23 Great Games Like They Always Run Games Rated Mature (M) and Older

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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 side-on futuristic world. But unlike other games you directly control your attack with motion of the mouse of gesture with a stick.

Unfortunately, They Always Run is not available on Android, Mac or iOS. However, we recommend the following games that offer a similar experience or theme, and at a lower age rating:

They Always Run

Game Details

Release Date: 20/10/2021, updated in 2022

Platforms: PC, PS4, Switch and Xbox One

Content Rating: PEGI 16

Players: 1

Genres: Platform, Shooting (Action, Fighting, Narrative and Traversal)

Components: 2D Side-On and Pixels

Developer: Alawar Team (@AlawarTeam)

Costs: Purchase cost

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Vengeful Guardian: Moonrider

Release Date: 12/01/2023

Platforms: PC, PS4, PS5 and Switch

Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds

Components: 2D Side-On and Pixels

Vengeful Guardian: Moonrider is a running, jumping and fighting game like 90s classics Shinobi and Hagane: The Final Conflict. You play the Moonrider guardian that was created to defend a totalitarian state, racing through levels, attacking enemies and...

Metroid Dread

Release Date: 08/10/2021

Platforms: Switch

Skill Rating: 9+ year-olds

Components: 2D Side-On

Metroid Dread, the latest Metroid game, is a running, jumping, exploring and fighting game where you progress through levels, fight challenging bosses and uncover secrets. It returns the franchise to the 2D side-scrolling style of...

Dead Cells

Release Date: 10/05/2017, updated in 2018

Platforms: Android, Mac, PC, PS4, Switch, Xbox One and iOS

Skill Rating: 12+ year-olds

Components: 2D Side-On and Pixels

Dead Cells is a running, jumping and fighting game where you are escaping a prison. In a bright pixelated world you must accurately time attacks and dodges to defeat a wide range of enemies. It's intentionally hard, and you will die a lot. But each time...

Katana Zero

Release Date: 18/04/2019

Platforms: Mac, PC, Switch and Xbox One

Skill Rating: 15+ year-olds

Components: 2D Side-On and Pixels

Katana Zero is a noir-styled fighting game where you are a samurai assassin. At (literally) breakneck speed you slash, dash and jump your way through side-on missions. The twist is if you die the game rewinds time and you try that loop again.

Ender Lilies: Quietus of the Knights

Release Date: 21/01/2021, updated in 2021

Platforms: PC, PS4, PS5, Switch, Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S

Components: 2D Side-On

Ender Lilies: Quietus of the Knights is a platform game based in a fictional world called Land's End. Rainfall has transformed all living things into monsters known as the Blighted. You control Lily, a bright white figure, who awakens as the last...

Nidhogg

Release Date: 12/09/2014, updated in 2014

Platforms: Mac, PC, PS Vita and PS4

Components: 2D Side-On and Pixels

Nidhogg is a fast two-player duelling game whose simple visuals belie the skill required to defeat your opponent. The novelty is that upon death you reappear in the next screen. The player to advance through the most screens wins.

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Limbo

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...

Inside

Release Date: 29/06/2016, updated in 2018

Platforms: PC, PS4, Switch, Xbox One and iOS

Components: 2D Side-On

Inside is from the same developer as Limbo. As such, you play another boy in a dark dream-light and horrific world. Here though, it's more modern-day and realistic.

Skul: The Hero Slayer

Release Date: 19/02/2020

Platforms: PC, PS4, Switch and Xbox One

Components: 2D Side-On and Pixels

Skul: The Hero Slayer is a running, jumping and fighting game where you play a lone skeleton in a fight against the overpowered human heroes with his unique ability to swap his head, Worzel-Gummidge-style. Each of the heads grants different powers and...

Death's Gambit

Release Date: 14/08/2018, updated in 2021

Platforms: PC, PS4 and Switch

Components: 2D Side-On

Death's Gambit is a running, jumping and fighting game where you defeat enemies, collect weapons and progress through levels. Drawing on the platforming of games like the Castlevania and Metroid games, it adds difficult and...

5 Younger Content Rating than They Always Run

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Nidhogg

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23 Great Games Like They Always Run Games Rated Mature (M) and Older

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Vengeful Guardian: Moonrider

Metroid Dread

Dead Cells

Katana Zero

Ender Lilies: Quietus of the Knights

Nidhogg

4 Similar Games Long List

Limbo

Inside

Skul: The Hero Slayer

Death's Gambit

5 Younger Content Rating than They Always Run

16 Video Games Like They Always Run Based on Genre

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