6 Similar Games Short List
Here are our hand-picked short list of similar games; the perfect thing to play next if you enjoyed Flashback. We don't use automatic matching, instead, we hand-pick games that are good to play if you have enjoyed Flashback.
Release Date: 24/08/2015, updated in 2017
Out Now: PC, PS4 and Xbox One
Skill Rating: 9+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Hand-Made
Planet of the Eyes is an atmospheric running and jumping game where you play a robot stranded on a mysterious planet. You progress by well timed jumps and puzzle solving to traverse a fantastical planet with a dark secret.
Release Date: 30/11/2019
Out Now: 3DS and 2DS, Android, PS3, PS4, Switch, Xbox One and iOS
Components: 2D Side-On and Pixels
Another World (Out of This World in North America) is a retro cinematic running, jumping and shooting game about a young scientist who, as a result of a failed experiment finds himself on a dangerous alien world where he is forced to fight for his...
Release Date: 15/11/2022
Out Now: PC and Xbox Series X|S
Components: 2D Side-On
Somerville is an atmospheric platform game about a family in a warzone. A man, a woman, their child and their dog work to survive and progress through the landscape.
Release Date: 05/06/2013, updated in 2015
Out Now: Android, PS Vita, PS4, Switch, Wii U, Xbox One and iOS
Components: 2D Side-On
Control a small boy as he runs, jumps and climbs through a dark, silhouetted forest that clanks and hums with foreboding. As the age-rating suggests, he is killed in all manner of gruesome ways. But this is not without reason. Rather than violent...
Release Date: 08/07/2016
Out Now: Mac and PC
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Hand-Made
Fossil Echo is a short running and jumping game about a young boy's mistake and subsequent climb of a giant tower in the middle of the sea. The story is told in short animations and with challenging platform-style gameplay to create a moving and...
Release Date: Coming soon
Coming Soon: PC
Components: 2D Side-On and Cartoon
The Cub is a retro running and jumping game where you play a small child in the same post-environmental disaster as Highwater and Golf Wasteland. It's like playing a classic console platform game but with modern parkour movement and puzzles to bring it...
14 Similar Games Long List
Here are our hand-picked long list of similar games; the perfect thing to play next if you enjoyed Flashback. We don't use automatic matching, instead, we hand-pick games that are good to play if you have enjoyed Flashback.
Release Date: Coming soon
Coming Soon: 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: 19/02/2021, updated in 2022
Out Now: PC, PS4, PS5, Switch, Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S
Skill Rating: 7+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Cartoon
Voyage is a cinematic adventure puzzle game, where you play alone or cooperatively to guide two survivors on their journey to unravel a mystery from the past and find their way home. You move through the world without guidance and must experiment to...
Release Date: 01/01/1983
Out Now: 3DS and 2DS, Android, DS, Mac, PC, PSP, Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S and iOS
Components: 3D First-Person
Myst is a classic video game graphic adventure. Published in 1983, and selling over six million copies, it pre-dates many modern adventure games and created a new genre for gaming. Exploring by clicking in the world to move, you use a special book to...
Release Date: 27/11/2018, updated in 2019
Out Now: Mac, PC, PS4, Switch and Xbox One
Components: 2D Side-On, Day and Night and Pixels
Beat Cop is a police crime drama where you have been framed for murder. Back on the street, you navigate the pixilated 80’s Miami Vice world to find out who did it. Your approach and decisions matter. Will you go in with the mafia or stay straight?...
Release Date: 23/01/2020
Out Now: PC, PS4 and Switch
Components: 2D Side-On and Pixels
198X is a pastiche of different classic games brought together to tell the story of a suburban teenager stuck between the limitations of youth and the obligations of adulthood. In the game, you discover a local arcade, and through the different games...
Release Date: 10/09/2015
Out Now: Mac and PC
Components: 2D Side-On and Pixels
Dropsy is an adventure video game where you move around and interact with the world by simply clicking. You play a clown called Dropsy in a surreal world. As you explore and interact with the environment, solve puzzles, and talk to characters you learn...
Release Date: 25/10/2019, updated in 2020
Out Now: 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: 10/07/2012, updated in 2016
Out Now: PC, PS4, Xbox 360 and Xbox One
Components: 2D Side-On
Deadlight takes the monochrome running, jumping and shooting action in a more mature direction and with a deeper and coherent story. It draws on older (and equally excellent) platform games Another World and Flashback. You control Randall Wayne, a...
Release Date: Coming soon
Coming Soon: PC, Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S
Components: 2D Side-On
Replaced is a platform game set in a grim dystopian alternate 1980s America. You play as an Artificial Intelligence trapped inside a human wanting to escape.
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: 03/06/2013
Out Now: PC, PS3 and Xbox 360
Components: 3D Third-Person
Remember Me is an adventure game developed where you play Nilin, a memory hunter working for an underground resistance. The game is set in the year 2084, in a futuristic version of Paris called Neo-Paris, where the Memorize corporation has made memories...
Release Date: 17/09/2020
Out Now: Switch
Components: 2D Side-On and Hand-Made
Super Punch Patrol is a challenging fighting game where you traverse a hand drawn urban environment, battling waves of enemies with your bare fists and a variety of other hand to hand weapons.
Release Date: Coming soon
Coming Soon: Mac, PC and Xbox Series X|S
Skill Rating: 12+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Pixels
The Last Night is a narrative game set in a neon-bathed, hyper-advanced future where you are a second-class citizen wrestling with your place in the world. As you traverse the Blade-Runner-style city districts, you talk with characters, evade constant...
Release Date: 04/09/2018
Out Now: PC, PS4, Switch and Xbox One
Skill Rating: 9+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Day and Night
Planet Alpha is a running and jumping game. You're a wounded hero hobbling across an alien planet, but how did he get into this state? Travel across beautiful, mysterious and often deadly landscapes, you unfold the story of your marooned astronaut....
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