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270 games like Cosmos: Stella Returns

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01 Orphan Cover

2018 · Linux, Mac, PC

Orphan

76%

Orphan draws inspiration from the classic 2D games of gaming's golden era. Orphan focuses on immersive gameplay, visuals and atmosphere and channels classics like Another World, Blackthorne and Oddworld: Abe's Oddysey, with a touch of Journey to Silius. Oh yea...

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Cosmos: Stella Returns

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✓ Adventure Genre ✓ Indie Genre ✓ Action Theme ✓ Science fiction Theme ✓ Single player Mode ✓ Side view Perspective
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02 Ingression Cover

2024 · Linux, Mac, PC

Ingression

76%

Ingression is an unforgiving & mind-bending precision platformer where you'll think and platform with seamless portals. Play as Rina, a thief living in the year 2442 in the corrupt Galactic Empire. Travel to the future to save the past from a tremendous time p...

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Cosmos: Stella Returns

76% Sehr nah dran
Shared DNA
✓ Adventure Genre ✓ Indie Genre ✓ Action Theme ✓ Science fiction Theme ✓ Single player Mode ✓ Side view Perspective
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03 Serious Sam 4 Cover

2020 · Stadia, Linux, Mac

Serious Sam 4

71%

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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Cosmos: Stella Returns

71% Sehr nah dran
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✓ Adventure Genre ✓ Indie Genre ✓ Action Theme ✓ Science fiction Theme ✓ Single player Mode
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04 Solar Ash Cover

2021 · Switch, PC, PS4

Solar Ash

71%

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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Cosmos: Stella Returns

71% Sehr nah dran
Shared DNA
✓ Adventure Genre ✓ Indie Genre ✓ Action Theme ✓ Science fiction Theme ✓ Single player Mode
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05 Lone Fungus Cover

2023 · Switch, PC

Lone Fungus

68%

A Metroidvania inspired by new & old classics like Hollow Knight, Super Metroid, Super Castlevania IV & Megaman X.

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Cosmos: Stella Returns

68% Sehr nah dran
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✓ Adventure Genre ✓ Indie Genre ✓ Action Theme ✓ Single player Mode ✓ Side view Perspective
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06 Astral Ascent Cover

2023 · Mac, Switch, PC

Astral Ascent

64%

Choose one of four heroes and explore the Garden, an astral prison guarded by 12 powerful mystical bosses: the Zodiacs. Challenge them with dozens of unique spells and faithful friends by your side to unfold the story of this platform roguelite with lightning...

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Cosmos: Stella Returns

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✓ Adventure Genre ✓ Indie Genre ✓ Action Theme ✓ Single player Mode ✓ Side view Perspective
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07 Bright Memory Cover

2020 · PC, Series X|S

Bright Memory

62%

Bright Memory is a lightning-fast fusion of the FPS and action genres, created by one-man development studio FYQD using Unreal Engine. Combine a wide variety of skills and abilities to unleash dazzling combo attacks. SRO (Supernatural Science Research Organiza...

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Cosmos: Stella Returns

62% Spannender Match
Shared DNA
✓ Adventure Genre ✓ Indie Genre ✓ Action Theme ✓ Science fiction Theme ✓ Single player Mode
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08 Life is Strange: Before the Storm Cover

2017 · Android, Linux, Mac

Life is Strange: Before the Storm

61%

Life is Strange: Before the Storm is a new three part standalone story adventure set three years before the events of the first game. This time play as Chloe Price, a rebel who forms an unlikely friendship with Rachel Amber in dramatic new story in the BAFTA a...

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Cosmos: Stella Returns

61% Spannender Match
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✓ Adventure Genre ✓ Indie Genre ✓ Action Theme ✓ Science fiction Theme ✓ Single player Mode
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09 Blade Chimera Cover

2025 · Switch, PC

Blade Chimera

60%

In this exploration-heavy 2D action game, use your demon sword to interfere with the past, create platforms, and shield yourself from danger to explore a dystopian cyberpunk world depicted in gorgeously animated pixel art.

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Cosmos: Stella Returns

60% Spannender Match
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✓ Indie Genre ✓ Action Theme ✓ Science fiction Theme ✓ Single player Mode ✓ Side view Perspective
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10 Eastward Cover

2021 · Mac, Switch, PC

Eastward

56%

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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Cosmos: Stella Returns

56% Spannender Match
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✓ Adventure Genre ✓ Indie Genre ✓ Action Theme ✓ Science fiction Theme ✓ Single player Mode
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11 Drova: Forsaken Kin Cover

2024 · Android, Linux, Mac

Drova: Forsaken Kin

53%

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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Cosmos: Stella Returns

53% Spannender Match
Shared DNA
✓ Adventure Genre ✓ Indie Genre ✓ Action Theme ✓ Single player Mode
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12 Inside Cover

2016 · Mac, Switch, PC

Inside

50%

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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Cosmos: Stella Returns

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✓ Adventure Genre ✓ Indie Genre ✓ Action Theme ✓ Science fiction Theme ✓ Single player Mode ✓ Side view Perspective
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13 Celeste Cover

2018 · Stadia, Linux, Mac

Celeste

50%

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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Cosmos: Stella Returns

50% Mutiger Treffer
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✓ Adventure Genre ✓ Indie Genre ✓ Action Theme ✓ Single player Mode ✓ Side view Perspective
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14 Dead Cells Cover

2018 · Android, Linux, Mac

Dead Cells

50%

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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Cosmos: Stella Returns

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✓ Adventure Genre ✓ Indie Genre ✓ Action Theme ✓ Single player Mode ✓ Side view Perspective
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15 Hollow Knight: Silksong Cover

2025 · Linux, Mac, Switch

Hollow Knight: Silksong

50%

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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Cosmos: Stella Returns

50% Mutiger Treffer
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✓ Adventure Genre ✓ Indie Genre ✓ Action Theme ✓ Single player Mode ✓ Side view Perspective
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16 Hollow Knight Cover

2017 · Linux, Mac, Switch

Hollow Knight

49%

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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Cosmos: Stella Returns

49% Mutiger Treffer
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✓ Adventure Genre ✓ Indie Genre ✓ Action Theme ✓ Single player Mode ✓ Side view Perspective
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17 Oxenfree Cover

2016 · Android, Linux, Mac

Oxenfree

49%

Oxenfree is a single-player graphic adventure game played from a 2.5D perspective, with the player controlling a teenager named Alex. Its central mechanic is a "walk and talk" system, where dialogue appears as speech bubbles and the player chooses responses in...

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Cosmos: Stella Returns

49% Mutiger Treffer
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✓ Adventure Genre ✓ Indie Genre ✓ Science fiction Theme ✓ Single player Mode ✓ Side view Perspective
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18 Life Is Strange Cover

2015 · Android, Linux, Mac

Life Is Strange

48%

Life Is Strange is a five part episodic game that sets out to revolutionize story based choice and consequence games by allowing the player to rewind time and affect the past, present and future.

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Cosmos: Stella Returns

48% Mutiger Treffer
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✓ Adventure Genre ✓ Indie Genre ✓ Action Theme ✓ Science fiction Theme ✓ Single player Mode
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19 Super Meat Boy Cover

2010 · Linux, Mac, Switch

Super Meat Boy

48%

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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Cosmos: Stella Returns

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Shared DNA
✓ Adventure Genre ✓ Indie Genre ✓ Action Theme ✓ Single player Mode ✓ Side view Perspective
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20 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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Cosmos: Stella Returns

48% Mutiger Treffer
Shared DNA
✓ Adventure Genre ✓ Indie Genre ✓ Action Theme ✓ Single player Mode ✓ Side view Perspective
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