6 Similar Games Short List
Here are our hand-picked short list of similar games; the perfect thing to play next if you enjoyed Towerfall. We don't use automatic matching, instead, we hand-pick games that are good to play if you have enjoyed Towerfall.
Release Date: Coming soon
Coming Soon: PC
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Pixels
Frogue is a turn-based traversal fighting game where you play a frog on a mission to retrieve your kidnapped dog. You jump from surface to surface, defeating evil penguins who only move when you move. It stands out for how the turn-based movement and...
Release Date: 23/01/2018, updated in 2023
Out Now: Mac, PC, PS4, Switch and Xbox One
Skill Rating: 11+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Pixels
Celeste is a platform game that requires players to use jumping and climbing moves to ascend an increasingly challenging two-dimensional mountain. You play Madeline, who is, perhaps unsurprisingly, haunted by self-doubt at the task in hand. She presses...
Release Date: 27/05/2020
Out Now: PC and Switch
Components: 2D Side-On
Aqua Lungers is a fighting and collecting game where you control a diver that can dash and swim through underwater levels. You are racing to collect more treasure, faster than your opponents and get it back to your base.
Release Date: 12/04/2023
Out Now: PC
Skill Rating: 11+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Pixels
Rusted Moss is an exploration traversal game where you swing your way to finding a balance between human and fae realms. You play by shooting and grappling your way through witches and rusted machine enemies. It stands out from other Metroidvania games...
Release Date: Coming soon
Coming Soon: PC and Switch
Skill Rating: 9+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Pixels
AntonBlast is a frantic running-and-jumping game where you play a disgruntled construction worker who has a feud with Satan. It's reminiscent of the classic Wario Land games, as you smash through buildings, enemies, and obstacles with your hammer. It...
Release Date: 11/05/2014, updated in 2018
Out Now: PC, PS4, Switch and iOS
Components: 2D Side-On and Pixels
Kero Blaster is a running, jumping and shooting game where you play a frog working for Cat & Frog, a teleporter company. Starting with an underpowered gun, you clean the teleporters of strange black monsters.
95 Similar Games Long List
Here are our hand-picked long list of similar games; the perfect thing to play next if you enjoyed Towerfall. We don't use automatic matching, instead, we hand-pick games that are good to play if you have enjoyed Towerfall.
Release Date: 30/11/2012
Out Now: Wii U
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: 3D First-Person and 3D Third-Person
Nintendoland is a collection of Nintendo games that was created for the Nintendo Wii U launch. It uses the console’s tablet screen to create specific roles for different players. In Mario Chase, the hiding player uses the tablet controller screen...
Release Date: 10/05/2017, updated in 2023
Out Now: Android, Mac, PC, PS4, Switch, Xbox One and iOS
Coming Soon: PS5
Skill Rating: 12+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Pixels
Dead Cells is a running, jumping and fighting game where you are escaping a prison. In a bright pixelated world you must accurately time attacks and dodges to defeat a wide range of enemies. It's intentionally hard, and you will die a lot. But each time...
Release Date: 21/09/2021
Out Now: PC
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead and Grid
Chessplosion is an action, puzzle game where you drop chess pieces on a board to trigger bombs in the shape of their related chess moves. Your aim is to use the different pieces (and bomb attacks) to trap opponents like Bomberman. No prior chess...
Release Date: 16/08/2021, updated in 2022
Out Now: PC, PS4, Stadia, Switch and Xbox One
Skill Rating: 7+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead
Young Souls is a side-on fighting game about two drop-out teenagers whose mentor disappears. Gameplay is divided into two distinct worlds: the modern human world and a dark, twisted world of goblins and monsters. You brawl and crunch your way through...
Release Date: 25/07/2017, updated in 2018
Out Now: Android, PC, PS4, PS5, Switch, Xbox One and iOS
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person, Cartoon and Open World
Fortnite (sometimes misspelled Fortnight) rose to popularity via its Battle Royale mode where 100 players fight against each other in online battles to the death. While they play, using shooting, evasion and building skills to survive, a storm is...
Release Date: 29/10/2021
Out Now: PC
Components: 3D First-Person
Crab Game is a competitive action game where you play mini-games based on the Squid Game Netflix show challenges. Similar to Fall Guys, each requires you to be the last player standing to claim the win. Here, however, the game has a darker feel with...
Release Date: 21/01/1999, updated in 2018
Out Now: DS, GameCube, Switch and Wii U
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On
Super Smash Bros. in its various versions offers real-time brawling battles. The tens of characters are drawn from other video games and each has bespoke moves to learn and perfect.
Release Date: 13/08/2020
Out Now: PC, PS4, Switch and Xbox One
Skill Rating: 9+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead and Cartoon
Boomerang Fu is a fighting game where you control small food-like characters. Using your boomerang the aim is to slice the other players with ranged or melee attacks. You can use a large range of power-ups such as: explosive boomerangs, disguise and...
Release Date: 12/12/2017, updated in 2021
Out Now: PC, PS4, Switch and Xbox One
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person and Cartoon
Gang Beasts is an over-the-top brawling game where you play wobbly characters who kick, throw, push, pull and pummel up to seven other rivals to win. The game models real physics so you have to work with the grappling and jelly-like bodies to both get...
Release Date: 07/08/2018, updated in 2018
Out Now: Mac, PC, PS4, PS5, Switch and Xbox One
Coming Soon: Xbox Series X|S
Skill Rating: 7+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead and Grid
Overcooked! All You Can Eat is part of a series of collaborative cooking games for up to 4 players. You must keep talking to other players to coordinate the various elements of the dishes. It starts simply enough but soon gets more complicated as you...
Release Date: 29/08/2019
Out Now: Mac, PC and Switch
Skill Rating: 7+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On
Heave Ho is a game where up to four players try and swing themselves across a level. But you can only hang on to certain points and must dangle and swing with both arms to progress. The twist is that you can also hold hands with other players and make...
Release Date: 26/07/2022
Out Now: PC, PS4, PS5, Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On
MultiVersus is a fighting game like Smash Brothers where you team up with or against other players. The novelty is this teamwork and the deep catalogue of characters you can fight with. Batman, Shaggy from Scooby Do, Superman, Bugs Bunny and so on.
Release Date: 28/02/2020
Out Now: Apple TV, Mac and iOS
Skill Rating: 6+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Pixels
Crossy Road Castle is the follow-up to the simple frogger Cross Road game. You play pixilated animals racing to the top of various towers that change every time you play.
Release Date: 28/02/2019
Out Now: PC and Switch
Skill Rating: 4+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Pixels
Battlloon is a colourful battle game, where each of the four players controls a balloon-like creature. You try and bounce the other players into spikes on the arena walls by puffing out air to propel yourself in a direction.
Release Date: 15/03/2018
Out Now: 3DS and 2DS, Android, DS, Mac, PC, PS2, PS3, PS4, Stadia, Switch, Xbox, Xbox 360, Xbox One and iOS
Skill Rating: 6+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead and Grid
Bomberman is the spiritual ancestor to last-player-standing battles like Fortnite and Apex Legends, but here you all play on the same screen and have the same bomb weapon. There are lots of versions, but in all of them you battle with up to eight...
Release Date: 17/10/2017, updated in 2018
Out Now: Android, Mac, PC, PS4, Switch, Xbox One and iOS
Skill Rating: 9+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Pixels
Brawlhalla is an online fighting game where, like Smash Bros, the goal is to knock opponents off the stage. You do this by using your character's specific attacks to damage them until they can't get back to the platform.
Release Date: 23/08/2016, updated in 2018
Out Now: Android, Mac, PC, PS3, PS4, Switch, Wii, Xbox 360, Xbox One and iOS
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On
Worms is a long-standing turn-based multiplayer combat game. The twist is that all the players are worms. With bizarre attacks on opponents that range from exploding sheep to self-deploying ninja rope, the battle is on the far end of crazy.
Release Date: 10/06/2019
Out Now: PC, PS4, Switch and Xbox One
Coming Soon: Mac
Skill Rating: 9+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person and Blocks
Riverbond is a frantic adventure in a blocky world. With four people on one system, you take on an adventure to defeat evil and free the charming citizens. It's a brawling game with an emphasis on fun and over-the-top cartoon combat.
Release Date: 25/09/2018, updated in 2017
Out Now: PC, PS4, Switch and Xbox One
Components: 2D Side-On, Cartoon and Hand-Made
Ultimate Chicken Horse is a running and jumping game where you play different farmyard animals trying to get to the end of the level. The twist is that it's you and your friends who build the levels as you play, placing deadly traps before trying to...
Release Date: 01/10/1986, updated in 2016
Out Now: 3DS and 2DS, DS, PS4, Switch, Xbox 360, Xbox One and iOS
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Pixels
Bubble Bobble is a running and jumping game where you control a small dragon that can blow and jump on bubbles. It rose to popularity in the arcades when released in 1986. In each of the 100 levels you and another player defeat each enemy by trapping...
Release Date: 12/07/2016, updated in 2016
Out Now: Mac, PC, PS4 and Xbox One
Components: 2D Side-On
Cannon Brawl is a two-player battle where you collect resources and build weapons and defences, all in real time. It’s shout-out-loud fun where one wrong shot can let your opponent get the upper hand. Each battle is as frantic as it is silly. To win...
Release Date: 29/04/2021
Out Now: Switch
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead and Hand-Made
Fly Together is a strategy puzzle game where you need to direct planes to different airports so passengers can get to their destinations. You do this against the clock, by drawing flight paths and avoiding collisions in increasingly challenging action...
Release Date: 10/02/2022, updated in 2022
Out Now: PC, Switch and Xbox One
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On, Hand-Made and Pixels
Grapple Dog is a platform game where you play a pixel dog with the ability to grapple onto surfaces to swing and jump around a level. You can extend the length of the rope for a longer swing. In this way you take on puzzles, enemies and various...
Release Date: 27/04/2018
Out Now: Android, Mac, PC, Switch and iOS
Skill Rating: 6+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On
12 Orbits is a tactical game where you control a small coloured ball by pressing a single button. When you are over the grey circles you press to orbit that circle, otherwise pressing the button will dodge.
Release Date: Coming soon
Coming Soon: PC
Skill Rating: 9+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Hand-Made
Aurascope is a retro running and jumping game that combines elements from other genres. The platform action is central but you also have a lot of collecting and exploration to do. As much as the gameplay, the game stands out for its fast skill-based...
Release Date: 15/11/2022
Out Now: PC, PS4, Switch and Xbox One
Coming Soon: PS5 and Xbox Series X|S
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Pixels
Bravery and Greed is an action-fighting game where you team up to battle monsters in frantic combat. As you progress, you collect coins and upgrade your gear until you die, then start again with some of the items you found. While it's a familiar...
Release Date: 11/03/2020
Out Now: Switch
Components: 2D Side-On and Pixels
Cosmic Defenders Players cooperate to protect the galaxy in 'Story', 'Survival' and 'Versus' Mode with up to four players with unique abilities.
Release Date: 28/05/2014, updated in 2021
Out Now: PC and Switch
Coming Soon: Mac and Xbox One
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Pixels
Knight Squad and Knight Squad 2 are a series of short fighting games where you battle other people to win the most rounds. Like other fight games it's fast-paced, lighthearted, and chaotic. More unusual are the novel modes and themes: from football to...
Release Date: 14/06/2022
Out Now: PC, Switch, Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S
Skill Rating: 7+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person and Cartoon
Lumbear Jack is a puzzle game where you slice and dice through machinery, and humans, and work with wacky woodland critters to stop the industrial giant Evil Works.
Release Date: 05/10/2021
Out Now: PC, PS4, PS5, Switch and Xbox One
Coming Soon: Xbox Series X|S
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Cartoon
Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl is a fighting game similar to Super Smash Bros. The novelty comes not only from its roster of Nickelodeon characters, but also from its fast-paced and intense rounds, rewarding skill...
Release Date: Coming soon
Coming Soon: Mac and PC
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Pixels
Rog and Roll is a running and jumping game where you fight enemies and avoid traps. Unusually, you play a former henchman on a quest to save his friends from re-emerging tyranny. It features retro-inspired graphics and a humorous story where characters...
Release Date: 27/08/2015
Out Now: 3DS and 2DS, PS4, Switch, Wii U and Xbox One
Components: 2D Side-On
Runbow is an unusual racing game where each player controls a coloured figure who must run and jump their way through the platform levels ahead of their opponents who are trying to do the same thing.
Release Date: 19/02/2020
Out Now: PC, PS4, Switch and Xbox One
Components: 2D Side-On and Pixels
Skul: The Hero Slayer is a running, jumping and fighting game where you play a lone skeleton in a fight against the overpowered human heroes with his unique ability to swap his head, Worzel-Gummidge-style. Each of the heads grants different powers and...
Release Date: 28/09/2017, updated in 2021
Out Now: Android, PC, PS4, Switch and iOS
Coming Soon: PS5, Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S
Skill Rating: 9+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Pixels
Stick Fight is a vicious fighting game depicted with stick men. You play by controlling small coloured stick men, who mimic real world physics and bodily movement. To win you need to use the physics-based movement to land punches, kicks and use weapons...
Release Date: 23/06/2020, updated in 2021
Out Now: PC
Coming Soon: Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead and Blocks
Tanknarok is a high speed shooting game where 2-4 tanks battle in different toy-like arenas. Controls are simple: one stick for movement and one for aiming. It's a fast and frantic competition with each tank using guns, explosions and rockets to win.
Release Date: 01/12/2020, updated in 2021
Out Now: PC, PS4, PS5, Switch and Xbox One
Coming Soon: Xbox Series X|S
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person
Worms Rumble is a multiplayer game where 32 worm characters try and shoot each other. It takes the usual turn-based Worms formula in a real-time direction complete with a battle royale mode like Fortnite.
Release Date: 24/01/2020
Out Now: Apple TV and iOS
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead and Open World
Butter Royale is an online shooting game where you fire food rather than bullets in 32 player battles to the death. It's a battle royale but with the violence focused through silly food-related weapons. There's a real challenge here, but one that has...
Release Date: 12/10/2015
Out Now: PC, PS3, PS4, Wii U and Xbox One
Components: 2D Side-On and Pixels
Extreme Exorcism is a running, jumping and fighting game set in a series of haunted locations. The graphics are retro but the gameplay has a novel twist. Each enemy ghost you hunt mimics your moves on previous lives.
Release Date: 19/09/2019, updated in 2022
Out Now: PS4, PS5, Switch, Xbox One and iPhone, iPad
Coming Soon: Mac, PC and Xbox Series X|S
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On, Blocks and Cartoon
Lego Brawls is a fighting game in the vein of Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, but here you fight with Lego mini-figures. You play in either teams or all-against-all brawls as characters from a wide range of Lego...
Release Date: 25/05/2007
Out Now: GameCube, Wii and Wii U
Components: 2D Overhead and 3D Third-Person
Mario Strikers Charged, also Mario Strikers Charged Football and Mario Power Soccer, was the sequel to Super Mario Strikers for the GameCube. It offers a fast and furious game of football staring Nintendo characters.
Release Date: 03/03/2021
Out Now: PC, PS4, PS5, Switch and Xbox One
Components: 2D Side-On and Pixels
Sir Lovelot is a running and jumping game where you play as a knight and travel room to room through a pixel fantasy world. You climb and swing, and jump across platforms, defeating monsters and saving princesses. Along with the retro visuals, Sir...
Release Date: 04/08/2020
Out Now: PC, PS4, Stadia, Switch and Xbox One
Components: 2D Side-On and Pixels
Spitlings is a chaotic jumping and shooting game for up to four players. You each play a Spitlings, who need to get rid of all the bubbles on each level by spitting at them or jumping on them. The twist is that players need to look after each other...
Release Date: 23/10/2020, updated in 2021
Out Now: PC, PS4, Switch and Xbox One
Components: 2D Side-On and Pixels
Spooky Chase is a running, jumping game where you play a ghost collecting a series of flags. However, each route you take to a flag is then followed by enemies when you go after the next one. You play each level multiple times to collect each flag, but...
Release Date: 19/04/2017, updated in 2018
Out Now: PC, PS4, Switch and Xbox One
Components: 2D Side-On
Brawlout is a fighting game with 4-player battles in levels with lots of platforms. You try to knock the other players off and win the round. As you inflict damage you can hit them further. Like, Super Smash Bros you also have dash, melee and ranged...
Release Date: 15/10/2015
Out Now: Android, PC, PS Vita, PS4 and Switch
Components: 2D Side-On and Pixels
Downwell is a vertically scrolling platform game where you frantically shoot snail-like enemies to gain points and upgrades. You will die frequently, but that's part of the fun. Each go, you have a chance to learn from what went wrong last time as you...
Release Date: 03/10/2017
Out Now: Mac, PC, PS4 and Switch
Coming Soon: Xbox One
Components: 2D Side-On and Pixels
No Heroes Here is a cooperative defend your castle game for up to four players. In simple pixel graphics, you have to work together to prepare your defences and then use them as the armies attack. The key to success is that everyone needs a role,...
Release Date: 01/01/1989, updated in 2009
Out Now: PS2 and Xbox
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Pixels
Rainbow Islands: The Story of Bubble Bobble 2 is a running and jumping game where you play a character who can create rainbows to traverse levels and attack enemies. The game followed up Taito's hit Bubble Bobble from the previous year. As well as...
Release Date: 25/11/2018
Out Now: Mac, PC and Switch
Components: 2D Side-On and Hand-Made
Retimed is a multiplayer shooting game where players can create a bubble that slows down time. This makes the usual frantic shooting and dodging more achievable as when you are in danger you have more time to get out of the way.
Release Date: 26/02/2021
Out Now: PC, PS4 and Switch
Coming Soon: Xbox One
Components: 2D Side-On and Pixels
RetroMania Wrestling is a simple fighting game based on classic arcade wrestling games of the past. It stands out for its retro visuals and plethora of lycra-clad characters and varied locations. Some may bemoan the simplicity and old fashioned...
Release Date: 08/11/2019
Out Now: Android, Apple TV, Mac and iOS
Components: 2D Overhead
Sociable Soccer is a fast-paced, quick-to-pick-up, slow-to-master, football game. Unlike the intricate lifelike simulation of FIFA, this game wants to recreate the frantic feel of classic arcade football games. It has its heritage back in Sensible...
Release Date: 12/05/2022
Out Now: PC
Skill Rating: 9+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead and Cartoon
Toy Tanks is a multiplayer tank battle with tiny tanks. Inspired by Wii Play Tanks you take on enemies in a fight to the death arena. It stands out for reviving this same-room multiplayer format and injecting ideas from more modern games.
Release Date: 12/06/2016
Out Now: PC, PS4 and Xbox One
Skill Rating: 7+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead
Videoball is a minimalist sports game for up to six players. The aim is to get one of the balls into the opponent’s goal by shooting it with triangles. It’s highly skilled, frantic and works brilliantly in a competitive family setting.
Release Date: 26/01/2021
Out Now: Mac, PC, PS4, PS5, Switch and Xbox One
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Pixels
Cyber Shadow is a retro running and jumping game where you defeat enemies and dodge obstacles. It combines classic 90's platforming games with modern controls and checkpoints that make it more enjoyable and approachable. Dodge and attack midair to...
Release Date: 30/03/2023
Out Now: PC, Switch, Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S
Coming Soon: Mac
Skill Rating: 9+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Pixels
Lunark is a platform game with simple pixelated graphics that tell a cinematic story. It's similar to games like Flashback that were popular in the 80s and 90s. You run, jump, hang, climb, roll, and shoot your way through mysterious alien ruins, a...
Release Date: 12/09/2014, updated in 2014
Out Now: Mac, PC, PS Vita and PS4
Components: 2D Side-On and Pixels
Nidhogg is a fast two-player duelling game whose simple visuals belie the skill required to defeat your opponent. The novelty is that upon death you reappear in the next screen. The player to advance through the most screens wins.
Release Date: 27/02/2007, updated in 2014
Out Now: Android, DS, Mac, PS3, PS4, Xbox 360, Xbox One and iOS
Skill Rating: 4+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On
In Peggle, you fire a small ball into an array of pins that are triggered and disappear when the ball touches them. It's like a bright, saccharine pachinko game. But being electronic you can earn all sorts of bonus balls and abilities by hitting...
Release Date: 07/08/2020
Out Now: PC, PS4, Switch and Xbox One
Coming Soon: Mac
Components: 2D Side-On and Pixels
Swimsanity is a multiplayer underwater shooting game. It's fast paced cartoon action with lots of modes to play with other people. You have a variety of unique power ups and weapons to survive in this aquatic world. But the real novelty is how inventive...
Release Date: 24/05/2021
Out Now: Switch
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person and Cartoon
Very Very Valet is a strategy game where you must park cars neatly and return them to guests as they need them. With up to four people you run a team of puppet valets to conquer a range of parking and retrieval challenges
Release Date: 17/11/2022
Out Now: PC, Switch and Wii U
Skill Rating: 4+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person and Cartoon
Chompy Chomp Chomp Party chaotic multiplayer chase-em-up game. It's a game about chasing and catching other players like all manner of playground games. It stands out not only for the disco visuals but for the simple chaotic challenge for up to 8...
Release Date: 11/04/2017, updated in 2017
Out Now: Mac, PC, PS4, Switch and Xbox One
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead and Pixels
Crawl is a dungeon fighting game where your friends control the monsters and traps. The hero player moves around, break boxes and attack enemies while the ghost players try and stop him. Once the hero dies they become another ghost and the next player...
Release Date: 01/01/1981, updated in 2015
Out Now: 3DS and 2DS, GameCube, Switch and Wii
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Pixels
Donkey Kong is a series of running and jumping games where you play Mario, who navigates a single screen to rescue the princess. It was the start of the platform game genre and although is now dated, can still be played on a wide range of systems.
Release Date: 18/03/2020, updated in 2020
Out Now: PC, Switch and Xbox One
Coming Soon: Mac and Xbox Series X|S
Components: 2D Side-On
Dunk Lords is an over-the-top two-on-two basketball fighting game. While themed around the well-known sport, here it takes on a more aggressive and full-contact form. But the result is about the silly competitive dribbling, shooting and dunking rather...
Release Date: Coming soon
Coming Soon: PC
Skill Rating: 12+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Pixels
Earthblade is a running, jumping and fighting game from the creators of Celeste and Towerfall where you explore a ruined earth and discover its hidden past. You gymnastically traverse through the levels, fighting...
Release Date: 22/10/2020
Out Now: Mac, PC, PS4, Switch and Xbox One
Coming Soon: Xbox Series X|S
Components: 2D Side-On and Pixels
Gonner 2 is a running and jumping game where you defend yourself by shooting enemies in a chaotic procedural environment as a small character called Ikk. You'll need a large amount of patience as you die a lot. To progress you need to hone your shooting...
Release Date: 26/01/2012, updated in 2018
Out Now: PC, PS Vita, PS3, PS4, Switch, Wii U and iOS
Skill Rating: 9+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Pixels
Mutant Mudds is a retro platform video game. It's unusual because it is unforgiving and hard to play so presents a substantial challenge. Also, playing to the 3D feature of the Nintendo 3DS console, the game allows you to jump into the background of the...
Release Date: 01/08/2018
Out Now: Mac and PC
Components: 2D Side-On and Hand-Made
Regular Human Basketball is a very different sports game. You play basketball by jumping around inside the robot players to control their moves. It sounds both strange and hard work, but in reality it's a lot of fun.
Release Date: 22/09/2022
Out Now: PC, PS4, PS5, Switch, Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S
Skill Rating: 7+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Pixels
SpiderHeck is a chaotic fighting game where a weaponised spider tries to take down opponents. You sling webs, shoot and slash at enemies, while frantically jumping about the dangerous arenas to land the decisive blow for victory. It's a strange concept,...
Release Date: 23/06/2020, updated in 2021
Out Now: PC, Stadia and Switch
Coming Soon: Xbox One
Skill Rating: 11+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person and Cartoon
Wave Break is an extreme sports game where you ride a miniature boat to perform tricks like you do in a skateboard game. It's a bizarre set-up made all the more peculiar by its fast-paced shooting and a Miami Vice-inspired story.
Release Date: 10/05/2019, updated in 2021
Out Now: PC, PS4, Switch and Xbox One
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Pixels
Blazing Beaks is a shooting adventure where you enter a colourful world as an armed bird blazing their way through piles of mutants, monsters and creepy creatures. Each run is different although the levels steadily get harder.
Release Date: 20/06/2023
Coming Soon: PS4, PS5, Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Cartoon
Crash Team Rumble is a fighting game where teams compete to get the most fruit. You run and jump through stages, shooting and attacking enemy players to stop them from getting fruit back to their base while trying to collect and secure fruit yourself....
Release Date: 14/12/2020, updated in 2021
Out Now: PS4 and PS5
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Pixels
Cyber Trigger is a retro running, jumping and shooting game. You play a space adventurer answering a distress call from a planet overrun with alien robots. It's a love letter to classic pixelated platform games with a mix of cave adventure, combat, and...
Release Date: 06/12/2022
Out Now: PC, PS4, PS5, Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead
Divine Knockout (DKO) is a fighting game where you play small-but-mighty greek gods. Play is like Smash Bros, only here you play in 3D and your characters are themed around different greek myths. It stands out for the simple, yet compelling online...
Release Date: 02/08/2022
Out Now: PC
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Pixels
Gun Devil is a retro running, jumping and shooting game about traversing hell to rescue your kidnapped wife. Drawing on 90's arcade games like Ghosts and Goblins and Gargoyle's Quest, this is a frantic battle with no moment to rest.
Release Date: 02/11/2018
Out Now: iOS
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Pixels
It's Help! I'm Haunted is a retro running, jumping and shooting game where you work through levels of ghosts to rescue residents. You play freelance exorcist Harry B. Spooked against the swarm of sinister spooks infesting Neotransylvania.
Release Date: 03/03/2015, updated in 2020
Out Now: Android, Mac, PC, Switch, Wii U and iOS
Components: 2D Side-On
Tallowmere is a series of running, jumping and fighting games. You aim to get a high score as you journey through a vast, randomly generated 2D retro-style dungeon, dodging traps and killing enemies in gory and unusual ways. Its unique combination of...
Release Date: 12/09/2001, updated in 2018
Out Now: 3DS and 2DS, Android, Mac, PC, PS3, Switch, Wii, Wii U and iOS
Coming Soon: PS4
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Pixels
Toki Tori is a puzzle game where you traverse 2D levels and use limited resources to rescue all the eggs. Similarly to the Mario vs. Donkey Kong games, you can build bridges over gaps. Here though, you can also unlock...
Release Date: 29/06/2016
Out Now: PC, PS Vita, PS4, Switch, Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S
Components: 2D Side-On and Pixels
10 Second Ninja X is a super-fast puzzle game with a difference: every level lasts ten seconds or less. In each level, your challenge is to destroy all of the enemies on screen before the timer runs out. The faster you complete each level, the higher...
Release Date: 05/12/2018, updated in 2020
Out Now: PC, PS Vita, PS4, Switch, Wii U and Xbox One
Skill Rating: 13+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Pixels
Battle Princess Madelyn is a running and jumping game where you defeat hordes of enemies like the classic arcade game Ghosts 'n' Goblins. It's similarly fast-paced and difficult, here though you have to pick your way through labyrinthine levels, and use...
Release Date: 14/08/2018, updated in 2021
Out Now: PC, PS4 and Switch
Components: 2D Side-On
Death's Gambit is a running, jumping and fighting game where you defeat enemies, collect weapons and progress through levels. Drawing on the platforming of games like the Castlevania and Metroid games, it adds difficult and...
Release Date: 01/01/2016
Out Now: PC, PS4, Switch and Xbox One
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Pixels
Jet Set Knights is a co-operative retro action game where you guard a princess from on-marching enemies. It's like other tower defence games, but here you run and jump around the platforms to deal with enemies, along with placing defences. It stands out...
Release Date: 22/04/2021
Out Now: PC and Switch
Skill Rating: 7+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead and Pixels
Bämeräng is a frantic fighting game where up to four players struggle to direct their boomerang to hit each other. You play by moving around the small arena and aiming your throw. It's fun because it's both silly and skilful - you can tell from the...
Release Date: Coming soon
Coming Soon: PC
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Pixels
Calorie Defenders is a strategy game where you place vegetable traps and shoot sugary food inside the human body. One minute you're defending the body from the sugar while running and jumping across chasms, the next you are strategically placing traps...
Release Date: 29/03/2018
Out Now: PC, Switch and Xbox One
Components: 2D Side-On and Pixels
ClusterPuck 99 is an 8-player sports game where teams bash and jostle each other to gain control of the puck. The aim is to work together to get it to your opponent's goal while avoiding other players and spikes. You can use power-ups and speed boosts...
Release Date: 05/06/2015, updated in 2019
Out Now: PC, PS4 and Switch
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Pixels
Duck Game is an action shooting game with a fast and frantic multiplayer mode. You go head to head against other players in arena battles where you rush to find a weapon and then figure out how to best use it to dispatch of the other ducks before they...
Release Date: Coming soon
Coming Soon: PC and Switch
Components: 2D Side-On and Pixels
Gunbrella is a retro running, jumping and shooting game set in a world dependent on a rapidly diminishing natural resource. You play a gruff woodsman on a quest for revenge, armed with the mysterious Gunbrella that shoots, glides and lets you interact...
Release Date: 18/04/2019
Out Now: Mac, PC, Switch and Xbox One
Skill Rating: 15+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Pixels
Katana Zero is a noir-styled fighting game where you are a samurai assassin. At (literally) breakneck speed you slash, dash and jump your way through side-on missions. The twist is if you die the game rewinds time and you try that loop again.
Release Date: 10/02/2022
Out Now: PC, PS4, PS5, Switch, Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S
Skill Rating: 7+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Pixels
KungFu Kickball is a sports game where two teams fight to hit the ball into the opponent's bell. You control your retro character to punch, kick, and headbutt the ball (and the opponent) to ring the bell and score points.
Release Date: Coming soon
Coming Soon: PC
Skill Rating: 12+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Pixels
Little Hellions is a retro brawling game where you can't actually fight the other players directly. You kill the other players by putting yourself in harms way and then using your hook-shot to switch places at the last minute. Like Towerfall, it's not...
Release Date: 14/04/2022
Out Now: PC
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Pixels
Lulu’s Temple is a retro-inspired fast and furious action-adventure about an archaeologist venturing deep into a pyramid filled with horrific creatures with only his torch and gun to protect him. You explore the levels, using your torch to light the...
Release Date: 18/10/2021, updated in 2023
Out Now: PC, PS4 and Switch
Skill Rating: 11+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Pixels
Nuclear Blaze is a running, jumping and fire extinguishing game from the same developer as Dead Cells. You put out fires and dodge explosions, debris and fiery chasms. Along with its uniquely intricate levels, there are...
Release Date: 23/01/2018
Out Now: PS4, Switch and Xbox One
Coming Soon: PC
Skill Rating: 6+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Cartoon
OK K.O.! Let’s Play Heroes is a fighting narrative game based on the 2017 Cartoon Network hit show. You play the young K.O. character and take on Lord Boxman's evil bots to save Lakewood Plaza Turbo. In the hub you explore, talk to characters, take on...
Release Date: 04/04/2019
Out Now: Mac, PC and Switch
Components: 2D Side-On and Pixels
Overwhelm is a running-jumping game set in a pixelated dark bloody world. The twist, apart from the mild-horror theme, is that it's your enemies that power up rather than you. You explore the oppressive caverns of the hive, guided only by a sparse map.
Release Date: 15/09/2022
Out Now: Switch
Skill Rating: 4+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Pixels
Paddles is an action party game where you move your paddle to deflect balls, like Pong or Arkanoid but here you play against three other people. It's a battle to score points and keep your balls in play as you take on different levels, modes, and types...
Release Date: 06/09/2021
Out Now: PC, PS4, Switch and Xbox One
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Pixels
Raven's Hike is an action-platform game with no jumping or walking. You get around the dungeon rooms using only your Grappling Hook. Play involves pressing the direction you need to move, and then being pulled in that direction until you hit a wall or...
Release Date: 02/04/2019, updated in 2020
Out Now: PC, PS4, Switch and Xbox One
Coming Soon: Xbox Series X|S
Skill Rating: 7+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On
Stab Stab Stab is a frantic fighting game where monster birds try to impale each other with their sharp beaks. You play by running, jumping and grabbing power-ups in a rush to stab your opponents more than they stab you. You can either play the...
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