Games Like SUPER DISTRO

Jet Gunner is a 2D platform action indie game that's full of Nestalgia. Full of action, gunfights, bosses and explosions so if you're into the whole 8-Bit vibe you should love this. From the sound, to the graphics to the flicker, this should pay tribute to those classic hard as nails, run 'n' gun games.

Why similar: Platformer 34.3%, Action 28.2%, Indie 22%, Adventure 11.9%, 2D 3.6%

Why You'll Like It: It captures the same retro 8-bit aesthetic and fast-paced action found in Super Distro's classic-inspired gameplay.

For those of you who cannot live without old-style hardcore platformer challenges, Yury brings the ultimate spikes-lava-monsters experience.

Why similar: Indie 28.7%, Platformer 25.2%, Difficult 18.1%, Adventure 12.1%, Action 11.7%

Why You'll Like It: A challenging indie platformer that mirrors Super Distro's demanding difficulty and action-heavy progression.

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

Why similar: Platformer 43.9%, Difficult 29.8%, Indie 18.1%, 2D 4.7%, Action 2.4%

Why You'll Like It: Like Super Distro, this is a famously unforgiving precision platformer built around instant respawns and demanding pixel-perfect jumps.

Blaster Shooter GunGuy is a 2D action rage platformer. Similar in nature to games such as IWBTG. But also inspired by Mega Man and Mega Man X.

Why similar: Platformer 35.9%, Difficult 28.6%, Action 10.9%, Adventure 9.6%, Indie 8.9%

Why You'll Like It: This side-scrolling precision platformer matches the aggressive pacing and tough-as-nails combat of the seed game.

In a world oppressed by ruthless machines, a stronghold full of die-hard TV-sets resists the persecution. Your lost friends and the lack of resources drive you to take action against the extinction. Brave the dangers and go find your comrades to rescue your species!

Why similar: Platformer 38.8%, Indie 32.9%, Action 15.2%, Adventure 13.1%

Why You'll Like It: It delivers high-speed, punishing 2D platforming action that will feel right at home to fans of Super Distro.

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: Platformer 38.9%, Difficult 25.9%, Indie 17.8%, Adventure 7.7%, Action 6.2%

Why You'll Like It: It shares Super Distro's grim aesthetic and masocore platforming focus, requiring mastery over tight controls to survive.

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: Indie 30.8%, Platformer 27.1%, Difficult 22.1%, Adventure 20%

Why You'll Like It: A challenging retro-styled platformer focusing on tight mechanics and relentless level obstacles similar to Super Distro.

Angvik is a platform action game set in a joyful but unforgiving land.

Why similar: Platformer 39.1%, Indie 24.2%, Difficult 15.4%, Action 13.2%, Adventure 4.7%

Why You'll Like It: This punishing indie platformer shares Super Distro's retro presentation and uncompromising difficulty level.

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

Why similar: Platformer 35.9%, Indie 33.6%, Action 25.3%, 2D 5.3%

Why You'll Like It: It channels classic retro platforming tropes with action-packed levels reminiscent of the inspirations behind Super Distro.

Stonerid is a challenging 2D platformer, which the most important feature are two parallel, different worlds. Over 30 different levels to complete, unconventional game style and lots of dangerous traps and monsters make it extremely difficult to rise to the challenge.

Why similar: Indie 38.6%, Platformer 34.3%, Action 27.1%

Why You'll Like It: An indie action platformer featuring demanding obstacles and a retro challenge curve.

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: Indie 29%, Difficult 23%, Platformer 21.1%, Action 12.4%, Adventure 10.9%

Why You'll Like It: A fast-paced precision platformer that tests your reflexes and quick thinking just like Super Distro.

Prompt is a hardcore platformer. It is minimalist, it is retro, and it is very, very hard. Everything from the visual style to the design of every level has been coded with love, just for you.

Why similar: Platformer 56.2%, Indie 43.8%

Why You'll Like It: A tough-but-fair indie platformer built to test the endurance and skill of hardcore players.

Try, die, cry, repeat. Flem is an old school hard-as-nails platformer about a sentient snot ball, with a nose-stalgia inducing soundtrack.

Why similar: Indie 35.5%, Platformer 27.7%, Action 24.4%, Difficult 9.9%, 2D 2.5%

Why You'll Like It: Features the same 2D pixelated action and brutal difficulty spikes seen throughout Super Distro.

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 41.9%, Indie 28.2%, Adventure 15.1%, Action 14.8%

Why You'll Like It: A demanding indie platformer that pushes player precision to the limit in a harsh 2D environment.

Race across a curious island in this fast-paced, light-hearted platformer

Why similar: Platformer 28.3%, Indie 22.5%, Difficult 18.9%, Action 15.3%, Adventure 15%

Why You'll Like It: Offers rapid-fire, action-oriented platforming challenges with a classic retro visual style.

A platform game so difficult and at the same time, so addictive that you will enjoy having to repeat a levels dozens of times until complete them.

Why similar: Indie 33.1%, Platformer 24.8%, Difficult 15.5%, Action 14.7%, Adventure 11.8%

Why You'll Like It: An indie platformer featuring hazardous levels that require careful maneuvering and quick reflexes.

Super Helmets on Fire DX is a crazy side scrolling action platformer game, with lots of nods to old school games, mixed with hardcore runner gameplay and a pinch of RPG lite elements.

Why similar: Platformer 35.3%, Difficult 25.1%, Indie 23.3%, Action 16.3%

Why You'll Like It: Combines intense 2D action platforming with an unapologetically high difficulty level.

Huge classic platformer with several power-ups and 8-12 hours of main story & 300+ hidden locations just begging for exploration · 56 big Levels · 5 huge worlds

Why similar: Platformer 54.6%, Indie 23.4%, Action 11.7%, Difficult 5.6%, 2D 4.8%

Why You'll Like It: Emulates classic retro platformers with a tough difficulty curve similar to Super Distro's inspirations.

NightmareZ is a side-scrolling platform action game with multiple enemies, lots of fancy features and retro visuals. This is a retro styled platform and action game which will immerse you in a unique world full of good and evil demons.

Why similar: Indie 29.7%, Platformer 29.5%, Action 21.4%, Difficult 14.2%, 2D 5.1%

Why You'll Like It: A retro-styled 2D platformer designed around challenging action sequences and tough level layouts.

Phantom Jump is a skill based platformer with rhythm mechanics, built to turn you into a speedrunner.

Why similar: Indie 36.3%, Platformer 34.9%, Difficult 23.5%, 2D 5.2%

Why You'll Like It: A punishing 2D indie platformer where every single jump requires absolute precision.

Super Meddl Boy is an action-packed platformer game. Only the toughest Meddlers make it to the finish line - are you ready to take the stage?

Why similar: Action 50.1%, 2D 27.8%, Indie 13.5%, Adventure 8.6%

What is A-Men?Classic puzzle-platformer, inspired by some oldschool titles like Lemmings and Lost Vikings. What is A-Men like?Hard. No holding your hand, no easy levels, we want to challenge you. If you are a casual, A-Men is not for you.

Why similar: Indie 33%, Platformer 28.3%, Action 20.7%, Adventure 18%

Why You'll Like It: Combines action platforming with clever challenges that test your overall execution.

Squirrel-based 2D platformer

Why similar: Difficult 28.6%, Platformer 26.2%, Indie 17.3%, Action 10.6%, Adventure 10%

Why You'll Like It: A precision-focused 2D platformer with retro pixel graphics and challenging obstacle courses.

An explosive homage to SNES-era platformers from the makers of Stealth Bastard Deluxe, Explodemon is non-stop action mayhem like you've never seen before.

Why similar: Platformer 45.4%, Indie 22.8%, Action 19.5%, Adventure 12.3%

Why You'll Like It: An action-heavy platformer filled with explosive gameplay moments and demanding pacing.

Retro platforming action in this adaptation of a terrible movie.

Why similar: Platformer 31.2%, Indie 30.3%, Adventure 19.5%, Action 19%

Why You'll Like It: A retro platformer that pays homage to classic, difficult games of the past.

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 30.9%, Indie 23.7%, Difficult 15%, Adventure 13.6%, Action 12.6%

Why You'll Like It: An indie action platformer offering fast-paced gameplay and tricky navigation.

Super Switch is a difficult platformer in which you have to actively switch between 2 dimensions. It's tougher than iron and extremely rewarding.

Why similar: Indie 100%

Why You'll Like It: A difficult indie platformer focused on quick reactions and tight timing.

One button platformer nightmare

Why similar: Platformer 32.4%, Indie 28.1%, Action 21.5%, Difficult 18%

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

Why similar: Platformer 29.8%, Indie 22.2%, Difficult 19.4%, Action 14.2%, Adventure 9.3%

Why You'll Like It: A retro indie platformer featuring singular action challenges and exploratory elements.

Dynamic is an indie Platformer game. The goal is to try to avoid obstacles and dangerous enemies who want to kill you

Why similar: Indie 41.6%, Platformer 15.7%, Action 14.8%, Adventure 14.1%, Difficult 11.1%

Why You'll Like It: Lives up to its name by offering an intensely difficult platforming experience for masocore fans.

Volchaos is an ultra-challenging old school platformer.

Why similar: Platformer 41.1%, Action 16%, Adventure 14.9%, Indie 11.1%, Difficult 9.8%

Why You'll Like It: A retro 2D platformer featuring frantic action elements and unforgiving stage design.

The legendary game is now on Steam! Can you prove that you are a good player, go through a difficult path and save your brother? This challenge is not for wimps!

Why similar: Indie 26%, Platformer 19%, Action 18.6%, Adventure 16%, Difficult 11.5%

Dangerous Bullets- This dynamic hardcore platforming, challenges you.

Why similar: Platformer 32.8%, Indie 18.5%, Action 18.3%, Adventure 13%, Difficult 12.2%

Kautic is an action platform game where villagers from a little Town have been petrified and now Kautic, the Bald Wizard, has the hard mission of saving them, but he will need to venture into a world controlled by evil creatures.

Why similar: Indie 28.8%, Platformer 19.8%, Action 19%, Adventure 17.8%, Difficult 11.2%

Super Blasting Boy is a logical platform platformer made in the best traditions of retro games of the late 80's and 90's.

Why similar: Indie 25.4%, Platformer 22.9%, Action 16.7%, Adventure 16.4%, Difficult 15.3%

An insanely difficult precision platformer

Why similar: Difficult 37.8%, Platformer 26.9%, Adventure 14.7%, Indie 13%, 2D 7.6%

It is a platformer. A hard trip to the Neptune. Beware of sharks, barrels, UFO, hard sound and hard levels!

Why similar: Indie 69.5%, Platformer 30.5%

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 37.9%, Action 15.9%, Indie 14.9%, Adventure 14.5%, Difficult 11%

In Hyper Box you try to beat a bunch of platform levels in less than 30 seconds each by using the box rotation to your advantage, this is meant to be a very challenging yet rewarding experience as you improve at the game.

Why similar: Platformer 40.2%, Difficult 29.9%, Action 14.9%, Indie 9.1%, 2D 5.9%

Melt your brain with this twisted take on the platform genre!

Why similar: Platformer 38.6%, Difficult 31.5%, Action 11.8%, Indie 11.5%, 2D 6.6%

Return to the Golden Age of arcades with a hardcore action platformer that pulls no punches! Possesses all the hallmarks of true classics like Super Ghouls 'N Ghosts (SNES), Rastan Saga (Arcade), Castlevania (NES) and more with precise controls, high challenge, and meticulous design.

Why similar: Platformer 38%, Difficult 27.1%, Indie 14.1%, Action 10.4%, Adventure 6.4%

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

Why similar: Platformer 33.2%, Difficult 27.6%, Indie 26.3%, Action 7.5%, 2D 5.4%

Fight for your life in this state-of-the-art 8-bit platformer!

Why similar: Platformer 40%, Indie 22.6%, Action 16.4%, Adventure 15.4%, 2D 5.5%

Cast of the Seven Godsends harks back to the days when classic 2D, run ’n gun, action-shooter games ruled the arcades. Four levels of difficulty, six worlds to conquer, twelve mid and end-of-level bosses, seven god-like armour sets, five basic weapons and thirty-five magic combat spells!

Why similar: Indie 29.3%, Platformer 26%, Action 24.4%, Adventure 20.3%

Super Jagua is a classic 2D retro-style single-player platformer inspired by the greatest platformers of the 80s. Run, jump, swim, discover lots of secrets, fight brutal bosses and more in this classic NES inspired adventure.

Why similar: Action 50.3%, Adventure 49.7%

A super high difficulty, fantastical 2D action platformer complete with an expansive original soundtrack. 20+ Levels. Multiple playable characters. Rich lore. BLEAK: Welcome to Glimmer is Act One in a timeless tale of loss and redemption.

Why similar: Indie 44.5%, Action 30.5%, Platformer 14.6%, Difficult 10.4%

A hard, mind bending platformer based on imagination and quick reflexes.

Why similar: Platformer 30.9%, Indie 25.4%, Difficult 21.4%, Action 18%, 2D 4.3%

Chop is dish-2d-dimensional platformer, where you conroll an angry master-chef who was lost piece of meat-it was stolen. Looking in the root of their troubles hero plunges into the mysterious world of strange creatures, which is fraught with many traps and dangers.

Why similar: Indie 28.5%, Platformer 27.4%, Action 20.6%, Adventure 19%, 2D 4.4%

Created to enrage.

Why similar: Indie 34%, Difficult 22.2%, Adventure 22.1%, Action 21.7%

Run through huge multi-level locations, avoiding spikes, falling platforms, and flying blades, use double jumps, and choose your route to reach the Heart before the lights go out.

Why similar: Platformer 47.2%, Adventure 25.9%, Indie 14.8%, Action 7.3%, 2D 4.9%

Slay grim cultists, infernal minions, and nightmarish creatures in this dark and bloody retro-inspired action platformer. Uncover secrets, acquire powerful artifacts, and face challenging bosses in the Haunted Lands.

Why similar: Platformer 40.5%, Difficult 32.9%, Action 13.4%, Adventure 13.1%

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: Platformer 47%, Difficult 25.3%, Indie 19.1%, Action 6.5%, 2D 2.2%

In created a small surprise strikes the divine lightning, which breathed life into a little lump, and then a little surprise realizes that there is no life without a home unless he builds a house...

Why similar: Indie 26.8%, Platformer 20.9%, Action 18.1%, Adventure 16.7%, Difficult 13.6%

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 54.5%, Indie 28.3%, Adventure 10.2%, 2D 6.9%

Hardcore pixel indie platformer with puzzle elements and history. Can you get to the end?

Why similar: Indie 34.2%, Platformer 27.1%, Adventure 22.2%, Difficult 16.4%

An platformer game about collecting stuff to bear with reality. Just like life, this game is short and meaningless, filled with existential questions of being.

Why similar: Platformer 37.6%, Difficult 25.8%, Indie 17%, Action 13.8%, 2D 5.8%

When a mysterious beam from space transforms the world into a game, the Angry Video Game Nerd must return to put the "ASS" in ASSimilation. Utilize new mechanics, power-ups, abilities, and collectible armor pieces to defeat your most powerful foe yet, and save the world!

Why similar: Indie 25.5%, Platformer 24%, Action 18.5%, Adventure 16%, Difficult 13.5%

This will be one of the worst games you'll have to endure. Are you brave enough to walk down that path?

Why similar: Difficult 37.8%, Platformer 31.9%, Action 15.9%, Adventure 14.4%

Super Mustache is a vintage styled platformer, filled to the brim with 8 bit pixel art juice! Join Captain Super Mustache in a journey to save the planet Uranus. If you enjoyed classic platformer games from the golden era of video games, then you’re going to love this.

Why similar: Indie 47.1%, Platformer 31.4%, Adventure 11.3%, Action 10.2%

Throw on your nostalgia goggles and travel back in time with Super Win the Game, a retro-core explosion of exploration and platforming action!!

Why similar: Platformer 38.9%, Difficult 30.9%, Action 12.6%, Adventure 10.7%, 2D 6.9%