6 Similar Games Short List
Here are our hand-picked short list of similar games; the perfect thing to play next if you enjoyed Unruly Heroes. We don't use automatic matching, instead, we hand-pick games that are good to play if you have enjoyed Unruly Heroes.
Release Date: 29/09/2017, updated in 2019
Out Now: 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: 03/10/2017
Out Now: Mac, PC, PS4 and Switch
Coming Soon: Xbox One
Components: 2D Side-On and Pixels
No Heroes Here is a cooperative defend your castle game for up to four players. In simple pixel graphics, you have to work together to prepare your defences and then use them as the armies attack. The key to success is that everyone needs a role,...
Release Date: 21/11/2010, updated in 2013
Out Now: 3DS and 2DS, Wii and Wii U
Skill Rating: 6+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On
Donkey Kong Country Returns is a running, jumping and bashing game where you play Donkey Kong and other characters trying to reclaim their island from the Tiki Tak Tribe. It's a return to the side-on platforming of the classic Donkey Kong 64 in 1999.
Release Date: 11/03/2015, updated in 2020
Out Now: PC, Switch and Xbox One
Coming Soon: Xbox Series X|S
Skill Rating: 9+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Cartoon
Both Ori and the Blind Forest and Ori and the Will of the Wisps place you in control of a diminutive elfish spirit called Ori. You run, jump and solve platforming challenges to progress through the world. As you do new powers are unlocked that allow you...
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: 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.
20 Similar Games Long List
Here are our hand-picked long list of similar games; the perfect thing to play next if you enjoyed Unruly Heroes. We don't use automatic matching, instead, we hand-pick games that are good to play if you have enjoyed Unruly Heroes.
Release Date: 26/05/2020
Out Now: PC, PS4, Switch and Xbox One
Skill Rating: 7+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person and Blocks
Minecraft Dungeons is an action-adventure game that takes place in the Minecraft universe. You explore various dungeons to complete missions and collect new gear by exploring and finding treasure chests, or by defeating enemies....
Release Date: 12/11/2020
Out Now: PS4 and PS5
Skill Rating: 7+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person and Hand-Made
Sackboy: A Big Adventure is a running and jumping game. It's a spinoff of the LittleBigPlanet series and follows Sackboy and three friends as they explore, collect and battle their way through a fantasy world.
Release Date: 23/02/2021
Out Now: PC and Switch
Components: 2D Overhead, Open World and Pixels
Rogue Heroes: Ruins of Tasos is a fighting game where you battle Titans and explore the dungeons of an expansive over-world. It's unusual because it combines the homemaking of Stardew Valley with classic Zelda style adventures and lets you play with up...
Release Date: 12/09/2017
Out Now: PS4
Skill Rating: 9+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person and Cartoon
Knack is a platform action series where you control a shape-shifting robot called Knack. Through beautiful arcade-style battles and worlds, you collect Relics that enable you to grow bigger and gain more powers.
Release Date: 18/03/2021
Out Now: PC, PS4, Switch and Xbox One
Coming Soon: Mac
Skill Rating: 9+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person and Hand-Made
Pile Up is a running and jumping game where up to four of your play as boxes. You run (slide) and jump around the level and need to jump gaps, open doors and solve puzzles to progress. You need to coordinate with each other to progress through the...
Release Date: 10/08/2010, updated in 2021
Out Now: PS3, PS4, Stadia, Switch and Xbox 360
Coming Soon: PC 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: 08/09/2015, updated in 2019
Out Now: 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: 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: 18/04/2023
Out Now: PC, PS4, PS5, Switch, Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person, Blocks and Pixels
Minecraft Legends is an action-strategy game where you lead troops into battle to defend the Minecraft over-world. You unite the characters of Minecraft to defend their land by constructing forts, fighting enemies with swords...
Release Date: 10/06/2019
Out Now: PC, PS4, Switch and Xbox One
Coming Soon: Mac
Skill Rating: 9+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person and Blocks
Riverbond is a frantic adventure in a blocky world. With four people on one system, you take on an adventure to defeat evil and free the charming citizens. It's a brawling game with an emphasis on fun and over-the-top cartoon combat.
Release Date: Coming soon
Coming Soon: 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
Out Now: 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: 06/11/2018
Out Now: PC and Switch
Coming Soon: Xbox One
Components: 2D Overhead and Cartoon
Full Metal Furies is a co-operative fighting game where you defend the free world from tyrannical titans. With three friends you each choose a character and work together to defeat special enemies, string combination attacks and save a war torn world...
Release Date: 12/10/2015
Out Now: 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: 26/03/2021
Out Now: PC, PS4, Stadia, Switch and Xbox One
Skill Rating: 7+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Cartoon
Kaze and the Wild Masks is a running and jumping game where you play as rabbit Kaze who is rescuing friends from a curse. Drawing inspiration from classic 1990's platforming games like Donkey Kong Country, you explore levels and battle enraged...
Release Date: Coming soon
Coming Soon: PC and Switch
Skill Rating: 9+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Pixels
AntonBlast is a frantic running-and-jumping game where you play a disgruntled construction worker who has a feud with Satan. It's reminiscent of the classic Wario Land games, as you smash through buildings, enemies, and obstacles with your hammer. It...
Release Date: 07/10/2003
Out Now: DS, GameCube, PS Vita, PS2 and PSP
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On, Cartoon and Hand-Made
Viewtiful Joe is a side-on fighting game where you play a movie-lover whose girlfriend Silvia is kidnapped during a film starring your favourite superhero, Captain Blue. You enter the movie world, transformed into the tokusatsu-style persona "Viewtiful...
Release Date: 27/03/2023
Out Now: PC
Coming Soon: Switch
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Pixels
9 Years of Shadows is a retro-looking running and jumping game about exploring dungeons and using elemental powers to take on monsters. Using different suits of armour, you swim, tunnel and float through the labyrinthine stages pausing only to fight...
Release Date: 02/11/2018
Out Now: 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: 03/11/2022
Out Now: PC, Stadia and Switch
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Cartoon
From Space is a shooting game where squads of four players liberate the earth from an alien infestation. Play is in B-Movie style with over-the-top weaponry and a cartoony post-apocalyptic world. It stands out for combing the classic dungeon action of...
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