Games like A Rat in Time

/!\ Please make sure to read the following description before playing as I didn't have enough time to add an in-game tutorial T_T /!\ Controls Arrow Keys: Turn Left / Turn Right Spacebar: Activate Nitro R Key: Respawn if you get stuck B Key: Brake to drift!!!!! Thanks to the GMTK Jam staff for the incredible work! TAXI LOOPER Developed for the 2025 GMTK Game Jam! Welco… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Taxi Looper.

88%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:gameplay, graphics

Most mentioned negative aspects:music, story

88% User Score Based on 144 reviews

A short adventure in which you will have to use precise platforming in order to find your cat, Xavier. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Finding Xavier.

79%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:gameplay, music

Most mentioned negative aspects:story, grinding

79% User Score Based on 315 reviews

Upside Down will immerse you in an incredible adventure. Sharpen your reflexes for this fast-paced, precise puzzle-platformer. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Upside Down.

This is a puzzle game where you stretch cats to get their king to the top of a mountain. Try to complete all 8 levels! This was solo developed by me for the 2024 GMTK jam with the theme "Built to Scale". Some minor fixes have been made to this game post-jam, the original jam version is available to download below. Note: There seems to be some minor visual issues with the cats in the windows buil… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Cat King's Long Journey (GMTK Jam 2024).

About: This is a simple short 2D pixel-art platformer with a premise that fall damage now exists and in game it is explained by your character having glass-like fragile knees. Your goal is to get out of the cave you are in by traversing a number of levels you find. Each level was hand created and holds a special feature about it. What is that feature? Is it shortcuts, punishing routes or misdirect… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Broken Knees.

Directive 399WH is a… we’re not sure exactly. You are woken by your ship’s AI as there is an anomaly causing time loops aboard ship. The AI has a plan and he has chosen you….. for some reason?The game is kind of a Puzzle/Exploration/Narrative game…. Just play it for a bit and tell us what we have made. Please… we’d love to know  If it feels like two different games jammed together at a certain p… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Directive 399WH.

58%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:music, gameplay

93% User Score Based on 14 reviews

Parallel Shift is a Pixel Art Platformer Runner game where you take control of King and Tess, two scientists stuck in a dimensional loop. Switch between dimensions, close the matching breaches and rewind time to escape the unknown. Inspired by late 90's videogames, the pixel art, the dark synthwave music and retro vibes of Parallel Shift focus on delivering an experience of rush and urgency, wh… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Parallel Shift.

76%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:gameplay, story

Most mentioned negative aspects:grinding, optimization

75% User Score Based on 110 reviews

Critic Score 82%Based on 3 reviews

BOOR is a 2D puzzle-platformer game, where you play as a girl with the ability to multiply herself, stranded on Eden, a beautiful but strange world, full of challenging puzzles with platforming elements and a refreshing gameplay. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to BOOR.

96%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:graphics, gameplay

Most mentioned negative aspects:grinding, replayability

96% User Score Based on 532 reviews

A puzzling quest for treasure If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Path of Giants.

68%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:story, graphics

Most mentioned negative aspects:grinding, replayability

70% User Score Based on 293 reviews

Critic Score 60%Based on 1 reviews

Etherborn is an environmental puzzle platformer built on exploring and understanding gravity-shifting structures. You are a voiceless being that has just been born into a world where a bodiless voice calls to you, patiently awaiting your arrival. As your first thoughts emerge, you realise your journey has just begun. You must reach this ethereal voice to fully understand your own existence. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Etherborn.

75%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:gameplay, graphics

Most mentioned negative aspects:music, story

75% User Score Based on 145 reviews

Jelly Killer - Retro Platformer The Adventures Of A Young Bioweapon. In this game you will act like the young bioweapon. You will encounter lots of traps and puzzles. You will have to possess human bodies to pass the game to the end. Good luck! If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Jelly Killer.

91%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:music, gameplay

Most mentioned negative aspects:story, optimization

91% User Score Based on 4,301 reviews

Run, jump and slide to the rhythm of your own music library! In Melody's Escape, advanced audio detection algorithms transcribe the energy that you feel when listening to music into a synchronized gameplay experience, with a captivating and dynamic obstacle course. The game will adapt in real-time to the intensity of your music and change the movement mode accordingly, from walking during very c… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Melody's Escape.

68%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:gameplay, graphics

Most mentioned negative aspects:story, grinding

68% User Score Based on 103 reviews

Sugar Cube: Bittersweet Factory is a 2D platformer game that presents the story of a sugar cube. The background tiles of the game have two sides, namely, the front and the back. These tiles can be flipped for access to critical hints to solve different levels. They may or may not help you, so pay attention! If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Sugar Cube: Bittersweet Factory.

63%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:gameplay, music

Most mentioned negative aspects:story

80% User Score Based on 30 reviews

Yokai Hunter Shintaro presents the adventures of two heroes on a quest to restore balance between the human world and the Yokai kingdom. It will be your mission to kill the different bosses of each stage to restore order. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Yokai Hunter Shintaro.

52%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:graphics, atmosphere

Most mentioned negative aspects:gameplay, story

83% User Score Based on 18 reviews

Critic Score 40%Based on 1 reviews

Go on a dangerous journey into the heart of asteroid to save humanity from disaster! Control the Technosphere, roll, jump, balance, solve puzzles and go through the mazes. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to TECHNOSPHERE RELOAD.

83%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:gameplay, music

Most mentioned negative aspects:graphics, monetization

87% User Score Based on 46 reviews

Use the elements of the scenery, such as picks and many others to drill the soil to the indicated location. Destructive terrain, fluid mechanics and the laws of physics must be handled correctly to solve the puzzles. Escape the city of Underland! If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Underland The Climb.

52%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:graphics, optimization

Most mentioned negative aspects:music, story

65% User Score Based on 31 reviews

Alien Rampagne is a 2D side-scroller with large animated sprites and multiple layers of parallaxing backgrounds. You are a lone angry alien dude with a bad attitude. You crash landed on an inhospitable planet, and thus you set out to get back to a ship so you can leave this horrible place. To make it, you'll blast hundreds upon hundreds of nasty creatures, enemy bounty hunters, and you'll use some… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Alien Rampage.

The Ship Is LoadedVersion 1.0By: Joni PääskynpääNOTE: The game might run slow on some browsers. What is this game?-----------------------The Ship Is Loaded is an educational game for kids and people who want to learn English. The main idea is to match pictures to a letter. How to play?----------------Your mission is simple: Find the picture that starts with the right letter! Each round, the game… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to The Ship Is Loaded.

41%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:graphics, atmosphere

Most mentioned negative aspects:story, gameplay

57% User Score Based on 23 reviews

[The Strange City—A World of Mystery, Fear, and Survival] On an unsettling night, Agent G awakens after a brutal car crash. Disoriented and alone, she notices two mysterious lights drifting into the forest. Compelled by an inexplicable force, G ventures deeper into the unknown. Only by reaching the end of this haunting path will she uncover the true reason for her adventure—and the secrets that aw… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to The Strange City.

83%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:gameplay, music

Most mentioned negative aspects:graphics, atmosphere

83% User Score Based on 72 reviews

Welcome to the world of Trash TV. Cast away into a recycling center, you play an outdated tube television animated to life with a singular goal – find your remote control and become fully functional again. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Trash TV.

63%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:gameplay, graphics

Most mentioned negative aspects:story, grinding

57% User Score Based on 289 reviews

Critic Score 73%Based on 5 reviews

Sprint between saw blades while dodging homing missiles. Duck under lasers while the floor crumbles beneath you. Almost There was designed specifically for fans of the hardcore platforming genre - you've been warned If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Almost There: The Platformer.

60%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:gameplay, story

Most mentioned negative aspects:stability, optimization

65% User Score Based on 40 reviews

Critic Score 65%Based on 2 reviews

In The Watchmaker, a puzzle-adventure game, players take on the role of Alexander. In his steampunk world of giant clock mechanisms, Alexander's routine involves repairing his precious clock tower every day and for years, this is the only life he has known. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to The Watchmaker.

62%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:gameplay, graphics

Most mentioned negative aspects:grinding, stability

62% User Score Based on 490 reviews

Tower Hunter: Erza's Trial contains core elements of roguelike and metroidvania-type games, presented in a toon render style. The player explores a mysterious tower with Erza, vanquishes mutant monsters and defeats bosses to acquire a Hunter's License and become the most powerful Battle Maiden. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Tower Hunter: Erza's Trial.

41%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:graphics, atmosphere

Most mentioned negative aspects:story, gameplay

47% User Score Based on 38 reviews

A girl abandoned in the basement of a hospital for some reason. Escape the hospital avoiding the doctor who abandoned the girl in the basement! Complete the story through hidden foreshadowings and various devices throughout the map and find out why the doctor abandoned the girl in the basement. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to 13iew.

62%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:graphics, gameplay

Most mentioned negative aspects:music, story

62% User Score Based on 65 reviews

Ah... love, Love... How beautifully in one word. My mind is racing, my stomach flutter butterflies, heart racing. Are you willing to do anything to give a million cherries, collect all the jewels and even save your favorite? If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to FoxyLand.

80%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:story, graphics

Most mentioned negative aspects:gameplay, stability

80% User Score Based on 383 reviews

Plasticity is a 2.5D cinematic platformer about a young girl named Noa who explores and decides the future of her post-oil, plastic-ridden world. Set in the year 2140, in a world where plastic consumption never ended, leaving lifeless cities, flooded towns, and widespread disease in its wake, players will make choices that either help or harm the environment and it's living creatures. After a cert… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Plasticity.

71%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:story, gameplay

Most mentioned negative aspects:grinding, monetization

68% User Score Based on 213 reviews

Critic Score 75%Based on 7 reviews

Cast away on an island paradise complete with a cast of friendly frogs. Enjoy sandbox island life and explore at your own pace, solving sticky situations for your new friends and trading your way to fixing your ship! If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Time on Frog Island.

76%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:gameplay, graphics

Most mentioned negative aspects:story, stability

75% User Score Based on 1,746 reviews

Critic Score 80%Based on 1 reviews

Airscape is a fast-paced, ultra-challenging 60 level action platformer. You play a deep-sea octopus, kidnapped by a mechanical alien race. Jump, dodge, and swim through a skybound environment full of floating islands, water formations, and robotic terrors. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Airscape: The Fall of Gravity.

82%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:graphics, music

Most mentioned negative aspects:grinding, gameplay

82% User Score Based on 55 reviews

Puzzles for Clef is a relaxing adventure game focused on the eponymous heroine. Following a letter from her sister, Cres, our bunny friend Clef journeys to the island of her ancestors, to undertake a treasure hunt.. The journey will take her across a land of beauty, magic, and mystery, as she explores each of the island’s regions, solves its countless puzzles, unearths long-forgotten secrets, and … If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Puzzles For Clef.

68%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:gameplay, graphics

Most mentioned negative aspects:story, stability

68% User Score Based on 105 reviews

A curse has befallen the Crescent Isle and it's up to you to save it. Luckily the curse has transformed your people into helpful monsters such as drills, blobs, icicles, and gravity flipping...things. With your monster subjects in hand you'll have to drill through rocks, maneuver through spiky terrain, freeze water to pass over the sea, and restore your kingdom to its former glory. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Curse of the Crescent Isle DX.

71%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:humor, character development

Most mentioned negative aspects:gameplay, graphics

74% User Score Based on 47 reviews

2D Pixel platformer about a cute character named Gelu. He can create and destroy his copies made of ice, limited number of times. With the help of ice copies he can climb on platform, pass the obstacles and pass the levels. Help Gelu to pass hard levels. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Gelu.

83%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:gameplay, story

Most mentioned negative aspects:stability, replayability

83% User Score Based on 454 reviews

Chronology is a mind-bending mix of puzzle, adventure and platform game where you defy time by manipulating the past and the future, in order to fix the present. Play as the Old Inventor and his sidekick The Snail, and take advantage of their special abilities - travel back and forth in time, stop time, manipulate objects and solve puzzles. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Chronology.

46%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:replayability, atmosphere

Most mentioned negative aspects:music, gameplay

49% User Score Based on 45 reviews

Cowboy's Adventure - is a Western Deathrun, with three levels of difficulty for your choice! If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Cowboy's Adventure.

54%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:story, graphics

Most mentioned negative aspects:gameplay, music

56% User Score Based on 96 reviews

Critic Score 47%Based on 3 reviews

Hazel Sky is a heartfelt adventure about a young engineer facing his destiny and his desires. Fix ramshackle flying machines and jump, climb, swing, and slide through a beautiful, mysterious world. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Hazel Sky.

59%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:gameplay, graphics

Most mentioned negative aspects:story, grinding

59% User Score Based on 202 reviews

Inspired by Stephen King’s book - “The Dark Tower”, Alter World is a 2D platformer with interesting gameplay mechanics. Player can pass on an alternative universe anytime and use an alternative realms to move to another level. Levels are unique, with puzzles. player will have to react quickly and assess when to move between the Worlds. The game is made in unique art style, like a painting. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Alter World.

65%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:gameplay, music

Most mentioned negative aspects:grinding, replayability

65% User Score Based on 268 reviews

From the creator of the Gundemonium Collection comes a thrilling new 2D action-platformer! Help Bunny escape the Devils’ Labyrinth and defeat the 7 Devils in this hilariously over-the-top action-platformer game. Battle through a large, connected map filled with unique enemies, traps, and puzzles. Use magical items like the Sylph Shooter and the Hyper Heels to power up and defeat the 7 Devils. Mani… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Bunny Must Die! Chelsea and the 7 Devils.

38%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:graphics

Most mentioned negative aspects:story, gameplay

38% User Score Based on 74 reviews

In the game Fairy of the treasures you have to help a young fairy Mei to open magic chests and hidden gems, and gold! The game is a clicker with elements of visual novel. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Fairy of the treasures.

81%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:story, graphics

Most mentioned negative aspects:stability, optimization

89% User Score Based on 771 reviews

Critic Score 73%Based on 16 reviews

Lead Abby the string puppet through a bruised, but beautiful world in this poetic 3D adventure. Solve riddles, evade traps, and shake off pursuers on your way to find freedom. Can Abby take control of her own fate and make a difference with all the strings attached? If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to A Jugglers Tale.

57%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:gameplay, humor

Most mentioned negative aspects:graphics, story

65% User Score Based on 31 reviews

Critic Score 80%Based on 1 reviews

Grab your seat and pull off the most savage tricks and combos on your motorbike. Ride freely, spin around in the air, go back and forth and let yourself be carried away by the fun, fast-paced gameplay, colorful visuals, and smooth controls. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Urban Trial Tricky.

80%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:gameplay, graphics

Most mentioned negative aspects:stability, optimization

86% User Score Based on 192 reviews

Critic Score 69%Based on 7 reviews

Shadow Blade: Reload is an action-platformer set in a visually striking world where the ancient teachings of ninjas and samurai clash upon a modern landscape. Sprint through stages littered with traps, slaying enemies along your path without hesitation as Kuro, the blade of shadow! If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Shadow Blade: Reload.

95%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:music, graphics

100% User Score Based on 46 reviews

Play as Beep, a brave yet cavalier robot who is on a mission to escape from the strange tech facility that he and his fellow bots are being held captive in. Using just your wits and the items you find around you, will you help Beep find a route to safety? If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Beep's Escape.

55%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:gameplay, story

Most mentioned negative aspects:stability, optimization

44% User Score Based on 414 reviews

Critic Score 66%Based on 15 reviews

"Steel Rats is a visceral and groundbreaking evolution of the 2.5D action arcade genre, fusing destructive, octane-fuelled motorbike combat and death-defying stunt gameplay, set in a visually stylised retro future world. Become one with your bike as you master the realistic physics based controls of these powerful and deadly vehicles. Choose how you want to tear through the stylised and highly de… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Steel Rats.

88%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:story, graphics

Most mentioned negative aspects:stability

88% User Score Based on 260 reviews

Freedom Fall is a diabolical down-scrolling platformer set in a prison tower so tall it touches the clouds. Presented with hand painted art, its old school vibe mixes with fast-paced free falling action and a story with both dark wit and heart. With the promise of freedom for those who escape, find your way through the traps and mechanical monstrosities set up by a twisted princess who you'll wish… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Freedom Fall.

70%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:humor, graphics

Most mentioned negative aspects:gameplay, stability

77% User Score Based on 188 reviews

Critic Score 62%Based on 8 reviews

One player drives, the other one builds the road. At the same time. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Can't Drive This.

83%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:humor, gameplay

Most mentioned negative aspects:music, story

83% User Score Based on 531 reviews

Animal Super Squad is a physics-based adventure game that lets you play as your favourite animal. Speed through a world full of dangers and bananas. Create your own levels, share them with the community, or forget all that nonsense and just play other people’s stuff. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Animal Super Squad.

77%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:graphics, gameplay

Most mentioned negative aspects:story, replayability

79% User Score Based on 173 reviews

Critic Score 70%Based on 1 reviews

Weapon of Choice is a high-energy, side-scroller in which each playable character is unique with their own special weapon and abilities! Blast insane aliens, find new player characters, and choose between branching paths! If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Weapon of Choice.

70%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:gameplay, graphics

Most mentioned negative aspects:story, replayability

71% User Score Based on 258 reviews

Critic Score 70%Based on 1 reviews

A puzzle platform game, with both stealth and parkour elements. Use your wits, cunning and agility to escape this deadly prison. Take the stealthy approach, progressing slowly, hiding and staying out of sight. Or utilise your athleticism to wall jump, ledge grab and speed run your way to freedom. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Death Fungeon.

93%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:gameplay, graphics

Most mentioned negative aspects:monetization, stability

93% User Score Based on 2,760 reviews

Wall jump up as high as you can! If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Wall Kickers.

87%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:music, gameplay

Most mentioned negative aspects:stability, replayability

92% User Score Based on 509 reviews

Critic Score 79%Based on 4 reviews

Let's super high jump through the screen! 6180 the moon is a platformer game with a unique mechanic. It offers a fresh, unseen game play style by connecting the top and bottom of the screen. This allows in a mechanic with delightfully long jumps and no fear of "slipping" to death. In addition to the unique gameplay, 6180 the moon delivers a unique storyline. The Sun has gone. The Moon sets off on … If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to 6180 the moon.

66%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:atmosphere, gameplay

Most mentioned negative aspects:grinding, replayability

66% User Score Based on 122 reviews

Lunnye Devitsy is the story of an alien who falls from the moon onto a huge mountainside on the planet below. Explore strange locations, aid mysterious characters and find your way home. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Lunnye Devitsy.