Games like A Rat in Time
Looking for games like A Rat in Time? Here are top platformer recommendations, selected from player-similarity data — start with Taxi Looper, Finding Xavier or Cat King's Long Journey (GMTK Jam 2024).
/!\ 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.
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- 88%Game Brain Scoregameplay, graphicsmusic, story88% User Score 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.
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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).
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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.
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- 58%Game Brain Scoremusic, gameplay93% User Score 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.
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- View Game81%Game Brain Scorestory, gameplaygrinding, stability83% User Score 324 reviewsCritic Score 75%1 reviews
After the empire invented the airship, people finally became able to fly across float continents and islands. And thanks to that, the empire expands rapidly.The top hunter, Erza, leads an exploration team to explore the savage frontier where the empire can’t reach. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Frontier Hunter: Erza’s Wheel of Fortune.
- 69%Game Brain Scoregameplay, storygrinding, optimization71% User Score 90 reviewsCritic Score 60%1 reviews
BOOR is a 2D puzzle-platformer game, where you control a girl with a great power, the ability to multiply herself. With this power, she will be able to solve different puzzles that will block her way to explore a beautiful but strange world where she accidentally landed. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Boor.
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- 83%Game Brain Scoregameplay, musicgraphics, atmosphere83% User Score 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.
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- 96%Game Brain Scoregraphics, gameplaygrinding, replayability96% User Score 532 reviews
A puzzling quest for treasure If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Path of Giants.
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