6 Similar Games Short List
Here are our hand-picked short list of similar games; the perfect thing to play next if you enjoyed Aurascope. We don't use automatic matching, instead, we hand-pick games that are good to play if you have enjoyed Aurascope.
Release Date: 23/01/2018, updated in 2023
Platforms: Mac, PC, PS4, Switch and Xbox One
Skill Rating: 11+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Pixels
Celeste is a platform game that requires players to use jumping and climbing moves to ascend an increasingly challenging two-dimensional mountain. You play Madeline, who is, perhaps unsurprisingly, haunted by self-doubt at the task in hand. She presses...
Release Date: 31/03/2015, updated in 2017
Platforms: Mac, PC, PS Vita, PS4, Switch, Wii U and Xbox One
Skill Rating: 11+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Pixels
Axiom Verge is a series of running, jumping and fighting games where you play as Trace, a scientist who wakes up in an unknown ancient world. It's similar to retro games like Metroid and Contra where you explore levels, collect items and progress your...
Release Date: 20/12/2004, updated in 2018
Platforms: 3DS and 2DS, DS, Mac, PC, Switch and Wii
Components: 2D Side-On and Pixels
Cave Story is a running and jumping game styled after classic Metroid and Castlevania games of the 1980's. Unusually, it was initially overlooked until it gained popularity on the internet and then received widespread critical acclaim. The simplicity,...
Release Date: Coming soon
Platforms: Mac, PC and Switch
Components: 2D Side-On and Pixels
Lunark is a platform game with simple pixelated graphics that tell a cinematic story. It's similar to games like Flashback that were popular in the 80s and 90s. You run, jump, hang, climb, roll, and shoot your way through mysterious alien ruins, a...
Release Date: 25/06/2013, updated in 2017
Platforms: Mac, PC, PS Vita, PS4, Switch and Xbox One
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Pixels
In Towerfall each player selects a pixelated knight and fights to eliminate opponents by shooting them with arrows or jumping on their heads. The arena is a single shared screen. What makes it so competitive is the limited resource of arrows and the...
Release Date: 26/01/2021
Platforms: 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...
6 Similar Games Long List
Here are our hand-picked long list of similar games; the perfect thing to play next if you enjoyed Aurascope. We don't use automatic matching, instead, we hand-pick games that are good to play if you have enjoyed Aurascope.
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: 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...
Release Date: Coming soon
Platforms: Mac, PC, PS4, Switch and Xbox One
Components: 2D Side-On and Pixels
Savior is an action adventure game with hand-animated pixelated graphics. You play as Sam, a mysterious woman with hidden powers and innate acrobatic skills who has lost her memory and all possessions. Use diplomacy, parkour, and intricate combat to...
Release Date: 23/07/2020
Platforms: Mac, PC, Switch and Xbox One
Components: 2D Side-On
Carrion is a horror game where you play the amorphous alien as well as human protagonists. This reverse-horror scenario puts you in control of an organic tentacled monster to make your way through the facility, stalking and killing humans in your path.
Release Date: 23/01/2018, updated in 2020
Platforms: Android, Mac, PC, PS4, Switch, Xbox One and iOS
Components: 2D Side-On and Pixels
Dandara: Trials of Fear is a running, jumping and puzzle solving game where you play Dandra, the Afro-Brazilian warrior of the colonial period of Brazil. You can defy gravity to jump from wall to wall and ceilings to ceiling. This combines the action of...
Release Date: 14/04/2017
Platforms: Mac, PC, PS4, Switch and Xbox One
Skill Rating: 12+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Pixels
Flinthook is running, swinging and shooting game where you get around using a grappling hook. It stands out for its focus on movement flow. As you learn how to move around quickly, you progress through a series of three ship-based levels to find and...
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