Games like A Night at the Races
Looking for games like A Night at the Races? Here are top casual platformer recommendations, selected from player-similarity data — start with Owlboy, Overclocked or INMOST.
1 View Game85%Game Brain Scorestory, gameplaygrinding, replayability83% User Score 4,036 reviewsCritic Score 87%34 reviews"Owlboy" is a single-player, fantasy platformer game with an intriguing story and ingenious game mechanics. As the mute Otus, you'll explore a vast world in the clouds, carrying friends who fight as gunners with unique abilities. The game boasts good visuals, phenomenal music, and large dungeons with challenging boss battles, resulting in a masterful and highly emotional atmosphere.
View Game2 View Game90%Game Brain Scorestory, gameplaygrinding, stability90% User Score 190 reviews"Overclocked" is a single-player Horror Platformer game with good graphics, where you play as Amber, a vigilante fighting to protect her home from a computer virus. The game features fast-paced action with one-hit deaths and constantly changing obstacles. The public alpha includes the first two episodes with 20 unique levels and 3 challenge levels. The story is intriguing, focusing on Amber's struggle to protect her home and uncover the truth behind the virus.
View Game3 View Game83%Game Brain Scorestory, gameplaygrinding, replayability87% User Score 2,906 reviewsCritic Score 40%14 reviews"INMOST is a single-player horror platformer with a hauntingly atmospheric pixel art world, offering an emotional and intimate story of loss and hope. Play as three different characters and utilize unique gameplay styles to solve puzzles, avoid traps, and escape evil. The game features stellar graphics, perfect music, and a 3-5 hour experience, intended to be played in a single-sitting on a dark, stormy night."
View Game4 View Game86%Game Brain Scorestory, gameplaygrinding, replayability91% User Score 2,254 reviewsCritic Score 79%6 reviews"MO: Astray" is a pixel art action-puzzler where you play as a mysterious lifeform named MO. Explore a space station, solve puzzles, and battle enemies using your unique abilities to uncover the truth about MO's origins. With challenging gameplay and a compelling story, MO: Astray offers a satisfying experience for fans of the action-puzzler genre.
View Game5 View Game86%Game Brain Scorestory, gameplaygrinding, stability85% User Score 518 reviewsCritic Score 79%1 reviews"Horace" is a single-player comedy platformer game with a splendid story, marvelous game mechanics, and hilarious, highly emotional moments. The game combines eccentric British humor with a cinematic narrative and nostalgic popular culture references from the 8 and 16-bit era. As the charming robot protagonist, players must learn to master their abilities, reunite with their family, and save mankind from destruction in this touching and humorous adventure.
View Game6 View Game74%Game Brain Scorestory, gameplaystability, replayability90% User Score 2,420 reviewsCritic Score 59%16 reviews"Contrast is a single-player platformer game with an interesting plot, set in a dreamlike 1920s world, where you play as Dawn, the imaginary friend of Didi, who can shift between a 3D world and a 2D shadow world. Solve puzzles by manipulating light sources and enjoy the game's excellent soundtrack, dense atmosphere, and wholesome story. However, the game is very grinding, buggy, and has low replayability."
View Game7 View Game61%Game Brain Scoregameplay, graphicsreplayability, grinding70% User Score 90 reviewsCritic Score 52%11 reviews"Aaru's Awakening" is a challenging, fast-paced indie platformer with unique locomotion mechanics. Players control Aaru, a mythical creature on a quest to save his world from destruction. Using a combination of dash and teleport abilities, players navigate through intricate levels, solving puzzles and battling enemies in a vibrant, hand-drawn world. The game offers a satisfying difficulty curve and a captivating story, making it a must-play for platformer fans.
View Game8 View Game75%Game Brain Scorestory, musicreplayability, grinding74% User Score 1,497 reviewsCritic Score 76%16 reviews"198X" is a single-player Fantasy Hack and Slash game with an ingenious story, wonderful gameplay, fabulous graphics, and masterful music. The game follows Kid, a teenager navigating the limitations of youth and the obligations of adulthood, who discovers the local arcade and finds new worlds and meanings in video games. As Kid grows stronger with every game uncovered and demon defeated, the lines between game and reality blur. The estimated play time is 2 hours.
View Game9 View Game84%Game Brain Scoregameplay, atmospheregrinding, replayability94% User Score 1,981 reviewsCritic Score 71%18 reviewsDARQ is a single-player horror action game with a good plot, featuring Lloyd, a boy trapped in a nightmare, where he must bend physics and manipulate the dream world to survive. The game boasts ingenious mechanics, great graphics, and a fantastic soundtrack, with a focus on psychological horror through a creepy atmosphere. Gameplay includes gravity-defying puzzles and stealth-based gameplay, as Lloyd must avoid powerful and fast enemies in his quest to wake up.
View Game10 View Game87%Game Brain Scorestory, musicgrinding, stability94% User Score 3,772 reviewsCritic Score 80%31 reviewsPlanet of Lana is a serene adventure game set on a transformed planet, where a faceless army has disrupted the balance between nature and humans. The game features unique companion-based gameplay, puzzles with diverse challenges, and stealth-based sequences to carefully navigate dangerous situations. Discover an epic story that spans galaxies and centuries while trying to preserve the planet's beauty.
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