33 Great Games Like No Heroes Here

Boomerang Fu

Content Rating: PEGI 3

Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds

Release Date: 13/08/2020

Platforms: PC, Switch and Xbox One

Genres: Action, Fighting and Simulation

Accessibility: 8 features

Developer: @BoomerangFu

Players: You can play with 6 players in the same room

Boomerang Fu is a fighting game where you control small food-like characters. Using your boomerang the aim is to slice the other players with ranged or melee attacks. You can use a large range of power-ups such as: explosive boomerangs, disguise and...

Overcooked (Series)

Content Rating: PEGI 3

Skill Rating: 7-13 year-olds

Release Date: 07/08/2018, updated in 2018

Price: 50% off

Platforms: Mac, PC, PS4, PS5, Switch, Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S

Genres: Action and Puzzle

Accessibility: 25 features

Developer: @Team17Ltd

Players: You can play with 4 players in the same room and up to 4 players online

Overcooked, Overcooked 2 and Overcooked! All You Can Eat are 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...

Moving Out

Content Rating: PEGI 3

Skill Rating: 6+ year-olds

Release Date: 29/04/2020

Platforms: Mac, PC, PS4, Switch and Xbox One

Genres: Platform and Puzzle

Accessibility: 24 features

Developer: @SmgStudio

Players: You can play with 4 players in the same room

Moving Out is an action-puzzle game where you play a removal company. With up to four players you work together to get items out of the house and into the van. Although this starts simply you soon find furniture that is an awkward shape or needs two...

Pac-Man Vs.

Content Rating: PEGI 3

Release Date: 27/11/2003, updated in 2017

Price: Free

Platforms: 3DS and 2DS, DS, GameCube, Switch and Wii

Genres: Action and Platform

Developer: @Nintendo

Players: You can play with 4 players in the same room

Pac-Man Vs. is a version of Pac Man adapted for multiple players. One player controls Pac-Man and tries to eat the pellets, while the others control the ghosts to try to catch him. Each team scores points in different ways, and the first team to hit the...

Trash Sailors

Content Rating: Not rated by PEGI

Release Date: 30/08/2021

Platforms: PC and Switch

Genres: Action and Strategy

Developer: @FluckyMachine

Players: You can play with 4 players in the same room and up to 4 players online

Trash Sailors is a hand-drawn sailing game, where you control the group of castaways after a tsunami flooded the world. You navigate the ocean and build your raft with trash nearby which you can recycle into fuel, raft spare parts, and even weapons....

Nintendo Land

Content Rating: PEGI 7

Skill Rating: 8-12 year-olds

Release Date: 30/11/2012

Platforms: Wii U

Genres: Action, Fighting, Platform, Puzzle, Racing and Shooting

Developer: @Nintendo

Players: You can play with 5 players in the same room

Nintendoland is a collection of Nintendo games was created for the Nintendo Wii U launch. It uses the console’s tablet screen to create specific roles for different players. In Mario Chase, the hiding player uses the tablet controller screen while the...

Crossy Road Castle

Expected Content Rating: PEGI 3

Skill Rating: 6+ year-olds

Release Date: 28/02/2020

Platforms: iPhone, iPad

Genres: Action, Fighting and Platform

Developer: @HipsterWhaleDev

Players: You can play with 4 players in the same room

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.

Knight of Exile

Expected Content Rating: PEGI 7

Release Date: 03/01/2020

Platforms: PC

Genres: Action, Fighting and Platform

Developer: @DonXugloGames

Players: This is a single player game

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...

Unruly Heroes

Content Rating: PEGI 7

Skill Rating: 8-14 year-olds

Release Date: 23/01/2019

Platforms: Android, PS4, Switch, Xbox One and iOS

Genres: Action, Adventure, Fighting, Platform and Puzzle

Accessibility: 10 features

Developer: @MagicDesignGame

Players: You can play with 4 players in the same room and up to 4 players online

Unruly Heroes is a hectic martial arts running, jumping and hitting game. You play one of four heroes on a quest to collect all the scroll fragments and restore balance.

Towerfall

Content Rating: PEGI 7

Skill Rating: 8-14 year-olds

Release Date: 25/06/2013

Platforms: Mac, PC, PS Vita, PS4, Switch and Xbox One

Genres: Action, Fighting, Platform and Shooting

Accessibility: 16 features

Developer: @Exok_Games

Players: You can play with 6 players in the same room

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 ability to dodge...

Lovers In A Dangerous Spacetime

Content Rating: PEGI 7

Release Date: 19/09/2018

Platforms: Mac, PC, PS4, Switch and Xbox One

Genres: Action, Puzzle and Shooting

Developer: @AsteroidBase

Players: This is a single player game

Lovers in a Dangerous Spacetime offers a space-survival challenge where you must collaborate to defend your circular spaceship. Each player needs to take on specific tasks to manage offensive or defensive duties.

Cosmic Defenders

Content Rating: PEGI 3

Release Date: 11/03/2020

Platforms: Switch

Genres: Action and Shooting

Developer: @FierySquirrel

Players: You can play with 4 players in the same room

Cosmic Defenders is team shooting game about a group of unconventional superheroes. Players cooperate to protect the galaxy in the Story, Survival and Versus Mode with up to four players with unique abilities.

Spooky Chase

Content Rating: PEGI 3

Release Date: 23/10/2020, updated in 2021

Platforms: PC, PS4, Switch and Xbox One

Genres: Action, Platform and Puzzle

Accessibility: 13 features

Developer: @QubyteGames

Players: You can play with 4 players in the same room

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...

Kingdom (Series)

Content Rating: PEGI 7

Skill Rating: 9-16 year-olds

Release Date: 21/10/2015

Platforms: Mac, PC, PS4, Switch, Xbox One and iOS

Genres: Action, Fighting, Open World, Role-Playing and Strategy

Accessibility: 8 features

Developer: @RawFury

Players: You can play with 2 players in the same room

In this retro-look strategy game, you must defend your town from the nightly attack of zombies as you develop your technology and civilisation day-by-day. But unlike other tower-defence games – where you set up defences and fend off waves of attacking...

Catastronauts

Content Rating: PEGI 7

Release Date: 28/11/2018

Platforms: PC, PS4, Switch and Xbox One

Genres: Action and Puzzle

Developer: @Inertia_Game

Players: You can play with 4 players in the same room

Catastronauts is a team-work space survival game where you must take on tasks to keep your ship together and also fire at enemy invaders. Controlling a team of Cat Astronauts, it’s a management challenge as you repair systems, extinguish fires, arm...

Space Crew

Content Rating: PEGI 7

Release Date: 15/10/2020

Platforms: PC, PS4, Switch and Xbox One

Genres: Action, Adventure, Shooting, Simulation and Strategy

Accessibility: 14 features

Developer: @CurveDigital

Players: This is a single player game

Space Crew is a strategy game where you use a team of characters to control a spaceship and explore the galaxy. Unlike other space flight games, you don't directly control your craft but get your crew to look after different aspects of the mission. It's...

Extreme Exorcism

Content Rating: PEGI 7

Release Date: 12/10/2015

Platforms: PC, PS3, PS4, Wii U and Xbox One

Genres: Action and Platform

Developer: @RipstoneGames

Players: You can play with 4 players in the same room

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.

Runbow

Content Rating: PEGI 3

Release Date: 27/08/2015

Platforms: 3DS and 2DS, PS4, Switch, Wii U and Xbox One

Genres: Action, Fighting and Racing

Developer: @13amgames

Players: You can play with 8 players in the same room and up to 9 players online

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.

Regular Human Basketball

Content Rating: Not rated by PEGI

Release Date: 01/08/2018

Platforms: Mac and PC

Genres: Action, Fighting, Simulation and Sports

Developer: @Powerhoof

Players: You can play with 10 players in the same room and up to 10 players online

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.

Aqua Lungers

Content Rating: PEGI 7

Release Date: 27/05/2020

Platforms: PC and Switch

Genres: Action, Fighting, Platform and Racing

Developer: @WarpedCoreDA_Go

Players: You can play with 4 players in the same room

Aqua Lungers is a fighting and collecting game where you control a diver that can dash and swim through underwater levels. You are racing to collect more treasure, faster than your opponents and get it back to your base.

This Means Warp

Content Rating: PEGI 7

Release Date: Coming soon

Platforms: PC

Genres: Action, Shooting and Strategy

Developer: @OutlierSocial

Players: You can play with 4 players in the same room and up to 4 players online

This Means Warp is a strategy combat game where four players work together to run a spaceship as you travel the solar system. Together you have to manage the ship, repair damage and take charge of shooting enemies. It's frantic battling and a lot of fun...

Overwhelm

Content Rating: PEGI 7

Release Date: 04/04/2019

Platforms: Mac, PC and Switch

Genres: Platform and Shooting

Developer: @Randomnine

Players: You can play with 2 players in the same room

Overwhelm is a running jumping game set in a pixilated dark bloody world. The twist, apart from the mild-horror theme, is that it's your enemies that power up rather than you. You explore the oppressive caverns of the hive, guided only by a sparse map.

Help! I'm Haunted

Expected Content Rating: PEGI 7

Skill Rating: 10-14 year-olds

Release Date: 02/11/2018

Platforms: iOS

Genres: Action, Platform and Shooting

Accessibility: 17 features

Developer: @SkyPirateRadio

Players: This is a single player game

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.