Timed Nintendo exclusive
Inti Creates · Switch, PS4, Windows +2
The side-scrolling/top-down hybrid action adventure gameplay returns with a brand new sequel to Blaster Master Zero!
84 rating6 lists8 h main storyOften paired


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201 games like Mega Man 11 · 1990 – 2025
Timed Nintendo exclusive
Inti Creates · Switch, PS4, Windows +2
The side-scrolling/top-down hybrid action adventure gameplay returns with a brand new sequel to Blaster Master Zero!
84 rating6 lists8 h main storyOften paired


JoyMasher · Switch, PS4, Windows +1
Blazing Chrome is a classic co-op run 'n gun with an original arcade feel. Players can choose between Mavra, the badass human resistance, soldier or Doyle, the groovy rebel robot, to kick some metal ass.
78 rating4 lists2 h main storyOften paired
Timed Nintendo exclusive
Sabotage Studio · Switch, PS4, PS5 +2
As a demon army besieges his village, a young ninja ventures through a cursed world, to deliver a scroll paramount to his clan's survival. Leveraging players expectations as a core game design ingredient, The Messenger is first presented as
83 rating5 lists12 h main storyOften paired
Timed Nintendo exclusive
Inti Creates · Nintendo 3DS, Switch, PS4 +3
"The 2D high speed, old-school style side-scrolling action that you remember from Azure Striker Gunvolt is back! In this game, Gunvolt's rival Copen from the first installment returns to the fray as a playable character!"
78 rating3 lists5 h main storyOften paired


Linux, Switch, PS4 +4
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
89 rating8 lists8.5 h main storyOften paired
Timed Sega exclusive
Sonic Team · Android, Arcade, GameCube +12
Sonic the Hedgehog 2 is a side-scrolling platform game and the sequel to the original Sonic the Hedgehog. Players control Sonic as he traverses larger, faster-paced levels across West Side Island, collecting rings, defeating robot enemies,
88 rating5 listsOften paired
Nintendo exclusive
Interplay Entertainment · NES
The Adventures of Rad Gravity is a video game for the Nintendo Entertainment System developed by Interplay and published by Activision in 1990. The game is a platformer with a wacky storyline in which the eponymous main character explored m
50 rating2 listsOften paired


Switch, Nintendo Switch 2, PS4 +4
Slay the enemies in the silence of the moment. Run through the world of Shinobi full of monsters and ninja actions. Grab Oborozuki, the legendary sword, and slay evil once more. Your clan and the world are counting on you.
89 rating6 lists9 h main storyOften paired
Nintendo exclusive
Nintendo Entertainment Planning & Development · Switch
Join intergalactic bounty hunter Samus Aran in her first new 2D Metroid story in 19 years. Samus’ story continues after the events of the Metroid Fusion game when she descends upon planet ZDR to investigate a mysterious transmission sent to
84 rating6 listsOften paired
Nintendo exclusive
Lucasfilm Games · SNES
Metal Warriors is a 1995 action platformer video game developed by LucasArts and published by Konami for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System. The game was released exclusively in North America in April of 1995. Its gameplay mainly cons
80 rating2 listsOften paired


Arsi Patala · Windows
Ultrakill is a fast-paced ultraviolent retro FPS combining the skill-based scoring from character action games with unadulterated carnage inspired by the best shooters of the 90's. Rip apart your foes with varied destructive weapons and sho
81 rating1 list6.5 h main storyOften paired


Steel Mantis · Switch, PS4, Windows +2
Set in a far corner of space, Valfaris is a heavy metal infused 2D action-platformer and the next game from the team behind Unity Awards finalist, Slain: Back From Hell. Brutal combat. Deadly enemies. Stunning pixel art. Savage soundtrack.
81 rating6 lists7 h main story
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


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


Windows
Spark the electric jester is an action/platformer video game heavily based on best classics from the 16-bit era from both sides of the aisle. You play as Spark, an electric jester frustrated by the loss of his job! On one beautiful day, rob
72 rating1 list4.5 h main story


Linux, Switch, PS4 +3
Three explorers wander through a post-apocalyptic desert to find a way to save the people in their village. A dark, twisted tower has been pushed up from the depths of the Earth... but does it hold the answers they seek?
80 rating3 lists12 h main story
Nintendo console exclusive
Switch, Windows
Drainus is a side-scrolling shooting game in which players take control of the "Drainus", the Kharlal Empire's most cutting-edge fighter with the ability to absorb energy bullets, and take down the enemy ships zipping through space.
80 rating1 list2.5 h main story


Nexile · Android, Switch, PS4 +3
Jump King is a platforming challenge about struggling upwards in search of the legendary smoking hot babe! This lonely adventure to reach the top will demand full mastery of the technique of jumping. Just try to remember, with each fall the
77 rating1 list11 h main story


Two Tribes · Linux, Switch, PS4 +4
This is a 2D shooter / platformer with old school gaming values in a decidedly new school execution. During the intense 360 degree shooting and platforming action, players learn to alter the behavior of their robotic enemies by collecting a
81 rating2 lists4.5 h main story


Switch, PS4, Windows +2
Speed Limit is a non-stop genre-warping arcade experience that never slows down. No cuts, no lapses in the chaos, Speed Limit is an old-school action extravaganza boiled down to its core elements: Hard. Fast. Addictive. As soon as you thin
70 rating1 list1.5 h main story


Switch, PS4, Windows +1
The King's Bird is a momentum-based precision-platformer that seamlessly combines parkour with aerial movement.
69 rating4 lists9 h main story
Timed Nintendo exclusive
Switch, Windows, Xbox One
In ElecHead you control a short circuiting robot called Elec, who electrically charges any object or structure they are in contact with.
80 rating2 lists2 h main story


Double Fine · PS4, Windows, Xbox One +1
Launch into the ultimate head trip as you blast through psychotic robots in a retro 70's sci-fi action adventure from Double Fine Productions. It is a world of automation, a utopia gone wrong in which all of humanity have transferred their
77 rating3 lists5.5 h main story


Linux, Switch, PS4 +4
Hue is a stark puzzle platformer where you shift the hue of the world, creating rifts when colours collide. In this world, everyone sees in grayscale. Anne, a researcher specialising in colour theory, has created a mysterious ring which gr
74 rating5 lists4.5 h main story
Timed Nintendo exclusive
Morphcat Games · NES, PS4, PS5 +1
Enter the Demon Fortress. Built to torture pesky adventurers, this place is home to great treasure and ghastly creatures alike. But don't worry, you can count on allies like Fairies and Magical Seagulls to come to your help! Micro Mages is
80 rating1 list1 h main story


PS4, Windows, Xbox One
Trials with a storyline gives you 30 missions across 7 different worlds in a full narrative-driven adventure, a cast of colourful characters and a self-contained story set 12 years on from the events of Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon.
60 rating5 lists3 h main story
Timed PlayStation exclusive
Thomas Happ Games · Linux, Switch, PS4 +5
After a lab accident, a scientist awakens in a mysterious, alien world. Is this a distant planet? The far future? Or a complex virtual-reality computer simulation? Plumb the recesses of a large, labyrinthine world in order to learn its sec
80 rating9 lists11 h main story


Arcade
Rockman EXE: The Medal Operation is a medal arcade game from the Medalusion series released in 2005 only in Japan. This is the second medal game to the Rockman.EXE series, and is themed on Rockman.EXE 5. The player moves on a board that con
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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
Timed Sega exclusive
Senile Team · Dreamcast, Switch, PS4 +4
Intrepid Izzy is a genre-defying 2D game with a unique HD art style. Seamlessly blending platforming with beat-'em-up and adventure elements, Intrepid Izzy offers a gaming experience that feels both unique and familiar.
70 rating2 lists2.5 h main story


CreSpirit · Switch, PS4, PS5 +3
A new game from the creators of Rabi-Ribi, embark on an epic action-adventure as you slash, dash, and combo your way through a sprawling land scarred by conflict. Explore and discover hidden secrets. Customize your build to triumph in spect
80 rating1 list23 h main story


Transhuman Design · Browser, Linux, Switch +4
Butcher is a fast-paced 2D shooter game and a blood-soaked love letter to the early 90s. As a cyborg programmed to eradicate the last remains of humanity, your sole purpose is to well... annihilate anything that moves. So grab your weapon
71 rating5 lists3 h main story


Vertex Pop · Switch, PS4, Windows
"Skillfully pilot the advanced Graceful Explosion Machine (GEM) fighter while blasting swarms of crystalline enemies with your ludicrously overpowered quad-weapon array! Lost in deep space, you'll shoot, dash and combo your way through jew
77 rating2 lists4.5 h main story
Timed Xbox exclusive
Edmund McMillen · Android, Linux, Switch +7
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 le
84 rating1 list9 h main story
PlayStation console exclusive
N-Gage, PS2, PS3 +3
Red Faction revolutionizes gaming with Geo-Mod technology, the ability to completely alter and destroy the environment in real-time. Featuring 5 controllable vehicles, 15 weapons of mass destruction, unparalleled multiplayer action, and a s
72 rating4 lists6 h main story


JoyMasher · Switch, PS4, PS5 +1
Vengeful Guardian: Moonrider is a side-scrolling action platformer that channels the golden age of classic 16-bit action games in a full-throttle quest for revenge.
78 rating1 list3 h main story
PlayStation console exclusive
Alientrap · Linux, PS4, Windows +1
"Cryptark is a 2D roguelike shooter that challenges players with boarding and neutralizing procedurally generated alien starships to earn income for their Privateering enterprise. Purchase improved equipment and weapons to tackle more dange
80 rating2 lists4.5 h main story


Bombservice · Linux, Switch, PS4 +3
Momodora: Reverie Under the Moonlight is a sidescrolling platformer, and is the fourth installment of the Momodora series. Focusing on gameplay, melee combos, dodge mechanics, travel forwards in the search to save everyone. With your trusty
84 rating5 lists4.5 h main story


Devolver Digital · Android, Linux, Switch +4
Professional assassin turned amateur campaign manager Steve is charged with cleaning up the city by an anthropomorphic rabbit and mayoral candidate from the future named BunnyLord. Now Steve and his expanding roster of dubious heroes must w
70 rating5 lists5 h main story


Two Tribes · Linux, Switch, PS4 +4
This is a 2D shooter / platformer with old school gaming values in a decidedly new school execution. During the intense 360 degree shooting and platforming action, players learn to alter the behavior of their robotic enemies by collecting a
81 rating3 lists


Switch, PS5, Windows +1
Traverse the perilous lands of a dying world in this bullet-hell inspired metroidvania! Strong enemies emerge from distant lands as the iron inventions of men succumb to the decay of rust and time. Use a trusty grappling hook and uncover ne
75 rating4 lists7.5 h main story
Timed PlayStation exclusive
Vlambeer · Android, Commodore 64, Linux +6
Vlambeer's SUPER CRATE BOX is coming to bring back the glory of the golden arcade age, when all that really mattered was getting on that high score list. Grab your baseball cap and loosen your pants, it's time to fight endless hordes of ene
79 rating6 lists1 h main story
Timed Xbox exclusive
Dreamcast, Linux, Switch +6
Remember when games were tough? Return to the Golden Age of arcades with an all-NEW hardcore action experience that pulls no punches. Volgarr the Viking possesses all the hallmarks of the true classics - simple controls, high challenge, and
75 rating9 lists9.5 h main story


Bit Kid · Linux, Switch, PS4 +4
Chasm is a procedurally-generated RPG Platformer for PC (Win, Mac, & Linux), Playstation 4, and Nintendo Switch. Taking equal inspiration from hack 'n slash dungeon crawlers and Metroidvania-style platformers, it will immerse you in a proce
69 rating2 lists9 h main story


Kitsune Games · Linux, Switch, PS5 +2
Run, jump, and dash across a land inspired by Japanese mythology and untangle the love triangle between three young women on a journey of self discovery. Explore the complicated relationships between kitsune and humans through classic platf
83 rating2 lists8.5 h main story


Switch, PS4, Windows
Control the lovely little witch Nobeta, explore the unknown mysterious castle, and gradually discover the truth!
75 rating1 list6.5 h main story
Nintendo console exclusive
Jorudan · SNES, Windows
Action platformer developed by Jorudan and published by Datam Polystar for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System. The game was translated into English by Seta U.S.A.. Musya was released in Japan on April 21, 1992 and in North America in D
70 rating2 lists


Sonic Team · PS2, PS3, Sega Saturn +1
The story follows the teenagers Elliot Edwards and Claris Sinclair, who enter Nightopia, a dream world where all dreams take place. With the help of Nights, an exiled "Nightmaren", they begin a journey to stop the evil ruler Wizeman from de
74 rating7 lists