

Ostron
1983Andrew Glaister · ZX Spectrum
Ostron, originally released as Joust, is a ZX Spectrum video game developed and released by Softek in 1983. It is a clone of the 1982 arcade video game Joust.
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147 games like Elixir · 1983 – 2026


Andrew Glaister · ZX Spectrum
Ostron, originally released as Joust, is a ZX Spectrum video game developed and released by Softek in 1983. It is a clone of the 1982 arcade video game Joust.
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Amiga, Amstrad CPC, Amstrad PCW +5
Livingstone II, also called Livingstone Supongo II, is a 1989 platformer video game developed by Opera Soft. It is a sequel to the video game Livingstone, I Presume?.
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Amiga, Atari ST, Atari ST/STE +4
In this game you play the role of the Doctor from the BBC science fiction program Doctor Who. The story sees you trying to stop the Daleks from invading earth with help from your companions. The gameplay starts with you flying along the sew
2 lists5 h main story


Timed Sega exclusive
Capcom · Amiga, Arcade, Atari ST +5
The game takes the form of a side-scrolling platform game, with the players controlling the characters of the twins. The game can be played alone (in which case only one of the twins is present), or with two players together controlling one
60 rating6 lists
Sega exclusive
Sega Genesis
Generations Lost is a platform action game in which the player takes the role of Monobe, an adventurer on the search for the past of his people. Thanks to his magic armour Monobe is able to execute many different moves. Besides running and
59 rating1 list
PlayStation console exclusive
PS4, Windows
This is a difficult game about climbing.
66 rating1 list6.5 h main story


Tim Follin · Amstrad CPC, Commodore 64, Commodore C64/128/MAX +1
Agent X II: The Mad Prof's Back is a computer game released in 1987 for the ZX Spectrum, Amstrad CPC and Commodore 64. It is the follow-up to the ZX Spectrum game Agent X. The player takes control of the eponymous Agent X in a multi-load g
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Data East · Arcade
A fast moving platform game in which the player controls the Indiana Jones-esque and unfortunately named 'Edward Randy'. The levels are an inventive mix of standard platform action and 3-D scrolling levels; the latter usually having the pla
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Krisalis Software · Acorn Archimedes, Amiga, Atari ST +1
A puzzle-platformer for home computers. The eponymous professor needs to shut down his wayward laboratory experiments before the authorities find out and have him committed.
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Gremlin Interactive · Amiga, Amstrad CPC, Atari ST +4
An action / platformer based on the popular Mickey Mouse character
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Acorn Electron, BBC Micro, Windows
Pipeline is a video game for the BBC Micro and Acorn Electron, originally published by Superior Software in 1988. It is an overhead view action role-playing game set on a mining platform. It was remade for Windows as Pipeline Plus (2004).
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Nintendo exclusive
Game Boy Advance
Tired of endlessly doing battle with meddling bandicoots, the nefarious Dr. Neo Cortex shrinks the entire Earth, and Crash and Coco along with it, to the size of a wumpa fruit. Luckily, Coco invents a machine to reverse the effects, but she
72 rating2 lists


Untame · Android, Linux, Windows +2
An award-winning anti-platformer where destruction is the only way to move. Mold yourself into any form by destroying your cells, and traverse a devastated landscape filled with brain-twisting puzzles and bizarre mutations. Are you ready to
67 rating1 list5.5 h main story
Nintendo exclusive
Arc System Works · Nintendo DS
A side scrolling DSiWare platformer.
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Gremlin Interactive · Amiga, Atari ST, Atari ST/STE +1
A platformer-shooter similar to Metal Storm. A specially-designed robotic beetle is sent to take down the legions of rogue AI insects meant to terraform a post-apocalyptic world.
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Amstrad CPC, Atari 8-bit, Commodore 64 +2
An isometric adventure game set on an alien spaceship bound for earth.
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MS-DOS
A sci-fi adventure game for DOS with EGA graphics and a text interface in which the player has to save the Earth from colliding with a mechanically-controlled asteroid.
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Nintendo exclusive
Visual Concepts · SNES
The player controls Harley, a man in a green suit who has shrunk himself to size of a bar of soap. The player's mission is to gather parts of Harley's (presumably) now-destroyed shrinking machine to return him to normal size. As the player
50 rating2 lists


Game Boy, MS-DOS, SNES +2
A simple platform game, in which you're in a role of porter, jumping down the streets and buildings, and taking as many points as you can get.
53 rating5 lists
Nintendo exclusive
Software Creations · Game Boy
The player is an astronaut trapped on an alien spaceship who has to try to find his way out while avoiding aliens and continually replenishing his oxygen supply. This was the first isometric view game on the Game Boy
47 rating1 list


JumpStart Solutions · Windows
An early survival/puzzle adventure game set within highly detailed, simulated environments.
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Windows
An action adventure game that takes you to an alien world of mystery and hidden dangers.
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ZX Spectrum
Jet-Story is a 1988 video game developed by Cybexlab Software and published by Ultrasoft. The game is the sequel to Planet of Shades.
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Acorn Archimedes, Amiga, Atari ST +1
Tower of Babel is a computer game for the Amiga, Atari ST and Acorn Archimedes systems programmed by Pete Cooke, developed by Rainbird Software and released by Microprose Software in 1989. It is a puzzle video game played on a three-dimensi
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7 Studios · Nintendo DS, PS2, Wii
Players take the role of George from the popular cartoon show, George of the Jungle, in a 3D side scrolling action-adventure. Players swing, climb, and platform their way through the jungle in search of the missing documents which could hol
40 rating5 lists
Xbox console exclusive
Coatsink · Android, Windows, Xbox Series
Replaced is a 2.5D sci-fi retro-futuristic action platformer where you play as R.E.A.C.H. - an artificial intelligence trapped in a human body against its own will. Replaced combines cinematic platforming, pixel art and free-flow action com
84 rating2 lists8.5 h main story
Xbox console exclusive
Vladimír Kudělka · Windows, Xbox One, Xbox Series
Afterglitch is an experimental third-person exploration sci-fi video game. The player is an astronaut whose multidimensional journey to find an extraterrestrial civilization is more important than the destination!
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Daisuke Amaya · Dreamcast, Linux, Nintendo 3DS +4
A side-scrolling platformer in which a robot traverses a strange world that has been thrown into disorder due to its violent history and a doctor that is attempting to exploit the inhabitants to aid him in his own pursuit for power.
84 rating8 lists6.5 h main story
PlayStation exclusive
PlayStation
An action adventure game by Squaresoft. Set in a futuristic sci-fi universe, the player switches between 3 members of the Space Investigation Squad, tasked with finding out the fate of a vanished diplomatic vessel.
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Java virtual machine, Windows, macOS
A combination of a platform and action game, the goal of the game character is to climb a tower by jumping onto steps of a staircase inside it. The game brings you custom characters, unlockable floors types, replays to share with your frien
60 rating1 list


Xbox console exclusive
Windows, Xbox
In this game by American McGee you play as D-Tritus, a robot new to Scrapland, an asteroid inhabited entirely by robots inside a giant debris field, who has to stop someone from killing several important robots and taking over Scrapland. "
67 rating3 lists


Capcom · Arcade, NES, TurboGrafx-16 +1
The game is a 2-D sidescrolling platformer. The screen scrolls automatically, only stopping to fight major enemies. The screen features six continuous platforms that occasionally feature small gaps. Sonson and Tonton walk automatically acro
61 rating5 lists


Windows
A strategy game for the PC set in the Star Trek universe.
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PlayStation console exclusive
Cryo Interactive · MS-DOS, PlayStation
This is a sci-fi shooter with gameplay similar to the Rebel Assault series. Divided into missions, you get to play in ship-to-ship combat, mechanised warrior battles, surface-planetary warfare and tail-gunning, according to the developers.
30 rating1 list


Artech Digital Entertainment · Windows, macOS
The player character is an alien named "Gnap", who gets stranded on earth due to his spaceship crash landing. Now he must find and repair his wrecked ship so he can return home. The game is a comic adventure with themes aimed at a mature a
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MS-DOS
Wooden Ships and Iron Men is a 1996 computer wargame developed by Stanley Associates and published by Avalon Hill. It is an adaptation of the board wargame Wooden Ships and Iron Men.
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Xbox console exclusive
Alientrap · Linux, Windows, Xbox 360 +1
Capsized is a fast paced 2D platformer focused on intense action and exploration. As a intrepid space traveler, your ship has crash landed on a mysterious alien planet. You must navigate through the perilous environment and fight off blood-
67 rating4 lists4 h main story


Amstrad CPC, Commodore 16, Commodore 64 +2
Death or Glory is a multidirectional scrolling shooter developed by Wise Owl Software and published by CRL Group in 1987 for the Commodore 64, Commodore 16, Plus/4, ZX Spectrum, and Amstrad CPC. The player pilots a spaceship and encounters
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Timed Nintendo exclusive
Over The Moon · Linux, Switch, PS4 +4
The Fall is a side-scrolling adventure game with platforming and combat elements. Your character is an AI controlling a combat suit whose occupant is unresponsive and presumably dead or seriously injured. You have crash landed on an unknown
78 rating1 list3.5 h main story
BBC Micro
Grand Prix Construction Set is a racing video game for the BBC Micro released in 1987 by Superior Software. It is a simulation of Formula One coupled with a track editor. It can be played in full screen single-player or two-player split scr
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Adventure Soft · Acorn Electron, Amstrad CPC, BBC Micro +4
Kayleth is a first person adventure video game for the Commodore 64 and the ZX Spectrum that was developed and published by Adventure Soft. The game has cyberpunk, sci fi and photo adventure elements.
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Windows
Pearl Harbor: Defend the Fleet is an action video game developed by WayForward and published by WizardWorks for Microsoft Windows in 2001. It is a game in which the player shoots down waves of Japanese planes.
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Acorn Electron, BBC Micro
Perplexity is a video game created by Ian Collinson for the Acorn Electron and BBC Micro and published by Superior Software in 1990. It is a pseudo 3D maze game with Sokoban-style puzzles.
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Timed PlayStation exclusive
Linux, PS4, PlayStation Vita +3
A Platformer like nothing seen before in games, explore this open-world puzzler in multiple dimensions on a journey to find your maker. Humanity has been extinct for centuries, leaving their robotic creations behind to fend for themselves.
63 rating2 lists3.5 h main story
ZX Spectrum
Survival is a ZX Spectrum video game developed by Five Ways Software. It was published by Sinclair Research in association with Macmillan Education in 1984 as part of their "Science Horizons" series. It is an educational game in which the p
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