Games Like Will Glow the Wisp

Break through and outlast shifting, twisting, chaos and whatnot. Dodging is for cowards - start smashing.

Why similar: Flight 28.7%, Surreal 15.5%, Bullet Hell 15.4%, Abstract 14.2%, Psychedelic 13.8%

Why You'll Like It: A chaotic, surreal flight-based arcade game that mirrors the psychedelic intensity of the seed.

"Just Shapes & Beats" is a chaotic co-op musical bullet-hell based on three simple things: avoid Shapes, move to the kick-ass Beats, and die, repeatedly.

Why similar: Bullet Hell 44.2%, Difficult 38.1%, 2D 6.9%, Colorful 4.6%, Action 4.4%

Why You'll Like It: It perfectly captures the fusion of bullet-hell mechanics and rhythmic music-synced gameplay found in the seed game.

Transcend the material realm and assume your true form as Spinch, a hyper-agile organism consumed by the quest to rescue a litter of its missing offspring, in this side-scrolling, psychedelic platformer from the mind of award-winning Canadian cartoonist, Jesse Jacobs.

Why similar: Psychedelic 23.6%, Side Scroller 17.3%, Difficult 16.5%, Platformer 12%, Old School 7.6%

Why You'll Like It: Offers a highly psychedelic, colorful world that demands precise platforming skills.

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: Platformer 21.7%, Difficult 21.6%, Score Attack 17.8%, Side Scroller 14.8%, Retro 11.9%

Why You'll Like It: Combines precision platforming with a strong emphasis on rhythm and neon-soaked visuals.

Thumper is rhythm violence: classic rhythm-action, blistering speed, and brutal physicality. You are a space beetle. Brave the hellish void and confront a maniacal giant head from the future.

Why similar: Psychedelic 46.1%, Difficult 34.7%, Arcade 9.1%, Action 7.8%, Singleplayer 2.3%

Why You'll Like It: This rhythm-action game offers a similarly surreal, high-speed, and intense sensory experience.

In Ynglet, you jump, dash, slide, bounce and float your way through an abstract, effervescent sky. Melt into the reactive, dynamic soundtrack, while beautiful colors make every moment a visual treat.

Why similar: Surreal 26.8%, Platformer 16.4%, Relaxing 15.3%, Arcade 15.2%, Colorful 9.5%

Why You'll Like It: A relaxing yet arcade-focused platformer that emphasizes fluid, rhythmic movement through atmospheric spaces.

Beat your best scores in Neon Beats, a 2D platformer game with rhythm based levels!

Why similar: Platformer 28%, Difficult 23.4%, Minimalist 18.5%, Score Attack 15.4%, 2D 10.8%

Why You'll Like It: A minimalist, music-driven platformer that rewards precision and timing in a neon-lit environment.

Sayonara Wild Hearts is a dreamy arcade game about riding motorcycles, skateboarding, dance battling, shooting lasers, wielding swords, and breaking hearts at 200 mph.

Why similar: Arcade 37.8%, Colorful 23.3%, Action 18%, Casual 15.5%, Singleplayer 5.4%

Why You'll Like It: It features a stunning, surreal aesthetic paired with arcade-style movement that feels like a musical journey.

Super Hexagon is a minimal action game by Terry Cavanagh, with music by Chipzel.

Why similar: Difficult 50.2%, Arcade 13.6%, Score Attack 9.8%, Psychedelic 9.3%, Minimalist 8%

Why You'll Like It: A quintessential difficult arcade game that relies on rhythm and twitch-reflexes to survive.

From gameplay to visuals to music and imagination, BIT.TRIP BEAT is inspired by classic games in every way. Get sucked into a whole new world of sight and sound as you juggle beats and ride the vibe in this modern look at the beginning of it all. BIT.

Why similar: Psychedelic 18.2%, Difficult 17.8%, Side Scroller 13.8%, Minimalist 13%, Arcade 10.1%

Why You'll Like It: A classic rhythm-action game that uses paddle-based movement to navigate bullet-hell-like patterns.

Odium to the Core is a challenging single-button, music based game with a dark monochromatic art style. Guide Odium through dangerous and intense music-fueled levels to eliminate the spreading corruption. Reach the core and save the world!

Why similar: Difficult 20.4%, Bullet Hell 19%, Platformer 12.5%, Side Scroller 12%, Arcade 10.7%

Why You'll Like It: A challenging, single-button arcade game that focuses on navigating tight, stylized mazes.

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 36.1%, Difficult 35.8%, Side Scroller 10.1%, Score Attack 5.4%, Action 4%

Why You'll Like It: A high-energy, difficult platformer with a heavy focus on electronic music and tight controls.

Enjoy chill Lo-fi walks and fight bosses to K-POP, EDM and Hip-Hop inspired tracks. Features a quirky story, 30 handcrafted levels and various EX-modes to refresh your gameplay.

Why similar: Difficult 37.7%, Arcade 18.3%, Relaxing 17.7%, Colorful 12.7%, Casual 6.6%

Why You'll Like It: A rhythm-action game that demands precise timing and movement through increasingly difficult levels.

Super reaKtor is a bullet hell focused on difficulty with a twist: original controls and 2 differents weak points to manage. Collect green energy pellets, and avoid or absorb the various threats.

Why similar: Bullet Hell 19.9%, Difficult 17.1%, Score Attack 16.4%, Psychedelic 13.6%, Minimalist 10.3%

Why You'll Like It: A challenging arcade bullet-hell game that prioritizes score-attack mechanics.

Ball laB is a hardcore platformer with minimalist graphics.

Why similar: Side Scroller 19.2%, Difficult 16.8%, Old School 13.2%, Minimalist 12.3%, Platformer 11.8%

Why You'll Like It: A minimalist precision platformer that focuses on short, difficult bursts of gameplay.

🚀 Play as Wavey the Rocket as he tries to stop the moon from being destroyed by an evil corporation that removes fizz from soda! A precision side scroller like no other, it's hand-crafted and set to some seriously funky hip hop.

Why similar: Difficult 28.8%, Side Scroller 23.2%, Arcade 16.6%, Retro 14.4%, Action 9.1%

Why You'll Like It: Features unique wave-based flight mechanics that require extreme precision and timing.

Melatonin is a rhythm game about dreams and reality merging together. It uses animations and sound cues to keep you on beat without any intimidating overlays or interfaces. Harmonize through a variety of dreamy levels containing surprising challenges, hand-drawn art, and vibrant music.

Why similar: Surreal 22%, Relaxing 19.3%, Colorful 13.8%, Score Attack 12.9%, Difficult 8.5%

Why You'll Like It: A rhythm game that uses colorful, surreal visuals to create a relaxing yet engaging experience.

Geometry Wars: Retro Evolved is a old school style shooter, but remixed for the 21st century with next generation graphics and deep, modern gameplay. Playing is simple: you are a geometric "ship" trapped in a grid world, facing off against waves of deadly wanderers, snakes, and repulsars.

Why similar: Bullet Hell 29%, Arcade 22.8%, Retro 13.7%, Psychedelic 12.1%, Score Attack 8.2%

Why You'll Like It: The definitive arcade bullet-hell experience that inspired the frantic, neon-filled combat of the seed game.

A fast-paced hardcore platformer featuring hand-crafted levels and lightning-fast respawns. Help Square survive his journey to the depths of Flatland, a minimalist neon-style 2D world. Run, jump, die, learn, repeat.

Why similar: Side Scroller 20.5%, Psychedelic 18.8%, Difficult 17.5%, Abstract 11.7%, Platformer 10.2%

Why You'll Like It: A minimalist, fast-paced precision platformer that focuses on tight controls and difficult obstacles.

Distance is an atmospheric racing platformer. Fusing futuristic arcade racing with parkour, survive a deadly, mysterious, neon-drenched city by jumping, rotating, and flying.

Why similar: Arcade 40.5%, Platformer 36%, Action 17%, Singleplayer 6.5%

Why You'll Like It: A survival racing game with a surreal, neon-drenched aesthetic and challenging arcade-style flight mechanics.

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 31.2%, Side Scroller 27.8%, Retro 14.4%, 2D 9.7%, Action 9.6%

Why You'll Like It: A fast-paced action platformer with fluid movement and challenging combat encounters.

Sidescrolling Shoot’em’up that will transport you back into the 90s (and space).

Why similar: Side Scroller 25.2%, Bullet Hell 21.7%, Psychedelic 14.9%, Old School 13.2%, Arcade 10.6%

Why You'll Like It: A side-scrolling shooter that incorporates bullet-hell elements and arcade-style progression.

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

Why similar: Difficult 43.3%, Platformer 34.6%, 2D 6.9%, Retro 6%, Side Scroller 5.7%

Why You'll Like It: The gold standard for precision platforming that heavily influenced the difficult, fast-paced nature of the seed.

A Dance of Fire and Ice is a strict rhythm game. Keep your focus as you guide two orbiting planets along a winding path without breaking their perfect equilibrium.

Why similar: Difficult 32.7%, Psychedelic 27.5%, Arcade 13.7%, Colorful 8.8%, 2D 6.2%

Why You'll Like It: A strict rhythm game that tests your ability to maintain focus and precision under pressure.

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: Difficult 31.2%, Platformer 25.8%, Arcade 19.5%, Retro 9.8%, Action 6.3%

Why You'll Like It: A fast-paced, arcade-style descent that requires constant movement and precision to survive.

Enter a digital dream where every mistake echoes forever. Control your little computer soul through an endless neon labyrinth filled with moving obstacles, shimmering tiles and vaporwave vibes.

Why similar: Bullet Hell 23.2%, Side Scroller 22.4%, Platformer 15.8%, Arcade 13.3%, Retro 9.3%

Non-Euclidean snake where you can go forever deeper and deeper into the void... ...and if you're good enough, into the daily leaderboards

Why similar: Psychedelic 22.6%, Score Attack 13.1%, Arcade 13%, Surreal 11.4%, Old School 9.7%

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

Why similar: Difficult 34.5%, Platformer 33.2%, Retro 15%, 2D 6.6%, Minimalist 5.7%

Why You'll Like It: A difficult, gravity-flipping platformer that requires precise navigation through hazardous, maze-like levels.

Boson X is a fast-paced rotational runner set in a particle accelerator.

Why similar: Psychedelic 28%, Minimalist 18.9%, Arcade 15.1%, Platformer 14%, Difficult 13.3%

Why You'll Like It: A high-speed, rhythm-based platformer that demands quick reflexes to navigate shifting environments.

Chain massive trick combos, dodge deadly debris, and chase huge scores in this fast-paced arcade adventure. Earn coins, upgrade abilities, collect rare items, and uncover a wild time-bending narrative aboard this doomed flight in the year 1995

Why similar: Bullet Hell 25.5%, Score Attack 23.4%, Arcade 14.1%, Old School 13%, Retro 10.1%

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 63.8%, Action 36.2%

Why You'll Like It: A fast-paced action platformer that requires quick reactions and precise movement.

Sit back and enjoy 30 minutes of original electronic and vaporwave music in this challenging platformer, push forward to unlock Time Trial mode and a second playable character who completely changes the gameplay.

Why similar: Difficult 38.6%, Platformer 26.6%, Retro 11.2%, 2D 9%, Action 6.7%

Spark the electric jester is an action/platformer video game heavily based on best classics from the 16-bit era from both sides of the aisle.

Why similar: Platformer 47.6%, Retro 17.7%, Action 13.8%, 2D 11.9%, Colorful 5.3%

Neon Warp is a simple yet very unique puzzle game.

Why similar: Arcade 17.7%, Difficult 15.1%, Minimalist 13.1%, Score Attack 13%, Action 9.1%

Dodge. Drift. Dance through danger.

Why similar: Flight 27.7%, Difficult 18.3%, Minimalist 12.1%, Old School 11.5%, Arcade 10.5%

Throw on your nostalgia goggles and travel back in time with Super Win the Game, a retro-core explosion of exploration and platforming action!!

Why similar: Side Scroller 26.4%, Difficult 20.8%, Platformer 14.2%, Old School 11%, Retro 7.1%

Embark on a heartfelt Mushroomvania adventure through a vast and dense interconnected world! It's like a mix of retro and modern classics!

Why similar: Platformer 37.8%, Old School 28%, 2D 10.4%, Retro 9.4%, Colorful 7.4%

A mix of Flappy Bird and Dark Souls

Why similar: Minimalist 39.7%, Arcade 36.6%, Casual 20.3%, Singleplayer 3.4%

Weave through missiles to generated music, and let the world flow around you.

Why similar: Casual 19.5%, Score Attack 18%, Psychedelic 17.9%, Bullet Hell 17.9%, Action 17.3%

A dropper game designed to overwhelm your senses. Twisting tunnels, psychedelic patterns, and breathing walls assault your sense of balance as the chaos escalates with every level.

Why similar: Abstract 24.9%, Psychedelic 22.1%, Score Attack 17.9%, Arcade 14.7%, Colorful 7.8%

A Surreal Puzzle Shooter Adventure Fueled By Madness!

Why similar: Abstract 19.4%, Surreal 18%, Psychedelic 17.7%, Difficult 14.9%, Minimalist 11.1%

Test both mind, body and spirit in this surreal bullet hell platformer. Plum the depths of your potato-consciousness to overcome impossible challenges in search of the elusive, tantalizing TROOF.

Why similar: Surreal 18.7%, Difficult 18.5%, Side Scroller 18.2%, Platformer 16.5%, Retro 11%

the game is about keeping your mind at one place

Why similar: Psychedelic 36.8%, Surreal 19.8%, Arcade 16.9%, Colorful 10.2%, Retro 9.5%

Melt your brain with this twisted take on the platform genre!

Why similar: Side Scroller 35.1%, Difficult 26.8%, Platformer 17.8%, Retro 9%, 2D 5.7%

A modern revisitation of the 80s arcades. Use your Razerwire to cut through waves of nanobugs with a rogue-like inspired progression.

Why similar: Bullet Time 35.9% ★, Bullet Hell 25.4%, Arcade 11.7%, Relaxing 10.3%, Colorful 5.6%

Experience a different take on the roguelike genre. Explore a world created on the fly by your actions. Wonder about your purpose.

Why similar: Abstract 68.4%, Action 31.6%

WAVESHAPER is a minimalist score attack game in which you attempt to stop the 2D vector menace, one obstacle at a time.

Why similar: Difficult 15.5%, Score Attack 14.6%, Side Scroller 14.1%, Minimalist 12.9%, Old School 9.8%

Photonic Distress (or PD for short) is a blend of First/Third Person puzzler/platformer with a unique twist. Navigate your way through randomly generated levels, lighting your way up, fighting enemies, sliding and collecting Memory Fragments to wake up!

Why similar: Relaxing 45.4%, Action 28%, Casual 26.7%

Inhabit Krog, a mysterious blue creature in a red loincloth, as he traverses a labyrinth of ladders, levers, traps, and monsters. Explore the nooks and crannies of a bizarre and evocative world as you hack and slash your way to victory, leaving a graveyard of grotesque bosses in your wake.

Why similar: Side Scroller 27.4%, Difficult 23.2%, Old School 15.5%, Retro 12.3%, Platformer 8.5%

Hell is Other Demons is an action-platform shooter, with Roguelite elements. Explore a sprawling, hand-crafted world full of demons, insanely over-the-top boss fights, and a heavy synthwave soundtrack.

Why similar: Bullet Hell 24.1%, Difficult 19.7%, Side Scroller 16.7%, Platformer 11.8%, Arcade 10.3%

In this fast-paced arcade game, inspired by Pac-Man, you navigate through a dark maze, chasing the highest score. Avoid the lurking dangers, find secrets and game-changing power-ups as you explore the maze. And remember, even your failures can illuminate your path through the darkness.

Why similar: Retro 24.5%, Arcade 22.9%, Minimalist 16.7%, Relaxing 13.3%, Casual 9.6%

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 35.7%, Retro 17%, Side Scroller 14.8%, Difficult 11.8%, 2D 10.4%

Super Glitter Rush is a boss-rush style bullet hell shoot-em-up!

Why similar: Bullet Hell 40%, Minimalist 15.4%, Score Attack 13.5%, Retro 7.7%, Action 7.7%

At sonic speeds, Aureole - Wings of Hope takes platforming to the literal skies! Join Ramila and Ryleth on their crusade to reclaim their home from demonic forces in this unique physics-based side-scrolling game.

Why similar: Difficult 24.6%, Platformer 24.4%, Side Scroller 22.8%, Arcade 11.3%, Colorful 6.1%

ACIIIIIIIIIIIIIIID is a a fast-paced arcade game with bullet-hell elements.

Why similar: Surreal 20.1%, Side Scroller 18.4%, Difficult 17.7%, Psychedelic 15.4%, Retro 11%

Super Space Club is a lo-fi arcade space shooter to chill to. Defend a vibrant galaxy as a club of misfit heroes and battle endless waves of spacecrafts to the tune of atmospheric beats. Outlast your enemies and vibe to the rhythm of the stars.

Why similar: Flight 27.7%, Bullet Hell 20.6%, Difficult 15%, Arcade 10.9%, Minimalist 9.1%

You are the Entangled One, a malformed entity. Traverse the flesh wastes under the eye of an eternal eclipse. Delve deep into the planet's guts. Uncover a fleshy ecosystem. Engage in deliberate, challenging combat, using your whiplike arms and collectible sub attacks to augment your combat style!

Why similar: Side Scroller 21%, Difficult 16.9%, Surreal 16.4%, Old School 13.1%, Platformer 10.7%

Play the critically acclaimed masterpiece. Embark on a new journey in a vast, exotic world where you’ll encounter towering enemies and challenging puzzles on your quest to unravel Ori’s destiny.

Why similar: Platformer 48%, Difficult 27.7%, Action 11.4%, 2D 7.4%, Singleplayer 5.4%