6 Similar Games Short List
Here are our hand-picked short list of similar games; the perfect thing to play next if you enjoyed HackyZack. We don't use automatic matching, instead, we hand-pick games that are good to play if you have enjoyed HackyZack.
Release Date: 28/07/2020, updated in 2020
Platforms: PS4 and PS5
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On
Just Pogo is a jumping game you control with one button. You are a man on a pogo stick and must get to the exit in each of the 18 levels. The quirk of the challenge is that you not only control the game with one button, but that button rotates your...
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: 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: 15/11/2020
Platforms: 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: 19/03/2021, updated in 2021
Platforms: PS4 and PS5
Skill Rating: 6+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On
The Jump Yard is a platform puzzle game. You control a stickman that you can fire into the air at different angles. The aim is to land them on their feet on one of the 55 spots within the junkyard. A simple, but unique premise that is much harder than...
Release Date: Coming soon
Platforms: PC, PS4, Switch and Xbox One
Components: 2D Side-On and Pixels
Wreckout is a competitive sports game where you drive cars that catapult a ball into targets. Drawing on the classic Speedball games with a touch of Breakout, Micro Machines and Rocket League it offers a high octane and...
14 Similar Games Long List
Here are our hand-picked long list of similar games; the perfect thing to play next if you enjoyed HackyZack. We don't use automatic matching, instead, we hand-pick games that are good to play if you have enjoyed HackyZack.
Release Date: 28/08/2018
Platforms: Mac, PC, PS4, Switch and Xbox One
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person
Drive futuristic cars to score goals with an oversized football. It’s another game that sounds ridiculous but is actually a huge amount of fun to play and requires a lot of expertise. What’s not obvious from the start is the level of control that...
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: 03/03/2017
Platforms: Switch
Skill Rating: 7+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Hand-Made
Snipperclips is a game where you play a piece of paper that can be cut into different shapes. Through a series of puzzle levels, you adjust your shape by clipping and overlapping other players. Sometimes this is to match a shape, at others, it is to...
Release Date: 15/10/2020
Platforms: PC, PS4, Switch and Xbox One
Components: 2D Overhead and Cartoon
Alpaca Ball: Allstars is a football (soccer) game played with four legged furry animals. Rather than kick the ball you whack it with your head and long neck. You can also block and ram your opponents, or dive-kick them out the way.
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: 03/04/2019
Platforms: Mac and iOS
Skill Rating: 4+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On, Cartoon and Hand-Made
Rolando is a puzzle-adventure game where you control the ball-like Rolandos. You direct the collection of creatures through levels by tilting the device and interacting with elements like conveyor belts and elevators via the touch screen. It's a lovely...
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: 08/02/2022, updated in 2022
Platforms: PS4, PS5, Switch, Xbox One and 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: 12/06/2016
Platforms: PC, PS4 and Xbox One
Skill Rating: 7+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead
Videoball is a minimalist sports game for up to six players. The aim is to get one of the balls into the opponent’s goal by shooting it with triangles. It’s highly skilled, frantic and works brilliantly in a competitive family setting.
Release Date: 04/05/2015
Platforms: Android, Mac, PC and iOS
Skill Rating: 9+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Blocks
Snakebird is a puzzle game about movement, shapes and gravity. You control multiple snakes on a quest for fruit. You move around the world by directing each one to collect fruit. It looks simple, but the novelty is that you soon have to create specific...
Release Date: 06/05/2008, updated in 2009
Platforms: Wii
Components: 3D First-Person and Blocks
Boom Blox is a puzzle game on the Wii, designed by Steven Spielberg, where motion controls are used to direct projectiles at towers in surprisingly accurate and engaging ways. This extends beyond Jenga-style play to offer physics-based puzzles where you...
Release Date: 11/06/2020, updated in 2020
Platforms: Apple TV, Mac, PC, PS4, Switch, Xbox One and iOS
Components: 2D Overhead
HyperBrawl Tournament is a sports combat game. Played in futuristic arenas where you must smash, brawl and score your way to victory in relentless, high-adrenaline player versus player battles. It's like an updated version of the classic Speedball or...
Release Date: 01/08/2018
Platforms: Mac and PC
Components: 2D Side-On and Hand-Made
Regular Human Basketball is a very different sports game. You play basketball by jumping around inside the robot players to control their moves. It sounds both strange and hard work, but in reality it's a lot of fun.
Release Date: 06/11/2018
Platforms: Android, Mac, PC and iOS
Components: 2D Side-On and Hand-Made
Spitkiss is a game where you control a ball of saliva around the dangerous interior of different organs. The spittle is the carrier of a message of love and hope between people, but it can only get there if you precisely aim and navigate the different...
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