6 Similar Games Short List
Here are our hand-picked short list of similar games; the perfect thing to play next if you enjoyed Crossy Road Castle. We don't use automatic matching, instead, we hand-pick games that are good to play if you have enjoyed Crossy Road Castle.
Release Date: 25/06/2013, updated in 2017
Out Now: Mac, PC, PS Vita, PS4, Switch and Xbox One
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Pixels
Towerfall is a fighting platform game where 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...
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: 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: 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: 11/01/2010, updated in 2017
Out Now: 3DS and 2DS, Android, PC, PS Vita, Switch, Web and iOS
Coming Soon: PS4
Skill Rating: 11+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Pixels
VVVVVV is a running and jumping game, without the jumping. Not having the ability to jump may seem like a disadvantage, but instead you can flip gravity to get around the various rooms of the abandoned space station. It looks like a 1980's game for the...
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...
54 Similar Games Long List
Here are our hand-picked long list of similar games; the perfect thing to play next if you enjoyed Crossy Road Castle. We don't use automatic matching, instead, we hand-pick games that are good to play if you have enjoyed Crossy Road Castle.
Release Date: 06/08/2020
Out Now: PC and Switch
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Cartoon
Drink More Glurp is a wacky sports game where you take turns to play athletic challenges. The twist is that you have to control your over-long arms with a separate joystick and your body is a wheel you can roll along on if you lift your arms right up....
Release Date: 01/08/2013, updated in 2020
Out Now: PC, PS3 and Switch
Coming Soon: Mac
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Hand-Made
Ibb and 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: 04/08/2020
Out Now: PS4
Coming Soon: PC, Switch and Xbox One
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person
Fall Guys: Ultimate Knockout is a whacky obstacle race where up to 60 people compete to get to the end of the course and advance to the next round. Drawing on TV shows like Takeshi's Castle, Wipeout or It's a Knock Out you have to control top-heavy...
Release Date: 12/11/2020
Out Now: PS4 and PS5
Skill Rating: 7+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person and Hand-Made
Sackboy: A Big Adventure is a running and jumping game. It's a spinoff of the LittleBigPlanet series and follows Sackboy and three friends as they explore, collect and battle their way through a fantasy world.
Release Date: 08/09/2015, updated in 2019
Out Now: Mac, PC, PS3, PS4, Switch, Xbox 360 and Xbox One
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead and Hand-Made
Castle Crashers is a cartoon looking fighting game, like Golden Axe, The Simpsons or Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles arcade games, set in a medieval universe where a dark wizard steals a mystical gem and captures four princesses. Four knights are charged...
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: 13/08/2013, updated in 2017
Out Now: Amazon Fire, Android, Mac, PC and iOS
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Pixels
Geometry Dash is a running, jumping game. It features over 20 stages where you play as a customisable small cube, which you used to dodge 2D obstacles to the rhythm of electronic music using a single button to control the cube. If you hit any of the...
Release Date: 24/01/2019
Out Now: Mac, PC, Switch and Xbox One
Skill Rating: 5+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Cartoon
Pikuniku is an adventure where you play a red creature, Piku, on a mission to harvest the colourful world's resources. You interact with different objects to trigger switches and open doors. You can also lasso your legs to swing from hooks or curl into...
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: 18/11/2012, updated in 2019
Out Now: Switch and Wii U
Skill Rating: 5+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On
New Super Mario Bros. U is a platform game where you play with 4 main players (and an optional assistant player) to traverse from one side of the level to the other. Along with the usual running, jumping, stomping and collecting you are racing other...
Release Date: 21/11/2013, updated in 2013
Out Now: Switch and Wii U
Skill Rating: 5+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person and Cartoon
Super Mario 3D World (known as Super Mario 3D World + Bowser's Fury on the Switch) is a platform game you can play with up to 4-players in the same place. While all Mario games are good for families, this cooperative and competitive play makes it great...
Release Date: 31/10/2003, updated in 2020
Out Now: GameCube, PC, PS2, PS4, Switch and Xbox
Coming Soon: Xbox One
Skill Rating: 7+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person and Cartoon
SpongeBob SquarePants: Battle for Bikini Bottom is a running and jumping game based on the Nickelodeon animated series SpongeBob SquarePants. It's an original story where you defend Bikini Bottom from an invasion of robots.
Release Date: 23/01/2019
Out Now: Android, PS4, Switch, Xbox One and iOS
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On
Unruly Heroes is a hectic martial arts running, jumping and hitting game. You play one of four heroes on a quest to collect all the scroll fragments and restore balance.
Release Date: 24/05/2012, updated in 2022
Out Now: Amazon Fire, Android, Web and iOS
Skill Rating: 4+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Grid
Subway Surfers is a super simple running, jumping, and dodging game where you switch between three lanes to avoid obstacles. It starts easy but as hazards increase you need quick thinking and reflexes to succeed. The straightforward,...
Release Date: 15/12/2016, updated in 2017
Out Now: Android and iOS
Skill Rating: 4+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On
Super Mario Run is a running and jumping game you play by tapping the screen to jump. Your character automatically runs and you just tap at the right time to avoid obstacles and jump on enemies. It sounds too simple to be fun but is actually a cleverly...
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: 29/10/2021
Out Now: PC, PS4, Switch, Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S
Skill Rating: 4+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Cartoon
PJ Masks: Heroes of the Night is a running and jumping game where young children play as the heroes from the TV show. Its simple controls and straightforward levels, which have lots of collectables to find, provide a simple yet enjoyable interactive...
Release Date: 02/11/2021
Out Now: PC, PS4, Switch and Xbox One
Skill Rating: 6+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Hand-Made
Tunche is a fighting game where you battle our way through horizontal levels that are different each time you play. It features comic style environments and characters, each with their own skills and special abilities. The goal is to defeat bosses to...
Release Date: 20/07/2021
Out Now: 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: 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: 12/09/2019, updated in 2020
Out Now: Apple TV, Mac, Switch and iOS
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead, Blocks and Hand-Made
Dodo Peak is a platform game where you play as a dodo bird, rescuing your babies scattered across each level. The simple layout and clever design is reminiscent of the classic QBert game, and presents streamlined logic puzzles to solve. The hand crafted...
Release Date: 06/04/2009, updated in 2020
Out Now: 3DS and 2DS, Amazon Fire, Android, DS, Xbox 360 and iOS
Skill Rating: 6+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Hand-Made
Doodle Jump is a jumping video game where you guide a hand-drawn four-legged creature up an endless series of platforms. Once you fall to the bottom of the screen it's game over.
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: 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: 26/05/2020, updated in 2020
Out Now: PC, PS4, Switch and Xbox One
Skill Rating: 9+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Pixels
Wildfire is a running, jumping and hiding game where you hide from (and distract) enemies to get through levels and complete missions. You have specific powers to start fires, freeze water, and move earth that offer different ways to solve the puzzle of...
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: 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: 19/10/2018
Out Now: Switch
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On
Tied Together is a platform game for two to four players tied together. Like a three-legged-race you have to co-ordinate how you move. But here you are negotiating jumps and enemies too. Any player can grab the ground and act as a fixed point for...
Release Date: 23/07/2020
Out Now: Switch
Components: 2D Side-On and Pixels
Gerrrms (yes, Germs with three r's) is a light-hearted infection-themed fighting game. You control one of 12 tiny germs and fight for dominance within the human body. However, you can only move around by swinging from hooks inside a corporeal arena....
Release Date: 03/09/2015
Out Now: Android and iOS
Skill Rating: 9+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On
Jumpy Wall is a game where you must climb up a shaft by jumping between two walls. As you progress you'll meet more obstacles that aim to kill your little pixel character. Wall jump from left to right to get higher and higher while avoiding spikes and...
Release Date: 02/12/2021
Out Now: PC, PS4, Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S
Coming Soon: PS5
Skill Rating: 7+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person
Rubber Bandits is a fast-paced fighting game where you battle opponents with wacky objects in a race to complete objectives. In each of the eight game modes, you can use anything you find in the levels as a weapon you can throw or use as a melee weapon....
Release Date: 16/11/2016, updated in 2021
Out Now: Android and iOS
Skill Rating: 5+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Grid
Thinkrolls: Kings and Queens is a puzzle game where you roll your character around castles to collect keys, food and gems for the dragon that lives there. Complete a level to be awarded with customising pieces to decorate your ball as a king or queen....
Release Date: 28/04/2009, updated in 2018
Out Now: Mac, PC, PS3, PS4, Switch, Wii, Wii U, Xbox 360 and iOS
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Pixels
Bit Trip (Bit.Trip) is a series of games with a focus on simple game-play, retro visuals and chip-tune music. The games range from pong to platforming but each one requires you to play in time to the music.
Release Date: 18/02/2021
Out Now: Switch
Components: 2D Overhead and Pixels
Gemini is a fighting game where you defend a Crystal from waves of enemies. It's super simple in both visuals and gameplay. As you defend each wave you can collect coins to upgrade your character and purchase weapons. It's a great introduction to tower...
Release Date: 17/08/2022
Out Now: Switch
Skill Rating: 6+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person and Cartoon
Kirby's Dream Buffet is an outlandish race where the goal is to eat as much cake as you can. You dodge obstacles and bounce on sweets to traverse through a world of candy. This wacky setup is made all the more unusual as you use Kirby's staple...
Release Date: 26/01/2023
Out Now: PS4, Stadia, Switch and Xbox One
Coming Soon: PC
Skill Rating: 6+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead and Cartoon
OddBallers is an over-the-top action party game where you compete in dodgeball-style battles, only here you throw more explosive things not just balls. From wacky ball games to fistfights on moving ships dodging crates, each battle is unique and offers...
Release Date: 04/08/2011, updated in 2013
Out Now: Amazon Fire, Android and iOS
Skill Rating: 6+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead
Temple Run 2 is a running, jumping and dodging game where you race to escape a deadly beast. You collect coins and dodge obstacles by tilting and turn corners by swiping left or right. With continual updates that add new maps, characters, and cosmetics,...
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: 15/09/2020
Out Now: PC and Switch
Components: 3D Third-Person
Fight Crab is a fighting game where you battle with weaponised crabs. But rather than pressing buttons to pull off moves, you have to work with the game’s over-the-top physics. This combines with giant crustaceans, insane weapons and claws to create...
Release Date: 23/12/2019, updated in 2022
Out Now: Switch and Xbox One
Coming Soon: Xbox Series X|S
Skill Rating: 4+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person and Cartoon
Clumsy Rush is a wacky obstacle course where you compete against friends and family to claim the crown and finish first. In addition to the bizarre obstacles, you must overcome the (intentionally confusing and finicky) controls, where each button moves...
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: 15/08/2013, updated in 2020
Out Now: PC and Switch
Skill Rating: 9+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Blocks
Megabyte Punch is run, jump and fight game where you play a customisable robot. Along with the retro visuals, as you defeat enemy robots you collect their special parts to make yourself the ultimate fighter. At the end you can then battle your robot in...
Release Date: 01/04/2022
Out Now: Android and iOS
Skill Rating: 5+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead and Pixels
Mr Traffic is a sequencing game where you tap cars to get them across a busy junction safely. What starts a simple ordering challenge soon gets complicated with cars of different speeds and not everyone stopping or going straight on. It's novel because...
Release Date: 18/06/2020
Out Now: iOS
Components: 2D Side-On and Pixels
Shadow Frog is a simple running and jumping game you play with a single button/tap on the screen. You play Frogo who needs to escape the caves. Using just your jump button you interact with the cave walls and platforms to get around and collect keys....
Release Date: 30/08/2019, updated in 2020
Out Now: PC, PS4, Switch and Xbox One
Components: 2D Side-On and Pixels
The Messenger is a platform game where you play as a young ninja after his village is attacked by a demon army. You must deliver a scroll, fighting enemies and pulling off complex acrobatic manoeuvres along the way. The game is inspired by the classic...
Release Date: 16/06/2020, updated in 2020
Out Now: PS4 and PS5
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Hand-Made
Tiny Quest is a running, jumping and carrying puzzle game where you help Anton become king. The game is played on a single screen, but the world and your character are tiny. At first you have minimal powers but as you progress you gain more abilities...
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: 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: 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: 25/08/2014, updated in 2017
Out Now: Amazon Fire, Mac and iOS
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On
Pyro Jump and Pyro Jump Rescue are a one button jumping and rolling game where you are a lump of fire leaping from one platform to the next to try to catch Princess Paper. You work through levels by jumping and the attaching to wheels and surfaces,...
Release Date: Coming soon
Coming Soon: PC
Components: 2D Side-On and Pixels
Wonky Works is a running, jumping and shooting game. You play as Wonky and recruit computer-controlled helpers as you traverse a the world, shoot enemies and use your grapple to access hard to reach areas.
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