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Top 2D Games

60+ 2d games ranked by player tags and tunable re-ranking. Related tags include Singleplayer, Indie, Action, Funny.

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  1. #1 Hollow Knight
    98% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 534,538 reviews2017
    Developer: Team Cherry
    Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux
    Median: 11.3hMean: 41.2h≥1hr: 87%

    Forge your own path in Hollow Knight! An epic action adventure through a vast ruined kingdom of insects and heroes. Explore twisting caverns, battle tainted creatures and befriend bizarre bugs, all in a classic, hand-drawn 2D style.

  2. #2 Terraria
    98% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 1,511,859 reviews2011
    Developer: Re-Logic
    Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux
    Median: 33.2hMean: 149.0h≥1hr: 92%

    Dig, fight, explore, build! Nothing is impossible in this action-packed adventure game. Four Pack also available!

  3. #3 Geometry Dash
    98% matchVery Positive93% of 567,135 reviews2014
    Developer: RobTop Games
    Platforms: Windows, Mac
    Median: 8.5hMean: 98.0h≥1hr: 89%

    Jump and fly your way through danger in this rhythm-based action platformer!

  4. #4 Among Us
    98% matchVery Positive92% of 725,594 reviews2018
    Developer: Innersloth
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 12.0hMean: 30.6h≥1hr: 93%

    An online and local party game of teamwork and betrayal for 4-15 players...in space!

  5. #5 Hollow Knight: Silksong
    96% matchVery Positive89% of 400,178 reviews2025
    Developer: Team Cherry
    Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux
    Median: 35.1hMean: 45.2h≥1hr: 93%

    Discover a vast, haunted kingdom in Hollow Knight: Silksong! Explore, fight and survive as you ascend to the peak of a land ruled by silk and song.

  6. #6 People Playground
    95% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 308,374 reviews2019
    Developer: mestiezPublisher: Studio Minus
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 7.9hMean: 53.6h≥1hr: 84%

    Shoot, stab, burn, poison, tear, vaporise, or crush ragdolls in a large open space.

  7. #7 Guacamelee! Super Turbo Championship Edition
    93% matchVery Positive92% of 6,988 reviews2014
    Developer: Drinkbox Studios
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 2.1hMean: 6.7h≥1hr: 66%

    The definitive version of the smash-hit Metroidvania-style action-platformer, Guacamelee! STCE adds new levels, powers, challenges, and refinements to the sprawling, ridiculous, Mexican-inspired adventure of the original Guacamelee! Gold Edition.

  8. #8 Vampire Survivors
    92% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 260,765 reviews2022
    Developer: poncle
    Platforms: Windows, Mac
    Median: 19.1hMean: 39.7h≥1hr: 95%

    Mow down thousands of night creatures and survive until dawn! Vampire Survivors is a gothic horror casual game with rogue-lite elements, where your choices can allow you to quickly snowball against the hundreds of monsters that get thrown at you. Be the bullet hell!

  9. #9 Castle Crashers®
    89% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 136,432 reviews2012
    Developer: The Behemoth
    Platforms: Windows, Mac
    Median: 4.6hMean: 16.9h≥1hr: 85%

    Hack, slash, and smash your way to victory in this award winning 2D arcade adventure from The Behemoth!

  10. #10 Undertale
    89% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 318,586 reviews2015
    Developer: tobyfox
    Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux
    Median: 4.9hMean: 18.9h≥1hr: 81%

    UNDERTALE! The RPG game where you don't have to destroy anyone.

  11. #11 Cuphead
    89% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 206,677 reviews2017
    Developer: Studio MDHR Entertainment Inc.
    Platforms: Windows, Mac
    Median: 7.1hMean: 23.1h≥1hr: 89%

    Cuphead is a classic run and gun action game heavily focused on boss battles. Inspired by cartoons of the 1930s, the visuals and audio are painstakingly created with the same techniques of the era, i.e. traditional hand drawn cel animation, watercolor backgrounds, and original jazz recordings.

  12. #12 Goose Goose Duck
    87% matchVery Positive87% of 79,400 reviews2021
    Developer: Gaggle Studios, Inc.
    Platforms: Windows, Mac
    Median: 3.2hMean: 22.0h≥1hr: 75%

    Goose Goose Duck is a game of social deduction for up to 16 players. Players are separated into different groups that are each assigned a different objective. Complete your team’s objective to win!

  13. #13 Dead Cells
    86% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 178,807 reviews2018
    Developer: Motion Twin
    Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux
    Median: 13.5hMean: 41.0h≥1hr: 92%

    Dead Cells is a roguelite, metroidvania inspired, action-platformer. You'll explore a sprawling, ever-changing castle... assuming you’re able to fight your way past its keepers in 2D souls-lite combat. No checkpoints. Kill, die, learn, repeat.

  14. #14 Helltaker
    82% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 126,940 reviews2020
    Developer: vanripper
    Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux
    Median: 1.4hMean: 18.5h≥1hr: 64%

    Helltaker is a short game about sharply dressed demon girls.

  15. #15 Barotrauma
    82% matchVery Positive94% of 84,235 reviews2023
    Developer: FakeFishPublisher: Daedalic Entertainment
    Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux
    Median: 8.9hMean: 54.3h≥1hr: 91%

    Barotrauma is a 2D co-op submarine simulator – in space, with survival horror and RPG elements. Steer your submarine, complete missions, fight monsters, fix leaks, operate machinery, man the guns and craft items, and stay alert: danger in Barotrauma doesn’t announce itself!

  16. #16 Plants vs. Zombies GOTY Edition
    82% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 150,567 reviews2009
    Developer: PopCap Games, Inc.
    Platforms: Windows, Mac
    Median: 9.9hMean: 41.0h≥1hr: 83%

    Zombies are invading your home, and the only defense is your arsenal of plants! Armed with an alien nursery-worth of zombie-zapping plants like peashooters and cherry bombs, you'll need to think fast and plant faster to stop dozens of types of zombies dead in their tracks.

  17. #17 Clicker Heroes
    82% matchVery Positive90% of 61,916 reviews2015
    Developer: Playsaurus
    Platforms: Windows, Mac
    Median: 10.5hMean: 164.2h≥1hr: 85%

    Click your way through hordes of monsters, earn gold, and recruit quirky heroes with powerful skills. Progress even while you're idle, and watch the numbers climb into the absurd. It’s a never-ending journey of clicks, crits, and colossal damage.

  18. #18 Oxygen Not Included
    80% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 138,890 reviews2019
    Developer: Klei Entertainment
    Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux
    Median: 8.9hMean: 67.7h≥1hr: 86%

    Oxygen Not Included is a space-colony simulation game. Deep inside an alien space rock your industrious crew will need to master science, overcome strange new lifeforms, and harness incredible space tech to survive, and possibly, thrive.

  19. #19 Broforce
    80% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 60,389 reviews2015
    Developer: Free LivesPublisher: Devolver Digital
    Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux
    Median: 6.6hMean: 13.1h≥1hr: 88%

    Broforce is an action-packed side-scrolling run ‘n’ gun ode to freedom, putting you in control of an under-funded, overpowered paramilitary organization dealing exclusively in excessive force.

  20. #20 Celeste
    80% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 138,420 reviews2018
    Developer: Maddy Makes Games Inc.
    Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux
    Median: 4.8hMean: 26.1h≥1hr: 81%

    Help Madeline survive her inner demons on her journey to the top of Celeste Mountain, in this super-tight platformer from the creators of TowerFall. Brave hundreds of hand-crafted challenges, uncover devious secrets, and piece together the mystery of the mountain.

  21. #21 BRAIN / OUT
    80% matchVery Positive82% of 15,327 reviews2017
    Developer: Desertkun
    Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux
    Median: 1.3hMean: 25.4h≥1hr: 55%

    Brain / Out is a multiplayer shooter with a nostalgic post-Soviet feel. Experience dynamic battles and exterminate your enemies with a large arsenal of modern weaponry. Lock'n'load!

  22. #22 Skul: The Hero Slayer
    80% matchVery Positive93% of 56,905 reviews2021
    Developer: SOUTHPAW GAMESPublisher: NEOWIZ
    Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux
    Median: 6.9hMean: 23.2h≥1hr: 85%

    Guide 'Skul' on his quest to single-handedly take on the Imperial Army and rescue his King from captivity, in an action-packed rogue-lite 2D platformer for the ages.

  23. #23 CS2D
    80% matchVery Positive90% of 10,328 reviews2017
    Developer: Unreal Software
    Platforms: Windows, Linux
    Median: 36mMean: 16.3h≥1hr: 35%

    CS2D is a free fast-paced top-down multiplayer shooter. Featuring many different game modes, a built-in map editor and much more.

  24. #24 DELTARUNE
    78% matchOverwhelmingly Positive99% of 97,519 reviews2025
    Developer: tobyfox
    Platforms: Windows, Mac
    Median: 16.7hMean: 21.1h≥1hr: 92%

    Dive into the parallel story to UNDERTALE! Fight or spare your way through action-packed battles as you explore a mysterious world alongside an endearing cast of new and familiar characters. Chapters 1-4 will be available on launch, with more planned as free updates!

  25. #25 Banana
    79% matchVery Positive82% of 95,477 reviews2024
    Developer: Sky
    Platforms: Windows, Linux
    Median: 3.0hMean: 54.5h≥1hr: 68%

    Banana is a clicker Game, in which you click a Banana! In Banana you click the Banana to gain even more Bananas! Every 3 hours, you get dropped a banana. Each banana is also made by the community in discord. Come hang out with us and let's grow into something awesome !

  26. #26 ShellShock Live
    79% matchVery Positive93% of 35,331 reviews2020
    Developer: kChamp Games
    Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux
    Median: 7.2hMean: 30.2h≥1hr: 89%

    Demolish your friends with hundreds of upgradable weapons shot from your customizable tank in this action-packed online multiplayer tanks game. Earn XP to level up and unlock new tanks, weapons, and gear. Fight against or alongside your friends for strategic team or free-for-all matches.

  27. #27 Blasphemous
    78% matchVery Positive90% of 62,190 reviews2019
    Developer: The Game KitchenPublisher: Team17
    Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux
    Median: 4.4hMean: 11.0h≥1hr: 79%

    Blasphemous is a brutal action-platformer with skilled hack’n slash combat set in the nightmare world of Cvstodia. Explore, upgrade your abilities, and perform savage executions on the hordes of enemies that stand between you and your quest to break eternal damnation.

  28. #28 Stick Fight: The Game
    78% matchVery Positive93% of 124,581 reviews2017
    Developer: Landfall WestPublisher: Landfall
    Platforms: Windows, Mac
    Median: 3.1hMean: 11.5h≥1hr: 79%

    Stick Fight is a physics-based couch/online fighting game where you battle it out as the iconic stick figures from the golden age of the internet.

  29. #29 Prison Architect
    78% matchVery Positive89% of 73,112 reviews2015
    Developer: Introversion SoftwarePublisher: Paradox Interactive
    Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux
    Median: 6.0hMean: 30.1h≥1hr: 87%

    Only the world’s most ruthless Warden can contain the world’s most ruthless inmates. Design and develop your personalized penitentiary in Prison Architect.

  30. #30 Bongo Cat
    77% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 95,599 reviews2025
    Developer: Marcel ZurawkaPublisher: Irox Games
    Platforms: Windows, Mac
    Median: 26.7hMean: 264.0h≥1hr: 87%

    Bongo cat needs your help. Bongo cat needz more hatz!!! Every time you press a key, Bongo cat will punch your taskbar. Type, click, play, work to collect more points. Which hats will you find?

  31. #31 Sonic Mania
    77% matchVery Positive94% of 27,546 reviews2017
    Developer: Christian WhiteheadPublisher: SEGA
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 3.3hMean: 9.5h≥1hr: 77%

    Sonic Mania is an all-new adventure with Sonic, Tails, and Knuckles full of unique bosses, rolling 2D landscapes, and fun classic gameplay.

  32. #32 Noita
    77% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 85,805 reviews2020
    Developer: Nolla Games
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 4.6hMean: 29.2h≥1hr: 77%

    Noita is a magical action roguelite set in a world where every pixel is physically simulated. Fight, explore, melt, burn, freeze and evaporate your way through the procedurally generated world using spells you've created yourself.

  33. #33 A Dance of Fire and Ice
    77% matchVery Positive94% of 79,811 reviews2019
    Developer: 7th Beat Games
    Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux
    Median: 3.9hMean: 23.6h≥1hr: 80%

    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.

  34. #34 Awesomenauts
    77% matchVery Positive85% of 26,902 reviews2012
    Developer: Ronimo GamesPublisher: Atari
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 7.0hMean: 30.0h≥1hr: 85%

    Use your power, show your might! Play this Multiplayer Online Battle Arena (MOBA) game! AWESOMENAUTS combines 2D platforming with team-based strategy and hero based action. Whether you are a new recruit or an intergalactic legend, play AWESOMENAUTS!

  35. #35 Firework
    76% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 43,818 reviews2021
    Developer: Shiying StudioPublisher: Gamirror Games
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 3.6hMean: 6.6h≥1hr: 85%

    An accidental fire at a funeral forces the police to re-investigate a closed case of massacre. Lin Lixun participates the re-investigation by chances. As the investigation goes deeper, the past of the victims gradually emerges. However, the case becomes more bewildering.

  36. #36 LIMBO
    77% matchVery Positive92% of 60,454 reviews2011
    Developer: Playdead
    Platforms: Windows, Mac
    Median: 2.6hMean: 5.8h≥1hr: 73%

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

  37. #37 Muse Dash
    75% matchVery Positive91% of 120,271 reviews2019
    Developer: peroperoPublisher: hasuhasu
    Platforms: Windows, Mac
    Median: 3.6hMean: 34.3h≥1hr: 78%

    Paradise of parkour & rhythm game ★★★ — Muse Dash!!

  38. #38 Ori and the Blind Forest
    75% matchVery Positive94% of 59,304 reviews2015
    Developer: Moon Studios GmbHPublisher: Xbox Game Studios
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 5.7hMean: 17.7h≥1hr: 87%

    “Ori and the Blind Forest” tells the tale of a young orphan destined for heroics, through a visually stunning action-platformer crafted by Moon Studios for PC.

  39. #39 Fallout Shelter
    75% matchVery Positive88% of 80,218 reviews2017
    Developer: Bethesda Game StudiosPublisher: Bethesda Softworks
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 4.8hMean: 31.7h≥1hr: 76%

    Fallout Shelter puts you in control of a state-of-the-art underground Vault from Vault-Tec. Build the perfect Vault, keep your Dwellers happy, and protect them from the dangers of the Wasteland.

  40. #40 Duck Game
    74% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 38,933 reviews2015
    Developer: Landon PodbielskiPublisher: CORPTRON GAMES CORP.
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 4.2hMean: 20.3h≥1hr: 86%

    Enter the futuristic year of 1984, an age where ducks run wild in a frantic battle for glory. Blast your friends with Shotguns, Net Guns, Mind Control Rays, Saxophones, Magnet Guns, and much, much more. This is DUCK GAME. Don't blink.

  41. #41 Katana ZERO
    73% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 74,545 reviews2019
    Developer: AskiisoftPublisher: Devolver Digital
    Platforms: Windows, Mac
    Median: 4.7hMean: 9.0h≥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.

  42. #42 Nine Sols
    73% matchVery Positive95% of 38,824 reviews2024
    Developer: RedCandleGames
    Platforms: Windows, Mac
    Median: 6.1hMean: 17.3h≥1hr: 87%

    Nine Sols is a lore rich, hand-drawn 2D action-platformer featuring Sekiro-inspired deflection focused combat. Embark on a journey of eastern fantasy, explore the land once home to an ancient alien race, and follow a vengeful hero’s quest to slay the 9 Sols, formidable rulers of this forsaken realm.

  43. #43 SANABI
    73% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 43,256 reviews2023
    Developer: WONDER POTIONPublisher: NEOWIZ
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 7.7hMean: 21.9h≥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.

  44. #44 Super Meat Boy
    73% matchVery Positive94% of 36,925 reviews2010
    Developer: Team Meat
    Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux
    Median: 2.7hMean: 10.3h≥1hr: 77%

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

  45. #45 BlazBlue Entropy Effect
    73% matchVery Positive94% of 34,781 reviews2024
    Developer: 91Act
    Platforms: Windows, Mac
    Median: 8.7hMean: 20.2h≥1hr: 87%

    Enjoy action-packed flashy combat with incredibly satisfying combos and responsive controls! Numerous characters, each with completely unique playstyles and loads of unlockable moves & upgrades! This action roguelike sets the bar for fluid fast-paced action.

  46. #46 Mark of the Ninja
    73% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 15,869 reviews
    Developer: Klei EntertainmentPublisher: Microsoft Studios
    Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux
    Median: 5.6hMean: 9.0h≥1hr: 87%

    In Mark of the Ninja, you'll know what it is to truly be a ninja. You must be silent, agile and clever to outwit your opponents in a world of gorgeous scenery and flowing animation. Marked with cursed tattoos giving you heightened senses, every situation presents you with options.

  47. #47 ENDER LILIES: Quietus of the Knights
    73% matchVery Positive94% of 43,849 reviews2021
    Developer: Live WirePublisher: Binary Haze Interactive
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 5.3hMean: 18.2h≥1hr: 86%

    ENDER LILIES is a dark fantasy 2D action RPG about unraveling the mysteries of a destroyed kingdom. On this sorrowful journey, encounter horrific enemies against whom a moment of inattention could be fatal. Overcome these hardships and seek the truth with the help of fallen knights.

  48. #48 ENDER MAGNOLIA: Bloom in the Mist
    72% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 17,444 reviews2025
    Developer: AdglobePublisher: Binary Haze Interactive
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 18.2hMean: 18.3h≥1hr: 93%

    Decades after the events of ENDER LILIES, Homunculi — sorrowful, artificial life forms — roam the land. In this dark fantasy Metroidvania, face formidable enemies and explore a bewitching post-apocalyptic world. Humans and Homunculi — what awaits at the end of the quest for their salvation?

  49. #49 ASTLIBRA Revision
    72% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 30,051 reviews2022
    Developer: KEIZOPublisher: WhisperGames
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 19.5hMean: 44.5h≥1hr: 86%

    Confront time and fate in the 2D action RPG, Astlibra Revision. Explore meticulously crafted worlds, fight brutal boss battles, and upgrade your skills to take down enemies lurking around every corner.

  50. #50 Rain World
    72% matchVery Positive94% of 50,449 reviews2017
    Developer: VideocultPublisher: Akupara Games
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 3.2hMean: 23.7h≥1hr: 72%

    You are a nomadic slugcat, both predator and prey in a broken ecosystem. Grab your spear and brave the industrial wastes, hunting enough food to survive, but be wary— other, bigger creatures have the same plan... and slugcats look delicious.

  51. #51 Your Only Move Is HUSTLE
    72% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 40,651 reviews2023
    Developer: Ivy Sly
    Platforms: Windows, Linux
    Median: 6.8hMean: 22.7h≥1hr: 82%

    Master your technique, execute flashy combos, and outsmart opponents across the world, frame-by-frame. Slow down the clock to fine-tune your fighting style in this innovative, turn-based combat simulator. Pulverize your friends and choreograph spectacular fight scenes. No training mode required.

  52. #52 Shovel Knight: Treasure Trove
    72% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 16,570 reviews2014
    Developer: Yacht Club Games
    Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux
    Median: 5.5hMean: 15.0h≥1hr: 87%

    Shovel Knight: Treasure Trove is the complete Shovel Knight collection, containing all 5 games in the epic saga! Dig, blast, slash, and bash your way through a fantastical, 8-bit inspired world of pixel-perfect platforming, memorable characters, and world-class action-adventure gameplay.

  53. #53 Steam Engine Simulator
    71% matchOverwhelmingly Positive99% of 8,799 reviews2023
    Developer: Ektorom Software Inc.
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 1.0hMean: 6.5h≥1hr: 50%

    The Steam Engine Simulator shown on AngeTheGreat's YouTube channel.

  54. #54 Risk of Rain Returns
    71% matchVery Positive90% of 28,469 reviews2023
    Developer: Hopoo GamesPublisher: Gearbox Publishing
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 7.9hMean: 18.2h≥1hr: 89%

    Carefully designed, beautifully remastered, and loaded with new ways to play—Risk of Rain is back and better than ever! Dive into the iconic roguelike full of unique loot combinations, enhanced with new Survivors, overhauled multiplayer, fan favorite content from Risk of Rain 2, and more!

  55. #55 Salt and Sanctuary
    71% matchVery Positive89% of 21,497 reviews2016
    Developer: Ska Studios
    Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux
    Median: 4.0hMean: 13.8h≥1hr: 83%

    Explore a haunting, punishing island in this stylized 2D action RPG. Salt and Sanctuary combines fast and brutal 2D combat with richly developed RPG mechanics in a cursed realm of forgotten cities, blood-soaked dungeons, and desecrated monuments.

  56. #56 HoloCure - Save the Fans!
    70% matchOverwhelmingly Positive99% of 39,748 reviews2023
    Developer: KayAnimate
    Platforms: Windows

    Play as your favorite Vtubers from Hololive! Fight, explore, and clear your way through armies of fans and save them from their mind-control in this unofficial free fan-game.

  57. #57 暖雪 Warm Snow
    70% matchVery Positive93% of 38,449 reviews2022
    Developer: BadMudStudioPublisher: bilibili
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 15.7hMean: 29.1h≥1hr: 89%

    'Warm Snow' is a Rogue-like action game with a background set in a dark fantasy world, where the eerie 'Warm Snow' holds sway. You will play as the Warrior 'Bi-an' on a crusade against the Five Great Clans, in order to save a world teetering on the brink of destruction.

  58. #58 The Henry Stickmin Collection
    70% matchOverwhelmingly Positive99% of 56,383 reviews2020
    Developer: PuffballsUnitedPublisher: Innersloth
    Platforms: Windows, Mac
    Median: 4.2hMean: 9.2h≥1hr: 78%

    A choose-your-own-path where failing is more fun than succeeding.

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