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01 Solar Ash Cover

2021 · Switch, PC, PS4

Solar Ash

79%

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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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

02 Environmental Station Alpha Cover

2015 · Linux, Mac, PC

Environmental Station Alpha

75%

Environmental Station Alpha is an action adventure platformer with a retro aesthetic and heavy emphasis on exploration. In the game the player controls a robot sent to investigate a mysterious, abandoned space station with the mission to find out what exactly...

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75% Sehr nah dran
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Adventure Genre Indie Genre Platform Genre Action Theme Science fiction Theme Single player Mode Side view Perspective
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03 Mechanic Escape Cover

2014 · Android, Mac, PC

Mechanic Escape

75%

Mechanic escape is a platform game full of infernal chases. In order to find his lost friends, Mech (the hero) doesn't hesitate to play the human cannonball, to pass throughout high-voltage areas or even dodge the most deadly machines. As if that was not enoug...

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75% Sehr nah dran
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Adventure Genre Indie Genre Platform Genre Action Theme Science fiction Theme Single player Mode Side view Perspective
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Weltdesign in IGDB nicht eindeutig klassifiziert · Keine Beschreibung von IGDB verfügbar

04 Bloo Kid 2 Cover

2014 · 3DS, Switch, PC

Bloo Kid 2

71%

Bloo Kid 2 is a classic 2D retro-style platformer experience with lovely designed pixel-graphics and a full chiptune soundtrack. Run, jump and swim your way through five huge worlds with twelve levels each. Master brutal bossfights and discover lots of secrets...

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Nefarious

71% Sehr nah dran
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Adventure Genre 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

05 Trover Saves the Universe Cover

2019 · Meta Quest 2, Switch, PC

Trover Saves the Universe

68%

Wonderful. Your dogs have been dognapped by a beaked lunatic who stuffed them into his eye holes and is using their life essence to destroy the universe. Does that make any sense? You've partnered with Trover, a little purple eye hole monster to save them. Fin...

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Nefarious

68% Sehr nah dran
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Adventure Genre Indie Genre Platform Genre Action Theme Comedy Theme Single player Mode
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Weltdesign in IGDB nicht eindeutig klassifiziert · Keine Beschreibung von IGDB verfügbar

06 Humanity Cover

2023 · Meta Quest 2, Meta Quest 3, PC

Humanity

68%

A unique blend of puzzle-solving and action-platforming. Play a lone Shiba Inu charged with commanding massive, marching crowds to the goal in Story Mode, or browse a wide array of user-made levels crafted via the in-game Stage Creator!

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Nefarious

68% Sehr nah dran
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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

07 Shovel Knight Cover

2014 · Linux, Mac, 3DS

Shovel Knight

64%

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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Nefarious

64% Spannender Match
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Adventure Genre Indie Genre Platform Genre Action Theme Comedy Theme Single player Mode Side view Perspective
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Weltdesign in IGDB nicht eindeutig klassifiziert · Keine Beschreibung von IGDB verfügbar

08 Pikuniku Cover

2019 · Android, Stadia, Linux

Pikuniku

64%

Pikuniku is a puzzle and adventure game set in a colorful world. The player controls Piku, a small red creature, guiding him through levels and solving puzzles that mostly involve kicking and pushing objects onto switches to open the way forward. Piku can lass...

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Nefarious

64% Spannender Match
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Adventure Genre Indie Genre Platform Genre Action Theme Comedy Theme Single player Mode Side view Perspective
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Weltdesign in IGDB nicht eindeutig klassifiziert · Keine Beschreibung von IGDB verfügbar

09 Iconoclasts Cover

2018 · Linux, Mac, Switch

Iconoclasts

64%

Join renegade mechanic Robin and uncover the secrets of a dying planet. Explore a huge, open world filled with intricate puzzles, oddball characters and menacing bosses in a beautiful platform adventure telling a personal story about faith, purpose and whether...

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64% Spannender Match
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Adventure Genre Indie Genre Platform Genre Action Theme Science fiction Theme Single player Mode Side view Perspective
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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

63%

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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Nefarious

63% Spannender Match
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Adventure Genre Indie Genre Platform Genre Action Theme Comedy Theme Single player Mode Side view Perspective
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Weltdesign in IGDB nicht eindeutig klassifiziert · Keine Beschreibung von IGDB verfügbar

11 Ghost 1.0 Cover

2016 · Switch, PC, PS4

Ghost 1.0

62%

A mysterious agent, capable of becoming a digital ghost, sneaks aboard the Nakamura Space Station. This is where the fun begins: the station is well-protected with its heavy defences, never-ending arsenal of weapons, and mysterious artifacts. It will all have...

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Nefarious

62% Spannender Match
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Adventure Genre Indie Genre Platform Genre Action Theme Science fiction Theme Single player Mode Side view Perspective
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Weltdesign in IGDB nicht eindeutig klassifiziert · Keine Beschreibung von IGDB verfügbar

12 Dead Cells Cover

2018 · Android, Linux, Mac

Dead Cells

59%

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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Nefarious

59% Spannender Match
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Adventure Genre 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

13 Hollow Knight Cover

2017 · Linux, Mac, Switch

Hollow Knight

58%

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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Nefarious

58% Spannender Match
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Adventure Genre 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

14 Mark of the Ninja Cover

2012 · Linux, Mac, PC

Mark of the Ninja

58%

Mark of the Ninja is a side-scrolling action stealth video game developed by Klei Entertainment and published by Microsoft Studios. It was announced on February 28, 2012 and later released for the Xbox 360 via Xbox Live Arcade on September 7, 2012. A Microsoft...

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Nefarious

58% Spannender Match
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Adventure Genre Indie Genre Platform Genre Action Theme Single player Mode Side view Perspective
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15 Celeste Cover

2018 · Stadia, Linux, Mac

Celeste

57%

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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Nefarious

57% Spannender Match
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Adventure Genre 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

16 Hollow Knight: Silksong Cover

2025 · Linux, Mac, Switch

Hollow Knight: Silksong

57%

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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Nefarious

57% Spannender Match
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Adventure Genre Indie Genre Platform Genre Action Theme Single player Mode Side view Perspective
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17 Inside Cover

2016 · Mac, Switch, PC

Inside

54%

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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Nefarious

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

18 Night in the Woods Cover

2017 · Linux, Mac, Switch

Night in the Woods

54%

Night In The Woods is an adventure game heavily focused on story, characters and exploration, with some platforming to get around town. Mae's a cat so the roofs and ledges and powerlines are all her playground, and she's not the only one up there by a long sho...

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Nefarious

54% Spannender Match
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Adventure Genre Indie Genre Platform Genre Single player Mode Side view Perspective
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Weltdesign in IGDB nicht eindeutig klassifiziert · Keine Beschreibung von IGDB verfügbar

19 Rayman Legends Cover

2013 · Stadia, PC, PS3

Rayman Legends

52%

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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Nefarious

52% Spannender Match
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Adventure Genre Platform Genre Action Theme Comedy Theme Single player Mode Side view Perspective
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20 New Super Mario Bros. Wii Cover

2009 · Wii, WiiU

New Super Mario Bros. Wii

52%

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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Nefarious

52% Spannender Match
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Adventure Genre Platform Genre Action Theme Comedy Theme Single player Mode Side view Perspective
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