7 Similar Games Short List
Here are our hand-picked short list of similar games; the perfect thing to play next if you enjoyed Creature in the Well. We don't use automatic matching, instead, we hand-pick games that are good to play if you have enjoyed Creature in the Well.
Release Date: 29/05/2018
Platforms: PC, PS4, PS5, Switch, Xbox One 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: 22/12/2018
Platforms: Mac, PC and Switch
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead and Pixels
Mana Spark is a fantasy adventure where you explore a Tolkein-esque dungeon to fight smart enemies that will plan and collaborate between themselves to defeat you. It's a game you play over and over, improving not only your skill but equipment and...
Release Date: 01/11/2017, updated in 2018
Platforms: Android, PC, Xbox One and iOS
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On, Grid and Weather
Ruya is a narrative puzzle game about a mother on a journey of healing after love leaves her. You play as Ruya, meditating and remembering important parts of her life, shown through simple matching puzzles, with each colour tied to one of her children....
Release Date: 25/04/2022
Platforms: PC
Skill Rating: 6+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Pixels
Peglin is an adventure game where you fight monsters and other enemies by scoring points in a Pachinko machine below the world. Like Peggle, you collect special orbs that deal damage to enemies by bouncing the ball into pegs. In this way you go on an...
Release Date: 31/08/2020
Platforms: Mac and PC
Skill Rating: 5+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On
Flipper Volcano is a pinball game where you play a ghost trying to escape a volcano with rising lava. It's an unusual take on traditional pinball where the idea is not to score points but rise up through the volcano by passing your ghost up through each...
Release Date: 03/05/2022
Platforms: PC and Xbox One
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On
Loot River is a puzzle fighting game where you explore labyrinths armed with the power of a relic that can shift the ground. This combines the combat with a Tetris-like tile shifting that alters the layout of each room to your advantage.
Release Date: 27/10/2022
Platforms: Apple TV, Mac, PC, Switch and iOS
Skill Rating: 4+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead
The Pinball Wizard is an action adventure game where you hit an adventurer around a dungeon to score points, kill enemies and collect treasure. Play involves classic pinball action, flinging your character at enemies, along with a dash to give them a...
18 Similar Games Long List
Here are our hand-picked long list of similar games; the perfect thing to play next if you enjoyed Creature in the Well. We don't use automatic matching, instead, we hand-pick games that are good to play if you have enjoyed Creature in the Well.
Release Date: 23/06/2006
Platforms: PS Vita, PS4 and PSP
Skill Rating: 6+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On, Cartoon and Hand-Made
This creates 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 each level.
Release Date: 01/08/2013, updated in 2020
Platforms: Mac, PC, PS3 and Switch
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Hand-Made
Ibb & Obb is a puzzle game where you run, jump, land on enemies and solve momentum puzzles. The novelty is that it's a game designed for cooperation. One player controls the green creature, Ibb, and the other controls the pink creature, Obb. The world...
Release Date: 16/11/2015, updated in 2016
Platforms: 3DS and 2DS, PS Vita, PS4, Stadia, Switch and Wii U
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On, Hand-Made and Pixels
Steam-powered robots fighting for space supremacy sounds like the script for a 1950s B-movie. As in those matinee hits, the point here isn’t realism but interesting characters. Like the related games (SteamWorld Dig and SteamWorld Quest), SteamWorld...
Release Date: 03/05/2019
Platforms: PC, PS4, Switch and Xbox One
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Pixels
Jump King is a high stakes jumping game, where you control a character ascending a series of increasingly spread out platforms. You can control how high each jump is by the length of your button press. This enables you to judge difficult and long jumps...
Release Date: 28/02/2019
Platforms: PC and Switch
Skill Rating: 4+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Pixels
Battloon 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: 13/06/2019
Platforms: Switch
Components: 2D Overhead and Pixels
Cadence of Hyrule is a Zelda-infused version of a popular rhythm-action indie game called Crypt of the NecroDancer. Like the original, you go on an adventure viewed from above and progress by moving, attacking and dodging in time with the music.
Release Date: 07/11/2010
Platforms: Wii
Components: 2D Side-On
Fling Smash is an action-throwing game where you direct a ball-shaped hero by flicking the controller.
Release Date: 04/05/2016, updated in 2021
Platforms: Mac, iOS and iPhone, iPad
Skill Rating: 6+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On
Inks is a messy pinball game that combines puzzle with platforming. It's like a traditional game of pinball, however you are aiming to splash the ball through each coloured area rather than rack up high scores.
Release Date: 27/02/2007, updated in 2014
Platforms: 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: 19/10/2019
Platforms: Switch
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Hand-Made
Family Tree is a pinball game where you also aim your shots like jumping around a platform game. You bounce on enemies to traverse hundreds of hand-crafted puzzles.
Release Date: 23/09/2021
Platforms: PC and Switch
Skill Rating: 11+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead and Hand-Made
Beast Breaker is a role play game where you fight monsters in turn-based ricochet style puzzles. You play tiny mouse hero Skipper and must defend your friends from giant mosaic-like beasts that threaten to destroy everything.
Release Date: 26/08/2022, updated in 2023
Platforms: Mac, PC, PS4, PS5, Switch and Xbox One
Skill Rating: 9+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead and Cartoon
Brok The Investigator is a point-and-click narrative adventure set in a cyberpunk future where animals have replaced humans. Play is an unusual combination of finding and combining items along with action fights and exploration. It stands out for the...
Release Date: 28/09/2017
Platforms: Switch
Skill Rating: 11+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead and Pixels
Golf Story is an adventure game where you play golf over eight different courses as a story unfolds. You play a golfer forced to give up all that he holds dear for one last shot at accomplishing his dreams.
Release Date: 09/04/2013, updated in 2019
Platforms: Mac, PC, PS Vita, PS3, PS4, Switch, Wii U, Xbox 360 and Xbox One
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Cartoon
Guacamelee is a running, jumping and fighting game with an emphasis on exploration of a maze of levels. You play humble farmer turned luchador, Juan, on a mission to find upgrades and battle enemies. It's a world inspired by Mexican culture and...
Release Date: 05/12/2022
Platforms: PC, PS4, PS5, Switch, Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead, Cartoon and Weather
Swordship is an action game where you control a ship hauling stolen cargo, often under attack from security forces. As you have no weapons yourself, you must use enemy attacks against them - making them shoot their own ships and destroy themselves. It's...
Release Date: 01/08/2017
Platforms: PC and iOS
Skill Rating: 9+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead and Grid
Fidel Dungeon Rescue is a path-finding battle where you guide your puppy hero through a dungeon of monsters. You play by picking which direction to move and who to attack. Enemies only move when you do and you can rewind whenever you want. It stands out...
Release Date: 13/03/2020
Platforms: PC, PS4, Switch, Xbox One and iPhone, iPad
Skill Rating: 6+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Hand-Made
Roundguard is a dungeon adventure where your character is a pinball rather than a normal person. You work your way through different castle levels by flinging yourself around, bouncing off enemies to defeat them and into pots of gold to gain currency....
Release Date: 09/10/2018
Platforms: 3DS and 2DS, Android, Mac, PS3, PS4, Wii, Xbox One and iOS
Components: 2D Overhead and Hand-Made
Williams are a renowned designer and manufacturer of pinball machines. Its tables can be played on different systems through games that simulate the original games. This include the physics of the ball, pixel perfect recreation of the play tables and...
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