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216 games like Never Give Up

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01 Dadish Cover

2020 · Android, Switch, PC

Dadish

100%

He’s a radish… and also a dad. His kids have gone missing from the vegetable patch, and he needs your help to find them! Explore an exciting world, face off with fast-food themed foes, and reunite Dadish with his missing children in this challenging platformi...

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Never Give Up

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✓ Adventure Genre ✓ Arcade Genre ✓ Indie Genre ✓ Platform Genre ✓ Action Theme ✓ Comedy Theme ✓ Single player Mode ✓ Side view Perspective
Trade-offs

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

02 Caveman Warriors Cover

2017 · Linux, Mac, Switch

Caveman Warriors

100%

Jump back in time and free your inner caveman. Smash heads in Caveman Warriors, a local cooperative 2D platformer game. Play solo, with one, two or three friends. Work together to become unstoppable! Choose one of the playable characters, but don’t worry! You...

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Never Give Up

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Shared DNA
✓ Adventure Genre ✓ Arcade Genre ✓ Indie Genre ✓ Platform Genre ✓ Action Theme ✓ Comedy Theme ✓ Single player Mode ✓ Side view Perspective
Trade-offs

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

03 Venture Kid Cover

2016 · Switch, PC, iOS

Venture Kid

89%

A 8-bit retro action platformer that goes beyond just pixels and chiptunes

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Never Give Up

89% Starker DNA-Match
Shared DNA
✓ Adventure Genre ✓ Arcade 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

04 Whipseey and the Lost Atlas Cover

2019 · Android, Switch, PC

Whipseey and the Lost Atlas

89%

After discovering a magical book, a young boy named Drew is whisked away to Whipseeyland, where he transforms into Whipseey, the pink, whip-wielding hero of this bright, colorful world. With the help of Princess Alyssa, Whipseey embarks on a quest to recover m...

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Never Give Up

89% Starker DNA-Match
Shared DNA
✓ Adventure Genre ✓ Arcade Genre ✓ 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 Cuphead Cover

2017 · Mac, Switch, PC

Cuphead

82%

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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Never Give Up

82% Starker DNA-Match
Shared DNA
✓ Adventure Genre ✓ Arcade Genre ✓ Indie Genre ✓ Platform Genre ✓ Action Theme ✓ Comedy Theme ✓ Single player Mode ✓ Side view Perspective
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

80%

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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Never Give Up

80% Sehr nah dran
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✓ Adventure Genre ✓ Indie Genre ✓ Platform Genre ✓ Action Theme ✓ Comedy Theme ✓ Single player Mode ✓ Side view Perspective
Trade-offs

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

07 Shovel Knight Cover

2014 · Linux, Mac, 3DS

Shovel Knight

80%

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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Never Give Up

80% Sehr nah dran
Shared DNA
✓ 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 36 Fragments of Midnight Cover

2017 · Linux, Mac, New 3DS

36 Fragments of Midnight

79%

In this procedurally generated platform game, you have to collect all the Star Fragments of Midnight's friends to get of their greatest gift.

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Never Give Up

79% Sehr nah dran
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✓ Adventure Genre ✓ Arcade 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

09 Balthazar's Dream Cover

2017 · Linux, Mac, Switch

Balthazar's Dream

79%

Visit a wonderfully peculiar dog's dream in a heroic attempt to save your owner in this beautiful pixel art puzzle platformer.

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79% Sehr nah dran
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✓ Adventure Genre ✓ Arcade Genre ✓ 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

10 Gravity Circuit Cover

2023 · Linux, Mac, Switch

Gravity Circuit

77%

Gravity Circuit is a flashy action packed 2D platformer in the spirit of console classics. Follow Kai, a lone operative war hero who harnesses the mysterious powers of the Gravity Circuit, on an adventure in a futuristic world inhabited by sentient robots.

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Never Give Up

77% Sehr nah dran
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✓ Arcade 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

11 Dungreed Cover

2018 · Android, Linux, Mac

Dungreed

77%

Dungreed is 2D side-scrolling action game with a Rogue-LITE element. You'll explore the ever-changing dungeon that destroyed everything in the village. Kill enemies, Use various weapons, spells, and eat food to defeat evil in the dungeon!

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Never Give Up

77% Sehr nah dran
Shared DNA
✓ Adventure Genre ✓ 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

12 Janosik Cover

2020 · Linux, Mac, PC

Janosik

77%

Challenging retro pixel graphics action-platformer. Become a legendary rogue Janosik and explore the big mountain castle level full of secrets.

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Never Give Up

77% 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

13 Love 3 Cover

2021 · Linux, Switch, PC

Love 3

77%

LOVE 3 is a precision platformer where you control fiveEight, a lone survivor searching for others in a mechanical, apocalyptic world. Face challenging obstacles, discover hidden secrets, and try to find hope within the hopeless as you overcome each new danger...

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Never Give Up

77% Sehr nah dran
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✓ Arcade 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 Broforce Cover

2015 · Linux, Mac, Switch

Broforce

73%

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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Never Give Up

73% Sehr nah dran
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✓ Arcade 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

15 Katana Zero Cover

2019 · Android, Mac, Switch

Katana Zero

71%

Katana Zero is a fast paced neo-noir action platformer, focusing on tight, instant-death acrobatic combat, and a dark 80's neon aesthetic. Aided with your trusty katana, the time manipulation drug Chronos and the rest of your assassin's arsenal, fight your way...

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Never Give Up

71% Sehr nah dran
Shared DNA
✓ Adventure Genre ✓ Arcade 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 Cover

2017 · Linux, Mac, Switch

Hollow Knight

69%

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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Never Give Up

69% 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

17 Celeste Cover

2018 · Stadia, Linux, Mac

Celeste

69%

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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Never Give Up

69% Sehr nah dran
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✓ Adventure Genre ✓ 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

18 Dead Cells Cover

2018 · Android, Linux, Mac

Dead Cells

69%

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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Never Give Up

69% Sehr nah dran
Shared DNA
✓ Adventure Genre ✓ 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

19 Hollow Knight: Silksong Cover

2025 · Linux, Mac, Switch

Hollow Knight: Silksong

69%

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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Never Give Up

69% Sehr nah dran
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✓ Adventure Genre ✓ 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 Mark of the Ninja Cover

2012 · Linux, Mac, PC

Mark of the Ninja

69%

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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Never Give Up

69% 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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