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292 games like Lode Runner

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01 Seen Cover

2019 · PC

Seen

73%

Seen is a runner game about a lonely kid struggling to reach his only hope.

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Lode Runner

73% Sehr nah dran
Shared DNA
✓ Platform Genre ✓ Puzzle Genre ✓ Action Theme ✓ Single player Mode ✓ Side view Perspective ✓ Puzzles Game feel
Trade-offs

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

02 Vesper Cover

2021 · PC

Vesper

73%

Thousands of years after the activation of the Vesper Protocol, a small android crosses a fallen world, hunted by merciless machines, to control the power of Light and decide the fate of his race.

Your match for

Lode Runner

73% Sehr nah dran
Shared DNA
✓ Platform Genre ✓ Puzzle Genre ✓ Action Theme ✓ Single player Mode ✓ Side view Perspective ✓ Puzzles Game feel
Trade-offs

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

03 Emuurom Cover

2026 · Linux, Mac, PC

Emuurom

69%

Emuurom ("eh-moo rom") is a nonviolent creature-scanning exploration platformer, where you document an ancient paradise before it's lost forever. Emuurom is a rule-discovery game ("metroidbrainia") in the vein of Animal Well, Void Stranger and Tunic: knowledge...

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Lode Runner

69% Sehr nah dran
Shared DNA
✓ Platform Genre ✓ Puzzle Genre ✓ Action Theme ✓ Science fiction Theme ✓ Single player Mode ✓ Side view Perspective ✓ Puzzles Game feel
Trade-offs

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

04 Planet Alpha Cover

2018 · Switch, PC, PS4

Planet Alpha

67%

Planet Alpha is an adventure set in a living alien world where you have the ability to manipulate the daytime. To survive on this strange planet you will have to be observant of how the environment and the wildlife behaviour changes depending on the time of d...

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Lode Runner

67% Spannender Match
Shared DNA
✓ Platform Genre ✓ Puzzle Genre ✓ Action Theme ✓ Science fiction Theme ✓ Single player Mode ✓ Side view Perspective ✓ Puzzles Game feel
Trade-offs

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

05 Bionic Bay Cover

2025 · PC, PS5

Bionic Bay

67%

An ordinary man in an extraordinary world. Bionic Bay is a new kind of a 2D platformer. It introduces a unique Swap mechanic, allowing players to interact with the physics-based world in new ways. The immersive gameplay is completed by spectacular environments...

Your match for

Lode Runner

67% Spannender Match
Shared DNA
✓ Platform Genre ✓ Puzzle Genre ✓ Action Theme ✓ Science fiction Theme ✓ Single player Mode ✓ Side view Perspective ✓ Puzzles Game feel
Trade-offs

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

06 Boor Cover

2017 · Linux, Mac, PC

Boor

67%

Boor is a 2D puzzle-platformer game, where you control a girl with a great power, the ability to multiply herself. With this power, she will be able to solve different puzzles that will block her way to explore a beautiful but strange world where she accidenta...

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Lode Runner

67% Spannender Match
Shared DNA
✓ Platform Genre ✓ Puzzle Genre ✓ Action Theme ✓ Science fiction Theme ✓ Single player Mode ✓ Side view Perspective ✓ Puzzles Game feel
Trade-offs

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

07 Semblance Cover

2018 · Mac, Switch, PC

Semblance

60%

Semblance is an innovative platformer with deformable terrain, set in a beautiful minimalist world. It’s a game that asks, what if you could deform and reshape the world itself? Semblance takes the idea of a ‘platform’ in a platformer and turns it on its head.

Your match for

Lode Runner

60% Spannender Match
Shared DNA
✓ Platform Genre ✓ Puzzle Genre ✓ Action Theme ✓ Single player Mode ✓ Side view Perspective ✓ Puzzles Game feel
Trade-offs

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

08 Tanglewood Cover

2018 · Linux, Mac, Switch

Tanglewood

60%

Set in a fictional world, this puzzle-platforming game follows a young creature, Nymn, who is separated from the family pack after the sun sets. Unable to get back to the safety of the underground home, Nymn must find a way to survive the night terrors and get...

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Lode Runner

60% Spannender Match
Shared DNA
✓ Platform Genre ✓ Puzzle Genre ✓ Action Theme ✓ Single player Mode ✓ Side view Perspective ✓ Puzzles Game feel
Trade-offs

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

09 Inside Cover

2016 · Mac, Switch, PC

Inside

59%

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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Lode Runner

59% Spannender Match
Shared DNA
✓ Platform Genre ✓ Puzzle Genre ✓ Action Theme ✓ Science fiction Theme ✓ Single player Mode ✓ Side view Perspective ✓ Puzzles Game feel
Trade-offs

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

10 Elasto Mania Cover

2000 · PC, iOS

Elasto Mania

58%

Elasto Mania (also known as Elma) is a physics-simulation game released in 2000. It claims to be "based on a real physical model." It explores the notion of elastic motorcycles. The goal of each level is to collect every apple (disappearing by contact) spread...

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Lode Runner

58% Spannender Match
Shared DNA
✓ Platform Genre ✓ Puzzle Genre ✓ Action Theme ✓ Single player Mode ✓ Side view Perspective ✓ Puzzles Game feel
Trade-offs

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

11 Portal 2 Cover

2011 · Linux, Mac, Switch

Portal 2

57%

Sequel to the acclaimed Portal (2007), Portal 2 pits the protagonist of the original game, Chell, and her new robot friend, Wheatley, against more puzzles conceived by GLaDOS, an A.I. with the sole purpose of testing the Portal Gun's mechanics and taking reven...

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Lode Runner

57% Spannender Match
Shared DNA
✓ Platform Genre ✓ Puzzle Genre ✓ Action Theme ✓ Science fiction Theme ✓ Single player Mode ✓ Puzzles Game feel
Trade-offs

No description available from IGDB

12 Portal Cover

2007 · Android, Linux, Mac

Portal

57%

Waking up in a seemingly empty laboratory, the player is made to complete various physics-based puzzle challenges through numerous test chambers in order to test out the new Aperture Science Handheld Portal Device, without an explanation as to how, why or by w...

Your match for

Lode Runner

57% Spannender Match
Shared DNA
✓ Platform Genre ✓ Puzzle Genre ✓ Action Theme ✓ Science fiction Theme ✓ Single player Mode ✓ Puzzles Game feel
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No description available from IGDB

13 Ori and the Blind Forest Cover

2015 · Switch, PC, XONE

Ori and the Blind Forest

57%

The forest of Nibel is dying. After a powerful storm sets a series of devastating events in motion, an unlikely hero must journey to find his courage and confront a dark nemesis to save his home. Ori and the Blind Forest tells the tale of a young orphan destin...

Your match for

Lode Runner

57% Spannender Match
Shared DNA
✓ Platform Genre ✓ Puzzle Genre ✓ Action Theme ✓ Single player Mode ✓ Side view Perspective ✓ Puzzles Game feel
Trade-offs

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

14 Mirror's Edge Cover

2008 · PC, PS3, X360

Mirror's Edge

57%

Mirror's Edge is a first-person action-adventure game focused on parkour and free-running. Set in a heavily surveilled city, players control Faith, a courier who traverses rooftops using wall-runs, jumps, and slides to deliver sensitive information. The gamepl...

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Lode Runner

57% Spannender Match
Shared DNA
✓ Platform Genre ✓ Puzzle Genre ✓ Action Theme ✓ Science fiction Theme ✓ Single player Mode ✓ Puzzles Game feel
Trade-offs

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

15 Little Nightmares II Cover

2021 · Stadia, Switch, PC

Little Nightmares II

57%

Little Nightmares II is a puzzle-platformer and survival horror game in which players control Mono, a young boy navigating a nightmarish world warped by the transmission of a distant Signal Tower. Gameplay combines environmental puzzle-solving with stealth and...

Your match for

Lode Runner

57% Spannender Match
Shared DNA
✓ Platform Genre ✓ Puzzle Genre ✓ Action Theme ✓ Single player Mode ✓ Side view Perspective ✓ Puzzles Game feel
Trade-offs

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

16 Mega Man Cover

1987 · famicom, 3DS, NES

Mega Man

55%

Experience the game that started it all! Play as cybernetic hero Mega Man as you battle to stop the evil scientist Dr. Wily and his Robot Masters from taking over the world! A classic platformer in every sense of the word, Mega Man features timeless 8-bit grap...

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Lode Runner

55% Spannender Match
Shared DNA
✓ Platform Genre ✓ Action Theme ✓ Science fiction Theme ✓ Single player Mode ✓ Side view Perspective ✓ Puzzles Game feel
Trade-offs

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

17 Mega Man 3 Cover

1990 · Arcade, famicom, 3DS

Mega Man 3

55%

It's robot rebellion, and nobody's safe! Least of all, Mega Man! This time the superpowerful cyborg takes on a horde of metal maniacs who've had it with being obedient! And they use every android-annihilator ever invented to make you believe it! Mega Man goes...

Your match for

Lode Runner

55% Spannender Match
Shared DNA
✓ Platform Genre ✓ Action Theme ✓ Science fiction Theme ✓ Single player Mode ✓ Side view Perspective ✓ Puzzles Game feel
Trade-offs

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

18 BattleBlock Theater Cover

2013 · Linux, Mac, PC

BattleBlock Theater

53%

In BattleBlock Theater, players control a prisoner as they are forced to play through games devised by Hatty Hattington. Controls are simple, with the game largely consisting of running, jumping and punching. Levels are made up of various types of blocks, such...

Your match for

Lode Runner

53% Spannender Match
Shared DNA
✓ Platform Genre ✓ Puzzle Genre ✓ Action Theme ✓ Single player Mode ✓ Side view Perspective ✓ Puzzles Game feel
Trade-offs

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

19 Limbo Cover

2010 · Android, Linux, Mac

Limbo

52%

Limbo is a black and white puzzle-platforming adventure. Players take the role of a young boy traveling through an eerie and treacherous world in an attempt to discover the fate of his sister.

Your match for

Lode Runner

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

No description available from IGDB

20 Little Nightmares Cover

2017 · Android, Stadia, Switch

Little Nightmares

52%

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...

Your match for

Lode Runner

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

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

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