- #1 Glittering Sword
97% matchMixed67% of 15 reviews2021
Dev: HugePixelPub: HugePixel
Windows
Glittering Sword is replete with spiritual references to classic games from the 90s, and the bright and harmonious visual design sets the player up for an exciting adventure from the very beginning.
Why similar: Action 17.8%, Adventure 16%, Great Soundtrack 16%, Indie 13%, Difficult 10.1%
- #2 Shovel Knight: Shovel of Hope
96% matchVery Positive94% of 967 reviews2019
Dev: Yacht Club Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 5.9 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Shovel Knight is a sweeping classic action-adventure game with awesome gameplay, memorable characters, and an 8-bit retro aesthetic. If you love games with perfect platforming, beautiful art, infectious music, lovable bosses, humor and levity, and real heart… Shovel Knight is for you!
Why similar: Action 21.5%, Adventure 20%, Indie 15.7%, Great Soundtrack 12.3%, Retro 9%
- #3 Overcome
96% matchPositive89% of 18 reviews2019
Dev: Overcome Studios
Windows · Mac
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 18.8%, Adventure 16.9%, Great Soundtrack 15.5%, Indie 13.7%, Difficult 10.7%
- #4 Little Legend
94% matchNo user reviews
Dev: NEVERMIND
Windows
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 26.8%, Adventure 23.4%, Great Soundtrack 21.4%, Indie 18.4%, Exploration 5.6%
- #5 Restless Night
95% matchPositive83% of 18 reviews2021
Dev: HugePixel
Windows
You will have to take up arms and win back your place among the living. Or rather, bullets and accuracy. In fact, everything is not so simple and you need to keep your eyes open, because you need to fight with the monsters of the afterlife from all points of the earth that want to take your place.
Why similar: Action 16%, Adventure 13.9%, Great Soundtrack 13.2%, Indie 11.7%, Difficult 9.1%
- #6 Sydney Hunter and the Curse of the Mayan
94% matchVery Positive87% of 90 reviews2019
Dev: CollectorVision Games
Windows · Mac
In this pixel-perfect homage to the classic action platformers, you play as Sydney Hunter - an explorer who gets trapped inside a Mayan pyramid while he's out exploring!
Why similar: Action 20.5%, Adventure 17.4%, Indie 14%, Great Soundtrack 11.6%, Retro 8.8%
- #7 Circus Pocus
92% matchMostly Positive74% of 19 reviews2021
Dev: HugePixelPub: HugePixel
Windows
Clowns are very strange characters. Many people like their funny performances in the circus, and someone is afraid of them like fire. Circus Pocus - will tell you a terrible story that unfolded in the walls of the old circus.
Why similar: Action 18.6%, Adventure 16.7%, Great Soundtrack 15.3%, Indie 13.6%, Difficult 10.5%
- #8 Supreme AI: Arena
90% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Nasty Slippers
Windows · Mac · Linux
A minimalistic, fast-paced top-down arena shooter against a state-of-the-art artificial intelligence. Fight AI agents whose speed, tactics, gunplay control and obsession to win have been trained for years of virtual playtime and now delivered to you in 60-seconds-long battles.
Why similar: Action 28%, Adventure 26.1%, Indie 20.5%, Difficult 15%, Top-Down 10.4%
- #9 Rocket Ghost Aidan
91% matchPositive91% of 11 reviews2020
Dev: BobbyPub: Bobby
Windows
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 27.3%, Adventure 24.9%, Indie 19.9%, Great Soundtrack 12.4%, Difficult 8.6%
- #10 Defendoooooor!!
93% matchMixed45% of 69 reviews2017
Dev: White Dog GamesPub: SA Industry
Windows
Median: 54 minMean: 14.1 hrs≥1hr: 47%
In Defendoooooor!!!, it's your job to fight an alien invasion.
Why similar: Action 16.1%, Great Soundtrack 15.4%, Adventure 14.1%, Arena Shooter 13.6%, Indie 11.4%
- #11 Rusty Gun
89% matchMostly Positive79% of 39 reviews2020
Dev: HugePixel
Windows
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 23.2%, Adventure 20.8%, Indie 16.7%, Great Soundtrack 10.2%, Difficult 7%
- #12 Dragon Blazers
81% matchPositive90% of 30 reviews2025
Dev: Sylph
Windows
want to remind you some 16bit arcade vibes? you like Toriyama style? just take a look to Dragon Blazers!! musics by the amazing David Revel!!
Why similar: Action 29.6%, Adventure 27.5%, Indie 21%, Pixel Graphics 11.9%, Arcade 9.9%
- #13 Story of a Cube
91% matchMixed76% of 70 reviews2016
Dev: TinyAtomGames
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 3.7 hrs≥1hr: 95%
Story of a Cube is an action packed shooter about a lone cube and his quest for revenge. Mixing elements of twin-stick shooters and bullet hell games, this is a hardcode arcade game with a crazy amount of explosions.
Why similar: Great Soundtrack 18.5%, Action 15.9%, Difficult 13.8%, Adventure 12.9%, Indie 12.1%
- #14 Guns of Midnight
89% matchMixed69% of 16 reviews2019
Dev: Terminist Arcade
Windows
This brutally difficult arcade shooter pits you against the clock, armed with only your wits and a big f---ing gun. Race to escape the city before the stroke of midnight, compete with your steam friends and with players around the globe to secure your place on the leaderboards!
Why similar: Action 26.1%, Adventure 22%, Indie 19%, Difficult 13.9%, Retro 9.8%
- #15 Crossbow Crusade
86% matchPositive82% of 28 reviews2021
Dev: HugePixel
Windows
You will have to survive among hundreds of monsters thanks to your weapons and accuracy. The monsters have completely lost their fear! They have made a real mayhem, hunting down living people and destroying them. It's time to stop this and put everything back in its place!
Why similar: Action 15.6%, Adventure 14.1%, Great Soundtrack 12.9%, Indie 11.4%, Difficult 8.9%
- #16 Broken Armor
88% matchVery Positive83% of 814 reviews2016
Dev: Jonathan TindellPub: Wastebasket Games
Windows
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 5.5 hrs≥1hr: 94%
A knight exiled from his kingdom must find the holy grail if he is to return.
Why similar: Action 19.2%, Difficult 13.8%, Indie 13.7%, Pixel Graphics 13.6%, Retro 13%
- #17 Shovel Knight: Specter of Torment
86% matchVery Positive94% of 485 reviews2017
Dev: Yacht Club Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 5.1 hrs≥1hr: 78%
Take control of Specter Knight, servant to the Enchantress, in a quest to recruit a cadre of knights and create the Order of No Quarter. Experience perfect platforming, world-class visuals, impeccable stage design, incredible music, and even meet a friend or two in Shovel Knight: Specter of Torment!
Why similar: Action 23.8%, Adventure 20.4%, Indie 16.9%, Pixel Graphics 13.7%, Great Soundtrack 11.6%
- #18 Fusion SHIFT
84% match9 user reviews100% of 9 reviews2020
Dev: halvardo13
Windows
Control your enemies and eliminate them as fast as possible. You are an alien from outer space with a unique skill: Controlling the minds of your foes and use their skills to your advantage!
Why similar: Action 28.4%, Adventure 26%, Indie 20.8%, Arena Shooter 11.4%, Pixel Graphics 5.4%
- #19 Ninjahtic Mind Tricks
87% matchMixed55% of 47 reviews2015
Dev: Blaze Epic
Windows
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 4.9 hrs≥1hr: 95%
Ninjahtic Mind Tricks is an 8-bit hack-and-slash platformer with stealth, adventure, and puzzle elements. Like it's predecessor, Ninjahtic, levels have an open-ended nature and are presented in a linear fashion. Though, several features have been added to the predecessor's formula to create a more varied experience.
Why similar: Action 27.8%, Adventure 22.8%, Indie 17.9%, Pixel Graphics 16.4%, Retro 15.1%
- #20 New Planets
84% match5 user reviews80% of 5 reviews2020
Dev: Playable Pictures
Windows
Save your teacher, who was teleported to another world, by an unknown creature, on that journey based on a new solar system!
Why similar: Action 25.3%, Adventure 22.7%, Indie 18.5%, Difficult 13%, Pixel Graphics 9.4%
- #21 Vaccine War
85% matchMostly Positive73% of 30 reviews2016
Dev: Games For Tutti
Windows · Mac · Linux
“Vaccine War” is an action adventure game with exploration features. It is set in the tense Europe from the thirties, with the Spanish Civil War (and some fiction stories) as background. Aesthetically, the game combines the pixelart retro style with a 3D environment.
Why similar: Action 26.5%, Adventure 21.6%, Indie 19.4%, Pixel Graphics 16.3%, Retro 16.3%
- #22 Johann Weiss
82% matchMixed67% of 18 reviews2020
Dev: JMAA Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Caught off guard, Johann Weiss had his sister kidnapped by the LaVey Order, a satanic cult led by Behemoth LaVey who's going to sacrifice her to Satan to summon Hell on Earth. In this take on Metroidvania and early Duke Nukem games, you must help Johann save his sister Joanna from LaVey.
Why similar: Action 31.7%, Adventure 29.1%, Indie 23%, Great Soundtrack 5.2%, Difficult 3.6%
- #23 Loop-Loop DX
79% matchVery Positive98% of 444 reviews2020
Dev: Alex Carpenter
Windows · Mac · Linux
Far into the future, a galactic super prison known as "The Prisom" keeps the Galaxy's most dangerous criminals within it's colorfully crystalline walls. Escape this superstructure by blasting down prison staff, other criminals, and even... yourself.
Why similar: Action 29.2%, Adventure 25.8%, Indie 21.7%, Great Soundtrack 19.2%, 2D 4%
- #24 Kautic - The Bald Wizard
83% matchVery Positive83% of 53 reviews2017
Dev: Bad Coffee Games
Windows
Median: 6.0 hrsMean: 6.9 hrs≥1hr: 98%
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: Action 27.7%, Adventure 24.5%, Indie 20.8%, Difficult 11.9%, Pixel Graphics 9.9%
- #25 Hyper Light Drifter
81% matchVery Positive93% of 18,682 reviews2016
Dev: Heart Machine
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 7.4 hrs≥1hr: 81%
Explore a beautiful, vast and ruined world riddled with dangers and lost technologies.
Why similar: Great Soundtrack 24.6%, Difficult 15.5%, Pixel Graphics 15.1%, Adventure 9.3%, Action 8.2%
- #26 When I Was Young
78% matchMostly Positive71% of 165 reviews2020
Dev: WallRus GroupPub: Art Games Studio S.A.
Windows
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 4.3 hrs≥1hr: 96%
When I Was Young is a stylish and challenging 2D action game set during the Vietnam War. Fight your way through the brutal firefights enjoying a unique combat system and a story-driven campaign. Immerse yourself in the fascinating entourage of the 1960s!
Why similar: Action 23.4%, Adventure 19.8%, Indie 14.3%, Great Soundtrack 12%, Difficult 8%
- #27 Trace Vector
82% matchMostly Positive78% of 54 reviews2014
Dev: Vexel Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 4.7 hrs≥1hr: 97%
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: Great Soundtrack 26.7%, Action 26.5%, Indie 24.4%, Adventure 22.5%
- #28 Glitch's Trip
76% matchMostly Positive80% of 44 reviews2020
Dev: Ransacked Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 4.8 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Help Glitch save his planet from intergalactic tyrants in this innovative and vibrant retro-styled action platformer.
Why similar: Action 26%, Adventure 22.4%, Indie 18.1%, Great Soundtrack 14%, Difficult 10.6%
- #29 Super Dungeon Boy 2
71% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Tower Up Studios
Windows · Linux
Based on hit retro games, here you'll find action, platforming adventure and exploration. I challenge you to find all the secret dungeons!
Why similar: Great Soundtrack 18.9%, Action 13.4%, Difficult 12.6%, Adventure 12.5%, Indie 10%
- #30 The Last Deathbound
77% matchPositive91% of 11 reviews2019
Dev: Kenny Doan
Windows
Deathbound is a fast-paced rogue-lite arena fighter game. You'll be fighting for your survival against impossible odds. Equipped with just a sword, it would seem that you are destined to fall. Will you defy that fate?
Why similar: Action 32.6%, Indie 23.1%, Difficult 17.9%, Pixel Graphics 13.9%, Top-Down 12.5%
- #31 No safety
80% matchNegative7% of 14 reviews2018
Dev: Nowar StudioPub: Metal Fox
Windows
2090 year. A global nuclear war has begun, the economy of all countries has fallen into decay.
Why similar: Adventure 31%, Great Soundtrack 28.3%, Action 24.4%, Indie 16.2%
- #32 Living Art
75% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2021
Dev: Sharadise
Windows · Mac
Somewhere in a museum stands a strange, clay, pot-like figure on its pedestal, viewed by hundreds each day, motionless. One fateful day the spark of life strikes, and it awakens! Now is your time to start the adventure and escape! Your journey will take you far. Will you find a place to call home?
Why similar: Action 28%, Adventure 25.2%, Indie 20.5%, Difficult 15.9%, Pixel Graphics 10.4%
- #33 Miles & Kilo
78% matchVery Positive93% of 76 reviews2017
Dev: Michael Burns
Windows · Mac
Race across a curious island in this fast-paced, light-hearted platformer
Why similar: Action 20.3%, Adventure 18.8%, Difficult 18.3%, Indie 14.8%, Pixel Graphics 14.8%
- #34 UFO 50
61% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 7,293 reviews2024
Dev: Mossmouth
Windows
Median: 6.8 hrsMean: 23.3 hrs≥1hr: 80%
UFO 50 is a collection of 50 single and multiplayer games that span a variety of genres, from platformers and shoot 'em ups to puzzle games, roguelites, and RPGs. Our goal is to combine a familiar 8-bit aesthetic with new ideas and modern game design.
Why similar: Retro 16.7%, Pixel Graphics 16.4%, Difficult 13%, Indie 12.2%, Action 11.9%
- #35 Expelled
79% matchMixed59% of 104 reviews2017
Dev: Whited43Pub: Conglomerate 5
Windows · Mac
Median: 6 minMean: 5.5 hrs≥1hr: 30%
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 19.3%, Adventure 18.5%, Great Soundtrack 17.6%, Indie 14.1%, Difficult 11.2%
- #36 Super Blasting Boy
77% matchMostly Positive70% of 70 reviews2018
Dev: BekkerDev Studio
Windows
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: Action 18.4%, Adventure 17.1%, Great Soundtrack 15.1%, Indie 13.8%, Difficult 12.3%
- #37 Shovel Knight: King of Cards
72% matchVery Positive90% of 200 reviews2019
Dev: Yacht Club Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 4.2 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Step into the gilded boots of King Knight in the biggest and most regal Shovel Knight game of them all! Leap, Shoulder Bash, gather new subjects, and strategize your way through this prequel in your quest to become King of Cards!
Why similar: Action 20.9%, Adventure 18.6%, Indie 15.6%, Great Soundtrack 15.5%, Pixel Graphics 14%
- #38 Angry Video Game Nerd II: ASSimilation
75% matchVery Positive89% of 792 reviews2016
Dev: FreakZone GamesPub: Retroware
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 4.7 hrs≥1hr: 91%
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: Action 22.2%, Adventure 18.1%, Great Soundtrack 16.2%, Indie 15.1%, Difficult 11.8%
- #39 Thunderflash
73% matchPositive81% of 47 reviews2020
Dev: SEEP
Windows
Thunderflash is a "love letter" to the arcade games of the 80s. It is a Run 'n Gun game inspired by gems like Ikari Warriors, Commando and Heavy Barrel.
Why similar: Action 29.2%, Adventure 26.2%, Indie 20.8%, Difficult 5.6%, Retro 5.5%
- #40 VVVVV
74% matchMixed59% of 54 reviews2019
Dev: BekkerDev Studio
Windows
VVVVV is a colorful, dynamic platformer action with puzzle elements, made in retro style.
Why similar: Action 21.9%, Adventure 19.7%, Indie 15.7%, Great Soundtrack 9.6%, Arena Shooter 9.1%
- #41 Keepers Dungeon
74% matchPositive92% of 13 reviews2019
Dev: Run and jump games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Keepers Dungeon is a rogue-lite dungeon crawler where you must fight your way through several levels of the dungeon, facing up to 11 unique bosses and various monsters in order to best the dungeon. Spells are your weapons, you can combine different spell-tokens in order to create your own unique spells.
Why similar: Action 31.4%, Adventure 27.4%, Indie 22.9%, Difficult 18.3%
- #42 Ninjahtic
76% matchMostly Positive79% of 91 reviews2015
Dev: Blaze Epic
Windows
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 4.9 hrs≥1hr: 96%
Ninjahtic is an action/adventure platformer with elements of puzzle-solving and stealth. While it's progression is linear, the open-ended nature of every level requires exploration of an abandoned civilization located atop floating islands.
Why similar: Action 30%, Adventure 25.6%, Indie 20.7%, Pixel Graphics 12.3%, Retro 11.3%
- #43 Soviet Souls
73% matchMixed69% of 13 reviews2019
Dev: FIrst Dev Team
Windows · Mac · Linux
Soviet Souls is a modern 2D platformer with pixel-style graphics. In each level, the player chooses which of the available characters to pass it. Knowledge of the mechanic and caution will help you cope with the most difficult troubles.
Why similar: Action 19.9%, Adventure 17.9%, Great Soundtrack 16.4%, Indie 15%, Difficult 10.3%
- #44 Blitz Breaker
73% matchVery Positive88% of 152 reviews2016
Dev: Boncho Games
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 4.1 hrs≥1hr: 95%
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: Great Soundtrack 24.5%, Action 23.1%, Difficult 19%, Indie 17.4%, Pixel Graphics 11.8%
- #45 Blood Harvest 3
72% matchMostly Positive75% of 216 reviews2018
Dev: BekkerDev Studio
Windows
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 5.2 hrs≥1hr: 94%
Dynamic, hardcore and explosive action on the passage with a bunch of weapons, enemies and bosses.
Why similar: Action 20.5%, Adventure 16.5%, Great Soundtrack 14.2%, Indie 13.8%, Difficult 10.7%
- #46 Amora Crystal
70% matchPositive82% of 11 reviews2019
Dev: Rapha ChiavegatiPub: Siamese Cat Studio
Windows
Amora Crystal is a 2D platformer game where you don’t have to kill any animal.
Why similar: Action 18.7%, Adventure 16.8%, Great Soundtrack 15.4%, Indie 13.7%, Difficult 10.6%
- #47 ZET
56% match4 user reviews75% of 4 reviews2025
Dev: Inebro (c)
Windows
One-button indie platformer adventure
Why similar: Action 23.2%, Adventure 20.9%, Great Soundtrack 17.4%, Indie 17%, Difficult 12%
- #48 Exit the Gungeon
67% matchMostly Positive75% of 3,704 reviews2020
Dev: Dodge RollPub: Devolver Digital
Windows
Median: 1.5 hrsMean: 11.7 hrs≥1hr: 58%
Exit the Gungeon is a small, spin-off 'dungeon climber' immediately following the adventures of the misfit Gungeoneers.
Why similar: Arcade 20.3%, Action 19.2%, Adventure 16.6%, Indie 14%, Pixel Graphics 8.9%
- #49 DYE
71% matchMostly Positive79% of 103 reviews2017
Dev: Bat Country Games, LLC
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 4.5 hrs≥1hr: 96%
DYE is a challenging precision platformer where you help Hue rescue Pigments and defeat the nefarious Necrolights in order to restore color to the world! Jump, wall jump and float your way through 4 unique worlds with hundreds of challenges ranging from beginner to advanced level.
Why similar: Action 17.5%, Difficult 16.3%, Adventure 15.8%, Great Soundtrack 15.8%, Indie 14.1%
- #50 Mago
60% matchVery Positive93% of 1,008 reviews2022
Dev: Dream Potion Games
Windows
Median: 1.1 hrsMean: 5.8 hrs≥1hr: 53%
Mago is a retro 2D platformer that puts us in the boots of a sorcerer, who was unfortunate enough to eat evil overlords' food. Now he has to rescue his beloved princess from the dinner menu of the evil Gourmet! Nostalgia awaits!
Why similar: Great Soundtrack 21.6%, Adventure 13.6%, Indie 12.9%, Difficult 12.8%, Pixel Graphics 12.6%
- #51 AvoCuddle
67% matchPositive90% of 31 reviews2019
Dev: Binary Lunar
Windows
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 25.7%, Adventure 23.2%, Great Soundtrack 19.9%, Indie 18.8%, Atmospheric 5.8%
- #52 Swords & Bones
63% matchVery Positive93% of 85 reviews2021
Dev: SEEP
Windows
Swords & Bones inherits the spirit of the great 16-bit classics from the 80s and 90s, enriching the game experience with modern mechanics! Undead hordes and demons await you in this epic adventure!
Why similar: Action 25.5%, Adventure 23%, Retro 12.6%, Indie 12.2%, Pixel Graphics 10.9%
- #53 Krampus Quest
70% matchMixed60% of 10 reviews2017
Dev: Frozen Rose
Windows
Krampus Quest is a back-to-basics retro-style action-platformer with a christmas theme. Fighting your way up the North Pole, absorbing souls, dodging traps and pitfalls, and upgrading abilities, to in the end battle Santa Claus himself.
Why similar: Action 29.1%, Adventure 27%, Indie 21.3%, Retro 12.7%, Pixel Graphics 9.9%
- #54 Atomik: RunGunJumpGun
69% matchVery Positive86% of 326 reviews2016
Dev: ThirtyThreePub: Good Shepherd Entertainment
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.8 hrsMean: 3.4 hrs≥1hr: 85%
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 27.7%, Indie 20.2%, Difficult 17.7%, Great Soundtrack 16%, Pixel Graphics 13.1%
- #55 Dorsaka
58% matchNo user reviews2025
Dev: Jacai Software
Windows · Mac
A strange exploration game with an ever decreasing health bar. Take control of your weird alien space bunny and traverse a set of inter-linked mazes in a quest to escape a desert that may or may not exist in multiple dimensions within your own mind. Manage your health, find secrets, escape the maze
Why similar: Action 24.9%, Adventure 21.2%, Arcade 11.9%, Pixel Graphics 9.4%, Top-Down 9.1%
- #56 Way of the Red
69% matchPositive91% of 34 reviews2016
Dev: Corey Hardman
Windows
Way of the Red is a 2d action platformer with a focus on fun combat, satisfying kills, and fluid movement. Use versatile sword techniques to shred enemies to pieces, while searching for your lost love from years past.
Why similar: Action 31.8%, Adventure 29.5%, Indie 24.2%, Pixel Graphics 14.5%
- #57 Laser 77 - Virtual Lab
57% match5 user reviews80% of 5 reviews2024
Dev: ALLD
Windows
Shoot, slash and dash your way against virtual enemies and try to max your score in this 2D, top-down action game.
Why similar: Action 22.4%, Difficult 15.7%, Pixel Graphics 14.2%, Top-Down 13%, Retro 9%
- #58 The Square Game
66% match4 user reviews100% of 4 reviews2020
Dev: Aiden J Rodgers
Windows
The Square Game is an insanely hard 2D action platformer with 24 short action packed levels.
Why similar: Action 38.7%, Indie 28.3%, Difficult 11.2%, Retro 7.3%, Pixel Graphics 6.8%
- #59 Quest of Vidhuraa
67% matchPositive81% of 26 reviews2018
Dev: FirstSeed
Windows
Hard Platformer Game? No. Very Hard Platformer Game.
Why similar: Great Soundtrack 24.7%, Action 20.3%, Adventure 18.9%, Difficult 15.5%, Indie 14.8%
- #60 Arkane Rush Multiverse Mayhem
67% match5 user reviews80% of 5 reviews2019
Dev: Mafu Games
Windows
This is the second volume of the Arkane Rush series. The Multiverse Mayhem is a survival hardcore game in which the player will have many frenetic battles by using the Elemental Staffs and the Runes.
Why similar: Action 30.1%, Indie 22%, Adventure 18.9%, Difficult 17.1%, Top-Down 11.9%