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270 games like Spelunky

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01 Battle Princess Madelyn Cover

2018 · Switch, PC, PS4

Battle Princess Madelyn

70%

Battle Princess Madelyn is a game that follows the journey of a young knight in training, Madelyn, and her ghostly pet dog, Fritzy. They set out on a journey to save her kingdom and her family from the clutches of an evil wizard.

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Spelunky

70% Sehr nah dran
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Adventure Genre Indie Genre Platform Genre Action Theme Fantasy Theme Single player Mode Side view Perspective
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Weltdesign in IGDB nicht eindeutig klassifiziert · Keine Beschreibung von IGDB verfügbar

02 Journey Cover

2012 · PC, PS3, PS4

Journey

57%

A third-person adventure game in which the player, controlling a robed figure, makes a pilgrimage through a desert landscape to a rugged mountain with a beacon of light in the distance while uncovering the history of their people, rescuing and cooperating with...

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Spelunky

57% Spannender Match
Shared DNA
Adventure Genre Indie Genre Platform Genre Fantasy Theme Co-operative Mode Multiplayer Mode Single player Mode Side view Perspective
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Weltdesign in IGDB nicht eindeutig klassifiziert · Keine Beschreibung von IGDB verfügbar

03 Shovel Knight Cover

2014 · Linux, Mac, 3DS

Shovel Knight

57%

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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Spelunky

57% Spannender Match
Shared DNA
Adventure Genre Indie Genre Platform Genre Action Theme Fantasy Theme Co-operative Mode Multiplayer Mode Single player Mode
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Weltdesign in IGDB nicht eindeutig klassifiziert · Keine Beschreibung von IGDB verfügbar

04 Vampire Survivors Cover

2022 · Android, Linux, Mac

Vampire Survivors

56%

Mow thousands of night creatures and survive until dawn! Vampire Survivors is a gothic horror casual game with rogue-lite elements, where your choices can allow you to quickly snowball against the hundreds of monsters that get thrown at you.

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Spelunky

56% Spannender Match
Shared DNA
Adventure Genre Indie Genre Action Theme Fantasy Theme Survival Theme Co-operative Mode Multiplayer Mode Single player Mode
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Weltdesign in IGDB nicht eindeutig klassifiziert · Keine Beschreibung von IGDB verfügbar

05 Terraria Cover

2011 · Android, Stadia, Linux

Terraria

55%

Terraria is a 2D sandbox action-adventure game with platforming and role-playing elements. Players create a character and are placed in a procedurally generated world where they mine resources, craft equipment, build structures, and fight enemies. Progression...

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Spelunky

55% Spannender Match
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Adventure Genre Indie Genre Platform Genre Action Theme Fantasy Theme Survival Theme Co-operative Mode Multiplayer Mode
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06 Tails of Iron Cover

2021 · Switch, PC, PS4

Tails of Iron

55%

Tails of Iron is an Adventure RPG-lite game set in a charming and brutal world. Playing as Redgi the Rat, you are heir to the throne when your kingdom is raided by the Iron Frog. Players face challenging, tactical and stunning combat encounters in order to reb...

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Spelunky

55% Spannender Match
Shared DNA
Adventure Genre Indie Genre Platform Genre Action Theme Fantasy Theme Single player Mode Side view Perspective
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Weltdesign in IGDB nicht eindeutig klassifiziert · Keine Beschreibung von IGDB verfügbar

07 Overloop Cover

2022 · Linux, Mac, Switch

Overloop

54%

What would happen to the world in which appeared a technology capable of cloning anything? Overloop is a dystopian platformer set in a world where the cloning of any subject is possible. Use the cloning gun to clone yourself, but don't forget what you're deal...

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Spelunky

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

08 Unravel Two Cover

2018 · Switch, PC, PS4

Unravel Two

51%

Unravel Two is the sequel to the 2015 puzzle platforming game Unravel. In the game there are two Yarny's (made out of yarn) which can be controlled by one player, though the game can also be played in co-op. Together the Yarny's explore area's and solve the pu...

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Spelunky

51% Mutiger Treffer
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Adventure Genre Platform Genre Action Theme Fantasy Theme Co-operative Mode Multiplayer Mode Single player Mode Side view Perspective
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Weltdesign in IGDB nicht eindeutig klassifiziert · Keine Beschreibung von IGDB verfügbar

09 Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown Cover

2024 · Mac, Switch, PC

Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown

51%

Dash into a stylish and thrilling action-adventure platformer set in a mythological Persian world where the boundaries of time and space are yours to manipulate. Play as Sargon and evolve from sword-wielding prodigy to extraordinary legend as you master acroba...

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Spelunky

51% Mutiger Treffer
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Adventure Genre Platform Genre Action Theme Fantasy Theme Single player Mode Side view Perspective Exploration Game feel
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Weltdesign in IGDB nicht eindeutig klassifiziert · Keine Beschreibung von IGDB verfügbar

10 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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Spelunky

50% Mutiger Treffer
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Adventure Genre Indie Genre Platform Genre Action Theme Fantasy Theme Single player Mode Side view Perspective Roguelike Game feel
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Weltdesign in IGDB nicht eindeutig klassifiziert · Keine Beschreibung von IGDB verfügbar

11 Trine Cover

2009 · Linux, Mac, PC

Trine

50%

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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Spelunky

50% Mutiger Treffer
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Adventure Genre Indie Genre Platform Genre Action Theme Fantasy Theme Co-operative Mode Multiplayer Mode Single player Mode
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Weltdesign in IGDB nicht eindeutig klassifiziert · Keine Beschreibung von IGDB verfügbar

12 Celeste Cover

2018 · Stadia, Linux, Mac

Celeste

49%

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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Spelunky

49% Mutiger Treffer
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Adventure Genre Indie Genre Platform Genre Action Theme Fantasy Theme Single player Mode Side view Perspective Exploration Game feel
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Weltdesign in IGDB nicht eindeutig klassifiziert · Keine Beschreibung von IGDB verfügbar

13 Hollow Knight: Silksong Cover

2025 · Linux, Mac, Switch

Hollow Knight: Silksong

49%

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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Spelunky

49% Mutiger Treffer
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Adventure Genre Indie Genre Platform Genre Action Theme Fantasy Theme Single player Mode Side view Perspective Exploration Game feel
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Weltdesign in IGDB nicht eindeutig klassifiziert · Keine Beschreibung von IGDB verfügbar

14 Rayman Origins Cover

2011 · Mac, 3DS, PC

Rayman Origins

48%

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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Spelunky

48% Mutiger Treffer
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Adventure Genre Platform Genre Action Theme Fantasy Theme Co-operative Mode Multiplayer Mode Single player Mode Side view Perspective
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Weltdesign in IGDB nicht eindeutig klassifiziert · Keine Beschreibung von IGDB verfügbar

15 Cuphead Cover

2017 · Mac, Switch, PC

Cuphead

46%

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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Spelunky

46% Mutiger Treffer
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Adventure Genre Indie Genre Platform Genre Action Theme Fantasy Theme Co-operative Mode Multiplayer Mode Single player Mode
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Weltdesign in IGDB nicht eindeutig klassifiziert · Keine Beschreibung von IGDB verfügbar

16 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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Spelunky

46% Mutiger Treffer
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Adventure Genre Indie Genre Platform Genre Action Theme Fantasy Theme Survival Theme Single player Mode Side view Perspective
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Weltdesign in IGDB nicht eindeutig klassifiziert · Keine Beschreibung von IGDB verfügbar

17 Hollow Knight Cover

2017 · Linux, Mac, Switch

Hollow Knight

45%

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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Spelunky

45% Mutiger Treffer
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Adventure Genre Indie Genre Platform Genre Action Theme Fantasy 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

45%

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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Spelunky

45% Mutiger Treffer
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Adventure Genre Indie Genre Platform Genre Fantasy Theme Single player Mode Side view Perspective Exploration Game feel
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Weltdesign in IGDB nicht eindeutig klassifiziert · Keine Beschreibung von IGDB verfügbar

19 Ravenswatch Cover

2024 · Switch, Switch 2, PC

Ravenswatch

45%

Fallen heroes of old folk tales and legends: you are on the verge of a crucial battle against the Nightmare invading and corrupting your world. A roguelike action game from the creators of Curse of the Dead Gods, playable solo or in online co-op.

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Spelunky

45% Mutiger Treffer
Shared DNA
Adventure Genre Action Theme Co-operative Mode Multiplayer Mode Single player Mode Co-op Game feel Multiplayer Game feel Roguelike Game feel
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Weltdesign in IGDB nicht eindeutig klassifiziert · Keine Beschreibung von IGDB verfügbar

20 Rayman Legends Cover

2013 · Stadia, PC, PS3

Rayman Legends

43%

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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Spelunky

43% Mutiger Treffer
Shared DNA
Adventure Genre Platform Genre Action Theme Co-operative Mode Multiplayer Mode Single player Mode Side view Perspective Co-op Game feel
Trade-offs

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

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