam-exclusive)!
Why similar: Platformer 47.4%, Difficult 23.5%, Pixel Graphics 11.3%, Indie 9.6%, 2D 3.4%
Why You'll Like It: A quintessential precision platformer that features high difficulty, gore, and fast-paced death-and-retry gameplay.
- #5 Escape Goat
94% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 702 reviews2013
Dev: MagicalTimeBean
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.0 hrsMean: 3.2 hrs≥1hr: 76%
Escape Goat is a puzzle platformer where you take control of a goat, who has been imprisoned for witchcraft, and overcome traps and obstacles to escape the Prison of Agnus. Fear not, for with your supreme agility, sturdy horns, and the help of a magic mouse friend, you can turn the tables on foes and use the environment to your advantage.
Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 40.6%, Platformer 27.9%, Puzzle 16%, Indie 7.6%, Pixel Graphics 6.5%
Why You'll Like It: A solid puzzle-platformer that shares the pixel-art aesthetic and focus on clever level design.
- #6 Escape Goat 2
94% matchVery Positive95% of 452 reviews2014
Dev: MagicalTimeBeanPub: Double Fine Presents
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 5.0 hrs≥1hr: 95%
Escape Goat 2 is a puzzle platformer game where you use machinery, the environment, and a friendly mouse to progress through a dungeon.
Why similar: Platformer 47.4%, Puzzle 24.8%, Indie 13.7%, Puzzle Platformer 11.8%, 2D 2%
Why You'll Like It: Expands on the original with more complex puzzle-platforming mechanics and a similar indie feel.
- #7 BirdGut
93% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 5,118 reviews2019
Dev: Micah Boursier
Windows · Mac
BirdGut is a hand-drawn 2d puzzle-platformer from the perspective of an outcast bee who gets eaten by a bird, and discovers that the bird's internal organs are not organs at all, but facilities in which the consumed insects are brainwashed and enslaved. Experience this bizarre one-man project for yourself.
Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 36.9%, Platformer 25.6%, Indie 9.2%, Difficult 7.4%, Puzzle 7.2%
Why You'll Like It: A puzzle-platformer with a dark, hand-drawn aesthetic that explores themes of survival and escape.
- #8 Hell Yeah! Wrath of the Dead Rabbit
92% matchVery Positive85% of 3,701 reviews2012
Dev: ArkedoPub: SEGA
Windows
Median: 42 minMean: 4.9 hrs≥1hr: 44%
A crazy action-adventure platformer... In Hell.
Why similar: Platformer 75.4%, Funny 7.7%, Gore 5.7%, 2D 5.7%, Adventure 2.9%
Why You'll Like It: Features a dark, edgy sense of humor and fast-paced platforming action.
- #9 I hate this game
91% matchVery Positive93% of 2,531 reviews2019
Dev: Pixel Error
Windows
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 3.8 hrs≥1hr: 87%
I hate this game is a logic game, where gameplay changes every level. Solve crazy puzzles and use forgotten functions of your PC! Be attentive, interact with everything that you see on the screen.
Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 23.9%, Platformer 21.2%, Puzzle 17%, Pixel Graphics 9.8%, Indie 9.7%
Why You'll Like It: A puzzle game that constantly breaks the fourth wall and forces the player into absurd, often fatal situations.
- #10 Ghostory
91% matchVery Positive93% of 72 reviews2017
Dev: RigidCore Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 5.5 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Puns, and puzzles. Horrible puns and devious puzzles actually, along with several incorporeal entities are what makes Ghostory a pixel art puzzle adventure brimming with humour and intrigue. Take on the role of a cursed traveler, master your ghostly form, find a cure, and escape a perilous cave system.
Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 30.2%, Platformer 21.7%, Puzzle 12.7%, Difficult 9.7%, Indie 7%
Why You'll Like It: A puzzle-platformer that uses unique mechanics to navigate obstacles, similar to the puzzle-heavy nature of the seed game.
- #11 MO:Astray
89% matchVery Positive92% of 5,025 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: Puzzle Platformer 32.1%, Platformer 23.7%, Pixel Graphics 10.9%, Indie 9.8%, Difficult 6.3%
Why You'll Like It: A challenging puzzle-platformer with a dark, atmospheric world and visceral, gore-filled combat mechanics.
- #12 1001 Spikes
90% matchVery Positive83% of 763 reviews2014
Dev: Nicalis, Inc.
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 42 minMean: 3.7 hrs≥1hr: 40%
Discover the lost treasures of Ukampa in South America as Aban Hawkins searches for his estranged father, world-famous archeaologist, Jim Hawkins. Aban Hawkins races into the frozen tundra of the antarctic, undiscovered temple ruins and the vast caverns of South America in search of his father and the legendary treasure rumored to lie...
Why similar: Platformer 50.8%, Difficult 20.3%, Indie 10.8%, Pixel Graphics 8.9%, Adventure 5.4%
Why You'll Like It: This game is built around the concept of dying repeatedly to learn trap patterns in a challenging 2D environment.
- #13 Death Coming/死神来了
89% matchVery Positive90% of 3,266 reviews2017
Dev: NEXT Studios
Windows
Median: 2.6 hrsMean: 4.8 hrs≥1hr: 79%
'Death Coming' is a non-linear puzzle game where you must harvest human souls ‘Final Destination’ style. However, pesky mortals are not your only problem, as the Agents of Light will do everything they can to stop you.
Why similar: Puzzle 37.7%, Pixel Graphics 27.7%, Gore 17.2%, Adventure 9.1%, Indie 7.6%
Why You'll Like It: A dark comedy puzzle game where you play as an agent of death, fitting the morbid theme of the seed game.
- #14 Mr. Bree+
88% matchVery Positive85% of 230 reviews2014
Dev: TawStudio Entertainment
Windows
Median: 2.8 hrsMean: 4.0 hrs≥1hr: 95%
Mr. Bree+ is a hardcore sidescrolling adventure platformer, enriched with great visual and musical aspects. It's about 60 levels of pure challenge, revealing along the progress, the dark past events which tells the story of our hero, a householding family pig, Mr. Bree.
Why similar: Platformer 66%, Indie 21.8%, Adventure 12.2%
Why You'll Like It: A challenging 2D platformer that focuses on precision and overcoming difficult obstacles.
- #15 Jump King
85% matchVery Positive90% of 13,075 reviews2019
Dev: Nexile
Windows
Median: 2.1 hrsMean: 10.5 hrs≥1hr: 68%
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: Difficult 32.6%, Platformer 25.6%, Psychological Horror 10.5%, Pixel Graphics 10.4%, Indie 9.8%
Why You'll Like It: A notoriously difficult precision platformer that focuses on the frustration of failure and the long road to success.
- #16 Squirbs
87% matchMixed67% of 443 reviews2016
Dev: Team Indev
Windows
Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 3.6 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Squirbs is a challenging puzzle-platformer in which you control two cute blue Squirbs simultaneously with one set of controls. Looking for an awesomely difficult game? That's Squirbs.
Why similar: Platformer 41.5%, Indie 15.6%, Difficult 15.6%, Puzzle 14.2%, Adventure 9.3%
Why You'll Like It: A challenging indie platformer that requires quick reflexes and precise movement to survive.
- #17 Run Rabbit Run
86% matchVery Positive81% of 88 reviews2016
Dev: FLAT12Pub: Absolutist Ltd.
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 3.8 hrs≥1hr: 93%
Are you a big fan of platform games? Can your nerves tolerate a high level of difficulty? If your answer is yes, then get your jumping skills ready for a new Super Meat Boy and Defrag(Quake3Arena) inspired platformer Run Rabbit Run!
Why similar: Platformer 29.3%, Puzzle Platformer 26.8%, Difficult 16.7%, Puzzle 11.3%, Adventure 4.7%
Why You'll Like It: A fast-paced, difficult platformer that features a similar visual style and focus on lethal traps.
- #18 Bad Rats: the Rats' Revenge
86% matchMostly Positive79% of 14,841 reviews2009
Dev: Invent4 EntertainmentPub: Strategy First
Windows
Median: 2.5 hrsMean: 20.0 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Bad Rats is a physics puzzle game where rats finally get their bloody revenge on their new prisoners: The cats. Come up with creative solutions for each puzzle using physics, functional objects, and your specially trained Rats. Try different ways of solving each puzzle to finish faster or earn higher scores.
Why similar: Puzzle 45.5%, Gore 27.7%, Indie 25%, Singleplayer 1.8%
Why You'll Like It: A physics-based puzzle game known for its dark humor and violent, slapstick outcomes.
- #19 Hellstuck: Rage With Your Friends
84% matchVery Positive89% of 179 reviews2022
Dev: Terror Dog Studio
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.2 hrsMean: 2.3 hrs≥1hr: 59%
Get ready to rage with your friends in this co-op precise platforming adventure! You're stuck in Hell. You can only jump upwards and all you have to do is escape … it can't be that hard, right?!
Why similar: Platformer 32.2%, Difficult 22.8%, Pixel Graphics 11.1%, Indie 9.4%, Funny 7.2%
Why You'll Like It: A difficult precision platformer designed to test player patience and skill in a dark, hellish setting.
- #20 Let Me Die (inside)
84% matchMixed66% of 65 reviews2021
Dev: No
Windows
The characters of Let Me Die (inside) have fallen into despair head over heels, so they want to leave this world and end their lives. Your duty is to fulfil their wish. In every level, the player is expected to find a way to die, but before that, he has to complete the death wishes of the character.
Why similar: Puzzle 39.1%, Pixel Graphics 17.6%, Adventure 15%, Gore 10.7%, Indie 10.1%
Why You'll Like It: A dark, atmospheric puzzle game that shares the morbid thematic undertones of the seed game.
- #21 Super Puzzled Cat
80% matchVery Positive98% of 192 reviews2025
Dev: Penguin Mug Games
Windows
Help Puzzled Cat use jetpacks, portals, bombs, gum, and more to conquer treacherous platforming stages. Play your own way using save states to explore a world full of challenges and secrets - but can you find the way through? Travel through time and space and reach enlightenment.
Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 32.2%, Platformer 21.7%, Difficult 14.8%, Puzzle 11.6%, Pixel Graphics 5.4%
Why You'll Like It: A 2D puzzle-platformer that incorporates time manipulation and difficult level design.
- #22 Goat's Tale (Classic)
82% matchVery Positive84% of 339 reviews2022
Dev: FoxSox GamesPub: FoxLoaf Games
Windows
The treasures hidden on the peaks await the most lively, goat daredevils. The challenge will be difficult and… irritating - only the best and most patient will get to the top.
Why similar: Platformer 27%, Puzzle Platformer 22.5%, Difficult 20.6%, Pixel Graphics 8.4%, Indie 7.7%
Why You'll Like It: A difficult precision platformer that captures the indie spirit and high-stakes platforming of the seed game.
- #23 Hoppup!
82% matchMostly Positive76% of 80 reviews2020
Dev: Stephen Damm Boeaas
Windows
Attempt to jump to the top of the world in this short, yet difficult platforming adventure. Meet strange friends along the way and make sure not to fall!
Why similar: Platformer 71.1%, Psychological Horror 13.6%, Difficult 5.3%, Indie 4.2%, Pixel Graphics 3.1%
Why You'll Like It: A precision platformer that emphasizes difficult, unforgiving jumps in a minimalist 2D style.
- #24 CARRION
79% matchVery Positive95% of 30,368 reviews2020
Dev: Phobia Game StudioPub: Devolver Digital
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 6.7 hrs≥1hr: 82%
CARRION is a reverse horror game in which you assume the role of an amorphous creature of unknown origins, stalking and consuming those that imprisoned you.
Why similar: Pixel Graphics 22.3%, Gore 19.5%, Puzzle 17%, Platformer 14.9%, Indie 13%
Why You'll Like It: While a reverse-horror game, it shares the gore-filled, dark aesthetic and unique movement mechanics found in indie platformers.
- #25 Purple Heart
83% matchMixed47% of 131 reviews2017
Dev: Artalasky
Windows
Median: 6 minMean: 7.5 hrs≥1hr: 27%
Hardcore pixel indie platformer with puzzle elements and history. Can you get to the end?
Why similar: Platformer 30.2%, Indie 18.7%, Puzzle 15.2%, Difficult 14.1%, Adventure 12.6%
Why You'll Like It: A pixel-art platformer that focuses on puzzle-solving and navigating dangerous environments.
- #26 Dog Adventure
81% matchVery Positive83% of 92 reviews2022
Dev: Quarlellle
Windows
Dog Adventure is an incredibly challenging side-scrolling game. If you like challenging platformers, then this game is definitely for you. In this game you play as a funny dog that needs to get into its house. Complete all the hardest levels of this game with funny music!
Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 27.6%, Platformer 24.5%, Indie 17.6%, Difficult 14.6%, Adventure 11.8%
Why You'll Like It: A precision-platformer that provides a similar level of challenge and indie charm.
- #27 Hellevator
79% matchVery Positive92% of 330 reviews2021
Dev: Quasar Games
Windows
Hellevator is a 2D platformer in hell where the only way to escape is to die. Find creative ways to die in order to solve the puzzles and progress through this infernal hotel.
Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 47.6%, Platformer 29.6%, Gore 6.9%, Adventure 6%, Indie 5.3%
Why You'll Like It: A puzzle-platformer featuring demonic themes and a focus on navigating deadly, trap-filled levels.
- #28 Super Chipflake Ü: Quest for the Uncooked Schnitzel
76% matchVery Positive96% of 387 reviews2026
Dev: SalsaShark Studios
Windows
You're hungry. For a schnitzel. The problem is: you have to get it!
Why similar: Platformer 69.2%, Adventure 19.8%, Indie 10.1%, Singleplayer 0.9%
- #29 Toby: The Secret Mine
81% matchMostly Positive70% of 725 reviews2015
Dev: Lukas Navratil
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 3.7 hrs≥1hr: 85%
A challenging puzzle platformer inspired by games like Limbo and Badland.
Why similar: Platformer 30.9%, Puzzle Platformer 24.2%, Indie 12.7%, Puzzle 11.6%, Difficult 9.2%
Why You'll Like It: An atmospheric puzzle-platformer that shares the 2D side-scrolling perspective and puzzle-heavy gameplay.
- #30 Kill Yourself
78% matchVery Positive88% of 132 reviews2020
Dev: Gugames
Windows
Enough with games where death is a nuisance that must be avoided at all costs: in Kill Yourself, death is your goal! But beware, it won't be easy: you'll need to work hard to find all the different ways to end the guy's miserable life.
Why similar: Puzzle 39.3%, Pixel Graphics 20.2%, Gore 15%, Indie 13.2%, Adventure 10.6%
- #31 Nolgorb's Ordeal
77% matchMostly Positive72% of 61 reviews2024
Dev: Hard Meat
Windows · Linux
A challenging 3D platformer with little room for error. Escape a dungeon by jumping to the top, and sacrifice your collectables for items to aid in your ordeal.
Why similar: Platformer 44.1%, Difficult 30.6%, Funny 10.3%, Psychological Horror 9.7%, Adventure 4.8%
- #32 Jump Off The Bridge
78% matchVery Positive87% of 255 reviews2019
Dev: Cody Penn
Windows
An absurd retro-platformer that tests your patience.
Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 27.8%, Platformer 26.9%, Difficult 16.1%, Pixel Graphics 9.3%, Indie 8.1%
- #33 Steal The Pig
74% matchVery Positive88% of 97 reviews2025
Dev: BAA Games
Windows
STEAL THE PIG! is a cooperative game where two thieves must steal a stubborn pig and deliver it safely while overcoming traps and puzzles. Play with a friend in multiplayer, choose your difficulty level, and make sure the pig doesn’t escape!
Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 38.1%, Platformer 30.1%, Puzzle 17.6%, Funny 8.4%, Adventure 5.8%
- #34 Piggy Poggy Pog
77% matchVery Positive81% of 715 reviews2017
Dev: Verterial FlurPub: Sacred Grab Games
Windows
Median: 12 minMean: 9.6 hrs≥1hr: 29%
Piggy Poggy Pog - is quite a complex, nice-looking 2D platformer in which you must escape from the farm playing for a pig named Poggy . In this game you go through the levels, collecting a certain number of acorns.
Why similar: Platformer 30.7%, Psychological Horror 24.2%, Indie 17.9%, Gore 16.1%, Adventure 11.2%
- #35 Turbo Pug
75% matchVery Positive90% of 3,354 reviews2015
Dev: Space Cat StudiosPub: Back To Basics Gaming
Windows
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 5.3 hrs≥1hr: 83%
It's time to unleash your inner pug! Turbo Pug is a casual runner with difficult, random, procedurally generated levels. Enjoy random weather and try to avoid getting zapped by lightning. Unlock new costumes for your pug and new characters to play as. Please try not to squish your pug!
Why similar: Indie 50.6%, Difficult 16.5%, Platformer 16.2%, Pixel Graphics 12.9%, 2D 3.7%
- #36 Ugly
73% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 583 reviews2023
Dev: Team UglyPub: Graffiti Games
Windows
Median: 2.6 hrsMean: 6.9 hrs≥1hr: 64%
Unravel the dark secrets hidden throughout this stirring puzzle platformer about a tormented nobleman confronting the traumas of his past. Use an innovative mirror mechanic to solve challenging puzzle rooms and defeat towering bosses as you strive to piece together the ugly truth.
Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 34.6%, Platformer 29.7%, Puzzle 16.4%, Indie 6.5%, Psychological Horror 4.9%
- #37 Bouncy Goat Climb
75% matchMostly Positive78% of 338 reviews2022
Dev: Jesper Bergman
Windows
A highly punishing 3D precision platformer about a goat bouncing up a beautiful mountain to save its scared baby goat. Can you handle the challenge and endure all obstacles that you will face on your way up the mountain?
Why similar: Platformer 48.8%, Difficult 31.9%, Adventure 11.2%, Indie 6.4%, Singleplayer 1.7%
- #38 Panic Porcupine
74% matchVery Positive94% of 69 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 32%, Difficult 21.3%, Puzzle Platformer 18.9%, Pixel Graphics 9.8%, Indie 8.5%
- #39 Egging On
70% matchMostly Positive75% of 657 reviews2025
Dev: EgoboundsPub: Alibi Games
Windows
Median: 2.1 hrsMean: 4.4 hrs≥1hr: 68%
This game is hard-boiled. Face the challenge of being a real, fragile egg. Escape the hen-house and jump, roll and climb your way through a farm shop, factory and other perilous environments. With some determination, you might just reach your freedom.
Why similar: Platformer 41%, Difficult 30.3%, Funny 10.4%, Psychological Horror 8.6%, Adventure 8.4%
- #40 Hack And Climb
70% matchVery Positive98% of 58 reviews2026
Dev: Kodachi Games
Windows
Be the weapon! Swing like an axe, thrust like a spear, and soar like an arrow in this physics-based platformer. Flip, throw, and carve your path to the peak! Rage burns, revenge awaits... Are you up to the challenge?
Why similar: Platformer 31.3%, Difficult 31%, Pixel Graphics 16.1%, Adventure 7.8%, Funny 7.6%
- #41 The Game of Sisyphus
71% matchMostly Positive79% of 826 reviews2024
Dev: cream
Windows
Median: 1.2 hrsMean: 2.8 hrs≥1hr: 55%
Roll the boulder to the top.
Why similar: Platformer 37.9%, Difficult 29.3%, Funny 11.5%, Psychological Horror 8.4%, Adventure 7.7%
- #42 Adventures of Shuggy
73% matchVery Positive85% of 1,205 reviews2012
Dev: Smudged Cat Games Ltd
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 24 minMean: 3.1 hrs≥1hr: 33%
Shuggy has just inherited a castle full of goblins, ghouls, zombies, and robots. Help him clear out over 100 rooms to make his new home liveable again!
Why similar: Platformer 48.8%, Puzzle Platformer 21.6%, Puzzle 15.6%, Indie 11.6%, 2D 2%
- #43 Suicide Guy: Sleepin' Deeply
73% matchMostly Positive78% of 536 reviews2018
Dev: Fabio FerraraPub: Chubby Pixel
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.6 hrsMean: 6.1 hrs≥1hr: 78%
In this new chapter of "Suicide Guy" you'll be challenged with even more insane puzzles, generated by the surreal dreams of the Guy. You'll encounter the weirdest of the living beings as you go deeper and deeper into his subconscious. This time to wake him up you'll need all your skills.
Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 47.8%, Puzzle 20.4%, Indie 14.8%, Funny 9.2%, Adventure 7.8%
- #44 a pig game: A Pee Wee Premiere
69% matchVery Positive92% of 61 reviews2025
Dev: McGraw Game Shop
Windows
Join Pee Wee the Polka Dotted Pig - your silent (but determined) ceramic protagonist on a mission to collect toothpicks! Flip, fling, and fly through a kitchen full of cozy characters and curious quests!
Why similar: Platformer 48.2%, Puzzle 26.8%, Indie 15%, Adventure 8.1%, Singleplayer 1.8%
- #45 System Purge
70% matchVery Positive96% of 202 reviews2022
Dev: Actual Nerds
Windows
Trapped in a buried, forgotten facility, you must reach the core of an ancient machine to rescue your lost lover. System Purge is a challenging, atmospheric 2D platformer.
Why similar: Platformer 46.6%, Pixel Graphics 13.2%, Difficult 11.2%, Indie 9.3%, Gore 9%
- #46 Rat Quest
68% matchVery Positive86% of 1,751 reviews2024
Dev: ratin time studios
Windows
In this platformer, jumping will be your main mechanic as you climb the level, each jump matters, if you miss a jump, you have to restart. You may be small but so are the platforms.
Why similar: Platformer 76.7%, Psychological Horror 14.2%, 2D 7.6%, Singleplayer 1.5%
- #47 Devil's Drizzle
67% matchVery Positive97% of 119 reviews2025
Dev: Cozy Creeps GamesPub: ZNT Productions
Windows · Linux
Devil's Drizzle is a 2D platformer that narrates the story of a kid in pursuit of his friend, an umbrella. Brave the storm and outrun the clutches of the demonic Pazuzu in this audacious effort to save your buddy.
Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 37.2%, Platformer 26.5%, Pixel Graphics 12.7%, Indie 7.2%, Funny 6.9%
- #48 Astro Pig
68% matchVery Positive100% of 78 reviews2024
Dev: Garoa Studios
Windows
A 90-s inspired lo-fi adventure puzzle platformer about a piglet astronaut and his intelligent ship.
Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 37.5%, Platformer 28.3%, Puzzle 13.5%, Pixel Graphics 10.7%, Adventure 6.4%
- #49 Soviet Bear Uni Adventure
72% matchMostly Positive73% of 95 reviews2019
Dev: J
Windows
Soviet Bear Uni Adventure is a painfully challenging physics-based action/adventure game. Pedal and lean to stay upright and overcome each crazy obstacle.
Why similar: Platformer 40.1%, Difficult 30.6%, Funny 11.4%, Psychological Horror 8.4%, Adventure 6%
- #50 Tiny Bridge: Ratventure
72% matchMixed68% of 1,090 reviews2015
Dev: EstelionPub: Senpai Industrial Studios
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 4.6 hrs≥1hr: 87%
This mind-bending game will challenge you to create complex structures to get your woodland creatures over vast chasms. In a bridge-builder first, you'll guide your creatures and construct your bridges in real time. Use the weight of various creatures to balance your structures as you build them.
Why similar: Puzzle 51.2%, Indie 28.6%, Adventure 11.3%, 2D 7.2%, Singleplayer 1.7%
- #51 REZ PLZ
71% matchMostly Positive76% of 55 reviews2020
Dev: Long Neck GamesPub: Graffiti Games
Windows
A puzzle platformer with a new twist on co-op and single player gameplay. Solve puzzles, platforming challenges, and encounter dangerous monsters and traps that require you to KILL and resurrect your brother to advance! Death is just part of the adventure.
Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 31.4%, Platformer 26.4%, Difficult 16%, Puzzle 12.6%, Pixel Graphics 7.1%
- #52 Suicide Guy Deluxe Plus
69% matchVery Positive81% of 418 reviews2022
Dev: Chubby PixelPub: Chubby Pixel Publishing
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.2 hrsMean: 3.8 hrs≥1hr: 74%
Suicide Guy Deluxe Plus is the surreal puzzle game set in the dreams of its protagonist. Will you be able to save the thing you love most and overcome the neverending whirlwind of nightmares? Now in a new shiny edition.
Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 61.5%, Puzzle 18.3%, Funny 12.6%, Adventure 7%, Singleplayer 0.7%
- #53 A Difficult Game About Climbing
66% matchVery Positive88% of 5,396 reviews2024
Dev: Pontypants
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.6 hrsMean: 6.8 hrs≥1hr: 71%
This is a difficult game about climbing.
Why similar: Platformer 42%, Difficult 28.2%, Funny 9.2%, Adventure 8%, Psychological Horror 7.9%
- #54 Pushing It! With Sisyphus
68% matchMixed66% of 101 reviews2024
Dev: Bashir "ManliestDev" KashaloPub: ManliestDev
Windows
A game about a very happy guy and his boulder. (Warning: As an accurate representation of the ancient Myth of Sisyphus, this is likely the most difficult and punishing game you will ever play.)
Why similar: Platformer 44.5%, Difficult 32.5%, Adventure 9.2%, Funny 8.5%, Psychological Horror 4.7%
- #55 Suicide Adventures
71% matchMixed57% of 68 reviews2017
Dev: Idea Cabin
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 12 minMean: 3.4 hrs≥1hr: 15%
Lost in the abyssal depths of limbo, you are a tortured soul who is trapped between life and death, stuck in a dungeon whose puzzles will test you as you strive to go into the afterlife.
Why similar: Indie 59%, Adventure 41%
- #56 Unemployment Simulator 2018
64% matchVery Positive86% of 85 reviews2026
Dev: Samuel LehikoinenPub: turbolento publishing
Windows
Social welfare survival horror based on real events. Endure emotional pain and societal pressure. Stay entertained. Survive the routine and become the hero of your studio apartment—battle inner demons, hide skeletons in the closet, and most importantly… keep the bathroom clean.
Why similar: Puzzle 36.8%, Pixel Graphics 21.4%, Indie 17.9%, Adventure 11%, Psychological Horror 10.8%
- #57 Struggling
67% matchVery Positive87% of 688 reviews2020
Dev: Chasing Rats GamesPub: Frontier Foundry
Windows
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 3.8 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Struggling is a physics-based co-op platformer with a twisted spin on teamwork. Control the arms of a squishy abomination and lead it through a deranged world.
Why similar: Platformer 35.5%, Indie 18.6%, Funny 18.4%, Psychological Horror 11.9%, Adventure 11.8%
- #58 The Warrior
63% matchVery Positive97% of 248 reviews2025
Dev: ThornDuck
Windows · Mac · Linux
A unique platforming experience where the protagonist, story, and mechanics are constantly changing. Take control of legendary warriors, giant worms, greedy kings, and lazy demons, each with their own purpose.
Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 33.9%, Platformer 26.7%, Puzzle 13.7%, Pixel Graphics 9.7%, Funny 7.5%
- #59 Squirreltopia
69% matchMostly Positive74% of 284 reviews2015
Dev: SD
Windows
Median: 2.5 hrsMean: 4.3 hrs≥1hr: 95%
Squirrel-based 2D platformer
Why similar: Platformer 31.5%, Difficult 26.6%, Pixel Graphics 18.9%, Indie 10.2%, Adventure 6.2%