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266 games like Ape Out · 1987 – 2025
Nintendo console exclusive
Switch, Windows
Old School Musical is a retro rhythm game that will make you fall back in your childhood. Tib and Rob are the heroes of an epic and completely crazy adventure that will make them cross numerous worlds searching for the source of all bugs. W
73 rating1 list3 h main storyOften paired
Switch, PS4, Windows +1
Boomerang Fu is a frantic physics fighting game. Choose from an adorable cast of food characters and slice up your friends with boomerangs and a ridiculous range of stackable powerups.
73 rating4 lists1 h main storyOften paired
Timed PlayStation exclusive
Android, Linux, Switch +4
"The Swords of Ditto is a compact action RPG that creates a unique adventure for each new hero of legend in the relentless fight against the evil Mormo. Explore a delightful but dangerous overworld, brave menacing dungeons, and improve your
70 rating2 lists6.5 h main storyOften paired
Switch, PS4, PS5 +3
In Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: Rita's Rewind, the team faces off against a robotic reincarnation of the Power Rangers' long-time nemesis. Robo-Rita has conjured a portal to send herself back in time so she can finally vanquish the Power R
75 rating4 lists2.5 h main story
Switch, PS4, PS5 +3
Fight’N Rage is a brand new old-school side-scroller beat’em up. Inspired by the classics from the “golden age”, and with an art style that mimics the aesthetic from the 90's arcade gems, this game pays homage to all classic gameplay featur
76 rating4 lists2.5 h main story
Jacob Dzwinel · Switch, PS4, Windows +2
Fight your way across the city in a brutal romp that mixes old school brawlers and fast-paced motion-captured combat. You’re Babyface, a former member of the criminal underworld lured back into “the life” by a mysterious AI drone. Your miss
76 rating1 list6 h main story
Pixile Studios · Switch, PS4, PS5 +5
Select your favorite adorably murderous fox, panda, or sloth and parachute into a furocious 64-player battle arena. Explore a top-down 2D world, full of exotic biomes, psychotic animals, hamster balls, emus and much more. Wield pistols, sni
66 rating7 lists2 h main story
Timed Nintendo exclusive
Switch, PS4, Windows
The Takeover is a side-scrolling beat'em up inspired by 90's classics such as Streets of Rage and Final Fight. Battle solo or alongside a friend in local co-op while listening to awesome tunes from Little V Mills, Richie Branson, James Rona
70 rating5 lists2.5 h main story
Powerhoof · Linux, Switch, PS4 +3
Crawl is the local multiplayer dungeon crawler where your friends control the monsters! It’s bullet-hell beat-em-up meets old-school RPG, in an arcadey party-game for up to 4 players. One player is the hero, exploring a randomly generated d
63 rating3 lists1 h main story
Switch, PS4, Windows +1
My Friend Pedro is a violent ballet about friendship, imagination, and one man’s struggle to obliterate anyone in his path at the behest of a sentient banana.
74 rating5 lists4 h main story
Choice Provisions · PS4, Windows, Xbox One +1
Remember what it means to be a human in this interactive biography of a dead astronaut found in deep space by future intelligences who have no concept of humankind. With technology far beyond human comprehension, the discoverers of the ast
59 rating2 lists1.5 h main story
Timed Nintendo exclusive
Switch, Windows, Xbox One +1
A highschool gang leader Ringo Ishikawa trying to live through his last autumn before graduation. With his best friends.
66 rating3 lists7.5 h main story
Stormind Games · Switch, Nintendo Switch 2, PS4 +2
Broken Porcelain brings an abundance of welcome changes to the series, introducing new gameplay and storytelling elements that breathe new life into the characters and an unprecedented level of immersion in this haunting adventure - perfect
52 rating6 lists6.5 h main story
PlayStation console exclusive
PS5, Windows
Play as Nate, an unemployed failson with nothing going for him, until one day he discovers a power he never knew he had… putting one foot in front of the other. Explore a world shrouded in mist, one step at a time. Hike the serene mountains
72 rating1 list10 h main storyDescribed alike
Flux Games · Switch, PS4, Windows +1
Choose a side, master your moves, and embrace your destiny in an epic beat 'em up adventure inspired by the hit show. Take control of 8 playable characters with deep movesets, combos, progressions, and more! 34 years after the events of the
56 rating1 list10 h main story
WayForward Technologies · Android, Switch, PS4 +4
River City Girls stars Kyoko and Misako, two street-tough high-schoolers who must fight their way through the six regions of River City to rescue their kidnapped boyfriends, series mainstays Kunio and Riki. Along the way, they'll utilize an
76 rating6 lists7 h main story
Nintendo console exclusive
Choice Provisions · Nintendo 3DS, Switch, Wii +2
Bit.Trip Core visits a darker place in CommanderVideo's saga, taking the player into unfamiliar territory as they use NES-style controls to blast their way through the barrage of Beats in this rhythm-music adventure.
60 rating3 lists2 h main story
Nintendo console exclusive
Android, Switch, Windows +2
Play as characteristic heroines, dash through fairy tale like stages, dancing to the rhythm and beats, kick those silly cute enemies into outer space!
70 rating2 lists7 h main story
Timed Nintendo exclusive
Dodge Roll · Android, Switch, PS4 +4
Exit the Gungeon is a bullet hell dungeon climber immediately following the adventures of the misfit ‘Gungeoneers’ and their journey for personal absolution in Enter the Gungeon. The Gungeon has become a paradox and is collapsing! Armed wit
67 rating3 lists4.5 h main story
Berzerk Studio · Linux, Switch, PS4 +5
A chaotic co-op musical bullet-hell based on three simple things: avoid Shapes, move to the kick-ass Beats, and die, repeatedly.
81 rating5 lists3.5 h main story
Android, Linux, Switch +6
All that stands between you and your freedom is a perfectly executed escape plan. The Escapists provides players the opportunity of experiencing a light-hearted insight into everyday prison life with the main objective being that of breakin
66 rating7 lists19 h main story
Timed PlayStation exclusive
Drool · Android, Meta Quest, Switch +8
Thumper is a rhythm violence game. It combines classic rhythm-action with breakneck speed and brutal physicality. Thumper strips rhythm gaming down to its core. Classic rhythm-action is combined with breakneck speed and brutal physicality.
79 rating11 lists8 h main story
Switch, PS4, Windows +2
DISTRUST is an isometric survival adventure with procedural generation on an Arctic research station lost in the endless dark of a polar night. A story-rich fiction with multiple endings that suits both singleplayer fans and co-op enthusias
72 rating1 list5 h main story
Switch, PS4, Windows +1
When an old woman's computer system is taken over by a fascist virus bent on total annihilation, you assume control of an ordinary software program transformed into an elite combat machine. Retake the system and build your character into a
50 rating3 lists3 h main story
Phosfiend Systems · Windows, macOS
Fract Osc is a musical exploration game. You arrive in a forgotten place and explore the vast and unfamiliar landscape to discover the secrets of a world built on sound. You rebuild its machinery by solving puzzles and bring the world back
73 rating2 lists5.5 h main story
The Game Bakers · Switch, PS4, PS5 +2
Fight your way free in our frenzied all-boss fighter, and discover what’s waiting behind the last gate. Furi is all about the tension of one-on-one fights against deadly adversaries. It’s an intense, ultra-responsive hack-and-slash with a u
79 rating6 lists5.5 h main story
Android, Windows
GoreBox is a chaotic physics-driven sandbox where creativity meets destruction. Use the Reality Crusher to spawn, manipulate, and obliterate anything. Customize, battle with friends, roleplay, or face devious creatures. In this world, your
88 rating1 list
Timed Xbox exclusive
Tango Gameworks · PS5, Windows, Xbox Series
As wannabe rockstar Chai, you’ll fight back against a sinister robotics enhancement conglomerate using rhythm-amplified combat where everything – from the motion in the environment to the blows of combat – is synced to the music.
86 rating5 lists11 h main story
Flux Games · Switch, PS4, Windows +1
Choose a side, master your moves, and embrace your destiny in an epic beat 'em up adventure inspired by the hit show. Take control of 8 playable characters with deep movesets, combos, progressions, and more! 34 years after the events of the
56 rating4 lists
Switch, PS4, PS5 +3
4 Player Co-op Beat 'Em Up that's all about insanly fast paced action with colour 2D graphics.
1 list3 h main story
PlayStation console exclusive
Cloudhead Games · Meta Quest, Oculus VR, PlayStation VR +2
Pistol Whip is a physical action-rhythm game where film-inspired gunplay and blood-pumping beats collide. Blast, duck and dodge your way through fever dream Scenes, build unique rhythms in a ballet of bullets and claim glory on the leaderbo
83 rating2 lists2 h main story
PS4, Windows, Xbox One
The game allows you to follow and interact with a new group of characters. The tale is a new one set in the North American Rocky Mountains during the timeline between ‘Dawn of Planet of the Apes’ and ‘War for Planet of the Apes.’ Explore yo
64 rating3 lists
PlayStation console exclusive
Rebellion Developments · Meta Quest, PlayStation VR, SteamVR +1
Grab your rifle, gaze down the scope and take aim in this stealth-action WW2 first-person shooter built exclusively for VR. With an explosive campaign, astonishing immersion, authentic weaponry, and signature gunplay from the award-winning
73 rating1 list8.5 h main story
Loren Lemcke · Linux, Switch, PS4 +3
Relive the golden age of arcade sports gaming with Super Blood Hockey — A violent homage to classic 8-bit and 16-bit ice hockey games. Customize your line up and take to the ice, using fast-paced skills and bone-crunching brutality to domi
80 rating2 lists4.5 h main story
Switch, PS5, Windows +1
From the studio that brought you the Blasphemous series comes The Stone of Madness: a real-time tactical stealth game set in an 18th-century Spanish Monastery. Located in the Pyrenees, this time-worn Jesuit monastery is home to a madhouse a
52 rating1 list19 h main story
Creative Assembly · Linux, Windows, macOS
A Total War Saga: Troy is the first in the award-winning strategy series to focus on the Bronze-Age Mediterranean and the legendary twenty-year conflict between the kingdoms of Troy and Mycenaean Greece, known as the Trojan War.
74 rating1 list35 h main story
Windows
Begin your journey in this dark fantasy rogue-lite. As a warrior, a Yotun, descend into the ever-changing Durnar and uncover the mysteries of your tribe. Use a variety of Symbiotic Weapons to fight enemies and mutate to become even stronger
1 list18 h main story
Capcom · Arcade
Avengers, sometimes known as Avenger, and known in Japan as Hissatsu Buraiken (必殺 無頼拳?, lit. "Deadly Ruffian Fist"), is a 1987 overhead-view vertically scrolling beat 'em up arcade game developed and published by Capcom. The game was direct
1 list
Terahard · Switch, PS4, Windows +1
Punch and claw your way through forty fast paced levels of pure mayhem, while honing your Ninja Cat skills, in order to rescue your Master from the evil claws of an unknown enemy.
50 rating1 list12 h main story
Sega console exclusive
Sega AM2 · Amiga, Amstrad CPC, Arcade +7
Side-scrolling beat 'em ups in which you must rescue a trapped female friend are nothing unusual. Where this one stands out, however, is the setting of your character as a duck called Bin, and with motion having a clear waddling appearance.
60 rating8 lists
Bits & Beasts · Android, Linux, PS4 +4
Feist is a beautiful, poetic and action packed game, with an enchanting and spooky atmosphere. It tells the story of a small creature surviving in a mysterious, hostile world. Once players escape the crude crate the strange, lumbering beast
61 rating2 lists2.5 h main story
Matrix Software · Android, Windows, iOS
This iOS rhythm game was developed by the Taito team behind Space Invaders Infinity Gene. Are you ready to ride a roller coaster of sound and light through a universe of music?
65 rating1 list0 h main story
Linux, PS4, Wii U +3
With boots of speed on your feet, an infinite supply of bullets for your semi-automatic and the ability to jump over twice your own height, you're well equipped to go up against any enemy on your quest to reach Lovely Planet! Balance betwee
70 rating2 lists4 h main story
Nippon Ichi Software · Switch, Nintendo Switch Lite, PS4
You've got one day to live and a big score to settle in Mad Rat Dead! Combining elements of action platformers and rhythm games with a cartoon-meets-punk art style, this crazy caper has you guiding a newly-resurrected rat in his quest for v
90 rating3 lists
Dreadlocks Ltd · Android, Windows, macOS
Explore strange new worlds and enjoy unique adventures in Mimpi! Mimpi is fantastic new adventure, puzzle, and platformer game. The game is like a psychedelic illustration come alive. Mimpi the dog is searching for his master in eight div
75 rating2 lists3 h main story
Nintendo console exclusive
Kitty Calis · Switch, Windows
Hop on your scooter into the twisting traffic of the bustling city and the debris covered sands of the barren desert just in time to watch the sunset. Befriend your local shopkeeper, chase coins, hit big jumps, and accomplish fun goals alon
1 list0.5 h main story
Nintendo console exclusive
Switch, Windows, macOS
Rage in Peace is a story-driven action adventure with elements of surprise and memorization. Unravel the last day of Timmy's life, as he races against time to get back home and fulfill his sole dream of dying peacefully in his pajamas, in t
74 rating1 list6 h main story
Arc System Works · Switch, PS4, Windows
Downtown Rantou Koushinkyoku Mach!! is an enhanced version of River City Melee: Battle Royal Special with new elements added that make for more heated battles.
2 lists1 h main story