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242 games like Waking Mars

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01 Solar Ash Cover

2021 · Switch, PC, PS4

Solar Ash

87%

Journey through a surreal, vivid and highly stylized world filled with mystery, wild high-speed traversal, endearing characters, and massive enemy encounters. The Void beckons…

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Waking Mars

87% Starker DNA-Match
Shared DNA
✓ Adventure Genre ✓ Indie Genre ✓ Platform Genre ✓ Action Theme ✓ Science fiction Theme ✓ Single player Mode
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Weltdesign in IGDB nicht eindeutig klassifiziert · Keine Beschreibung von IGDB verfügbar

02 Bionic Bay Cover

2025 · PC, PS5

Bionic Bay

72%

An ordinary man in an extraordinary world. Bionic Bay is a new kind of a 2D platformer. It introduces a unique Swap mechanic, allowing players to interact with the physics-based world in new ways. The immersive gameplay is completed by spectacular environments...

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Waking Mars

72% Sehr nah dran
Shared DNA
✓ Adventure Genre ✓ Indie Genre ✓ Platform Genre ✓ Action Theme ✓ Science fiction Theme ✓ Single player Mode ✓ Side view Perspective
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Weltdesign in IGDB nicht eindeutig klassifiziert · Keine Beschreibung von IGDB verfügbar

03 Sideway New York Cover

2011 · PC, PS3

Sideway New York

72%

Battle your way through a twisted graffiti world where your prowess in puzzle solving makes the difference between life and death! Jump into one of the most unique and visually compelling 3D game worlds ever created. Follow the twisted journey of Nox, through...

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Waking Mars

72% Sehr nah dran
Shared DNA
✓ Adventure Genre ✓ Indie Genre ✓ Platform Genre ✓ Action Theme ✓ Single player Mode
Trade-offs

Weltdesign in IGDB nicht eindeutig klassifiziert · Keine Beschreibung von IGDB verfügbar

04 Bad Bots Cover

2013 · Mac, PC

Bad Bots

72%

Bad Bots is a retro style platform shooter with intense robot blasting action and sci-fi story. In Bad Bots you hack and blast your way through an onslaught of truly bad 'bots to find a way to prevent a potentially planet-destroying catastrophe. Bad Bots sta...

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Waking Mars

72% Sehr nah dran
Shared DNA
✓ Indie Genre ✓ Platform Genre ✓ Action Theme ✓ Science fiction Theme ✓ Single player Mode ✓ Side view Perspective
Trade-offs

Weltdesign in IGDB nicht eindeutig klassifiziert · Keine Beschreibung von IGDB verfügbar

05 Ghost 1.0 Cover

2016 · Switch, PC, PS4

Ghost 1.0

69%

A mysterious agent, capable of becoming a digital ghost, sneaks aboard the Nakamura Space Station. This is where the fun begins: the station is well-protected with its heavy defences, never-ending arsenal of weapons, and mysterious artifacts. It will all have...

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Waking Mars

69% Sehr nah dran
Shared DNA
✓ Adventure Genre ✓ Indie Genre ✓ Platform Genre ✓ Action Theme ✓ Science fiction Theme ✓ Single player Mode ✓ Side view Perspective
Trade-offs

Weltdesign in IGDB nicht eindeutig klassifiziert · Keine Beschreibung von IGDB verfügbar

06 Project Temporality Cover

2014 · PC

Project Temporality

64%

Project Temporality is a third person action/puzzle game built around the concept of allowing the player to play with time. Thanks to our propriety engine Sparta 3D we make the fourth dimension as available as the other three. Just as with a VCR you can rewind...

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Waking Mars

64% Spannender Match
Shared DNA
✓ Adventure Genre ✓ Indie Genre ✓ Platform Genre ✓ Action Theme ✓ Science fiction Theme ✓ Single player Mode
Trade-offs

Weltdesign in IGDB nicht eindeutig klassifiziert · Keine Beschreibung von IGDB verfügbar

07 Dead Cells Cover

2018 · Android, Linux, Mac

Dead Cells

63%

Dead Cells is a 2D side-scrolling action platformer combining roguelike and Metroidvania design. Players control the Prisoner, an immortal creature that possesses corpses and fights through procedurally generated levels filled with mutated enemies. Combat cent...

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Waking Mars

63% Spannender Match
Shared DNA
✓ Adventure Genre ✓ Indie Genre ✓ Platform Genre ✓ Action Theme ✓ Single player Mode ✓ Side view Perspective
Trade-offs

Weltdesign in IGDB nicht eindeutig klassifiziert · Keine Beschreibung von IGDB verfügbar

08 Hollow Knight Cover

2017 · Linux, Mac, Switch

Hollow Knight

62%

A 2D metroidvania with an emphasis on close combat and exploration in which the player enters the once-prosperous now-bleak insect kingdom of Hallownest, travels through its various districts, meets friendly inhabitants, fights hostile ones and uncovers the ki...

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Waking Mars

62% Spannender Match
Shared DNA
✓ Adventure Genre ✓ Indie Genre ✓ Platform Genre ✓ Action Theme ✓ Single player Mode ✓ Side view Perspective
Trade-offs

Weltdesign in IGDB nicht eindeutig klassifiziert · Keine Beschreibung von IGDB verfügbar

09 Hollow Knight: Silksong Cover

2025 · Linux, Mac, Switch

Hollow Knight: Silksong

62%

Hollow Knight: Silksong is the epic sequel to Hollow Knight, the epic action-adventure of bugs and heroes. As the lethal hunter Hornet, journey to all-new lands, discover new powers, battle vast hordes of bugs and beasts and uncover ancient secrets tied to you...

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Waking Mars

62% Spannender Match
Shared DNA
✓ Adventure Genre ✓ Indie Genre ✓ Platform Genre ✓ Action Theme ✓ Single player Mode ✓ Side view Perspective
Trade-offs

Weltdesign in IGDB nicht eindeutig klassifiziert · Keine Beschreibung von IGDB verfügbar

10 Mark of the Ninja Cover

2012 · Linux, Mac, PC

Mark of the Ninja

62%

Mark of the Ninja is a side-scrolling action stealth video game developed by Klei Entertainment and published by Microsoft Studios. It was announced on February 28, 2012 and later released for the Xbox 360 via Xbox Live Arcade on September 7, 2012. A Microsoft...

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Waking Mars

62% Spannender Match
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✓ Adventure Genre ✓ Indie Genre ✓ Platform Genre ✓ Action Theme ✓ Single player Mode ✓ Side view Perspective
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11 Inside Cover

2016 · Mac, Switch, PC

Inside

61%

Inside is a puzzle-platformer developed by Playdead, presented in a 2.5D side-scrolling format with a dark, predominantly monochromatic visual style. The player controls an unnamed boy navigating a dystopian environment, solving environmental puzzles, avoiding...

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Waking Mars

61% Spannender Match
Shared DNA
✓ Adventure Genre ✓ Indie Genre ✓ Platform Genre ✓ Action Theme ✓ Science fiction Theme ✓ Single player Mode ✓ Side view Perspective
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Weltdesign in IGDB nicht eindeutig klassifiziert · Keine Beschreibung von IGDB verfügbar

12 Celeste Cover

2018 · Stadia, Linux, Mac

Celeste

61%

Help Madeline survive her inner demons on her journey to the top of Celeste Mountain, in this super-tight platformer from the creators of TowerFall. Brave hundreds of hand-crafted challenges, uncover devious secrets, and piece together the mystery of the mount...

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Waking Mars

61% Spannender Match
Shared DNA
✓ Adventure Genre ✓ Indie Genre ✓ Platform Genre ✓ Action Theme ✓ Single player Mode ✓ Side view Perspective
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Weltdesign in IGDB nicht eindeutig klassifiziert · Keine Beschreibung von IGDB verfügbar

13 Super Meat Boy Cover

2010 · Linux, Mac, Switch

Super Meat Boy

61%

Super Meat Boy is a platform game in which players control Meat Boy, a small, dark red, cube-shaped character who must rescue his girlfriend Bandage Girl from the scientist Dr. Fetus. The game is divided into chapters containing over 300 levels, each requiring...

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Waking Mars

61% Spannender Match
Shared DNA
✓ Adventure Genre ✓ Indie Genre ✓ Platform Genre ✓ Action Theme ✓ Single player Mode ✓ Side view Perspective
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Weltdesign in IGDB nicht eindeutig klassifiziert · Keine Beschreibung von IGDB verfügbar

14 Shovel Knight Cover

2014 · Linux, Mac, 3DS

Shovel Knight

61%

Shovel Knight is a sweeping classic action adventure game with awesome gameplay, memorable characters, and an 8-bit retro aesthetic. It's a hot mashup of new and old! You play as the eponymous Shovel Knight, a small knight with a huge quest. Shovel Knight has...

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Waking Mars

61% Spannender Match
Shared DNA
✓ Adventure Genre ✓ Indie Genre ✓ Platform Genre ✓ Action Theme ✓ Single player Mode ✓ Side view Perspective
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Weltdesign in IGDB nicht eindeutig klassifiziert · Keine Beschreibung von IGDB verfügbar

15 Remnants of Naezith Cover

2018 · Linux, Mac, Switch

Remnants of Naezith

61%

Rush and swing through levels to top the leaderboards in this fast-paced, grappling hook precision platformer.

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Waking Mars

61% Spannender Match
Shared DNA
✓ Adventure Genre ✓ Indie Genre ✓ Platform Genre ✓ Action Theme ✓ Single player Mode ✓ Side view Perspective
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Weltdesign in IGDB nicht eindeutig klassifiziert · Keine Beschreibung von IGDB verfügbar

16 Platformines Cover

2014 · PC

Platformines

58%

Platformines is a unique 2D platformer packed with exploration, RPG and shooter elements, set in a vast 16-bit underground world! Customise your character, master all difficulty levels and literally jump to the top of the leaderboards to prove your skills.

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Waking Mars

58% Spannender Match
Shared DNA
✓ Indie Genre ✓ Platform Genre ✓ Action Theme ✓ Single player Mode
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Weltdesign in IGDB nicht eindeutig klassifiziert · Keine Beschreibung von IGDB verfügbar

17 Little Nightmares Cover

2017 · Android, Stadia, Switch

Little Nightmares

56%

Little Nightmares is a puzzle-platform horror adventure game developed by Tarsier Studios and published by Bandai Namco Entertainment. Set in a mysterious world, Little Nightmares follows the journey of Six, a hungry little girl who must escape the Maw, an iro...

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Waking Mars

56% Spannender Match
Shared DNA
✓ Adventure Genre ✓ Indie Genre ✓ Platform Genre ✓ Action Theme ✓ Single player Mode ✓ Side view Perspective
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Weltdesign in IGDB nicht eindeutig klassifiziert · Keine Beschreibung von IGDB verfügbar

18 Crash Bandicoot: Warped Cover

1998 · PS1, PS3, PSP

Crash Bandicoot: Warped

56%

Crash Bandicoot: Warped is the third game in the Crash Bandicoot series and the first to feature Coco as a playable character. The player takes control of Crash and Coco Bandicoot, who must travel back and forward in time and gather 25 crystals before Uka Uka...

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Waking Mars

56% Spannender Match
Shared DNA
✓ Adventure Genre ✓ Platform Genre ✓ Action Theme ✓ Science fiction Theme ✓ Single player Mode ✓ Side view Perspective
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Weltdesign in IGDB nicht eindeutig klassifiziert · Keine Beschreibung von IGDB verfügbar

19 Mega Man 2 Cover

1989 · 3DS, NES, Wii

Mega Man 2

56%

In the year 200X, a super robot named Mega Man was created. Dr. Light created Mega Man to stop the evil desires of Dr. Wily. However, after his defeat, Dr. Wily created eight of his own robots to counter Mega Man.

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Waking Mars

56% Spannender Match
Shared DNA
✓ Adventure Genre ✓ Platform Genre ✓ Action Theme ✓ Science fiction Theme ✓ Single player Mode ✓ Side view Perspective
Trade-offs

Weltdesign in IGDB nicht eindeutig klassifiziert · Keine Beschreibung von IGDB verfügbar

20 Trine Cover

2009 · Linux, Mac, PC

Trine

54%

Trine is a physics-based action game where three characters allow clever solutions to challenges created by hazardous puzzles and threatening enemies. The gameplay is based on fully interactive physics – each character's different abilities and tactics can be...

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Waking Mars

54% Spannender Match
Shared DNA
✓ Adventure Genre ✓ Indie Genre ✓ Platform Genre ✓ Action Theme ✓ Single player Mode ✓ Side view Perspective
Trade-offs

Weltdesign in IGDB nicht eindeutig klassifiziert · Keine Beschreibung von IGDB verfügbar

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