12 Great Games Like Runbow

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...

Heave Ho

Content Rating: PEGI 3

Release Date: 29/08/2019

Platforms: Mac, PC and Switch

Genres: Action, Platform, Puzzle and Simulation

Accessibility: 14 features

Developer: @LeCartelStudio

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

Heave Ho is a game where up to four players try and swing themselves across a level. But you can only hang on to certain points and must dangle and swing with both arms to progress. The twist is that you can also hold hands with other players and make...

Battloon

Content Rating: PEGI 3

Skill Rating: 4+ year-olds

Release Date: 28/02/2019

Platforms: PC and Switch

Genres: Action, Fighting and Simulation

Accessibility: 13 features

Developer: @NonameStudio_jp

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

Battloon is a colourful battle game, where each of the four players controls a balloon-like creature. You try and bounce the other players into spikes on the arena walls by puffing out air to propel yourself in a direction.

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...

Videoball

Content Rating: PEGI 3

Release Date: 12/06/2016

Platforms: PC, PS4 and Xbox One

Genres: Action and Sports

Accessibility: 1 feature

Developer: @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.

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...

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...

12 Orbits

Content Rating: PEGI 3

Skill Rating: 5-10 year-olds

Release Date: 27/04/2018

Platforms: Android, Mac, PC, Switch and iOS

Genres: Action, Simulation and Sports

Accessibility: 21 features

Developer: @UjRom

Players: You can play with 12 players in the same room

12 Orbits is a tactical game where you control a small coloured ball by pressing a single button. When you are over the grey circles you press to orbit that circle, otherwise pressing the button will dodge.

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.

No Heroes Here

Content Rating: PEGI 3

Release Date: 03/10/2017

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

Genres: Action, Fighting, Platform, Puzzle and Simulation

Developer: @MadMimic

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

No Heroes Here is a co-operative defend your castle game for up to four players. In simple pixel graphics, you have to work together to prepare your defences and then use them as the armies attack. The key to success is that everyone needs a role,...