6 Similar Games Short List
Here are our hand-picked short list of similar games; the perfect thing to play next if you enjoyed Kero Blaster. We don't use automatic matching, instead, we hand-pick games that are good to play if you have enjoyed Kero Blaster.
Release Date: 02/11/2018
Platforms: 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: 25/06/2013, updated in 2017
Platforms: Mac, PC, PS Vita, PS4, Switch and Xbox One
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Pixels
In Towerfall 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 resource of arrows and the...
Release Date: 29/09/2017, updated in 2019
Platforms: Mac, PC, PS4, Switch and Xbox One
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On, Cartoon and Hand-Made
Cuphead is a running, jumping and shooting game that looks like an old Mickey Mouse cartoon. You play on your own or with someone else and work across the screen, jumping gaps, shooting enemies and avoiding projectiles.
Release Date: 10/05/2019, updated in 2021
Platforms: PC, PS4, Switch and Xbox One
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Pixels
Blazing Beaks is a shooting adventure where you enter a colourful world as an armed bird blazing their way through piles of mutants, monsters and creepy creatures. Each run is different although the levels steadily get harder.
Release Date: 12/10/2015
Platforms: 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: 04/04/2019
Platforms: 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.
24 Similar Games Long List
Here are our hand-picked long list of similar games; the perfect thing to play next if you enjoyed Kero Blaster. We don't use automatic matching, instead, we hand-pick games that are good to play if you have enjoyed Kero Blaster.
Release Date: Coming soon
Platforms: 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: 10/08/2010, updated in 2021
Platforms: PC, PS3, PS4, Stadia, Switch, Xbox 360 and Xbox One
Components: 2D Overhead and Hand-Made
Scott Pilgrim vs. The World: The Game is an arcade-style fighting game. In the game, you take control of one of seven playable characters from the comic book series and travel through Toronto, Canada facing the seven evil exes of Ramona Flowers.
Release Date: Coming soon
Platforms: PC
Components: 2D Side-On and Pixels
Knight of Exile is a running, jumping and combat game where you play Cormac, the commander of the royal guard fighting to return from exile to restore order to the kingdom. It's unusual because of the combat mechanics that require players to react...
Release Date: 11/04/2019
Platforms: Mac, PC, PS4, Switch and Xbox One
Components: 2D Side-On and Pixels
Way Of The Passive Fist is a fighting game where you parry, dodge, dash and counter-attack to outwit and outlast your enemies rather than kill them.
Release Date: Coming soon
Platforms: Mac and PC
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Pixels
Rog and Roll is a running and jumping game where you fight enemies and avoid traps. Unusually, you play a former henchman on a quest to save his friends from re-emerging tyranny. It features retro-inspired graphics and a humorous story where characters...
Release Date: 23/10/2020, updated in 2021
Platforms: 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: 20/12/2004, updated in 2018
Platforms: 3DS and 2DS, DS, Mac, PC, Switch and Wii
Components: 2D Side-On and Pixels
Cave Story is a running and jumping game styled after classic Metroid and Castlevania games of the 1980's. Unusually, it was initially overlooked until it gained popularity on the internet and then received widespread critical acclaim. The simplicity,...
Release Date: 26/01/2021
Platforms: Mac, PC, PS4, PS5, Switch and Xbox One
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Pixels
Cyber Shadow is a retro running and jumping game where you defeat enemies and dodge obstacles. It combines classic 90's platforming games with modern controls and checkpoints that make it more enjoyable and approachable. Dodge and attack midair to...
Release Date: 02/02/2022, updated in 2022
Platforms: PC and Switch
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Pixels
Donut Dodo is an old fashioned running and jumping game. Like games from the 80s arcades it's intentionally hard and requires practice (and dying a lot) to master. You play a Baker who has to run, jump, and climb to collect all donuts in each level as...
Release Date: 02/01/2012, updated in 2020
Platforms: 3DS and 2DS, Android, PC, PS4, Switch, Wii U and iOS
Components: 2D Side-On and Hand-Made
Gunman Clive is a platform game where you traverse through a hand drawn western landscape, negotiating moving platforms, traps and enemies. Shooting is a major part of the game, and the player can pick up specialized weapons such as a spread shot,...
Release Date: 15/07/2015, updated in 2020
Platforms: PC, PS4, Switch and Xbox One
Skill Rating: 13+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Pixels
Odallus: The Drak Call is a running, jumping, and fighting game where you race to save your son from a strange plague that turns humans into monsters. Play involves exploring the levels, finding secret upgrades and hidden pathways, and fighting enemies....
Release Date: 14/03/2022, updated in 2022
Platforms: Android, PC, Switch and iOS
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On, Grid and Pixels
Pompom is a running and jumping game where you are a hamster on a mission to save your owner from an evil cat. However, you don't control the hamster but place platforms (and springs, whips, umbrellas, cannons) to ensure he can progress.
Release Date: 01/10/2021
Platforms: Android and PC
Skill Rating: 9+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Pixels
Tres-Bashers is a running jumping and ghost-batting game. You play a ghost busting mouse on a mission to find and dispatch ghouls. The retro visuals are designed to look like a Game Boy game and adds to the nostalgic action.
Release Date: 28/04/2009, updated in 2018
Platforms: 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: 02/08/2022
Platforms: PC
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Pixels
Gun Devil is a retro running, jumping and shooting game about traversing hell to rescue your kidnapped wife. Drawing on 90's arcade games like Ghosts and Goblins and Gargoyle's Quest, this is a frantic battle with no moment to rest.
Release Date: 06/04/2020
Platforms: PC, PS4, PS5, Switch, Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Pixels
Gutwhale is a challenging shooting game set inside a whale. Unusually, you only have one single bullet, which you must continue to collect after each use if you want to shoot again. The game is split into three distinct levels, each with four sub-levels...
Release Date: 10/06/2022
Platforms: Android and iOS
Skill Rating: 6+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Cartoon
Poinpy is a jumping and bouncing game where you play a green monster and work your way up a well. You play by directing each leap to avoid enemies and collect the fruit. It's exclusive to Netflix subscribers and from the developer of [link game/downwell...
Release Date: 10/04/2019, updated in 2020
Platforms: Mac, PC, PS4 and Switch
Components: 2D Side-On and Pixels
Switch 'N' Shoot is a shooting game controlled by a single button. You pilot a star-fighter, and each time you press to shoot you change direction. It's a novel way to play but also can be good for players with motor impairment (and fast reactions).
Release Date: Coming soon
Platforms: Mac, PC and Switch
Components: 2D Overhead and Pixels
Wild River Outlaws is a classic arcade-style shooting game where you and a friend shoot your way through bandits and cowboys. With a western theme and inspired by the old Gain Ground and Ikari Warriors game, you rescue and recruit a posse of bandits,...
Release Date: 20/10/2021, updated in 2022
Platforms: PC, PS4, Switch and Xbox One
Components: 2D Side-On and Pixels
They Always Run is a pursuit game where you run, jump, fight and shoot your way to catch escapees. You play Aiden, a three-armed hero chasing the most dangerous bounties in the galaxy. You catch, slice, dice and destroy enemies while working through the...
Release Date: 30/10/1996, updated in 2018
Platforms: PC, PS4, Switch, Wii and Wii U
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On
Wild Guns Reloaded is a fast retro shooting game where you control the gun with one stick and your character with the other. It's set in an alternative steampunk Wild West.
Release Date: Coming soon
Platforms: PC
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Pixels
Calorie Defenders is a strategy game where you place vegetable traps and shoot sugary food inside the human body. One minute you're defending the body from the sugar while running and jumping across chasms, the next you are strategically placing traps...
Release Date: 31/07/2014, updated in 2016
Platforms: Mac, PC, PS4, Wii U and Xbox One
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: 3D First-Person, 3D Third-Person and Hand-Made
Lovely Planet is a shooting game which focuses on athletic flow and accuracy rather than headshots and gore. You jump and shoot your way through five worlds full of treacherous enemies with your trusty pop-gun. It's an unusual, almost balletic, shooting...
Release Date: 14/04/2022
Platforms: PC
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Pixels
Lulu’s Temple is a retro-inspired fast and furious action-adventure about an archaeologist venturing deep into a pyramid filled with horrific creatures with only his torch and gun to protect him. You explore the levels, using your torch to light the...
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