6 Similar Games Short List
Here are our hand-picked short list of similar games; the perfect thing to play next if you enjoyed PixelJunk Eden. We don't use automatic matching, instead, we hand-pick games that are good to play if you have enjoyed PixelJunk Eden.
Release Date: 25/02/2022
Platforms: Apple TV, Mac and iOS
Skill Rating: 5+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Cartoon
Gibbon: Beyond The Trees is a swinging, sliding and somersaulting adventure that tells an ecological story about freedom and survival. You explore hand-painted jungle in a parkour style and slowly uncover the story of a lost gibbon searching for home...
Release Date: 05/06/2021
Platforms: PC
Components: 2D Side-On and Hand-Made
Ynglet is an exploration game where you jump between bubbles that float in the sky making sounds as you interact with the doodled environment. Part platform game, part dynamic soundtrack, it's a game designed to let you flow through the world to...
Release Date: 18/08/2022
Platforms: PC, PS4, PS5, Switch, Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Pixels
Cursed to Golf is an adventure game where you progress by hitting a golf ball. You need to escape golf purgatory by navigating insane hazards, otherworldly power-ups and hole-in-ones. It's crazy golf mixed with a tough adventure game.
Release Date: 16/10/2013, updated in 2020
Platforms: PC, PS4, Switch, Wii U and Xbox One
Skill Rating: 9+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On
140 is a sliding, rolling and jumping game where you control a changing geometric shape to traverse a minimalist world. It's challenging for the timed jumps and reactions but keeps distractions to a minimum with its abstract colorful graphics.
Release Date: Coming soon
Platforms: Android, Mac, PC and iOS
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Pixels
Rootown is a traversal strategy game where you guide tree roots down through the soil. You play by planting a tree and then steering its roots to find good soil and avoid stones. The better you do the bigger the tree and the more resources you have to...
Release Date: 28/09/2017
Platforms: Switch
Skill Rating: 11+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead and Pixels
Golf Story is an adventure game where you play golf over eight different courses as a story unfolds. You play a golfer forced to give up all that he holds dear for one last shot at accomplishing his dreams.
31 Similar Games Long List
Here are our hand-picked long list of similar games; the perfect thing to play next if you enjoyed PixelJunk Eden. We don't use automatic matching, instead, we hand-pick games that are good to play if you have enjoyed PixelJunk Eden.
Release Date: 09/09/2021, updated in 2022
Platforms: PC, PS4, Switch and Xbox One
Skill Rating: 9+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Hand-Made
Webbed is a running and jumping game with a twist. You play a spider who can make webs, swing, climb and all the while creating music as she goes. It follows the story of our happy little spider on an adventure to save her boyfriend from a big dumb...
Release Date: 14/03/2012, updated in 2019
Platforms: PC, PS3, PS4 and iOS
Skill Rating: 11+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person and Open World
Journey is an adventure game set in a desert. Exploring the eerie sand-scape, you discover a world abandoned by the race that created it. The sense of space and scale evokes feelings of aloneness and being lost. But then the game pairs you with other...
Release Date: 12/02/2009
Platforms: PC, PS Vita, PS3, PS4 and iOS
Skill Rating: 5+ year-olds
Components: 3D First-Person, Open World and Weather
In Flower you control the breeze blowing across fields of grass and blow petals into other flowers to make them bloom. Flower is simple and single-purpose in evoking the feeling of the wind. What starts as an awkward struggle to control the breeze soon...
Release Date: 30/01/2013
Platforms: Mac, PC, PS Vita and PS3
Skill Rating: 4+ year-olds
Components: 3D First-Person, Cartoon, Day and Night, Open World and Weather
This game takes you to a pixelated island. As you explore you discover that your presence changes the seasons and time of day. Delving deeper, there are rudimentary interactions with the creatures that inhabit the land, and rain clouds that blow in from...
Release Date: 11/08/2021
Platforms: Android, Mac, PC and iOS
Skill Rating: 7+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On
OCO is a sliding and jumping game set with simple colourful levels each set in a rotating planetoid. Unlike other platform games, you control everything with a single button. Each different colour of platform you slide along grants different abilities...
Release Date: 19/11/2019
Platforms: Apple TV, Mac, PS4, Switch and iOS
Skill Rating: 7+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person
Sayonara Wild Hearts is a rhythm-action game where you control a running, flying, dancing or motorbike-riding character to collect coins and hearts in time with pop music. The neon visuals and emotively voiced story make this an unusual and compelling...
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: 29/05/2019
Platforms: Android, Mac, PC, Switch and iOS
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead, Blocks and Grid
Vectronom is a moving and jumping game where you control a block moving through a level that's changing in time with the music. The primary colours and hypnotic beats can distract at first, but as you find the flow of moving in time with the beat a...
Release Date: 06/10/2019
Platforms: Android, Apple TV, Mac, PC, PS4, Switch and iOS
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On
Gris is a platform game where you guide a young girl through a crumbling world. Through beautiful metaphoric landscapes and soaring music, the game touches on emotions of loss and longing but doesn’t resolve to a firm narrative. Although not hugely...
Release Date: Coming soon
Platforms: PC and Switch
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person, Cartoon and Open World
The Gecko Gods is a puzzle game where you control a small lizard reptile exploring a world and solving puzzles. You interact with the flora and fauna, catch insects and visit other animals. Because you have sticky feet you can climb any surface.
Release Date: 10/02/2022, updated in 2022
Platforms: 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...
Release Date: 16/05/2019
Platforms: PC and Switch
Skill Rating: 5+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Open World
Koral is a diving exploration game where you play as the sea current. This sounds a little odd, playing a flow of energy, but works brilliantly.
Release Date: 05/08/2015
Platforms: PC, PS Vita, PS4, Switch and Xbox One
Skill Rating: 9+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On
Ink is a running (sliding) and jumping game where you see the platforms you are jumping on by splashing them with ink. You control a little white square that, along with splashing colour everywhere, can jump on enemies and climb walls.
Release Date: 04/05/2016, updated in 2021
Platforms: Mac, iOS and iPhone, iPad
Skill Rating: 6+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On
Inks is a messy pinball game that combines puzzle with platforming. It's like a traditional game of pinball, however you are aiming to splash the ball through each coloured area rather than rack up high scores.
Release Date: 09/11/2018, updated in 2021
Platforms: Oculus, PC, PS4, Switch and Xbox One
Skill Rating: 7+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On
Tetris Effect is a tile-matching puzzle game (just like the original Tetris) but with a surprisingly powerful aesthetic twist. The game places each level in a themed area and ties gameplay to the beat of the music across its thirty different stages.
Release Date: 19/10/2018
Platforms: 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: 11/04/2017, updated in 2018
Platforms: PC, PS4, Switch and Xbox One
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: 3D First-Person
Aaero is a rhythm game where you control a spacecraft with one stick and target with the other. At times it's like flying an X-Wing on a trench run while at others it's like soaring high and free targeting enemies in a Starfox game. It's an on-rails...
Release Date: 21/04/2020
Platforms: Mac, PC and Web
Skill Rating: 9+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Pixels
Blackbird is a strategy game where you are a blackbird collecting food for your young. You need to scour the forest to find enough insects to keep them alive and them fly the nest (or die trying).
Release Date: 03/02/2010, updated in 2019
Platforms: Mac, PC, PS3, PS4, Switch, Xbox 360 and Xbox One
Skill Rating: 7+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On
Chime is a block-dropping music puzzle game where you control a single shape to move, rotate, and then place it onto a grid. A beat line moves across the grid in time with the music, setting off events when it hits placed shapes.
Release Date: 07/11/2018
Platforms: Mac, PC and Switch
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On
Deru is a cooperative puzzle game about the flow and interaction of colour. Its stylised design hides within it complex conundrums you must work closely together to solve. Each of the two players can only touch streams of their colour, so must carefully...
Release Date: 28/02/2021
Platforms: Mac and PC
Skill Rating: 7+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead
Hamster All Stars is a creative racing game where you bet on hamsters. Rather than control the hamsters, you build a racetrack for them and then bet on the winner to win money to buy track upgrades. It's a twist on the game [link...
Release Date: 14/03/2022, updated in 2022
Platforms: Mac, PC and Switch
Skill Rating: 3+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Pixels
Harlow is a rolling and jumping game about two clumsy robots planning a surprise party for the frozen colonists. You play by directing your round droid through the levels, jumping swinging and bashing into things. It stands out for the gentle feel,...
Release Date: 25/10/2019
Platforms: Apple TV, Mac and iOS
Skill Rating: 2+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Pixels
Lifelike: Chapter One is a light-touch simulation game where you interact with flocking particles to create a soothing and meditative experience. It's an exercise in attending to something playful and the pleasure and escape that come from this.
Release Date: 07/08/2012, updated in 2013
Platforms: PS Vita, PS3 and PS4
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Cartoon
Sound Shapes is simple rolling and jumping game where you make music by completing the levels. It features music from artists such as Beck and visual elements from other games and game makers. Originally on the Vita, it uses that systems touch screens...
Release Date: Coming soon
Platforms: PC
Skill Rating: 5+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead, Blocks and Grid
Oddada is a game where you make music with toys in a miniature blocky world. You set-up your little world and then take your train through different landscapes, machines and buildings to collect melodies and rhythms.
Release Date: 17/03/2022
Platforms: PC
Skill Rating: 3+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Pixels
Onde is an ethereal movement and exploration game where you dive into a fluid world full of sounds. As you move through the abstract landscapes they respond with notes and music. It's an unusual experience because the interactions invite you not only to...
Release Date: 24/07/2020
Platforms: Apple TV, Mac and iOS
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Cartoon
The Lullaby of Life is a rhythm puzzle game where you use music as the catalyst to trigger new lifeforms. You float around to explore a music-driven world. To progress through different areas you need to use the three notes you have on your creature,...
Release Date: 16/06/2020, updated in 2020
Platforms: 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: 14/01/2018
Platforms: Web
Skill Rating: 12+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead and Grid
Kiri's Garden is a pixel-puzzle about planting trees, growing grass, and moving flowers. You must plant trees to finish a level, but this is only possible once you've covered every other square in either grass or some other plant. It sounds simple but...
Release Date: 14/02/2008
Platforms: PC, PS Vita and PS3
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Pixels
Everyday Shooter is a collection of shooting games presented as a music album. The shooting action is familiar but here the dissolute sounds of destruction are replaced with guitar riffs harmonizing over the soundtrack. The visuals join in the...
Release Date: 10/12/2009, updated in 2015
Platforms: PC, PS Vita, PS3 and PS4
Components: 2D Side-On and Hand-Made
PixelJunk Shooter is a shooting game where you fly a subterranean vehicle to rescue scientists trapped underground. You control movement with one stick and shooting with the other. This combines with the world's physics to create a puzzling shooting...
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