
The Forbidden Arts is an old-school action adventure platformer with a focus on discovery and exploration. You play as Phoenix, a young boy who seeks to master the element of fire in a grand adventure of ancient magic.
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The Forbidden Arts is an old-school action adventure platformer with a focus on discovery and exploration. You play as Phoenix, a young boy who seeks to master the element of fire in a grand adventure of ancient magic.

vridniX
vridniX is a story-driven platformer. Control a small creature who wants to save the world but will destroy it!

Reginald Does His Thang
Reginald Does His Thang is a platformer in which Reg gathers scattered pages for his grandfather's final recipe. In a surreal land where cannibalism, vomiting, and creeping kuru are commonplace, Reg chops, explodes, masticates and vomits to see what culinary masterpiece Grampinald's cooking up.
vridniX is a story-driven platformer. Control a small creature who wants to save the world but will destroy it!
Why similar: Action 21.8%, Adventure 21.6%, Great Soundtrack 21%, Platformer 18.3%, Indie 17.3%
Reginald Does His Thang is a platformer in which Reg gathers scattered pages for his grandfather's final recipe. In a surreal land where cannibalism, vomiting, and creeping kuru are commonplace, Reg chops, explodes, masticates and vomits to see what culinary masterpiece Grampinald's cooking up.
Why similar: Action 33%, Adventure 30.6%, Indie 24.7%, Platformer 11.7%
A 2.5D Action-Platformer with wit and charm, follow the adventures of Emilia as she Flies, Slaps, and Puzzles her way through the world of Galice! Built with love, it's a modern take on a classic genre.
Why similar: Indie 24.8%, Action 22.5%, Adventure 20.4%, 2.5D 18.2%, Platformer 14.1%
Cyber Chicken is 2.5D adventure featuring 8', 375 pounds of cybernetic poultry as a futuristic killing machine on a quixotic mission to save the World. The game features fun combat, classic platforming, outrageous humor, rocking soundtrack and a fully upgradeable Cyber Chicken arsenal.
Why similar: Action 29.1%, Indie 20.7%, Adventure 18.7%, Side Scroller 16.2%, 2.5D 15.3%
Wizhood:The Epic of Freedom is an action-platformer game that treats the story of king who tries to save his kingdom. People of Troburg must be saved from this trouble!
Why similar: Action 26.8%, Adventure 23.7%, Indie 20%, Side Scroller 12.9%, Platformer 11.2%
Frizzy is a platformer filled with awesome action. The main plot is that you are a frizzy ball of fur who can latch onto static balls launch himself around the levels.
Why similar: Action 26.6%, Adventure 24.1%, Indie 19.3%, Great Soundtrack 15%, Platformer 14.9%
Welcome to Crimson Trigger, recruit! Embark on an important mission through the fantasy world of diverse landscapes in platforming style . Become stronger as you battle against the tyranny of the Marshal and his followers. Are you brave enough to bring down his White Crow Empire and avenge your loved one?
Why similar: Action 27.2%, Adventure 23.5%, Indie 19.9%, Side Scroller 12.5%, Platformer 11.7%
Take your umbrella and soar the skies! Chase the evil princess's flying castle and rescue your kidnapped sister in Cherry in the Sky.
Why similar: Action 19%, Adventure 16.6%, Indie 14.6%, 2.5D 13.5%, Side Scroller 13.1%
Beat your inner demons without attacking them, in this extremely difficult platformer about how grief changes one's perception of the world. It is an expression of the developer's experience with cancer and heartbreak.
Why similar: Action 22%, Adventure 19.3%, Indie 16.4%, Great Soundtrack 14.5%, Side Scroller 14%
Kamodo Steve is an 2.5D action sidescroller where you play as Steve, an unwilling hero with unrealized power. Steve and his friend Shiloh team up to disrupt the sinister plans of the Robber Barons, a kabal of industrialists whose only motivations are success, power and greed.
Why similar: Action 30.7%, Adventure 26.9%, Indie 22.9%, Side Scroller 19.5%
The story begin when the robot, whose experiment was interrupted, begins working again years later in an abandoned laboratory.
Why similar: Action 23%, Adventure 20.2%, Indie 17.2%, Great Soundtrack 15.2%, 2.5D 12.6%
Join the Asguardian mercenaries to save the Niddhog Sector from a corporate take over! Run, jump, and shoot in this action adventure game. Find sweet guns and armor and put your skills to the test in Identity Sector!
Why similar: Action 24.3%, Adventure 21.3%, Side Scroller 15.4%, Platformer 12.4%, Indie 12.3%
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: Action 26%, Adventure 22.1%, Indie 18.2%, Platformer 16%, Side Scroller 16%
Expelled - the adventure of a rabbit on dangerous planets, and all in order to use the only chance to get out of prison and return home to his wife and children.
Why similar: Action 19.5%, Platformer 19.5%, Adventure 18.2%, Indie 14.6%, Great Soundtrack 14.3%
Heart of Smoke is a platformer game with 90's feel. Players must clear the levels using two characters: the smoke wizard Eneen can fly by creating a bird and attack with bats. The ninja girl Rae is faster and can attack with her katana.
Why similar: Action 29%, Adventure 26.1%, Indie 21.7%, Platformer 5.8%, Magic 5.4%
A rollicking action-platformer, inspired by the greats of the DOS and NES era. Explore 20 huge levels in 4 varied locations, full of cunning secrets and unique dangers, including 4 epic boss battles.
Why similar: Action 32.4%, Adventure 26.8%, Indie 22.1%, Platformer 18.6%
Molly: fear of clowns - Platformer in a classic style and with modern graphics. The adventures of a little girl named Molly, inside her fictional world of fears and fantasies.
Why similar: Action 32.3%, Adventure 28.3%, Indie 23.4%, Platformer 16%
A curse has befallen the Crescent Isle and it's up to you to save it. Luckily the curse has transformed your people into helpful monsters such as drills, blobs, icicles, and gravity flipping...things. With your monster subjects in hand you'll have to drill through rocks, maneuver through spiky terrain, freeze water to pass over the sea,...
Why similar: Action 31.4%, Adventure 28.5%, Indie 23.5%, Platformer 16.6%
Best Indie PC Game, Digital Dragons 2014. Top Hat is a 2D action adventure platformer, just like old NES games. If you are tired of “games” in which you get hit by heavy machine gun and grenades, and all you need to do is cover behind the wall to replenish HP, then Top Hat is a perfect game for you!
Why similar: Action 30.6%, Adventure 27.7%, Indie 24.6%, Platformer 17.1%
Little Legend is a 2D open world action-addventure game taking place in a fantasy world. Pimpim, a young girl with magical powers, sets out to discover the world in search of her origins. Craft your own spells to fight and explore a huge open world full of mysteries.
Why similar: Action 29.6%, Adventure 25.2%, Indie 20.7%, Great Soundtrack 19%, Exploration 5.5%
Designed to resemble a game for a classic portable game system with simple game play, pixelated graphics, and a 4-color color pallet. This callback to our childhood will test your skills, capture your imagination, and leave you satisfied when your quest is complete.
Why similar: Action 29.4%, Adventure 26.6%, Indie 25.4%, Platformer 18.6%
A caffeine fueled, pun infested, hamster launching retro platform romp through pop culture. Semi Visible Chickens. Hamster launchers. triple strength espresso, Armoured sentient mucus. Just a day in the office for Toxic Bunny.
Why similar: Action 32.2%, Adventure 28.1%, Indie 21.5%, Platformer 18.2%
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: Action 30.9%, Indie 24.9%, Adventure 24.6%, Platformer 19.6%
Toy Odyssey is fundamentally an action-adventure platformer. The player spends the night exploring a randomly-generated house, defeating bosses in each of the unique rooms, and then going up against the final boss.
Why similar: Action 30.8%, Adventure 29%, Indie 22.2%, Platformer 18.1%
On a hostile planet, an alien race with big eyes and thirsty for energy, will chase you with the only purpose of silencing yours being robotic circuits to drain all your energy. Try to survive this attack!
Why similar: Action 30.3%, Adventure 26.1%, Indie 22.6%, Platformer 20.9%
Zip and zap your way to victory!
Why similar: Action 30.9%, Adventure 26.7%, Indie 22%, Platformer 20.4%
After losing contact with his explorer friend Virgi, our fearless alien hero Spidy heads to Earth in his spacecraft to find her. While entering the Earth’s atmosphere, his spacecraft suddenly fails and starts to break up, causing Spidy to crash-land on the strange planet, with his craft scattered across forests, throughout ponds and in...
Why similar: Action 28.6%, Adventure 24%, Platformer 23.3%, Indie 22.4%, Singleplayer 1.7%
A long-term crunch time programmer entered the world of code, and became a green cursor. Knowing that the condition for getting off work is to find 4 bugs in the code world, the adventure begins...
Why similar: Action 29.7%, Adventure 25.7%, Platformer 22.4%, Indie 22.2%
A world cast into darkness… but there is hope. After a mysterious entity extinguishes all the candles in the land, a lone surviving candle sets out on a most important adventure to bring light back to the land.
Why similar: Action 30.3%, Adventure 26.6%, Indie 22%, Platformer 21.1%
Help Glitch save his planet from intergalactic tyrants in this innovative and vibrant retro-styled action platformer.
Why similar: Action 26.7%, Adventure 22.5%, Indie 19%, Platformer 18.8%, Great Soundtrack 11.6%
Blink the Bulb is a 16-bit platformer composed of massive, holiday-themed realms. Explore six unique worlds, mix and match varied power ups, and stave off the nefarious Holidaemon in this throwback to games of yore.
Why similar: Adventure 31.3%, Action 30.7%, Indie 21%, Platformer 16.9%
Take the role of an elite knight and battle your way through action-packed levels with intense sword fighting gameplay in this neo-classic side scrolling action platformer. Save the city from a deadly terrorist organisation hell-bent on exposing the truth you were sworn to protect.
Why similar: Side Scroller 46.7%, Platformer 30.6%, Action 20.2%, Singleplayer 2.5%
Dive into the fantastic world of magic and mysteries. In the world full of wonders, unusual creatures, witches and demons. In the world where something which you have not yet encountered awaits you in every corner.
Why similar: Action 39.4%, Adventure 20.2%, Indie 16.2%, Magic 10.6%, Action-Adventure 7.7%
Troubles Land is in trouble Again. When Qais and his friends decided to revolt against the evil invaders, the secret services discovered their plot and imprisoned all his party. Help Qais free his friends and join them as they run, jump and slash their way through five distinct worlds of the Troubles Land.
Why similar: Action 30.3%, Adventure 26.2%, Platformer 21.8%, Indie 21.6%
Die Daddy Die is a 3d adventure and platform game in which you control a slime thrown by a Cosmic God, capable of deforming his body at will, solving traps and situations that arise in order to continue advancing.
Why similar: Action 31.6%, Adventure 26.3%, Action-Adventure 16.4%, Exploration 9.1%, Indie 7.6%
Shu is a stylish 2.5D platformer set in a beautiful and engrossing world. Guide Shu and a cast of beautifully hand-drawn characters as they run, jump and glide their way across exotic lands, forever pursued by the monstrous and unrelenting Storm. CAN YOU OUTRUN THE END OF THE WORLD?
Why similar: Platformer 23.3%, Action 23%, Adventure 20.8%, Indie 17.6%, Side Scroller 15.3%
Viktor is an action-packed sidescrolling adventure with gameplay inspired by classics such as Castlevania and Megaman. As Viktor, you will fight your way through hordes of relentless enemies, lurking traps, and fearsome bosses who will try to keep you from your mission.
Why similar: Action 31%, Adventure 23.8%, Platformer 23.5%, Indie 21.7%
Bring your best weapon, this is a massive, ancient structure designed for one purpose: trapping the unwary. This isn't just a maze; it's a living entity, and you are its prey in this action/adventure game !
Why similar: Action 34.4%, Adventure 28.1%, Action-Adventure 17.9%, Indie 8.7%, 3D 8%
Trace Vector is a modern take on tough as nails, high speed, vector, action arcade games from the 1980's. Turn up the music, navigate your ship through high speed warp networks, maintain your fuel reserves, avoid deadly hazards, and try to safely return home! Quarters not required.
Why similar: Action 27.9%, Indie 26.3%, Adventure 23.1%, Great Soundtrack 22.6%
‘Path of the Sramana’ is a fantasy platformer game, following a young shaman journeying through the spirit realm, as she searches for her father’s soul.
Why similar: Action 35.2%, Indie 27.2%, Side Scroller 24.4%, Adventure 10.3%, Singleplayer 2.9%
Nothing could ruin a sunny day, but the universe had its own plans. The invasion of Earth by hordes of mutants and robots, capturing the mind of living creatures, could not leave aside our hero.
Why similar: Action 25.3%, Adventure 22.1%, Indie 18.6%, Side Scroller 9.4%, Great Soundtrack 9%
Bringing back the 90's-era PC platformer with a game inspired by classics like Commander Keen, Conker, Ruff'n'Tumble & Jazz Jackrabbit.
Why similar: Action 28.3%, Adventure 26.6%, Platformer 24.8%, Indie 20.3%
Embark on an epic journey alongside Pancho, the brave panda who has decided to save his world from the tyranny of the evil eagle and its loyal followers. Explore three unique locations — a mysterious forest, an unforgiving desert, and the eagle's cave — by completing 15 captivating levels in each.
Why similar: Side Scroller 23.3%, Action 22.7%, Adventure 22.6%, Platformer 18.6%, Fantasy 6.1%
OSK is a stylishly brutal platformer in which you climb an enormous tree, up towards the sky as a squirrel escaping the chaotic apocalypse down below.
Why similar: Action 17.2%, Adventure 15.6%, Great Soundtrack 13.8%, Indie 12.9%, Side Scroller 12.3%
Ôpe is a 3D platforming game in which you play as a little hero named Bô. His quest will lead him through enchanted forest and temples where he’ll need to deliver shamans from corruption before the sun sets forever.
Why similar: Action 29%, Adventure 26.9%, Indie 22.5%, Magic 6.1%, Platformer 5.5%
Take charge of the caped deliverer and help Boston's finest foil The Society Of The Ninth over land, sea and air!
Why similar: Action 33%, Adventure 27.2%, Indie 22.5%, Side Scroller 17.4%
Help KUMO get out of the tower Go through more than 100 levels in this game requiring reflexes and skill
Why similar: Action 31.9%, Adventure 28%, Indie 23.1%, Platformer 17.1%
A wacky 3-player co-op platformer where clumsy dinosaurs try to escape a city full of traps and surprises. Everything’s trying to kill you — and that’s a good thing!
Why similar: Action 17.5%, Adventure 17.1%, Side Scroller 16.1%, Platformer 14.7%, 2.5D 12.7%
Little Witch Luana is an adventure and platform game, where two witches are looking for someone to be sacrificed in a ritual, and they kidnap Luana's sister, and the game is set on a journey to rescue her.
Why similar: Action 28.5%, Adventure 25%, Indie 21.3%, Platformer 17%, Fantasy 8.2%
Twisted:EE is an action-platformer game combined with the best gameplay elements like time and object manipulation, clever enemies, traps and other challenges.
Why similar: Action 35.1%, Indie 26.2%, Side Scroller 22.3%, Platformer 16.4%
Ever want to experience a game that makes you want to play Rocket Ghost Aidan 2? Just play this! Its completely inferior to RGA 2.
Why similar: Action 30.1%, Adventure 26.8%, Indie 22.5%, Great Soundtrack 11%, Platformer 8.5%
KUNAI is a quirky, fast-paced action platformer. You play as Tabby, a tablet who joins the fight against a robot uprising. Use your kunai and ninja parkour skills to stop Lemonkus, the A.I.-gone-evil that almost wiped out all human life.
Why similar: Action 26.5%, Adventure 21.9%, Indie 20.1%, Great Soundtrack 10.7%, Platformer 9.2%
«Mom! Dad!» Thunder screamed alarmed. He ran home, but found nobody there.
Why similar: Action 30.3%, Adventure 24.9%, Indie 21.6%, Platformer 18.1%, Exploration 5.1%
Get ready to rumble, Metanet Hunter CD is ready to take the stage with super-slick platforming, tons of action, and all around, all sorts of radical vibes from the good old times!
Why similar: Action 34%, Indie 25.4%, Side Scroller 20.9%, Platformer 19.6%
Brought to you by a sole Syrian developer, AvoCuddle tells a tale of true love! An emotional action adventure through the galaxy searching and seeking to free your soul mate. Explore beautiful and dangerous planets, fight it's special creature and solve puzzles ,through a visually stunning game.
Why similar: Action 26.1%, Adventure 22.9%, Indie 19.5%, Great Soundtrack 16.2%, Platformer 13.6%
Seed of Life is an epic adventure game about the persistence of life. You're Cora, the last known survivor of Lumia, a dying planet. Your only hope to save your homeworld is to activate the Seed of Life and rekindle the sun once again. Will you be the light that conquers the darkness?
Why similar: Action 32%, Action-Adventure 22.7%, Adventure 20.2%, Exploration 14.1%, 3D 11%
Yooka-Laylee and the Impossible Lair is a brand-new 2.5D platformer from some of the key creative talent behind 'Donkey Kong Country'. As the colourful buddy duo you must tackle a series of stunning, 2.5D levels and explore a puzzling 3D Overworld rich with secrets and surprises!
Why similar: Adventure 24.3%, Platformer 19.9%, Indie 19.2%, 2.5D 17.1%, Great Soundtrack 14.6%
Demon Slayer - Set in the year 2075, when dark demons have invaded the world and threaten all of humanity. You will play the role of the leader of a group of killers, whose goal is to destroy demons and collect their analyzes to ensure the survival of humanity.
Why similar: Action 21.8%, Adventure 21.7%, Side Scroller 20.5%, Platformer 17.9%, Action-Adventure 12.2%
A game about bees trying to survive, collect pollen, sustain your hive, and watch out for scary spiders!
Why similar: Action 31.8%, Adventure 28.2%, Indie 23.7%, Side Scroller 12.3%, Exploration 4.1%
Turn into a raging force of destruction or a super speedy gnome to overcome Geki Yaba's ultimate challenge. Do you have what it takes to save the princess in peril?
Why similar: Action 31%, Indie 20.4%, Adventure 19.4%, Platformer 16.6%, Fantasy 8.7%