9 Similar Games Short List
Here are our hand-picked short list of similar games; the perfect thing to play next if you enjoyed Astro's Playroom. We don't use automatic matching, instead, we hand-pick games that are good to play if you have enjoyed Astro's Playroom.
Release Date: 08/11/2019, updated in 2020
Platforms: PC, PS4, Switch and Xbox One
Skill Rating: 7+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On, 3D Third-Person and Cartoon
New Super Lucky's Tale is a platform game where you play a fox on a quest to recover pages from a magical book that will save his world. It takes gameplay in a more action-oriented direction but the islands and characters are full of quirky character...
Release Date: 05/10/2017, updated in 2019
Platforms: Mac, PC, PS4, Switch and Xbox One
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person, Cartoon and Open World
A Hat in Time is a running, jumping and exploring game inspired by retro platform games like Super Mario 64, Banjo-Kazooie, Spyro the Dragon and Psychonauts. As you explore each of the worlds, you discover characters to talk to, enemies to battle and an...
Release Date: 04/12/2020, updated in 2022
Platforms: PC, PS4, PS5, Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S
Skill Rating: 7+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person, Cartoon, Day and Night and Open World
Submerged: Hidden Depths is an adventure game where you boat, climb and explore the ruins of a sunken world. With light puzzle solving and no combat you discover a drowned city, crumbling skyscrapers and deserted villages. It's the sequel to the first...
Release Date: 12/11/2020
Platforms: PS4 and PS5
Skill Rating: 7+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person and Hand-Made
Sackboy: A Big Adventure is 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: 29/05/2019
Platforms: Switch
Skill Rating: 5+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Hand-Made
Yoshi's Crafted World is a running and jumping game where you control a friendly dinosaur, Yoshi. You work through each level, eating or jumping on enemies while searching for hidden items and collectables.
Release Date: 12/09/2017
Platforms: PS4
Skill Rating: 10+ 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: 25/03/2022
Platforms: Switch
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person and Cartoon
Kirby and the Forgotten Land is a running, jumping game where you explore a mysterious world with Nintendo's famous character who can inhale enemies to gain their powers. With a nod to Super Mario Odyssey, this version of Kirby has a full 3D world to...
Release Date: 26/10/2021
Platforms: Mac, PC, PS4, Switch and Xbox One
Skill Rating: 6+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person, Cartoon and Open World
The Smurfs Mission Vileaf is an exploration running, jumping and shooting game. You battle the wizard Gargamel to free imprisoned Smurfs and return the sarsaparilla fields to health. to do this you must track down the ingredients for the antidote.
Release Date: 24/02/2023
Platforms: PC, PS4, PS5 and Switch
Skill Rating: 9+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person and Cartoon
Clive ‘N’ Wrench is a 3D running and jumping game where you play duo, Clive the rabbit and Wrench the monkey on his back. Like Banjo Kazooie and more recent Yooka Laylee, you explore the world to collect tokens and unlock new areas. It's novel as a...
30 Similar Games Long List
Here are our hand-picked long list of similar games; the perfect thing to play next if you enjoyed Astro's Playroom. We don't use automatic matching, instead, we hand-pick games that are good to play if you have enjoyed Astro's Playroom.
Release Date: 21/08/2021
Platforms: PC, PS4 and PS5
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person and Cartoon
Kena: Bridge of Spirits is an adventure about a young girl who travels to an abandoned village in the hope of finding a sacred mountain shrine. To get there she must find and grow a team of charming spirit companions called the Rot, enhancing their...
Release Date: 17/10/2010, updated in 2019
Platforms: 3DS and 2DS, Wii and Wii U
Skill Rating: 3+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Hand-Made
Kirby's Epic Yarn is a running and jumping game starring Nintendo's Kirby character that can (usually) suck enemies into their large mouth to gain new abilities. It's set in Patch Land, a world made completely out of fabric. You use your platforming...
Release Date: 04/04/2017
Platforms: 3DS and 2DS, PC, PS4, Switch and Xbox One
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person, Blocks, Cartoon and Open World
Lego City Undercover offers an open world to explore. While most Lego games have an open-world element in at least some areas, this one keeps play open throughout so that children can enjoy exploring at their own pace.
Release Date: 10/11/2021, updated in 2022
Platforms: PC, PS4, Stadia, Switch and Xbox One
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person, Cartoon and Open World
Wavetale is a surfing and jumping adventure in a world of sunken cities, dangerous water and oppressive fog. You play as Sigrid, a young girl who works to restore the decaying archipelago and befriends a mysterious shadow that lets her walk on water....
Release Date: 29/09/2020
Platforms: PC, PS4, Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S
Skill Rating: 11+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Pixels
Spelunky 2 is, like the classic Spelunky, a running and jumping game where you exploring mysterious caves on the moon looking for your missing parents. On your journey, you will find unique environments, treasure, and people to join you as you delve...
Release Date: 12/11/2007
Platforms: 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: 11/03/2015, updated in 2020
Platforms: PC, Switch, Xbox One and 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: 20/11/2020
Platforms: PC and Switch
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On
Captain Sabertooth and the Magic Diamond is a pirate adventure where you run, jump and explore the world of the film. You play as either Pinky or Veronica, and join the legendary pirate Captain Sabertooth’s crew on the hunt for a mysterious magic...
Release Date: 09/10/2020
Platforms: PC, PS4, Switch and Xbox One
Skill Rating: 6+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person
Ben 10: Power Trip is an open-world action game where you run, jump and explore to save the day. It's simple platforming and brawling that you can play alone or in split-screen more with another player as Kevin Levin.
Release Date: 15/12/2020
Platforms: PS4, Switch and Xbox One
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person
Freddy Spaghetti is a running and jumping game. But you play a piece of spaghetti rather than a person. The game simulates the pasta’s physics as you use two trigger-buttons and a joystick to steer the main character across a wide variety of levels,...
Release Date: 25/04/2019, updated in 2021
Platforms: PS4 and PS5
Skill Rating: 9+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person and Hand-Made
Splatty’s Adventure is a running, jumping and fighting game where you play a small (4-year-old) hero who must escape an oversized bedroom and get on your way to save the world from destruction. Like stepping into a Toy Story film, but here you wield a...
Release Date: 03/09/2018
Platforms: DS, GameCube, PC, PS2, PS4, Switch, Wii and Xbox One
Skill Rating: 7+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person and Cartoon
Spyro Reignited Trilogy is a running, jumping, bashing and exploring game. It’s a re-release of the classic platform games featuring the purple dragon, Spyro. The attraction is the well designed levels, collecting and exploration. It’s an amiable...
Release Date: 18/11/2012, updated in 2019
Platforms: Switch and Wii U
Skill Rating: 5+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On
New Super Mario Bros. U is platform game where you play with 4 main players (and an optional assistant player) to traverse from one side of the level to the other. Along with the usual running, jumping, stomping and collecting you are racing other...
Release Date: 14/08/2020, updated in 2022
Platforms: Mac, PC and Switch
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead, Grid, Open World and Pixels
Factorio is a construction strategy game where you crash-land on an alien planet and must harvest resources to create industry to build a rocket to escape (or fall in love with running your factory and stay on longer).
Release Date: 16/12/2021
Platforms: PC, Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person
The Gunk is a narrative adventure where you play one sister of a pair of space explorers struggling for resources, who find a new planet with new alien wildlife. You play by traversing the environment sucking up toxic waste, harvesting materials,...
Release Date: 01/10/1986, updated in 2016
Platforms: 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: 02/08/2022
Platforms: PC, PS4, PS5, Switch, Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S
Skill Rating: 9+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead, Blocks and Cartoon
Frogun is a traversal game where you use a frog-shaped gun to interact with the world and navigate the levels. You play Renata, who comes from a family of explorers, archaeologists and inventors but finds herself alone in the jungle. It's a classic...
Release Date: 14/07/2020, updated in 2021
Platforms: PS4 and PS5
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead
The Snowgardens is a running, jumping and exploration game where you are a child stranded on a beautiful archipelago. Once the home to an ancient time-altering civilisation but now abandoned, leaving strange technology for you to operate to progress.
Release Date: Coming soon
Platforms: PC
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person, Blocks and Open World
Big Hops is running, jumping and swinging game where you play a parkour frog. You use your long tongue and unusual ways to adjust the world to get around. Your mission is to get back home after being frog-mapped. Along the way you meet a charming cast...
Release Date: 16/11/2016, updated in 2021
Platforms: Android and iOS
Skill Rating: 5+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Grid
Thinkrolls: Kings and Queens is a puzzle game where you roll your character around castles to collect keys, food and gems for the dragon that lives there. Complete a level to be awarded with customising pieces to decorate your ball as a king or queen....
Release Date: 13/10/2019, updated in 2021
Platforms: PS4 and PS5
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person
Happy Jack is a puzzle adventure with running, jumping and fighting. You play as a pumpkin called Jack who lives in Halloweeenville. The Halloween Spirit is corrupting everyone in town and all the candy has mysteriously disappeared. Jack must save the...
Release Date: 03/11/2021, updated in 2022
Platforms: PC, PS4, Switch and Xbox One
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead
Time Loader is a rolling, climbing, jumping robot puzzle game where you have travelled back in time to prevent a tragic accident. With a Back To The Future 90s vibe, you control a rover-style robot and use various tools and features to navigate the...
Release Date: 25/07/2019, updated in 2020
Platforms: Android, PS4, PS5, Switch, Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S and iOS
Skill Rating: 6+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person and Cartoon
Woodle Tree 2: Deluxe is a running and jumping game about saving the world from a dark force. You play as a common-or-garden log who has been tasked with rejuvenating plants. You explore each level to find special water teardrops which you use to bring...
Release Date: 08/10/2019
Platforms: PC, PS4, Switch and Xbox One
Skill Rating: 11+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Cartoon
Yooka-Laylee and the Impossible Lair is a side-on running and jumping game starring the characters from the 3D platform game Yooka-Laylee. You control Yooka, a male chameleon, and Laylee, a female bat and take on a level...
Release Date: 16/11/2021, updated in 2022
Platforms: PC, PS4, PS5, Switch and Xbox One
Skill Rating: 5+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Cartoon
Marsupilami: Hoobadventure is a comic book inspired running and jumping game with some puzzles.
You jump on and over platforms, avoid spikes and other hazards while you collect special items to unlock extra areas and secret levels. It's unusual...
Release Date: 31/01/2021, updated in 2021
Platforms: PS4 and PS5
Skill Rating: 6+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On
Qubo's Quest: Into the Wild is a running and jumping game with some combat. You play as a tiny robot in an environment where pencils are weapons and pin tacks are deadly. There are two worlds to explore, an office and a garden. You must avoid the deadly...
Release Date: 10/09/2002, updated in 2020
Platforms: PC, PS2, PS4, Switch, Xbox and Xbox One
Skill Rating: 9+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person and Open World
Ty the Tasmanian Tiger is a simple and silly running, jumping and exploration game from the early 2000s. You play Ty as he searches for eggs to power a machine that will locate five scattered talismans and free his family. It's unusual for offering a...
Release Date: 03/09/2019, updated in 2020
Platforms: PS4 and PS5
Skill Rating: 7+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person
Great Job Human is a running, jumping and puzzle game. You play as a robot with his companion searching for twelve ancient relics in a world made of microchips. It's an unusual mix of platforming and world manipulation. You must try not fall off the...
Release Date: 04/03/2021, updated in 2022
Platforms: PC, PS4, Switch and Xbox One
Skill Rating: 9+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person and Cartoon
MailMole is a running, jumping and tunnelling game where you play a mole delivering letters through a series of fantasy levels. It's like the Mario platform game, but with a greater focus on movement and flow than jumping on enemies.
Release Date: 04/11/2021
Platforms: PC, PS4, PS5, Switch, Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person, Hand-Made and Open World
Demon Turf is a 3D running, jumping, rolling and flying game set in a world inhabited by all kinds of enemies. As a young demon, your job is to take on the different gangs and bring them down. It's unusual because you can shape-shift but also stands out...
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