6 Similar Games Short List
Here are our hand-picked short list of similar games; the perfect thing to play next if you enjoyed Towerfall. We don't use automatic matching, instead, we hand-pick games that are good to play if you have enjoyed Towerfall.
Release Date: 11/05/2014, updated in 2018
Out Now: PC, PS4, Switch and iOS
Components: 2D Side-On and Pixels
Kero Blaster is a running, jumping and shooting game where you play a frog working for Cat & Frog, a teleporter company. Starting with an underpowered gun, you clean the teleporters of strange black monsters.
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: 01/01/1989, updated in 2009
Out Now: PS2 and Xbox
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Pixels
Rainbow Islands: The Story of Bubble Bobble 2 is a running and jumping game where you play a character who can create rainbows to traverse levels and attack enemies. The game followed up Taito's hit Bubble Bobble from the previous year. As well as...
Release Date: 26/01/2012, updated in 2018
Out Now: PC, PS Vita, PS3, PS4, Switch, Wii U and iOS
Skill Rating: 9+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Pixels
Mutant Mudds is a retro platform video game. It's unusual because it is unforgiving and hard to play so presents a substantial challenge. Also, playing to the 3D feature of the Nintendo 3DS console, the game allows you to jump into the background of the...
Release Date: 10/02/2022, updated in 2022
Out Now: 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: 14/12/2020, updated in 2021
Out Now: PS4 and PS5
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Pixels
Cyber Trigger is a retro running, jumping and shooting game. You play a space adventurer answering a distress call from a planet overrun with alien robots. It's a love letter to classic pixelated platform games with a mix of cave adventure, combat, and...
29 Similar Games Long List
Here are our hand-picked long list of similar games; the perfect thing to play next if you enjoyed Towerfall. We don't use automatic matching, instead, we hand-pick games that are good to play if you have enjoyed Towerfall.
Release Date: 21/09/2021
Out Now: PC
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead and Grid
Chessplosion is an action, puzzle game where you drop chess pieces on a board to trigger bombs in the shape of their related chess moves. Your aim is to use the different pieces (and bomb attacks) to trap opponents like Bomberman. No prior chess...
Release Date: 25/09/2018, updated in 2017
Out Now: PC, PS4, Switch and Xbox One
Components: 2D Side-On, Cartoon and Hand-Made
Ultimate Chicken Horse is a running and jumping game where you play different farmyard animals trying to get to the end of the level. The twist is that it's you and your friends who build the levels as you play, placing deadly traps before trying to...
Release Date: 07/08/2018, updated in 2018
Out Now: Mac, PC, PS4, PS5, Switch and Xbox One
Coming Soon: Xbox Series X|S
Skill Rating: 7+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead and Grid
Overcooked! All You Can Eat is part of a series of collaborative cooking games for up to 4 players. You must keep talking to other players to coordinate the various elements of the dishes. It starts simply enough but soon gets more complicated as you...
Release Date: 29/08/2019
Out Now: Mac, PC and Switch
Skill Rating: 7+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On
Heave Ho is a game where up to four players try and swing themselves across a level. But you can only hang on to certain points and must dangle and swing with both arms to progress. The twist is that you can also hold hands with other players and make...
Release Date: 28/02/2019
Out Now: PC and Switch
Skill Rating: 4+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Pixels
Battlloon is a colourful battle game, where each of the four players controls a balloon-like creature. You try and bounce the other players into spikes on the arena walls by puffing out air to propel yourself in a direction.
Release Date: 01/10/1986, updated in 2016
Out Now: 3DS and 2DS, DS, PS4, Switch, Xbox 360, Xbox One and iOS
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Pixels
Bubble Bobble is a running and jumping game where you control a small dragon that can blow and jump on bubbles. It rose to popularity in the arcades when released in 1986. In each of the 100 levels you and another player defeat each enemy by trapping...
Release Date: 29/04/2021
Out Now: Switch
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead and Hand-Made
Fly Together is a strategy puzzle game where you need to direct planes to different airports so passengers can get to their destinations. You do this against the clock, by drawing flight paths and avoiding collisions in increasingly challenging action...
Release Date: 27/04/2018
Out Now: Android, Mac, PC, Switch and iOS
Skill Rating: 6+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On
12 Orbits is a tactical game where you control a small coloured ball by pressing a single button. When you are over the grey circles you press to orbit that circle, otherwise pressing the button will dodge.
Release Date: 11/03/2020
Out Now: Switch
Components: 2D Side-On and Pixels
Cosmic Defenders Players cooperate to protect the galaxy in 'Story', 'Survival' and 'Versus' Mode with up to four players with unique abilities.
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: 27/08/2015
Out Now: 3DS and 2DS, PS4, Switch, Wii U and Xbox One
Components: 2D Side-On
Runbow is an unusual racing game where each player controls a coloured figure who must run and jump their way through the platform levels ahead of their opponents who are trying to do the same thing.
Release Date: 23/06/2020, updated in 2021
Out Now: PC
Coming Soon: Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead and Blocks
Tanknarok is a high speed shooting game where 2-4 tanks battle in different toy-like arenas. Controls are simple: one stick for movement and one for aiming. It's a fast and frantic competition with each tank using guns, explosions and rockets to win.
Release Date: 04/08/2020
Out Now: PC, PS4, Stadia, Switch and Xbox One
Components: 2D Side-On and Pixels
Spitlings is a chaotic jumping and shooting game for up to four players. You each play a Spitlings, who need to get rid of all the bubbles on each level by spitting at them or jumping on them. The twist is that players need to look after each other...
Release Date: 23/10/2020, updated in 2021
Out Now: PC, PS4, Switch and Xbox One
Components: 2D Side-On and Pixels
Spooky Chase is a running, jumping game where you play a ghost collecting a series of flags. However, each route you take to a flag is then followed by enemies when you go after the next one. You play each level multiple times to collect each flag, but...
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: 25/11/2018
Out Now: Mac, PC and Switch
Components: 2D Side-On and Hand-Made
Retimed is a multiplayer shooting game where players can create a bubble that slows down time. This makes the usual frantic shooting and dodging more achievable as when you are in danger you have more time to get out of the way.
Release Date: 08/11/2019
Out Now: Android, Apple TV, Mac and iOS
Components: 2D Overhead
Sociable Soccer is a fast-paced, quick-to-pick-up, slow-to-master, football game. Unlike the intricate lifelike simulation of FIFA, this game wants to recreate the frantic feel of classic arcade football games. It has its heritage back in Sensible...
Release Date: 12/05/2022
Out Now: PC
Skill Rating: 9+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead and Cartoon
Toy Tanks is a multiplayer tank battle with tiny tanks. Inspired by Wii Play Tanks you take on enemies in a fight to the death arena. It stands out for reviving this same-room multiplayer format and injecting ideas from more modern games.
Release Date: 12/06/2016
Out Now: PC, PS4 and Xbox One
Skill Rating: 7+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead
Videoball is a minimalist sports game for up to six players. The aim is to get one of the balls into the opponent’s goal by shooting it with triangles. It’s highly skilled, frantic and works brilliantly in a competitive family setting.
Release Date: 27/02/2007, updated in 2014
Out Now: Android, DS, Mac, PS3, PS4, Xbox 360, Xbox One and iOS
Skill Rating: 4+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On
In Peggle, you fire a small ball into an array of pins that are triggered and disappear when the ball touches them. It's like a bright, saccharine pachinko game. But being electronic you can earn all sorts of bonus balls and abilities by hitting...
Release Date: 24/05/2021
Out Now: Switch
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person and Cartoon
Very Very Valet is a strategy game where you must park cars neatly and return them to guests as they need them. With up to four people you run a team of puppet valets to conquer a range of parking and retrieval challenges
Release Date: 17/11/2022
Out Now: PC, Switch and Wii U
Skill Rating: 4+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person and Cartoon
Chompy Chomp Chomp Party chaotic multiplayer chase-em-up game. It's a game about chasing and catching other players like all manner of playground games. It stands out not only for the disco visuals but for the simple chaotic challenge for up to 8...
Release Date: 01/01/1981, updated in 2015
Out Now: 3DS and 2DS, GameCube, Switch and Wii
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Pixels
Donkey Kong is a series of running and jumping games where you play Mario, who navigates a single screen to rescue the princess. It was the start of the platform game genre and although is now dated, can still be played on a wide range of systems.
Release Date: 01/08/2018
Out Now: Mac and PC
Components: 2D Side-On and Hand-Made
Regular Human Basketball is a very different sports game. You play basketball by jumping around inside the robot players to control their moves. It sounds both strange and hard work, but in reality it's a lot of fun.
Release Date: 12/09/2001, updated in 2018
Out Now: 3DS and 2DS, Android, Mac, PC, PS3, Switch, Wii, Wii U and iOS
Coming Soon: PS4
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Pixels
Toki Tori is a puzzle game where you traverse 2D levels and use limited resources to rescue all the eggs. Similarly to the Mario vs. Donkey Kong games, you can build bridges over gaps. Here though, you can also unlock...
Release Date: 22/04/2021
Out Now: PC and Switch
Skill Rating: 7+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead and Pixels
Bämeräng is a frantic fighting game where up to four players struggle to direct their boomerang to hit each other. You play by moving around the small arena and aiming your throw. It's fun because it's both silly and skilful - you can tell from the...
Release Date: 29/03/2018
Out Now: PC, Switch and Xbox One
Components: 2D Side-On and Pixels
ClusterPuck 99 is an 8-player sports game where teams bash and jostle each other to gain control of the puck. The aim is to work together to get it to your opponent's goal while avoiding other players and spikes. You can use power-ups and speed boosts...
Release Date: 15/09/2022
Out Now: Switch
Skill Rating: 4+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Pixels
Paddles is an action party game where you move your paddle to deflect balls, like Pong or Arkanoid but here you play against three other people. It's a battle to score points and keep your balls in play as you take on different levels, modes, and types...
Release Date: 06/09/2021
Out Now: PC, PS4, Switch and Xbox One
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Pixels
Raven's Hike is an action-platform game with no jumping or walking. You get around the dungeon rooms using only your Grappling Hook. Play involves pressing the direction you need to move, and then being pulled in that direction until you hit a wall or...
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