21 Great Games Like Retimed

Portal (Series)

Content Rating: PEGI 12

Skill Rating: 6+ year-olds

Release Date: 10/10/2007, updated in 2011

Platforms: Mac, PC, PS3, Web, Xbox 360 and Xbox One

Genres: Action, Narrative, Platform, Puzzle and Simulation

Accessibility: 27 features

Developer: Valve Software (@ValveSoftware)

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

You are in a science laboratory where you seem to be being tested. Watched by the artificial intelligence GLaDOS, you have a gun that can create a pair of magic portals on any surface: one is an entrance and the other is an exit. Through a series of...

Hotshot Racing

Content Rating: PEGI 3

Skill Rating: 11+ year-olds

Release Date: 10/09/2020

Platforms: PC, PS4, Switch and Xbox One

Genres: Racing

Accessibility: 19 features

Developer: Curve Digital (@CurveDigital)

Players: You can play with 4 players in the same room and up to 8 players online

Hotshot Racing is a simple and fast racing game. You have to drift round corners, hit the apex on razor-sharp bends in coastal, jungle, alpine and Las Vegas desert environments.

Autonauts

Content Rating: Not rated by PEGI

Release Date: 17/10/2019

Platforms: Mac and PC

Genres: Action, Adventure, Creative, Open World, Simulation and Strategy

Developer: Denki Games (@DenkiGames)

Players: This is a single player game

This is an adventure game where you tame new worlds. You start with a blank slate similar to Sim City, but her you must build each dwelling, tool, vehicle yourself. It’s a task that’s too complex for any one person to handle. You are soon forced to...

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 (@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...

Cannon Brawl

Content Rating: PEGI 7

Release Date: 12/07/2016, updated in 2016

Platforms: Mac, PC, PS4 and Xbox One

Genres: Fighting, Shooting and Strategy

Developer: Petey 123567 (@Petey123567)

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

Cannon Brawl is a two-player battle where you collect resources and build weapons and defences, all in real time. It’s shout-out-loud fun where one wrong shot can let your opponent get the upper hand. Each battle is as frantic as it is silly. To win...

Worms (Series)

Content Rating: PEGI 12

Release Date: 23/08/2016, updated in 2018

Platforms: Mac, PC, PS3, PS4, Switch, Wii, Xbox 360, Xbox One and iOS

Genres: Fighting, Shooting and Turn-Based

Developer: Team 17 (@Team17)

Players: You can play with 6 players in the same room and up to 6 players online

This is a long-standing turn-based multiplayer combat game. The twist is that all the players are worms. With bizarre attacks on opponents that range from exploding sheep to self-deploying ninja rope, the battle is on the far end of crazy.

Worms Rumble

Content Rating: PEGI 12

Release Date: 01/12/2020

Price: 50% off

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

Genres: Action, Fighting, Platform and Shooting

Developer: Team 17 (@Team17)

Players: You can play this with 32 players online

Worms Rumble is a multiplayer game where 32 worm characters try and shoot each other. It takes the usual turn-based Worms formula in a real time direction complete with a battle royale mode like Fortnite.

Lemnis Gate

Content Rating: PEGI 16

Release Date: 28/09/2021

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

Genres: Action, Shooting and Simulation

Developer: Ratloop Canada (@RatloopCanada)

Players: This is a single player game

Lemnis Gate is a combat game that combines turn-taking with real-time shooting. At the start of the battle, you pick one of your seven operatives for the first 25 second round. The game then rewinds to the start and you go again with your second...

Swimsanity!

Content Rating: PEGI 3

Release Date: 07/08/2020

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

Genres: Action and Shooting

Developer: Decoy Games (@DecoyGames)

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

Swimsanity is a multiplayer underwater shooting game. It's fast paced cartoon action with lots of modes to play with other people. You have a variety of unique power ups and weapons to survive in this aquatic world. But the real novelty is how inventive...

Ultimate Chicken Horse

Content Rating: PEGI 7

Release Date: 25/09/2018

Platforms: PC, PS4, Switch and Xbox One

Genres: Action, Creative and Platform

Accessibility: 24 features

Developer: Clev Endeav Games (@ClevEndeavGames)

Players: You can play with 2 players in the same room and up to 4 players online

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...

Videoball

Content Rating: PEGI 3

Release Date: 12/06/2016

Platforms: PC, PS4 and Xbox One

Genres: Action and Sports

Accessibility: 1 feature

Developer: Action Button (@ActionButton)

Players: You can play with 6 players in the same room and up to 6 players online

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.

Extreme Exorcism

Content Rating: PEGI 7

Release Date: 12/10/2015

Price: 80% off

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

Genres: Action and Platform

Developer: Ripstone Games (@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.

Reventure

Content Rating: PEGI 16

Release Date: 04/06/2019

Platforms: Android, PC, Switch and iOS

Genres: Adventure, Platform, Puzzle, Role-Playing and Simulation

Developer: Pixelatto (@Pixelatto)

Players: This is a single player game

Reventure is a running, jumping and flying game. Or, that's what it looks like. In fact, it's a game about discovering ways to die. The goal isn't the usual rescue the princess. Instead, you're on a scavenger hunt to discover the 100 different ways to die.

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: 12 features

Developer: Qu Byte Games (@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...

BPM: Bullets Per Minute

Content Rating: PEGI 16

Release Date: 15/09/2020, updated in 2021

Platforms: PC, PS4 and Xbox One

Genres: Rhythm and Shooting

Accessibility: 15 features

Developer: Playtonic Games (@PlaytonicGames)

Players: This is a single player game

BPM: Bullets Per Minute is a shooting game where shots and attacks must be timed to the beat of the music. The gameplay is focused on motion and shooting, like the Doom games, only here you can only shoot, dodge and reload on the beat. It's repetitive...

StarCrossed

Content Rating: PEGI 7

Release Date: 11/02/2020

Platforms: Mac, PC and Switch

Genres: Shooting

Developer: Contigo Games (@ContigoGames)

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

StarCrossed is an breakout style game where you shoot a projectile between two players to hit and destroy enemies. You play one of a cast of 5 space-faring heroes, each with unique abilities. Each level pits you against enemies that shoot at you with...

Viewtiful Joe (Series)

Content Rating: PEGI 12

Release Date: 07/10/2003

Platforms: DS, GameCube, PS Vita, PS2 and PSP

Genres: Action, Fighting and Platform

Developer: PG kamiya (@PG_kamiya)

Players: This is a single player game

Viewtiful Joe is a side-on fighting game where you play a movie-lover whose girlfriend Silvia is kidnapped during a film starring your favourite superhero, Captain Blue. You enter the movie world, transformed into the tokusatsu-style persona "Viewtiful...

Deathloop

Content Rating: PEGI 18

Release Date: 21/05/2021

Platforms: PC and PS5

Genres: Action, Fighting, Open World and Shooting

Accessibility: 21 features

Developer: Arkane Studios (@ArkaneStudios)

Players: You can play this with 2 players online

Deathloop is a shooting game where you play an assassin stuck in a time loop. You wake on a beach while residents of Blackreef island have gathered for a party that seemingly lasts forever. Your mission is to assassinate 8 guests but at the end of each...

Gonner (Series)

Content Rating: PEGI 7

Release Date: 22/10/2020

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

Genres: Action, Platform and Shooting

Accessibility: 17 features

Developer: Ditto Mat (@DittoMat)

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

Gonner 2 is a running and jumping game where you defend yourself by shooting enemies in a chaotic procedural environment as a small character called Ikk. You'll need a large amount of patience as you die a lot. To progress you need to hone your shooting...

Temporal Fuse (Dreams)

Expected Content Rating: PEGI 7

Skill Rating: 9-11 year-olds

Release Date: 20/04/2020

Platforms: PS4 and PS5

Genres: Action, Narrative, Puzzle and Simulation

Accessibility: 15 features

Developer: Dancing Ember (@DancingEmber)

Players: This is a single player game

Temporal Fuse is a puzzle game where you explore a building to defuse bombs. You only have 30 seconds, but time only proceeds when you move. This forces you to think carefully about each step and interaction. You will die, but each time you have learned...

Young Souls

Content Rating: PEGI 16

Release Date: 16/08/2021

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

Genres: Action, Fighting, Narrative and Role-Playing

Accessibility: 29 features

Developer: 1 p 2 p Studio (@1p2pStudio)

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

Young Souls is a side-on fighting game where gameplay is divided into two distinct worlds: the modern human world and a dark, twisted world of goblins and monsters. You brawl and crunch your way through ranks of enemies like Castle Crashers, only here...