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Help Madeline survive her inner demons on her journey to the top of Celeste Mountain, in this super-tight platformer from the creators of TowerFall. Brave hundreds of hand-crafted challenges, uncover devious secrets, and piece together the mystery of the mountain.

Why similar: Platformer 50.9%, Indie 32.9%, Action 16.2%

Why You'll Like It: It offers incredibly tight controls and challenging platforming stages that require both skill and perseverance to master.

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

Why similar: Platformer 61.5%, Indie 28.7%, Action 9.8%

Why You'll Like It: This is the definitive precision platformer that popularized the genre's fast-paced, high-difficulty, and quick-respawn gameplay loop.

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 50.3%, Indie 26.1%, Action 23.6%

Why You'll Like It: Created by the team behind Super Meat Boy, this game features brutal platforming challenges in a dark, minimalist world.

A simple, fast paced platformer with one small change: Your character can't run. Play as an adorable robot named Blitz and help it escape the factory it was built in. The only problem is, it seems like everything is trying to break you!

Why similar: Action 46.7%, Indie 27.4%, Platformer 25.9%

Why You'll Like It: A fast-paced, difficult platformer that relies on dash mechanics and pixel-perfect timing.

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

Why similar: Platformer 53.4%, Indie 28.9%, Action 17.7%

Why You'll Like It: This minimalist gravity-flipping platformer is famous for its high difficulty and simple, effective level design.

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 53.6%, Indie 24.6%, Action 21.7%

Why You'll Like It: This game combines intense, difficult platforming with a high-energy soundtrack and vibrant, minimalist visuals.

Velocibox is a twitch-heavy action game crafted for the hardcore audience.

Why similar: Action 61.1%, Indie 38.9%

Why You'll Like It: This high-speed, minimalist action game provides a punishing experience that tests your reaction times to the limit.

Sprint between saw blades while dodging homing missiles. Duck under lasers while the floor crumbles beneath you. Almost There was designed specifically for fans of the hardcore platforming genre - you've been warned.

Why similar: Platformer 39.3%, Action 36.2%, Indie 24.6%

Why You'll Like It: An unforgiving platformer designed specifically for players who enjoy overcoming difficult, trap-filled levels.

10 SECOND NINJA X is a hardcore sidescroller. You're a ninja, there are robots, you've got ten seconds to destroy them all. Get three star ratings, climb leaderboards, discover secrets and stop Captain Greatbeard.

Why similar: Action 44.7%, Platformer 32.3%, Indie 23%

Why You'll Like It: It demands extreme precision and speed as you attempt to clear challenging levels in under ten seconds.

They Bleed Pixels is a fiendishly difficult action platformer inspired by H.P. Lovecraft and classic horror.

Why similar: Platformer 43.9%, Action 38.3%, Indie 17.8%

Why You'll Like It: A hardcore action-platformer that blends difficult combat with precise jumping challenges in a gothic setting.

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: Action 50.5%, Indie 27.7%, Platformer 21.8%

Why You'll Like It: A difficult indie platformer that emphasizes precision and pattern recognition in its level progression.

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 56.2%, Platformer 43.8%

Why You'll Like It: A challenging 2D platformer that rewards players for mastering its simple but demanding movement mechanics.

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: This minimalist platformer focuses on color-switching mechanics that add a layer of complexity to its difficult levels.

140 is a challenging minimalistic platformer with abstract colorful graphics. Rhythmic awareness is required to overcome obstacles controlled by an energetic, yet melancholic electronic soundtrack.

Why similar: Platformer 56.7%, Indie 27.4%, Action 16%

Why You'll Like It: A minimalist rhythm-platformer where the environment reacts to the music, requiring precise timing to navigate.

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: Platformer 35.5%, Action 33.5%, Indie 31%

Why You'll Like It: A notoriously difficult platformer that focuses on the tension of every single jump, where one mistake can cost you significant progress.

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

Why similar: Indie 54%, Platformer 46%

Why You'll Like It: A 2D precision platformer that offers a high level of challenge through its tight, demanding level design.

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 53.2%, Indie 46.8%

Why You'll Like It: A minimalist and difficult platformer that strips away the fluff to focus entirely on the challenge of movement.

HoPiKo is an intense speed run platformer where you get to save gaming. Jump from platform to platform avoiding death, exploiting shortcuts and ripping through 100s of hand-crafted levels, each one dropped into a 5-stage mini run designed to break your mind!

Why similar: Action 39.5%, Platformer 34.9%, Indie 25.6%

Why You'll Like It: A fast-paced, twitch-based platformer that is designed to be extremely difficult and rewarding for speedrunners.

Froggie is a platform game with retro graphics.

Why similar: Platformer 44%, Action 33%, Indie 23%

Why You'll Like It: A precision-platformer that features cute pixel graphics masking a very difficult and demanding gameplay experience.

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

Why similar: Platformer 37.2%, Action 36.8%, Indie 26%

Why You'll Like It: A challenging 2D action-platformer that features a retro aesthetic and unforgiving gameplay mechanics.

Speed Swing is a challenging level based grappling hook game, where the objective is to reach the end of each level as fast as possible.

Why similar: Indie 58.3%, Platformer 41.7%

Why You'll Like It: A first-person platformer that requires precise timing and momentum to navigate its difficult, single-player stages.

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: Action 46.4%, Platformer 42.7%, Indie 10.9%

Why You'll Like It: A minimalist, difficult platformer that blends puzzle elements with precision jumping challenges.

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

Why similar: Action 37.3%, Indie 35.3%, Platformer 27.4%

Why You'll Like It: This indie platformer provides a difficult experience that requires careful navigation and quick reflexes.

In this hard to master platformer you will slay zombies, avoid deadly traps and unleash your true potential through a variety of skills and abilities.

Why similar: Action 50.1%, Indie 31.9%, Platformer 18.1%

Why You'll Like It: A casual-looking but challenging platformer that provides a straightforward, difficult experience.

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: Action 36.9%, Platformer 35.8%, Indie 27.3%

Why You'll Like It: A 2D platformer that focuses on tight controls and challenging level design in a minimalist world.

POLY IMPULSE is a minimalist fast-paced movement FPS where you will have to shoot colorful polyhedrons to impulse yourself through the level. Speedrunning is not an option, only the fastest with godlike aim will get the SS rank.

Why similar: Action 52.1%, Platformer 32.3%, Indie 15.7%

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 44.4%, Action 40.8%, Platformer 14.9%

Snik is an extremely hard game that will test your reflexes, timing, aiming and planning ahead in a simple, minimalist interface.

Why similar: Indie 100%

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

Why similar: Action 46.9%, Platformer 27.5%, Indie 25.6%

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: Action 40.9%, Indie 35.5%, Platformer 23.6%

Slip is a fast paced side scrolling platformer featuring a two color, swap mechanic. Using your two colors flee from Steve and his wretched purple beam through a multitude of obstacles and enemies. Slip combines the elegant simplicity of platforming with a polarity mechanic to create an easy to learn, but extremely difficult to master...

Why similar: Action 47.5%, Indie 29.4%, Platformer 23.1%

Dangerous Bullets- This dynamic hardcore platforming, challenges you.

Why similar: Action 49.9%, Platformer 30.6%, Indie 19.5%

Time Up is a fast paced action platformer, with each level only being 9 seconds. Sieze every opportunity, plan your route, Survive various deadly traps, and reach the finish line! This game combines a variety of classic platformer elements: The levels are carefully designed to make them harder, yet more enjoyable to give the player a...

Why similar: Action 50.9%, Indie 29%, Platformer 20.1%

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

Why similar: Action 50.5%, Indie 25.8%, Platformer 23.7%

If you want to relax, this game is not for you, this game is made to make you rage. go through challenging and hard levels and run to the finish line. will you take the challenge?

Why similar: Action 49.5%, Platformer 37.6%, Indie 12.9%

10 seconds to win! is a platform game where you only have 10 seconds to complete each stage, be agile and skillful to complete all levels.

Why similar: Platformer 44.4%, Action 30.8%, Indie 24.8%

Starsphere is a challenging platformer. Jump and move together with Starsphere in ocean of dynamics and action. Incredibly difficult levels, bonuses, achievements, and of course rhythmic Starsphere music will give you a lot of fun (pain) to play.

Why similar: Indie 100%

Never Give Up is a hardcore platformer determined to turn you into bloody chunks. Run, jump, and slide your way through ever-changing levels that get harder each time you succeed. You’ll need to try, die, and try again if you want to conquer the game without pressing the Give Up button.

Why similar: Platformer 37.4%, Action 35.9%, Indie 26.7%

Run! Jump! Dodge! In this platformer you will need your reaction speed and clarity of mind. Сhallenge the deadly tower and prove that you are worthy of the title of ninja.

Why similar: Action 62.6%, Indie 37.4%

An insanely difficult precision platformer

Why similar: Platformer 64.8%, Indie 35.2%

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: Platformer 56.6%, Action 43.4%

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 42.4%, Action 40.8%, Indie 16.8%

Golden Dungeons - is a simple hardcore platformer game, the goal to get out of the cave. Try to pass all levels and not die!

Why similar: Action 65.7%, Indie 34.3%

Platform game with a gloomy artistic style. Challenging levels with many traps and enemies. Use all your skills to avoid dangerous traps. Destroy all opponents on your way to revenge.

Why similar: Platformer 43.9%, Action 40.2%, Indie 15.9%

Agent in Depth is a daring action-platformer featuring fast-paced action and instant-death combat. You’ll run, jump, aim, and deflect bullets with your katana to blow up your enemies. No checkpoints, no upgrades: just pure skills. Deflect, die, learn, repeat. Be better, be faster.

Why similar: Action 65.6%, Indie 34.4%

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: Action 40.4%, Platformer 39.5%, Indie 20.1%

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: Action 49.8%, Indie 26.7%, Platformer 23.5%

3D Hardcore Cube - this is not an easy platformer in which you want to get to the portal and not to fall into the trap. The game has boosters traffic boosters bounce, anti bounce, falling cubes, turrets and more!

Why similar: Action 64.3%, Indie 35.7%

In ZRoll you will encounter many difficult levels. You will need to jump over the platforms, use different mechanisms and collect ancient totems to earn achievements and pass the levels.

Why similar: Action 64.2%, Indie 35.8%

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

Why similar: Indie 72%, Platformer 28%

Nowhere Patrol is a boss rush game with bullet hell and platforming elements. Inspired by classic action arcade games with it's steep difficulty curve and non-stop action.

Why similar: Action 50.3%, Indie 27.9%, Platformer 21.7%

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: Action 57.9%, Indie 32.6%, Platformer 9.5%

Welcome to the Sponchies tryouts, The Sponchies are an ELITE TEAM created by the government to do special, secret, impossible missions; Only the best are able to get into the program. In order to become a Sponchie you have to complete a set of 50 incredibly difficult hand crafted levels.

Why similar: Action 43.6%, Platformer 35.3%, Indie 21.1%

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

Why similar: Action 54.9%, Platformer 34.5%, Indie 10.6%

It’s a challenging 2D arcade game where you are a master of time. Set it to past, present or future to control various mechanisms, and make sure that a mechanical bird will safely reach the end of the level. Prepare to die a lot – you will be sliced, squashed and crushed.

Why similar: Action 58.6%, Indie 41.4%

Colors! Platform is a minimalist casual platform game.

Why similar: Platformer 55%, Indie 22.6%, Action 22.5%

Karma Knight is a fast paced 2D side-scrolling platform action game with stylish combat. Find hidden items in the stages, collect different spells, defeat the enemies as you gain more experience and enjoy the overall platform action game style.

Why similar: Action 58.1%, Indie 32.7%, Platformer 9.1%

Jump into a neon-filled platformer world as Q and overcome a gauntlet of tricky platform challenges.

Why similar: Platformer 61.5%, Action 38.5%