6 Similar Games Short List
Here are our hand-picked short list of similar games; the perfect thing to play next if you enjoyed Super Mario Run. We don't use automatic matching, instead, we hand-pick games that are good to play if you have enjoyed Super Mario Run.
Release Date: 07/09/2021
Out Now: DS, PS4, Switch, Wii and Xbox One
Components: 2D Side-On
Sonic Colors is a running, jumping and grinding game where you play the iconic blue hedgehog, Sonic. Dr. Eggman has built a giant amusement park that he's powering with a captured alien race. You use Sonic's lightning speed to free the aliens through...
Release Date: 26/01/2021
Out Now: 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: 07/09/2018
Out Now: PC, PS Vita, PS4, Switch and Xbox One
Skill Rating: 9+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Pixels
Sigi is a retro-styled running, jumping and attacking game. You are on a Knight’s quest to locate Melusina, his true love that he inadvertently scared away with a bout of bad gas. Like games from the 80s you have to work through levels to find keys,...
Release Date: 18/08/2021
Out Now: PC
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Cartoon
Zool is a platform game originally released on the Amiga in 1992. Zool Redimensioned brings the game back with enhancements and improvements but keeps the focus on recreating that original joy of zany speed, running and jumping in bright fantastical...
Release Date: 14/03/2022, updated in 2022
Out Now: 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: 01/09/2011
Out Now: Amazon Fire, Android, PC, PS Vita, PS3, PS4 and iOS
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On
Jetpack Joyride is a running, jumping and shooting game you play by just tapping the screen or button at the right time to control your jetpack. You play a scientist who runs through each of the levels and must survive and get to the end.
32 Similar Games Long List
Here are our hand-picked long list of similar games; the perfect thing to play next if you enjoyed Super Mario Run. We don't use automatic matching, instead, we hand-pick games that are good to play if you have enjoyed Super Mario Run.
Release Date: 27/10/2017
Out Now: Switch
Skill Rating: 7+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person and Open World
Mario has starred in running and jumping Super Mario games on Nintendo hardware since the Nintendo Entertainment System in the 80's. The formula remains unchanged. Explore a level, jump on enemies, collect coins and get to the flag at the end to inch...
Release Date: 23/06/2006
Out Now: PS Vita, PS4 and PSP
Skill Rating: 6+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On, Cartoon and Hand-Made
LocoRoco is a traversal puzzle game in 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...
Release Date: 11/08/2021
Out Now: 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: 14/10/2021, updated in 2022
Out Now: PC and Switch
Skill Rating: 9+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Pixels
ElecHead is a running and jumping puzzle game where you control a character who is a source of electricity. With this power, you activate the platforms you need to progress in unusual and puzzling ways. It introduces unique scenarios where you need to...
Release Date: 12/11/2007
Out Now: Wii
Skill Rating: 9+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person
Mario Galaxy is a different style of running, jumping and exploration game. It takes the Mario character to hundreds of different planet shaped levels adding more realistic physics to the platforming play. Each world, or collection of worlds is...
Release Date: 10/09/2015
Out Now: 3DS and 2DS, Switch and Wii U
Skill Rating: 9+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On
Super Mario Maker is a game-making system. It’s simpler than tools like Dreams or Roblox, but still offers a huge array of ways to create running and jumping platform games that can then be shared online. You can play hundreds of games that other...
Release Date: 13/08/2013, updated in 2017
Out Now: Amazon Fire, Android, Mac, PC and iOS
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Pixels
Geometry Dash is a running, jumping game. It features over 20 stages where you play as a customisable small cube, which you used to dodge 2D obstacles to the rhythm of electronic music using a single button to control the cube. If you hit any of the...
Release Date: 15/11/2011, updated in 2013
Out Now: 3DS and 2DS, PC, PS Vita, PS3, Wii and Xbox 360
Skill Rating: 7+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Hand-Made
Rayman Origins is a platform game where you run, jump, swing and attack your way through fantasy cartoon levels. It stands out because of the strong characters and variety of different enemies ranging in difficulty.
Release Date: 24/05/2012, updated in 2022
Out Now: Amazon Fire, Android, Web and iOS
Skill Rating: 4+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Grid
Subway Surfers is a super simple running, jumping, and dodging game where you switch between three lanes to avoid obstacles. It starts easy but as hazards increase you need quick thinking and reflexes to succeed. The straightforward,...
Release Date: 28/02/2020
Out Now: Apple TV, Mac and iOS
Skill Rating: 6+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Pixels
Crossy Road Castle is the follow-up to the simple frogger Cross Road game. You play pixilated animals racing to the top of various towers that change every time you play.
Release Date: 29/07/2013, updated in 2017
Out Now: PC, PS Vita, PS3, PS4, Switch, Wii U, Xbox 360 and Xbox One
Skill Rating: 7+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Cartoon
Rayman Legends is a platform game, the sequel to Rayman Origins, where you get sucked into a painting that takes you to a fantasy world with all sorts of creative running and jumping challenges.
Release Date: 29/10/2021
Out Now: PC, PS4, Switch, Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S
Skill Rating: 4+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Cartoon
PJ Masks: Heroes of the Night is a running and jumping game where young children play as the heroes from the TV show. Its simple controls and straightforward levels, which have lots of collectables to find, provide a simple yet enjoyable interactive...
Release Date: 26/08/2002, updated in 2020
Out Now: Switch and Wii
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person, Cartoon and Open World
Super Mario Sunshine is a running, jumping and water-shooting game. It follows Super Mario 64 as the second 3D Mario game. You play Mario, who is marooned on Isle Delfin, convicted of vandalism and graphite. You explore the island to visit other...
Release Date: 20/07/2021
Out Now: PC
Skill Rating: 9+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Pixels
Beard Blade is a running and jumping game where you use your beard to climb, swing, glide and defeat enemies. It sounds like a silly concept, but along with the day-night cycle that completely changes levels, introduces fresh mechanics into this...
Release Date: 05/03/2020
Out Now: Mac, PC and Switch
Skill Rating: 4+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Pixels
Wunderling is a jumping game controlled by just two buttons: jumping and boost. The levels scroll automatically so you have to think ahead to decide how to get past each section. It's a combination of time reactions and forward planning.
Release Date: 13/02/2020
Out Now: PC
Skill Rating: 13+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On
I Wanna Maker is a running and jumping game where you create unique levels and share them with other players. With over 1000 levels to play, all made by different people across the world, it offers a fresh platforming challenge with a wide range of...
Release Date: Coming soon
Coming Soon: 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: 31/08/2009
Out Now: Android, PC, PSP and iOS
Skill Rating: 5+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Pixels
Canabalt is a side-on running game where you press jump at the right time to keep a small character from falling off buildings or crashing into things. With minimalist visuals, you play the small suited man fleeing from an unknown threat. As the game...
Release Date: 07/11/2010
Out Now: 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: 24/05/2004, updated in 2016
Out Now: 3DS and 2DS, DS and Wii U
Skill Rating: 7+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Pixels
Mario vs. Donkey Kong is a series of puzzle games where you guide miniature Nintendo characters to the end of the level. The twist is that you can't control the characters, only the level itself. The exact interactions vary from game to game, but in...
Release Date: 16/07/2019, updated in 2021
Out Now: Android, Mac, PC, Switch and iOS
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Hand-Made
Summer Catchers is a whimsical adventure about driving across the frozen north to find summer, dodging obstacles and fighting bosses along the way. It's super simple to control but hazards require specific power-up button presses. The trial and error...
Release Date: 25/02/2022
Out Now: Android and iOS
Skill Rating: 7+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Pixels
Night Skate is a one-button skating and jumping game where you play a skateboarder endlessly trundling and tricking their way through the world at night. You use a single button to jump, float and land. In this way you can build up combos and tricks to...
Release Date: 04/08/2011, updated in 2013
Out Now: Amazon Fire, Android and iOS
Skill Rating: 6+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead
Temple Run 2 is a running, jumping and dodging game where you race to escape a deadly beast. You collect coins and dodge obstacles by tilting and turn corners by swiping left or right. With continual updates that add new maps, characters, and cosmetics,...
Release Date: 12/04/2019
Out Now: Android, PC and iOS
Skill Rating: 6+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Pixels
Bubbles The Cat is a platform game you play by tapping a single button to jump. Through hundreds of levels and six worlds, you automatically run forwards but you must tap at the right time to survive.
Release Date: 05/02/2020
Out Now: Android and iOS
Components: 2D Side-On and Cartoon
Cookies Must Die is a platform game where you fight mutant cookies. Your character is a genetically modified superhuman who now, thanks to the scientists, has the ability to hurl itself across the lab facility, aiming at foes and avoiding obstacles.
Release Date: 18/06/2020
Out Now: iOS
Components: 2D Side-On and Pixels
Shadow Frog is a simple running and jumping game you play with a single button/tap on the screen. You play Frogo who needs to escape the caves. Using just your jump button you interact with the cave walls and platforms to get around and collect keys....
Release Date: 16/02/2021
Out Now: Switch and iOS
Skill Rating: 5+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead
Drive is an endless driving game where you pick a car, choose a location, and see how long you can survive for and beat your previous record. Its attraction is in the simplicity and light narrative about old cars finding a new lease of life.
Release Date: 25/02/2015, updated in 2020
Out Now: Mac, PC, PS Vita, PS3, PS4 and Switch
Skill Rating: 7+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On, Cartoon and Grid
MouseCraft is a puzzle game where you guide mice to the cheese at the end of each level. Interestingly, you don't control the mice directly; instead, you place down blocks and items that can help them reach the end, in a way similar to [link to...
Release Date: 03/04/2018
Out Now: PC, PS4, Switch and Xbox One
Skill Rating: 7+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On, Cartoon and Hand-Made
The Adventure Pals is a running, jumping and fighting game where you play duo Sparkles the giraffe and Mr. Rock. By making jumps, exploring levels and defeating enemies you try and stop Mr.B from capturing the elderly, including your dad, and turning...
Release Date: 29/09/2022
Out Now: PC and Switch
Skill Rating: 7+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Hand-Made
Funtasia is a racing game where you play anthropomorphic animals who have jumped in goofy vehicles to fend off their world succumbing to trash. You play by accelerating or decelerating to try and get through the side-on level, using the physics of the...
Release Date: 25/08/2014, updated in 2017
Out Now: Amazon Fire, Mac and iOS
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On
Pyro Jump and Pyro Jump Rescue are a one button jumping and rolling game where you are a lump of fire leaping from one platform to the next to try to catch Princess Paper. You work through levels by jumping and the attaching to wheels and surfaces,...
Release Date: Coming soon
Coming Soon: PC
Skill Rating: 4+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Hand-Made
RunMan Turbo is a traversal game where you race through a brightly coloured world. You play by bouncing, sliding, jumping, tumbling and running as fast as you can over obstacles and towards a finishing line. It is a game of instinct, where you must...
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