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9 Games Like Flashback

Flashback is a running and jumping game with a strong narrative. Made in the 90s it's similar to Another World and Prince of Persia.
 

These games offer a similar experience or are about a theme that Flashback addresses. Also, if you want to play a game like Flashback but don’t have PC, PS3, PS4, Switch, Xbox 360 or Xbox One, these are a good alternative.

 
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Flashback
PEGI Rating 12+ for FlashbackESRB Rating EVERYONE 10+ for Flashback

Rating: PEGI 12+, ESRB EVERYONE 10+

Release Date: 01/10/2013, updated in 2018

Platforms: Nintendo Switch, PC, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, Xbox 360 and Xbox One.

Genres: Adventure, Narrative and Platform.

 

 
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Myst
PEGI Rating 7+ for MystESRB Rating EVERYONE 10+ for Myst

Myst

Platforms: Android, Mac, Nintendo 2DS/3DS, Nintendo DS, PC, PlayStation Portable and iOS

Genres: Adventure, Narrative and Puzzle

Duration: Between 6 hours and 10 hours to complete.

Players: This is a single player game.

Costs: Purchase cost.

Myst is a classic video game graphic adventure. Published in 1983, and sellig over six million copies, it pre-dates many modern adventure games and created a new genre for gaming. Exploring by clicking in the world to move, you use a special book to...


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Another World
PEGI Rating 12+ for Another WorldESRB Rating TEEN for Another World

Another World

Platforms: Android, Nintendo 2DS/3DS, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, Xbox One and iOS

Genres: Action, Adventure, Fighting, Narrative and Platform

Duration: Between 3 hours and 4 hours to complete.

Players: This is a single player game.

Costs: Purchase cost.

Another World (Out of This World in North America) is a retro cinematic running, jumping and shooting game about a young scientist who, as a result of a failed experiment finds himself on a dangerous alien world where he is forced to fight for his...


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Dropsy
PEGI Rating 12+ for DropsyESRB Rating TEEN for Dropsy

Dropsy

Platforms: Android, Mac, PC and iOS

Genres: Action, Adventure, Narrative and Puzzle

Duration: Between 4 hours and 5 hours to complete.

Players: This is a single player game.

Costs: Purchase cost.

Dropsy is an adventure video game where you move around and interact with the world by simply clicking. You play a clown called Dropsy in a surreal world. As you explore and interact with the environment, solve puzzles, and talk to characters you learn...


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198x
PEGI Rating 12+ for 198xESRB Rating TEEN for 198x

198x

Platforms: Mac, Nintendo Switch, PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One

Genres: Action, Adventure and Narrative

Duration: Between 2 hours and 4 hours to complete.

Players: This is a single player game.

Costs: Purchase cost.

198X is a pastiche of different classic games brought together to tell the story of a suburban teenager stuck between the limitations of youth and the obligations of adulthood. In the game, you discover a local arcade, and through the different games...


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Super Punch Patrol
PEGI Rating 12+ for Super Punch PatrolESRB Rating TEEN for Super Punch Patrol

Super Punch Patrol

Platforms: Nintendo Switch

Genres: Action and Fighting

Duration: Between 1 hour and 2 hours to complete.

Players: You can play with 2 players in the same room, but you can’t play it online.

Costs: Purchase cost.

Super Punch Patrol is a challenging fighting game where you traverse a hand drawn urban environment, battling waves of enemies with your bare fists and a variety of other hand to hand weapons.


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Limbo
PEGI Rating 16+ for LimboESRB Rating TEEN for Limbo

Limbo

Platforms: Android, Nintendo Wii U, PlayStation 4, PlayStation Vita, Xbox One and iOS

Genres: Narrative, Platform and Puzzle

Duration: Between 4 hours and 8 hours to complete.

Players: This is a single player game.

Costs: Purchase cost.

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...


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Remember Me
PEGI Rating 16+ for Remember MeESRB Rating MATURE 17+ for Remember Me

Remember Me

Platforms: PC, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360

Genres: Action, Adventure, Fighting and Platform

Duration: Between 10 hours and 15 hours to complete.

Players: This is a single player game.

Costs: Purchase cost.

Remember Me is an adventure game developed where you play Nilin, a memory hunter working for an underground resistance. The game is set in the year 2084, in a futuristic version of Paris called Neo-Paris, where the Memorize corporation has made memories...


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Beat Cop
PEGI Rating 18+ for Beat CopESRB Rating MATURE 17+ for Beat Cop

Beat Cop

Platforms: Mac, Nintendo Switch, PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One

Genres: Adventure and Narrative

Duration: Between 7 hours and 9 hours to complete.

Players: This is a single player game.

Costs: Purchase cost.

Beat Cop is a police crime drama where you have been framed for murder. Back on the street, you navigate the pixilated 80’s Miami Vice world to find out who did it. Your approach and decisions matter. Will you go in with the mafia or stay straight?...


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Deadlight
PEGI Rating 18+ for DeadlightESRB Rating MATURE 17+ for Deadlight

Deadlight

Platforms: PC, PlayStation 4, Xbox 360 and Xbox One

Genres: Narrative and Platform

Duration: Between 5 hours and 8 hours to complete.

Players: This is a single player game.

Costs: Purchase cost.

Deadlight takes the monochrome running, jumping and shooting action in a more mature direction and with a deeper and coherent story. It draws on older (and equally excellent) platform games Another World and Flashback. You control Randall Wayne, a...


 
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Matinee Fisticuffs and Shootouts

Sometimes you just want to play the hero. These games are violent and include shooting but, as with B-movies and 1980s TV series, it’s as much about the quips, characters and fantasy settings as it is about killing. The drama may be peppered with cinematic gunfire but, like those TV series, the real draw is spending time with the heroes every week.
 
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Hogwarts Legacy
PEGI Rating 16+ for Hogwarts Legacy
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Super Punch Patrol
PEGI Rating 12+ for Super Punch PatrolESRB Rating TEEN for Super Punch Patrol
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Gunman Clive
PEGI Rating 12+ for Gunman CliveESRB Rating EVERYONE 10+ for Gunman Clive
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Deep Rock Galactic
PEGI Rating 16+ for Deep Rock GalacticESRB Rating TEEN for Deep Rock Galactic
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