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232 games like The Cave

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01 Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee Cover

1997 · DOS, OnLive, PC

Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee

68%

Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee is the first game set in the fictional Oddworld universe. It is a platformer with puzzle-solving elements, focusing on the portrayal of a weak, underpowered character in a grim and hostile world, who has to rely on his cunning to outwit...

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The Cave

68% Sehr nah dran
Shared DNA
✓ Adventure Genre ✓ Platform Genre ✓ Puzzle Genre ✓ Action Theme ✓ Comedy Theme ✓ Multiplayer Mode ✓ Single player Mode ✓ Side view Perspective
Trade-offs

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

02 Guacamelee! Cover

2013 · Linux, Mac, PC

Guacamelee!

62%

"Guacamelee! is a Metroid-vania style action-platformer set in a magical Mexican inspired world. The game draws its inspiration from traditional Mexican culture and folklore, and features many interesting and unique characters. Guacamelee! builds upon the cla...

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The Cave

62% Spannender Match
Shared DNA
✓ Adventure Genre ✓ Platform Genre ✓ Puzzle Genre ✓ Action Theme ✓ Comedy Theme ✓ Fantasy Theme ✓ Co-operative Mode ✓ Single player Mode
Trade-offs

No description available from IGDB

03 Portal 2 Cover

2011 · Linux, Mac, Switch

Portal 2

56%

Sequel to the acclaimed Portal (2007), Portal 2 pits the protagonist of the original game, Chell, and her new robot friend, Wheatley, against more puzzles conceived by GLaDOS, an A.I. with the sole purpose of testing the Portal Gun's mechanics and taking reven...

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The Cave

56% Spannender Match
Shared DNA
✓ Adventure Genre ✓ Platform Genre ✓ Puzzle Genre ✓ Action Theme ✓ Comedy Theme ✓ Co-operative Mode ✓ Multiplayer Mode ✓ Single player Mode
Trade-offs

No description available from IGDB

04 Trine Cover

2009 · Linux, Mac, PC

Trine

56%

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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The Cave

56% Spannender Match
Shared DNA
✓ Adventure Genre ✓ Platform Genre ✓ Puzzle Genre ✓ Action Theme ✓ Fantasy Theme ✓ Co-operative Mode ✓ Multiplayer Mode ✓ Single player Mode
Trade-offs

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

05 Ori and the Blind Forest Cover

2015 · Switch, PC, XONE

Ori and the Blind Forest

54%

The forest of Nibel is dying. After a powerful storm sets a series of devastating events in motion, an unlikely hero must journey to find his courage and confront a dark nemesis to save his home. Ori and the Blind Forest tells the tale of a young orphan destin...

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The Cave

54% Spannender Match
Shared DNA
✓ Adventure Genre ✓ Platform Genre ✓ Puzzle Genre ✓ Action Theme ✓ Fantasy Theme ✓ Single player Mode ✓ Side view Perspective ✓ Choices Game feel
Trade-offs

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

06 Rayman Origins Cover

2011 · Mac, 3DS, PC

Rayman Origins

53%

Bubble Dreamer, Rayman, his best friend Globox, and some Teensy friends are chilling out at the Bubble Dreamer's resting grounds, the Snoring Tree. However, their snoring disturbs an old granny from the Land of the Livid Dead, who retaliates by sending an evil...

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The Cave

53% Spannender Match
Shared DNA
✓ Adventure Genre ✓ Platform Genre ✓ Action Theme ✓ Comedy Theme ✓ Fantasy Theme ✓ Co-operative Mode ✓ Multiplayer Mode ✓ Single player Mode
Trade-offs

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

07 It Takes Two Cover

2021 · Switch, Switch 2, PC

It Takes Two

52%

It Takes Two is a cooperative action-adventure game designed exclusively for two players, playable in local split-screen or online. Players control Cody and May, a married couple transformed into dolls, as they travel through fantastical environments based on...

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The Cave

52% Spannender Match
Shared DNA
✓ Adventure Genre ✓ Platform Genre ✓ Puzzle Genre ✓ Action Theme ✓ Co-operative Mode ✓ Multiplayer Mode ✓ Story-focused Game feel ✓ Puzzles Game feel
Trade-offs

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

08 Thomas Was Alone Cover

2012 · Android, Linux, Mac

Thomas Was Alone

52%

Thomas Was Alone is an indie minimalist 2D platformer about friendship and jumping and floating and anti-gravity. Guide a group of rectangles through a series of obstacles, using their different skills together to get to the end of each environment.

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The Cave

52% Spannender Match
Shared DNA
✓ Adventure Genre ✓ Platform Genre ✓ Puzzle Genre ✓ Action Theme ✓ Single player Mode ✓ Side view Perspective ✓ Story-focused Game feel ✓ Puzzles Game feel
Trade-offs

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

09 Rayman Legends Cover

2013 · Stadia, PC, PS3

Rayman Legends

49%

Rayman Legends is a side-scrolling platform game supporting up to four simultaneous players. Players control Rayman, Globox, Teensies, or the new character Barbara as they run, jump, and attack through over one hundred twenty levels. An assist character named...

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The Cave

49% Mutiger Treffer
Shared DNA
✓ Adventure Genre ✓ Platform Genre ✓ Action Theme ✓ Comedy Theme ✓ Co-operative Mode ✓ Multiplayer Mode ✓ Single player Mode ✓ Side view Perspective
Trade-offs

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

10 Portal Cover

2007 · Android, Linux, Mac

Portal

48%

Waking up in a seemingly empty laboratory, the player is made to complete various physics-based puzzle challenges through numerous test chambers in order to test out the new Aperture Science Handheld Portal Device, without an explanation as to how, why or by w...

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The Cave

48% Mutiger Treffer
Shared DNA
✓ Adventure Genre ✓ Platform Genre ✓ Puzzle Genre ✓ Action Theme ✓ Comedy Theme ✓ Single player Mode ✓ Choices Game feel ✓ Puzzles Game feel
Trade-offs

No description available from IGDB

11 Cuphead Cover

2017 · Mac, Switch, PC

Cuphead

48%

Cuphead is a run-and-gun action game focused primarily on boss battles. Its visual style is modeled after 1930s cartoons, using traditional hand-drawn cel animation, watercolor backgrounds, and original jazz recordings. Players control Cuphead or Mugman in sin...

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The Cave

48% Mutiger Treffer
Shared DNA
✓ Adventure Genre ✓ Platform Genre ✓ Action Theme ✓ Comedy Theme ✓ Fantasy Theme ✓ Co-operative Mode ✓ Multiplayer Mode ✓ Single player Mode
Trade-offs

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

12 Shovel Knight Cover

2014 · Linux, Mac, 3DS

Shovel Knight

48%

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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The Cave

48% Mutiger Treffer
Shared DNA
✓ Adventure Genre ✓ Platform Genre ✓ Action Theme ✓ Comedy Theme ✓ Fantasy Theme ✓ Co-operative Mode ✓ Multiplayer Mode ✓ Single player Mode
Trade-offs

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

13 New Super Mario Bros. Wii Cover

2009 · Wii, WiiU

New Super Mario Bros. Wii

48%

New Super Mario Bros. Wii is a side-scrolling 2.5D Mario platformer for the Wii and the tenth game in the Super Mario series. In addition to the single-player experience, New Super Mario Bros. Wii also features a multiplayer mode for up to four players. This i...

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The Cave

48% Mutiger Treffer
Shared DNA
✓ Adventure Genre ✓ Platform Genre ✓ Action Theme ✓ Comedy Theme ✓ Co-operative Mode ✓ Multiplayer Mode ✓ Single player Mode ✓ Side view Perspective
Trade-offs

No description available from IGDB

14 Inside Cover

2016 · Mac, Switch, PC

Inside

47%

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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The Cave

47% Mutiger Treffer
Shared DNA
✓ Adventure Genre ✓ Platform Genre ✓ Puzzle Genre ✓ Action Theme ✓ Single player Mode ✓ Side view Perspective ✓ Story-focused Game feel ✓ Choices Game feel
Trade-offs

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

15 Back to the Future: The Game Cover

2010 · Mac, PC, PS3

Back to the Future: The Game

47%

Back to the Future: The Game is one of Telltale Games' popular episodic games. It follows the story of the famous Marty McFly and Doc Brown as they stumble through another adventure in time. It is broken into 5 episodes, and incorporates Telltale's unique spin...

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The Cave

47% Mutiger Treffer
Shared DNA
✓ Adventure Genre ✓ Puzzle Genre ✓ Action Theme ✓ Comedy Theme ✓ Fantasy Theme ✓ Single player Mode ✓ Story-focused Game feel ✓ Puzzles Game feel
Trade-offs

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

16 Super Mario World Cover

1990 · Arcade, New 3DS, SFAM

Super Mario World

46%

A 2D platformer and first entry on the SNES in the Super Mario franchise, Super Mario World follows Mario as he attempts to defeat Bowser's underlings and rescue Princess Peach from his clutches. The game features a save system, a less linear world map, an exp...

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The Cave

46% Mutiger Treffer
Shared DNA
✓ Adventure Genre ✓ Platform Genre ✓ Action Theme ✓ Fantasy Theme ✓ Multiplayer Mode ✓ Single player Mode ✓ Side view Perspective ✓ Choices Game feel
Trade-offs

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

17 Little Nightmares Cover

2017 · Android, Stadia, Switch

Little Nightmares

46%

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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The Cave

46% Mutiger Treffer
Shared DNA
✓ Adventure Genre ✓ Platform Genre ✓ Puzzle Genre ✓ Action Theme ✓ Fantasy Theme ✓ Single player Mode ✓ Side view Perspective ✓ Story-focused Game feel
Trade-offs

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

18 Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island Cover
46%

Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island is a platform video game acting as a prequel to 1990's Super Mario World. The game casts players as Yoshi as he escorts Baby Mario through 48 levels in order to reunite him with his brother Luigi, who had been kidnapped by B...

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The Cave

46% Mutiger Treffer
Shared DNA
✓ Adventure Genre ✓ Platform Genre ✓ Action Theme ✓ Fantasy Theme ✓ Multiplayer Mode ✓ Single player Mode ✓ Side view Perspective ✓ Choices Game feel
Trade-offs

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

19 Gris Cover

2018 · Android, Mac, Switch

Gris

46%

Gris is a 2D platformer developed by Nomada Studio and published by Devolver Digital. It is a visually striking game that follows the journey of a young woman named Gris as she navigates a world of grief and loss. The game features no dialogue, relying on its...

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The Cave

46% Mutiger Treffer
Shared DNA
✓ Adventure Genre ✓ Platform Genre ✓ Puzzle Genre ✓ Action Theme ✓ Fantasy Theme ✓ Single player Mode ✓ Side view Perspective ✓ Story-focused Game feel
Trade-offs

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

20 Papo & Yo Cover

2012 · Linux, Mac, PC

Papo & Yo

46%

A semi-autobiographical 3D puzzle platformer in which a boy named Quico is transported from his abusive home into a dreamlike favela where he has to lead an easygoing creature named Monster through the world with the help of his sister and Lula, his robotic do...

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The Cave

46% Mutiger Treffer
Shared DNA
✓ Adventure Genre ✓ Platform Genre ✓ Puzzle Genre ✓ Action Theme ✓ Fantasy Theme ✓ Single player Mode ✓ Puzzles Game feel
Trade-offs

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