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289 games like Calico

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01 Nameless Cat Cover

2020 · Android, PC, iOS

Nameless Cat

81%

Embark on a journey as a cat to search for a way to return to your owner!

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Calico

81% Sehr nah dran
Shared DNA
✓ Indie Genre ✓ Platform Genre ✓ Action Theme ✓ Single player Mode ✓ Side view Perspective ✓ Challenging Game feel
Trade-offs

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02 Espada de Sheris Cover

Year unknown · browser

Espada de Sheris

81%

The original indie videogame 2D platformer focused on parkour beta created in 2020 that tells the story of the future of 4000 the cat Kibo Butterboard Ansakamon viewing crystals power was stolen by Sovereign Stickers alien demon

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Calico

81% Sehr nah dran
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 Love 2: Kuso Cover

2017 · Android, Linux, Mac

Love 2: Kuso

75%

Kuso, the sequel to Love, is a reductive platforming game with a retro aesthetic and a focus on a challenging difficulty. You find yourself in a minimalist world and with only the ability to run and jump, as well as the option to leave a checkpoint on any soli...

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Calico

75% Sehr nah dran
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

04 Asteroid Dodger Cover

2020 · PC

Asteroid Dodger

68%

Asteroid dodger is a fun and fast paced game where you are an alien who must dodge the asteroids falling from the sky and not get hit by the spikes. You can play as a green and blue alien.

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Calico

68% Sehr nah dran
Shared DNA
✓ Indie Genre ✓ Platform Genre ✓ Action Theme ✓ Single player Mode ✓ Side view Perspective
Trade-offs

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

05 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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Calico

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

06 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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Calico

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

07 Last Soul Cover

2021 · Mac, Switch, PC

Last Soul

62%

"Last Soul" is a 2d pixel art action platformer with a compelling story about a future where mankind has lost its will. Explore and fight your way through a variety of levels, and take on awesome boss enemies.

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Calico

62% Spannender Match
Shared DNA
✓ Indie Genre ✓ Platform Genre ✓ Action Theme ✓ Single player Mode ✓ Side view Perspective
Trade-offs

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

08 Geometry Dash Cover

2013 · Android, Mac, PC

Geometry Dash

61%

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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Calico

61% 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 Trine Cover

2009 · Linux, Mac, PC

Trine

59%

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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Calico

59% 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

10 Cuphead Cover

2017 · Mac, Switch, PC

Cuphead

57%

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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Calico

57% 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 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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Calico

57% 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

12 Astral Ascent Cover

2023 · Mac, Switch, PC

Astral Ascent

57%

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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Calico

57% Spannender Match
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

13 Deep Sea Sweep Cover

Year unknown · PC

Deep Sea Sweep

56%

A cute 2d platformer where you clean up the sea of all these filthy treasures chests plaguing the various biomes. Swim, jump and bonk meanies on their head in many short but challenging levels with simple but tight controls.

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Calico

56% Spannender Match
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

14 Super Smash Bros. Brawl Cover
54%

Super Smash Bros. Brawl is the third installment in the Super Smash Bros. series and the follow-up to Super Smash Bros. Melee. This edition introduces super attacks referred to as final smashes, as well as a brand-new adventure mode in The Subspace Emissary wh...

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Calico

54% Spannender Match
Shared DNA
✓ 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 Zelda II: The Adventure of Link Cover

1987 · fds, 3DS, NES

Zelda II: The Adventure of Link

53%

Zelda II: The Adventure of Link is the second major installment in The Legend of Zelda series and the direct sequel to the first game. Like its predecessor, it features dungeons that must be located in the overworld and searched for an item that will prove use...

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Calico

53% Spannender Match
Shared DNA
✓ 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 Crash Bandicoot Cover

1996 · Android, PS1, PS3

Crash Bandicoot

52%

Crash Bandicoot is the first installment in the Crash Bandicoot series that established Naughty Dog's reputation in the video game industry. Its premises chronicle the creation of the titular Crash, a bandicoot who has been uplifted by the mad scientist Doctor...

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Calico

52% Spannender Match
Shared DNA
✓ Platform Genre ✓ Action Theme ✓ Single player Mode ✓ Challenging Game feel
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17 Metroid: Zero Mission Cover

2004 · GBA, WiiU

Metroid: Zero Mission

52%

The full story of Samus Aran's first mission finally unfolds... The first Metroid game just scratched the surface of the cataclysmic events on planet Zebes, and at long last the rest of the tale has come to light. Experience the first of Samus's legendary adv...

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Calico

52% Spannender Match
Shared DNA
✓ Platform Genre ✓ Action Theme ✓ Single player Mode ✓ Side view Perspective ✓ Challenging Game feel
Trade-offs

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18 Contra Cover

1987 · Arcade

Contra

52%

Contra (also known as Gryzor in Oceania and Europe), is a 1987 run and gun action game developed and published by Konami originally released as a coin-operated arcade game on February 20, 1987. The game had multiple ports, including for various computer format...

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Calico

52% 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

19 Advent Neon Cover

2025 · PC

Advent Neon

51%

Hyperactive 2D action platformer with wicked fast attacks, omnidirectional dashing, and time-freezing! Play well enough to transform and unleash 100% power!

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Calico

51% Mutiger Treffer
Shared DNA
✓ Indie Genre ✓ Platform Genre ✓ Action Theme ✓ Single player Mode ✓ Side view Perspective
Trade-offs

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

20 Outlast Cover

2013 · Linux, Mac, Switch

Outlast

48%

Hell is an experiment you can't survive in Outlast, a first-person survival horror game developed by veterans of some of the biggest game franchises in history. As investigative journalist Miles Upshur, explore Mount Massive Asylum and try to survive long enou...

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Calico

48% Mutiger Treffer
Shared DNA
✓ Indie Genre ✓ Action Theme ✓ Single player Mode ✓ Challenging Game feel
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