- #1 Katana ZERO
97% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 74,545 reviews2019
Dev: AskiisoftPub: Devolver Digital
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 9.0 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Katana ZERO is a stylish neo-noir, action-platformer featuring breakneck action and instant-death combat. Slash, dash, and manipulate time to unravel your past in a beautifully brutal acrobatic display.
Why similar: Cyberpunk 34.6%, Platformer 25.1%, Gore 15.3%, Pixel Graphics 12.8%, Difficult 7.8%
- #2 Dark Light
96% matchMostly Positive78% of 734 reviews2022
Dev: Mirari&Co.
Windows · Mac
Median: 48 minMean: 3.7 hrs≥1hr: 44%
Dark Light is a post-apocalyptic cyberpunk action-platformer with intense hack'n slash combat. Explore the unknown, enhance your abilities with cyberwares, and face off against supernatural entities to seal the Dark Void and end the eternal darkness.
Why similar: Cyberpunk 39.2%, Gore 29.1%, Platformer 23.5%, Difficult 4.2%, Indie 4%
- #3 BUTCHER
96% matchVery Positive87% of 1,363 reviews2016
Dev: Phobia Game StudioPub: Crunching Koalas
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.1 hrsMean: 3.2 hrs≥1hr: 71%
BUTCHER is a fast-paced, blood-soaked 2D shooter where carnage is the only way forward. Become a ruthless cyborg tasked with eradicating humanity, leaving nothing but blood, guts, and destruction in your wake. There's no such thing as too much violence in this grim, retro-styled gorefest.
Why similar: Gore 46.1%, Platformer 22.9%, Difficult 12.5%, Pixel Graphics 11%, Indie 7.4%
- #4 Blood Harvest 3
95% matchMostly Positive75% of 216 reviews2018
Dev: BekkerDev Studio
Windows
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 5.2 hrs≥1hr: 93%
Dynamic, hardcore and explosive action on the passage with a bunch of weapons, enemies and bosses.
Why similar: Platformer 33.9%, Gore 30.1%, Indie 14%, Difficult 11.4%, Pixel Graphics 10.6%
- #5 LOVE 2: kuso
94% matchVery Positive96% of 216 reviews2017
Dev: Fred Wood
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 4.4 hrs≥1hr: 91%
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: Platformer 64%, Indie 36%
- #6 The Way
94% matchVery Positive83% of 1,295 reviews2016
Dev: Puzzling DreamPub: PlayWay S.A.
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 6.0 hrs≥1hr: 93%
Journey to another planet and discover its secrets in order to bring your loved one back to life. Experience an adventure, inspired by old school classics like Another World, Heart of Darkness and Flashback.
Why similar: Platformer 54.5%, Pixel Graphics 23.4%, Indie 15.5%, Difficult 6.6%
- #7 BLEAK: Welcome to Glimmer
93% matchVery Positive89% of 75 reviews2016
Dev: Novelline, Inc.
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 4.4 hrs≥1hr: 96%
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 45.7%, Platformer 37.6%, Difficult 16.7%
- #8 Never Give Up
92% matchVery Positive88% of 176 reviews2019
Dev: Massive MonsterPub: Armor Games Studios
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 4.6 hrs≥1hr: 82%
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 50.4%, Difficult 20.3%, Gore 16.6%, Indie 12.7%
- #9 RUINER
91% matchVery Positive89% of 12,065 reviews2017
Dev: Reikon GamesPub: Devolver Digital
Windows · Linux
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 7.7 hrs≥1hr: 80%
RUINER is a brutal action shooter set in the year 2091 in the cyber metropolis Rengkok. A wired psychopath lashes out against a corrupt system to uncover the truth and retrieve his kidnapped brother under the guidance of a secretive hacker friend.
Why similar: Cyberpunk 65.1%, Gore 22.8%, Difficult 7.5%, Indie 4.5%
- #10 Gravethorn
88% matchVery Positive90% of 63 reviews2026
Dev: Volviir
Windows
Gravethorn is a 2D platformer that combines soulslike and metroidvania elements with deep storytelling. The story follows an Inquisitor who has lost his memory, searching for his forgotten past along with his regrets.
Why similar: Difficult 67.5%, Pixel Graphics 32.5%
- #11 Burn It Down
91% matchMostly Positive79% of 86 reviews2017
Dev: TapinatorPub: K Bros Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 24 minMean: 2.4 hrs≥1hr: 36%
You awaken in your mansion and discover that your love is missing. She has been kidnapped but it's unclear by whom.
Why similar: Platformer 59.1%, Difficult 21.9%, Indie 19%
- #12 Skautfold: Usurper
90% matchMixed69% of 340 reviews2018
Dev: Steve GalPub: Pugware
Windows
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 4.1 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Usurper is a Metroidvania Action-RPG. With Eldritch horrors having been unleashed by the outer-worldly Citadel, your job is to rid London of its terrors. Use the new "Guard" system that rewards skillful play and accuracy, to uncover the massive structure and defeat the nightmares lurking within.
Why similar: Platformer 46.7%, Indie 36.8%, Pixel Graphics 16.5%
- #13 Pixel Gladiator
89% matchVery Positive82% of 455 reviews2017
Dev: Flying Islands Team
Windows
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 3.5 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Distant future… Brutal gladiatorial battles is a top-rated show, extremely popular all over the Universe. You’ve been sent to the abandoned planet as one of the participants of the show. Your goal is to survive as long as possible, fighting back deadly creatures in the focus of billions of viewers.
Why similar: Cyberpunk 27.6%, Gore 22.4%, Platformer 22.3%, Difficult 10.6%, Pixel Graphics 9.2%
- #14 OUTBUDDIES DX
89% matchMixed70% of 283 reviews2019
Dev: Julian LauferPub: Headup
Windows
Median: 4.6 hrsMean: 5.5 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Run, gun and explore an open undercity in this otherworldly non-linear Metroidvania adventure about the Old Gods, strange creatures and the remnants of a lost world!
Why similar: Platformer 48.1%, Difficult 21.3%, Pixel Graphics 17%, Indie 13.6%
- #15 PEPPERED: an existential platformer
84% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 629 reviews2025
Dev: Mostly Games
Windows · Mac
An existential platformer where Doomsday is just around the corner. Save the world or become an eternal corporate slave for the God of Death. Choices matter. Or do they? Goof around and find out.
Why similar: Platformer 51.4%, Difficult 27.6%, Pixel Graphics 21%
- #16 A Void Hope
85% matchVery Positive94% of 63 reviews2024
Dev: Elden Pixels
Windows · Mac · Linux
A Void Hope takes you on an atmospheric narrative adventure to find a cure for a collapsed city. Follow the story of a tormented couple as they try to decipher reality from nightmares and evade the shadowy threats lurking in the dark.
Why similar: Platformer 66%, Pixel Graphics 21.4%, Indie 12.5%
- #17 Insanity's Blade
87% matchMostly Positive73% of 297 reviews2014
Dev: Causal Bit Games Inc.Pub: Monster Bath Studios Inc.
Windows
Median: 30 minMean: 2.1 hrs≥1hr: 33%
Take a father’s journey to hell in order to save the souls of his wife and child. Insanity's Blade: The Chronicles of Thurstan is the first in a series of games based around the journey of a sword possessed by a father's powerful grief and hatred. This is the tale of the sword's creation.
Why similar: Gore 44.3%, Platformer 29.3%, Pixel Graphics 10.6%, Difficult 9.2%, Indie 6.6%
- #18 Super Life of Pixel
86% matchMostly Positive79% of 379 reviews2014
Dev: Super Icon LtdPub: WhiteMoon Dreams, Inc.
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 4.2 hrs≥1hr: 93%
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 67.2%, Pixel Graphics 18.9%, Indie 13.9%
- #19 Heart&Slash
86% matchVery Positive81% of 634 reviews2016
Dev: AHEARTFULOFGAMESPub: Full Hearts Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 5.5 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Fight as Heart, an innocent robot fighting to escape the grip of mindless machines in a future where humans are no more. A fast-paced 3D brawler with roguelike elements set in a colorful yet desolated world.
Why similar: Cyberpunk 65.8%, Pixel Graphics 18.4%, Indie 15.8%
- #20 MindSeize
84% matchMostly Positive75% of 305 reviews2020
Dev: Kamina Dimension
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 3.7 hrs≥1hr: 80%
MindSeize is a 2D Metroidvania game set in a Sci-Fi-universe. Transfer your mind to a robot and rescue your beloved one!
Why similar: Platformer 45.9%, Indie 36.8%, Pixel Graphics 17.3%
- #21 Neon City Riders
83% matchVery Positive83% of 66 reviews2020
Dev: Mecha Studios
Windows
Explore a decaying futuristic city in this action adventure experience. Search for items, unlock superpowers, recruit companions, and free every turf from ruthless gangs to unite the people once again.
Why similar: Indie 41.7%, Pixel Graphics 31.8%, Difficult 26.5%
- #22 Blade Jumper
81% matchVery Positive85% of 54 reviews2022
Dev: bit paradigmPub: CFK Co., Ltd.
Windows
Seoul, 2045. Climb the Kukuru Tower, a giant structure with an unfathomable width and height, facing the truths about the city at its pinnacle.
Why similar: Platformer 36.3%, Cyberpunk 33.6%, Pixel Graphics 12.4%, Difficult 12%, Indie 5.7%
- #23 SANABI
76% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 43,256 reviews2023
Dev: WONDER POTIONPub: NEOWIZ
Windows
Median: 7.7 hrsMean: 21.9 hrs≥1hr: 81%
SANABI is an exhilarating stylish dystopian action-platformer. Play as a legendary retired veteran and use your signature prosthetic arm to jump over cliffs and skyscrapers, zip through bullets and traps and defeat powerful enemies.
Why similar: Cyberpunk 48.9%, Platformer 23.1%, Pixel Graphics 16.2%, Difficult 6.8%, Indie 5.1%
- #24 Yissa Deep Realms
82% matchVery Positive92% of 74 reviews2017
Dev: PixelGreeds
Windows
Median: 42 minMean: 5.6 hrs≥1hr: 46%
Hardcore action platformer with multiple endings that depend on your choices.
Why similar: Platformer 54.9%, Difficult 24.4%, Pixel Graphics 13.9%, Indie 6.7%
- #25 System Purge
79% matchVery Positive96% of 202 reviews2022
Dev: Actual Nerds
Windows
Trapped in a buried, forgotten facility, you must reach the core of an ancient machine to rescue your lost lover. System Purge is a challenging, atmospheric 2D platformer.
Why similar: Platformer 40.8%, Gore 32.2%, Pixel Graphics 12.5%, Difficult 7.9%, Indie 6.6%
- #26 Unforgettable You
80% matchVery Positive90% of 51 reviews2021
Dev: NanningsGames
Windows · Linux
Unforgettable You is a contemplating platformer game about love.
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #27 LOVE
81% matchVery Positive91% of 1,183 reviews2014
Dev: Fred Wood
Windows · Linux
Median: 2.0 hrsMean: 36.2 hrs≥1hr: 74%
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 67.7%, Pixel Graphics 14.2%, Indie 13%, Difficult 5.1%
- #28 Purple Heart
82% matchMixed47% of 131 reviews2017
Dev: Artalasky
Windows
Median: 6 minMean: 7.5 hrs≥1hr: 27%
Hardcore pixel indie platformer with puzzle elements and history. Can you get to the end?
Why similar: Platformer 45.3%, Indie 22.8%, Difficult 17%, Pixel Graphics 14.9%
- #29 Rendezvous
78% matchVery Positive85% of 52 reviews2023
Dev: Pendopo CreationsPub: Hitcents
Windows
Rendezvous is an adventure game set in a futuristic Indonesia. For Setyo to save his sister from sharing his own fate, he must return to the streets of Neo-Surabaya before it's too late. Is it truly possible to redeem the sins of your past?
Why similar: Cyberpunk 80.1%, Pixel Graphics 19.9%
- #30 Ingression
77% matchVery Positive85% of 100 reviews2024
Dev: Espale StudiosPub: Ravenage Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Ingression is an unforgiving & mind-bending precision platformer where you'll think and platform with seamless portals. Travel to the future to save the past from a tremendous time paradox.
Why similar: Cyberpunk 40.4%, Platformer 33.2%, Difficult 15.6%, Pixel Graphics 10.9%
- #31 Aerial_Knight's Never Yield
78% matchMostly Positive77% of 161 reviews2021
Dev: Aerial_KnightPub: Headup
Windows
Median: 1.1 hrsMean: 3.5 hrs≥1hr: 54%
Survive A futuristic Tokyo style Detroit in this 3D runner that tells the story of Wally who has uncovered the evidence that can change his city forever. Explore a game world with a dope-tastic soundtrack featuring the authentic sounds of Detroit Artist.
Why similar: Platformer 60.3%, Difficult 30.3%, Indie 9.4%
- #32 Shelldom
74% matchVery Positive97% of 69 reviews2025
Dev: RoteMandarinen
Windows
Climb, endure, and test your skill in Shelldom. a brutal platformer where every jump counts. One slip could send you tumbling down, but at the top lies the fabled Holy Water. Many have fallen trying to claim it. will you break the curse, or become just another lost shell in the tower?
Why similar: Cyberpunk 46%, Platformer 38.9%, Pixel Graphics 12%, Difficult 2.3%, Indie 0.9%
- #33 Prompt
79% matchVery Positive92% of 50 reviews2015
Dev: foxel_
Windows · Mac · Linux
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 76.3%, Indie 23.7%
- #34 ION Shift
73% matchVery Positive92% of 148 reviews2024
Dev: Electro Soul Games
Windows
ION Shift delivers fast, high-stakes gameplay with precision controls and a unique sandbox-style approach to combat arenas. The campaign progressively challenges the player through evolving level design, tight mechanics, and a focus on player-driven mastery.
Why similar: Gore 31%, Cyberpunk 23.1%, Difficult 15.3%, Platformer 13.7%, Pixel Graphics 12.4%
- #35 MO:Astray
75% matchVery Positive92% of 5,025 reviews2019
Dev: Archpray Inc.Pub: Rayark International Limited
Windows
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 4.9 hrs≥1hr: 76%
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: Gore 33.2%, Platformer 32.5%, Pixel Graphics 16.3%, Indie 11%, Difficult 6.9%
- #36 Axiom Verge
76% matchVery Positive90% of 6,442 reviews2015
Dev: Thomas Happ Games LLC
Windows · Linux
Median: 6.3 hrsMean: 9.6 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Explore and uncover the mystery of a surreal alien world by blasting aliens and glitching your environment in this intense retro side-scrolling action/adventure.
Why similar: Platformer 46.7%, Cyberpunk 19.3%, Pixel Graphics 18.2%, Indie 10.7%, Difficult 5.2%
- #37 Krimson
72% matchVery Positive98% of 130 reviews2024
Dev: CryingPsychoPub: PM Studios, inc.
Windows
Krimson is a challenging gritty rhythm platformer featuring heavy electronic metal music. You're an unknown spawn going through a hellish world as it moves rhythmically to the music. One wrong move means death but the checkpoints are often and death is very short.
Why similar: Platformer 74.9%, Pixel Graphics 25.1%
- #38 Death's Gambit: Afterlife
74% matchVery Positive81% of 5,476 reviews2018
Dev: White RabbitPub: Serenity Forge
Windows
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 8.8 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Death's Gambit: Afterlife is a challenging 2D action platformer with deep RPG elements. As an agent of Death bound to his service, unravel the mystery of Siradon and discover the true price of immortality.
Why similar: Platformer 40.9%, Pixel Graphics 27.6%, Difficult 18.8%, Indie 12.6%
- #39 Stray Savior
70% matchVery Positive93% of 61 reviews2025
Dev: Gustav
Windows
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 61.9%, Pixel Graphics 17.8%, Difficult 10.7%, Indie 9.7%
- #40 The End Is Nigh
73% matchVery Positive94% of 3,330 reviews2017
Dev: Edmund McMillen
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 11.4 hrs≥1hr: 82%
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 59.1%, Difficult 24.2%, Indie 10.8%, Pixel Graphics 5.9%
- #41 Inescapable
77% matchMixed40% of 124 reviews2014
Dev: Magnetic Realms
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 18 minMean: 2.2 hrs≥1hr: 27%
Unravel the mystery uncovered by a remote interplanetary mining operation. What did they find? What threat does it pose? And ultimately, what does it truly mean to be a hero?
Why similar: Platformer 63.3%, Indie 36.7%
- #42 Esse Proxy
72% matchMostly Positive74% of 140 reviews2022
Dev: FromSouthGames
Windows
Slick, stylish and brutal, 3D Cyberpunk Shooter. Located in a dystopian future, you'll experience the intertwined stories of three different characters, each with their own abilities, playstyles, strengths and weaknesses. Kill or die, learn and repeat before you unveil the secrets of Esse Proxy.
Why similar: Cyberpunk 47.5%, Gore 32.7%, Difficult 17.1%, Indie 2.6%
- #43 Hyper Light Drifter
70% matchVery Positive93% of 18,466 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: Pixel Graphics 43.3%, Difficult 39.1%, Indie 17.6%
- #44 Psychroma
67% matchVery Positive89% of 183 reviews2024
Dev: Rocket AdriftPub: Gamma Space Collaborative Studio
Windows · Linux
Psychroma is a psychological horror side-scroller set in a haunted cyberpunk house. Collect cards and explore the memories stored on them to piece together your past. But the deeper you go, the more you expose yourself to the brightest heat, the warmest color...
Why similar: Cyberpunk 81%, Pixel Graphics 19%
- #45 ReSetna
67% matchVery Positive83% of 174 reviews2025
Dev: Today's GamesPub: Module16
Windows
What’s left of humanity are minds trapped in circuits. You are awaken as ReSetna, a warrior on a mission to rescue last human remnants. Explore seven hostile zones, face seven brutal bosses and evolve through a unique upgrade system. Uncover horrifying truth and decide if the future is worth saving.
Why similar: Platformer 80.8%, Indie 19.2%
- #46 Disorder
73% matchMostly Positive72% of 104 reviews2015
Dev: Swagabyte Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 5.0 hrs≥1hr: 93%
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 50.4%, Indie 19.4%, Pixel Graphics 15.3%, Difficult 14.9%
- #47 DeadCore
71% matchVery Positive85% of 2,040 reviews2014
Dev: 5 Bits Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 54 minMean: 2.8 hrs≥1hr: 47%
DeadCore is a Platformer-FPS blending exploration and speedrun. Become immersed in a futuristic and dreamlike adventure which will see you climb a huge Tower born from the void and truly put your capabilities to the test. Will you be able to reveal the secrets that lie beneath this fog-ridden world?
Why similar: Platformer 70.6%, Difficult 19.1%, Indie 10.3%
- #48 Sinless + OST
71% matchMostly Positive78% of 375 reviews2015
Dev: MGP StudiosPub: Forever Entertainment S. A.
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 4.0 hrs≥1hr: 95%
"Before we knew it, what we once knew as 'freedom' became nothing more but a faint and distant memory." Venture forth and discover the truth behind the seemingly perfect OmniCare society in Sinless: a unique point and click and visual novel hybrid, set in an original cyberpunk reality.
Why similar: Cyberpunk 86.6%, Indie 13.4%
- #49 They Bleed Pixels
71% matchVery Positive83% of 2,537 reviews2012
Dev: Spooky Squid Games Inc.
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 4.9 hrs≥1hr: 86%
They Bleed Pixels is a fiendishly difficult action platformer inspired by H.P. Lovecraft and classic horror.
Why similar: Gore 36.2%, Platformer 32.7%, Difficult 15.3%, Pixel Graphics 11.2%, Indie 4.7%
- #50 Rendezvous: Shadows of the Past
68% matchVery Positive81% of 80 reviews2022
Dev: Pendopo CreationsPub: Hitcents
Windows
Median: 54 minMean: 6.1 hrs≥1hr: 45%
He can't escape the memories that haunt him, and soon Setyo realizes he must return to Neo-Surabaya to save what's left of his family. Experience the upheaval of Setyo's mundane life in Bay City in this action-adventure prologue to Rendezvous.
Why similar: Cyberpunk 64.1%, Platformer 16.3%, Pixel Graphics 16.2%, Indie 3.4%
- #51 Venture Kid
70% matchVery Positive83% of 224 reviews2018
Dev: Snikkabo ASPub: FDG Entertainment
Windows
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 4.2 hrs≥1hr: 92%
A 8-bit retro action platformer that goes beyond just pixels and chiptunes
Why similar: Platformer 57.5%, Indie 22.1%, Pixel Graphics 20.4%
- #52 Gravity Circuit
64% matchVery Positive94% of 3,462 reviews2023
Dev: Domesticated Ant GamesPub: PID Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 6.1 hrs≥1hr: 83%
Gravity Circuit is a flashy action packed 2D platformer in the spirit of console classics. Follow Kai, a lone operative war hero who harnesses the mysterious powers of the Gravity Circuit, on an adventure in a futuristic world inhabited by sentient robots.
Why similar: Platformer 64.9%, Pixel Graphics 22.3%, Indie 12.8%
- #53 Neon Inferno
61% matchVery Positive94% of 334 reviews2025
Dev: Zenovia InteractivePub: Retroware
Windows
Median: 1.3 hrsMean: 3.9 hrs≥1hr: 52%
NYC 2055: a city beyond salvation. Blast your way through this dense cyberpunk jungle in NEON INFERNO, an explosive fusion of 2D run-and-gun and gallery-shooter, and help the Family dominate its streets!
Why similar: Cyberpunk 54.6%, Platformer 31.8%, Pixel Graphics 13.6%
- #54 Cyber Shadow
66% matchVery Positive84% of 1,490 reviews2021
Dev: Aarne "MekaSkull" HunzikerPub: Yacht Club Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 7.9 hrs≥1hr: 68%
The world has been taken over by synthetic lifeforms. A desperate plea for help sets Shadow, the sole survivor of his clan, on one last mission to uncover what started the path to perpetual ruin.
Why similar: Cyberpunk 38.6%, Platformer 33.4%, Pixel Graphics 12.3%, Difficult 10.5%, Indie 5.3%
- #55 Super Cyborg
69% matchVery Positive86% of 831 reviews2015
Dev: Artur Games
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 4.1 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Super Cyborg is an old school non-stop hardcore run'n'gun action game! You are an elite battle cyborg who is sent in to investigate a series of anomalies on a mysterious island. The merciless alien known as the 'Xirxul life form' has been awakened by unwitting scientists and now: all humanity is in danger!
Why similar: Gore 36.1%, Platformer 31%, Difficult 11.4%, Indie 11.4%, Pixel Graphics 10%
- #56 Mute Crimson+
69% matchVery Positive91% of 160 reviews2015
Dev: Iced Lizard Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 6.7 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Be a ninja and go on an action platforming adventure to save the world. Climb walls, slice up bad guys, master tricky platforming sequences and face ruthless bosses.
Why similar: Platformer 52%, Difficult 25.7%, Pixel Graphics 16.7%, Indie 5.6%
- #57 Rebel Transmute
65% matchMostly Positive75% of 272 reviews2024
Dev: Fatal Fawn GamesPub: JanduSoft
Windows
Rebel Transmute is a challenging 2D action-platformer epic with heart! Explore the twisting caverns of an alien planet, augment your play-style to fit your strengths, battle deadly bosses, and uncover a dark truth as Moon Mikono searches for her long lost mother.
Why similar: Platformer 48.5%, Difficult 28.4%, Pixel Graphics 23.1%
- #58 FEIST
69% matchMostly Positive74% of 537 reviews2015
Dev: Bits & BeastsPub: Finji
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 3.5 hrs≥1hr: 83%
A desperate, savage survival experience full of stunning visuals, dynamic creatures, and a haunting soundtrack.
Why similar: Platformer 63.5%, Indie 25.5%, Difficult 11%
- #59 Philophobia: The Fear of Love
67% matchVery Positive94% of 71 reviews2020
Dev: Tim Ruswick
Windows
Love is Hell. In this precision platformer based on the 5 stages of grief, navigate the bowels of Hell and escape the torment of love.
Why similar: Platformer 63.6%, Difficult 30.7%, Indie 5.7%