Games Like Volt

In a world oppressed by ruthless machines, a stronghold full of die-hard TV-sets resists the persecution. Your lost friends and the lack of resources drive you to take action against the extinction. Brave the dangers and go find your comrades to rescue your species!

Why similar: Indie 39.4%, Platformer 34.2%, Action 26.4%

Why You'll Like It: This title captures the frantic, facility-escape atmosphere and high-difficulty platforming found in Volt.

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Why similar: Platformer 32.1%, Puzzle 28.7%, Action 20.1%, Indie 15.3%, 2D 3.8%

Why You'll Like It: This game perfectly mirrors the electricity-themed puzzle-platforming and clever mechanics found in Volt.

Use your trusty Mekabolt device to manipulate robots, solve a variety of puzzling levels and obtain batteries to fix the robots!

Why similar: Platformer 37.5%, Puzzle 32.2%, Action 21.8%, 2D 8.5%

Why You'll Like It: It features similar puzzle-platforming challenges that require precise timing and environmental manipulation to escape.

A cube of sugar escapes the factories to avoid the fate of being a cookie!

Why similar: Platformer 31.1%, Indie 24.6%, Action 20.9%, Puzzle 16.4%, 2D 7.1%

Why You'll Like It: It offers a similar experience of navigating a hostile industrial factory through puzzle-platforming.

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: Indie 35%, Action 33.4%, Platformer 27.5%, 2D 4.2%

Why You'll Like It: A fast-paced, difficult precision platformer that shares the same indie spirit and challenge level.

A journey begins... A treacherous tower... Unravel its mysteries!Discover the secrets kept in the long abandoned Tesla Tower!Magnetism and other electromagnetic powers will help you explore a non-linear world of beautiful hand-drawn environments, in a steampunk-inspired vision of old Europe.

Why similar: Platformer 40.1%, Puzzle 24.9%, Indie 19.5%, Action 9.9%, 2D 5.6%

Why You'll Like It: A physics-based puzzle-platformer that utilizes electricity and magnetism mechanics to navigate a dangerous environment.

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 31.3%, Puzzle 27.6%, Indie 23.7%, Action 14.3%, 2D 3.1%

Why You'll Like It: Features clever, room-based puzzle-platforming that requires careful planning and execution.

Light up the world! As Plug, you are charged with restoring the expansive Amp-Tree-System, and thwarting an enigmatic intruder.

Why similar: Platformer 37.6%, Indie 30.4%, Puzzle 27.8%, 2D 4.2%

Why You'll Like It: A minimalist puzzle-platformer that focuses on light and shadow mechanics, echoing the electrical theme of Volt.

The recent events in a state prison, involving Jake from Team Hot Guns was a perfect moment for some prisoners to escape - you are one of them.

Why similar: Action 38.8%, Indie 35.4%, Platformer 22.1%, 2D 3.7%

Why You'll Like It: A challenging platformer centered on escaping a dangerous facility with retro-inspired gameplay.

A crash landing on a world inhabited by bee-like lifeforms. Stranded, our hero must unravel the rules of this uncharted planet to find their way home. Navigate a world where left is right, up is down, and you don't know where the simulation ends and you begin.

Why similar: Indie 31.6%, Platformer 24.9%, Action 21%, Puzzle 17.5%, 2D 5%

Why You'll Like It: A puzzle-platformer that incorporates time-looping mechanics to solve intricate environmental challenges.

Guide a group of rectangles through 120 levels, using their different skills together to overcome a series of obstacles in each environment. Discover the human-made story of the first sentient artificial intelligences with Danny Wallace’s BAFTA-winning narration.

Why similar: Platformer 56%, Indie 31.9%, 2D 12.1%

Why You'll Like It: A minimalist puzzle-platformer where unique character movement is essential to navigating the environment.

Take control of Zeb in this puzzle/platformer. He is a small energy based life form from space, known as a Plazma Being. While journeying through space to his home, Zeb was surprised to find that he was being kidnapped by aliens. They took him back to their planet and unceremoniously threw him into captivity.

Why similar: Platformer 30.8%, Puzzle 26.7%, Indie 21.8%, Action 17.3%, 2D 3.3%

Why You'll Like It: A puzzle-platformer that emphasizes unique movement and environmental interaction.

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

Why similar: Platformer 47%, Indie 30.6%, Action 10.5%, 2D 6.8%, Puzzle 5.1%

Why You'll Like It: A highly challenging platformer that uses gravity-flipping mechanics to solve environmental puzzles.

Welcome to the world of Trash TV. Cast away into a recycling center, you play an outdated tube television animated to life with a singular goal – find your remote control and become fully functional again.

Why similar: Indie 55.1%, Platformer 36.7%, 2D 8.2%

Why You'll Like It: A platformer with a similar retro-aesthetic and a focus on escaping a discarded environment.

N++ is a fast-paced, momentum-based platformer about darting around obstacles, narrowly evading enemies and collecting gold in a beautiful minimalist landscape.

Why similar: Platformer 35.2%, Action 34.4%, Indie 30.4%

Why You'll Like It: A masterclass in physics-based precision platforming that rewards mastery of movement.

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 32.3%, Puzzle 26.1%, Indie 26%, Action 12.9%, 2D 2.8%

Why You'll Like It: A refined puzzle-platformer that builds on the mechanics of its predecessor with more complex room designs.

What if someone knew your mind better than you did? The Swapper is an award-winning, narrative driven puzzle game set in the furthest reaches of space.

Why similar: Puzzle 45.4%, Platformer 24.8%, Indie 22.3%, Action 4.3%, 2D 3.2%

Why You'll Like It: An atmospheric puzzle-platformer set in a sci-fi facility that focuses on cloning and navigation.

Uncertain of his sister's fate, a boy enters LIMBO

Why similar: Platformer 33.5%, Puzzle 28.6%, Indie 27.9%, 2D 5.8%, Action 4.2%

Why You'll Like It: A dark, atmospheric puzzle-platformer about navigating a lethal world as a small, vulnerable character.

Hue is a vibrant, award-winning puzzle-adventure, where you alter the world by changing its background colour.

Why similar: Puzzle 32.8%, Indie 32%, Platformer 29.7%, 2D 5.6%

Why You'll Like It: A puzzle-platformer that uses color-shifting mechanics to interact with and navigate the environment.

Unusual and NOT Safe Experiments is an action-puzzle game where you control a robot trying to escape from an abandoned complex, overcoming traps and solving puzzles.

Why similar: Action 54.6%, Puzzle 45.4%

Why You'll Like It: A puzzle-platformer that emphasizes logic and environmental hazards in a pixel-art style.

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: Indie 36%, Platformer 30.9%, Puzzle 25.8%, 2D 7.3%

Why You'll Like It: A physics-based puzzle-platformer that challenges players to navigate through shifting gravity fields.

Life on Earth is unsustainable. Humanity must seek a new home but the only planet found is very hostile. You were sent on a expedition to slay the monsters inhabiting the surface of this planet. In this adventure you end up being the villain. Game contains two basic controls, many puzzles and lots of guns and enemies.

Why similar: Indie 41.3%, Action 37.6%, Platformer 16.3%, 2D 4.8%

Why You'll Like It: An action-adventure platformer that features a robotic protagonist in a 2D environment.

Grimind is a 2D, physics based, adventure, platform game in horror/creepy theme. Grimind casts you into forgotten caves and ancient crypts, without memories. While being there you have to demonstrate great manual skills to pass obstacles and solve non trivial puzzles to get out of scary environment and additionally discover what are you...

Why similar: Platformer 41.7%, Indie 40.4%, Action 13.8%, 2D 4.1%

Why You'll Like It: A physics-based puzzle-platformer that focuses on environmental interaction and exploration.

In the dark and mysterious world of Closure, only what you see exists. Manipulate lights to phase objects in and out of reality in this multiple-award-winning puzzle game. Play as a strange spider-like demon who explores the stories of three human characters through beautiful, eerie environments such as a decrepit factory, a murky...

Why similar: Platformer 36.5%, Puzzle 34.1%, Indie 25.1%, 2D 4.3%

Why You'll Like It: A unique puzzle-platformer where light and shadow dictate what is real and traversable.

You are stranded on a strange and peculiar planet. It’s time to embark on your journey and find your way home! Explore a gravity defying and challenging platformer with striking visuals and a captivating story that transports you to a world beyond ours.

Why similar: Platformer 41.6%, Indie 37.3%, Puzzle 18.7%, 2D 2.4%

Why You'll Like It: A gravity-based puzzle-platformer featuring a small protagonist navigating a strange, hostile world.

Swiftly is a very challenging platformer game. It has simple graphics and easy to understand rules, but you are going to have a hard time completing the levels.

Why similar: Action 45.3%, Indie 35%, Platformer 19.8%

Why You'll Like It: A challenging indie platformer that focuses on speed and precision movement.

iO is an abstract physics platformer about size and speed. Grow bigger and smaller in order to solve some of the trickiest puzzles. Reach the exit as quickly as possible and grab a gold medal as your reward!

Why similar: Indie 38.8%, Action 33.1%, Puzzle 23.6%, 2D 4.5%

Why You'll Like It: A physics-based puzzle game that focuses on size-changing mechanics to navigate complex platforms.

You're Benny, a test character trapped in an unfinished game by a figure called The Designer. She's up against a deadline for her publisher which means it's your last day as a test character. Navigate the facility, dodge game-dev chaos and defy expectations to become the main character.

Why similar: Platformer 44.6%, Indie 33.5%, Action 21.8%

You're trapped, alone and cold on a distant planet. Pursued by a droid with only one purpose: killing everything. You must find an escape. Explore the hostile environment, find secret upgrades and new weapons, and finally make your escape from this dark, hostile planet...

Why similar: Action 51.6%, Platformer 48.4%

Why You'll Like It: A metroidvania-style platformer that focuses on escaping a hostile planet through exploration.

At the bottom of a massive underground dump, a sentient pile of sludge is born. After finding a discarded book that shows photographs of the surface, they decide to make the journey upward to see the outside world.

Why similar: Action 42.4%, Platformer 38.2%, Indie 13.2%, 2D 6.2%

A scientist uses a unique teleportation instrument to escape an ancient biomechanical world filled with imaginative technology, deadly traps, and hidden secrets.

Why similar: Platformer 54%, Action 32.3%, 2D 13.7%

You are an intelligent robot created by scientists for the best annual tournament "Project: R.E.B.O.O.T".

Why similar: Indie 47.9%, Action 27%, Platformer 21%, 2D 4.1%

Why You'll Like It: An action-platformer set in a sci-fi environment that shares the industrial aesthetic of Volt.

Defunct is an indie adventure game with a focus on flow, speed and an engaging world. You are a broken robot that accidentally falls out of a giant cargo ship onto a post-human Earth, now inhabited by robots. You have to get back to your ship before it’s too late!

Why similar: Indie 51%, Platformer 49%

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: Indie 39.1%, Action 35.4%, Platformer 25.5%

Chip is an isometric puzzle game with robots, electricity and fancy dress! The player must help recharge Chip - a plucky little red robot - who has been imprisoned by the nefarious villain, Rust.

Why similar: Indie 43.7%, Puzzle 33.4%, Action 22.9%

A punishing, one-button platformer about escaping prison. Test your skills and intellect as you ascend a tower of hand-crafted challenges. Jump, fly, slide up walls, float in bubbles and perform somersaults; all with the press of a single button. Reach the paramount. Reach.

Why similar: Platformer 37.1%, Puzzle 32.7%, Action 21.6%, 2D 8.6%

Your character has lost his memory and finds himself in a godforsaken place. An adventure with a nonlinear storyline, lots of choices, and a unique combat system. Could he get out alive?

Why similar: Action 37%, Indie 36.9%, Platformer 26.1%

Wake is the story of an engineer trapped on a sinking ship. Navigate through the ship however you want to find your way to the surface above, but avoid the ship's corrupted security system!Key Features Run and swim to escape a sinking ship Dodge bullets, fire, electricity and LASERS - but most of all avoid drowning!

Why similar: Indie 46.1%, Action 28.8%, Platformer 25.2%

You are the Ball. Escape.

Why similar: Platformer 71%, 2D 29%

BEAM is a challenging precision platformer with puzzle elements in which you need to manipulate various light beams and tightly maneuver MARBLE in order to save both your lives.

Why similar: Platformer 31.7%, Puzzle 30.3%, Indie 19.9%, Action 18.1%

A short narrative puzzle experience about a lost frog who has dug too far into the sand during a beach day. Use your trusty shovel to move blocks and create paths for you to continue upward.

Why similar: Puzzle 42.3%, Platformer 33%, Indie 17.5%, 2D 7.2%

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 38.1%, Indie 37.4%, Platformer 24.4%

This is a short hardcore enthralling puzzle-platform game about a lonely robot, which tries to find his master. To go all the way you'll have to look for the master in two dimensions at the same time. Parallel world module will help to overcome any obstacles!

Why similar: Platformer 29.3%, Indie 23.6%, Action 22.1%, Puzzle 20.8%, 2D 4.2%

"With your trusty shank and die hard will to survive, you've successfully broken out of your Prison Cell. How many other prisoners can you set free on your way to Freedom? Take down as many Guards as possible while avoiding traps and hazards along the way! From Knives, to Guns, and Mines to Bombs!"

Why similar: Platformer 34.8%, Action 30.7%, Indie 28.6%, 2D 5.9%

Shiny the Firefly is a challenging platform adventure game. Journey through a mysterious garden as Shiny, a brave firefly on a quest to find his children, lost in a terrible accident. Master trials,solve puzzles and use your stealth to guide your children to safety.

Why similar: Indie 41.1%, Action 37.6%, Platformer 21.3%

Den is a one-eyed alien who is grounded after the terrible crash of a spaceship. On this planet, one can control the gravity around him to walk in space. Lucky Dan is also able to change the gravity on the ground. Help him to reach the lost ship.

Why similar: Indie 32%, Action 31.4%, Platformer 30.1%, 2D 6.5%

Use the glitch you have discovered to break out of jail!

Why similar: Action 75.8%, Indie 24.2%

You've died and landed in purgatory, your options? Unending suffering or finding a way back to your world.

Why similar: Action 37.6%, Platformer 33.1%, Indie 22.3%, 2D 7%

In F.E.X (Forced Evolution Experiment) you are a failed experiment in a facility where they manipulate human DNA in order to stop the aging process. You are able to grow old at will, but you can't reverse the process. Get out before your time runs out or you get caught.

Why similar: Indie 50.5%, Action 49.5%

Wire up electrical circuits and make your way through a derelict building to keep your appointment with a mysterious professor who lives at the top.

Why similar: Indie 100%

You're in a box and you have to climb as high as possible... if you can make it.

Why similar: Platformer 48.4%, Action 27%, Indie 24.6%

Snapshot is the tale of a lone robot lost in an abandoned world. Armed with only his trusty camera, Pic sets forth on his great adventure. A camera might not seem like enough for a puzzle platforming adventure, but this camera is different from most: It has the ability to capture and remove from the world the very objects that it...

Why similar: Platformer 36.3%, Indie 35.5%, Puzzle 28.2%

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 42.2%, Action 27.4%, Indie 20.1%, 2D 10.3%

A 2D action game featuring a young man with the power of lightning who stands for freedom against the evil ambitions of a massive organization. When lightning strikes, a new legend is born.

Why similar: Action 36.3%, Platformer 31.4%, Indie 25.1%, 2D 7.2%

“Tangled Up” is the story of two electric charges "Positive Charge" & "Negative Charge" who are paired by an electric string. One day the string that bonds them together gets tangled up! and they’re unable to unite!

Why similar: Puzzle 33.6%, Indie 31.5%, Action 30.9%, 2D 4%

Minimalistic puzzle game telling about a tricky life situation, which gets your Hero. Mysterious world and treacherous enemies. Strange laws of this weird reality. Here the help of friends is more dangerous than the attack of enemies! Welcome to NEONomicon!

Why similar: Indie 39.8%, Platformer 28.7%, Action 27.7%, 2D 3.8%

After decades of toil, an old machinist plots his escape from Communism, through manipulation and scheming. Along the road, he befriends the most unlikely creature, an abandoned robot. Could they solve the puzzles and flee this bleak world together?

Why similar: Platformer 27.7%, Indie 26.2%, Action 23.4%, Puzzle 22.7%

Explore an abandoned facility on the planet you've crashlanded, solving puzzles with strange plants along the way.

Why similar: Platformer 47.3%, Puzzle 38.8%, 2D 9.3%, Indie 4.6%