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270 games like Cave Story: The Desolate

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01 Super Chicken Jumper Cover

2021 · Android, Switch, PC

Super Chicken Jumper

98%

A spy-chicken tries to save the world from doom in this runner/shooter game that has a little bit of everything with a touch of chicken and anime girls on top. Run for your life in 6 different worlds and shoot your way through tons of enemies until you become...

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✓ Adventure Genre ✓ Indie Genre ✓ Platform Genre ✓ Shooter Genre ✓ Action Theme ✓ Single player Mode ✓ Side view Perspective ✓ Combat-focused Game feel
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02 Haunted Lands Cover

2026 · PC

Haunted Lands

95%

An homage to classic DOS games such as Dangerous Dave and Doom. Blast your way through the hordes of ghouls and demons, leaving nothing behind but their rotting corpses.

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✓ Adventure Genre ✓ Indie Genre ✓ Platform Genre ✓ Shooter Genre ✓ Action Theme ✓ Single player Mode ✓ Combat-focused Game feel
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03 Creepy Road Cover

2018 · Mac, Switch, PC

Creepy Road

91%

Our game tells you a story about Flint Trucker's adventures in crazy freakin' world. Flint is a brutal man with a shotgun who just try to reach home to save his love. But the car got broken, way to home is blocked by thousands of creepy animals and mad men. Wh...

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91% Starker DNA-Match
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✓ Adventure Genre ✓ Indie Genre ✓ Platform Genre ✓ Shooter Genre ✓ Action Theme ✓ Single player Mode ✓ Side view Perspective ✓ Combat-focused Game feel
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04 Mecho Tales Cover

2017 · Mac, Switch, PC

Mecho Tales

91%

An all-new adventure in the world of Mecho Wars! Run and shoot through chaotic platforming levels filled with spikes, bottomless pits and an army of deadly robots. Go it alone or team up with your friends in 4-player local multiplayer. Directed by Luc Bernard.

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✓ Adventure Genre ✓ Indie Genre ✓ Platform Genre ✓ Shooter Genre ✓ Action Theme ✓ Single player Mode ✓ Side view Perspective ✓ Combat-focused Game feel
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05 Milkman Karlson Cover

2020 · Linux, Mac, PC

Milkman Karlson

90%

Milkman karlson is a game where you have to pass different levels without dying and collect milk.

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✓ Adventure Genre ✓ Indie Genre ✓ Platform Genre ✓ Shooter Genre ✓ Action Theme ✓ Single player Mode ✓ Combat-focused Game feel
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06 Promenade Cover

2024 · Switch, PC, PS4

Promenade

84%

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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Cave Story: The Desolate

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✓ Adventure Genre ✓ Indie Genre ✓ Platform Genre ✓ Action Theme ✓ Single player Mode ✓ Side view Perspective
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07 Arcadegeddon Cover

2022 · PC, PS4, PS5

Arcadegeddon

81%

Rise up and play with up to three friends in this ever-evolving cooperative multiplayer, roguelite shooter. Explore multiple biomes, mini games, find hidden chests, and defeat numerous enemies and bosses.

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Cave Story: The Desolate

81% Sehr nah dran
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✓ Adventure Genre ✓ Indie Genre ✓ Shooter Genre ✓ Action Theme ✓ Single player Mode ✓ Combat-focused Game feel
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08 Warhammer 40,000: Darktide Cover

2022 · PC, PS5, Series X|S

Warhammer 40,000: Darktide

76%

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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Cave Story: The Desolate

76% Sehr nah dran
Shared DNA
✓ Adventure Genre ✓ Indie Genre ✓ Shooter Genre ✓ Action Theme ✓ Single player Mode ✓ Combat-focused Game feel
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09 Minishoot' Adventures Cover

2024 · Switch, Switch 2, PC

Minishoot' Adventures

76%

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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Cave Story: The Desolate

76% Sehr nah dran
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✓ Adventure Genre ✓ Indie Genre ✓ Shooter Genre ✓ Action Theme ✓ Single player Mode ✓ Combat-focused Game feel
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10 Solar Ash Cover

2021 · Switch, PC, PS4

Solar Ash

74%

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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Cave Story: The Desolate

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✓ Adventure Genre ✓ Indie Genre ✓ Platform Genre ✓ Action Theme ✓ Single player Mode
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11 Mega Man Unlimited Cover

2013 · PC

Mega Man Unlimited

68%

8 robots have gone on a rampage and are wreaking havoc on the city and throughout the world! The robots are Dr. Wily’s creations! However, Dr. Wily claimed that the robots are not under his control and has vowed to help fix the problem along with Dr. Light… B...

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Cave Story: The Desolate

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✓ Platform Genre ✓ Shooter Genre ✓ Action Theme ✓ Single player Mode ✓ Side view Perspective ✓ Combat-focused Game feel
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12 Cuphead Cover

2017 · Mac, Switch, PC

Cuphead

67%

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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Cave Story: The Desolate

67% Spannender Match
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✓ Adventure Genre ✓ Indie Genre ✓ Platform Genre ✓ Shooter Genre ✓ Action Theme ✓ Single player Mode ✓ Side view Perspective ✓ Combat-focused Game feel
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13 Black Mesa Cover

2020 · Linux, PC

Black Mesa

67%

Black Mesa is a re-envisioning of Valve Software's classic science fiction first person shooter, Half-Life. Powered by Source Engine, You will re-visit the inaugural role of Gordon Freeman and his memorable journey through the Black Mesa Research Facility. Exp...

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✓ Adventure Genre ✓ Indie Genre ✓ Platform Genre ✓ Shooter Genre ✓ Action Theme ✓ Single player Mode ✓ Combat-focused Game feel
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14 Super Metroid Cover

1994 · New 3DS, SFAM, SNES

Super Metroid

66%

The Space Pirates, merciless agents of the evil Mother Brain, have stolen the last Metroid from a research station, and once again Mother Brain threatens the safety of the galaxy! Samus Aran must don her awesome array of high-tech weaponry to retrieve the dead...

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✓ Adventure Genre ✓ Platform Genre ✓ Shooter Genre ✓ Action Theme ✓ Single player Mode ✓ Side view Perspective ✓ Combat-focused Game feel
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15 Hollow Knight: Silksong Cover

2025 · Linux, Mac, Switch

Hollow Knight: Silksong

66%

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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Cave Story: The Desolate

66% Spannender Match
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✓ Adventure Genre ✓ Indie Genre ✓ Platform Genre ✓ Action Theme ✓ Single player Mode ✓ Side view Perspective ✓ Combat-focused Game feel
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16 Metroid Fusion Cover

2002 · GBA, 3DS, WiiU

Metroid Fusion

66%

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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✓ Adventure Genre ✓ Platform Genre ✓ Shooter Genre ✓ Action Theme ✓ Single player Mode ✓ Side view Perspective ✓ Combat-focused Game feel
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17 Dr Livesey Rom and Death Edition Cover

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✓ Adventure Genre ✓ Indie Genre ✓ Shooter Genre ✓ Action Theme ✓ Single player Mode ✓ Combat-focused Game feel
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18 Broforce Cover

2015 · Linux, Mac, Switch

Broforce

62%

When evil threatens the world, the world calls on Broforce - an under-funded, over-powered paramilitary organization dealing exclusively in excessive force. Brace your loins with up to four players to run ‘n’ gun as dozens of different bros and eliminate the o...

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Cave Story: The Desolate

62% Spannender Match
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✓ Indie Genre ✓ Platform Genre ✓ Shooter Genre ✓ Action Theme ✓ Single player Mode ✓ Side view Perspective ✓ Combat-focused Game feel
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19 Touhou Luna Nights Cover

2019 · Switch, PC, PS4

Touhou Luna Nights

62%

Touhou Luna Night's is a 2D search action (Metroidvania) video game. After creating many action games, this is a new project from Team Ladybug.

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62% Spannender Match
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✓ Adventure Genre ✓ Indie Genre ✓ Platform Genre ✓ Action Theme ✓ Single player Mode ✓ Side view Perspective ✓ Combat-focused Game feel
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20 Super Mario 64 FPS Cover

2020 · Linux, Mac, PC

Super Mario 64 FPS

62%

Super Mario 64 FPS is a fan game made in Unity which recreates Super Mario 64, but giving Mario guns and a first-person view.

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62% Spannender Match
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✓ Platform Genre ✓ Shooter Genre ✓ Action Theme ✓ Single player Mode ✓ Combat-focused Game feel
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