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Games Like Welkin Road

60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Parkour, Action, Platformer, 3D Platformer.

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Armed only with your grappling hooks and fearless nature, run, leap and swing your way across a dreamy skyscape to reach the pillar of light. Welkin Road is an elegant, first-person puzzle-platformer that combines parkour and grappling-hook-powered aerobatics.

Reviews: Mostly Positive — 76% — of 70 reviews
Released: 2016-04-13
Developer: Gregor Panič
Publisher: Nkidu Games Inc.
Genres: Action, Adventure, Indie, Early Access
Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux
Median playtime: 3.6 hrs
Mean playtime: 5.7 hrs
Players ≥ 1 hr: 85%

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