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276 games like Return

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01 Super Alloy Ranger Cover

2022 · Switch, PC

Super Alloy Ranger

92%

Super Alloy Ranger is a 2D side-scrolling action game. Play as Marksman Kelly or Combat Robot No.2 to challenge different levels within the dangerous Machine Empire and unlock new weapons. Use Kelly’s shooting and No.2’s deathblows to defeat abnormal Machine B...

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92% Starker DNA-Match
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Adventure Genre Indie Genre Platform Genre Role-playing (RPG) Genre Shooter 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 Tails of Iron Cover

2021 · Switch, PC, PS4

Tails of Iron

74%

Tails of Iron is an Adventure RPG-lite game set in a charming and brutal world. Playing as Redgi the Rat, you are heir to the throne when your kingdom is raided by the Iron Frog. Players face challenging, tactical and stunning combat encounters in order to reb...

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74% Sehr nah dran
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Adventure Genre Indie Genre Platform Genre Role-playing (RPG) Genre Action Theme Fantasy Theme Single player Mode Side view Perspective
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03 Warhammer 40,000: Darktide Cover

2022 · PC, PS5, Series X|S

Warhammer 40,000: Darktide

72%

From the developers of the best-selling and award-winning franchise Vermintide, Warhammer 40,000: Darktide is a visceral 4-player co-op action game set in the hive city of Tertium. Fight together with your friends against hordes of enemies in this new Warhamme...

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72% Sehr nah dran
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Adventure Genre Indie Genre Role-playing (RPG) Genre Shooter Genre Action Theme Single player Mode Combat-focused Game feel Role-playing Game feel
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Weltdesign in IGDB nicht eindeutig klassifiziert · Keine Beschreibung von IGDB verfügbar

04 Minishoot' Adventures Cover

2024 · Switch, Switch 2, PC

Minishoot' Adventures

72%

Minishoot' is a cute and unique adventure game that mixes up open exploration with crispy twin-stick shooter action. Fight your way from the shiny overworld to the deepest caves, improve your ship and overcome the dungeons' bosses to rescue your friends!

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72% Sehr nah dran
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Adventure Genre Indie Genre Role-playing (RPG) Genre Shooter Genre Action Theme Single player Mode Combat-focused Game feel Role-playing Game feel
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Weltdesign in IGDB nicht eindeutig klassifiziert · Keine Beschreibung von IGDB verfügbar

05 Risk of Rain Cover

2013 · Linux, Mac, Switch

Risk of Rain

69%

Risk of Rain is an action platformer with roguelike elements. With permanent death as a primary feature, players will have to play their best to get as far as possible. Fight on a mysterious planet with randomly spawning enemies and bosses, either alone or wit...

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69% Sehr nah dran
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Adventure Genre Indie Genre Platform Genre Role-playing (RPG) Genre Shooter Genre Action Theme Fantasy Theme Science fiction Theme
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Weltdesign in IGDB nicht eindeutig klassifiziert · Keine Beschreibung von IGDB verfügbar

06 Eastward Cover

2021 · Mac, Switch, PC

Eastward

66%

Eastward is a beautifully detailed and charming adventure RPG, from Shanghai-based indie developers, Pixpil and published by Chucklefish. Escape the tyrannical clutches of a subterranean society and join Eastward’s unlikely duo on an exciting adventure to the...

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66% Spannender Match
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Adventure Genre Indie Genre Role-playing (RPG) Genre Action Theme Science fiction Theme Single player Mode Role-playing Game feel
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Weltdesign in IGDB nicht eindeutig klassifiziert · Keine Beschreibung von IGDB verfügbar

07 Blasphemous Cover

2019 · Android, Linux, Mac

Blasphemous

60%

Blasphemous is a punishing action-platformer that combines the fast-paced, skilled combat of a hack-n-slash game with a deep and evocative narrative core. Explore this nightmarish world of twisted religion and discover its many secrets hidden deep inside. Use...

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60% Spannender Match
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Adventure Genre Indie Genre Platform Genre Role-playing (RPG) Genre Action Theme Fantasy Theme Single player Mode Side view Perspective
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Weltdesign in IGDB nicht eindeutig klassifiziert · Keine Beschreibung von IGDB verfügbar

08 Solar Ash Cover

2021 · Switch, PC, PS4

Solar Ash

60%

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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60% Spannender Match
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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

09 Cat Quest Cover

2017 · Android, Linux, Mac

Cat Quest

59%

Cat Quest is a 2D open world RPG with the exploration of Skyrim, but set in the visual style of an overworld. This is a fantasy world that asks the question of how different it would be if cats lived in it instead of humans! Go to places like the Catpital wher...

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59% Spannender Match
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Adventure Genre Indie Genre Role-playing (RPG) Genre Action Theme Fantasy Theme Single player Mode Role-playing Game feel
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Weltdesign in IGDB nicht eindeutig klassifiziert · Keine Beschreibung von IGDB verfügbar

10 Serious Sam 4 Cover

2020 · Stadia, Linux, Mac

Serious Sam 4

59%

Humanity is under siege as the full force of Mental’s hordes spread across the world, ravaging what remains of a broken and beaten civilization. The last remaining resistance to the invasion is the Earth Defense Force led by Sam “Serious” Stone and his heavily...

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59% Spannender Match
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Adventure Genre Indie Genre Shooter Genre Action Theme Science fiction Theme Single player Mode Combat-focused Game feel
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Weltdesign in IGDB nicht eindeutig klassifiziert · Keine Beschreibung von IGDB verfügbar

11 Drova: Forsaken Kin Cover

2024 · Android, Linux, Mac

Drova: Forsaken Kin

59%

Drova is a pixel art role-playing game inspired by classic role-playing games. We want to create a challenging and interesting world and offer a well-rounded and consistent gaming experience.

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59% Spannender Match
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Adventure Genre Indie Genre Role-playing (RPG) Genre Action Theme Fantasy Theme Single player Mode Role-playing Game feel
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Weltdesign in IGDB nicht eindeutig klassifiziert · Keine Beschreibung von IGDB verfügbar

12 Metroid Fusion Cover

2002 · GBA, 3DS, WiiU

Metroid Fusion

58%

Metroid Fusion is a side-scrolling action-adventure game that combines exploration, combat, and progression within a structured environment. Players navigate distinct sectors, acquire new abilities, and unlock access to previously restricted areas as they adva...

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58% Spannender Match
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Adventure Genre Platform Genre Shooter Genre Action Theme Science fiction Theme Single player Mode Side view Perspective Combat-focused Game feel
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13 Zelda II: The Adventure of Link Cover

1987 · fds, 3DS, NES

Zelda II: The Adventure of Link

58%

Zelda II: The Adventure of Link is the second major installment in The Legend of Zelda series and the direct sequel to the first game. Like its predecessor, it features dungeons that must be located in the overworld and searched for an item that will prove use...

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58% Spannender Match
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Adventure Genre Platform Genre Role-playing (RPG) Genre Action Theme Fantasy Theme Single player Mode Side view Perspective Combat-focused Game feel
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Weltdesign in IGDB nicht eindeutig klassifiziert · Keine Beschreibung von IGDB verfügbar

14 Metroid: Zero Mission Cover

2004 · GBA, WiiU

Metroid: Zero Mission

58%

The full story of Samus Aran's first mission finally unfolds... The first Metroid game just scratched the surface of the cataclysmic events on planet Zebes, and at long last the rest of the tale has come to light. Experience the first of Samus's legendary adv...

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58% Spannender Match
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Adventure Genre Platform Genre Shooter Genre Action Theme Science fiction Theme Single player Mode Side view Perspective Combat-focused Game feel
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No description available from IGDB

15 Hyper Light Drifter Cover

2016 · Linux, Mac, PC

Hyper Light Drifter

58%

Echoes of a dark and violent past resonate throughout a savage land, steeped in treasure and blood. Hyper Light Drifter is an action adventure RPG in the vein of the best 16­-bit classics, with modernized mechanics and designs on a much grander scale.

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58% Spannender Match
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Adventure Genre Indie Genre Role-playing (RPG) Genre Shooter Genre Action Theme Fantasy Theme Science fiction Theme Single player Mode
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Weltdesign in IGDB nicht eindeutig klassifiziert · Keine Beschreibung von IGDB verfügbar

16 CrossCode Cover

2018 · Linux, Mac, Switch

CrossCode

55%

A retro-inspired 2D Action RPG set in the distant future. CrossCode combines 16-bit SNES-style graphics with butter-smooth physics, a fast-paced combat system, and engaging puzzle mechanics, served with a gripping sci-fi story.

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55% Spannender Match
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Adventure Genre Indie Genre Role-playing (RPG) Genre Shooter Genre Action Theme Science fiction Theme Single player Mode Combat-focused Game feel
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Weltdesign in IGDB nicht eindeutig klassifiziert · Keine Beschreibung von IGDB verfügbar

17 Mina the Hollower Cover

2026 · Linux, Mac, Switch

Mina the Hollower

55%

Mina the Hollower is a bone-chilling action-adventure game featuring classic gameplay and an 8-bit aesthetic in the style of Game Boy Color, refined for the modern era. Quick and deliberate 60fps action combat, captivating world design, and top-down adventuri...

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55% Spannender Match
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Adventure Genre Indie Genre Platform Genre Role-playing (RPG) Genre Action Theme Fantasy Theme Single player Mode Role-playing Game feel
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Weltdesign in IGDB nicht eindeutig klassifiziert · Keine Beschreibung von IGDB verfügbar

18 Momodora: Reverie Under the Moonlight Cover

2016 · Linux, Mac, Switch

Momodora: Reverie Under the Moonlight

54%

Momodora: Reverie Under the Moonlight is a sidescrolling platformer, and is the fourth installment of the Momodora series. Focusing on gameplay, melee combos, dodge mechanics, travel forwards in the search to save everyone. With your trusty leave, find a varie...

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54% Spannender Match
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Adventure Genre Indie Genre Platform Genre Role-playing (RPG) Genre Action Theme Fantasy Theme Single player Mode Side view Perspective
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Weltdesign in IGDB nicht eindeutig klassifiziert · Keine Beschreibung von IGDB verfügbar

19 Downwell Cover

2015 · Android, Switch, PC

Downwell

54%

Downwell is a curious game about a young man with guns for boots venturing down a well in search of untold treasures. Make your way further and further down into a darkness filled with nasty creatures and mysterious secrets and collect the spectacular red gems...

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54% Spannender Match
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Adventure Genre Indie Genre Platform Genre Shooter Genre Action Theme Fantasy Theme Science fiction Theme Single player Mode
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Weltdesign in IGDB nicht eindeutig klassifiziert · Keine Beschreibung von IGDB verfügbar

20 Castlevania: Symphony of the Night Cover

1997 · PS1, PS3, PSP

Castlevania: Symphony of the Night

53%

Having been awoken from his eternal slumber by the reappearance of Castlevania, Alucard must once again face the evil minions of darkness. Use your vampiric powers, along with weapons, potions, and other magical relics to change the tide of battle. A mixture...

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53% Spannender Match
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Adventure Genre Platform Genre Role-playing (RPG) Genre Action Theme Single player Mode Side view Perspective Combat-focused Game feel Role-playing Game feel
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