Games Like The Sun and Moon

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

Why similar: Platformer 34.5%, Great Soundtrack 28.3%, Difficult 15.9%, Indie 14.3%, Action 5.2%

Why You'll Like It: Like the seed game, this title centers entirely on gravity-flipping mechanics within a challenging, minimalist environment.

Element4l is an immersive and experimental indie platform game, with a strong focus on flow and smooth gameplay, wrapped in an exceptional soundtrack by Mind Tree.

Why similar: Platformer 28.7%, Great Soundtrack 23.9%, Indie 20.7%, Action 11.7%, Difficult 7.7%

Why You'll Like It: It focuses heavily on physics-based movement and momentum conservation, forcing players to adapt to changing environmental states.

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 35.5%, Great Soundtrack 29.9%, Difficult 15.6%, Indie 12.5%, Action 6.5%

Why You'll Like It: This game pairs high-speed, difficult platforming with a pulse-pounding soundtrack, mirroring the rhythmic intensity of the seed game.

Simple space, dynamic jump. 6180 the moon offers a fresh, unseen game play style by connecting the top and bottom of the screen.

Why similar: Platformer 39.8%, Great Soundtrack 20.3%, Indie 20.1%, Action 19.8%

Why You'll Like It: This game features a unique gravity-looping mechanic that allows players to jump off the top of the screen to appear at the bottom.

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: Platformer 48.1%, Indie 27.1%, Action 24.8%

Why You'll Like It: A fast-paced, twitch-based platformer that demands constant movement and quick reflexes to survive its challenging levels.

The Floor is Jelly is a game that answers the question: what if everything you touched was made of jello?

Why similar: Platformer 42.9%, Indie 27.3%, Great Soundtrack 22.5%, Puzzle 7.2%

Why You'll Like It: A surreal physics-based platformer where the environment is soft and bouncy, requiring creative use of momentum to progress.

Atomik: RunGunJumpGun is a tough as nails game that puts a gravity-defying weapon in your hands. One button lets you fly, the other blasts obstacles out of the way. With a cast of crazed characters, challenging gameplay, and a pulsing musical score, it delivers twitchy platforming goodness.

Why similar: Action 25.4%, Indie 24.5%, Platformer 21.8%, Great Soundtrack 14.6%, Difficult 13.7%

Why You'll Like It: A high-speed, gravity-defying platformer that strips away traditional movement for a pure, momentum-focused experience.

kuso is the sequel to LOVE, and is a challenging yet fair platformer with a simple aesthetic. You have the ability to run, jump, and leave your own checkpoint. Make your way through acid, long jumps, disappearing platforms, bouncers, giant saws, and much more in this dreadful mechanical world.

Why similar: Great Soundtrack 26.8%, Indie 26.6%, Action 24.7%, Platformer 21.8%

Why You'll Like It: A minimalist, difficult precision platformer that captures the same 'one more try' addictive quality found in the seed game.

Downwell is a curious game about a young person venturing down a well in search of untold treasures with only his Gunboots to protect him.

Why similar: Platformer 38.3%, Difficult 20.3%, Indie 18%, Action 15.2%, Great Soundtrack 8.2%

Why You'll Like It: This game utilizes gravity as a primary mechanic, turning a descent into a high-speed, momentum-driven action experience.

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 24.5%, Platformer 20.6%, Difficult 18.3%, Action 16%, Great Soundtrack 14.2%

Why You'll Like It: It replaces traditional jumping with magnetic attraction and repulsion, creating a unique momentum-based movement system.

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 38.4%, Indie 19.6%, Great Soundtrack 16.5%, Puzzle 15.1%, Action 10.5%

Why You'll Like It: A puzzle-platformer that uses unique movement and environmental interaction to navigate complex, gravity-influenced rooms.

And Yet It Moves is a puzzle-platformer, set in a unique world, made of ripped paper. Within the paper-collage you can jump, run and last but certainly not least: rotate the world. Learn how to apply the physical consequences of rotation to master the many tricky situations you may encounter.

Why similar: Platformer 47.6%, Indie 19.2%, Puzzle 14%, Difficult 10.7%, Action 8.5%

Why You'll Like It: This game allows players to rotate the entire world to manipulate gravity, creating complex physics-based puzzles similar to the seed game.

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: Great Soundtrack 27.6%, Platformer 27.3%, Indie 26.9%, Difficult 18.2%

Why You'll Like It: A challenging platformer that emphasizes momentum-based movement and tight, responsive controls.

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: Platformer 24.7%, Great Soundtrack 21.2%, Action 20.2%, Indie 20%, Difficult 14%

Why You'll Like It: A fast-paced, dash-heavy precision platformer that requires quick thinking and precise execution in short, difficult bursts.

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

Why similar: Platformer 40.6%, Difficult 22.5%, Great Soundtrack 19.4%, Indie 14.5%, Action 2.9%

Why You'll Like It: The gold standard for difficult, momentum-based precision platforming that rewards mastery of movement physics.

The title says it all. Take one part falling block puzzle game, combine one part old-school platformer, add a couple thousand pixels, blend and serve. Why match colored blocks when you can just shoot the hell out of them? Your goal is to survive as long as you can. From celebrated indie developer Andrew Morrish and Adult Swim Games.

Why similar: Platformer 25.9%, Indie 22.4%, Action 21.1%, Great Soundtrack 13.4%, Puzzle 9.4%

Why You'll Like It: It blends action-platforming with gravity-based puzzle elements, requiring players to manage both movement and the environment simultaneously.

Gravity Ghost is a physics game with a twist. Run, jump, and soar around planets, using gravity to glide through the air. Explore a shattered galaxy and rescue its survivors, armed with powerups and mysterious terraforming powers. Meet the 7 magical guardians and best their challenges. There's no killing, no dying, and no way to fail.

Why similar: Great Soundtrack 60.5%, Indie 32.5%, Puzzle 7%

Why You'll Like It: This game focuses on orbital physics and gravity-based movement, offering a more serene but equally physics-centric experience.

Play as the ultimate digital underdog in the Adventures of Pip,an action-platformer with a fresh gameplay twist inside a retro 32-bit world. Alas, Pip is an unlikely 1-pixel hero yet has the unique ability to absorb the pixels of his defeated enemies to evolve into three different forms.

Why similar: Platformer 47.5%, Action 23.1%, Indie 20.6%, Puzzle 8.9%

Why You'll Like It: A platformer where the protagonist's evolution changes their movement physics, requiring players to adapt to different momentum profiles.

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 35.9%, Indie 33.7%, Platformer 30.3%

Why You'll Like It: The game relies on a unique grappling mechanic that turns movement into a momentum-based puzzle to be solved.

You play an explorer stranded on a dangerous alien planet. Low on fuel, your only hope for escape is to find the planet’s core in this incredibly clever action-puzzle-platformer.

Why similar: Platformer 38.7%, Great Soundtrack 23%, Indie 13%, Puzzle 10%, Action 8.8%

Why You'll Like It: A platformer centered on a teleportation gun that functions similarly to the seed game's diving mechanic for traversing obstacles.

Love is a reductive platforming game with a retro aesthetic and a focus on a challenging difficulty. It has an custom respawn system, 16 levels, 12 track soundtrack, competitive scoring, and a simple-to-use level creation feature.

Why similar: Platformer 45.7%, Great Soundtrack 21.3%, Indie 19.1%, Action 9.4%, Difficult 4.5%

Why You'll Like It: The original minimalist precision platformer that set the stage for the genre's focus on difficult, rewarding movement.

Concursion is a multi-genre game played on the boundaries between worlds. Steer your hero through a dangerous interdimensional universe, switching between different genres on the fly, pulling off feats of tight aerial acrobatics otherwise unattainable in one genre alone.

Why similar: Action 34.3%, Indie 34.2%, Platformer 31.5%

Why You'll Like It: A genre-shifting platformer that frequently changes its own rules, including gravity and movement mechanics, to keep players on their toes.

If there were another me, Observing myself from the perspective of a spectator, How would I regard another me?

Why similar: Great Soundtrack 24.5%, Indie 23%, Action 21.3%, Platformer 18.5%, Puzzle 12.7%

Why You'll Like It: A puzzle-platformer that requires controlling two characters simultaneously, emphasizing precise movement and spatial awareness.

Armed with only your wits and a pair of Stealthing Goggles, it’s your job to sneak your way through a deadly facility that’s determined to extinguish your fragile little life.

Why similar: Platformer 42.8%, Indie 17.8%, Puzzle 13.4%, Action 12.9%, Great Soundtrack 7.3%

Why You'll Like It: A high-speed precision platformer where movement is key to avoiding detection and navigating deadly traps.

Skeleton Boomerang is a platformer where the hero, Hunter, must use an enchanted boomerang to put an end to an army of bony soldiers led by the voodoo master Mr. Saturday. Get high scores, collect upgrades, find secrets, and overcome many skeletal challenges!

Why similar: Great Soundtrack 33.7%, Action 23.7%, Platformer 21.5%, Indie 21.1%

Defy Gravity is an action platformer that is a mix between classic platforming and gravity based puzzle solving.

Why similar: Platformer 52.9%, Indie 13%, Great Soundtrack 11%, Difficult 8.3%, Puzzle 8.2%

An inventive, thought-provoking puzzle platformer. Use powerups in each environment, and your own inherent gravity-bending powers, to complete each level. The more you play, the more story details you'll uncover.

Why similar: Platformer 35.4%, Indie 25.3%, Great Soundtrack 17.1%, Puzzle 11.4%, Difficult 10.8%

Circa Infinity is a brain-melting circular platformer by Kenny Sun, with a pulse-pounding soundtrack by Jack + Jim Fay.

Why similar: Great Soundtrack 27.3%, Indie 18.9%, Action 16.9%, Platformer 16.6%, Difficult 12.9%

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 34.7%, Indie 33%, Great Soundtrack 12.5%, Platformer 12.5%, Difficult 7.3%

A challenging puzzle platformer in which you clone and teleport.

Why similar: Platformer 35.9%, Difficult 23.3%, Great Soundtrack 16.2%, Puzzle 12.9%, Indie 11.8%

Semblance is an innovative platformer with deformable terrain, set in a beautiful minimalist world. It’s a game that asks, what if you could deform and reshape the world itself? Semblance takes the idea of a ‘platform’ in a platformer and turns it on its head.

Why similar: Platformer 28.9%, Great Soundtrack 26%, Indie 19.9%, Action 13.3%, Puzzle 12%

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: Platformer 28.3%, Great Soundtrack 21.1%, Indie 20.8%, Action 20%, Difficult 8%

VVVVV is a colorful, dynamic platformer action with puzzle elements, made in retro style.

Why similar: Action 29.9%, Indie 28.3%, Platformer 15.4%, Great Soundtrack 13.1%, Difficult 8.3%

Somewhere between a platformer, a puzzle game and a great big dollop of pure fun, Fly’N will challenge your skills through more than forty levels set in a luxuriant world. Experiment with the four Buds to save the World-Trees from Dyer, the loony hair-dryer who intends to destroy their Helys!

Why similar: Platformer 48.2%, Indie 20.3%, Great Soundtrack 11.3%, Action 8.1%, Puzzle 6.3%

Explore a world full of mysteries that transform with each jump! Moonleap is a game about a moon boy on his journey to recover shooting stars. Change day to night with your jump and catch all the stars in this challenging puzzle-platformer!

Why similar: Platformer 71%, Puzzle 29%

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: Platformer 34.4%, Indie 33.5%, Action 32.1%

Dash, jump, and fly at full speed through Wunderling DX: a non-stop puzzle platformer and the world's first "goomba simulator"! Race against the clock, beat tricky puzzles to uncover shiny secrets, and stomp the odds to please your evil overlord!

Why similar: Action 42.6%, Indie 41.5%, Great Soundtrack 15.9%

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: Platformer 21.9%, Action 21.2%, Indie 21.1%, Great Soundtrack 17.3%, Difficult 12%

Gravity Error is an indie 2D puzzle/platformer about changing gravity. Guide Force in his quest seeking emotional stableness in a set of levels and avoid being crushed. Solve the puzzles in multiple creative ways.

Why similar: Platformer 46.6%, Indie 34.5%, Puzzle 18.9%

Rewind time and manipulate gravity in order to solve parkour puzzles in this exciting new 2D platformer.

Why similar: Platformer 31.1%, Difficult 20.4%, Indie 18.1%, Action 18%, Puzzle 12.5%

Run, jump, shoot, fly and explore your way through a massive action-adventure reminiscent of classic 8- and 16-bit games.

Why similar: Platformer 37.2%, Great Soundtrack 31.2%, Indie 14.8%, Action 11%, Difficult 5.8%

A combination of platforming with a gravity gun, BEEP is an amazing physics-platformer. Despite its friendly art style, this is a hardcore platformer in the truest sense.

Why similar: Platformer 43.3%, Indie 27.8%, Puzzle 9.8%, Great Soundtrack 7.8%, Action 6.8%

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 42.1%, Great Soundtrack 22%, Indie 15.6%, Difficult 10.9%, Action 5.4%

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: Great Soundtrack 34%, Platformer 27.9%, Difficult 20.2%, Indie 13.8%, Action 4%

A psychological 2D puzzle platformer. You must switch between two versions of the past: dark & light, positive & negative, hope & despair. Every action is innately tied to this dualistic battle. Traverse a surreal landscape of memory to try and mend a fragile mind.

Why similar: Platformer 27.6%, Indie 23.1%, Action 21.5%, Great Soundtrack 17%, Difficult 10.8%

Rocks and Rockets - a terrific action game where you have to control the rocket and to cope with a very hostile environment.

Why similar: Indie 34.9%, Great Soundtrack 28.7%, Platformer 26.6%, Puzzle 9.8%

Surf through a pulsating, underground world on platforms pulled from thin air in this challenging, psychedelic, rhythm-infused action platformer that has you defying gravity to a pumping beat.

Why similar: Great Soundtrack 34.1%, Platformer 30.1%, Indie 13.3%, Difficult 13.3%, Action 9.1%

A precise momentum-based platformer that emphasizes exploration and navigation puzzles. Run and jump your way through a wide variety of obstacles and challenges as you explore an abandoned derelict freighter. Be careful: getting in is often easier than getting out!

Why similar: Platformer 71.9%, Action 28.1%

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: Platformer 38.9%, Indie 18.5%, Puzzle 16.7%, Great Soundtrack 14.2%, Action 11.8%

Restore the Sun’s light and end the Eternal Eclipse in this 2D fast-paced action-platformer game inspired by Peruvian cultures. Explore hand-crafted environments, battle and improve your skills to defeat the Four Keepers that stole the power of the Sun.

Why similar: Platformer 36.7%, Indie 26.1%, Difficult 21.1%, Action 16%

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

Why similar: Platformer 40.8%, Indie 36.7%, Difficult 22.5%

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

Why similar: Platformer 35.7%, Action 34.5%, Indie 29.8%

Leap Year is a clumsy platformer about knowledge and discovery. Explore a compact, hand drawn world filled with hidden paths. Understand the game’s secrets to reach new areas and collect all the pages of your calendar.

Why similar: Platformer 48.8%, Puzzle 20.4%, Action 19.4%, Indie 11.3%

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: Platformer 57.5%, Puzzle 22.1%, Action 20.4%

Momentum-driven old school platformer with modern graphics & physics with a focus on exploration. Offers precision and on later levels a lot of speed. Each world brings new abilities & gameplay

Why similar: Indie 51.3%, Action 48.7%