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289 games like Shovelboy

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01 Buzz Cover

2024 · PC

Buzz

90%

Buzz is a challenging momentum-based platformer.

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Shovelboy

90% Starker DNA-Match
Shared DNA
Indie Genre Platform Genre Action Theme Single player Mode Side view Perspective Challenging Game feel
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Weltdesign in IGDB nicht eindeutig klassifiziert · Keine Beschreibung von IGDB verfügbar

02 Tcheco in the Castle of Lucio Cover

2015 · Switch, PC, PS4

Tcheco in the Castle of Lucio

86%

Tcheco in the Castle of Lucio is an exciting, fast-paced action game. Help Tcheco the Adventure Boy to leave a mysterious castle full of deadly creatures! Be ready for a big challenge, full of nonsense humor and retro goodness.

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Shovelboy

86% Starker DNA-Match
Shared DNA
Indie Genre Platform Genre Action Theme Single player Mode Side view Perspective Challenging Game feel
Trade-offs

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

03 Kick Bot Cover

Year unknown · Linux, Mac, PC

Kick Bot

84%

Wall jump, slide, butt stomp, and dash past dozens of devious robot-crushing obstacles with only two buttons! Stop an evil AI from kicking Earth by destroying the GigaLeg, a giant moon-mounted robot leg.

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Shovelboy

84% Starker DNA-Match
Shared DNA
Indie Genre Platform Genre Action Theme Single player Mode Challenging Game feel
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Weltdesign in IGDB nicht eindeutig klassifiziert · Keine Beschreibung von IGDB verfügbar

04 Darkour Cover

2019 · PC

Darkour

84%

Darkour is a minimalist, tough-as-nails 2D platformer where darkness is your platform. In Darkour, lights are alternate playable spaces, the skill ceiling is high, and you will experience a new method of traversal.

Your match for

Shovelboy

84% Starker DNA-Match
Shared DNA
Indie Genre Platform Genre Action Theme Single player Mode Challenging Game feel
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Weltdesign in IGDB nicht eindeutig klassifiziert · Keine Beschreibung von IGDB verfügbar

05 Promenade Cover

2024 · Switch, PC, PS4

Promenade

80%

Go on an adventure in a world packed with secrets helped by your friend, a poulp with many abilities. Explore, solve puzzles, wander across dungeons, blast through races and much more in this game inspired by the best 3D platformers

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Shovelboy

80% Sehr nah dran
Shared DNA
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

06 Bell Ringer Cover

2016 · PC

Bell Ringer

74%

Bell Ringer is a fast paced arena PvP brawler with local and online multiplayer. Gather your friends and brace yourselves for some intense brawling! Choose between five unique characters with different weapons, special moves and styles.

Your match for

Shovelboy

74% Sehr nah dran
Shared DNA
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

07 Collecstar Cover

2023 · PC

Collecstar

71%

Shoot for the stars! In this cute 2D platform arcade game, jump on clouds and collect as many stars as you can before you run out of lives.

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Shovelboy

71% Sehr nah dran
Shared DNA
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

08 Celeste Cover

2018 · Stadia, Linux, Mac

Celeste

65%

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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Shovelboy

65% Spannender Match
Shared DNA
Indie Genre Platform Genre Action Theme Single player Mode Side view Perspective Challenging Game feel
Trade-offs

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

09 The Medic Cover

2020 · Mac, PC

The Medic

65%

The Medic. The first Coronavirus-themed topdown/platformer published on Steam. Can you beat the anti-vaxxers and the virus to save the Earth?

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Shovelboy

65% 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

10 Super Meat Boy Cover

2010 · Linux, Mac, Switch

Super Meat Boy

64%

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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Shovelboy

64% Spannender Match
Shared DNA
Indie Genre Platform Genre Action Theme Single player Mode Side view Perspective Challenging Game feel
Trade-offs

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

11 The Messenger Cover

2018 · Switch, PC, PS4

The Messenger

64%

As a demon army besieges his village, a young ninja ventures through a cursed world, to deliver a scroll paramount to his clan's survival. Leveraging players expectations as a core game design ingredient, The Messenger is first presented as an 8-bit action pla...

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Shovelboy

64% Spannender Match
Shared DNA
Indie Genre Platform Genre Action Theme Single player Mode Side view Perspective Challenging Game feel
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Weltdesign in IGDB nicht eindeutig klassifiziert · Keine Beschreibung von IGDB verfügbar

12 Cave Story+ Cover

2011 · Linux, Mac, Switch

Cave Story+

61%

A young amnesiac hero discovers a hidden land and vows to protect the defenseless creatures who live there! Can he stop the mad doctor and learn the truth about his own past? Highly polished and addictive, Cave Story+ uses retro-game stylings to deliver an all...

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Shovelboy

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

13 Soviet Jump Game Cover

2020 · Mac, PC

Soviet Jump Game

61%

Play the first ever Battle Royale game and face off against other comrades in a 2D sidescrolling free-for-all.

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Shovelboy

61% Spannender Match
Shared DNA
Indie Genre Platform Genre Action Theme Side view Perspective
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Weltdesign in IGDB nicht eindeutig klassifiziert · Anderer Spielmodus als beim Ausgangsspiel · Keine Beschreibung von IGDB verfügbar

14 Geometry Dash Cover

2013 · Android, Mac, PC

Geometry Dash

60%

Jump and fly your way through danger in this rhythm-based action platformer. Prepare for a near impossible challenge in the world of Geometry Dash. Push your skills to the limit as you jump, fly and flip your way through dangerous passages and spiky obstacles.

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Shovelboy

60% Spannender Match
Shared DNA
Indie Genre Platform Genre Action Theme Single player Mode Side view Perspective Challenging Game feel
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Weltdesign in IGDB nicht eindeutig klassifiziert · Keine Beschreibung von IGDB verfügbar

15 Getting Over It with Bennett Foddy Cover

2017 · Android, Linux, Mac

Getting Over It with Bennett Foddy

60%

Getting Over It with Bennett Foddy is a punishing climbing game, a homage to Jazzuo's 2002 B-Game classic 'Sexy Hiking'. You move the hammer with the mouse, and that's all there is. With practice, you'll be able to jump, swing, climb and fly. Great mysteries a...

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Shovelboy

60% Spannender Match
Shared DNA
Indie Genre Platform Genre Action Theme Single player Mode Side view Perspective Challenging Game feel
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Weltdesign in IGDB nicht eindeutig klassifiziert · Keine Beschreibung von IGDB verfügbar

16 Momodora: Reverie Under the Moonlight Cover

2016 · Linux, Mac, Switch

Momodora: Reverie Under the Moonlight

60%

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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Shovelboy

60% Spannender Match
Shared DNA
Indie Genre Platform Genre Action Theme Single player Mode Side view Perspective Challenging Game feel
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Weltdesign in IGDB nicht eindeutig klassifiziert · Keine Beschreibung von IGDB verfügbar

17 Salt and Sanctuary Cover

2016 · Linux, Mac, Switch

Salt and Sanctuary

59%

Salt and Sanctuary is a 2D action role-playing game developed by Ska Studios and released in 2016. It combines side-scrolling combat with mechanics inspired by action RPGs, including stamina management and character builds. Players explore a dark, interconnect...

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Shovelboy

59% Spannender Match
Shared DNA
Indie Genre Platform Genre Action Theme Single player Mode Side view Perspective Challenging Game feel
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18 Blasphemous Cover

2019 · Android, Linux, Mac

Blasphemous

57%

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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Shovelboy

57% Spannender Match
Shared DNA
Indie Genre Platform Genre Action Theme Single player Mode Side view Perspective Challenging Game feel
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Weltdesign in IGDB nicht eindeutig klassifiziert · Keine Beschreibung von IGDB verfügbar

19 Cuphead Cover

2017 · Mac, Switch, PC

Cuphead

56%

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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Shovelboy

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

20 Mega Man 11 Cover

2018 · Switch, PC, PS4

Mega Man 11

56%

The classic series takes a leap forward in visual presentation in Mega Man 11 with a 2.5D design direction introducing beautiful, completely hand-drawn characters and environments. A freshly redesigned Mega Man takes on Dr. Wily’s berserk machines, defeating R...

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Shovelboy

56% Spannender Match
Shared DNA
Platform Genre Action Theme Single player Mode Side view Perspective Challenging Game feel
Trade-offs

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

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