6 Similar Games Short List
Here are our hand-picked short list of similar games; the perfect thing to play next if you enjoyed Aurascope. We don't use automatic matching, instead, we hand-pick games that are good to play if you have enjoyed Aurascope.
Release Date: 08/11/2019, updated in 2020
Platforms: PC, PS4, Switch and Xbox One
Skill Rating: 7+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On, 3D Third-Person and Cartoon
New Super Lucky's Tale is a platform game where you play a fox on a quest to recover pages from a magical book that will save his world. It takes gameplay in a more action-oriented direction but the islands and characters are full of quirky character...
Release Date: 23/01/2018, updated in 2023
Platforms: 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: 25/10/2019, updated in 2020
Platforms: Android, PC, Switch and iOS
Components: 2D Side-On
MO:Astray is a puzzle, jumping and exploration game. Rather than control a character who runs, you control an amorphous blob. To get around you have to use the game's unique movement mechanics to take advantage of the cleverly designed levels.
Release Date: 31/03/2015, updated in 2017
Platforms: Mac, PC, PS Vita, PS4, Switch, Wii U and Xbox One
Skill Rating: 11+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Pixels
Axiom Verge is a series of running, jumping and fighting games where you play as Trace, a scientist who wakes up in an unknown ancient world. It's similar to retro games like Metroid and Contra where you explore levels, collect items and progress your...
Release Date: 30/03/2023
Platforms: Mac, PC, Switch, Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S
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: 20/12/2004, updated in 2018
Platforms: 3DS and 2DS, DS, Mac, PC, Switch and Wii
Components: 2D Side-On and Pixels
Cave Story is a running and jumping game styled after classic Metroid and Castlevania games of the 1980's. Unusually, it was initially overlooked until it gained popularity on the internet and then received widespread critical acclaim. The simplicity,...
21 Similar Games Long List
Here are our hand-picked long list of similar games; the perfect thing to play next if you enjoyed Aurascope. We don't use automatic matching, instead, we hand-pick games that are good to play if you have enjoyed Aurascope.
Release Date: 05/10/2017, updated in 2019
Platforms: Mac, PC, PS4, Switch and Xbox One
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person, Cartoon and Open World
A Hat in Time is a running, jumping and exploring game inspired by retro platform games like Super Mario 64, Banjo-Kazooie, Spyro the Dragon and Psychonauts. As you explore each of the worlds, you discover characters to talk to, enemies to battle and an...
Release Date: 10/05/2017, updated in 2018
Platforms: Android, Mac, PC, PS4, Switch, Xbox One and iOS
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: Coming soon
Platforms: PC and Switch
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Pixels
Pepper Grinder is an action- adventure about a hero with an unusual weapon: a super powered drill. Play is all about using this drill in interesting ways, combining running and jumping with tunnelling through the dirt of the terrain. It's a novel idea...
Release Date: 25/06/2013, updated in 2017
Platforms: Mac, PC, PS Vita, PS4, Switch and Xbox One
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Pixels
In Towerfall each player selects a pixelated knight and fights to eliminate opponents by shooting them with arrows or jumping on their heads. The arena is a single shared screen. What makes it so competitive is the limited resource of arrows and the...
Release Date: 26/06/2014
Platforms: 3DS and 2DS, PC, PS Vita, PS3, PS4, Switch, Wii U and Xbox One
Skill Rating: 9+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Pixels
Shovel Knight: Treasure Trove is a retro-style platform game where you play as a Knight whose primary weapon is a shovel. It can either be used to attack enemies head-on, dig up treasure, or aim below while jumping to bounce on enemies. You can get...
Release Date: 11/03/2015, updated in 2020
Platforms: PC, Switch, Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S
Skill Rating: 9+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Cartoon
Both Ori and the Blind Forest and Ori and the Will of the Wisps place you in control of a diminutive elfish spirit called Ori. You run, jump and solve platforming challenges to progress through the world. As you do new powers are unlocked that allow you...
Release Date: Coming soon
Platforms: Mac, PC, PS4, Switch and Xbox One
Components: 2D Side-On and Pixels
Savior is an action adventure game with hand-animated pixelated graphics. You play as Sam, a mysterious woman with hidden powers and innate acrobatic skills who has lost her memory and all possessions. Use diplomacy, parkour, and intricate combat to...
Release Date: 23/07/2020
Platforms: Mac, PC, Switch and Xbox One
Components: 2D Side-On
Carrion is a horror game where you play the amorphous alien as well as human protagonists. This reverse-horror scenario puts you in control of an organic tentacled monster to make your way through the facility, stalking and killing humans in your path.
Release Date: 23/01/2018, updated in 2020
Platforms: Android, Mac, PC, PS4, Switch, Xbox One and iOS
Components: 2D Side-On and Pixels
Dandara: Trials of Fear is a running, jumping and puzzle solving game where you play Dandra, the Afro-Brazilian warrior of the colonial period of Brazil. You can defy gravity to jump from wall to wall and ceilings to ceiling. This combines the action of...
Release Date: Coming soon
Platforms: PC
Components: 2D Side-On and Pixels
Knight of Exile is a running, jumping and combat game where you play Cormac, the commander of the royal guard fighting to return from exile to restore order to the kingdom. It's unusual because of the combat mechanics that require players to react...
Release Date: 20/07/2021
Platforms: PC
Skill Rating: 9+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Pixels
Beard Blade is a running and jumping game where you use your beard to climb, swing, glide and defeat enemies. It sounds like a silly concept, but along with the day-night cycle that completely changes levels, introduces fresh mechanics into this...
Release Date: 26/01/2021
Platforms: 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: 07/09/2018
Platforms: PC, PS Vita, PS4, Switch and Xbox One
Skill Rating: 9+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Pixels
Sigi is a retro-styled running, jumping and attacking game. You are on a Knight’s quest to locate Melusina, his true love that he inadvertently scared away with a bout of bad gas. Like games from the 80s you have to work through levels to find keys,...
Release Date: 18/08/2021
Platforms: PC
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Cartoon
Zool is a platform game originally released on the Amiga in 1992. Zool Redimensioned brings the game back with enhancements and improvements but keeps the focus on recreating that original joy of zany speed, running and jumping in bright fantastical...
Release Date: Coming soon
Platforms: 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: 26/01/2012, updated in 2018
Platforms: 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: 01/10/2021
Platforms: Android and PC
Skill Rating: 9+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Pixels
Tres-Bashers is a running jumping and ghost-batting game. You play a ghost busting mouse on a mission to find and dispatch ghouls. The retro visuals are designed to look like a Game Boy game and adds to the nostalgic action.
Release Date: Coming soon
Platforms: PC
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Pixels
Dormiveglia is a running and jumping game about Quin's adventure to stop the world from falling into an endless slumber. Along with the classic run and jump moves, you use your whip to swing across chasms, move objects, and capture enemies. Combining...
Release Date: Coming soon
Platforms: PC, PS4 and PS5
Components: 2D Side-On and Pixels
Animal Well is a platform puzzle game where you explore a dense, interconnected labyrinth. Play involves collecting items that let you manipulate the world in unexpected ways. It's a layered experience that works as a platform game but also hides...
Release Date: 11/12/2021
Platforms: PC and Web
Skill Rating: 7+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Pixels
Below the Ocean is a diving adventure where you search for legendary treasures using your oxygen lifeline to swing passed obstacles. Play is a combination of running, jumping, swinging and even sling-shotting to traverse the ocean. It stands out for its...
Release Date: 14/04/2017
Platforms: Mac, PC, PS4, Switch and Xbox One
Skill Rating: 12+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Pixels
Flinthook is running, swinging and shooting game where you get around using a grappling hook. It stands out for its focus on movement flow. As you learn how to move around quickly, you progress through a series of three ship-based levels to find and...
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