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Here are our hand-picked short list of similar games; the perfect thing to play next if you enjoyed Bonito Days. We don't use automatic matching, instead, we hand-pick games that are good to play if you have enjoyed Bonito Days.
Release Date: 12/02/2009
Out Now: PC, PS Vita, PS3, PS4 and iOS
Skill Rating: 5+ year-olds
Components: 3D First-Person, Open World and Weather
Flower is a traversal collecting game where you control the breeze blowing across fields of grass and blow petals into other flowers to make them bloom. Flower is simple and single-purpose in evoking the feeling of the wind. What starts as an awkward...
Release Date: 14/12/2022
Out Now: PC and Switch
Skill Rating: 6+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person, Cartoon and Open World
Lil Gator Game is an adventure set on an island playground where a young brother invents exciting fantasy adventures to try and get his older sister to play like they used to. You guide your waddling gator's unusual movement to help them explore the...
Release Date: 10/11/2021, updated in 2022
Out Now: PC, PS4, Stadia, Switch and Xbox One
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person, Cartoon and Open World
Wavetale is a surfing and jumping adventure in a world of sunken cities, dangerous water and oppressive fog. You play as Sigrid, a young girl who works to restore the decaying archipelago and befriends a mysterious shadow that lets her walk on water....
Release Date: 10/12/2022
Out Now: Apple TV, Mac, PC, Switch and iOS
Skill Rating: 5+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Cartoon
JellyCar Worlds is a puzzle game about a car made of jelly traversing a squishy world. You use the physics properties of the car and the objects in the world to get from A to B. It's an action puzzle game that stands out for the joyous novelty of a...
Release Date: 25/02/2022
Out Now: Apple TV, Mac and iOS
Skill Rating: 5+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Cartoon
Gibbon: Beyond The Trees is a swinging, sliding and somersaulting adventure that tells an ecological story about freedom and survival. You explore hand-painted jungle in a parkour style and slowly uncover the story of a lost gibbon searching for home...
Release Date: 28/04/2023
Out Now: Android and iOS
Skill Rating: 7+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person, Cartoon and Open World
Laya's Horizon is a traversal and collection flying game where you plunge from mountains, weave through forests and glide down rivers to unlock new abilities and discover a huge tranquil world. Coming from the people behind Alto's Odyssey it's no...
34 Similar Games Long List
Here are our hand-picked long list of similar games; the perfect thing to play next if you enjoyed Bonito Days. We don't use automatic matching, instead, we hand-pick games that are good to play if you have enjoyed Bonito Days.
Release Date: 19/02/2015, updated in 2018
Out Now: Android, Apple TV, Mac, PS4, Switch, Xbox One and iOS
Skill Rating: 4+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On, Day and Night and Weather
Descend beautiful mountains, dunes and canyons on a snowboarding journey full of serenity and secrets. All you have to worry about is tapping to jump to avoid chasms, rockfall and other hazards. It’s simple and moreish due to the stunning landscapes...
Release Date: 23/06/2006
Out Now: PS Vita, PS4 and PSP
Skill Rating: 6+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On, Cartoon and Hand-Made
LocoRoco is a traversal puzzle game in a world of plants and creatures to investigate. The novelty, besides the character’s singing and cute aesthetic, is that you control the game with just two buttons, tilting and bumping your characters through...
Release Date: 21/07/2017, updated in 2022
Out Now: Switch and Wii U
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: 3D First-Person and Cartoon
Splatoon on the Wii U, Splatoon 2 and Splatoon 3 on the Switch are games where you shoot ink rather than bullets in this deeply skilled combat game. As well as taking out opponents, teams work together to cover the arena with their colour of ink. This...
Release Date: 12/11/2007
Out Now: Wii
Skill Rating: 9+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person
Mario Galaxy is a different style of running, jumping and exploration game. It takes the Mario character to hundreds of different planet shaped levels adding more realistic physics to the platforming play. Each world, or collection of worlds is...
Release Date: 29/05/2018
Out Now: PC, PS4, Switch and Xbox One
Coming Soon: PS5 and Xbox Series X|S
Skill Rating: 7+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Open World
Yoku's Island Express combines pinball and running and jumping games. You run, bounce and collect special items, engage in battles with fantasy enemies and explore a large open-world. Just like a classic pinball machine you use paddles and bumpers...
Release Date: 06/12/2018, updated in 2020
Out Now: PC, PS4, Switch and Xbox One
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person, Cartoon and Open World
Katamari Damacy Reroll is a puzzle game where you control a sticky ball. The aim is to roll up as much stuff as possible, making yourself as big as possible. The game starts small by simply having you pick up thumbtacks, game pieces, and caramels....
Release Date: 23/06/2001, updated in 2021
Out Now: 3DS and 2DS, Android, DS, PS Vita, PS4, PS5, Switch, Wii, Xbox, Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S and iOS
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person
Super Monkey Ball is a rolling and balancing game where you tilt platforms to control the path of a hamster ball containing a monkey. The peculiar premise is matched with accurate challenging gameplay and some great multiplayer modes (like Monkey...
Release Date: 18/11/2021
Out Now: PC, Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S
Skill Rating: 9+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person and Open World
Exo One is a surreal exploration game where you guide a small transforming object to drift, flow and soar across enigmatic landscapes with a gravity-based movement system. The game aims to create an out-of-body other-worldly experience with atmospheric,...
Release Date: 19/09/2019
Out Now: Apple TV, PC, iOS and iPhone, iPad
Skill Rating: 9+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person, Cartoon, Hand-Made and Open World
Lifeslide is an adventure where you fly a paper plane through an ever-changing landscape. It's a metaphorical journey through the stages of life as you learn to use eddies and up-drafts to soar higher and further.
Release Date: 09/11/2017
Out Now: PC
Components: 3D Third-Person and Open World
Superflight is a game where you control a risk-taking man in a flight suit. You control your flight with the aim of buzzing the landscape. The closer you come without crashing the more points you get. If you can do this a few times in a row you get...
Release Date: 08/02/2022, updated in 2022
Out Now: PS4, PS5, Switch and Xbox One
Coming Soon: Xbox Series X|S
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person and Cartoon
OlliOlli World is a skateboarding game where you roll, jump and trick your way around the vibrant world of Radlandia. It's hard to start, but once it clicks the controls are designed to let you flow through different moves. You meet colourful characters...
Release Date: 30/08/2022
Out Now: PC, PS4, PS5, Switch, Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person and Hand-Made
Tinykin is a puzzle game where you play Milo. You have landed on Earth in 1991 but are tiny. To survive you catch hundreds of mysterious Tinykin who can use their powers to create ladders, bridges and explosions to help you find a way home.
Release Date: 11/04/2017, updated in 2018
Out Now: PC and Xbox One
Coming Soon: PS4 and Switch
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: 3D First-Person
Aaero is a rhythm game where you control a spacecraft with one stick and target with the other. At times it's like flying an X-Wing on a trench run while at others it's like soaring high and free targeting enemies in a Starfox game. It's an on-rails...
Release Date: 11/02/2021
Out Now: PC
Components: 3D First-Person and Open World
Earth Analog is a flying adventure where you take control of the exploration vessel Eurisko XI in a quest through deep space to find our new home. Unlike other space games, the focus is on the experience of other worlds rather than battling death and...
Release Date: 15/11/2020
Out Now: PC
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Pixels
Qomp is a bat and ball game with a difference. You control the ball rather than the bat and only use a single button to switch the direction of your ball character. With this single ability, you take on bosses, solve puzzles and overcome platforming...
Release Date: 26/04/2019, updated in 2020
Out Now: PS4 and PS5
Skill Rating: 7+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person
Ball World Adventures is a rolling and balancing game where you move a marble through an obstacle course, like the classic Monkey Ball game. It's unusual not only for its dexterity challenge but the tactile feeling it creates as you roll along different...
Release Date: 29/01/2016, updated in 2018
Out Now: PC, PS4, Switch and Xbox One
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person, Cartoon and Open World
Defunct is an adventure game where you race through a post-human landscape. You play an old, broken racing robot with little propulsion left. However, by using the landscape and varying your gravitation pull you learn how to speed through the world....
Release Date: 21/07/2021
Out Now: PC
Skill Rating: 11+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Cartoon
Goop Loop is a traversal game where you control a sticky lump of goo stuck inside a concrete loop. You can use the momentum of your goo and the world's gravity to get the loop to roll through the level. In this way you face all sorts of physics...
Release Date: 20/10/2022
Out Now: Switch
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead and Cartoon
Spinfrog: All aboard the Frogcopter is a traversal game where you help Geru the frog ride a log through tricky waters. Slip, squeeze and spin the Frogcopter through over 60 levels all while trying to avoid the walls and hazards in your flight path.
Release Date: 21/07/2021
Out Now: PC, PS5 and Switch
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person and Blocks
Super Sami Roll is a rolling and jumping game where you explore a 3D world made of platforms. You play Sami, a green dinosaur on a mission to save his friend. Like Super Monkey Ball you steer and roll around, but you can also use your tongue as a...
Release Date: 25/07/2019, updated in 2020
Out Now: Android, PS4, Switch, Xbox One and iOS
Coming Soon: PS5 and Xbox Series X|S
Skill Rating: 6+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person and Cartoon
Woodle Tree 2: Deluxe is a running and jumping game about saving the world from a dark force. You play as a common-or-garden log who has been tasked with rejuvenating plants. You explore each level to find special water teardrops which you use to bring...
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: 26/10/2022
Out Now: PC, Switch and Xbox One
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On
Robotry is an unusual platform game where you don't have a jump button. Instead you use two analog sticks to control each leg of your robot and in this way you take on a range of puzzles and challenges.
Release Date: 24/02/2023
Out Now: PC, PS4, PS5 and Switch
Skill Rating: 9+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person and Cartoon
Clive ‘N’ Wrench is a 3D running and jumping game where you play duo, Clive the rabbit and Wrench the monkey on his back. Like Banjo Kazooie and more recent Yooka Laylee, you explore the world to collect tokens and unlock new areas. It's novel as a...
Release Date: 28/03/2018
Out Now: Android, PC and iOS
Skill Rating: 9+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On
Golfing Over It with Alva Majo is a traversal game where you try to hit a golf ball to the top of a mountain. It's an intentionally tough, discouraging game that you will fail at over and over. Like Getting Over It (Bennett Foddy has played this game...
Release Date: 10/10/2022
Out Now: PC and Switch
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person and Pixels
Lunistice is a simple running and jumping game where you styled on Sonic games from the PlayStation and Sega Saturn era of the 2000s. You control Hana the Tanuki as she jumps and fights her way through flowing levels. It stands out for its joy of...
Release Date: Coming soon
Coming Soon: PC, PS5, Switch and Xbox Series X|S
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Pixels
Rubato is a running, jumping and collecting game where you play a frog on a quest to save the world. It's a familiar concept for a game, but Rubato leans into the wacky end of things as you drive clown cars around a track, use your tongue to attach...
Release Date: Coming soon
Coming Soon: PC
Skill Rating: 9+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead, Blocks and Cartoon
Super Adventure Hand is an adventure game where you are an anthropomorphic hand traversing levels that challenge your finger-based movement. It plays a little like other action platform games, but here your movement and interactions must contend with...
Release Date: 18/08/2022
Out Now: PC, PS4, PS5, Switch, Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Pixels
Cursed to Golf is an adventure game where you progress by hitting a golf ball. You need to escape golf purgatory by navigating insane hazards, otherworldly power-ups and hole-in-ones. It's crazy golf mixed with a tough adventure game.
Release Date: 04/05/2023
Out Now: Apple TV, Mac and iOS
Skill Rating: 7+ year-olds
What The Car? is an absurd racing game where you steer strange vehicles through odd and unpredictable landscapes. Play is a combination of steer and accelerating, but you use those controls in all sorts of car-related challenges. It stands out for the...
Release Date: 01/02/2023
Out Now: Web
Skill Rating: 6+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Pixels
Floripondis is a party battle where you use just left/right thrusters to move your flower around a level and collect sweets to win. Play is a simple fight to get to sweets first. However, other players and the dynamics of each level get in your way and...
Release Date: 27/06/2005
Out Now: DS and Xbox 360
Components: 2D Side-On
Meteos is a tile-matching game inspired by Missile Command and Tetris. You stack coloured blocks which fall from the top of the screen. The aim is to launch three or more blocks of the same colour onto the top of the screen to make them disappear.
Release Date: Coming soon
Coming Soon: PC
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Pixels
PokeyPoke is a retro running and jumping game where you use a bendy spear to acrobat your way around the world. It sounds complex and awkward but once the simple controls are mastered you can move fluidly through the levels.
Release Date: 28/01/2022
Out Now: PC
Skill Rating: 6+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person and Cartoon
Zeepkist is a game where you race engine-less kart down hills and obstacle courses. In your simple go-kart you use gravity to get down tracks as fast as you can. It works because it's simple, and doesn't muddy that fun with too much else.