6 Similar Games Short List
Here are our hand-picked short list of similar games; the perfect thing to play next if you enjoyed Nidhogg. We don't use automatic matching, instead, we hand-pick games that are good to play if you have enjoyed Nidhogg.
Release Date: 22/02/2022, updated in 2022
Platforms: PS4, PS5, Switch, Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S
Skill Rating: 12+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person and Cartoon
Sifu is a martial arts fighting game with a flowing control system and ageing protagonist. You fight with Kung-Fu combat designed with impact and authenticity in mind. The twist is, each time you die you age which means eventually you are too old to...
Release Date: 15/09/2020
Platforms: 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: 09/12/2020
Platforms: PC, PS4, Stadia, Switch and Xbox One
Components: 2D Side-On and Cartoon
Unto The End is a cinematic combat-adventure where the fighting is modelled in a read-and-react style. It requires time to master the unusual system but offers many ways to take on foes. Tactics and intelligent decisions are as important for survival as...
Release Date: 05/10/2021
Platforms: PC, PS4, PS5, Switch, Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Cartoon
Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl is a fighting game similar to Super Smash Bros. The novelty comes not only from its roster of Nickelodeon characters, but also from its fast-paced and intense rounds, rewarding skill...
Release Date: 26/07/2022
Platforms: PC, PS4, PS5, Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On
MultiVersus is a fighting game like Smash Brothers where you team up with or against other players. The novelty is this teamwork and the deep catalogue of characters you can fight with. Batman, Shaggy from Scooby Do, Superman, Bugs Bunny and so on.
Release Date: 21/01/1999, updated in 2018
Platforms: DS, GameCube, Switch and Wii U
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On
Super Smash Bros. in its various versions offers real-time brawling battles. The tens of characters are drawn from other video games and each has bespoke moves to learn and perfect.
16 Similar Games Long List
Here are our hand-picked long list of similar games; the perfect thing to play next if you enjoyed Nidhogg. We don't use automatic matching, instead, we hand-pick games that are good to play if you have enjoyed Nidhogg.
Release Date: 23/01/2023
Platforms: PC, Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S
Skill Rating: 9+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person and Cartoon
Hi-Fi Rush is a rhythm fighting game where wannabe rockstar Chai uses the beat to fight an evil corporation. You play by exploring the world and fighting enemies. The twist is that everything moves to the beat, and you must attack in time to do the most...
Release Date: 05/06/2013, updated in 2015
Platforms: Android, PS Vita, PS4, 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: 28/02/2019
Platforms: PC, Switch and Xbox One
Components: 2D Overhead and Pixels
Ape Out is a stylised fighting game where you control an ape trying to escape a facility. Although it's violent, the gameplay focuses on rhythm and style rather than just gore. As you move, grab and throw your attackers the soundtrack responds to create...
Release Date: 16/02/2016, updated in 2020
Platforms: PC and PS4
Skill Rating: 11+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Cartoon
Street Fighter V (Street Fighter 5) is a competitive fighting game. First introduced in 1987, this classic game from Japan has inspired a whole genre. You choose a champion fighter from around the world, each with unique abilities, then fight one-on-one...
Release Date: 08/09/2015, updated in 2019
Platforms: 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: 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: 03/10/2019, updated in 2021
Platforms: Apple TV, Mac and iOS
Skill Rating: 6+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Hand-Made
Cricket Through the Ages is a competitive sport game themed around cricket but with little to do with the rules of that game. Players face off and aim for each other as much as wickets. Controls work by holding or tapping the screen to spin limbs and...
Release Date: 12/07/2016, updated in 2016
Platforms: Mac, PC, PS4 and Xbox One
Components: 2D Side-On
Cannon Brawl is a two-player battle where you collect resources and build weapons and defences, all in real time. It’s shout-out-loud fun where one wrong shot can let your opponent get the upper hand. Each battle is as frantic as it is silly. To win...
Release Date: 16/06/2017
Platforms: Switch
Skill Rating: 9+ year-olds
Components: 3D First-Person
Arms is a fighting game where you brawl other players with your abnormally long arms. The play is simple with motion and button controls to move around and attack the enemy player in a boxing-style arena. It's like Wii-Sports Boxing but with many more...
Release Date: 22/11/2013
Platforms: PC and Xbox One
Components: 2D Side-On
Killer Instinct is a fighting game series. The third installation released for free with the Xbox One launch. This built on Killer Instinct and Killer Instinct 2 and added more characters as time progressed.
Release Date: 28/03/2017
Platforms: PC, PS4 and Switch
Skill Rating: 13+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On, Day and Night, Open World and Weather
Rain World, and the expansion Downpour, are traversal and survival games where you play a half cat, half slug in a living breathing world. You must venture out and brave the other predatory creatures to find food before the rain comes and you have to...
Release Date: 30/04/2020
Platforms: PC, PS4, Stadia, Switch and Xbox One
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead, Cartoon and Pixels
Streets of Rage 4 is a retro fighting game based on Sega's 1990's Streets of Rage trilogy. Up to four players brawl their way through waves of enemies with the help of disposable weapons. In recreating the sights and sounds of the classic game, it fills...
Release Date: 06/12/2022
Platforms: PC, PS4, PS5, Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead
Divine Knockout (DKO) is a fighting game where you play small-but-mighty greek gods. Play is like Smash Bros, only here you play in 3D and your characters are themed around different greek myths. It stands out for the simple, yet compelling online...
Release Date: 27/09/2019, updated in 2020
Platforms: PC, PS4, Switch and Xbox One
Components: 2D Side-On and Pixels
Freedom Finger is a tongue-in-cheek game where you pilot a hand that can shoot from its middle finger. Along with the shooting, the game is music driven as you punch, grab, and pound enemies to smithereens. It takes the classic, Gradius and Nemisis...
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: Coming soon
Platforms: PC
Skill Rating: 12+ year-olds
Components: 3D First-Person
Robobeat is a shooting game where you maximise your damage by shooting on the beat. More surreal than other rhythm shooter games, the focus here is on musical flow as you wall run, grapple hook, slide, and bunny hop your way through the crazy world.
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